Aristides

Of course you will have to use it to trade within your own country. You will need it to trade anywhere outside your own area.

So was the Silver Alert a result of rampaging seniors?

So you do need money. You can't abolish it and still carry on trade at more than a neighbourhood level nor can you manufacture anything more than what you can make yourself. The world you live in can't function without it.

Yes it was, that 35 mile long column of stalled Russian armoured vehicles was aimed directly at Kyiv. The second largest attack was on Kharkiv. Obviously they thought of they could take the capital it would be game over. Too bad, so sad for you comrade.

Ukraine has every reason to want NATO membership and Russia has given it to them. Putin's word has been shown to be worth nothing and Ukraine would be foolish to ever take it again. Yet their first target was Kyiv itself.

So Russia should keep the territory and have Ukraine promise not to join NATO, leaving them naked to another invasion. Give me one reason Ukraine would be suicidal and crazy enough to agree to something like that? Then might as well surrender their whole country now.

So you are saying they will give the territory back if Ukraine promises not to join NATO. If that is all they are concerned about, they should give it back. No?

So Russia offered to leave all the territory it has occupied if Ukraine promises not to join NATO. Need a link for that.

Workers work for companies who have invested tons of money in the infrastructure to build those TV's. How will you compensate those workers who might be on the other side of the world, ship them some of your potatoes? They would probably rather have rice. Potatoes aren't that big in Asia. I can't believe we are having this ridiculous discussion.

You mean they will leave all the territory they have occupied if Ukraine agrees not to join NATO? Must have missed that little gem.

Russia invasion of Ukraine had nothing to do with NATO, Russia didn't even mention it as a reason for annexing Crimea or Donbas. It was all about taking back what Russia considered to be theirs and protecting so called ethnic Russians. Since then they have also occupied all the territory between Donbas and Crimea and would dearly like to take Odessa as well to completely isolate what remains of Ukraine from the Black Sea and Sea of Azov. This has never been about anything but blatant aggression against a neighbour. Russia invaded Ukraine, I don't know how many times that needs to be said. Maybe Russia should learn to be a better neighbour so their neighbours don't feel the need to join a NATO to protect themselves from Russia. They lived under the Soviet yoke for almost 50 years and know what Russia is all about far better than you or I.

Why would we do that unless we thought we were already in danger of being invaded by the US? Russia had already annexed Crimea and was actively carrying on a proxy invasion in Donbas. Ukraine had every reason to want to be a NATO member. I don't know what world you live in.

They threw the book at him because he abused his position and someone died as a direct result of his actions. Dance all you want but Floyd did nothing that warranted killing him.

Countries apply to join NATO, no one forces them. Considering what has happened, it's obvious Ukraine should have joined NATO, they would have never been invaded if they had been a member. If Putin invaded to keep countries out of NATO he really f****d up because he got two new members on his northern border. Two new members with very capable militaries. As well as weakening his own military, this war has shown how inept it is.

So build your cabin in the middle of nowhere, grow your own food and make your own clothes. Enjoy yourself trying to survive. Do you think all 8 billion people in the world could live like that?

Who makes the TV? How does it get there? Who makes all the components that go into it? Why do you think you are entitled to take what you need in exchange for what ever piece of crap you want to exchange for it? You just want something for nothing and expect others to provide it for you.

You're an id-iot who supports police committing crimes. You make excuses for police officers that give all other cops a bad reputation and think you are doing police a favour. You are a fool.

Chauvin is a disgrace to his profession, I don't understand why you continue to make excuses for someone who makes all cops look bad. Do you think you are doing police a favour?

Floyd wasn't armed and he was on the ground subdued by three officers, one of which had a knee on his neck for nine minutes. Even if he was knowingly trying to pass a counterfeit twenty like the clerk suspected, that is no reason to kill anyone. We don't even know if the bill really was counterfeit. That minor detail got lost in the shuffle.

I guess she gives the grower in South America or Africa, the company that shipped them and the roaster some of Gaetan's potatoes.

What if no one wants your potatoes, should you be able to take anything you want anyway? What if everyone brought potatoes and nothing else? What will you do for the eight months of the year you can't grow potatoes? Your potatoes will eventually rot if they aren't used. Money doesn't rot and can be invested to generate more money. It also allows you to buy whatever you want, when you want, anywhere you want and can be used by others the same way. Your potatoes can't do that.

Only one conviction for anything violent and that was in 2007. He served five years and was released in 2013 and had no charges since.

So what, the income was generated in Alberta.

I don't think he cared all that much. George was certainly no saint but cops do not kill bad guys every day. They encounter bad guys of some sort on almost every shift.

I'm not trying to sow divisiveness, just the opposite. I just want to make it clear where money comes from. I think it is great that Albertans earn a lot because they contribute a lot to the rest of the country. I don't think they are being ripped off.