SunnyWays

You forgot the law of Supply and Demand. There are thousands of teachers who cannot find a job - good, young, modern teachers. You could pay teachers anywhere from $40 to $75K and you'd still have a large supply. The Teacher's Union - as an example - has artificially inflated salaries and benefits, creating a closed model that protects it from Supply and Demand. No matter how you view teacher's wages, one can't deny that there are literally thousands of young, educated people who wanted dearly to get into teaching - but can't.

The original wage concept of Public Service - at all levels of government was to accept less remuneration that the private sector in exchange for Job Security and a decent pension......and that was a fair bargain for all. It's pretty plain that this concept has flown out the window - wages are often greater that the private sector and benefits are gold-plated - making overall compensation as a whole greater than the private sector, on average. How do we get back to the original concept? A wage freeze for 10 years seems a non-starter. New pay scales for new employees, put the brakes on raises for others?

Probably doesn't matter anyway - like those in Attawaspikat who choose to live in pretty barbaric conditions. I doubt a GAI of $20K is going to make much of a difference.

Pretty straight forward.....hard to understand why someone would NOT agree to take this into consideration when discussing "guaranteed incomes". It's Pandora's Box.

There's a number of other choices - keep living in the basement and sponge off parents. Find a girlfriend or boyfriend who will support you. But really, don't put a system in place that will encourage and enable doing absolutely nothing.

No proof - it's all "wait and see". There's a temptation to play a shell game - to confuse the numbers in order to spend more than the planned $12 billion in new spending - or to ignore the diligence that's required to keep regular spending in check. If you're a fan of transparency, we should all be looking to see that $18 billion "base deficit" reduced each quarter as the economy picks up (as it hopefully will).....and this should be tracked and reported by the media in simple, straight forward terms. Would you agree with that?

There's another angle to the Education funding shortfall.......if someone on a remote reserve is fully educated, do you really think they will return to the reserve? They'll go where the jobs are. That's as good a reason as any for First Nations (as opposed to the government) to start phasing out those remote reserves. What's missing is the collaboration and will of First Nations to develop an all-emcompassing vision for Aboriginal people - beyond the status-quo. There is so much untapped potential in a cohesive First Nations society - but the Band/Chief system will never allow that potential to be fulfilled.

I really liked Jean Lapierre. I'm originally from Montreal and admired his insight into Quebec politics and their dynamics with Federal politics. Very pleasing personality. I'll miss his "straight to the point", clear analysis. Although I've never met the man, the news felt like a personal loss. Good people can make you feel that way. One of my tennis buddies has a summer home about a mile from the crash site - his son trains by running up the hill where the plane crashed. Like much of distant rural Quebec - families are large and there's a distant sense of community - so this tragedy is magnified within a close-knit community.

If you're a guitar buff, you might have heard of Tommy Emmanuel - here's a Youtube link to "Somewhere Over the Rainbow"......if you like to hear someone who's perfected his craft, you'll love this guy. He's got a number of videos out there - Sukiyaki is another neat one..... Link:

Hard to know were to start = you're defeating your own arguments. You asked why all the various religions were less violent over here. Read the last paragraph of your own article and then see how silly your LMAO comment was. The Muslims who have managed to be "forward thinking" are the ones who have come to North America - and welcomed to Canada. In Global terms, these are "liberal minded people" - not Liberals. You obviously have a mis-guided, incohesive agenda of some sort - so I'll bid you adieu from this discussion.

I think that's been answered by another poster - but two things come to mind. One - those who make the decision to come to the US or Canada are more "liberal" in their thinking and are generally willing to accept the Melting Pot or Multiculturalism. Two - our immigration systems are designed (hopefully) to validate that mindset. In simple terms - those that "hate" or are "suspicious" of the West would simply not come here. The fly in the ointment that spoils it all for everyone are those that might come here specifically to inflict the type of heinous mayhem that we see in Europe. It's a shame - but we have to be ever so vigilant.

Asked and answered twice - but let me try again. The "general population" of the US is comprised of 70% who identify themselves as Christian - so does it not make sense that most of those dastardly villains would be Christian? How this relates to anything regarding terrorism that involves heinous and wanton murdering of innocent women and children is beyond me. Yesterday, in just one attack, terrorists killed more people (mostly women and children) that all your "right wing terrorism" attacks over the last 15 years!

In some ways maybe so. Politics seems to have trained people to always expect more - instead of respecting what we already have - especially when so many countries are so fiscally challenged. There are only so many dollars in the kitty - it's OK to shuffle them around from time to time to address the needs of the day......and hey, if we have some good years, let's do some short-term spending but surely if we've learned anything from the Global Financial crisis, it's that governments must have aspirations to live within a budget. I saw no major difficulty with the Liberal election promise of modest deficits returning to balance by the end of their mandate. I am extremely uncomfortable with a government that has not only abandoned that promise - but now, only 6 months removed from their election promise, has abandoned even the aspiration to return to balance.

You're getting there but still a ways to go. It just so happens that the vast majority of North Americans identify as Christians - Catholic or 25 shades of protestentism.....many of whom don't even go to Church. So is it any wonder that most perverts are "Christian? Most "homophobes" are Christian....etc, etc.? If you'd like to blame Christianity for that - go right ahead. But as I said, they are not running around with suicide vests killing any innocent who gets in the way. So to answer your question again - yes, there is something else going on - and it's called Islam perversion - the enabler/excuse that provides the rationale for that tiny, tiny minority of disenfranchised or just pi$$ed off Muslims to perpetrate their heinous actions. It's mind-boggling that you can't see the difference.

Not quite - we might never have any additional government programs......and relative to other countries, I think we've got it pretty darn good! Who says we always have to have more? Isn't that what inspires "entitlement"?

I gave you my thoughts - and you continue to ignore them - but it's clear you have an apologist agenda. No one but Islamic extremists run around with suicide vests, lopping off heads, burning people alive - all in the name of their religion. Homophobes? Try being gay in a Muslim nation. Racists? Try being a non-believer - an infidel. Misogyny? See if North American women would like to be forced to wear a niqab or stay inside without the company of a male relative. Slick - give it a rest.....there is no excuse - no rational for indiscriminate murder and mayhem. As I said - Islam is the "enabler". Islam is the "excuse" for their heinous actions. As I said - Black Americans have not stooped to that level. Neither have our aboriginals - or the American Indian - or Australian Aboriginals - and they arguably have suffered more than the nutbars that make up this ungodly scourge.

Even if we use your links that show that right-wing terrorists/zeolots have been responsible for 48 deaths in the past 15 years - those murders/killings have been almost exclusively targeted directly at their subject of hate - not some attempt to subjugate or kill all who disagree with their ideology. What you and others fail to acknowledge, fail to admit if not fail to see - is that there are many oppressed or disenfranchised people in the world who have reasons to plunge into an ISIS-like rabbit hole of hate - but they have refused to do so. Here in North America, we have African and Black Americans and Canadian Aboriginals who have overwhelming reasons to feel oppressed and disenfranchised. What's the difference? The difference is that Islam is an "enabler" for any Muslim who is dis-satisfied with their lot in life. It provides loose interpretations of the right to kill. There is no other distinction. The religion of peace can just as easily be interpreted as the religion of authorized murder.

You've built your case on a false - if not disingenuous premise. Those two Canadian incidents you mentioned - although they were likely the best you could find - were clearly attributed to anarchists. Raddatz (Edmonton) was a "freeman-of-the-land" opposed to all government. Justin Bourque was another "oppressed" Anarchist. Neither had anything to do with religion. In the US, militias and anarchists (and their guns) have always been a concern but very few have any genuine religious allegiances - and their "fight" is with Government, police and authority in general - not with the murder of thousands of innocents.

600 "nations" that don't talk to each other. Chiefs that dole out money to their elite with no accountability. Reservations in the middle of nowhere. Women with little or no rights. All issues that should have been resolved by aboriginals decades ago - by aboriginals. Instead, they perpetuate their own policy of apartheid - a determination to live apart from a society that would welcome them. Yes - Canadians are indeed getting fed up.

Yes - it is ludicrous....because terrorists or not - since 9/11's massacre of over 2000 innocent people all these various right-wing groups in North America - combined - have caused the deaths of just 48 people. Yes it is ludicrous - because Christians and other religions - no matter how oppressed - do not have groups/cells/operatives perpetrating heinous crimes in just about every country where Islam has a large presence. Yes - it is ludicrous because Islam is the only religion that inspires groups to pursue religious global domination.

Once again, I'll ask - what the heck is your point? It's just silliness. By your own links, "only" 48 people have been killed by "right-wing" terrorism since 9/11 - that's over 15 years! That's in spite of the huge focus on Islamic terrorism to the almost complete exclusion of other terrorism. Perhaps if these groups you speak of tried a little harder and indiscriminately killed hundreds of innocent bystanders - perhaps then the media might run with the terrorism label a bit more, don't ya think? That huge Islamic focus has without a doubt prevented other 9/11 scenarios from being perpetrated and saved untold thousands of lives - and don't for a second think that needs some sort of "proof". ISIS and it's ilk would love nothing better than to regularly strike "at the heart of the infidel".

What the heck is your point? It's just silliness. By your own links, "only" 48 people have been killed by "right-wing" terrorism since 9/11 - that's over 15 years! That's in spite of the huge focus on Islamic terrorism to the almost complete exclusion of other terrorism. Perhaps if these groups you speak of tried a little harder and indiscriminately killed hundreds of innocent bystanders - perhaps then the media might run with the terrorism label a bit more, don't ya think? That huge Islamic focus has without a doubt prevented other 9/11 scenarios from being perpetrated and saved untold thousands of lives - and don't for a second think that needs some sort of "proof". ISIS and it's ilk would love nothing better than to regularly strike "at the heart of the infidel".

Since you've evaded answering my question as to why you used the term "your salaries", I have to assume from the nature of your posts that you are a First Nations person - one who might not consider themselves to be Canadian - and thus consider certain issues "us versus them".......or was it just a Freudian slip?

Still don't get it with the "your salaries". Do you think I work for the RCMP?

How many times do you have to be told that there IS no difference. The mental competence of the individual highlighted in this topic is rightly in question - and that's why police did not call it a terrorist act - and to my knowledge still don't. There's a big, big difference between a mentally ill individual who hears voices - and those hordes of real terrorists who indiscriminately kill and main in the name of Allah. If you can find people who do likewise in the name of God or any other deity - they too would be terrorists. Are you getting it yet?