NovaScotian

Pedophiles will usually offend against a child no matter the gender, that doesn't make them homosexual.....given that the great majority are married.

You are forgetting something important here. Pedophilia is committed by an adults towards innocent children. It is unconsented and very harmful to the child. It will NEVER be allowed in our modern society. Homosexuality is attraction between members of the same sex. With many of the same aspects of a heterosexuality.....More importantly it is between to consenting individuals.

Well said August!

You are probably right....even if that perception is false.

The rich benefit the most from the current set up, so they should be paying more into the system.

Equalization is not inherently responsible for keeping workers here. I would place most of the blame on the federal EI system with is very damaging to our economy. We need workers here as well. Not to long ago I read a story about a McDonald's in Sydney that was having trouble finding workers. This area has unemployment of 15%....it is just more profitable to stay on EI and welfare then to move into the workforce. This raises the cost of labour in an area that should have very low labour costs, stifling a potentially dynamic local economy.

Oh there is nothing inherently fair about the Atlantic Accord. But a deal is a deal or so the cliché goes.

Newfoundland and the Federal government did come to a deal regarding oil & gas(the Atlantic Accords). Protecting crawl backs on equalization will help NFLD in the long run, as well as Canada because the province will be in a better financial situation from the extra revenue. After the accords run out that province will be contributing just like the other "have provinces".

Forever? Well I suppose 40 years seems like forever.......but OK! Of course Newfoundland should 'pay in'. But remember that 16 billion is not a lump sum, it is payed to the province over 25 years. The Atlantic Accords only shield NFLD until 2013(?) so after that there equalization payment will be cut off. Even until then Nfld has only a small payment anyway and one of the lowest per capita equalization transfers.

Meaning?

N.L. announces $16B Hebron oilfield deal [Last Updated: Wednesday, August 22, 2007 | 4:07 PM NT CBC News Newfoundland and Labrador and a consortium led by Chevron have made a multibillion-dollar deal on the Hebron offshore oilfield project, Premier Danny Williams said Wednesday. The deal is expected to generate revenues for the province of $16 billion over the 25-year life of the project, Williams said at a press conference in St. John's. The federal government will receive $7 billion, he said. The deal will include a 4.9 per cent equity stake that the province will purchase for $110 million, a cost described by Williams as a "wise and strategic investment in our province's future." Under the deal, the province will also receive "super-royalties," or tier-three royalties, meaning as the price of oil rises, so too will the royalty benefits paid to the province. "We have signed a historic [memorandum of understanding] for this province, which will assist Newfoundland and Labrador in achieving economic self-reliance to which we have aspired," Williams said. "We are becoming, step by step, masters of our own house." Williams called Wednesday an "exciting" and "historic" day for the province. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Great news for Newfoundland and Labrador! http://www.cbc.ca/canada/newfoundland-labr...ebron-deal.html

We cannot judge the 'happiness' of a people eons ago based on our modern standards.

The first inhabitants of North America probably did have a role in the extinction of the mega fauna, it is a huge stretch to say they are the same cultures that inhabited the Americas at the time of European contact. At this time we do see a balance between the needs of the natives and nature.

But what defines a "sin" and who defines homosexuality as one? Why should a person in the 21st century use a book written two or three THOUSAND years old for a moral code? We can all understand why killing or rape would be a bad thing. Why SHOULD homosexuality be a sin?

Do you listen to yourself??? You sound like the biggest hypocrite. You say our country is becoming "so dictatorial" it is frightening and then suggest to "crush" a whole group of people that don't agree with you. The left may be misguided in somethings, but "evil"? That is a huge leap. I'd say there are plenty more "evils" in the world.