fellowtraveller

The subject firm is lcoated in Edmonton- Strathcona riding, home of lonely NDP MP Linda Duncan.

So you think that having fewer members is an advantage for fundraising, and gaining members as the NDP have done is going to gain less money for the pParty. A new member plops down his $10, and that is the last that is expected? Since corporate and union donations are severely limited now, would it not be reasonable to expect the membership to donate? I know the traditional source of Liberal big bucks from Montreal ad agencies seems to have dwindled, where will the money come from now? Yes, you got me nailed there. I'll have to decide between the Trotsky and Marxist factions at the next election.

Svend Robbingstores

Ah, you must belong to the traditional wing of the Liberal Party of Canada.

Wow that is nonsensical on so many levels.My wife is an excellent teacher, and never shuts up about what matters to her: the quality of education. She takes it personally, every day. So do many of her colleagues. Certainly not all, but enough that Canada consistently ranks very high gloablly on independent international student achievement tests. So, lets hear your theory on how the students manage to do that in a system that is rotten to the core.

A fetus (or lump of cells as it is known locally)is not located in the birth canal in Canada, maybe American women have different anatomies. We also have a different viewpoint on when "it" is considered human, it is more or less when the fetus is viable outside the womb. That is what informs our admittedly socialist pinko approach to womens choice on abortion. I am sorry that it makes you and other so angry, but it is not going to change.

Yep, it is a classic dodge in the public sector and certainly not unknown in the private sector. Usually though they bring in somebody like KPMG or Deloitte (hello federal govt). Management already knows what they need to do and how to do it, but lack the spine to just come out and say it. So they hire an outsider, hand them a tidy package of numbers complete with inescapable outcomes and conclusions. The consultant repackages the info and hands it back as a sombre report, at which time the govt says wow that is shocking we must act! It is all theatre.

Talked to my dentist one day, he told me that fluoride has had a profound effect on his business or rather dentistry in general. The daily bread in the business used to be fillings, extractions, dentures. Extra money came from cosmetic work, orthodontics etec, but often people had no or fewer teeth as they got old. F;luoride has greatly reduced mouth rot in general and people have far better teeth for far longer. Now the practice is geared more to cosmetics, bridges, and high end high cost vanity procedures with older people much more likely to have their own teeth in good shape.

Good news for all parties, nobody needs taxpayers money after all!

I don't get your point. There are no multibillion fundraising industries for healhty people, who would donate?

Hey, have you ever seen sperm in a microscope? They wiggle and swim like mad, clearly alive. The Pope clearly took science class, which is why every sperm is sacred. Now that we can clone cells, every single cell is sacred since it is capable of becoming a human and being a poster on this very forum. That is why you should never cut your hair or fingernails. It is murder.

That is great news on the surge in NDP membership. Turns out that the NDP doesn't need federal voter funding after all!

Yeah, been there. My joke was a riff on same. Try to keep up.

Of course, you ignore the reality that Alberta was a contributor to equalization for decades when oil was priced at $10 to $15/barrel. Now how do you think they managed that? Note also that it has only been the last couple of years that oilsands revenue has make any kind of net contribution to Alberta or Canadian revenue. I don't have any hatred for the rest of Canada, but I do not like the kind of witless posts that spurred my factual response to go unchallenged. Note also that the poster punked, who obsessively plays the fool, lives in Alberta.

The collaborators always reveal themselves.

If only that were true, that all money went toward finsing causes and cures.

"Once"?Ever notice how every newborn since 1987 has a tiny scar and little bump at the base of the skull? Haven't noticed? Then your own programming is current.

The point The Squid is making is the same as one point in the movie: the very people who are major sponsors of the breast cancer fundrasing industry are the same companies who use known carcinogens in their products.

Of course, there was also the trifling matter of the evidence that also convinced the court. You know, the drugs she brought with her?The Aussie media was emabarassingly biased and occasionally racist in their support for Corby. edited fr clarity

Do you mean balance like the PCs did for many years and will again soon? While the rest of Canada whined about getting their share of Action Plan money, Alberta just correectly assumed they'd get less than their share and financed their own Action Plan to the tune of about $20 billion in infrastructure building. They'll cut back on that over the next few years and let the private sector fund growth. Wildrose are the fringe dwellers who got badly outmanouevered in the past year. You've been reading the Grope and Flail too much.

Utter drivel. Both railroads were built specifically to exploit the resources of the West, not as some fantasy charity act to benefit the West. 'Connected to this land', what sort of fairy tale world do you inhabit? The Aid to Alberta farmers consisted of them being forced to buy inferior, expensive Ontario built farm equipment with no option. Then they got to ship their grain east to a single customer. Other 'Aid' consisted of Eastern banks foreclosing on Western farms during the Depression. That worked out kind of OK, both Social Credit and CCF were born of that and became transformative links to a stronger, less dependent West.

Smallc is absolutely right, the course presented as part of the standard Quebec curriculum is not a 'religious course', in that it presents a particular dogma. It is a comparative religion and ethics course, in which the beliefs, ethics and standards of several religions are presented without favour to any. Nothing wrong with that. The parents failed to prove damage. Quebec also presents science programs that flatly state evolution is factual. Lots of parents would dispute that, they have the option of private schools or home schooling. Everybody has choices.

I do agree that the CPC does occupy much the same space as the Liberals used to own: the centre. And another thing- not only have the CPC moved left, the Canadian electorate have acknowledged that the fuzzy social democrat model beloved of the Liberals as vested by Trudeau senior is increasingly unaffordabke. So in a sense, the elctorate has moved right independently of any part. And guess who they ran into there?

You are equating the people who run teachers unions with teachers in the classrooms. They are not the same people. Union activists are the same everywhere- they ixist to gain maximum advantage for their members. If anything gets in the way of that, they get steamrollered. No different from bakers unions, teamsters unions, lawyer unions or whatever. But you cannot tar every teacher with that brush.

who cares, the spokeman does not speak for teachers, he speaks for the union Schools are rarely ehard these days, it is hard to coax a pile of bricks into saying anything.But teachers have plenty to say, my wife being one of them, and I have never heard one that did not care a great deal about what they teach and how they teach it. They would absolutely love to be able to teach academics and only academics in their classrooms, their jobs and lives would be much easier. They have to be proxy parents though too sometimes, or they would simply not get anything done. Some kids cannot dress themselves, have had no breakfast, have no idea of how to conduct themselves in public, soil themselves and so on. Teachers have no choice at all but to manage these situations, and always have. I suspect they always will. Kids are rarely a problem. Parents often are a problem. You don't need a license to breed.