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I have no problem with highlighting that, but calling it a $1 million donation is a gross lie and demonstrates that those idiots are only partisan turkeys. The Trudeau Foundation has nothing to do with the Liberal party, yes there may be some bad optics but what do you suggest? Should all charitable foundations that are somehow related to a politician be terminated?
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While I can understand Strahl wanting to get away from the centre of this political fiasco, blaming it in the liberals only is laughable. It is the idiots who are trying to link a $250k donation to a worthy cause (ok, the $50k for erecting a status is a bit over the top) to the Liberals are just as bad as the Liberals trying to defend it by invoking Strahl. The continual calling it a $1 million donation is just more proof that the idiots are really that, because it was a $250k donation.
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America under President Trump
?Impact replied to betsy's topic in Federal Politics in the United States
I'm not sure Trump is dumb enough to think that an investigation will achieve anything, he does know however that the threat of a investigation will get his supporters riled. -
Instead of calling it politically correct or multicultural, I call it accepting of people as individuals who don't have to conform to my standards. While I haven't worn shorts outside for the past 3 days, I expect I will on Sunday/Monday when the sun returns and the temperature gets back up there to 4-5C. I am sure there are a lot of people who will think I am nuts, and some will even say so. I put them in the same category as I do you, they are unwilling to accept my differences and want to enforce their standards on others. In their case they might think there is something unhealthy about what I am doing, but that is based on their ignorance and not on reality. In your case you don't like what people are wearing because you associate it something, and can't accept that the people who made the choice to wear what they want may have a totally different reason.
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Demonstrations against migrants in Europe.
?Impact replied to taxme's topic in Federal Politics in Canada
Youtube can be viewed as a news archive (among other things), and based on your personal history it will suggest videos that are relevant. It is easy to think that the major news stories are the ones from months or years ago as they keep appearing in the list youtube displays to you. Mainstream media on he other hand considers news to be something that is new/current (and significant), and often the anniversary of something significant as well. -
If I don't like the t-shirt you are wearing, or that suit and tie costume outfit, then will you comply and wear what I dictate you should? Travel around the world and see that there are different customs as to dress, I could easily say that the outfits you deem appropriate are Christian costume outfits seeing that you claim that North American society is a Christian society. Why are you forcing your religion upon me with your garments?
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Did you get a different version of the Charter than the rest of us? About religion, what it says under fundamental rights is: freedom of conscience and religion. Under education, it only addresses minority education rights in their own language (English or French) within certain bounds.
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Health care wait times at 20 year high in Canada
?Impact replied to Argus's topic in Federal Politics in Canada
Why should the patient get anything? What if something goes wrong, who ends up covering the additional costs? If the government is encouraging people by paying them, then the government will probably be held liable for anything that goes wrong. I can see massive lawsuits resulting from this. -
Health care wait times at 20 year high in Canada
?Impact replied to Argus's topic in Federal Politics in Canada
Ok, if you want to compare specifically to France then lets have the details. Don`t forget to include the higher education system in France that doesn`t leave health care professionals with huge debts to repay, and in exchange they get much cheaper wages for those professionals. -
Trudeau's pie in the sky environmental policies
?Impact replied to Argus's topic in Federal Politics in Canada
You keep repeating the same statement, but have yet to provide a single reference to the truth. The idea of taxes based on emissions is not to spend, but rather to collect based on use of resources or emissions. This is not putting an additional trillion dollars of taxes into the system (not sure where you get that number from anyway), but to make a fair distribution of taxes collected. -
I have noticed something peculiar, I believe I was using Firefox at the time, but have been unable to reproduce it reliably. I was able to break a quote into two parts by hitting a double carriage return, I assumed it was a feature but not quite sure under what conditions it works. It might have been with one version back of Firefox, as I am now using version 50 and have been unable to reproduce the same behavior. No backwards typing however.
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Talking about pedophile prophets, a lot can be learned from the many ancient scrolls. Of course these were not among the scrolls that the Catholic church accepted into the canon of the New Testament. Jesus married a young 10 year old Ruth, and had a soft spot for young girls in their early teens. It seems that the three days between Jesus’ supposed Crucifixion and his Resurrection were actually a long weekend with a young fan he met after being acquitted at his trial by the Romans. If you can read ancient Aramaic then you can find he scrolls here, or an English report on their content here.
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President Trump's cabinet
?Impact replied to Derek 2.0's topic in Federal Politics in the United States
Betsy DeVos for Secretary of Education. Never stepped inside a classroom, typical Trump choice. -
Trudeau's pie in the sky environmental policies
?Impact replied to Argus's topic in Federal Politics in Canada
I pay nothing for sunshine, how can NG be more economical? -
Still Going to Buy the F-35, Really?
?Impact replied to Hoser360's topic in Federal Politics in Canada
Over the past 30 years, the Liberals have been in government 13 or about 45% of the time. Nice try. -
Trudeau's pie in the sky environmental policies
?Impact replied to Argus's topic in Federal Politics in Canada
Obviously you slept though your nuclear physics class. You picked up a little bit of knowledge from different places, and put it together into your idealistic scenario. The melt-down issue you picked up was thorium molten salt reactors, not CANDU. Yes thorium is compatible with the CANDU system, but it will still be a pressurized heavy water reactor. There were talks about China investing in this, but I am not aware that this ever made it off the drawing board. The only Canadian reactors that have included thorium in their fuel cycle that I am aware of are the NRX & NRU experimental reactors in Chalk river. Thorium does help with fuel supply, but there are still abundant supplies of uranium so there is no immediate need Thorium still has waste issues. There is a shorter half-life of many of the byproducts, and we don`t have the plutonium issue. -
Health care wait times at 20 year high in Canada
?Impact replied to Argus's topic in Federal Politics in Canada
Could you provide any evidence for that. Currently about 39% of our provincial (Ontario) budget goes to health and long-term care, how are you extrapolating that to 70% of our total taxes? It would be nice to have a thorough accounting across the country, but it is certainly less than 20% of taxes overall, and probably between 10-15%. -
Still Going to Buy the F-35, Really?
?Impact replied to Hoser360's topic in Federal Politics in Canada
Sounds like a huge rewrite of history. The program cost continues to escalate, and the orders are way down from the original estimates. Both the Navy and Air Force have cut the number of planes they intend to order, only the Marines are still on track with their original plans. -
Yes, the Criminal Code of Canada is in dire need of a massive rewrite. That was made abundantly clear several weeks back when that Alberta judge ruled based on a part of the code that was declared unconstitutional way back under Mulroney`s government. The successive failures of our Justice Ministers to clean up the books is unacceptable.
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Still Going to Buy the F-35, Really?
?Impact replied to Hoser360's topic in Federal Politics in Canada
Very true, although we are not alone in that regard. A big part of the problem is that military procurements are (almost) never off the shelf. -
Still Going to Buy the F-35, Really?
?Impact replied to Hoser360's topic in Federal Politics in Canada
Other than having a yoke instead of a joystick, there is more in common between a modern Airbus and Boeing aircraft than the analog instruments and controls of yesteryear. Today everything is fly by wire, touchscreens, etc. The flight crew has very different responsibilities today then they did years ago. The 707 had a crew of 3 or 4 (navigator needed for over water operations), and the 777 has a crew of 2. Yes, I may have that familiar Ford logo on the steering wheel, but it is not my father's Ford (I couldn't use Oldsmobile as they are history). -
America under President Trump
?Impact replied to betsy's topic in Federal Politics in the United States
Let's see, the DJIA broke 12,000 & 13,000 in 2012, 14,000 & 15,000 in 2013, 16,000 & 17,000 in 2014, and 18,000 last year. Can you show where the media is giving any less attention to this weeks news than it did to those ones? -
Health care wait times at 20 year high in Canada
?Impact replied to Argus's topic in Federal Politics in Canada
I don't know what your experience is, are you a doctor or administrator in a walk-in clinic? Regardless, the question posed by KPMG that you cite above was about ability to get an appointment for the same day or next day with their family doctor. The question of walk-in clinics is very directly related to that situation. I may have a GP for long term relationship, but generally the requirement for same/next day appointments have nothing to do with that long term relationship. It might be a sore throat, minor diagnostics or surgery, etc. where a walk-in clinic is often far better than a hospital or waiting for my GP. The last 2 times I remember using a walk-in clinic were for: After a sports injury I was having some mid-lower back pain that seemed more than just sore muscles. I visited a walk-in clinic and they were able to get an x-ray in the same building and while they did see some hairline fracture it appeared older. Basically this was my reassurance, and I avoided a visit to an emergency room. I was out visiting some properties one day a few years ago, one of them being a small farm that had been only about a year out of operation. Later that day I visited another property, while not a farm, I was wearing the same sandals I had worn earlier. I stepped on a broken glass bottle. While the cut did bleed quite a bit for a short while, which is good in washing it out, it was not deep enough to need stitches or at most one. Since I was several hours from home, and wanted to stay in the area I visited a walk-in clinic. I was not really concerned about any stitches, but the fact that I hadn't had a tutus booster in a very long time. While the clinic didn't have just a tetanus booster, they did have a supply of DPT which is as good or better and I was quickly on my way. In neither of these cases would my long-term relationship with a GP offered any advantage. Perhaps if I had serious medical conditions then the story would be different, but for the vast majority of the population these type of situations for scheduling a short notice appointment are better served with the walk-in clinics. The point is that a survey that asked a question that was so relevant, and totally ignored walk-in clinics is meaningless. -
Still Going to Buy the F-35, Really?
?Impact replied to Hoser360's topic in Federal Politics in Canada
So what are the requirements there? Stealth? - no. Supersonic? - no. Weapons? - minimal, etc. -
Still Going to Buy the F-35, Really?
?Impact replied to Hoser360's topic in Federal Politics in Canada
That is an antiquated notion of situational awareness. If you can see the aircraft, then it is time to kiss your ass goodbye. The dogfight is a leftover from World War II, it doesn't occur in reality any more.
