Moonbox

The baby is going to die. Tax dollars should not be wasted on parents in denial. This is sad, yes. It's not a nice story. If the parents want to cross the border and waste their money on American doctors, let them.

South Korea is not a poor country. It's also a much smaller country and thus the infrastructure is a lot cheaper to put together. With that said, it's not 100x more expensive to put together here, particularly if you live in southern ontario. We're getting totally fleeced here in Canada.

It is a cesspool of lies. Anyone who doesn't see it is fooling themselves.

Completely incorrect. There is not a single nation in the world that could afford the losses you'd see in a large scale conventional war like WWII. The USA knows this and this is why they have tens of thousands of retired planes arranged in rows in the desert. We'll likely never see another conflict like WWII, but if we did, it wouldn't be fought by F-35's. It'd be fought by F-16's at best, but more likely Voodoos, Starfighters or even P51's lol.

That sums up how I feel about the plane, but I've spent enough time on this thread explaining that lol

Please everyone, don't respond to this thread. You only give him validation....

Well I completely agree with you. Fudged just seemed like a fun word to use.

Well you brought it up in a Bev Oda thread so reason would dictate you were relating them somehow.... Ah I see. Does what Paulie D had for breakfest gain immediate traction because it goes on Twitter? Unexciting news is still unexciting news. Twitter is just an outlet for it. You're a real champion of logical fallacy. Keep up the good work Shwa.

I can't really agree with you here. Yes, she got it right, but she didn't have to fudge the documents. I can't even begin to understand why she did. She'd probably have been applauded for the decision itself. Why did she have to be underhanded about it? I already don't trust the government enough.

McGuinty's green energy incentives were nothing more than a pander to Ontario farmers. Farmers who build solar panels on their properties are guaranteed rates something between 10-80 times more expensive than conventional energy. There's NOTHING green about impractically expensive energy. Hell, if that's what we're going to do, why don't we just spend a couple hundred billion on a fusion reactor that will produce 1.000000000001 x more energy than it consumes. That's clean too you know....

Hahahahaaha. There's a red herring if I've ever seen one. It takes a really special sort of intellect to compare an Egyptian uprising to Bev Oda lol.

UBB is fine. You can set a per GB cost to the internet and it would be just as fair as the package fees. The problem with UBB is the over-limit traps the ISP's are setting and how shadily that's being done. Network congestion isn't a completely made up issue, but the ISP's are definetely blowing it out of proportion. The real issue here isn't anything but our ISP's trying, any way they can, to rip us off. Our government has thus far done shit all to protect us and we have some of the worst internet on the planet for what we pay because of it. The Americans, who usually don't bother paying attention to us, are even weighing in on the fiasco.

Yes I know all about the BNAA. I'm also in complete agreement that we're better off with a constitution of some sort. I do, however, think that there is a large number of people who abuse the constitution and distort it to their own uses in a scope well beyond what it was originally intended to do.

Haha Smallc. 10 points sir.

Read his post again: the people who make a journalistic or board career of attacking Canada, the U.S. and Israel It's really irrelevant what they accept. Israel doesn't need anyone to BELIEVE they feel threatened in order to feel threatened and take steps to protect themselves. A lot of the legitimacy for the Israeli position comes from the fact that its neighbours are all human rights catastrophes and because we have a fairly long history of attacks, threats and aggression against Israel to back it up. Wikileaks video of Apache mowing down people in the street. Very embarrassing. Possibly taken VERY out of context. What sort of debating tactic is this? Would you not agree that the US, Canada etc are criticized for their environmental policies? Did you follow any of the coverage on Copenhagen? Have you seen how much flak Canada takes for killing baby seals? Do us the favor and stop playing dumb. It doesn't take an epic mental effort to look these sorts of things up yourself, and nobody wants to have to cite every single statement they make.

I didn't say you couldn't do it. I said it wasn't easy. They don't advertise that you can check your useage. They don't have a meter or anything that's convenient to check. They try very hard to ensure that you're not always aware of how much you're using. What other business, aside from cellphones (the same companies lol) conduct this sort of shady business???

The headline for one. The entire article is tripe. Everything the Ontario Liberals are saying in the article is AT BEST pure speculation and at worst outright lies. The fact that the Toronto Star published this is unsurprising considering how hard and how loyally they've been parotting the Party line for the last decade. It's interesting to note that I couldn't find any other newspapers publishing this garabge. Faithful Faithful Toronto Star....

It's really one of the biggest problems with North America. We're so politically correct, and so worried about saying or doing something wrong, that instead of making simple, rational judgements, we tip toe and discuss/litigate the issues to death. People end up terrified at the mere PROSPECT of lawyers getting involved and settle issues that they shouldn't settle. Scummy people take advantage of that.

Here's one. It took me about 30 seconds to dig up an example of how factually bankrupt the Star is an how hard it is on the Liberal bandwagon. http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/935217--liberals-give-sneak-peek-at-tories-platform Just hilarious.

The real issue isn't usage based billing. USB is a fact of life for most things we buy. We pay for how much we eat. We pay for how much water, gas, electricy etc that we use. That makes sense. It's fair. It would be fair for internet as well. Where it becomes completely unfair and downright dishonest, however, is how our telecom companies set us up with monthly fees for various internet packages, up to a certain limit, and then charge us INSANE penalties for exceeding those limits. They WANT us to exceed those limits. That's how they make the most money. They sell us a service at a fixed limit. They give us no easy way to track our usage of that service. They make us GUESS at how much we use it and then they smile and they heavily penalize us when we inevitably go over it. The banks do the same thing, but to a much lesser extent usually. If the ISP's want USB, they shouldn't be setting usage traps for us. It's dishonest, it's unfair and it shouldn't be allowed to continue.

It's 55/45. It's as close as you can get to a merger.

Well I can't argue with you there. I'd settle, however, with people coming here with their own resources to help themselves get established. Anyone who's not going to be an instant drain on the system is okay by my books.

I like what Harper has been doing with revamping the system. It still needs a ton of work. I have a client who already has a full time permanent job here (making $150k+) and moved here because his son was a big hockey player (in the UK) and he's having a hell of a time getting through. We're wasting so much money and resources screening bogues and useless refugee claims when we should be fast tracking the people who could actually contribute. No I'm pretty sure we were fine before Trudeau.

We need immigration. We just need less bad immigration, and more good immigration. We should be fast tracking PhD's, doctors, skilled workers etc. We need fewer (90% less) refugees. I can't really think of any good reasons why my cereal boxes have a french side, other than the Constitution. Can you? Further to the point, can you think of any fair reason (other than it being in the Constitution) that English speakers don't get the same benefits when travelling in Quebec? Thank God for the Constitution. My life is so much better for it.....

Boohoo. There are people who work full time and receive less than double that as their annual salary. As long as she's fed, clothed and sheltered she's well looked after as far as I'm concerned.