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I think if you read the thread there is no evidence of special treatment. When you have major unstable angina, there is no alternative. Chretien mentioned to his doctor partner during golf that he felt unwell, and short of breath. His friend recommended he see a cardiologist asap. The next morning, he had major heart pain ... a 'heart attack' as we know it. I am glad he is ok, and I think the system did the right thing.

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/ottawa/story/2007...ium-071002.html Algonquins offer to end uranium site occupation Last Updated: Tuesday, October 2, 2007 | 5:35 PM ET CBC News Two First Nations communities have offered to end their three-month occupation of a potential uranium site in eastern Ontario if the province agrees to help resolve its dispute with a mining exploration company. Chief Doreen Davis of the Shabot Obaadjiwan First Nation and Paula Sherman, co-chief of the Ardoch Algonquin First Nation, sent a letter to Premier Dalton McGuinty on Tuesday asked for mediation involving themselves and provincial and federal government representatives. They proposed that during mediation they will suspend occupation of the site near Sharbot Lake, Ont., where Frontenac Ventures Corp. wants to do test drilling for uranium, provided that the company does not gain access to the site, and no mineral exploration and mining takes place during the mediation process. The Algonquins say the land is theirs, they should have been consulted about the mining and they oppose uranium mining for environmental reasons. They have already met twice with provincial representatives. Protesters from the two communities have been blocking access to the site, about 60 kilometres north of Kingston since late June. That is despite a temporary court injunction issued in August and a permanent injunction issued last week granting the company access to the site, and ordering police to arrest and remove the protesters. The injunctions were requested by Frontenac Ventures, which is also suing the Algonquins for $77 million. In September, the Ardoch and Shabot Obaadjiwan First Nations launched a $10-million countersuit against the company and a $1-billion lawsuit against the province. .......................................................... Well that is kind of them to give the province another chance to obey the law, though they'll get nowhere until after the election, unless they confront McGuinty in the media. Likewise I doubt the police will do anything to clear the site until after the election.

Some racists, it seems to me, choose not to accept or like people of some other races but might tolerate them so long as they ... assimilate and act like the dominant culture, minimize or deny their own culture, etc. That is what I intended it to mean.

True, you won't find Euro evidence of our crimes. Why would this surprise anyone? It is the elders shared stories of boatloads of blankets being delivered to their villages that convince me, and a story of a person returning home to his village after an absence, and all were dead, floating in the harbour where they seemed to have all gone at once for relief from the smallpox fever and lesions. There was no evidence, as one would expect, of people taken ill earlier being cared for by those still well, as happens when a disease works its way through a village naturally. Instead, the only evidence showed that everyone was taken ill at the same time with the disease running the same course in the same time frame for all. The evidence is consistent with all being infected at once by the blankets delivered. I don't think it is possible at this time to dismiss the possibility.

mikedavid, you embarrass me with your views. I do not wish to be associated with your beliefs or your behaviour, but also I will no longer try to counter your racist opinions.

Thank you wilber. I knew it didn't make sense, and you said it well.

Isn't it the point that the government has the power to implement the Constitution ... or not ... to protect citizens ... or not ... as it chooses, by making laws ... or creating crises ... ?

I think there can be a synergy between youth and elder in the workplace, say for example if someyungun is persistent to the point of accusing you of 'caving' professionally, when it is something you have long despaired of accomplishing ... oh ya ... they can push you to just do it!

This is too hilarious! Fromm is too serious! Thanks for the lite moment of laughter. ... toooooFnfunny !!! booga-booga ... gonna pi$$ on your balcony bonsai

You show real compassion. I think I get it ... to some of us (me) Britney Spears is fluffy soap opera entertainment to distract us from our terrifying or tedious work ... at the watercooler, in the elevator after you exhaust the weather. It's a common story, she's only the latest, though watching so much of it live in progress is a new twist. BUT watercooler talk of politics? ... well I'd have to leave because it is a highway crash in progress and it is ALL waaay too anxiety provoking. And I hope Brits kids are ok.

You may be right. Honest assimilationist racists aren't afraid to identify themselves these days, while others wear politi-camo and hand out money. I don't think we should project our feelings onto others. We all have to live here. The sooner we forget about hatred as an option, the more peaceful we can be. Sounds good, eh? RElax, mon. (We don't HAVE a singular white culture, cos you sure ain't part of mine!)

Mixed Member Proportional representation ... Why not give it a try! VOTING It would be the old familiar, elect your choice of local MPP ... and then you would mark an extra X for a party of your choice. So for example if you like your local rep, but not the party leader or policies, etc, you would be able to cast a vote for your local MPP as usual, and a vote for a different party too, to make your point. IN THE LEGISLATURE If elected, your local MPP is in the legislature, as usual. The governing party is determined, as usual, on the number of successful riding MPPs. Our newfangled 'party' votes (whoopee!) would be the popular vote for the party. THAT vote would determine the percentage of seats for each party in the House. That is the change, so ... 1) A party with 3% is eligible to potentially get a seat, 2) and a party with only 40% of the popular vote will form a government, but will no longer get a majority of the seats and votes in the House without collaboration. 3) the party-nominated candidates will fill out the seats to the proper percentages to make up the popular votes for parties. *********** I think some or most of us want to know that our political parties are focused more on our common survival priorities, through collaboration and agreement, and less on wasting OUR time on public tv, on OUR dime, with moronic political posturing, bullying and grandstanding. Time for them to buck up and publicly reflect the standards and values of our public classrooms: The students are noticing political leadership machines produce paid performers of glib and sharp repartee, but whether we get good governance out of it is a crapshoot every time ... and you always lose at gambling, right? Democratic competition has its place in selection of government and opposition representatives OF THE PEOPLE, but governance is different than preening and campaigning, alternately scripted and glib (or in Harper's case, the glib has to be scripted for him too, I think). Governance is not about first planning to do the 5 things you promised, to prove you are trustworthy. Governance is life and death for someone somewhere everyday, whether natural disaster, economic devastation, patient access to treatment, community access to emergency services, or death on winter highways, oh and remembering all the 80, 90 and 100th birthdays in Ontario.

well I think that may be reflected in the latest ... 63% Lib I heard/saw on the news tonight, but I didn't catch the name of the polling company.

Wealth distribution in Canada ... http://www.esnips.com/doc/629185b2-3bf1-40...ribution-Canada This doesn't say anything about taxes paid or not, but it highlights the huge discrepancy between the highest and the rest of us. In truth, it is only 1/10th of the people in the top line who truly reign without paying taxes, and account for the strong upward motion: The really really richest get much richer much faster, and the rest of us work and pay taxes. Why am I feeling like part of a mindless mass? Have we bought in so foolishly that we would bring about our own demise? Sometimes I think that is the game they are playing with us.

flat tax is for flat earth people The thread started due to the article about the high high high income people who pay NO income tax ... and we're pretty divided on that. However, I doubt they are losing any sleep in concern about the high taxes of the rest of us: It's the way the game is played, the world goes round, in the current ... model.

ok ... point made ... though it is not a treaty ... not an obligation to another nation ... but their own law ... the Great Law. Kahentinetha has a right to make her points like we all do, and from her position in the Mohawk Nation. It's really an internal matter, to me: Will the Confederacy address the questions? I would assume so ... I don't know the protocols though. Will the Confederacy clarify its position to 'us' the Canadian public? I doubt it. It's their law, their business. There are different viewpoints in every community.

I think Tory's backtrack bombed: Now they report on tv libs 63 So ... Tory had to appease his backers? but offended his policy support and embarrassed himself in front of the rest of us.

You are right ... been there done that, and apologized to the dr. Abuse is an issue for sure, but minor compared to our naturally changing demographics ... Baby boomers have aches and the whole country feels the pain. Now if we were talking preventative, natural medicine coverage ... we could avoid some of the public pain of overly zealous personal prognostication.

It has already been posted, but yunguns cain't ferigen do ther one readin! They expect us to retell, repost, blah blah blah, and they can't be bothered reading back to catch up so we have to do it all over and over and over again!! -end rant-

well said posit, and a bit of whiney one at that ... "speaks" is ok ... "reads" ? ... nada!

QUOTE(ScottSA @ Oct 2 2007, 04:50 AM) * Borg, I think you're misinterpreting what Keng is saying. His point was that the Indians have a double standard: If a treaty is to their benefit, they consider it etched in stone, and if a treaty turns out not to have been to their benefit, they man the barracades at the "injustice" of it all. He's saying the Indians have a double standard, and he's absolutely right. Of course it is conjecture: I have never seen a scholarly nor even just a journalistic or quasi-journalistic presentation of even quasi-evidence of such hypotheses. But please enlighten me with any such information if I am wrong.

So this is part of the US crackdown on illegals ... who have been living and working in the US for 15 years. Hmmm ... I think the US has some responsibility here. I also think it is interesting that they have two offers of work right here! I expect they can be accommodated in Canada, to go through the process at least. Too bad they can't get a visa during the process ... protecting us from potential terrorists until they clear them, I guess? Apparently it takes them 14 months.

What, that they are genetic mutations of Africans? Or will they see it as a 'definitive whiteness'. I wonder how many kkk are creationists? That would bypass the issue of evolution for them wouldn't it?

Scientists Find A DNA Change That Accounts For White Skin By Rick Weiss Washington Post Staff Writer Friday, December 16, 2005; Page A01 Scientists said yesterday that they have discovered a tiny genetic mutation that largely explains the first appearance of white skin in humans tens of thousands of years ago, a finding that helps solve one of biology's most enduring mysteries and illuminates one of humanity's greatest sources of strife. The work suggests that the skin-whitening mutation occurred by chance in a single individual after the first human exodus from Africa, when all people were brown-skinned. That person's offspring apparently thrived as humans moved northward into what is now Europe, helping to give rise to the lightest of the world's races. Biotechnology Researchers and regulators are reshaping the landscape of science, medicine and health, engendering hope -- and disquiet -- for the future of humanity. Leaders of the study, at Penn State University, warned against interpreting the finding as a discovery of "the race gene." Race is a vaguely defined biological, social and political concept, they noted, and skin color is only part of what race is -- and is not. In fact, several scientists said, the new work shows just how small a biological difference is reflected by skin color. The newly found mutation involves a change of just one letter of DNA code out of the 3.1 billion letters in the human genome -- the complete instructions for making a human being. "It's a major finding in a very sensitive area," said Stephen Oppenheimer, an expert in anthropological genetics at Oxford University, who was not involved in the work. "Almost all the differences used to differentiate populations from around the world really are skin deep." http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/conte...5121501728.html ........................................ Interesting, not surprising, minor genetic mutations account for many normal human differences. There is an NFB short animated film called "Evolution" that follows some possible courses of combinations of genetic mutation/selection/adaptation to environmental changes ... mutant and socially rejected web-footed fowl survive the floods and become ducks, for example. Cute stuff, good for kids and adults... if I could only find it. I am not really trying to be controversial (who put this link in my google?! I think it is out of my control.). I respect that this is not a topic of interest to some people, but it is to others. It affected me to read that the genetic source of my race had been found, though it has been defended for some time that we all came from Africa, it is still nice to know where the paths diverged ... but what the hell were they thinking going north?? Probably it was warm then. Vitamin D absorption, our genetic mutation that may have allowed us to adapt to the north. We are all a human family, and I understand better the Haudenosaunee sign off: "all my relations" ... it does mean me too.

Most of the non-taxpaying high income Canadians are in the top 1/10th of a percent of earners, and so is the largest chunk of the wealth.