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I use $50's all the time. Just right for a tank of gas, some grocery orders (i walk/bike to the store often to get things fresh so a lot of my orders are smaller), a sit-down restaurant meal, a round of golf and other forms of entertainment, monthly bus pass during winter months, etc.

That is the number attributed to the Advisory Council on Economic Growth. We are still waiting to see what the Liberals will do, John McCallum said that number is huge and may not be a universal view across the country.

Good question. I would say 24, but we all know that won't make a difference. I am simply basing the age on the effects the drug has on the developing brain. Not to say the drug is completely harmless in older individuals, but there is medical evidence that in adolescents there is more harm caused. b.t.w. the States that have allowed recreational use of marijuana have set the age at 21

We might be able to crush Wallonia.

Interesting tangent, perhaps a new thread is needed but I will start it here as it is related to immigration. Canada is far from crowded, but yes our major cities certainly are. 100+ years ago when immigrants were settling here, they were given encouragement to establish a presence in the hinterland*, things like land grands, etc. While other countries also have large cities, I don't believe that many have their economic activity as concentrated in so few areas as Canada. Could we somehow use immigration policy (or other means) to help address this, while of course not violating our Charter rights. *hinterland - I don't know if that is the best noun here, but I couldn't resist using it as I doubt I have ever used that word before other than to mock television commercials.

To be fair that is the image portrayed of the President, and probably an equal percentage of Americans believe the same thing. We continually are bombarded with "the most powerful man woman in the world" message both in fiction and in the main stream media. Certainly the President wields a lot of power, but yes the checks and balances of the system (mostly Congress and the Supreme Court) will keep her in line.

You keep saying that, but do you have any empirical evidence to base it on? Certainly during the past 40 years the opposite seems to have been the case.

Election coverage is generally boring, I will check the results before I go to bed.

As a point of comparison we should look to other countries with similar multi-lingual challenges. The first one that entered my mind was Switzerland. It has 3 (or 4 if you count Romansh) official languages. From what I can find out, once you reach officer level you are expected to have mastered 2 of the languages. Generally the units are in one area of the country and will be predominantly speaking one language, but often someone will be thrown into a unit due to technical skill or just numbers and have to manage in a different language. The largest number speak Swiss German, second would be French, and if you are Italian then you hope you get placed in your own part of the country. The main point of course is if you want to advance, then multi-lingual skills are necessary.

2 academics from McGill, someone from the World Economic Forum, a first nation representative, someone from Wynne's MaRS project, a federal and a Quebec pension plan board member I think Argus will be all over this.

That is because so many people are discounted as crackpots and not believed because modern culture has us associate UFO's with little green men. There are so many natural and manmade phenomena that are not recognized by the person reporting the sighting, including many supposedly well trained observers. UFO's are real, and an everyday occurrence, until they become IFO's. The problem is there are crackpots out there making up stories, so when someone reports a real sighting we instinctively lump them into that group. While I believe in possibility of "little green men", simply due to statistical probably (size of universe), I also believe that us encountering them is highly unlikely, also due to statistical probability (vast distances). I don't think they are part of our UFO sightings, but that doesn't make UFO sightings non-credible. There are many objects that can either emit light or reflect light that appear where we are not expecting them, and that causes confusion until we figure them out. My dad described observing ball lightening, I never thought of him as a crackpot so I accept that is what he observed. Related to observations is often our sense of time becomes distorted in non familiar circumstances. Often people who have been in car accidents report that everything happened in slow motion. I was in a car accident once, and perhaps because nobody was hurt I was better able to process it. I certainly had a distorted sense of time, but I would not describe it as slow motion but rather freeze frame. I suspect that things were happening so quickly that I wasn't able to process all visual signals so how I remember it is a series of images separated in time rather than a smooth flow.

Very true. The Presidency is already a done deal, the issue now will be voter turnout. If a large segment of Republicans decide to stay home out of disgust, that will make a big reflection in Congressional makeup.

Yes, I saw that. I hope it is more of an ESL problem than revealing of intention. It is common lexicon to use terms like "grab market share", etc. so let's give some leeway but ask the question. It might just be to "seize the moment". As Goddess pointed out above, the common understanding of the term seize is by force. We want to give you the benefit of doubt here, could you explain what you mean by seize? These market segments, land, and other resources are currently under the control of people and corporations that depend on a currency based economy. How do you see this progressing. The three real options are by force, money, or the current owners voluntarily relinquish control. Do you see armed revolt as the means to accomplish your goals? Do you think we can straddle* the mainstream economy and your system as a transition period? Do you think you can convince enough people with control of resources today to relinquish them and either join your system or simply walk away (ie. donation)? *There are many examples of groups that try to straddle traditional and alternative economies. Probably the most successful of these are the older religious based groups like the Amish, Mennonite, or Hutterite communities. There are also many small scale communities that do the same but are not religion baed. It may be worth studying them to see how they operate and what works and doesn't work in those societies. None of them have achieved your ambitious targets, but it is worth understanding them to validate your model.

I just went online as a 22 year old Norwegian that wanted to move permanently to Canada without any family here and settle in B.C. I got back the following response: Express Entry You might be eligible for Express Entry, which includes the following federal economic immigration programs: the Federal Skilled Worker Program the Federal Skilled Trades Program the Canadian Experience Class I continued on to the official languages test. It asked what test I took, and listed 3. I have no clue what those tests were so I selected None. Unfortunately our great Services Canada web application then proceeded to crash so I couldn't continue. I picked the above answers because I thought, other than age, they would be the most restrictive. There were other options, like join family, etc. that I could have tried. I did search if there were any quotas by country of origin, but could not find any.

Agreed, we should be working on one right now so things are ready for Brexit. The other interesting point is we export almost twice to the UK that we import, while for the rest of Europe it is the other way around. We have huge trade deficits with Germany, I bet you they are in Walloon right now pushing very hard. It would be a good exercise to see what the UK imports, and see what is practical to to focus on. I doubt we could really replace the produce they get from Spain, etc. but there have to be many options. Transatlantic container ships are about a week from Halifax to Liverpool, that should allow some perishable crossings, certainly packaged food, beef, etc. I don't think there are big opportunities for the auto sector there, unless perhaps in the parts side.

China has 2-3 time the population, twice the geographical area, and a single Embassy. Europe has about 30 Embassies, Consulates, and High Commission. There are way more opportunities in Europe to get a visa than in China. You must have a visa if you are a Chinese citizen to travel as a tourist or business in Canada, no such requirement for Europeans. Your premise that the visa centres make it easier for China is completely wrong.

Are these enraged and armed people the ones he wants to send into black neighbourhoods to monitor the polls. I can just see it now, a dozen white guys in their combats with sidearms (and why not an AK-15 for good measure) standing in front of the polling station in the black part of town.

Besides the obvious partisan reaction you highlighted, it is also significant that the current leaks are obviously targeted at the democratic process itself. I think that a significant difference between exposing what the government is doing and trying to affect elections. I should add that yes there is indeed the danger of exposing information that could lead to deaths, etc. It is also worth asking the question what is the danger of not exposing some of the stuff that goes on. There have been massive deaths caused by governments as well, could exposing what they do prevent or reduce that?

The post [3rd] debate polls are starting to come in, and they don't look good for the Donald. Hilary's lead has widened to double digits.

Not sure if it will work on mobile, but the way I delete quote boxes is move my cursor into them and a small icon appears at the top/left of the quote box. If you hover your mouse over that icon the message 'click to drag or move' appears. Once you are hovering over that icon, hit delete. Of course you may not have a keyboard on your mobile, and if you bring up the soft keyboard then the behaviour may be different. I just quote the same post a second time, and edit the content to get the part I am interested in. Of course it is not perfect as you can see with things like numbered lists restarting at 1

My thoughts exactly... ... until I tried it. It is the best, most wonderful, most fabulous, etc. You haven't lived until you had [good] poutine. Unfortunately if you have it too often you won't live too long. It is also the most artery clogging, high calorie, junk food in existence. p.s. The best place to find poutine is some rural poutine truck in Quebec. I haven't searched around Drummondville, where I believe it originated.

Agreed, the simplistic metrics given by the media are certainly questionable. A lot of this has to do with the soundbite culture of communicating to the masses, they want a message that can be conveyed in 5 seconds or less. This is where FiveThirtyEight does a great job. The most important is the detailed comparison curves in the page I linked to "What to expect from the electoral college". Right below that are similar comparison curves on the popular vote. What is missing from the statistician you link to is that it appears to miss the electoral college entirely and focus only on the popular vote. Sorry to inform you, but popular vote means squat. In 2000, Gore won the popular vote by over a half million votes but that did not get him the Presidency. Your statistician may understand statistics, but apparently needs to bone up on the electoral process. I will take the 14.1% odds FiveThirtyEight is currently giving to Trump for winning as the best scientific guess from a soundbite prospective, but again encourage you look at the details on the electoral college. b.t.w. If anyone is interested in who is behind the moniker Tyler Durden who wrote the article betsy linked to, it was exposed by one of them and reported by Bloomberg.

Again this was well known before from the public disclosures of the Clinton Foundation. The only thing the Wikileaks adds to the mix is that obviously they were concerned about it from an image standpoint. This is obviously an issue all around, the competition has a huge pay gap issue with his campaign team.

Yes, her support for fracking has been long down, the Wikileaks didn't really reveal anything new in that regard. She has promoted it around the world while Secretary of State, and that was public knowledge. During the 2016 primaries she added some conditions to it: "I don’t support it when any locality or any state is against it, No. 1. I don’t support it when the release of methane or contamination of water is present. I don’t support it — No. 3 — unless we can require that anybody who fracks has to tell us exactly what chemicals they are using. So by the time we get through all of my conditions, I do not think there will be many places in America where fracking will continue to take place. And I think that’s the best approach, because right now, there are places where fracking is going on that are not sufficiently regulated." This would certainly stop fracking in many places in the US today, but not it would not eliminate it. This was a big part of the primaries debate, especially with Sanders who declared that he didn't support fracking - period.

Canada grew and was doing very well during the 90's as well. We did have a finance problem due to Mulroney increasing our debt load to 65% of GDP.