Bryan

I can always find American license plates in the St. Boniface Hospital parking lot too.

I totally agree. I never liked much of what he was selling, but he made political debates worth watching, and he really did resonate with a lot of people. I would not wish what he went through on anyone.

I Belize that.

I've had offers where all of that was already arranged, I'm just not interested.

Yes. I never get charged that fee, and the declared value of my packages is usually $15, no matter what I really paid.

I order a lot of things from the U.S. and I've never encountered this. 2-5 days at most is all I've ever seen, and if I pay for next day it always is next day.

Even though almost all of my business is in the United States, the healthcare system down there is certainly the primary reason why I'd never move there.

That always happens when you use UPS to send to Canada. They are terrible about the extra fees especially, and will flat out lie to both the sender and recipient claiming that these are customs fees when they are nothing of the sort.

Agreed. The majority of my college-mates who studied graphic design with me do not work in that field. Only about one in four were able to find work that paid the bills, the rest had no choice but to move to other careers. The funny part that the OP should bear in mind, is that nearly all of my work originates from the U.S. That's where the Graphic Design dollars are. There's very little to be made here--the market is just too small for companies to justify paying "real" money to an artist.

Tell me about it. I know a guy who runs a fairly large mail order business out of Winnipeg. He has recently moved all of his warehousing and shipping facilities to the U.S. because it just costs that much less to operate there. Even after shipping, duty, and taxes, getting orders shipped from the U.S to Canada will cost the customer less than what it used to to have it sent across town.

That's all any sentence is: a restriction on certain rights for a specified period of time. No big deal.

If she didn't support separatism, she wouldn't have endorsed a separatist party, with or without the "we like them, but..." qualifier.

With that kind of hyperbole, I think we can all see who is the ideologue here.

That is not true. Under the PCs we had surplusses. Balanced budget legislation was the law. The NDP have been running massive deficits. They've added billions to our debt load. There's a reason the media calls our current finance minister a "weapon of math destruction".

40 yards straight ahead is a measure of power, and in that respect I don't doubt that NFL players beat most CFLers. The difference is, the CFL overall is a faster game. It's specifically a game for the smaller more mobile guys. The really big guys could not hack it, because they are nowhere near as mobile, and they would be gassed after one or two plays. That's not even a CFL vs NFL differentiation though. In any sport, even within the same leagues, the smaller guys generally can't generate the kind of short burst power that the bigger guys can. They are, however, significantly more mobile and have greater endurance and recovery.

Sure Krista was a little harsh, but Maggie had to know that was coming. The number one unifying theme on Sun TV is government spending. If you can't see up front what their angle is going to be, it's probably going to be "why do tax dollars pay for this?"

All research is funded by someone. You always have to take that into consideration. But David Suzuki also has received funding from energy companies, does that make HIM a shill for big oil too? In Soon's case, he's been doing this for a long time, long before the 2008 Exxon grant. Nothing to see here.

If they really wanted to work, they would not have started doing rotating strikes.

What's 50% of nothing? Because that's what most "mainstream" people get from the government for their housing.

Jack, the rotating strike game is what necessitated the lockout. Business dropped off dramatically once the rotating strikes started, the corporation couldn't afford to let that continue. The loss in business also necessitated that future contracts would have to cost the corporation less than what they had previously offered before the rotating strikes started. Allowed to continue, each successive offer would have to be lower than the last until the workers decide they can't afford to lose any more either.

I think this past weekend's Strikeforce grand Prix event should put to rest any notion of jumping on a down opponent being "gutless". Werdum was on his back about 40 times, and Overeem did everything he could to NOT go there specifically because that was the most dangerous place for HIM. In case Shwa and Sir Bandalot didn't get that: the guy on the ground (Werdum) wanted the standing guy to jump on him, that was the entirety of his plan for the whole fight. At one point he literally begged his opponent to jump on him. The guy standing (Overeem) is a world champion kick-boxer, and he wanted no part of that. It was an awkward match, but Overeem won specifically because he avoided the ground.

August, from my vantage point, it seems like all you are saying is "Look at what the Conservatives did, and copy that". Sounds great if you have that same ideological hold on your base that the Conservatives do. Modern Liberals almost intentionally stand for nothing specific. How do you engage voters enough to monetize that? Personally I think the Liberal Party has to abandon everything that we think we know about modern Canadian liberalism. Tell people "we are CLASSICAL Liberals" and actually move right of the Conservative party on policy. Then at least they'd stand for something that people might invest in.

That's the part I really don't get. There seems to be an increasing trend of certain people specifically going where ever they think a crowd is going to gather for the express purpose of creating public mayhem. Throw on a hockey jersey, and it's easy to blend in with thousands of fans until the moment you are ready to burn that car. Being involved in anything like this of course should lead to criminal charges. But if the same person is arrested for similar acts at a different event? That has to be dealt with particularly harshly.

NBA doesn't have anywhere near the level of physical contact (speed and impact) that NHL does. NHL players need more rest/recovery time. Second place is just the first loser.

It's all relative. "Extreme right" by Canadian standards is still left of the Democrats in the U.S.