fellowtraveller

I have been getting more than uwsual, and for the first time I am now getting them on my cell phone too. I've tried all the usual, now I just wait patiently and answer every single comment or question or part of their script with the most graphic obscenity possible. I am doing my part to discourage people from working in the industry.

we deport deserters because they are criminals. Simple.

Hahaha. Harper is totally inside your head, he owns you.....

I'm guessing you were a big Don Messer Jubilee fan too?

It is entertaining to see the arts become The Arts here.

Aren't there a couple of zeroes missing? Oh I get it, that was Chucks slice. Ooops, sorry, I realized that this post might violate the Official Handbook of Every Liberal Anywhere: Chuck Guite, rogue bureaucrat, one day took it upon himself to crack open the Montreal Yellow Pages and randomly distribute $200 million to ad agencies. Nobody in govt or Cabinet directed him , nobody else knew anything over several years. It was all quite magical.

Agreed, and when an artist produces something worth buying and I can afford it, I buy it. No need for govt intervention in that most basic of transactions. If I built sidewalks to nowhere in the wilderness, would I also be worthy of govt funding because I need a place to live and food for my family?

If Ignatieff takes power via the coalition, he will hand Canada to the Tories for a generation or longer. The only question will be how long Iggy can withstand the humiliations that will be forthcoming regularly from Duceppe and less often from Layton. But... he is too smart for that, though Harper may well put him severely to the test with a big fat greasy poison pill in the next budget.

I wouldn't be so sure. If Wayne and Schuster appeared on my TV, I would be obliged to empty my (unregistered) weapon into my Panasonic to stop the banality of it all. Legal counsel could help with my defence, which would be 'justificed homicide'.

No. The bias should be to those who have skills, not 'higher education'. There is no need for a boatload of philosophers when plumbers are required.

Prolifers have a clear goal: get any kind of legislation regarding abortion and access to abortion as a federal law or statute. Anything is possible after that.

Intelligence did have two seasons. A shame but not surprising that CBC didn't have the wit to renew.

Any schedule yet for the Wayne and Schuster Revival?

I am a bit surpirsed at the overwhelming nature of the poll result. A clear majority support the status quo, abortion on demand. 87% support either the status quo or allowing abortion with minimal restrictions. Game, set, match- and representative of Canadians overall IMO.

Nearly all first time buyers have CMHC insured mortgages, which now means anything between 80% and 95%. It was ever so, nobody can save that much to get started in good times or bad. If you aren't CMHC insured, that means you have at elast 20% equity in your home. There are no other alternatives. Either way, the banks and CMHC are sheltered and relatively safe. And it varies from marklet to market, if you bought a house here before May 2007 with or without a deposit, you have equity. If you bought since then, maybe not, but if you are on CMHC your mortgage won't come up for renewal for 3 1/2 to 5 years from today. If youb are not on CMHC, you had equity from the very start. You'd have us running around like chickens with their heads cut off.......... The rest of your post is meaningless in the context of this thread.

The 40 years are riskier for one reason : no equity to weather the ups and downs of the market. That is why they were only around for a couple of years (both zero down and 40 year amort), CMHC recognized that risk and eliminated it.

If your intent is to provide a tax cut, there is no need for all the dog and pony show. Just cut income tax, federal and /or provincial.

I love the langauge of the ProLifers. First, the have the semantic high ground by calling themsleves Pro Life, since if you are not prolife you must be prodeath. In fact , the other side offers women the choice of continuing the preganancy to term or aborting. ProChoice does not mean you are pro abortion, it means you support the womans right to choose. The other semantics war is over the use of 'fetus' and 'baby'. Note that ProLifers rarely if ever use the term 'fetus', every fertizlized egg is a baby. To call it a 'fetus' has far less emotional punch, and since logic cannot carry the day, God and emotion must substitute. The real nutbars insist every sperm is sacred. Looks like lately, judging by some comments here, that they are changing tactics. They know that they've been utterly unable to concvince Candians that abortion is evil in all contexts. Now they are trying hard to get a law, any law at all, on the legislative agenda and hopefully the Crinminal Code. Why? Because there is not really any legislation on abortion in Canada. No law means no prosecutions, no concvictions, nothing to argue on Charter levels at the Supreme Court. It really is a problems for the Lifers. Any law, no matter how flaccid, would be a big big improvement, a launching pad and vehicle for countless suits and court challenges. Too bad for them it just ain't going to happen. The majority of Canucks are happy with the status quo. If you don't like abortion, don't have one.

Hundreds of millions of dollars of design, financial services, engineering and fabrication work related to the oilpatch is done in other provinces.But if you don't want the cash, no problem.

You keep bleating this same tired old tune. The only thing even remotley approaching subprimes in Candian residential mortgages are zero down mortgages. The total exposure is around $10 billion, and the majority of those will not default, and those won't be eveident for at least a couple of years, and that assumes that their local market declines in that time.. It's peanuts, and every penny is insured. Every single borrower who got a zero down mortgage had to qualify under strict CMHC rules regrading creditworthiness and ability to pay, same as every other borrower. You have been listening too much to Garth Turner, who is an alarmist idiot. Please respond when you have a clue. Thank you.

It is all falling into place. Progressive Tory=David Orchard

Disagree on the exemption for mortgage interest. It provides a tax break only to property owners and is discriminatory in that sense. It is also factored into calculations for qualification for obtaining mortgages in the US, which helps create the porperty bubbles we are watching bursting.

Yes, Rahim Jaffer CPC,an immigrant who represented nearly every aspect of diversity available, was replaced by a middle aged white person, a NDP lawyer. I guess that proves that the NDP are rednecks.

Baloney, and dangerous baloney at that. 'Hey. lets get the sheep stampeding for no good reason" Here is the key "Those sources estimated that 10 per cent of the mortgages, worth about $10-billion, were taken out with no money down." Those are the mortgages at risk, and they won't be at risk until they come due, which will be for the most part in about two to five years, since they were available and popular only for a couple oif years and nearly all will be at a five year term. Taking a mortgage over 40 years is no more risky than taking one for 25 years, in neither case do you pay off any prinicpal for many years. The risk is the same, essentially. People who get 40 year mortages must qualify within strict CMHC guidelines, No qualify, no mortgage, same as always. You still need good income and good credit. The length of the amortization has nothing to do with either of those qualifying factors. More deception: GE has been in the mortgage insurance business as a competitor to CMHC for many years. They have the well earned reputationof being cherrypickers: they are even more strict than CMHC about taking on mortgages. If anything is shaky about your application, they are not interested. The people at risk are those who have no equity by taking zero down mortages, and their risk will come when they renew, which for the majority will be in two to five years. Of course, not all or even the majority will default. This also assumes that property values will be lower in that time frame, nwhich is far from certaion. The defaults will be some portion of the $10 billion, which is negligible in the grand scheme.

Two word answer: Rahim Jaffer. He has brown skin. He is Muslim. He is young and handsome. He won four elections as a Tory. He is from Alberta. Sucks to have him violate all your stereotypes, eh?