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Are we watching the same video? It was known 7 months ago that the girl had been killed by a fire truck, the only thing that broke recently was the law suit and the public campaign by the familys lawyer. The video itself would be well known by the fire dept(hence their apology last July) and the police, who have yet to lay any charges. The greatest negligence is that of the fireman on foot, standing over her in the grass and shouting 'there is a body here'. He must have assumed she was dead and communciated that to the truck. Nobody checked after that.

The Mackenzie Valley debacle was directly related to this government making NEB and other reviews take place within reasonable time frames.

Yes, there are a couple ways to get to my posts. What I'm sugesting is what is found on other boards, a main screen icon that says 'your posts'. It's no biggie, just a convenience.

If you'd like an astonishly frank assessment of political discussion in Isarael, check this movie http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gatekeepers_(film). It offers unprecendeted access and some very frank talk from six former heads of the Israeli intelligence service, Shin Bet. Bud will hate it, so will hardcore Zionists, and both for the same reasons.

Criminal? Have any firefighters been charged with a crime, or is this a civil suit?

The endless and now pointless Mackenzie Valley pipeline review process is an example of how not to do it.

I agree that on smaller boards like this it can be useful to have moderators able to comment. Actually I'm a bit surprised they can't here. It does take a bit of oversight to make sure that a moderator does not become a feuderator.

1. send ambassadors: members can go to the many other political boards out there and link to this place as much as possible. Many of the small boards won't mind, it is not uncommon to see signature links that will drive traffic and bump membership. If you wish to send actual physical ambassadors I think overthere would be the ideal Consul to The Bahamas. 2. Have a place on the main screen to quickly go to your own posts, so it is easy to quickly check in on threads you've been on recently

I'm a hardcore moviegoer, and coincidentally a big Leonard fan. The best part of his books is the dialogue, he has a great ear for how everyday people speak. He has had had limited luck in movie adaptations of his many. many books. The better ones are Jackie Brown(based on Rum Punch), Get Shorty and Out of Sight. 3:10 to Yuma is a good flick based on a short story. The TV series Jusitified is based on a few of his books. I liked it to begin with, but have lost interest. I reckon Tim Oliphant can't carry the role adequately, and the snappy dialogue of the books is lost in the TV series. Speaking of the Golden Age of film, I think it is right now. There are countless decent movies, and plenty of excellent movies, made without CGI or resort to visual trickery. Nearly all older movies from years ago were made by tightly wound Hollywood studios with stables of actors and directors on short leashes. If they weren't made within those constraints- there was almost no way to a movie get produced or distributed. It's very different now. There are tons of producers and directors working outside or with less interference from studios, and that means what is produced is far more differentiated than what happened in previous generations. There are far, far more independent and often wonderful movies produced than ever before. Hits and misses, for sure, but there is a lot of quality. We also see far more foreign movies than ever before, movies that simply would never be seen outside their country of origin anytime before p[erhaps the 90s. It's all good!

Is there any way we could double down and make sure he never acts again too? He had a very brief time when he appeared in a couple of good flicks: Zoolander and Royal Tannenbaums. The rest.... blech.

I reckon he is a terrfic actor(and Canadian of course), and was good in Drive doing a young Harrison Ford imitation His best stuff has been in Half Nelson, Lars and the Real Girl and in the fluffier comedy Crazy Stupid Love. And I have now seen Wolf of Wall Street and don't know if I'm better for it. I left the theater with a 'yeah, so what?' attitude. It is mostly an interesting rehash of horrific excess, a cautionary tale of where too much money takes people. It has its funny moments and De Caprio is pretty good here, as is Jonah Hill as his demented sidekick. But.. it is at least an hour too long, Scorcese failed to hire an editor with any cojones. And although I am not bothered with swearing, this movie sets a Hollywood record for F bombs. It's a bit distracting. It will be interesting to see if this movie ever gets onto a regular cable channel, like AMC. With commercials, it would be about 5 hours long and about 60% of total dialogue would be bleeped out. I'd give this one a miss at the theaters unless you really like Scorcese or the actors involved.

Let's not forget the $10 biliion per year every year that goes in equalization payments from Alberta to other provinces, mostly Quebec. When the energy related jobs drop, so does that indirect money related from equalization as employment dies in Alberta. The only reason Albertans pay that money is because their incomes are on average higher than 'have not' provinces. When that equation changes, when the jobs die in AB, everybody in Canada will be affected and not in a positive way. Many jobs related directly to the energy sector are found outside Alberta too.

?? Most of Alberta is forest, but the area around FM was never a lush forest. I would describe 'lush forest' in Canada as something that supports lots of wildlife or has a viable logging industry. There are patches of trees in river valleys that are bigger, but the lack of moisture and thin acidic soil. People tried to homestead the Clearwater Valley in the 1930s but that venture was a flop. The farmland ends far south of FM. Farms end more or less around Lac La Biche and the forest all the way north to where the Canadian Shield starts and it gets even thinner there.

This is the US. Her family will get millions because the defence will see her accidental death as part of a grand conspiracy against the poor woman. She was actually run over twice by fire fighting equipment, the second time when she was covered in foam.

Whats the problem? Did he say something not factual about Bush? He took a lot of heavy shit and abuse when he did the Waging Heavy Peace tour and album. Didn't stop him nor should it, or does he not enjoy the right of free speech in Amerikkka?

No, it makes you unusual. It is simply not true that 'lots of people' have cancelled cable subscriptions, as noted previously. There are however a whack of people who steal all that they watch, but they haven't cancelled servies they never had.

Imagine the penalty if he'd gone through security with something really dangerous, like a bottle of water.

Young drives an old Lincoln that weighs around 3 tons. It is not an electric car, it's a hybrid that is powered by a biodiesel. You could have one too if you had about one million dollars, which is reputed to be the cost of designing/building the vehicle. If it was an actual electric car, it would have a range of about 300 meters(hyberbole font engaged) with that much weight.

approximately 250% increase in total barrels for Kinder Morgan the number of tankers will increase about sevenfold no increase in maximum ship size not even close to accounting for the discrepancy between increase in volume of oil and number of tankers. Unless there is a plan not yet revealed to ship more oil via pipeline from Burnaby to Washington Sate refineries?

Not really. He is still recording and selling well, and touring whenever he gets the urge. Concerts can be softer stuff, bluegrassy, or hard rocking with Crazy Horse. Poltics aside, Young is one of very very few musicians who: 1) has never overtly bowed to commercial pressure: his tours aren't sponsored by beer or condom or clothing sponsors. 2) he has always recorded what he wanted when he wanted to- which has pissed off many fans and confounded many music critics. He does what he feels like doing on record and on stage. if people don't like it. oh well..... i cannot think of anybody really who has done what he does, perhaps Bob Dylan would be similar. I've seen him twice live. The first time was not too long after a recorded collaboration with Pearl Jam. About half the crowd was expecting a folk concert. What we got was an earsplitting, hardcore psychedelic wall of sound played by a great band. To add to the perversity, in the middle he stopped and played three solo acoustic songs. It was a great, great concert, one of the best I've ever seen.

Love Neil Youngs music. I don't think he was aware that when he plugged in his electric powered Lincoln to recharge in Alberta the electricity came from either natural gas or coal.

I have a little giggle when I hear environmentalists tales of the glorious, paradisical, pristine boreal forest. I grew up in northern AB and live there now, spent lots of time working and playing in the bush. Here is what was around Fort McMurray prior to development: thin stunted trees with virtually no commercial logging, poor big game hunting because there was no food for the animals, pretty good fishing though no commercial fishing except for a barely viable lake trout fishery in Lake Athabasca(200 kms north of FM), a bit of prospecting, a lot of mosquitos and black flies, very few people. Here is what is around Ft McMurray now:thin stunted trees with virtually no commercial logging, very few people,poor big game hunting because there was no food for the animals, pretty good fishing though no commecial fishing except for a barely viable lake trout fishery in Lake Athabasca(200 kms north of FM), a bit of prospecting, a lot of mosquitos and black flies, more holes in the ground, more traffic on the highways and a lot more people. Edyted to correct above: the trout fishery in Lake Athabasca failed long ago due to the cost of processing and shippng the fish. They're still there, some really big lake trout up to maybe 60 pounds.

"per the formal Kinder Morgan proposed expansion, intent is to go from shipping 350,000 bbls/day to 890,000 bbls/day; a 2.5 times increase and, accordingly increase tanker traffic from the existing ~60/year to ~410/year. The proposal also states an intent not to increase ship size beyond the present "Aframax class tanker (120,000 dwt)". something does not add up here....a 250% increase in volume shipped, use the same class of ships, and there will be a 700% increase in the number of ships in Vancouver Harbour? "I didn't find anything definitive to outline any 'passage transfer' type monies to BC realized through TAPS (Trans Alaska Pipeline System) shipping traffic... " Why hasn't there been an uproar over this injustice? Or are the Alaskan tankers - some 25,000 of them so far by your count,steaming past the same BC coast(north to south for 1,000 kms of costs as compared to heading west to deep water from Kitimat). Are they not a constant threat to our environment? Why isn't Alaska being asked to meet BCs 5 conditions?

I have no problem if those people and any signs are 100 feet from him, in front of him. But there is no fucking way that anybody should be anywhere near that close to any PM of any political stripe at any time. Epic fail by the security detail. Epic fail by Harpers staff if they don't change whatever caused that failure.

LOL X 2 "Canadians don't care what political stripe the offender comes under when he or she rips us off." I agree that the majority of Canadians don't care about the political stripe. The problem here, which the OP has pointed out, is that the minority who apparently do care about the political stripe are members of the media who pick and choose pretty carefully based on their hate for Harper. Their ongoing eagerness to abandon even a faint pretence of objectivity is not surprising to some of us, and apparently of no concern whatsoever to others.