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If I recall, weren't people worrying about the coming Ice Age back in th 90s? Taking you back a few years http://sweetness-light.com/archive/newswee...-coming-ice-age http://www.larouchepub.com/pr/1998/ice_age.html

I have NEVER needed to speak French. Even when I go to Quebec - if they want my money they can speak English to me How much more bilingual do we need to get?

As any economy grows, the citizens ask for a cleaner environment. North American environment has been getting cleaner and cleaner over the last 30 years. Today the major polluters are China and soon India as they are in significant economic development. Both China and India are not bound by Kyoto. How does that help the overall global environment if we shift the production of pollution off-shore? I am for a cleaner environment. I recycle and drive a 6 cylinder car. What I am against is alarmism and solutions which are not economically viable and only make some people rich. Do you ever wonder why they chose Carbon Dioxide as the pollutant to focus on when Methane is 30 or 40 times more powerful greenhouse gas? Because ordinary people understand carbon dioxide but dont understand methane. Overall - humans are only responsible for about 3 or 4 % of carbon dioxide production. Everything else is natural.

I would like to see a new Frankenstein in the market. Who would be on my wishlist? MTS + Shaw + Qubecor + RIM + some US money Why RIM? They are a great Canadian company with tons of money. Think back to the day when Nextel and Clearnet started up. Motorola owned 30% of Nextel. They got Push To Talk (Mike Network) off the ground and to this day it is one of Telus' biggest money earners. RIM could do the same thing - develop new devices for the Advanced Wireless Spectrum (the new network would be a pure data network and voice would just be an app on it) This "Frankenstein Company" could do to the wireless carriers what VoIP has done to landline Long Distance. I know people in Bell in middle management. They are not a very motivated group. The corporate culture is very "jaundiced". I actually feel sorry for them. For the last few years the philosophy has been that Bell does not need to be a leader but a great follower in the market. They seem to think they can win by being second but best to market. Well they are second to market but far from being best. The sad thing though is when you look back in history - when Microcell and Clearnet started up they were given 30MHz of spectrum NATIONWIDE. This is more than any other carrier got. Even with this competitive advantage the incumbent carriers were still able to swallow them up. We need to at least try. If someone wants to invest a few big $$$ then let them. It will be good for us consumers and that is the most important thing. Sadly - while we do vote politicians into office we can't do anything about the bureaucrats that actually make the decisions.

A fellow Canadian is starting an interesting website as a home for those "deniers" that have not fallen for the Global Warming alarmism. It is still under development at GoWarming.com An interesting comment I saw there was a comparison to the Global Warming fanatics was that they are like Watermelons. Green on the outside and Red on the inside. The Red symbolizing the old anti-capitalist, anti-industrialist and anti-West position. Climate is always changing. Think of the Ice Ages - why did we enter them and how did the Earth get out of them. To get out of an Ice Age you need some serious Global Warming. Where did the Global Warming come from before humans started polluting the earth?

I believe that innovation and competition is not moving fast enough in the Canadian marketplace. The big three know that if they play a "rational game" in the growing market - that is not to compete strongly then all boats rise as the tide rises. The big three and investors are making a lot of money. The wireless services are the crown jewels in the telco corporations. Who suffers? The customers. Think about this - Rogers Operating profit margin is 49%. Telus is at about 43 or 44% and even the totally screwed up Bell is in the mid 30s. This are mind blowing numbers. How do they get these numbers? Through high prices and lack of service improvements. The big three want an open auction. They are also asking the government to take away the development requirements. That is they do not want to be held to timelines by which they have to do something with the spectrum. In effect they could buy it and then do very little with it and milk the old network. This keeps out competition. Think of the 2500MHz spectrum auction held in 2004/2005. This was for a service called Nomadic Wireless Broadband. Rogers and Bell bought up the most valuable spectrum and today are doing virtually nothing with it. Think of this - when Rogers, Bell and Telus started wireless operations - they were given their initial large whack of spectrum for FREE. The government subsidized the business! What I would like to see is at least one new entrant into the wireless market. The government must help improve competition.

I would like to introduce you to a new grass-roots Canadian Telecoms Oligopoly information and protest site at TeleGopoly.com. What is TeleGopoly? Telegopoly = Telecom + Oligopoly A market scenario where there are minimal, dominant, major telecoms companies serving the wireless (cellphone) market. Due to their oligopolistic nature and 'coopetition', the wireless telcos act like monopolies in a ‘competitive’ market. Side effects are minimal innovation and high service fees. An example of this market situation is Canada where there are only three network based wireless carriers (which created tightly controlled MVNOs to create illusion of competition) serving the wireless market. The Telegopoly.com objective is to educate Canadians about the Advanced Wireless Spectrum (AWS) Auction. Next year, Industry Canada will hold the AWS Auction. Industry Canada set up a call for comments which ran from mid-February to May 25, 2007. Unfortunately the Call for Comments was not well advertised and the only time the press spoke about the process in any really visible manner was near the end of the process. It is now too late to make commments. The Department will also provide interested parties with the opportunity to reply to comments from other parties. Reply comments will be accepted until June 27, 2007. We as consumers must be heard! It is important to rebutt comments made by business organizations which are acting as defacto lobby groups for the incumbent carriers. The carriers want "free market" open auctions via which the incumbent carriers will be able to outspend potential market entrants which could bring innovation and competition to the Canadian market. Visit the site and let us know what you think. Ensure that you send your comments to Industry Canada by June 27! Sincerely, Jake and the Telegopoly.com team

The new Global Warming Environmentalists are "Watermelons" Green on the outside and Red on the inside. Same old left wing anti-capitalist, anti-industrialists, anti-West. Learn about Advanced Spectrum Auction and then comment to Industry Canada - Telegopoly.com

The climate changes all the time - why bother worrying about this.

I think that the "foot soldiers" in the movement are genuine people with a desire to do some noble and something good. ... but these people are being manipulated by those far above them in the socio-political spectrum who are using the masses of good people for their own political and economic benefit. How many people are aware that Al Gore is co-owner in a CO2 trading company? Is Al Gore using his environmentalism as a way to get public support for another run at the presidency? Learn about Advanced Spectrum Auction and then comment to Industry Canada - Telegopoly.com

I do not deny that global warming may be happening but I do not accept the following: 1. That it is man-made (climate changes cyclically and on its own - for example what got Earth out of previous Ice Ages?) 2. That is is a bad thing (global warming may be a good thing) I recently found this site - GoWarming.com Also - anyone that is interested should read the book "Politically Incorrect Guide to Global Warming" and learn about how the alarmists are choosing facts to use scare-mongering techniques to create a culture of fear from which they can profit.