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Necessities or not, the point is ownership of these items is not a reasonable indicator of how well one is doing in life. It's a red herring.

Kind of hard to suggest a solution in an update box. :-P. I'd look into increasing taxation on the super rich, for one, but I do think that unless you are flat out POOR you have a responsibility to help support this society. A little tax on millions of people often produces more money than a big tax on a tiny number.

We've tried taking money away from the productive and giving it to the non-productive. Maybe we need to spend money on making those non-productive more productive through skills and education training.

Argus - you said process.  You're moving the goal post now.  There are of course other costs.  Those costs btw, are all coming in under budget.

My questionable sources ... " A recent report by the Canadian Border Services Agency (CBSA) estimates that each refugee claimant who has their application rejected by the Canadian Immigration and Refugee Board (IRB), due either to lack of evidence of persecution in their home country or failing to show up to refugee hearings, costs the Canadian government over $50,000."

Are we talking about rejected applicants in the case of the approved Syrian refugees?

Too many of you are prudes...I don't expect a woman to get this particular joke.

The hits just keep on comin...

Guys don't like this because the joke is funny (it's too stale to be funny). They just like it because being politically incorrect (to a socially acceptable degree) lets them approximate some semblance of swagger.

The problem progressives have with hiring and promotion based on merit is most of them would never be hired or promoted under such a system.

Funny. Here I am a progressive, and I outperformed dozens of other candidates for my current job. Perhaps the hiring team didn't know I was progressive, and therefore unqualified?

Everyone's a success on the internet.

Yes, you were right to condemn the violence at the BLM protests (and to notice the absurd contortions of the media). But there is a difference between looting a Banana Republic and turning our country into a banana republic. - Sam Harris

Quiet day today in the capitol? If that's all, that was nothing. Try visualizing the situation had Trump won, and how many on the left would cheer on the riots and burning and looting. Not even close.

Yes, but Biden will never incite a riot, and no one can deny that Trump incited that riot.

Not without getting laughed at anyway.

I guess he could.  If it makes you feel any better.  He hasn’t taken a salary as president since he was sworn in.

Salary is peanuts compared to 10s of millions in pure profit. But he won't stop because fake "drain the swamp" supporters like you don't care about actual corruption.

Yes, it’s pure profit if there’s no expenses to operating a business.  I’m impressed that you’re able to calculate profit margin without knowing any of their costs! 

It's a lie, actually. Suggesting this government is corrupt is blatantly dishonest. There have been a few minor individual acts of rule breaking, but this government has been remarkably free of corruption compared to its predecessors.

It's a lie to list off all the people charged or under criminal investigation? No, those are called facts.

It can be a pain when those durn chickens come home to roost I guess.

About 30 nations have birthright citizenship.

Why didn't Kenney fix it when he was Minister for Immigration?

He was considering loaning money to a Canadian and was leery of that persons citizenship being overvalued??

Where were you people a year ago when I was saying all these things? I must be like a prophet of doom, or something.

But it's great to see everyone finally coming around, coming around. Just takes y'all a while. I know. 

The internet has contributed to that more than the pandemic. People find like-minded people online to justify their crazy ideas and theories. 

I like to seek out people with different views to keep my debate skills up. 

This is no doubt a hate-motivated crime.   But to say that it's only happening to Muslms - by the way all these endless interviews and political posturing goes -  is what to me, is a bigger problem here, too.

 

Like showing that black guy who singled out WHITE supremacy, in that statement he made on tv.  The guy who did the killing, isn't known to be in any groups.  We don't know why he hates Muslims.  It doesn't automatically mean a white person is a white supremacists when he goes killing visible minorities.

 

Racism, is a fact of life.

Racist-motivated crimes (directed to all - and that includes white people) must be addressed.

 

If we want Canada to become a real non-racist nation, then don't go marginalizing and singling out any particular racial groups - and that includes WHITE people!

Otherwise, this is all just lip service.   We're just another Hutus vs Tutsis - payback is always a btich.

"Instead of the phrase "racial problem", what should it be called?"

Fascists venting? Racists spewing venom? The same old nasty racist crap ? Pick one. Maybe there is a final solution yet to come.

You're accusing me of racism, without any basis for that. Someone is going to have to tell my fiancee.

www.winnipeglovehate.com

Pot meet kettle.

'cos so far there hasn't been any murderous mobs killing people 'cos they killed a cow.

Try again maybe.

Does Trudeau even have a man card? If so it needs to be repossessed.

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Trudeau ordered the flags on the Peace Tower on Parliament Hill and at all federal government buildings in Downie's hometown of Kingston, Ont. to be lowered to half-mast until sunset on the day of the funeral or memorial service.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/gord-downie-death-political-reaction-1.4359917

I think some people are taking long term economic growth for granted.

They're talking about it in the thread Big Guy made about the topic. Was this something the company condoned?

Yep. As young as 8 is fine with these guys. Pretty goofy.

I've been hearing it would have actually been safer to give her an assault rifle because at least she could stabalize a gun like that against her shoulder.

The suggestion that all the North Africans in Germany are there because of ISIS is a desperate fiction.

Desperate fiction is what progressives are all about. That's why they keep telling themselves how respected and well-treated women are in the Muslim world.

News has now emerged of similar New Year’s Eve assaults in Austria, Switzerland, Finland and Sweden, as well as other German cities. Globe and Mail

I'm not mad at the poor. I'm mad at the government for taxing so much of my money.

Yes, CPCFTW, I will eventually accrue money, but not wealth. Oprah Winfrey is rich, but Bill Gates is wealthy. I am not going to be either.

You will still have a low effective tax rate when you retire. As you should, unless you feel you haven't paid "your fair share" while working.

I might spoil my ballot.

I'll be voting conservative for the first time in my life. We can do a lot worse then him

Uhm.... We ARE doing a lot worse than him. But at least Bob Rae will be happy. He finally will not be remembered as the worst Ontario Premier in history