Bryan

Most of them will only allow one vote per IP address. Supporters for both candidates will flock to make their vote heard.

What part of that are you having trouble with? Many eligible voters do not always exercise that right.

They don't order a package from one cable company, then a different cable package from another cable company. What monopoly? I can choose from several different companies. I've switched a few times when I was offered a better deal.

But all the cable providers HAVE Superchannel (and AMC, and HBO). You aren't forced to choose one provider over another in order to get it.

No, it's a good thing. There's no value for consumers to have to subscribe to three or four services to get all of their content. Imagine if you had to have three different cable subscriptions in order to get all the channels you wanted. Or if Telus cell phones could only call other Telus phones, and you needed three or four phones to actually call everyone. Choice is only good if you aren't being forced to do it. As long as content makers are issuing exclusive exclusive licenses, less choice is better.

That's the case in a nutshell really -- Avery doesn't appear to be a likeable person. It's easy to picture that he might have done it. But the prosecution didn't even come close to demonstrating that he actually did do it. With the evidence they presented, it's patently insane that he was actually convicted.

In all the years I've been going to Cuba, I've only seen temps that 'low' once (and it was in Varadero). Days in the 30s were the norm in Cayo Santa Maria and Cayo Coco. It is funny to see people considering mid-20s to be cold, for sure.

Cold fronts are no fun when you've paid for what you were hoping would be a sunny beach vacation. Can't blame the hotel or the city for the weather though!

People often make the mistake of jumping on the cheap deal. There are some nice places to stay in Varadero, but also a lot of bad ones. It's probably the worst place in Cuba to see overall though. Its only redeeming quality is its proximity to Havana. There are much better places and much more to see farther east.

Looks like much of my international travel is going to get redirected to the US for the next little while. Probably won't even go to Cuba this winter for the first time in what seems like forever. My daughter is starting to qualify and/or get invited to some high level jiu-jitsu tournaments, and most of the big ones are in California. There's going to be at least two trips there this winter alone. Starting to burn through those banked holiday days at a rapid rate.

Only so far as the federal and provincial governments allow it to.

Executions for dealing drugs, especially for anyone who sells something like fentanyl to kids.

Yeah, eBay and Kijiji had at least as much to do with the local newspapers' demise as anything else. A newspaper ad has no return on investment anymore. Online ads are even worse both for site revenue AND for advertisers themselves. The savvy consumers they covet are actively avoiding being marketed to by using things like ad blockers, and those same people are offended when such advertising actually does get through.

True -- in both cases, the places where those policies fail is that they are not tough enough. Half-assed measures are what allow things to get worse.

One of my son's friends died of a fentanyl overdose. The stuff is insidious. One of the biggest problems in terms of the stuff killing people is that most of the drugs on the street right now are either laced with fentanyl, or are just fentanyl instead of whatever they are being sold as. That's where it gets really scary.

We can learn lessons from the past without commemorating the days that they happened, or dredging up painful memories.

You can just refuse. We did, and it was not a problem.

Making a big deal of remembering tragedy is a strange human trait. We just torture ourselves.

It may not be significant to you, but it clearly is significant to that family. A trip that far and that expensive is rarely just a matter of "crossing the border". They probably planned for it for a long time and made the arrangements that they were capable of making. The border crossing is the least important part, that's why they were so blindsided by not being allowed to cross. It's such a common, usually hassle-free event that there's no rational reason to expect that it might go sideways.

There are MANY travel options for all seasons. There are only a few Disney parks, all of which require out of country travel if you don't already live in a country that has one. The two good ones are relatively close, the two sucky ones are quite far.

-12C in January is REALLY warm where I come from! Cold weather doesn't stop our outdoor football stadiums from being sold out either. It's still only a small number of times per year. Warm weather most certainly does encourage travel for sure. You've got options to do that within your borders, we don't. As much as I do travel to the US, that's not where I go for my winter sun though -- Cuba is a lot more fun and much less expensive.

I used Kodi for a short while, but fairly quickly abandoned it. The low quality of the streams made watching quite frustrating.

My wife's phone contract is up and she asked me what I could tell her about the iPhone 7 especially in contrast to her 5s. When I mentioned the headphone jack, she was unfazed, and declared that to be a complete non-issue. Why? Because she's literally never used the headphone jack on her phone!! I suspect users like her are the ones Apple is looking at when they decided the headphone jack wasn't needed anymore. Not unlike when (not too long ago) Apple dropped DVD drives from Macs. Some people complained, but the important factor was that optical discs were on their way out and many people at that point already didn't use them at all.

The vast majority of Canada is farther north than Toronto as well. In both cases (Canada as a whole or Minnesota specifically), seasonal activities abound. But they remain seasonal, and as such do not and can not grow to the level of the example you gave (Disney).

There are different activities, but those are seasonal too. Even the biggest winter carnivals are weather permitting. If it never got warm, we probably would have some sort of permanent "Winter Wonderland" attraction. Truth. You shouldn't go out of your way to give them a reason to bar you!