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Not actually. Some big city chiefs, beholden to very left wing police boards, esp in Central Canada, have said the thing is useful. Logically, however, it serves NO useful purpose in that it is highly innacurate to the point no competent police officer would rely on what it says.
If the right wing feels this way, let's see a polling of cops across the country. I keep hearing about the left wing conspiracy on this but it sounds like a way to dismiss it all and simply go to ending the program without a proper assessment.
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My understanding is you go federal if your sentence is over 2 years, provincial if under.
Ending the 2 for 1 deal isn't going to shift prisoners from prov to fed. It' is, however, going to keep them in provincial pens longer than they would otherwise be there.
Some of the linked articles here indicate that a lot of the sentences would exceed 2 years with the changes. I'd like to see some more analysis of the whole thing because it comes on top of other changes but this is what we were hearing last week.
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Oh my, Mr Passive Aggressive making threats now......... new style? Getting hair implants too?
Think it is yourself with the passive aggressive tendencies. I can't imagine that you act in such a way publicly without being called on it. Generally, speaking I call such anonymous sniping as cowardly.
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Nope. I want them in jail too. But it seems like Manitoba is the only province with that problem.
Afraid not. We've seen it in Saskatchewan where murderers escaped. I won't even go into places like Ontario where last week we saw things explode in Milhaven.
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Really? Cause some people might have taken that as borderline threatening.
Not at all. Just an observation about what must happen with such behaviour so routinely.
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Well, I'm not complaining about overcroweded Ontario prisons, am I?
Probably because you don't care about murderers escaping?
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http://www.voanews.com/english/2009-10-30-voa20.cfm
A French magistrate has ordered former President Jacques Chirac to stand trial on embezzlement charges dating back to the 1990s, when he was mayor of Paris. The order is unprecedented, and follows several other trials targeting former high-level politicians.Former President Jacques Chirac did not respond directly to news he has been ordered to stand trial, but a statement from his office said he was serene and determined to clear himself.
Chirac is charged with embezzlement and breach of trust relating to allegations that 35 people were given fake jobs at Paris city hall between 1994 and 1995, when he was mayor. A veteran politician, 76-year-old Chirac served as both Paris mayor and prime minister of France, before becoming president in 1995. He left office in 2007.
Holy crap.
First Italy and now France where the top dog faces charges.
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There have been a couple of problems that have been affecting the global supply that have been outside the control of any government:
However, none of these are the reasons for the trouble in Canada. In Canada it came from a federal order to re-jig the vaccine mid-way through the process thereby causing the delay.
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Absolutely agree, it's pretty much blind ideology to do that.
The change in the vaccine was ordered by the government. Ergo, they did have control over the supply.
Blaming the company for the delay passes the buck for the fact that the Feds promised a guaranteed supply but then changed course to re-jig the vaccine.
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And from this report, their fund raising just hit an all time high in a non election period.
Liberal financing in as well and money still coming in. It was $2 million for the quarter or twice as much as last year this time. That's $7.5 million thus far for the year.
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Ottawa should have gone for the best provider..but you know politics - It's about assisting those that put you there.
And who is to blame for the present choice?
The shortage still comes back to government and the decisions it takes.
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You know I am reminded of one rapper with some shiney teeth and a big freakin clock around his neck. He was screamin something like 'Don't .. don't don't .. don't beleive the hype'.
And yet the anger out on the streets for people who are waiting in very long lines is very real.
WHO cares? Sorry
.I hear ya.
The government should care because now it looks like they interrupted their production lines for a less effective vaccine for pregnant women.
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That appears to be the case.
Think I made my point that the vaccine would not have been delayed if the government hadn't ordered a change after promising a guaranteed supply to the provinces.
This blaming the company for following government instructions is passing the buck.
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As for the NDP apparently, all this negative press, about money, low polling numbers and such have proven a red herring for the quarter. The NDP poll numbers are steady and traditional. And from this report, their fund raising just hit an all time high in a non election period.
I suspect that Harper would hurt himself if he did this within a year of promising not to. It might not bring down his government but I can see it bringing down his poll numbers.
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Well, lo and behold...
Emera mum on talks with Hydro-Quebec
http://thechronicleherald.ca/Business/1150179.html
Emera and its subsidiary, Nova Scotia Power, are staying tight-lipped about Hydro-Quebec’s reported interest in taking over the power company.A report in Thursday’s Globe and Mail quotes an unnamed Quebec government official as saying Hydro-Quebec, a Crown-owned utility, is looking at buying Nova Scotia Power.
There is legislation in Nova Scotia to present a takeover. Guess it is okay for Emera to buy other people's energy assets but not have someone buy theirs.
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So you don't think pregnant women under 20 weeks should be able to get vaccinated, is that what you're saying? The federal government asked for something, and it seems that GSK can't deliver.
I am saying they could have been vaccinated with the present vaccine just as Europeans were with no problem.
Now, the WHO has confirmed that Canada has made the wrong decision.
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I would think that even if the opposition was silent, the ruling government would always be suspected of bias.
It certainly doesn't help when Canada is not as forthcoming on stimulus. That doesn't help clear things up.
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Island people? They're impossible.
Think Newfoundland knows what Quebec has their eyes on.
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/newfoundland-labr...c-labrador.html
However, a map attached to survey results — posted on the website of Quebec's Natural Resources Department — shows large parts of southern Labrador as being inside the Quebec boundary.John Ottenheimer, Newfoundland and Labrador's minister of intergovernmental affairs, said the map is the latest in a line of claims that Quebec has made about its boundary and Labrador.
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I'm still unclear as to why you're blaming the federal government for this. They don't run GSK. You want to pin this on the Conservatives, but I don't see how that can be done.
The company is switching to the new vaccine because that is what the government wants and thereby limits its supply that is promised. Are you saying they made the decision on their own?
The government ordered the change one week after they guaranteed supplies. Or have you not read the Canadian Press report?
The reality is that we have more vaccine already than anyone else as a percentage of the population and we will have more vaccine than needed for the entire Canadian population. Yes, we have some issues now, but they aren't coming from the federal government.They are the lead government on this and they were the ones that guaranteed supply just last week. I don't know how you think they won't be accountable for things. It is what happened in 1976 and the 2004 in the U.S. I can't imagine it will be any different in Canada.
The buck stops somewhere and you are blaming the company. Well, the company is following instructions from Ottawa.
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Your second paragraph demonstrates the falseness of the first. No one expected the line ups that have occurred. It's not Harper's fault, it's actually a lot of Canadians' fault.
That's not true.
They have been talking about it all summer about the fear of shortages. It is why they believed it was important to let people know about the steady supply and guarantee the provinces they would meet it.
It is why Obama is also facing the test right now. The promise was that the Feds were going to get on this and not let chaos reign. So far, they have failed.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/29/us/polit...hortage.html?hp
The moment a novel strain of swine flu emerged in Mexico last spring, President Obama instructed his top advisers that his administration would not be caught flat-footed in the event of a deadly pandemic. Now, despite months of planning and preparation, a vaccine shortage is threatening to undermine public confidence in government, creating a very public test of Mr. Obama’s competence. -
I consider it a victory. Chretien would have given him $60 million, and given us Adscam.
I consider it another example of Harper spending out of control. That is not something that you can accuse Chretien of.
Make up your mind. Are you a Tory or a separatist? Maybe a little of both as you try to get as much as possible of out of Canada in taxpayer money?
You federal Liberals have become the Eatons of the 21st century, and you don't know it. Like the Eatons, you think "your brand name" will save you. It won't.You separatists look to sew dissent in the rest of Canada. We are on to you as well.
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Blaming Harper is just plain partisanship, and some of the dumbest I've ever seen. Next week I'm expecting Harper to be blamed for sun spots.
Harper promised just last week that supply would not be a problem. If the provinces knew that there would be a shortage from what was promised, they would have changed the process of screening for who got vaccinated.
Afraid that isn't partisanship but the plain truth. The provinces set up clinics based on the numbers of vaccinations they expected to get every week. They would have been much more restrictive had they known about shortages a week ago.
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I'm pretty sure it's a question of both. There was no promise of 50M vaccines off of the bat. We're going to end up with 2/3 less next week, and we'll have to make due. If people at less risk stay away, there will be much less of a problem.
If people do stay away and only high risk people are vaccinated, they still run out. They would have run out anyways if only high risk people had been vaccinated.
The issue of supply was guaranteed no less than a week ago. The clinics are not doing more vaccines than what they allotted for based on the supply that was promised. If they had known about the shortages last week, we would have seen a very different type of vaccination than we have thus far.
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Housako? Dobbin, what do you think of Labeaume?
Senator Housakos is intimately linked to the issue but you think it nothing.
What do I think of Lebeaume? As mayor of Quebec City, I expect Harper will hand him $40 million for a new arena.
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And I made a simple lighthearted joke about what must happen regularly in your life when you act out.
Only someone delusional would regard it as a threat.