treehugger

Being fat is not always a choice many times it is medical or genes.Yes he does need to lose a lot of weight but unless you look like a model I'd button it up!

would you expect a different conclusion with a poll that was paid for by a union???? Too much money is going to union wages in Toronto. There needs to be a large tax increase to keep up with it all.

I wonder if you had children and and a pervert or two moved into your neighbourhood. It's very disturbing what happens to children's lives when they are preyed upon. I think it's a good program, as there is no cure for these people so we have to look out where they are.

No, he didn't get rid of the R.C.M.P they are still here.

Children that cry, scream, shriek and run around in public place is NOT natural behaviour. It is the behaviour of children that have never been taught any manners and what they can and cannot do in the public. It's parents that sit in their rear ends while their kids are tearing around like like something deranged instead of getting up right away, paying their bill and taking their brats home and telling them why they are going home and they won't be going out again until they learn how to behave..

Actually the army has been pressing for this to happen for many years and the senate finally approved.

Lester Pearson was the first to explore the sameness in the military and it came to pass under Trudeau. He got rid of everything that said royal on it. Supposedly it was to save a lot of money, but as they had to put millions $ to change everything over I highly doubt they saved any money. Quebec doesn't like anything with the word royal in it.

Yes, you are right there!

I can't open this contribution so will just go by what you said. I like the idea and hope they are sincere. I also liked it when the armed forces all had their own uniforms.Now they all look alike. I am going to try online to read this whole story, seems unbelievable that Canada might reverse something to what it was.

I wish that you all could back off the gross subject of eating 'coon meat. We won't be eating any of it so drop it, it is stupid. Anything that I have read about the eating of the animal was the hillbillies and rednecks in the U.S. I do believe that we should be above that scene.But I guess that was only because there was nothing more to eat for some reason.

IF YOU CAN"T CUT PUBLIC SERVICES WHAT IS THERE LEFT? IT'S ALL OF THOSE SERVICES THAT COST THE CITIES, PROVINCES AND THE COUNTRY THE MONEY.

CANADA IS A COUNTRY AND A GREAT ONE AT THAT.(except for quebec who never seem to get enough of everything) What does your stupid song have to do with anything?

The city that was picked as the highest crime rate in Canada was Edmonton. I was shocked to read that but it is certain crimes. (no longer have the article)

He may have been a PC but was also a Quebec Nationalist for his whole life. There' where the doubting came in as he wasn't a true PC.

Iam against this idea also,as I can see the selling of booze to underage kids if one place to sell it is the variety store.Just like it is with the selling cigarettes. More breakins to get the booze and I don't want to see it in the grocery stores, they are busy enough when you just want to get out there.

ONLY CHRISTIAN PRAYER WAS REMOVED WITH ANYTHING ELSE THAT IS CANADIAN LIKE THE NATIONAL ANTHEM. so typical and disgusting! Canadians have to step back and let foreigners have the rein!

WHO CARES one fig about Margaret Attwood and what she has to say, She is only one person, How often does she go to libraries? Never? Her books are there and in schools where they have a teacher to explain what the hell she is talking about in her books.

ALL the libraries are NOT packed, I have been in some that only have one other person in it.There are many little hole -in -the wall libraries in the downtown area that need to close their doors. The MAIN concern about this was the money that is paid out to the non deserving librarians who receive $137.38 million dollars a year plus numerous extra privileges when the total revenue allowed is $183,598,142 as of 2010. It rises yearly.

There's a map in the national post where all of the libraries are, and some place in there is three libraries. Most of the other libraries seem to ba a block apart.That's too many libraries. Do you know the usage of each library? if they are underused they should go. you seem to know all of the facts.

That's librarians that make six figures and some of them were up to over 200,000$ and they certainly don't deserve to burden the taxpayers back with that. Library people are union, who could have guessed that one!

I wouldn't consider $30,000 here or $100,000 there, nickels and dimes because these amounts really add up. I guess you haven't read the papers or seen the news for the last while but city council is working now on the overspending that ocurred before Ford was mayor.Everyone was invited to city hall to give their opinions on what should take place to get rid of the debt.

Fifty years is generous, Supposedly the oldest country in the world and one of the most backward. Groups of people have gone to Africa for years to teach them how to garden, about irrigation etc The National Post. July 23 "Despite decades of foreign aid including the.ONE TRILLION dollars have poured into Africa in 60 years, for developement related aid,And 152.2 billion over 50 years to Africa.The famine of 1984-5 in Ethiopia was blamed on a lack of early warning.This time there was a warning and still..." If that part of the country is subject drought, don't wait untill thousands die move on to another area that has rain. You live on a desert, you have droughts. If the Dutch can take over flooded countryside (Bradford) and make it into one of the most lush growing areas in Canada,it tells me who wants to work and who doesn't.

Put your information where your mouth is!

There has to be a way to cut out the waste in libraries. A couple of years ago there was an article in the papers stating that men working at the dump had found dozens of boxes of books that the library no longer wanted. They buy too many books, cds and dvds for each library. Some books sit at each library for a few years and nobody takes them out. Transfer them to another library where there are different people. You can go online and order any books that you want for you to pick up at the library near you.They need an auditor or someone to go over their records with a fine tooth comb.Many libraries are overstaffed,That I have seen, as they get youth from schools volunteering to do work. Close the libraries that aren't drawing people and use the bookmobile for them.

350 million surplus my foot. With all of the crap that miller had going on the taxpayers money there is no way there was a surplus. If he is chuckling away it's because he has a loose screw, he just gave and gave to all that wanted. So many stupid things to get rid of and one of them was paying one woman to sit in a city park to look after the kids that came there to play. She got $26,000 for that a year. Sending out young people at $18.00 per hour to knock on doors to see if they had a cat or dog for licenses. The license program cost more to run then what the city is bringing in.