fellowtraveller

Nothing personal, but I have explained the transition in detail earlier in this thread and others. I don't want to do it again. Suffice it to say that Stelmach managed to purge the Tories of their right wing faction and into Wildrose, get a centrist leader in place, and add a big chunk of former Lib voters to Tory ranks. It was not all his doing of course, but he had to leave for that to happen. Wildrose is isolated on the right fringe and has no constituency left to capture.

Yeah whatever. Wildrose had a serious shot at flushing the Tories until Stelmach left in the way he left. They have no chance now.

Interesting how you are pretending that that is somehow relevant. Tell you what, link to your factual site that states the BC NDP intend to pay BC teachers 1% over the next 3 years.

Nope. Large majority. The Liberals had 26% in the last election, and the 13% now flatters them. They elected a certifiable idiot as leader and their few remaining MLAs mostly cannot stand to be in the same room as him. Where did their support go? Really simple- all to Redford. They did not just change parties and vote for her in the leadership campaign, they actively campaigned under the old strategm 'if you cannot beat them, join them'. The NDP will gain nothing because their longtime leader Brian Mason is as charismatic as a turnip. They'd do far better with the whipsmart Rachel Notley as leader, but much better for the NDP means 4 seats instead of two. That leaves Wildrose, and they had their momentum come to a screeching halt with the Tory leadership result. The irritant right of the Tory party is isolated now in Wildrose and has no influence at all with the Tories. The bitchers who joined Wildrose long ago can see they aren't going anywhere except for a few Calgary/rural ridings and the one thing Calgary insists upon is being in power(witness again the history of the Tory leadership since the late Klein years). They can whine in isolation, or come back to power in the old party. It won't be a difficult choice. Less than 10 seats for Wildrose.

They would get the money from taxpayers, a bottomless pit of funds in BC. Personally, I am rooting for the NDP all the way in BC. Every time the NDP gets elected there, skilled workers from BC flood Alberta because they have no work at home. Every time the NDP loses an election, they all pack up and head over the Rockies and jobs. As it happens, Alberta is soon to be in dire need of skilled workers. As it also happens, BC is about to have an election. The stars are aligning perfectly. Note that I do not wish BC anything bad, but if they choose to shoot themselves nobody is going to try and talk them out of their own choices.

No, I expect your head to explode

Does BC deserve four years of NDP?

Did they have the NDP leadership election yet? is it soon?

I'm looking forward to the budget, I expect the countless threads will be punctuated with a few exploding heads. Maybe you should double up on the blood pressure meds right now and avoid calamity. Will The Anry Men be obliged to scale back on robo-calling frenzy, OAS reform, the increasingly sleepy NDP leadership buntoss etc. to address the exposure of The Really Hidden Tory Agenda, when the Tories finally open their kimono? Stay tuned. And try to get some rest.

And now you have to contend with Canuckistani tourists heading south to buy cheap property in a third world country, albeit one with safe drinking water. The big wheel turns.

You'll be greatly encouraged when the new budget is tabled soon, it will restore your faith.

Congrats on that, it is not an easy thing to do. It doesnt help, but at 3 days you are actually already over a big physical hump in controlling the addiction.

Y'all need to stop living in the past. The US buck is not so welcome now at par + service fees to exchange..

Your denial only confirms your leadership role in The Conspiracy. You may have lulled others into complacency, but I'm watching you now.

There is considerable and justidfiable fear of the international financial community in the stability ofany homegrown Iceland curency. They want to tie their currency to a relatively stable one like the Euro, US$, CDN $, Swiss franc. The obvious choice is the Euro, They are not a popular country with the EU, since Euopean banks and investors got burned last time by Icelandic banks and the Iceland govt. They are currency shopping, adopting another one will help their trade balances.

The next Revolution will be smokers rising up and smashing The Man. Who has not seen these poor wretches huddled outside together in the cold and rain- bitter, angry, shunned as unclean by society? In little groups everywhere they are conspiring to violently overthrow their oppressors. You read it here first.

You left out an inportant component of that equation, which is that in the end the mainstream media needs Harper a bit more than he needs them. That gap will likely widen over time as fewer and fewer people read newspapers or watch network news.

who cares, we were talking about the net effect of war in the Gulf on Canadas economy. If our investment in that war was less than our profit from spiking oil prices, it would be a net gain for any country that exports oil, including Canada. I don't see anybody occupying Iran either, there is no need. There is ample firepower to utterly destroy Irans navy and air force in a couple of days, which means the Straits of Hormuz would stay open for all those that use that waterway.

We should not consider Iceland in any kind of political or fiscal union until they give us a solemn promise that they will stop eating those buckets of raw herring.

could you add a choice for Adam Carroll?

who said we would be occupying Iran? and A'Ghan has had little effect on commodity prices anywhere, unless you consider heroin a commodity.

all of them. Canada has become a place of competing regions. Note the newly articulated feelings of McGuinty for the West.

well...count again

depends on how much we got involved. If we kept costs down, we'd be economic winners because any scrap in the Middle East would send oil prices up rapidly, which would be to our benefit. Even the threat of war would ave that effect. On the other hand, Dalton McSquinty would be vewy, vewy angwee.

Pros and cons to Iceland becoming part of Canada: Cons: 1)Reykjavik is cold and really expensive and wholly unattractive for a winter holiday. 2)The population has an unnatural liking for fish. 3) Bjork is from there. Her name and her music sound like a cat vomiting. Pros: 1) Iceland would be an excellent staging area for a surprise Canadian invasion of Denmark. 2) A lot of the women are really hot.