fellowtraveller

Good. Overdue.

Really, what do you care about what Alberta does as long as they keep funding your province? Now run along.

Ignoring the facts, again. Another hallmark of the left......... Check the 'who would you vote for' poll, it is 55% CPC vs 45% parties of the left. That is pretty close to equal.

Next budget. The only people whining will be the public sector unions. I always enjoy the slamfest on Farmer Ed Stelmach. They remind so much of how horribly badly his opponents underestimated Klein year after year after year. Sucked to be them.

I didn't say I supported Harper spending $30 billion now, or the coalition spending it anytime. Much of it will be wasted on politic decsions and I do not belive that governments can spend their way to prosperity. It dod not work for Pearson or Trudeau, it won't work now. What is hytpothetical here? The coaliton claimed that the fiscal stimulus was inadequate, and pretended that is why they were intent on bringing down the govt- with the obvious intent to spend their way out when they were in power.. If you are denying that, then I guess the only alternate theory for them precipating this clusterf**k is their panic at having their election funding taken away. Which, by the way, is still an excellent, easily implemenetd and fair reduction in federal spending in these troubled times.

Of course that is true. Haven't you been paying attention? The Bloc Torontois coalition nearly brought down the govt because they weren't throwing billions at moribund industries like auto manufacturing and forestry. Now the CPC are throwing billions at everybody. Surely that is what you wanted........

No big deal. Sooner or later, we'll see a rerun of the big axe that Klein swung i the mid 90s, Stelmach will axe several thousand civil servants. nobody will care exzcept Brian Mason.

The coalition will be shouting from the rooftops that if they were the govt they'd make it $50 billion, no make that $100 billion........

Manitoba is a fiscal joke, a leech on Canada. Enjoy the free ride, it ends soon.

We need Bob Rae as Finance Minsiter for a dose of cutting edge fiscal policy. Or Jack Layton calling the shots. Can you imagine?

MY wife teaches children how to read, and has been a positive influence on hundreds of them. Can you say that about your life? Oh, and did you realize that texting and typing both require some knowledge of the alphabet, one of the elements in the acquirement of literacy- a subject of which you are profoundly ignorant?

I was thinking more like the wonderful CKUA , a province wide subscription station in Alberta. If you like it, you send money. Lots of people do like it.

CBC shoulkd be turned into a subscriber supported network, not privatized. They have many supporters, let them put their fat wallets where their fat mouths are.

Easily profitable, the math is very simple. Flyers come to every household in your city for $.03 to $.05. Don't fool yourself with that Canada POst nonsense. First class mail is absolutely essential to Canada Post, because it makes them plenty of dough. That is why they protect the monopoly, that is why they have the monopoly. The govt allowws it successive govts allow it, because it is easier not to rock the boat that will cost them votes. Canada Psot has no compucntions about the thousands of post offices they closed or privatised in the 80s, their gravy is in distributing first class mail. And that same gravy is there for the private sector, without all the useless dross in both unions and management at Canada Post.

Most of the arguments for retaining the monopoly are not business arguments, they are political in nature. All communities in Canada are poresently serviced by some form of truck, air or boat service. All. None of that changes with opening mail delivery up to anybody. The mail will still be carried on exactly the same boats, planes and trucks, but it will cost more in those communities. It would be far, far cheaper to subsidize those few letters and parcels directly, instead of requiring millions of Canucks to vastly overpay for every letter they send next door. Another ripoff is home delivery, another massive expense retained purely because nobody has the balls to get it right. Rural Candians pick up their mail at community boxes or a post office box. Anybody living in a neighbourhood newer than 1985 does the same. Only those living in older neighbourhoods have it delivered to their mailbox on their house, a riduclous systme that costs hundreds of millions annually. End it.

Danny Williams, again, plays to the choir in Nfld. He borders on buffoonery much of the time.

Not for long, all the refugees from Alberta will be returning home soon. I hope you can keep them busy.

There are two main reasons why Canada Post is profitable, and the first is why they continue to exist: 1. A monopoly on delivery of first class mail....... Ever wonder why companies like utilities don't deliver hundreds of thousands of bills every month, knowing that they can do it far cheaper than $.52 each? Because they cannot legally do so. Canada Post whines that they are also obliged to deliver letters to unprofiatble small and remote places, but the cost to them is nothing compared to the legislated gravy train of first class lettermail. 2. When they cut ties with govt, Canada Post inherited several billions bucks worht of real property, plant infrastructure and rolling stock. No debt to start, an enviable position.

There are only seven Liberal ridings west of Windor, and four of those are in urban Vancouver alone. The only national party left, like it or not, is the CPC.

The NDP, Bloc and Liberals could have brought down Harper anytime they chose. They failed to work together, to cooperate as Canadians expect from their politicians......... They.

Yet they cheerfully did just that for 2 1/2 years, and still walk the Earth. How can that be?

Three candidates: 1. Wendy Mesley: small but vital CBC employee. She is not a visible minority, though she is from Quebec, which is like its own nation, man. 2. Anne Medina: small but vital CBC employee. Visible minority. American by birth, and we like heads of state with other citizenships and /or lenghty residencies elsewhere. 3. and the winner is : Olivia Chow, small and vital but unfortunately not a CBC employee. A brief but lucrative consulting contract could fix that. Born in Hong Kong. She could get Taliban Jack Layton a heartbeat away from his dream job as Chief Commissar.

No, of course not.

That is only true if you're an individual applyiong for coverage at Blue Cross. Company/corporate group policies are inclusive: if you are an employee, you're covered even f you and yours have preexisting conditions.

Follow albertas lead: lower income taxes, no sales tax.