fellowtraveller

The only ridiculous sytatement is your wee qualifier is the "If Wpg gets an NHL team, the Moose are gone". If pigs could fly.... you are the one wanting to link the Moose with the Coyotes or the NHL. There is no connection, and Winnipeg is not getting an NHL team either. Yes, it would be perfectly and completely logical to base your NHL team for two years 2,000 miles from your fan base.

Irrelevant, since day cares do not provide anything remotely resembling 'formal education'. Curriculum, professional teachers? And I dispute the notion that handing your kids to underpaid strangers to be raised is of more benefit to them than being tutored by their parents until they go to school. I do understand the financial benefit to you.

Ah, it is Harper who is FORCING the Opposition to bring charges of contempt of Parliament, to FORCE them into having an election? Wow, that is deep, brother. I hesitate to point out that he or any PM does not need an election to shuffle VCabinet, he can do it to honour National Pickle Week is he so chooses.

Contempt of Parliament is a very serious charge, similar to treason. If any Ministers or the PM is found guilty of this, the govt must fall. Of course. Any theories on how Layton and Ignatieff will scramble to abvoid forcing the govt out?

I sincerely believe that most Canadians don't give a shit about prooragtion, and they don't gice a shit about detainees either. They also don't give a shit about the latest Liberal/CBC 'crisis', which is curbing the power of the PMO. Pretty laughable, bringing this up with a minority govt, after watching Chretien run rampant over Parliament for years and nobody cared then. Odd, that. Nope, if you want to manufacture a crisis, best to focus on what matters now: jobs.

Publicly funded universal day care benefits children? That is an opinion, not a fact. I'll grant that it benefits the taxable income of particpating families, and lessens the net income of everybody else.

complete and utter baloney. Gambling is not illegal at all in Canada, and Harper making a wager with Obama is certainly legal. What is illegal is unlicensed profit making from gambling. You can invite your pals over to play poker for millions of dollars if you wish, but the house cannot take a cut of any kind.

It is an example of the govt working for you, I'll grant that. How are the other leeches doing with those programs?

Exactly. Contempt of Parliament is a very serious charge and must by nature be a confidence motion. Let us watch Iggy wriggle out of making it so.

That is utterly riduclous, in whole and in part.He did not want to get caught selling dope in the US or anywhere else, if he did he could have popped across the border and been busted in 5 seconds. He didn't , even though he is supposedly some honourable "folk hero". The reason he didn't is because he was making millions of dolars from selling seeds by mail to the US, and why would he ionterrupt that revenue stream. It does not matter that Canada did not charge him, he did not go to jail for what he did here, he went to jail for the crimes he committed elsewhere. And his motivation is not anything so silly as a belief in the injustice of the law, or any in any way noble. His motive was greed, plain and simple, and now he pays for his price and selfishness. The only decent thing this arsehole has done for years is spare his family and staff from joining him in jail.

How is it beyond our standards. The sentence Emery got is well within the Candian guidelines for trafficking drugs. Your question makes no sense at all, since nobody seeks or grants extradition for petty crimes.

I guess the economy has slid to last place on the Liberal agenda. Has Iggy inissted that this be a confidence vote? Yeah, sure .

Good question, but it is not really germane. He did break US laws, and he did so in full knowledge that he was breaking them. Of course, in the meantime, he also made millions of dollars selling seeds to Americans via the mail. His worst crime of all though was to involve his staff, who were also charged and who would also have gone to jail for a long time until Emery was pressured into a plea bargain that spared him a really long sentence and spared his staff entirely. I was kind of sympathetic to the guy intil I elarned about his actual motivation, which was ot being a pot crusader or hero to the working man. It's about the money, as usual. He'll be pout in a couple of years, and he'll still be rich.

In the meantime, send back the cash, K?

Correct. It rewards lack of efficiency.

No, it would drop your operating costs for public services dramatically and decrease the need for equalization in kind. The reduction in taxes would only be a small fraction of the reduction in expenses. Manitoba is a modern juridiction full of intelligent well trained workforce, cheap energy and plenty of resources. Get off your asses and get to work, or move.

And one biggie- Ontario- has gone the other way...... I object to the terminology used, I'd say the 'have' provinces are those that are eternally on the teat of equalization- Maritimes, Quebec and the very worst example, Manitoba. There are lots of jobless in Alberta, a large operating deficit, and we will still send far more money to Ottawa/Winnipeg than we get back.

simple solution, pay all your civil servants, doctors, teachers and nurses less than what they make elsewhere, problem solved re: equalization.

I'm not quite as enthusiastic, though I do think it is pretty good. What I did not like was the blatant emotional manipulation, with characters that were like cardboard cutouts of good and evil. That is the fault of the director, not the actors. I found myself getting weary of the main character, I realize she is not a professional actor but it was just a little too obvious just how amateur she is and was. One highlight was the role of the mother, who was outstanding and deserved her Oscar win.

Alberta will be running a $4 billion deficit this year, and still sending roughly a net of $9 billion per annum to starving bureaucrats in Winnipeg, Quebec and elsewhere as usual.

another welfare bum. If you moved, it would be to Nfld to get involved with the cod fishery.

The Moose are unrelated to any NHL deal, they are not even affiliated with the Coyotes. Islanders are not going anywhere, they have been for sale for years and no buyers. The NHL won't let them move either. The Coyotes are certainly for sale, but sale and relocation are two completely different things. The NHL will aprrove a sale, they won't approve a transfer to Winnipeg.

are their pensions schemes continuing with the new employer? If so, they should not get a penny in severance.

You have to applaud Quebec for getting the ROC to pay for social programs the other provinces cannot afford for themselves, like cheap day care. No other province has manipulated this ridiculous situation with anywhere near the proficiency of Quebec. Of course, everybody else is trying. Where oh where is that guy who keeps telling me how well this country/government works?

good. Seniority should not carry when you change employers, and is pretty much an abomination even if you stay with the same employed. Promotion and pay should be based on merit, not on how long your ass has anchored a desk.