Bryan

That's an assholic way of looking at it. If you're paid to do a job, and you screw off instead of doing what you're paid to do, the boss isn't "jealous" when he gets pissed off at you ripping him off. Likewise, people are pissed off because we are paying for Public Servants to be lazier, less productive, and paid more than the people who are paying their salaries. They are stealing from us.

As usual, most of what Boges writes about Apple is flat out made up. I have always had several different browsers on my iOS devices (and on my Macs), but I still use Safari 90% of the time because it's just a better browser. It loads faster, it's more stable, the features integrate into the core functions of the OS, it syncs all bookmarks, accounts, and currently open pages across all computers and mobile devices. That last feature I use everyday to start reading a site on one computer/device, and come back to it later on another one. Automatic updates is something a lot of users really don't want -- I sure don't. I BETTER be able to turn it off when it's implemented. Sometimes, the way an app or OS looked/worked before is preferred to the new one, and I never want those changes imposed on me, I always want to manually decide when and if I get updates. That's one thing that ticks me off about both Adobe and Google -- their applications keep defaulting to automatic updates, and you have to continuously reset the preferences back to manual updating. The fact is, except for a few pieces of floaty eye candy, Apple is several years ahead of Google. It's isn't even close.

How many innocent people need to die before we start taking mental illness seriously as a threat to public safety. If someone really is so ill that taking those drugs is a necessity, that alone should also mean that person is not safe to walk around in society. A diagnosis of sufficient psychosis to necessitate being drugged all the time should also be automatic grounds for them to be committed.

I'm so torn on this issue, I can't decide where I fall. On one hand, I don't think governments should tell grown adults what they can or can't put in their bodies. That goes for food, drugs, or nutritional supplements. On the other, I think we should do far more than we already do to keep harmful things from kids. I don't know what the middle ground is... you can do whatever you want to yourself, but it's still a serious crime to sell it to someone else (especially a minor)? The other sticky part is our public health system. If we are going allow people to do whatever they want with their bodies, should we still expect everyone else to pick up the tab? For instance, part of me still thinks that perhaps tobacco should be outlawed because of the health consequences. If smoking were illegal, smoking ANYTHING would likely be covered by that, bring us back to where we are with pot, just for a different reason. Maybe the answer is to treat health care the way other insurance is done -- deliberate acts of "bad health" make your coverage get cancelled. For instance, we have socialized insurance for cars in manitoba, and people can and DO get their coverage pulled for bad driving.

That's the polar opposite of what we are seeing though. Increased auditing, and even the entire office of the PBO itself were all things created by this government for the express purpose of making this kind of information public -- even when it's bad news for them. Most of what people are calling "scandals" are only public knowledge because the Conservatives put the mechanisms in place to have them get independently released. Ridiculous spending by MPs and Senators alike has always been de rigueur, it just wan't made public because previous governments had no interest in weathering these kinds of storms.

It seems as though Rathgeber has never been a team player though. From what I've been told, threatening to walk out is what he does on the regular. By all accounts, he was nothing but a squeaky wheel as an Alberta MLA as well. Now I agree with his take on this particular piece of legislation, but it's also possible that this was a case of him playing the "give me what I want or I'm leaving" card one time too often. It wouldn't surprise me to see the government introduce similar legislation on it's own later on.

It's the high paying jobs that are having the most trouble finding workers.

Proportional to government income, and as a percentage of GDP, current deficits are very low compared to previous governments.

Absolutely. The biggest problem we have in this country with respect to employment is a shortage of workers for skilled jobs. That's why there are so many "we'll pay you to take this course" programs out there right now. More people are needed than there are people applying for the jobs.

THIS. They are the RCAF colours. It's got the RCAF logo. http://www.rcaf-arc.forces.gc.ca/v2/netpub/index-eng.asp?rid=12158-TN2013-0238-08 The opposition is hilarious on this one. If it DIDN'T have any red other than the maple leaf, and if it didn't have the roundel, MAYBE they might have a point. On the other hand, if it was all red and white with no blue, it would NOT be the RCAF colour scheme, AND it would be the colours of the Liberals. Why would anyone think that was better?

Even I'm having a hard time understanding the Conservative's position on this bill. Full disclosure is exactly the type of thing that the base of the party wants them to be doing. Even the hard cores on Blogging Tories and the "I support Prime Minister Harper" Facebook page are really questioning what Harper is thinking on this particular issue. Interestingly, on Rathgeber's blog post about leaving caucus, he wrote: Which leads me to believe he doesn't believe the bridges have been burned just yet. The CPC national convention is coming up in a couple of weeks.... things are going to be VERY interesting.

Goldring already rejoined the CPC caucus on thursday. http://www.sunnewsnetwork.ca/sunnews/politics/archives/2013/06/20130606-192825.html

I used to listen to Rockwood's other show "Prophecy For Today" fairly regularly. Very solid biblical foundation, nothing whacky like so many other media preachers. Both shows are still broadcast in syndication, and the archives have all been digitized.

Excuse me? The Conservatives founded the Mental Health Commission of Canada, and undertook the first national strategy for mental health this country has EVER had. You may feel they aren't rolling out the recommendations in the report fast enough, but the fact remains they're doing more than anyone else ever has Federally. http://strategy.mentalhealthcommission.ca The guidelines are in place, and the funding is increasing year over year. If that actual facilities in your area are lacking, that's on your provincial government -- because implementing the recommendations is their jurisdiction.

No. Li absolutely did intend to kill. There is no controversy whotsoever in that position, to this day he admits as such. What made him not criminally responsible was his belief that the person he was killing was an alien.

Your constant deflections that the crime is "being ill" are reprehensible. Vince Li's crime was killing an innocent man, cutting his head off, and eating him. It's not an ideological urge to protect people from that, but it certainly is a pathological one to deny the public the right to be protected from it.

Go spout your nonsense to Tim Maclean's mother's face. Let me know how that turns out.

No. people defending these monsters are the ones causing damage to society. One Tim MacLean is too many.

He's clearly not responsible for his actions, and should be allowed full and unfettered access to anything he wants. If the doctors say he's safe to be in the community, he absolutely is. All evidence to the contrary is irrelevant. /sarc.

THREE, as per the OP: "First People's Day".

So if it were, say, an anonymous crack dealer, that would not be considered a credible source then?

It's not rhetoric. He actually did behead Tim Maclean.

There have a been a few studies that have suggested that wind farms cause inner ear damage which can lead to other health issues: http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2013/03/27/175468025/could-wind-turbines-be-toxic-to-the-ear

Vince Li brutally murdered another human being. He cut off Tim Maclean's head and started eating him. That is a monster.

GMO is the only thing it has anything to do with. They modified it, that's why it's patented.