Bryan

In Quebec maybe. Definitely not here.

I do regularly, but clearly you haven't recently. We are talking about the home of McGregor and Maher the primary "source" for the most overtly anti-conservative reporting in the MSM. Their "news" is more biased than most left-wing op-eds.

Postmedia has never been even remotely conservative. You're thinking of how the Post used to be a couple of owners ago. For the past several years, they've been stridently anti-conservative. What makes it "horrible news" (if it is), is that now the only media outlet in the country that didn't have an overt left-wing bias has been swallowed up by one that does.

$3 Billion per year more than when he took office is a decrease?

Definitely not universal, just very common.

That's about right. Apple's first OTA iOS update was in Nov 2011.

Is your scroll function broken? Lots of those hits are from this year. It's VERY common.

You're lucky. Android OTA updates are far more problematic than Apple's. Android OTA update fail

How could you not know? Are you brand new to Apple? I mean that in all seriousness, not as a shot. iTunes is the way all Apple mobile devices were synced and updated up until fairly recently. Even once OTA updates came around, if you paid even the slightest bit of attention, you could see that it's always the OTA updates that gave people trouble. They allow you to do patch updates too instead of downloading the full install, but you're taking unnecessary risks when you do that too. OTA updates for an OS should never be done on any device, it's not worth the risk. Wireless signals drop in and out, files get easily corrupted.

Which you should always do anyway. The issue affected a VERY small number of users, and it was fixed almost immediately.

Considering Apple keeps topping their own record for the largest product launches of any kind, it's actually amazing how minor the issues have been, and how quickly they were fixed.

My MP got over 50% of the votes in our riding. Lots of other MPs did too. You nailed it. That's exactly what the PR people are trying to do to elections.

Half a million is WAY too small to even begin to think about giving someone an artificially inflated voice. They aren't all located in Windsor, or London, they're scattered throughout the country. There is only ONE riding that actually had enough to elect a representative. What they got is an accurate measure of their actual support.

It's not 12% nationally. Last election they got 3.91% of the total votes. Most of that is regional. They won the seat where they had enough support to represent those people. In other regions they simply didn't have the support. A few scattered protest votes is not sufficient support to even consider changing an electoral system in the way you're suggesting. A serious issue, would be if we had everyone who wants to talk be allowed at the table. Things are chaotic enough as it is, the last thing we need is that kind of cluster-f***.

You mean it wasn't properly vetted. Your own link cites "lack of debate" and "little scrutiny". Now the Senate is forced to do the House's job for them.

Linda Griffiths is relatively unknown because she's an obscure artist, not because she's a female. Gender in no way enters into the equation. There are plenty of male actors that most people also have never heard of.

The Senate is actually doing their job for once, and THAT has some people upset????

Politics is local. FPTP is by far the most egalitarian, most representative system. Each region gets the person that the most people in that region selected as their representative. Even run-offs are a needless extra step. If the second place guy is "good enough" for you, and you know damn well that they guy you are voting for won't win, why even have the "first ballot"? Just consider the advance polls the first ballot, and the actual election the run-off and vote for the "good enough" guy in the first place.

There is no charter right to a passport.

They can, and they are. Making those kinds of decisions is the Federal Government's job.

As well they should have. The threat from the CRTC was insane. "We have no jurisdiction over you, but if you don't co-operate, we will give that jurisdiction to ourselves".

None whatsoever. You can think and say anything you want here in Canada. You can even say that you support what ISIS is doing in the middle east. What you can't do is join a milirarized organization to fight against Canada or her allies. Still no. They can come and go as they please. They can't associate with terrorist groups. The Charter is a piece of toilet paper that needs to be flushed. We have a not withstanding clause for a reason, it's long over due to be invoked. Besides, people can and do get their passports revokes for all kinds of reasons already. If there was ever a good reason to do it, this is it.

Two sides of the same coin. You use what works. Thankfully, many kids will respond to "threats" of the former nature. That's simply not the case for all kids though. Some parents are lucky, and they end up with kids that want to follow the rules and will do basically what they are told most of the time. Others get stuck with unholy terrors that need to be physically corrected occasionally.

Because we care about them enough to do the right thing, even if it's not fun.

The standard "Hollywood" / big network delivery model is dying. The smaller producers have so many more ways to get their content to people now.