Bryan

It's very important never to mind that, since there's no evidence that was the case.

He's way better. The issue is the bar was set so low, that even an exponential improvement leaves a lot of room for improvement. Harper is by far the best we've had in at least 50 years, but that's not necessarily a positive reflection on him, more so it shows just how bad our leadership choices have been over the years.

I wonder if the concern can be dealt with in a more privacy respecting manner by simply legislating that computers have to be shipped in "safe search mode", and that the owner must use his/her admin password to change it like you would any other security setting?

Not only that, but teams that use publicly built facilities are the ones most often in financial trouble again soon after. The teams with the best finances are the ones that own and control their own facility because they generally need ALL of the revenue from the place to make a decent go of it.

We are the most respected country in the world right now. Not something you ever heard of when the Liberals were in power.

Not only that, it's not as if the Conservatives just let Senate reform drop. They know full well there could be court challenges to any change they make, that's why they took the matter to the Supreme Court themselves to get a concrete decision on what they can and cannot do. That matter is still before the court, and the government is awaiting that ruling.

That's an ongoing pattern for the left. A huge part of the reason the left is so sure the right is doing all manner of untoward things is that they themselves are already doing them, and it doesn't cross their minds that others may not be as shifty as they are.

That does make more sense. It's confusing when you think of a major metropolitan area with a low population. Having multiple communities sandwiched together as one continuous city, yet each maintaining their own civic govts is not something I'd automatically assume. I'm more used to the model of when an outside community overlaps the boundary of the bigger city, it joins that city.

Still doesn't answer the question, even remotely. I picked Windsor and Sarnia because they're close, have strong(er) economies, and are hockey markets. If it's not the communities surrounding Detroit on the US side, who is it? Are people driving several hours each way 40+ times a year?

Yeah, there is. The people doing the loudest screaming about how bad the Conservatives are, once again turn out to be the ones who were actually committing the very offences they were making accusations of.

My question was where they were coming from, considering this area is so depressed. Guyser2 says it's independently wealthy people in suburbs surrounding a decaying core. Are there really enough of those kinds of people that are into hockey?

Third highest attendance in the league, in a city with a smaller metro population than Winnipeg, and such high unemployment/illiteracy/poverty/etc…. …who IS going to these games? People from Windsor and Sarnia?

I'm a huge fan of the Netflix model. I love that you get the whole season all at once -- no more of this "tune in next week" B.S. Netflix is the best value in TV in my opinion. Just for the kids programming alone, it's worth the $8/mo. Threatening to cancel Netflix is the single best motivator I've ever seen with my 9 yr old. I'm constantly amazed at how deep the catalogue is. My only complaint is the interface and search function is completely different depending on which device you view it on. Many shows will show up on one device, but not on another. They really need to consolidate this. Orange is the New Black is a really well done show. It deviates substantially from the book, and that's a good thing -- the characters in the book weren't nearly as interesting. Weeds creator Jenji Kohan has done a tremendous job. Taylor Schilling is amazing as the lead, it's hard to believe her acting resume is so thin, she really seems like a seasoned pro. I'm glad to see they're already filming season 2, I can't wait! Expect this show to also get Emmy nominations next year. Netflix itself may not "kill" cable, but they are definitely forcing cable networks to up their game. House of Cards was not rejected by HBO. They wanted it (and so did AMC and Showtime) Netflix just outbid them. Expect to see more of this, and to see more of Netflix resurrecting shows that others have cancelled (like Arrested Development). When a show with a dedicated following gets dropped, the producers will actually have a place to go right away. AMC's The Killing only got a third season because of Netflix. AMC cancelled it, Netflix offered to pick it up, then AMC back tracked and renewed it.

No. It's the same. People doing a specific job aiming to hit a specific performance level. Catching fraud is their job, and they have modest guidelines for how much fraud the employer would like them to try to find. If anything, those targets should be much higher.

The idea is being mulled in Canada as well: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/story/2013/07/23/mb-joy-smith-anti-porn-bill-winnipeg.html?cmp=rss In the abstract, I get where they are coming from. Garbage that no child should have to be exposed to is all over the internet, and comes up with even the most innocuous web search. The problem I have is someone else deciding what is or is not obscene for me. I've seen first hand the ludicrous filtering that our Sonic Wall software does at work, where incredibly mundane things are flagged as porn or some other offense. Besides, isn't "safe search" the default setting for Google already? If you already have to decide to turn it off, that's enough for me. If you as a parent want more protection, why don't you actually use the parental controls in the operating system?

Those quotas (...er ...targets) are driving proper police work. When a cop is told to go and write 50 speeding tickets, s/he is not supposed to write tickets to random people. Police departments know that hundreds (if not thousands) of people are speeding each day along that officer's route, all he has to do is be dilligent enough to catch 50 of them. The EI targets are the same thing. Millions upon millions of dollars are being defrauded each year. That investigator was tasked with finding a fraction of that, but she balked at the idea of actually having to investigate. She didn't think she'd have to call people? Or actually leave the office once in a while? And she's got the nerve to not only complain, but to leak information she signed a confidentiality agreement on? Seriously, she should be fired.

Truth. It's absolutely a two-way street with the Q&A in the house. Right now, the answers given are appropriate to the questions asked. Both sides need to change their approach for that to end. If the opposition's questions were serious inquiries, rather than staged theatre, it would make a world of difference.

I like it. Very easy. Breaking the quotes up like this is much simpler, and more productive. This should be the default. The automated system simply does not work as it should!

Not playing the media's BS games hardly amounts to a lack of openness or accountability. They're accountable to the voters/taxpayers, and they allow far more information about the workings of government to become public than anyone who has come before them. Take the senate "scandals" we're seeing right now. Previous governments did not release the spending reports of senators. When the Conservatives had a minority and wanted those expenses reported quarterly, the opposition shut that idea down. It was not until we had a Conservative majority that these reports were required. That's accountability. Making information public, even when it's a pain in the butt for their own government. It's the same with the Parliamentary Budget Office. Yes, the govt has butted heads with the PBO many times. But they created the job that did not exist before. They knew full well that it was going to be adversarial at best, but they still created the position because it was the right thing to do.

The real story looks more like this: http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2013/02/25/pol-ei-targets-vs-quotas-finley.html The only way this could even remotely count as a "whistle blower" incident is if Therrien was finding outright fraud, and the government was telling Therrien to keep quiet about it and NOT seek to cut them off. Benefit fraud is a huge problem in this country, and what we really need are much stricter targets for ferreting them out. If Therrien is having moral issues with having a job as a fraud investigator with almost no oversight, she's in the wrong job. What we need for benefits of this nature (add welfare and similar assistance programs to that list) is downright draconian oversight. If you know anyone who works front line in those systems, you also know that fraud is rampant, and that very little is done about it. Yes, you DO have to call them at home. Sometimes you even have to follow them around. That's how you prove the fraud.

What we have right now is by far the most open and accountable government we've ever had, but it can always get better. If the next election is fought over that as the key issue, that can only be a good thing for all citizens of this country regardless of their political leanings.

A cougar could definitely take a black bear. Most of them are scared of their own shadow. Just wave your hands and yell, and they'll run. Browns, Grizzlies, Polars. etc, though are not just fearless predators, but they are usually much larger and stronger than a cougar. Many brown bear species can be well over 1500 lbs, most cougars are under 150 lbs.

More ridiculous fear mongering from Postmedia. Yawn. Wake me up when they learn what journalism is.

AGW hysterian logic: If it's cool, dry, and calm, that's just weather. No correlation to climate. If it's warm, wet, or windy, that's a climate catastrophe.

Somehow I doubt it. If what we know now is all Snowden has, I doubt he'd be as big of a concern for the US as he is right now. Even if they say otherwise, I still strongly suspect that it's what else he might have yet to release that is the real concern.