fellowtraveller

Name one. I was just in a remote town in the Yukon, and they have nearly as many radio and TV and internet choices as anybody else in Canada. On-the-air radio choices include a Whitehorse FM station , CBC and local radio plus hundreds of satellite radio channels and thousands more available via broadband. As I said earlier, times have changed. Information and entertainment is readily available in copious quantities from many sources. This is not 1936. The funding model of the CBC is enjoyed primarily by the selfish. Can't say I blame them, who wouldn't like something for nothing, paid for by others?

Times have changed. Instead of being an instrument of unity, the CBC has become an instrument of division in Canada and an increasingly expensive instrument. Nobody is watching. Few are listening. Entertainment and information are increasingly available from a host of sources. If the supporters of CBC are willing to put their money with their mouths are instead of insisting that others pay for the entertainment of a few- as unlikely as that may be- they need look no further than CKUA, the oldest public broadcaster in Canada. The financial model is quite simple: if you like it, pay for it. And many people do just that. It is supported by listeners directly, and "is considered a cultural icon by many musicians throughout Canada". In redneck land. Imagine.

You are delusional if you believe the first part of that paragraph, utterly delusional. The second half would be necesary to quell the few PSAC members outside the NCC. I predict Ms Turmel will have a tough road ahead, at first outside her own party and then within. You see, extremely politiczed unions run into troble when their party struggles, and extremist leaders founder at the national level and on the national stage she is now entering.

Quebec is and still will be a huge block of seats and a major poltical force in Canada for years to come. I still don't understand Laytons choice unless it is to further secure a base in Quebec. And I am not sure he needs to do that now. Maybe in a coupe of years, but not now. Why not Mulcair as national leader and Turmel as Quebec deputy? Mulcair is far less threatening or 'out there' as Turmel to Anglo Canada, which is a constituency that the NDP must ultimately try to win. If noting else, that constituency include plenty of restless Liberals.

You've missed the point of the show entirely, Davidson is only a victim of himself and he knows it. I have no idea how you can arrive at your opinoon, have you even watched a few epsidoes? Edgy, funny, acutely self-conscious humour is not for everybody though. It is an extension of Seinfeld with an older and wealthier demographic.

You cannot help but be entertained by the notion of telling 175000 union members to vote for a party founded on the principle of separation while pretending that principle is secondary, of no importance. Ms Turmel is a curious choice as leader. I would have thought that Layton would have picked someody more centrist. Ms Turmel will alarm centrist Canadians, she is a hardcore leftist with a major labour background, none of wehich will appeal to the great mass of voters in the middle that the NDP needs to become a national force. It will appeal to Quebec I guess, so perhaps the game here is to demonstrate that the NDP is the party of Quebec. That might be a good idea, since the NDP is going to have a really really hard time doing much else for Quebec in the next four years, and they will be out on their ear unless they can deliver the bacon to Quebec and plenty of it. It still does not make them more palatable to the ROC though.

No? It certainly isn't a bland sitcom, they are pretty challenging. Im trying to think of another series that would have scenes of a radical Palestinain banging a professional Jew while shrieking 'fuck with with your circumcized Jew cock'. Must be a pretty short list.

I watched the episode last night with the Palestinain chicken. Pretty edgy stuff, liked it a lot.

I have not seen him today but on the radio at noon I did not recognize his voice, he sounded frail if that makes any sense. Anyway, I hope he has and takes the time to get better. Best wishes to him and his family. I don't agree with much of what he says but Canadian political life will be poorer without him.

He said nothing of the sort, you're making stuff up again. Our ability to sell finsiehed , manufactured products to China is as unlikely as any other country in the world doing the same- slim to none. You may have noticed that China can produce manufactured goods much more cheaply than we do. Or maybe you haven't. Our best short term bet is to sell energy and pertrochemicals to an energy starved China and India, but since we are politically unable to reach any kind of agreement on something as simple as building a pipeline from Alberta to British Columbia to get those billions of dollars and thpusands of jobs flowing- we are doomed to sit with our thumbs up our asses and watch yet another opportunity slip away.

That is wonderful news, I will fly to Montreal tomorrow to invest in every ad agency I can possibly find.

But the US economy remains in the toilet, and those manufacturing jobs that Ontario lost have also been lost in spades by the US. They don't need power because their factories have closed. So tell us who is going to buy your electricity and why? China? Oh wait, we'll need extension cords, lots of them. Ah I see, a literalist. Do you also believe that evolution is a myth because it isn't mentioned in the Bible, that the Earth was created in 7 days and 7 nights, and that the Leafs will win another Stanley Cup?

One of the defintions of the word dumb is mute, as in cannot speak, it is not a word that is recently adopted but is very old. It also means stupid. I don't think many would interpet deaf and dumb as deaf and stupid. What is the PC term for a person who does not speak?

Only because yoiu asked so nicely. Why can't Helen Keller drive? Because she is dead! What do Hitler and Tery Fox have in common? Neither one could finish a race.

Point taken. Is deaf and mute more acceptable for the differently abled?

That's the second time you have said I need to borrow money. I have no idea what you're talking about, which makes at least two of us in that boat.

Hey, that was no cheap shot on Keller, it was aimed at Old Scotty, the deaf dumb and blind kid. Keller enjoyed sushi though she struggled with chopsticks, so I assume she supported immigration too.

Is your real life name Helen Keller? Of the 34 million people in Canada, about 32 million plus are immigrants to the country. We have one of the highest standards of living on the planet. Do you think those two realities are completey disconnected, or do you think that our high standard of living was entirely created by the <2 million persons who are not immigrants, or actually immigrated a few thousand years earlier?

Pretty much. They saw the golden pony of the EU and climbed aboard, big mistake for the EU. In the past, Greek students would take to the streets, a few cops and a few kids would die, and the govt would back down. Not this time, there is nowhere to run and nowhere to hide, the purse is empty and the purse itself boiled for soup.Far too few people pay taxes in Greece, yet they have been able to sustain the pretence of financial viability long past when they should have been denied any credit anywhere, as happened in New Zealand in the 1980s for example. But NZ did not have France or Germany backstopping them. Neither will Greece, this time and they'll sink on their own. Greece will inevitably default, leave the EU, reintroduce the drachma and walk away from the whole mess and leave their former allies in the EU reeling and holding the bag. Of course, the Greek economy will be utterly shattered and ordinary Greeks will suffer mightily for decades, while of course scapegoating bankers, IMF, UN, EU, Amerikkka, anybody but themselves. All this will come to pass, the real question is will it take down the EU too? The grand experiment of the EU is looking really tattered and unsustainable right now.

The movie. Stars Ewan MacGregor, Christopher Plummer, Melanie Laurent and the Serbian guy from ER. Laurent was the woman who played Shoshanna in Inglorious Basterds. Loved this movie,,,, the best I've seen this year probably, though it has been a weak crop in 2011 so far. Plummer plays an older father who is dying, and has come out of the closet after the death of his spouse. McGregor is the late-30s son, adrift in his relationships with everybody including himself. Laurent is gorgeous and deft even when she does not wear makeup A dog is a prominent character. I was prepared for a chick flick about love n'all, but it was much more than that. It is cleverly edited out of sequence, something I niormally detest but in this case it works very well. The plot is not complicated, but the story is handled so gently and well. By the end, I identified with the characters and found them believable/real. Recommended.

For true horror, watch pretty much anything by the fatuous auteur Lars Von Trier. They all make me want to kill kill kill Lars very slowly.

Manitobers are so.... sensitive.

Finally, an answer. I bet the fire insurance for those buildings is expensive, but all that paper must make for good insulation and a toasty interior.

Yes, I realize that Manitobers are helpless in this regard, the need is overpowering.