Bryan

The NDP are an embarrassment to Manitobans. This law is nothing more than left-wing social engineering. One side gets rights entrenched by law, the other gets their rights removed. Their insistence on no exemptions is probably going to end up in the whole law being scrapped if it's challenged on freedom of religion grounds, especially considering what's going right now with federal challenges to hate speech laws.

The article doesn't really make a case as to why electoral reform is needed.

I was banned from another site for this very reason. My son and I both had accounts on the site, a mod saw the IP was the same, instant permanent ban. No amount of explanation would change their minds.

Better than the other option, the baby gets executed!

Even MRIs, not. Manitoba has a LOT of excess capacity for MRI's right now (at least in Winnipeg). I've had several in the past few years, and my longest wait so far has been 6 days. The biggest factor is your doctor. If s/he tells the diagnostic centre that your case is serious, they slot you in to the next available spot. If your doctor thinks your situation is not so serious, you get slotted at the end of the schedule to leave spots open for cases that are. Yep. I can get in to see my doctor within one day, ALWAYS. My kids have always been able to see their pediatrician the same day, ALWAYS. It must. It seems that the people with the greatest dissatisfaction with their care are in Ontario. There's something really wrong with their provincial government's administration of the health care when they have both a high number of patients without a doctor, and a high number of doctors who can't find work. With their population density, they should be able to take advantage of economies of scale in ways that Manitoba never could, There's no excuse for our system being anywhere close to as good as theirs, never mind that it appears to be vastly superior. Absolutely. Anyone can get in to see a doctor within a couple of hours at the most for non-emergencies. You show me someone who waits for 5+hrs, and I'll show you someone who is deliberately trying to make their experience as miserable as possible for the express purpose of complaining about it. If you won't even spend five minutes on the phone calling to see what the waiting rooms are like at various places around town, you deserve what you get. I did this not too long ago. I had received stitches a few days prior for a skate cut, and the wound appeared like it might be infected. My doctor was at a conference, and couldn't see me until the next day, and recommended that I go to emerg. I went to St. Boniface hospital E.R., but when I was told it could be several hours before they might deal with my not-really-an-emergency, I then decided to call around. By the third call, I found a clinic that said they could see me immediately if I drove right over, so I did.

It's not treated like it is it different, but it should be. The treaties (the original ones at least), ARE with Imperial England, of which 'we' were just a colony. It would never happen, but it would be very interesting to see a Prime Minister tell First Nation groups that feel the treaties aren't being upheld to take it up with the Queen.

No. Many people who have agnostic beliefs mistakenly call themselves atheists, but they are distinctly different. Agnosticism is the lack of belief, Atheism is the belief of lack. Agnostics may not believe in any specific deity, but they also admit they don't know. They may even dabble in some alternative theologies to see what's out there. Atheism is the insistence of no higher power. It's a faith, a steadfast belief that there absolutely is not and cannot be a 'god' of any description. in short, agnostic means "I don't know.", atheist means "NO!"

It wasn't difficult to be right about that one, they were quoting Ignatieff directly when he said he'd go back to Harvard if he didn't win. He did take the ceremonial U of T job that retiring OLO's usually do first.

Please. Gratzer is a PR hack for the insurance industry in the US, and a pathological liar.

Anyone who pays the slightest bit of attention has seen exactly this. The people who get the shot get sick more often than those who don't.

That's certainly the official cover story for their premeditated ethnic cleansing.

Infection rates are significantly higher this year. Is that matched by a corresponding lower level of vaccination? Somehow I doubt it. I'm not anti-vax (far from it), but the flu vaccines in particular seem like little more than a cheap card trick. You're guessing almost a year out how to combat a strain that doesn't even exist yet, and numbers like 90% protection keep getting thrown around by the officials in charge, when its documented effectiveness is far less. Not only that, but the old wives tale about being more likely to get the flu if you get vaccinated than not, may actually have validity as well. New report questions science behind flu vaccine efficacy and use policy http://www.ottawacit...6704/story.html Flu shot issue may not be ‘Canadian problem’ after all: study http://www.theglobea...article4530649/

Any arguments against israel are brought on by their own actions. It's not who they are, it's what they do.

What is anti-semetic about what he's saying?

You're missing the joke entirely. The "Canadian" Sugar Maple isn't truly Canadian either. A very small part of its natural growing area is inside of Canada, it's far more prevalent in the US. The official Canadian Maple Leaf™ isn't even a real leaf, it's a stylized cartoon.

I laughed. I'm going to have to check out this Steve Murray at the Post more often, those infographics are funny.

That was evident from the outset.

I don't know about Ontario, but in Manitoba our welfare rolls more than doubled when the NDP came to power and relaxed the rules about being able to stay on welfare when you are pretty much just avoiding work. If you talk to the social workers, they're very frustrated. They've got people on their caseloads who when handed a guaranteed job, will just not show up. And the govt. doesn't penalize them for doing it. It's nuts.

When you surrendered.

No. We have refrigeration now.

What? Posting perfectly valid critiques, just on the wrong webpage? Real, that's real scandal.

Americans didn't try to invade England, they tried to invade Canada. Canada burned the whitehouse down. At the time, all Canadians were British.

There are different types of religious rules. Catholics have a whole set of them that are extra-biblical. They aren't really "GOD's rules", so much as they are the secret handshakes of the Roman Catholic club. No meat on friday is one of those. You might get in trouble with your fellow parishioners, but GOD doesn't care.

"CBC" and "fact" in the same sentence. That is some comedy gold right there.

Those types of mistakes are so minor in the grand scheme of things.