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and, it primarily a provincial constitutional responsibility. Not federal. Alberta has no overall drug plan, and people live as long and as well as anywhere that does. I shudder to think of the bureaucratic gong show resulting from a federal Dope Department. Is there some reason that NB cannot improve their plan? The UK also has a thriving private system, and it includes many of the best doctors. They can and do double dip into the public system, or it may be the other way around.

$316 million is a lot of dough for fishwrapper.

Another new movies I'd recommend, now in theaters: the Skeleton Twins. It's a dark drama/comedy.

I think Wally has messed up his inappropriate analogy. The unoriginal cliche he was referencing was actually 'when did you stop beating your wife?'. I don't think anybody sane expects our six aircraft, on their own, to defeat anybody. But our allies expect us to do something other than wring our hands and bleat - as per 'see above'.

Ouch! I wonder if Trudeau changes his tune by Monday, this kind of commentary cannot go unanswered... http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2014/10/03/andrew-coyne-if-liberals-wont-support-limited-action-against-isis-what-kind-of-mission-would-they-support/ "We know why the NDP is opposed. It has consistently opposed any Canadian participation in any military action since the Second World War. Tom Mulcair’s speech to the Commons was a feast of red herrings, irrelevant historical anecdotes and pointed mentions of “the U.S.,” but what it boiled down to was: we say this is war and we say the hell with it. But the Liberal leader, Justin Trudeau, has taken a rather different position — or rather positions. When the idea of an international military campaign against ISIS was first proposed last month, he spoke in favour of Canadian participation; now he is against it, having spent the intervening weeks saying he was undecided. Fair enough. Positions evolve. Only he still is not opposed to military intervention in principle: only to Canada taking part in it. And he has not begun to explain why. There are any number of reasons one might question the wisdom of military intervention, at least as currently envisaged. Perhaps you doubt the efficacy of air strikes — though they are intended mostly to buy time until ground forces can be assembled from within the region, and though they have already succeeded in keeping ISIS from taking, for example, the Mosul dam. Maybe you worry it will simply encourage more jihadis to enlist — though nothing has proven more potent recruiting material for ISIS and other such groups than the promise of victory. Likewise there are valid questions to be asked about the risks of indirectly propping up the vicious Assad regime in Syria, the costs in civilian lives, the dangers of being sucked into still deeper interventions, and so on. Maybe all of the governments from all of the countries that have agreed to take part in the mission, and all of the political parties, of every ideological hue, that have supported it, have it wrong. Maybe they and all of their military advisors have failed to take into account objections that seem so obvious to posters on Twitter. Maybe there is some other way of stopping ISIS’s advance that no one has yet proposed. But that is not the position the Liberal leader is taking. Go ahead and put your own forces at risk, is his message to our allies. We’ll be over here making coffee"

I expect Mulcair to announce a new, national Head Replacement Center, based with HQ in Trois Rivieres. We'll have hordes of young Quebecois delivering humanitarian aid to Iraq and Syria, a blanket for everybody that wants one. When their idealistic heads get sawed off by ISIL, they can get a new one for free without delay back in TR. The replacement head will be freshly filled with brand new nonsense. It 's a win-win.

So logically we should allow ISIL to just carry on , and kill everybody in front of them. After all, its just women and children and not our women and children. Once they're all dead or enslaved everyhting will calm down. Actually, why not save time and money and just carpet bomb all the Kurds and everybody else that stands in the way of ISIL?. It would save everybody time and money.

If you are speaking of same sex marriage laws passed by the Liberal government, that is simply not true. The Liberal Cabinet was obliged to vote for the legislation. The rest of the Liberal Caucus was allowed to vote freely. The Tories voted freely. The NDP were obliged to vote for it, all of them.

My wife buys dollar store crap constantly for her class, some of which is reimbursed by the school or PAC. Her out of pocket expenses for the year might come to 00.25% of her income, and they are far less than anybody who works with tools would pay. She does not need any special clothing or safety gear.

It won't matter. Brad Wall is extremely popular, the Tories have all but one seat federally, the province is enjoying excellent growth and prosperity through a pretty diversified economy. The Liberals under Trudeau cannot add to that, they can only take away. No change in SK.

Somebody has to put more money into the plan. Defined benefit plans are simply going to vanish. People are living beyond the ability of the plans to pay. Nobody can afford them except government, and even that option will vanish soon.

troof bro

So you approve of all the corporate decisions that closed Ontario factories and moved jobs to, say, the southern US?

Interesting that you'd mention Denmark with Canada. Extremely crappy analogy, by the way. Four countries, NATO allies all, carried nearly all the heavy lifting in Afghanistan, and took ground combat roles for extended periods in tough areas.They were: US, UK, Canada and Denmark. We WERE big players and unched well above our weight , because actual combat carries big creds in the military. So did tiny Denmark. Countries like France, Germany, Italy all know their 'mission' spent hiding in secure bases for a decade carries less than zero creds with their allies. So does a limited COMBAT role against ISIL carry exponential weight with our allies? You bet your ass it does.

Toronto should set aside some land a few pesos for a life sized bronze statue of Mayor Ford, if and when he passes. Maybe the inscription at the base could include a few words of your life advice.

Yes, and that is the only reason it is discussed. The losing side always seeks scapegoats, this time it is the 'system' that has failed. Actually convincing citizens to vote for your party has not worked out well for 'progressives'**, so this old dog gets dragged around the streets again. You never hear a hue and cry for PR from the NDP on those rare occasions they actually govern, the opportunity to actually make it happen seems to suddenly disappear off the agenda then. ** love that term, 'Progressive'. If you're not progressive, then you must be regressive! The Politics of Insult, another thing they profess to abhor except when convenient for themselves.

Citation? Link? Next you'll be claiming we are all created equal.

There are a boatload of First Nations in Alberta, and the federal government did not name any of them.

What, no Loverboy? Tragic.

So they will rewrite history because they do not like to hear what they have been told? Let's get rid of these clowns.

So redneck Calgary can elect a leftie middle class brown man, and world class diverse Toronto is stuck with rich white guys? Priceless.

Excepting the eternally popular Ralph Goodale, take SK out of that equation. SK is really, really enjoying their newfound place in the sun and don't see The Hair as contributing anything in maintaining it.

Lefties in Alberta are permitted to vote. I do not know where you got the idea they cannot. Their vote is treated and counted exactly the same as anybody else, Life can look like that when you're always on the losing side.

Much better to have somebody new that is devoid of ideas. Much.

I don't see how it is different from a taxi/limo- public carrier, no route... how is it not a taxi, except that taxis are required to have specific taxi licenses, special operators licenses, and auto insurance that is about double the regular cost. One effect it will have if implemented is to make those expensive taxi licenses much less valuable.