Bryan

Over 150,000 a day! I know you weren't asking me, but I enthusiastically recommend Cuba. It definitely is safer than downtown Winnipeg. The vacations cost less than staying home too.

No, unethical is forcing a business owner or the taxpayers to pay beyond what they can afford without the right to just decide that you're too expensive for them. Unethical is forcing the owner of the business or the taxpayer to sign a contract at all. If you want the right to have job security, then the employer should have the right to labour and cost security. He can't fire you? Then you shouldn't be allowed to quit either.

It's not the workers that anyone has a problem with, it's the unions. More specifically, the current union laws that hold business owners and taxpayers hostage. Negotiation is good, but the employer also has to have the right at some point to just dictate the terms of employment. The employee is free to leave if they don't like it. A strike action absolutely must be legitimate grounds for termination. You can go ahead and take the chance that they won't fire everyone, but you should have no recourse if they do.

It's not really the whole of Mexico that is a problem with the drug cartels. It's only a few specific places in the northern border states that are a problem. I was in Piedras Negras (not a tourist/resort area) in October, and walked around town without issue. I would have no hesitation about going back there again. Tecate, Tijuana, or Mexicali, however, you couldn't pay me enough to go to!

Some doctors still do house calls. The very first time we saw our current family doctor, he came for a house call. That was only a few years ago.

Havana Club is the distillery, they make many different grades of rum.. They make a cheap white rum, "Añejo Blanco". That stuff is just rum, no different than Bacardi, etc. If you were not impressed, I suspect that's probably what you had. It's the grades above that where things get interesting. There are 1, 3, 4, 5, 7, and 15 yr old stocks. After that is where things get really good, and really expensive if you buy it here. Barrel Proof is what I like to bring back from Cuba because it's the best bang for the buck. ($13 there, $60 here). Aged and bottled directly from oak casks, this stuff is amazingly smooth. I used to be a premium whiskey drinker until I tasted Barrel Proof. ...then there is Máximo Extra. That stuff I've never tried, what with it being over $1700 a bottle.

The way I've always understood the Manitoba interpretation was the limit is 18 yrs if on your own, 16 if with a parent/guardian. Is that not correct?

We just might be living through the worst opposition and media in the history of our nation. We are living through one of the best governments in our history. The author's assertion that libertarianism is by default "dopey" clearly identifies his cries of stupidity as based solely on projection.

Appleton Estate Reserve is one of the best Jamaican rums. It definitely holds its own against mid-range Cuban rums. Comparing it to Barrel Proof though?

Good Rum can go for more than that. Havana Club Barrel Proof is $60/750ml at LCBO and MLCC. That same bottle is $13 in Cuba.

No, I want to see both the NDP and the LPC choose leaders that will be easy to beat.

As a Conservative, I really hope that it's Rae.

• Open up our healthcare to allow more two-tier medical services. • Tear up the 1982 Charter of Rights and Freedoms. • Give Quebec a one time take it or leave it offer to either join confederation as a full and equal partner, or to fully succeed with no more money or services from Ottawa. • Give First nations the same offer. Either you're fully equal Canadians, or the reserves are your own independent nations and you're on your own. • Get both softer and harsher on drugs at the same time: no penalties at all for simple possession or personal use (especially soft drugs like pot), but life in prison for trafficking hard drugs.

He said he wanted elected senators. He told the provinces to get one with electing them, and except for Alberta, they haven't. He even left senate vacancies open for a while, but eventually they had to be filled. Those who were elected got their elected positions.

What opportunity is it that you think Harper missed here? You do know that Betty Unger was elected, right? When an elected senator-in-waiting was available, that is who got the job 100% of the time under Harper. If your province won't elect their senators, take it up with them.

Exactly. It's a pretty easy thing to claim. Way too low of a bar.

I agree. Hopefully the 5% and 10% plans are just the start.

If they really are gay. Like I said, if that's the golden ticket, people WILL use it.

More B.S. from you. Governments can and do over rule and/or disregard judges' decisions all the time. See the current furor over the govt's decision to just ignore a federal judge regarding the removal of the CWBs monopoly. Charters and Constitutions don't mean a damn thing either if the government decides to ignore them. Try putting an english sign on your business in Quebec to see how your right to one of our national languages can just be tossed aside.

People who are in genuine need, and in immediate threat of death in their homes countries are clearly in need of compassion, and understanding. Where we are able to help, we should in some capacity. We already have a lot of people who came here as refugees who routinely go back to the country they supposedly fled from for vacations. The bar to prove that you actually area refugee is already far too low, the last thing we need right now is to lower it even further. That all we need, for the word to get back to the places already playing tricks to get in here: "just tell them that your gay". The bottom line is, no one should be given automatic refugee status. It should be a very difficult thing to qualify for, and there should never be a 'checklist' that someone can cheat one. It should also be revokable if it's found that you lied.

Who someone is voting for is a personal decision that extends beyond the name on the ballot. There's both a name and a party on that ballot, people's votes are often for the latter. I really did vote for my MP in the last two elections because I know her and volunteered on her campaign. The previous candidates in my riding I most certainly did not vote for. I put an X next to the box that had the name of the party I was voting for, who that local rep was at the time wasn't even relevant. It was the leader I was voting for.

How could anyone be opposed to this? Government waste is the stuff of legends, now we get to see where is really is, and deal with it accordingly. The departments are submitting their own plans, and even get to propose options as to how deep those cuts might be. This is a huge change from the way governments of all levels usually work in this country where decisions get made from "on high" without consulting those it effects. If anything, the Feds should be congratulated on this big step forward.

I'd rather have the truly crazy and hateful people, books, and websites be right out in the open. Knowing up front who those people are makes it a lot easier to avoid them. Strong laws that go so far as to outlaw their opinions regardless of action only puts these people underground. Their actions become subtle enough that you can't see who to avoid upfront. Example: when applying for a job, I'd much rather have them tell me up front that they hate whatever box they're choosing to put me in, than wonder for years why I never get a promotion or a raise, etc. Or why I didn't get the job in the first place!

The were the Reform Party, they've since morphed into the classic Conservative Party. They have very little in common with Reform anymore. Too many old PCers, and new faces that never were part of Reform in the first place.

???. A complete rejection of Mulroney by the majority of conservative voters is the reason why the CPC even exists. He's never even been a member of the party.