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It's The Curse Of The Harold.

Sorry, I was not clear earlier Your comparison of a mild and general statement by an obscure bureaucrat to the longrunning horrific destruction of many lives by Sen McCarthy and his pals is stupid, inaccurate and a gross affront to the people that suffered from his actions. Really suffered- their livelihoods, their families, in some cases their lives. Oh, and it's utterly ridiculous. It's like equating graffiti on a synagogue with life at Bergen-Belsen. You should be ashamed

Ok, its a bit whiny too, especially where he gratuitously mentions equalization.(It's a topic rarely heard or seen in Alberta media). But he makes some good points. Like it or not, commodities are our economic lifeblood. Our country enjoys a fat and very expensive social contract. Where is the money to continue that coming from in the future, assuming that the global economy is slowing and -not assuming- we have many competitors for those commodities? Oil- lots everywhere. Grain - cyclical and unreliable. Metals and minerals- lots everywhere(with the possible exception of uranium and potash). If not resources, what industry is on or just over the horizon that will ensure our comfy lives? How will we finance that universal day care program we'l surely see after the next election? We cannot rely on boomers to do anything except suck up public money well into their 80s. How are we going to pay? The author is Gary Lamphier, a business writer for Postmedia based out of Edmonton. http://www.edmontonjournal.com/Lamphier+Canada+short+options+other+than+resource+extraction+maintain+comfy+lifestyle/10274724/story.html

One positive thing is that with this acquisition Sun franchise cannot get worse than it already is now. The local Sun content is laughable. Cancelling publication altogether would be a positive step.

I fear that the galvanizing event will involve scraping many body parts off a Canadian street. It's a no-win game for CSIS and other security organizations. They cannot reveal anything specific or detailed to poltiicians except perhaps the Minister of Justice. On the other hand, they have to respond to constant queries from the media with something other than no comment. They cannot boast of successes, they can only take the heat for failures. The OP comparison to McCarthy is utterly ridiculous. Shame on you.

That is a fine story, thanks for posting it.

we are in the middle of a serious conflict right now and oil is not rising. The supply chain has changed. Try again.

Nah, it's just your usual stalker shit Wally. You had no comment on the content, only on me posting it. If you object to that, report it otherwise beat it wee chap.

I'm not sure why you approve of that burden at all. I reckon if we accept one set of dogma, completely without any factual proof, as reasons to provide constitutional protection and massive financial advantage- how do we assess another set of dogma/faiths that appear to be equally silly. Objectively, which of these is more or less silly as a sacred sacrament? Rank them if you like. Virgin birth. wearing a colander as a religious symbol smoking wicked amounts of weed expecting 70 virgins to open their legs on your demise wearing odd underwear to bed sawing off the end of your childs penis stoning somebody to death for speaking to the other gender

Several mines in YT have closed in the past when they hit their price point. Whitehorse Copper, Faro, United Keno Hill and countless gold operators. Of course, others have opened though not enough to take up the slack. Price points in AB. How about monster, megabillion projects cancelled by SatOl and Total in 2014? Several upgraders in the Heartland cancelled... Labour costs were a bg reason for all of them, just cheaper to do it elsewhere.

I wonder if they are undercutting anybody, really. There is a serious shortage of cabs in Edmonton. At times: rush hour, during bad weather and especially late at night every cab that wants to work is going flat out and could not make more revenue. Adding a bunch of Uber casuals would not make much difference to licensed cabs. But... it would reduce the value of their taxi licenses from $100k + to a lot less than that.

blahblahblah you are wrong. There has been a conflict raging in oil country for months/years/decades now. The price of oil is dropping hard. Now stop, please. The game has changed, your meme is kaput. You're just embarassing yourself by spouting recycled 80s rhetoric. I apologize if you are actually the ghost of Jack Layton.

The source of oil matters to this pack of knobs, they keep introducng oil into the discussion as if getting oil out of Iraq was some big motivator for the USA. At this point, USA is a lot more focused on getting oil out of Fargo than Fallujah.

I wonder about this article, since Den Tandt has been a ferocious Liberal and Trudeau cheerleader for so long. Perhaps he knows something we don't, perhaps Trudeau will come out with something (anything) substantive soon so Michael can get back to the Pompoms.

please refrain from wasting all our time with posts without substance. and no, the other one is about a current issue, is many pages long. Thanks.

Nobody suggested that the Jays would have made the playoffs with a single trade. Their pitching is much worse than that, and their major holes elsewhere are equally obvious. But that does not and should not stop AA from incremental trades, and he should very definitiely have traded(for example) Lind when his value - for the only time in his career- would have brought something. You keep avoiding reality: the Jays of June were the anomaly, not the Jays of August. They are simply medicocre. Again and always.

People have a constitutional right to freedom of religion in Canada- to choose one and to practice it. But you want to restrict that to 'old religions'. That's unequal treatment. Are you a member of one perhaps? I understand your fear.

on the golf course. oops.

Toronto is world class and deserves the Olympics. I can hardly wait for the Ford family to officially welcome the world. Is it amusing or tragic that - in the design and construction of Sky Dome/Rogers Barn they neglected to make just a teeny provision to the main playing space to allow it to be an Olympic venue?

Sure, they are unionized and numerous at all levels of government. The skills are transferable, but there is simply no way they would get paid anywhere near as much for the same work in the private sector.

USA gets about 5% of its foreign oil supply from Iraq and 0% from Syria. The Iraqi supply is easily replaced. Canada is by far the largest supplier of foreign oil to USA, with around 40%+ of the toal coming from Canuckistan. Canada supplies about as much as all of OPEC to the US, and double what the entire Persian Gulf supplies to the US..

Here we go again, with somehow assigning different degrees of equality.

We have to think outside the box folks. These ISIL chaps love to saw off heads. We don't want our plucky lads on the ground. We have aircraft capable of delivering payloads. Let's saw the heads off ordinary Canadian corpses at local mortuaries and airdrop them into ISIL territory. Another major source of heads is in the lower colons of political forum posters, they can be easily harvested too. It's a win win.

Yippee!! Those major networks are the very channels I'd like to see off my bill as I never watch them. The Yankee ones I do watch like HBO and other specialty channels already are more or less unbundled.

This one today, from Michael Den Tandt who appears in many major Canadiian papers regularly including the Toronto Sun. He has spent the last two years relentlessly pumping Trudeaus tires, got on that bandwagon early and hard, so this is not usual for him...... ouch again. http://www.thestarphoenix.com/news/Iraq+Trudeau+should+feel+need+lead/10272486/story.html