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Not a chance. It is not inevitable, unless they contemplate mass suicide. If they had done it in 2010 their economy today would be comparable to Chad or Mauritania. Next up for Greece: I expect the frisky and solvent Turks will spark up a border dispute and try to take back all of Cyprus. They know full well how vulnerbale Greece is now.

Andrew Coyne- who has serially beat up on every party and every leader at every opportunity- has this to say today about Adams and Trudeau: http://news.nationalpost.com/2015/02/09/andrew-coyne-justin-trudeau-delivers-a-crawlingly-demeaning-performance-while-welcoming-eve-adams/ The url title gives a hint of what is to come.

There is a simple hack that will allow you to use your Canadian Netflix account to access US Netflix, which has more and better programming.

$400 for a pair of tickets to that.... Barnum was right.

every large economy has an influence on the relative value of their own and other currencies, but ultimately the value of a currency is simply what others perceive it to be. "Save the US $". What are you talking about? Oh, and the site you linked to is run by partisan leftoid mongs.

It vaiies with provinces, like so many other health care services. In Alberta ambulance services for, seniors, first nations, poor people and inter hospital transfers are free. It's $250 to $400 for others, though many have plans through their workplace. Everybody who works or actually pays taxes in Canada pays for health care. If your province pays for your ambulance ride, it just means that everybody pays a little more tax.

Ya ya whatever. Hans-Werner doesn't make the decisions in Chermany or the EU, Angela Merkel does makes them and she doesn't give a stuff about ancient history or sentiment. Greece is looking for allies to put pressure on the more solvent countries in the EU. Big Whoop. Tsipras is desperate, every door he's tried to open since vastly overpromising during the Greek election is slammed shut. Others are rusted shut. Welcome to reality Alexis. Now STFU and get your country in order without all the grandstanding. Nobody is interested in your revolution.

Sure they can adhere to the austerity measures. The most onerous one is that ordinary Greeks have to pay income tax to the central government on their earnings. The place is rife with tax dodgers, in the past only fools and civil servants paid their share. Greece has been living in cuckoo-land fiscally for generations. That is over. Greece cannot leave the Euro. if they did, their current situation would instantly be the good old days. The drachma would be utterly worthless, which means any imports to Greece would be completely unaffordable. Medicine, oil, any kind of machinery or aircraft parts- they could not buy anything from anybody because their money would not have the value of toilet paper. And that would be overnight. They know this, their new govt is just posturing and preening for domestic consumption. Their exports would be more valuable, but they don;t export much that matters. In short, Greece would be terminally f***ed if they left the EU and the Euro. So why does Germany prop up the deadbeats like Greece? Simple: because Chermany is an exporting country and it is very very much in their self interest to have a moderately costed Euro currency. If they left the Euro, the value of the new deustchmark would be so high nobody could afford their exports, They don't prop Greece up out of compassion, it is all about the money.

Actually KH Schreiber is not the correct role model as he was not a Parliamentarian. A better analogy would be PM Jean Chretien, who stole $200 million of our money to gift to his friends and party, and got away clean with it.

He'll want to send more blankets. Oh, and talk to them.

I hope you aren't disappointed, again. That would be hard to handle, again.

do you think poor people are 'progessives'? I think they are unlikely to vote at all. Or perhaps you are burdened by the eternal conceit of the left, that everybody who did not vote would have voted NDP if only....

In the meantime, every Leafs owner since Ballard has made scandalous amounts of cash by providing a horrible product to Leafs fans. Maybe they are on to something there. What else can we sell to them? I know where I can get warehouses full of Chia pets and Pet Rocks for really cheap.

You guys have a lot riding on the Duffster.

Yep. The new bridge will be financed by Canada because it is a vital piece of infrastructure for...... wait for it......Ontario manufacturers and exporters. Will it be built with tarsands money? Another swing and miss by the OP.

The latest : http://www.edmontonjournal.com/news/edmonton/Park+Uber+City+seeks+court+injunction+stop+sharing/10790824/story.html

Thanks for the pedantry. That was urgently needed. Wrong. Council asked for it. Two people of my acquaintance(both retirees looking for some easy extra money) asked for it. Like any prudent person s, all of those want to understand exactly what is involved. Uber refused. Translation: they have nothing, since they know the drivers effectively have no insurance. The excess of zero coverage is zero. Uber knows their liability insurance, if in fact it exists, is woerthless. I'm pleased Edmonton is insisting that Uber have coverage before running what is nothing more than another taxi service. Their claims of 'ridesharing' are worse than lies. The first person killed or maimed in an uninsured Uber txi will sue everybody, and the muncipalities who sanction an unlicensed, uninsured public csriier by doing nothing will be first on the long list of defendants. Why go after some unemployed ahole who owns a wrecked 2006 Camry when there are fatter fish to fry? And fry they will. Or, you could do the sane and sensible thing and refuse to get into an uninsured vehicle. Glad to see you're acknowledging that UBer passengers won't be covered.

Every speck of information you provide in the census- excepting your name and specific address- is packaged and sold many times by Statistics Canada to anybody who will pay for it. And they are numerous, lots of corporations want to know family incomes and ethnicities and ages and everything else in your postal code. If I'm going to be sold, I want a cut.

The census takers are very persistent and use a variety of begging and threats. I've experienced both. I tell them right off the hop that there are x number or persons living in the home, and that's it. I won't answer any questions regarding my ancestry, religion, race etc. . I answer questions about money every year on my tax form, and won't discuss it or anything else personal with a stranger on my doorstep. They threaten prosecution but never follow through.

Yep. I worked for private sector corps and only specific managers were permitted to speak to the press. That is an extremely common practice. Actually,, it was the same in Chretiens civil service. Every government department had and has a communications section who manages that process.

The Oilers have been playing hard for several weeks now and have roughly a .500 record in the last month +. They are not trying to lose, they just are not very good. But I concede they are guppies compared to the Leafs awesome record of the last 47 years. You'll have to find some other comparator for the Leafs unique brand of shittiness.

The driver doesn't have any coverage 'maintianed' if he is using a private vehicle for hire purposes. Uber refuses to provide anybody a copy of the purported commerical autop insurance carried by Uber on behalf of their fleet. They would not provide it to Edmonton City Council, and they won't provide it to potential drivers that ask- or wouldn't for the two people I know that requested it when considering working for Uber, In Edmonton, Uber is now operating for free. Call a Uber cab, it costs nothing. Uber is paying their drivers 80% of the fare out of their pocket. City lawyers are taking the stance that it doesn't matter who pays for the trip, they are a public carrier and breaking the law. An injunction is forthcoming. Time to settle in with a box of popcorn. $6 to $10K per year here. When you do that cost benefit analysis, calculate what your net worth will be after you get your ass sued into the Iron Age when your insurance carrier declines coverage entirely after the horrible accident. Also calculate your legal bills when you try and get Uber to cough up a nickel on their supposed blanket policy that nobody has seen yet.

Trans Canada is investing in shipping oil by rail now. Looks like they are giving up on Keystone too, and opting for the least safe and most expensive option. Canada is becoming a bad joke when it comes to looking after their own interests.

Carlyle must be having a quiet chuckle watching the Leafs reek without him. And cashing pay cheques while he does it.

That. I doubt it will be 8 years though, and it may not require that the party be in decline for the transition to Baird.