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women live longer. more women are alive at age 60/65 than men, when either can draw CPP has a maximum benefit. once you reach it, which many workers of both genders do, annual income or average income or lifetime earnings don't matter. The best part of this is making Wally invest his time, instead of earning money for his pension.

One thing the West can do to help in Iraq and Syria is to dial up the pressure on Turkey big time. Turkey is pleased to see ISIL taking it to the Kurds, given that the Turks have domestic problems with them.. Collateral slaughter of civilians is acceptable to the Turks as long as the Kurds are slapped down hard. Turkey is a NATO memebr and badly wants into the EU. Both of those facts are pressure points.

I would not trade Hall, he is easily the best of the crew and IMO the only elite player on the team. I'm not sure what has happened to Eberle, he is completely infeffective on the ice for all of last season and looks disinterested again this year. Yakupov has no hockey sense, or not what you'd expect from a #1 overall pick. His value us very limited. Nuge has great heart and skills but is miscast as a a #1 center. I'd be reluctant to trade him but he would get something in a trade. Look at the poor kid fighting last night, he did OK but he should never have to do that. The last time the Oilers had a #1 center is Doug Weight from about 15 years ago. Pathetic. The game last night was really discouraging. After getting whipped by a very poor Calgary team on opening night, the Oilers came out hard against Vancouver. The Oilers worked hard all night and still lost. Vancouver is at best an average team, and the Oilers could not beat them. I fear another 4-14 start is going to happen. There will be blood. I agree they should trade early, before the losing sets in and their value drops even more. Symbolic of how utterly shitty their management has been is their new guy Nikitin. He was the number seven(at best) defenceman on Columbus, not a great team. MacTavish traded a fifth round draft choice for him(which is worth nothing). Then he paid him $9 million for two years, a jawdropping number when the guy is worth perhaps $3 million tops for two years. Their other big signing Mark Fayne has looked awful so far. Eakins is always pumping his teams tires, he has no choice but he and MacT must be worried already. They play next in LA, so an 0-3 start is a lock.

It works great if you're from AB, all three territories or any other Sate that does not levy sales tax- and can prove it with ID.. Washington State rebates state sales tax to any jurisdiction that does not charge it. I am guessing that it is aimed at getting people from Oregon to shop there.. WA has no state income tax, and does have sales tax. Oregon has high state income tax, and no sales tax. It's cross border shopping within states, though I reckon most of their business comes from BC. Some stores make you fill out a short form recording DL info. Others have it as part of the receipt, you just sign with a bit of info added and they tear off their part.

Olympic stadiums must have a 400 meter track. They're a few meters short in SkyDome, and it can't be fixed. oops. world class.

It is becoming very apparent that some of those 'skilled young players' are not so skilled. Their trade value diminishes all the time. The first thing the Oilers need is a completely new management team. Well, more accurately, they need to fire Lowe, MacTavish, Eakins and their entire pro and amateur scouting teams. All have failed. I would not trust any of them to make competent trades, given their clear and long record of complete failure in trades and free agent signings. I know the season has just started, but this gong show has been running a very long time.

That suggests that passivity towards radical Islam guarantees we'd be left alone. That is not at all how fundamentalist Islam works. There are only two groups in that world view. You're either devout a devout Muslim, or you are not. If you're not, then you convert or die. It's a black and white world. There is no place for tolerance, respect or differing opinions. Fortunately, not many Muslims adhere to this worldview. Unfortunately enough do believe it to threaten all that do not. Unfortunately. 'all that do not' includes many moderate Muslims. Unfortunately, too much of the Muslim world is unwilling to purge the rot within their culture. So it doesn't matter if your dingus is in the nest, what matters is that yoru dingus is not attached to a fundamentalist body. Tell me, did non-involvement help the aid workers and journalists from getting their heads sawn off? Did it help the many women and children in IRaq and Syria from getting gangraped and murdered? Where would you place their dinguses, other than rotting in shallow graves for no reason other than existing??

Yes, we all understand that basing an economy solely on any single pillar is risky. For Canadas entire history the main pillar has been resources. It still is today. What is your answer, what industries or initiatives can Canada undertake to ensure we continue to enjoy the high standard of living we have now, a standard that is at or near the top of the planet. How do you propose to maintain that for the next few generations? Wishing and hoping won't pay the bills. If oil is bad in your scenario, we stop producing oil and gas. What replaces that?

opening and closing ceremonies are central to hosting the Olympics and if they are held in Buffalo they won;t be sharing them, Toronto will be a satellite muppet to the Buffalo Games. How would Buffalo- a smallish place- manage the money for the Olys?

they live longer.

The Oilers looked like complete crap in their first game. Same stuff as last year.

On the other hand, men are more likely to drive more and in particualr are more likely to drive for a living, both of which increase accidents. On the other hand, women tend to pay slightly less in their lifetime into CPP overall, since many have chunks of their work careers misiing due to children. I am going to leave it to the OP to break the news that because they pay less and draw more they now have to pay more. Give me a few minutes to seek shelter first though.

I don't care about the politics of it all, we can all wank on endlessly and solve nothing. What I would insist on from Uber or any other public carrier is to ensure that public safety is considered first. Any for-hire drivers should be licnsed both by the province for their driviers license and by the city for a local permit. AS it is now, for-hire drivers need a police screening, a fairly clean driving record, and the car must have liability insurance. In addition, vehicles should be safety inspected. Regual;r taxis have this stuff, and anybody carrying passengers for money needs it too.

from the Passport office site So clearly if you are a Pastafarian you have the right to wear a colander on your bean, but it has to fit so as not to cast a shadow. Sorted.

sounds wonderful. There are some wrinkles though, as in how do we get there, and before that- where are we going and why. If we transition our economy to manufacturing, what do we make and how do we annihilate our global competition? If we transition to services like banking or IT development, how do we displace some very serious competition from those sectors? If we stick with commodities/resources, how do we build the infrastructure? That is a serious question, for example we have major opportunities at hand in the oil business and simply cannot get anything moving except with rail cars that keep exploding. Ports and oil pipelines: paralysis. We have or had a major opportunity in LNG, and now it looks possible that BC gas will be shipped to Oregon via pipeline and then trans-Pacific. We know where the market is, we know how to extract the product, and we simply cannot get the two together in any coherent way. While we are doing nothing, other global suppliers of the same products are having no difficulty serving those same markets and thereby collectively eating our lunch. I think you are missing something important from your list of three. It's political will, and by that I mean a recognition by individuals , industry and government to work to common goals. It is sadly and increasingly missing in Canada. We are reducing ourselves to a nation of competing regions.

Hopeless.

You're dishonest too, if you continue with this charade of a mild warning from a CSIS official- a warning also made in many other Western Countries- with somebody like McCarthy.... McCarthy did not warn, he acted to destroy hundreds of people in a shameful actual suspension of civil liberties. I sincerely hope you keep yapping on about your absurd analogy, the hole just gets deeper. Tell me, when are the show trials headed by Mr Coulombe beginning and where is the venue for same?

Does that accomodation extend to ordained Baptist Ministers like Fred Phelps? http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Fred_Phelps He was a renowned hater of Gay people, Jews, Muslims and pretty much anybody else. His stunts weren't ludicrous, they were horrific. But since he is from a mainstream religion , I guess you'd take him over the guy wearing a colander.

It used to be worse, but internet shopping has changed it. Things like car parts were a giant ripoff in Canada, the availaibility on the web means that many though not all dealer prices for parts have dropped a lot. Tires, not much difference at retail.

It's another hip term Wally!

The War Against Terrorism(great acronym by the way) has confounded the West for a long time. How do you fight what you cannot see, a shadow war against shadow forces? Prairie boy analogy: when the gopher pops his head out of hole: BAM! This may be an unprecedented opportunity to tidy up a bit.

So you claim prices of oil are directly related to conflict, always. Correct?. Now you can explain how poil has dropped 15% in htree months as the ISIL fight boils over in the very same time frame. As per M Hardners graph:http://www.infomine.com/investment/metal-prices/crude-oil/1-year/ Ignorance?

yeah, cross border shopping is directly related to the exchange rate. In Washington State, Albertans don't pay any state tax while people from BC do..... hahahhaha

so by your own 'data', the price of oil wavers a few percentage points over a few years, up and down, while conflicts also come and go? I don't get your point. I don't see your point. My sympathies on having to work in Estevan. Was it a court order?