fellowtraveller

A more accurate description would be 'shell game'. Municiplaities use the mill rate to make the numbers sit up and bark, few people understand what is going on and that suits the bureaucrats just fine.

Agreed. That is why the formation of the coalition was such a grand miscalculation. Or rather, the inclusion of the Bloc in the arrangement, and no, you cannot pretend that they were not.

Not even close, almost none of the Adscam Liberals went to prison in the first place.

The weed industry has changed a lot in a generation. The best weed and hash used to come here from exotic locations like Thailand, Colombia, Pakistan etc, smuggled quite often by small to mid size entrepreneurs at considerable risk to their freedom. Very, very litlle of that now, the risky routes are now used only by small volume high profit products like cocaine and heroin. They have been replaced by very high quality, fairly low cost and easily available hydronic weed. The quality and potency is unprecedented, there is no reason, no money and high risk in importing top qulaity stuff from elsewhere. At first, local entrepreneurs set up their grow ops and produced a few pounds a few times per year and sold it to friends. Enter organized crime, mainly gangs like the Hells Angels who dominate the business today. They promised fixed, excellent returns, cash on the barrelhead - in return for exclusivity. Ypur crop goes to them and only to them, which also reduces much of the marketing hassle and risk for producers. They provided seeds and in some cases financing for the equipment required. People who did not wish to play - and why wouldn't they play?- found that somebody had dropped a dime on them to the police, who remain far behind reality in this business to this day.

Try and relax, DrObvious. Smoke a joint, perhaps.

But you still buy and sell scalped tickets for Naomi Klein extravaganzas, right? Sorry, left? I love how you get all condescending and pigeonholing, classifying pot smokers and scalpers and concert attendees as left and right, like any of that means anything. Entertainment is a business. Like it or not.

Liberal Apologist said: Remind me how paying a political party $1.95 makes my vote 'count'? Would it count 150% more if we raised it to $5?

There is no GST payable on the sale of a house, except on brand new homes, where it is typically included in the stated price, not added as it is on retail stuff. The first thing we should do is to cancel the poltical subsidy to all parties, easy pickings that we can all agree upon.

How much of that money will the Liberals use to retire their debt? Have they paid back the $1.4 million they decided they owed the Canadian people for Adscam, out of the $200 million plus that the Party stole? And is nobody tossing a few crumbs to all those leadership candidates who still owe big bucks? Has anybody canvassed the Quebec ad agency industry, they must surely be eternally grateful......

Is that the kerosene model or steam powered model?

I had no idea that Hee Haw was on tour that often. Does that mean "people on the left" don't buy pot or scalped tickets? Maybe it is just Tories, that must be the problem. He isn't breaking the law or committing fraud. Are all 'people on the left so eager' to imprison innocent citizens?Tour operators charge huge sums for ticket packages and have done so forever. I bet they do in Manitoba too, if anybody of interest ever played there. Enquire at your local travwel agency on tickets and accomodation for the Super Bowl... you'll finsd that the sum far exceeds the parts......yet the Winniopeg police have not arrested thoise people. Goods and services are almost all subject to supply and demand, but not tickets. Odd.

Maybe the Winnipeg based Wheat Board could take control of ticket sales in Manitoba, the few artists that stop there would be relieved of all this trouble when quotas and one stop marketing save the day. I know a scalper who makes his living selling Oilers tickets, and other tickets for various events held at Rexall offered first to Oilers season ticket holders. He avoids legal hassles by offering a Club pass and free parking a few blocks away to all ticket holders, and charges whatevcer the market will bear. Sometimes that is face value, sometimes it is much more. That is life in a market society, supply and demand. If you don't want to pay, don't .

Our leading Liberal apologist resents the lack of funding that keeps the Liberals from keeping their tradition of sleaze up on the airwaves. What is it about the Libertal Party that prevents ordinary Candians from sending them a loonie or two?

Are we going to pretend that anybody watches CBC English TV now? I have no objection to CBC TV programming, strategic direction or any of the billion per year in operating costs. I do object to two things: 1) that the money cvomes from taxpayers. If you like it so much, pay for your entertainment yourself, or pay for my cable connection, and magazine subscritions out of public funds. and 2 ) the pretence that the network is some kind of 'unifying' force, an excercise in nation building. That may have been the case when Don Messers Jubilee was big, but it most defintiely is not today. A strong argument could be m,ade that the CBC is a force for dissent and disharmony, some of which has been expressed in this very thread.

He learned everything he needed to know from Jean Chretien.

??? Why wouild Republicans hate an entity that they are completely unaware of? So few Candians watch the CBC that I doubt many can muster any hate for them either.

I wonder where the truth is with Baldwin. He seems self aware, yet was savagely lampooned in Team America.

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Bingo. Every time he mentions the environment, he mentions energy security in the next breath. Canada is the #1 exporter of energy to the USA. None of that will change. Can we keep sending oil across the border? YES WE CAN!

"he keeps promising" like you keep making sh*t up.

Yep, they have set the gold standard. It is every man(every province) for himself from here on. Who cares about anything other than yourself? Still clapping?

Never . Happen. Harper is a pragmatist, and like that better known opponent of abortion former PM Chretien- he knows there are no votes in it. Regradless of personal opinion, he has no political gain in stirring up the pot. Besides, he knows that the majority of Canucks support the current lack of legislation.

Other than the hockey broadcasts, I cannot think of a single minute of local programming on CHED that is worth listening to. Sometimes Rutherford (not local) is interesting, but he often sounds like he does not believe himself. Leslie Primeau may be the dumbest person ever to sit in front of a microphone in the history of radio.

So, when he refers to 'we Americans' (his italicization) in this well known piece there are no subtleties, no hidden messages, that we should take him at his word? OK then.