fellowtraveller

Francisco Cordero aka The Blob, blew another save in their lucky 8-7 win over Texas. Does he get the hotdog guys at Rogers Centre to stop by for a couple with mustard every half-inning? The Jays bullpen is really shitty so far.

Doesn't matter what they wanted, the situation in Alberta regrading employment was happening in spite of all the chinwagging. There are no more skilled workers to hire in Alberta for the oilpatch, there are no more skilled workers willing to come here in Canada. The business doesn't need laidoff factory workers from Windsor, they have no applicable skillls for the big money work.

what barriers?Low income university studentys in Quebec paid nothing beofre this strike, low income students pay nothing after this strike. Explain the barriers. Use bullets or numbered points to illustrate the injustice there. Loed at from something other than your own selfish viewpoint, you got an undergraduate degree at a cost of approximately $30K per year, of which around $25K per year was subisisized by working men and women. You then went back and spent a souple nore years and another $50k or so to get a subsidized postgrad degree to the tune of another $50K of cold hard cash squeezed from the brow of the working man. The purpose of your use of public money was to get more money for yourself. You think of ypourself as a a generous, progressive and altruistic man for having done that. Did I miss anything in your lifetime of contributiuon to the greater good? Did you risk any money to generate employment/jobs for others? Did you create any pensions or opportunies for others?

> You cannot ignore the reality that a prime factor, the prime factor, in the demographic nightmare coming to Japan soon is the aging population due to low birthrate. Canada has the same issue, but offsets it with considerable immigration, the majority of which is aimed sprecifically at importing skilled workers. Japan has failed and continues to fail to allow much immigration, and they will reap that whirlwind soon enough.

Even if it is not continual, is there no limit to how much time or for how long you support free education? kindergarten to age 30? 50? 80? I have no problem at all with postgrad degrees, but I see no reason to provide free education so somebody can bump their salary a few grand. Even if they pay their own measly tuition to get a postgrad degree, I am still subsidizing that in a very major way. The tuition paid is a fraction of what is costs each of us as taxpayers. There is no pressing need to compeltely trivialize it by making it free. I have no problem with childrens education, but there are (nominally) no children at universities. At some point, you have to take responsibility for your livelihood, including the investment that is an education. I freely admit I don't expect you to understand the concept of personal repsonsibility. I have no resentment at all toward people who acknowledge the great gift they get now in every province at postsecondary institutions.

Yeah, those teams have goalies that are statistically excellent, but I wonder how often their goalies are pressed really hard for a long time....Teams like Kings and Rangers, st Louis, Nashville, Phoenix etc are bigtime, hardcore defensive teams. They often do not allow many shots, and those that do occur are often from the perimeter. All these teams collapse five guys to the net, which means many blocked shots, no rebounds, missed nets and few quality scoring chances. Things have changed from the 80s when, for example, excellent goalies like Grant Fuhr were basically abandoned by their teams. Fuhr was never going to have a decent goals agaisnt avaerage or even save percentage because other teams got plenty of high quality shots, but no doubt he was a fine goaiie. Goalies today are better trained for sure, but they are also much larger. Used to be the goalie was usally an acrobatic small guy, now they tend to be 6'5" tall and cover most of the net. So I don't know if goalies are better- I doubt it- but the game has changed to make them look better.

we can all look forward to the return of quality programming like Wayne and Schuster reruns. Or real roots music like Don Messers Jubilee. Maybe they could colourize the old prints.

wouldn't there be heat loss off the windings on the generator on each tower? Why yes there would be.

No problem from me, if a doctor and a patient determine that a medical procedure is required, I am happy to pay via taxes. We are a compassionate people, we don't have tens of millions of uninsured and underinsured hiumans treated like dogs. Nobody challenges what my doctor and I decide is appropriate for me either. Straight from your Pro Life handbook, eh? I thought so..... They do not perform them at all at the local abortion clinic beyond then, they refer them to a facility that is equipped to do them if the doctor and patient agree it is necessary. Both hospital and clinic are about 500 kms from the Amerikkkan border. It gets worse for you.... not only does Canada have no effective abortion law, as long as it is defined as a 'medical procedure' and not a moral flashpoint, there won't be any law because each province has the responsibility to provide medical procedures- not Ottawa.

31 years and continually in school? Ridiculous. And when it costs the state $20K plus per year per student for undergrad education, and Quebec students pay $1500, you can call that free. Even the $5k to $6K per year paid for undergrad degrees is nothing compared to the earning power it generates for a lifetime.If I wish to invest in my future and increase earning power, I expect to pay for it. What does your sister have to do with anything, are you providing examples of more postgrad parasites?

??? iimigrants have been coming to Canada and Alberta to work for generations. That includes economic refugees from all over the world including every Candian province, to the tune of an increase in popualtion of close to a million people in the last decade.

I read a story in the local paper that quoted one of the student leaders on this, he had a very responsible attitude. One thing that jumped out in his quote was that he was 31 years old. 31 years old and still in free school. Hilarious.

Plenty of abortions and plenty of prolifers here, nothing in the courts. You lose. Why would anybody go the Sates for an abortion? Woemn here go to the Morgenthaler clinic on 124th St for a free, professional abortion. Doies it suck to know that? Why would you say something so utterly ignorant of the facts. The local abortion clinic(staffed by licensed doctors and nurses, including a relative) do abortions there to 16 weeks. After that, they are referred to a hospital who make their own medical determination on the procedure. The term limit is because the abortion clinic does not have the surgical facilities or backup avaiable in any hospital. You mean litigated, right? injunctions, delays, appeals, huge expense, massive lobby efforts- the usual prolife circus. Ain't gonna happen here, get over it. OK, you are right, Canadian hospitals have no capacity for surgery. We are a backward people. I feel shame.

Can you give an example of even one stereotype you do not gleefully embrace? Just one.

Yeah, you wish! Never happen. Nobody since the 80s has been dumb enough to go anywhere near it.

Your view is that it belongs in the courts, that has not applied here. Your viewpoint may be personal, but it is also the American approach to abortion: litigate. It is the viewpoint of the CDN Supreme Court from 1988 onward, and in the non-action by the federal govt since. Like that. Your collective love of litigation just does not carry here. No, it just confirms what I saidf above about litigation. You can bet your ass and mine that prolifers in Canada would love getting anything to do with abortion into the court system. Good luck with that here sister. Your response does not in any way match what I stated. Please try again.

I don't agree with your opinion and you are obviously wealthy since you have a window.....so you would not mind if I hurled a rock through your window then? That is pretty funny, a bunch of middle and upper class poseurs being desperate or repressed.After all, as we all know, low income university students in Quebec already pay nothing for their education, and they will continue to pay nothing under the new govt scheme.

He is in jail. I don't want Canada to be a safe haven either, but we cannot imprison him for crimes he did niot commit, or because he is an asshole.

You are speaking from the American perspective, which is a legal viewpoint. The Candian view is that it is a medical procedure, period. We don't get involved as leguislators in medical procedures. It drives the prolife crew here completely bananas, they just cannot get any legal traction at all. Would- be -children are what, exactly? What is a viable fetus? One minute? One day? a sperm? an egg? any piece of human DNAS that could be cloned? Our local abortion clinic(who do all routine abortions, the hospitals don't do any) does not do late term abortions for-wait for it- medical reasons, they are not set up for serious surgery like that. And hospitals very rarely do them, generally only in cases where there is real risk to the mother.

Not really. To get automatic admission to France you have to say, en Francais 'Hello, I am the former dictator of a former French colony in Africa, and installed in office by you. I have 1 billion Euros in cash stolen from my impoverished countrymen, several hundred thousand of whom I slaughtered because I could. May I come in and spend the rest of my life in comfort here?"

that makes two of us that wonders about serious question what possible reason would somebody have calling from Edmonton to recruit Tories?

Ooops, I messed that up, I meant socially liberal! And fiscally moderate, by which I mean they support our soical contract in general but alkso recognize that they have to be paid for somehow other than by debt and that spending must be finite at some point. The center, if you will.

edmonton is 780 and 587 area codes. maybe it was Pierre Poutine, did he have an accent?

Where would you deport him to, he was born in Toronto, is a Canadian citizen and did not make false application for citizenship? He gets the same rights as any Canadian citizen, which is due process under Canadian law, assuming he breaks a Canadian law..

Not trying to quibble, but I don't think a social conservative is necessarily the only perspective that wants the state to be involved in moral issues. Social liberals want the RIGHT for choice on abortion, the RIGHT to same sex marriage, the RIGHT to publicly funded health care and education. And they want the government to legislate those rights. On the other side, social conservatives want the opposite, and want that in writng as law too. So both sides want to arrive at different destinations on the same path, they both want the state dictating moral issues. And when we argue, we all want to pigeonhole others into a convenient way of thinking. I reckon the great majpority of Canadians are socially conservative and fiscally moderate, it is just a nmatter of degree.