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    Do some research on dilbit. Toxic sludge is actually kind of a charitable term. And while you're at it, go and see what happened when a relatively minor spill occurred in the Kalamazoo River. Enbridge has spent over a billion dollars dredging the river and surrounding ponds.
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    Oh, yeah. Because if there is one thing that 9 years of Harper's magnificent success on the building of pipeline consensus shows, it's that the Prime Minister should be a spokesperson for industry and should harass and bully people who have the temerity to object when someone tries to pump toxic sludge through their backyards. Worked great for Harper right? :rolleyes:
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    Most people can't accept that what they do for a living is a waste of time or actually counterproductive - law enforcement is no different. The war on drugs will go down as one of the great wastes of people and lives.
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    Shooting at La Loche, Saskatchewan High School. 2 reportedly killed. Shooter in custody.

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      ReeferMadness

      More guns! More guns!

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      overthere

      La Loche is a really, really tough and sad place.

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    I've never seen compelling evidence that either of those things has occurred. However, I would say that the current economic model is not conducive to a cure for cancer being discovered. Not by the drug companies, anyway. I don't follow - are you saying that they have some medicinal value? I do believe that part of the reason it's taken so long to deal with legalized marijuana is that it can't be patented and it can compete with certain medications, particularly for people with chronic pain.
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    I'm old enough to remember a time when hyperactive was a behavior trait you might use to describe a child either episodically or more generally. Now ADHD is a disorder that affects 10% of American kids. There are no shortage of medical experts that consider it to be an invented condition that is just a reflection of ordinary variability of people's ability to concentrate. Look at the symptoms of ADHD. Really? Are there kids who don't have those symptoms? I know quite well 2 people on Ritalin that have never, to my knowledge, exhibited any traits of hyperactivity. I was told they have trouble concentrating. Doesn't everyone? We didn't evolve to sit and focus on one thing for a long period of time. It takes practice and discipline. Or drugs. Another one is depression, although I would never call it an invented disease. But are all cases really legitimate? The incidence of depression has skyrocketed. According to The American Journal of Psychiatry, the prevalence of depression more than doubled between 1991 and 2002? How is that even possible?? I have an idea. I know people on long term anti-depression medication who binge drink, eat crap and rarely exercise. Wow, maybe the epidemic of obesity and depression are somehow linked? But hey, it's easier and more profitable for the medical industry to just prescribe pills. Meanwhile, millions in undeveloped countries are dying of tropical diseases and parasites. These conditions attract relatively little attention from the pharmaceutical giants because you can't make money from the desperately poor. Did you really not know this already? Or is this just a game?
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    This is the problem with the entire medical industry. Also the police industry, the defense industry and a bunch of others. When you pay people a huge amount of money to deal with problems, you shouldn't be surprised if those same people never manage to make those problems entirely go away.
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    I find myself agreeing with Tim. Kinda. Gotta run outside and watch the pigs fly.
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    Funny. Miracle man is doing things that could be done in any economy. Legalize marijuana. Electoral reform. Dialogue with provinces. Soliciting input from citizens. Demon man squandered his years picking divisive issues that have almost no positive impact on anyone. Gun registry. C-51. C-36. Making sure communities didn't try to practice harm reduction strategies. Watching the supreme court turf his legislation. What a waste of 9 years.
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    That's not true - you're exaggerating!! It's 62 people. You missed one.
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    That's a good point. There's nothing to this thread other than a whiff of conspiracy theory about how Harper has been held down. He held himself down with his secrecy and paranoia. In that way, this thread is a parody of itself.
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    Hahahahahahahaha. Is Harper the smoking man from X-Files? You act like he's some super-intelligent chessmaster. Did you fall asleep and miss all the buffoonery in the election? Saving Canada from niqabs. A 1-800 number to report barbaric cultural practices. The rally with the Ford brothers. Oh, yeah - that Harper is a real genius. lolololol. You're almost as funny as Sarah Palin.
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    Maybe. It would be nice to see but I suspect his own party would remove him. And they'd be done in 2019 and consider the prospect of Prime Minister O'Leary. Ugh. I'm not convinced that the world is really thirsting for that much principle. People say they want honesty and integrity but most of them draw the line at telling them whether they have food stuck in their teeth. Look how much denial is going on about climate change and there are lots of people out there who say exactly what they mean. People respond with tin hat conspiracy theories.
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    Tell me. Do those "bureaucratic costs" include bribing doctors to prescribe drugs which may or may not work? Or for "off-label" uses? Or is that a different category of cost? Ah. Like Mr Shkreli's unique talent for gouging desperate people. Really? You thought I meant every country would develop it's own drugs? Oh, we can't waste money curing "politically motivated" diseases, can we? Much better to have drug companies invent new maladies or suddenly discover that rare conditions are really common so they can sell much more. Did you ever notice that drug companies don't come up with drugs for things that affect mostly poor people? But if you're rich, they'll invent whole new diseases just for you! Much better than helping poor people for political motivations. Your religious zeal for funneling money to sociopath corporate executives and their greedy wealthy shareholders is also noted.
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    I noticed you didn't really suggest anything, specifically. You left me to interpret your meaning so I did. Oh, you mean expertise as in Martin Shkreli? If it's going to be funded by public dollars, then it should be done by a public organization. I'm sick of subsidizing billionaires.
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    Here we go again. You "trust science" but not with anything real. Wow. If only we were like.... all one country or something - maybe we could hook the grids together and compensate for each other. It isn't even close to the same argument it's two completely different things - but I'm done explaining it to you.
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    I would have said that in reverse.
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    Except you can make renewables reliable by combining different types of renewable energy and tying grids together. I know that because scientists have studied the matter. Oh, wait you don't trust science because you said And now you say OK....... Uruguay's hydro resource is proportionally about the same size as Canada's (~60% of total generation) Sigh..... Clearly you understand nothing of the science behind peak oil. The name peak oil is based on Hubbert's peak, Hubbert was an oil geologist who back in the 1950's noticed a phenomenon about how oil is found and depleted in an area. The biggest, easiest to find oil is found first (and within a given pool, the biggest parts are found first). Oil production in a given area grows as more wells are drilled until about half the oil has been produced. After that it peaks and never recovers. Everyone laughed at Hubbert in 1956 when he predicted US oil production would peak around 1970. But he was right to within a year. Since then, people have taken Hubbert's work and attempted to apply it worldwide but it was mostly guesswork as a result of politics. OPEC countries are famous for fudging their reserves and holding back production to artificially inflate prices. Similarly, good information is hard to find in Russia and other places. Also, Hubbert's work wouldn't have included deep sea oil, shale oil or tar sludge. It really doesn't matter though. They alter the picture (and have their own peaks) but they don't in any way invalidate the science.
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    Conservatives are bitter that, outside of the Knesset, nobody was ever glad to see Harper. Remember when he shook his kid's hand on the first day of school?
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    It was our turn to bring the chips and dip; and there's no budget for it.
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    It wouldn't surprise me in the least.
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    Those hypocrites in the Conservative Party are anti-science too but at least you admit it. Good for you. You've continually claimed that renewables are more expensive - I guess this is your way of admitting you (and your team of precious power engineers) are wrong? I know, I know. It's only Uruguay that can run almost entirely on renewable electricity. Whatever they're doing won't work anywhere else in the universe. I'm sure your engineers can explain why that is. A situation like we have now where producers are selling for less than the cost of production isn't good for anyone. It isn't good for producers who will go bankrupt or their workers who will be unemployed. It isn't even good for consumers who will start using oil wastefully, causing increased demand even as production collapses. And yes, the free market is precisely what is to blame. I know your religion doesn't allow for that but it is true. If you think peak oil has anything to do with the Malthusian narrative, you need to go away and educate yourself... as per usual. You've already said you don't believe in science and you don't appear to have the willingness or capability to understand so you carry on with whatever beliefs you have.
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    If you don't like the government stealing your money, go ahead and move to some deserted island and be "free". I just suggested that governments fund research - but through Universities, not by handing military-style, endless R&D programs to huge corporations.
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    There are lots of reasons but one of the biggest is public water and sanitation. Another is publicly funded vaccination programs.
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    Listen to the clip, not the apologists at the right wing rag. She said "the faster they move on this the better". AND, when the radio host called out her own government for creating the situation where we have hundreds of dispensaries thumbing their noses at a bad law, she deflected the blame to the local jurisdictions. Listen to the actual clip. She does not come out of this looking good. No matter what her defenders at the National Post do to try and help her out.
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