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Stoker....as much as this is a tragic situation you are wrong. Part of being a community in Canada includes half-way homes. Obviously there is a problem which needs to be rectified, but if you don't like it, go live in another country. There are many others willing to take your place. Canada doesn't need mob rule, and uneducated comments about half-way homes. This NIMBY mentality needs to be constantly challenged for Canada to have balanced healthy societies. The more we mix up rich and poor, sick and well, criminals one they have done their time, and non-criminals, instead of creating ghettos, the better off we will all be. If you are so concerned about what is going on go do some volunteer work with the John Howard Society.

Greek sprinters pull out of Games Two points: 1 - one of the main reasons the modern Olympics are in disfavour is drugs. 2 - I am very tired of people like Pierre Bourque complaining about Canada's performance - his headline today: Canada: One Measly Medal - Bourque is doing a major disservice to our athletes who depend on our media for their feedback.

Parizeau sets cat among pigeons Canada is going to half to somehow put a stop to this nonsense.

It is not about deterrent. Past behaviour is the best predictor of future behaviour and in the case of murder one is enough. If you hold them until they are older than 60 at least their capacity will be limited when they get out. This is about public safety and not the rights of murderers. Yes it is about deterrent.

Obviously shit happens sometimes, and it is a tragedy for the victims but the idea is to re-integrate these folks back into society. The Vernon Half-Way House will not be closed down. Overall the system works. How many people have successfully gone though this system? So tired of this mob rule, knee-jerk reactions, which I saw on TV today, mentality. At least people are waking up to the fact that crimes of violence are a lot more serious than taking someone's material things! What about these 3 people? what do we know about them? Were they all in jail for murder? How long do murderers get these days as a sentence? Maybe murderers should be sentenced to 40 years with no parole, or life with no parole. Would that be a better deterrent?

Ontario low-income students to get learning grant Nice to see.

Talk about a healthy society.

Stoker.......GM needs to pick up the tab for comsumer groups advertising rebuttals. After all it is their product. That should be the cost of doing business. Try thinking outside the box.

Hey pal....try supplying us with some specific facts and URLs to support your brilliant and substantive comments.

About Sweden.

Someone was asking earlier about Sweden one of our more progressive societies: Did you know that: After the 2002 election, 45 percent of Members of Parliament are women, which is a world record.

How many kicks at the can are we supposed to put up with here concerning the breaking up of our country? Infighting Arises Among Quebec Separatists What the hell does this mean that the federal government would strongly oppose?

I'll give you an example of what I mean by a level playing field: When General Motors gets on TV with one of their ads promoting their SUVs or whatever, after their commercial is over, consumer groups could be offered equal time to respond with their point of view.

Le mouvement partitionniste You can get this page translated by gooling it if you are unable to read French. The reality is that I do not think there will ever be a separate Quebec. The notion of dividing up Quebec riles separatists, not francophones

Quotations "Si le Canada est divisible, le Quebec doit être divisible aussi" Pierre Elliot Trudeau Former Prime Minister.

Wasn't Morin supposed to have been a federalist mole? And even if Quebec ever did get majority support for separation what about Bill Shaw and the Eleventh province movement?

MERE TOLERANCE IS NOT ENOUGH Excerpts from Reveille for Radicals by Saul Alinsky The American people were, in the beginning, Revolutionaries and Tories. The American people ever since have been Revolutionaries and Tories regardless of the labels of the passed and present. Regardless of whether they were Federalists, Democrat-Republicans, Whigs, Know-Nothings, Free Soilers, Unionists or Confederates, Populists, Republicans, Democrats, Socialists, Communists, or Progressives. They have been and are profiteers and patriots. They have been and are conservatives, liberals, and radicals. The class of radicals, conservatives, and liberals which makes up America's political history opens the door to the most fundamental question of what is America? How do the people of America feel? It is in the feeling that the real story of America is written. There were and are a number of Americans -- few, to be sure -- filled with deep feeling for people. They know that people are the stuff that makes up the dream of democracy. These few were and are the American radicals and the only way that we can understand the American radicals is to understand what we mean by this feeling for and with people. Psychiatrists, psychologists, sociologists, and other learned students call this feeling "identification" and have elaborate and complicated explanations about what it means. For our purposes it boils down to the simple question, How do you feel about people? Do you like people? Most people claim that they like people with, of course, a "few exceptions." When the exceptions are added together it becomes clear that they include a vast majority of the people. It becomes equally clear that most people like just a few people, there kind of people, and either do not actively care for or actively dislike most of the "other" people. You are white, native-born, and Protestant. Do you like people? You like your family, your friends, some of your business associates (not too many of them), and some of your neighbors. Do you like Catholics, Irish, Italians, Jews, Poles, Mexicans, Negroes, Puerto Ricans, and Chinese? Do you regard them with the warm feeling of fellow human beings or with a cold contempt symbolized in Papists, Micks, Wops, Kikes, Hunkies, Greasers, Niggers, Spics, and Chinks? If you are one of those people who think of people in these derogatory terms, then you don't like people. The more I hear about this Alinsky guy the more I like about him!

Nonsense, no one is proposing totalitarianism here, just a level playing field.

Because they have been brainwashed against them. I just saw a Canadian Olympic athlete complaining about how all the negative media attacks on the Canadian athletes affects their performance. I agree with her, just like I agree that all the negativity directed against unions on the corporate TV networks impacts on people. Let's stop being so silly, eh!

Corporations aren't in trouble. Right! A quick glance at today's news: Ford, Magna face class-action suit Monsanto ripped over wheat experiments And this doesn't include the RCMP visiting Nortel.

The athletes in Athens are often performing in semi-empty spectator venues. Typical of elitism. Reminds me of symphonies where prices are too much for the average person, and so they have priced themselves out of the market. All they have to do is drop the prices and these venues will be filled.

There is a mob rule mentality at work in Vernon, BC, over a Half-Way House where apparently two and possibly three of its residents have committeed murder, over an 8 year period. Of course, no stats are available about how many people overall have lived in this house. The problem may be with the prison sentences, with the parole system, but not with the Half-Way House which are essential if we are going to enable inmates to re-establish themselves back in the communities once their sentences have been served. This NIMBY attitude does nothing to solve problems in society, it only acerbates them.

Do you know why that Canadian is being charged for jumping into the Olympic diving pool? It is because $2 billion, yes that's right folks, two billion dollars, was spent on security, and it shows the whole world that this security con job is the farce the security industry and the police forces don't want you to know about.

Why is Nortel being investigated by the RCMP? Is this another example of our glowing corporate world? Wasn't Nortel one of, if not the prima donna of the Canadian corporate elite? I am beginning to wonder if all our corporations are being run by criminals and/or thugs.

Please stop shouting! What's wrong with the truth, eh!