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No. insurance costs more because there is a higher risk of accidents because taxis travel far more kms in a year than ordinary citizens. They also have higher liability since there is a legal assumption of competence not required of private drivers. required here and rightfully so of all professional drivers the topic was lack of vehicle insurance, not municipal licensing. Nobody sane would risk their $200k medallion over lack of insurance. Nope. required on licensed taxis, not required on private vehicles. Its not expensive, $100 to $149, Canadian Tire shops do them all the time. Agreed, but only if Uber cars are insured properly, and the drivers checked out by somebody other than Uber.

Only one of our coasts is special though. The East Coast and Great Lakes have seen pipelines, refineries and zillions of tankers and somehow have survived the experience. I'm sorry you don't care. I am puzzled why they haven't just switched the Gateway pipeline route to the existing Yellowhead rail and road right of ways and terminate in Prince Rupert. It's only a couple hundred km further, and far less hassle required. Or they could just upgrade the track a bit and ship it all by rail to Prince Rupert terminals. Much of that line already has heavy duty ribbon rail, they might have to twin some sections but the Railway Act is so dominant it would not take much more than money to get it done. Yep. We're paralyzed and have largely missed the boat in taking advantage of opportunities, the export of bitumen and LNG being two examples. Luckily BC has not had and does not have any qualms about shipping heaps of toxic coal across the Pacific. Oh well, we can always count on the always reliable Ontario manufacturing sector to carry the Canadian economy and pay for health care, education and the rest of our plump social contract. .

So, we all agree that all governments are equally inept and corrupt. Only one of them has a low cost daycare system, so all things being equal why have we seen the following in the only place with a unique factor? " unsuccessful in increasing employment beyond the Canadian average, they are also broke, and they are losing people to other parts of the country." It's not an unreasonable question.

Taxis, meaning real taxis, have insurance that covers carrying passengers for hire. It costs more. Ordinary insurance does not. Taxi drivers require medical exams and criminal record checks for the driver. Ordinary licenses do not. I don't want drivers vetted by the company they work for, I want a third party doing that. Taxis don't fool around much with unlicensed drivers of lack of insurance here because if they did, they will potentially lose their medallion(their ability to operate a car) and it is worth around $200k. A paying passenger sees the local or provincial license of the authorized and licenced taxi driver. its posted in the car. Not something on somebodys phone, which is of course as portable as handing it to your cousin at shift change.. Not good enough. Licensed drivers or no Uber for me. Oh, and I want their cars safety inspected- my province has no general inspection regime- except for licensed taxis. What this is really about here is the cost of taxi medallions. They don't issue new ones and a few people/companies control those that exist already. That means a shortage of cabs. They could solve this overnight by dumping that goofy anti- competition system, but it would mean those medallions aren't worth $200k, they're worth nothing. Oh well.

So qwe both acknowledge that the next Ice Age is inevitable. What is your estimate on our ability to change that date of arrival? Assume we do everything possible to change it, or we do nothing. Will either cpourse of action/inaction change the ETA and by how much?

I don';t expect anybody to change their minds or adopt anything other than the mindset taught very well at a very young age. It's another area where the Church excels : gaining hearts and minds hard and early. They've been copied by other organizations, but they are the masters. They don't change their approach for nefarious reasons, they change because there is human profit in doing so. It's just business, though a business rooted in a unique base: faith.

Classic Liberal non-thinking: if there is a surplus, spend it on a new program. Government is not intended to be a profit or loss undertaking. When the federal government shows a loss, we learned from Trudeau Senior that the debt is just added to an ever growing number. When it shows a surplus, the funds go to an ever expanding list of social programs. In reality, a large surplus is an indication of bad management, over taxation or both. Is there something wrong with applying a surplus to our debt? Is there something wrong with returning a surplus to those who were over taxed? Is there something wrong with reducing taxes so the surplus does not occur again?

Progress in what? Ensuring that the Church survives and thrives? Obviously the Vatican and their CEO have done a bangup job at that, despite some trifling setbacks over the last couple millenia. Raping children, playing footsie with Hitler- these are trifles when compared to real threats like widespread literacy or The Reformation. It was not so long ago that the Church controlled access to books and education, had huge revenues and controlled all the leaders of Europe. They not only survived that, the Church spread globally after those disasters. Dogma is just a tool when your Executive Branch can interpret the Scriptures in any way that suits the times and benefits The Church, and can be sold to the faithful. It seems to me that the evangelical Christians have backed themselves into a bad spot when they insist on the literal interpretation of the Bible. The Vatican has never hobbled itself like that. Control is not an option at all, it is clearly the only goal and always has been.

No, in climate terms yesterday was called THE ICE AGES. I'm not sure how they were connected to humans, but I am willing to blame sooty campfires lit by Neanderthals as being to blame.

I agree with much of what he says. well it must be true if it was rumoured. How far up your own colon did you hear those whispers? Did you hear that the Jews killed six million of their o0wn people in a desperate cry for attention too? 9/11 is the best kept secret conspiracy in the entire history of conspiracies. 13 years and we're still waiting for a single fact to support your rumour.

Mostly to eat. Everything we keep as domestic animals were once wild animals, and not that long ago.

It's too late now, but I once heard it suggested that the UN should have given Bavaria to the Jews after the war, with a lot of countries that collaborated with their slaughter kicking in some major coin to get them comfortably settled: Switzerland, Poland, France, Austria etc. Actually UK, Canada, USA all had dirty hands too.

I don't think he was trying to bully Putin. How would wee Canada do that anyway? He was just telling him he was an a**hole, to his face, at his earliest opportunity. It's just a factual statement. Would you prefer that he lie?

No, not quite. I do not want to trust a public carrier - and that is what Uber is- unless the cars are safe and insured, and the drivers vetted. If those conditions are met, no problem. You don't see a drivers record, you see whomever has the Uber-registered phone in their hand that night.

I would give you 100-1 odds that he knows far more about teaching a child than you know about running a milling machine,

What? You love the children but you won't pay $70 month for an Iphone bill for a needy child?

Another tired old meme. You actually have no idea how people that do not vote, would vote. The only way to know is to get them to vote, then count those votes. The NDP in particular is guilty of dragging out this in a hyterical fit of whining and blubbering,when they get their asses handed to them again . In one example I can think of- the last Alberta election- the voters came out in much higher numbers than the previous election. IIRC it went from 42% to 58% in voter turnout, which is a big increase and unprecedented in AB. And they voted for... the center...the PCs. Predictably, the donkeys running the NDP and Libs thought that all the 40+% who did not vote at all would have unanimously voted NDP or Liberal.

It was the lead story on both TSN and Sportsnet for the day before the game and game day. Not coincidentally, both are based in Toronto. They weren't talking about this year, the hilarity centred around the horrible, soul destroying loss in 7 games a couple years ago. For the ROC, it was a highlight of the playoffs.

No, you are wrong. You are a God.

In British Columbia the teachers bravely faced down the government in a labour dispute. All the extra money they earned is going to pay for monthly charges for smartphones for their students, the many who cannot afford the phone or the monthly fee. Brave, noble teachers, I salute you!

Interstellar: OK, nothing special but watchable Birdman: very, very good.

Yeah, the Jews were really had a warm welcome last time in Germany and Poland. Poland hates Jews. Today.

I think you meant to say 'only the UN and many posters here...'.

the final report was written before the committee left home......