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Cartman......IWA is the union that Dave Haggard evolved from if that tells you anything. I understand they are screwed up at the top, so nothing coming from them would surprise me.

Merger

IOC might have to assist Olympic security costs Cartman....don't worry, we will be hosed for the bullshit in Athens as well as the crap that will go down for the 2010 Games. Scam artists and jerks is what they are! BTW I think it is just despicable the way our business oriented media is carping on our Canadian athletes. Makes me want to puke. Canada's young athletes, by and large, have devoted massive amounts of time and energy to particpate, and all they get is criticism from their Canadian corporate media back home. Bunch of scumbags is what these business executives are!

Deadbeat politician. Colurful but totally useless. A baffoon.

Quebecers to vote in byelections Election Results: April 14, 2003: Libs: 76 seats PQ: 46 seats L'AQ: 4 seats Popular Vote Libs: 45.9% PQ: 33.2% L’AD: 18.2% Voter Turnout 69% Latest Date for Next Election: Spring 2008 Do these contests matter as the Liberals have a solid majority of seats, and their results are not going to change the government. In other words are they a big yawn?

Are there too many ads on TV? If we get to the point where 1/4 of prime time is taken up with commercials, more viewers will revolt, many in much more substantial numbers, than have already done so. Also it is not effective for a company advetising if all their commercials becomes is a blur on the screen.

Absolutely - our female divers won a bronze. I don't think that Canadian guy in the blue skirt won any medals when he jumped off the diving board into the pool although he did make a big splash.

itte.....interesting link. Thanks. It has enlightened me about the term rent-seeking. Table of Contents Do you have this book: "Understanding Democracy"? It looks quite thorough.

Clickez on English at the top right corner.

Hansard Revise

Canadian Parents for French A great Canadian organization that probably has done more to enhance Candian unity that any other group in the country.

Article Isn't it about time we Canadians bite the bullet and thoroughly entrench French right across the country. If we don't we seriously risk losing Quebec .

Chávez has support of progressives world-wide Finally it looks like Latin America has a chance of getting out from under the gun of the US. Chavez in his wisdom purposely did not join trade agreements with the US. Good contrast with Canada's stupidity.

Or maybe our North American societies are not as healthy as you profess them to be. Why is it Norway doesn't have such problems, eh?

I purposely posted that so you would you see the authors of the article don't pretend to be an authority on everything like some people around here.

With your logic Norway must be truly screwed up as they incarcerate at a very low rate.

Your God society incarcerates more people than any reporting nation. United States prison population What a wonderful role model the US is, eh?

What's Wrong With Prisons? Sick.

Debt to Society This is no solution.

I gather you don't understand how our political system works. Or you are in major denial about it. Cheap labour to the business community. Now there is a good charity deserving group.

Stoker.......anyway you can blame the business community, the corporate sector for the state of our penal system. After all, they are the ones that have be controlling our federal governments in this country basically from Day One, n'est pas? PS: As I have said start thinking outside the box and stop believing all the propaganda you see on your TV news every night. You gotta know that you only see what certain people want you to see.

JWayne625.......I think you are very wise to be suspect. I also agree with your comments about the secretive corporative lobbying that is constantly going on which ultimately screws the average Canadian citizen.

Why is there so much child pornography in the US and Canada then?

Stoker......you can't shove your problems onto to neighbour's land. That is a a band-aid solution which does nothing to address the real issues which have to do with deterrence, sentencing, parole, rehabilitation, etc. There are 84 half-way houses in BC, the vast majority are in the Lower Mainland. What if the people in the Vancouver area tried to close down their half-way houses? Then what? Don't you see where this leads? No one necessarily wants half-way houses in their neighbourhood but this is the Canadian approach. I personally think violent and weapon related crimes should carry very severe sentences, including hard labour, etc. (I question parole, but don't know enough about it), and prisons to house these people should be located away from society as much as possible, in other words, extreme measures up to, but not including capital punishment. Part of the problem is that we incarcerate people in Canada at very high rates? Are you aware of that? Perhaps we need to seriously address for what crimes one is going to prison. I think for example for material crimes, we can use alternatives to prison which could possibly be more effective deterrents.

No it is not the right of citizens of Vernon to be half-way house free. That is your uneducated opinion.