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I am sure she will still express the same viewpoints, that is her value. Mainstream media are generally not interested in people with no viewpoints, they are looking for diversity. Yes, the media company itself may portray some predominant view but it will still have commentators with a broader range. Even the CBC has many 'right-wing' contributors like Rex Murphy. Of course news anchors need to be a bit more balanced, generally with some slight lean towards the company viewpoint.

I believe debate is always beneficial. That said, I agree with Omni that there needs to be some formalization where the concrete fundamentals be understood as the formation of our society. A good example is someone might challenge what is said by citing something the Bible or Koran says. The facilitator/instructor is there to remind them that while we have freedom of religion, Canada is founded on principles that recognize the supremacy of God and the rule of law. Now while I am one of those that thinks putting in the "supremacy of God" as almost an afterthought was a big mistake, lets save that discussion for elsewhere. The main point to emphasize here is that man does not interpret the supremacy of God, that is what the rule of law is for.

It is somewhat similar to obvious. Often you will hear the phrase 'self-evident', as is used in the US Constitution: We hold these Truths to be Self-Evident. Basically it means no explanation should be needed, the words or object(s) speak for themselves. Evidence on the other hand is the actual information or facts that are used to demonstrate some conclusion.

Just to throw a wrench into the works, we also have the word evident. It is very distinct from evidence, but is often confused.

Just tried the 20 question chapter 1 of one of the commercial on-line tests, fairly easy but it would be interesting to see what the average Canadian would do. Maybe one day I will get the patience to try the entire test. I don't think that the regular contributors to this forum are a good sample of the average Canadian in these matters. There were about 2-3 questions where you really had to read the wording closely, but the choice was clear. The rest were obvious from first read. There was one question that while I got it 'right', I debate if it is really true: Question 14 out of 20 French and English do not have equal status in Parliament and throughout the government If we consider 'the government' as all levels of government then I don't think many (most?) municipalities give equal status to both official languages. - The point is however these kind of tests really don't do much other than establish that someone spent a few hours studying, and of course as I already pointed out created a market for commercial companies like the one I linked to above. I don't see any difference for a 'Canadian Values' test either. I think we should eliminate all such testing as they are essentially useless. Far better would be to have citizenship classes, and the 'mark' is your attendance and perhaps participation (although that is harder to measure and has more to do with personality than content). I'm not sure how you would do the same thing for immigrants, but then immigrants do not (or at least should not) automatically become citizens. Maybe there needs to be more focus on temporary work visas (not as has been done with TFWs) as a part of a path to immigration and eventual citizenship.

Nazi, or German? We may screen out SS members, but thousands of Germans were welcomed with open hands after the war.

Is that sarcasm, or are you living in a different Canada than I. Perhaps Harper's G20 fiasco had machine guns, although I don't remember them from the press coverage, but I can't think of any major crowd event I've been to that had them. Yes, I'm sure they are close by (and always have been), but not as a visible deterrent. Last time I remember regularly seeing machine guns was when I lived in Europe 30 years ago, mostly at airports.

Google IPO was 2004. Perhaps you might be talking about Andy Bechtolsheim? He was the initial investor in 1998, but his investment was just pocket change for him them. Andy is a great guy, I've met him several times and exchanged several e-mails. He is probably one of the greatest computer hardware designers around.

The peak year for debt management was 95-96, and second was 96-97 - that would make Mulroney the 'previous guy'

Yes, talk about the biggest jokes out there. Islam, religion of peace, with some of the most violent terrorists Christianity, religion of love, with some of the most vile hatred expressed Conservatives, (currently) preaching tolerance, and some of the most intolerant of all people

Yes, nowhere then but significant location at a later date. I have seen many old farms sell for multi-millions, and they were once nowhere and now are prime development areas. There is a 200 acre farm on the Madawaska river that is priceless IMHO. The grants out west were much larger than that on average. I was recently reading about the history of Lachine, on the island of Montreal; there was a huge land grant there that yes was long ago sold and subdivided but today would be mega-millions (probably billions) in value. Thanks for the list, very interesting. I got excited over King's Point, NFLD; unfortunately that one appears like it is no longer available.

Are you calling me a dishonest person? I am in this forum to interact with others, not to play childish bravado games. If you have some evidence about Tim Hogan you would like to share, then please do. I don't know him from a hole in the ground, I have nothing vested in his character.

Yes, good analogy. Give me a fixer-upper house in the Bridle path (or Shaughnessy Heights, Westmount/Summit Park, Britannia, etc.).

Yes, I was responding to your original post. Your edited post however is not much better. I am not calling her a slut, or making any evaluation of her moral character. I am pointing out that you are blaming her for Trump`s actions. That is no different than blaming a girl who is raped for wearing a short skirt, and then praising the rapist for teaching her a lesson.

I suggest you learn what slut shaming means, so you can learn to stop practicing it.

What is the value in that. Bryan and I rarely agree, but I don`t come to this and other on-line forums to find an echo chamber. Debating with others with differing opinions is the value of these forums.

Fund raising for a cause (political party, hospital wing, etc.) is very different than a personal gift (lunch, round of golf, vacation, material possession, etc.). They both have value, but they are far from equivalent.

Stop slut shaming, and face the fact that Trump is a serial sexual offender.

I would not say the land was worthless, just that the settlers needed to invest a lot of time and effort to realize the worth.

Yes, you cannot order F-35's off the rack. You can't make the decision one day and have all 65 planes sitting on the tarmac that afternoon. The 12 years you talk about is not added to the 30-year life-cycle of individual planes. The estimate is that it would take about 5 years from the date of the report until the delivery of the first plane; the report was in 2012 and they were considering the first plane might be available next year (2017). The rest would be delivered over a number of years, and also retired over a number of years. In both cases we would be operating other planes concurrently (e.g. the CF-18s would still be operating until the mid-20's, and something else in the 40's) and of course incurring additional costs for their operation. The actual service life of the F-35 would be 30 years, but again that is an estimate based on things like estimate service hours and if extended other costs would need to be involved like major overhauls to extend life, etc. The point being however the service-life is 30 years for the sake of the estimates. Agreed, but also keep in mind that the KPMG report is now going on 5 years old and becoming less and less valid. It also made it very clear these are estimates based on what was known at the time and could change, especially the further out you went through the cycle. If history has taught us anything, costs increase (dramatically) over time. The report does consider some inflation for operating costs over the life time, and now we have to consider an additional 5 years (or more) of inflation. Yes, Byers might be considered a biased source, but that does not make him wrong. That is why I mentioned his $56 billion estimate, because it is certainly within the realm of what the KPMG report was suggesting, I did not even quote his $126 billion figure. I don`t think anyone is happy about the situation, but what do you suggest when the Conservatives dragged their feet for 9 years. An open and transparent competition takes time, and the current fleet of CF-18s cannot meet our obligations to NORAD and NATO. After all the problems early on with the F-35 acquisition, Harper finally agreed to an open competition in 2012. The problem is however he did absolutely nothing after that point, when the going got tough he walked away.

The New Brunswick land grants database lists up to the year 1997 (2 grants given that year, 23 in 1996). I am not sure if there have been grants since then, or just that the on-line database hasn't been updated since then. A lot of the New Brunswick on-line databases seem to be manual entry from paper records, or conversions from other sources.

Just to note, the 2012 KPMG study said the cost would be $46 billion over 30 years (see section 3.2.2 on page 12 of the report dated November 27, 2012 - Next Generation Fighter Capability - Independent Review of Life Cycle Cost). That works out to $1.53 billion/year, A 2014 study said it would be at least $56 billion, and with all the uncertainties could creep much, much higher.

...borrowed from China.

A large percentage of "U.S. based content" is filmed in Canada. All we have to do is put up a few flags and blue postboxes and you American's lap it up.

When the crowd is vetted, their Facebook pages creeped, and they must swear allegiance on a stack of the Crusader newspapers, it is easy to work them.