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I am sorry but trucks such as the one yesterday that crashed in West Vancouver cannot be allowed to be on the public roads. it is just too dangerous, and there is not enough union protection for the drivers to be properly looked after, and to be in proper condition. The government, through organizations like WCB, needs to step in and take a serious look at what has happened to the safety of our roads in the last 25 years. If we have to pay more for our goods so be it.

It might be wise and prudent to know violent ideas are being expressed in the first place. What is that expression: "An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure". Sorry but in today's world it is not on to wait for the bombs to start falling. I notice that the Dutch are reassessing their situation: Netherlands Ponder Tougher Line on Islamic Terrorists

Well if this information about bin Laden is accurate the US had better start taking him a lot more seriously. Why the US didn't pull out all the stops to get him is truly bizarre: FORMER HEAD OF CIA'S OSAMA BIN LADEN UNIT SAYS THE QAEDA LEADER HAS SECURED RELIGIOUS APPROVAL TO USE A NUCLEAR BOMB AGAINST AMERICANS

If you are going to make comments like this, you run the risk of retalialation. I am not condoning violence however when you play with fire........ Once again though, my understanding is that in Holland there were religious services conducted in a foreign language that preached violence. I do not think that is acceptable behaviour in Holland nor in Canada.

Think about it.

Blair's tribute to Arafat breaks ranks with Bush What I would like to know is why PM Martin wimping out by not attending Arafat's funeral? Is he kowtowing to Bush over this? If he is, it is a big mistake. :angry:

Now that is a real confidence builder. I guess it pays to take the time to do a daily backup.

pff.........I know that car drivers do stupid things in car, believe me. But an accident involving a big truck like a logging truck, and a car, is not the same as a couple of cars colliding, it is more like a car and a bicycle, or a car and a pedestrian. I am sure that the truck drivers are much better drivers they have to be. Maybe big trucks going through residential areas should have to travel at night, after midnight, or something like that. All I know is that we never used to have these huge trucks on the roads so much.

2 killed in West Vancouver logging truck spill Was this truck driver driver speeding?

No one said profit is a dirty word although there can be excess profits, and that is why we need to repair our tax system. But that is another story. The automobile industry has been subsidised for years, perhaps since its beginning, with the public money that has been used for our roads. The least that can be done is provide proper and safe roadways, and free public commuter transportation systems.

Any way you wish to slice it, we need to get those big trucks off the roads. Maybe 20 year jail sentences for the drivers and the owners of those large vehicles/trucking companies that kill people will put a stop to this madness.

Sorry, but that is not good enough. The Catholic Church needs to be dismantled, and their wealth turned over to the world's poor, all the world's poor.

Privatization spin and reality don't add up I thought everyone knew what happened to our railway system.

We can and will build up a Northern power Canada's railways were sold out in favour of the trucking industry a long time ago. We are now paying the price for that folly on our roads and highways. Don't you ever go out for a drive?

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Mulroney when he was in power, tried his best to desmantle Canada's Railway system. Now because of that shortsightedness, we constantly have these massive trucks travelling on our highways, much to the danger of Canada's travelling public, our commuters. A good example of what goes wrong with these brain-dead schemes, happened today in North Vancouver. Watch for it on your evening news!

And I feel very sorry for the sincerely devout religious people, on both sides, Muslim and Christian, who are being used, or will get used, in these emotional situations.

All this Muslim vs Christian talk is a diversion set up to avoid what is always being avoided, discussing the exploitation of the poor by the rich. And if you look close enough, it is always engineered or organized by the wealthy. That is why I would always be a conscientious objector to any armed combat, at least off Canadian soil, and would welcome any US citizens to Canada, who wish to escape their defacto draft. I wonder if our holier than thou attitude in Canada about staying out of the war in Iraq would have been the same, if we did not have an abundance of our own oil in Canada. I doubt it! /67

Thanks for the advice. It is good to hear from an expert in the field, which you sound like you are.

Are you sure you are not being racist? ----------------------------------------------------- I'm talking about the age of consent. 15-16 year old boys are not some wet behind-the-ears kids these days. And they weren't in my day either.

Why can't Arafat be buried in Jerusaleum now where he wanted? It would be a good jesture on behalf of Israel, and would show that the Israeli are sincere about working towards peace in the Middle East.

Cancerous Journalism What a bunch of sick puppies! The author is right. You really do have to be very careful about what the mainstream media is spewing out, and why they are doing it.

If this a false alarm, engineered by another political party, then that political party should pay the price at the polls.

Politician's home searched in election investigation What is this all about?

Chicago Teacher In Teen Sex Bust I don't know about the rest of you but when I was 15 and could get laid by one of my teachers, I would have been the school hero. This is ridiculous, penalizing people for what comes naturally.