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My wife has similar tastes, less peat more light. The latest faves in the cabinet are Cardhu Gold Reserve, Glenfarclas 15 year, Macallan Gold, and the Singleton Spey Cascade. All under $100

No. The Charter is clear an unambiguous. It is common in Western social democracies. You may find that surprising or disturbing, but it is not at all unusual. Sorry, but Wiki definitions and low court decisions are secondary to the Charter.

Sorry, I didn't answer the question you pleadingly begged for twice in the same post. Yes, I did see what you did. Yesterday you were denying that was going to be an 'interim' purchase of Super Hornets. Today you are acknowledging that there will be one, and appear to be desperately seeking a reason for that profoundly ignorant and blatantly partisan decision by a man you love in ways we can only imagine. Stickhandling through dumb and contradictory electoral promises with expensive and sole source purchases of second rate and ageing fighter(discounts available for bulk purchases!!!) will cost every Canadian something better. This is some big league Reprofiling for sure. Let me know what you come up with on that front.

absolutely, the purchase of F35s and all other fighter aircraft must be deferred until an open and transparent competition and assessment of the options. That is what our Prime Minister promised, and that is what I expect to see happen. Of course, Canada must not 'sole source' fighter purchases, another promise from our current PM. Helping out other people need not exclude a strategic assessment of fighter capability. I did see you scamper over from another thread and shift the goalposts.

Can I send one to your local municipality Public Works so your personal priorities are met too?

I got it from Waldo in post 1617. The F18s are an unproven product? I did not know that. Look Waldo, I get it that the wholesale idiocy of buying Super Hornets via sole source to avoid breaking a political mistake with a far worse one is embarrassing, but you don't have to personally compound His blunders with your own. Oh and the 'delay' is not with production of the F18, the delay is with Trudeau now, who refuses to contemplate an assessment of the available aircraft. Like He promised He would. . Delays past 2025 for deliveries is entirely your invention, and entirely hypothetical since no competitive or transparent(remember those words Waldo?) procurement has or will take place. You are talking about outcomes- of a process that has been flushed for the most partisan, shameful and spineless reasons imaginable.. Nice try though!

Because paving your street matters more than brutal rapes or murders. Could we defer the line painting on that new road and help a couple of them out maybe?

The Royals beat us handily. They also beat the Mets handily, playing the same all around game. Adequate starting pitching, strong bullpen, relentless and varied attack. They got stronger the further they went. The team that wins will be again the team that can do all that is required, has a balance of offence and defence with few weaknesses.. In its present format and style, it will not be the Jays unless they make some changes. It is too bad, because they actually do have a shot at it. You have to win three series. Getting there is not random, nor is it luck.

Its an alliance. Shared security. All have a role, and ours apparently is to advise people that don't want or need advice. You might not have noticed there has not been a global war for a few years now. Must be a coincidence and nothing to do with us or our neighbours, no way. ah I see. You have gotten the UN mixed up with NATO/NORAD.

That is not correct or wasn't last year in the West. Our standards are the same as the US for wood stoves. ( I bought and installed a new high tech wood stove in a family members home. )The building code requires that only stoves that meet or exceed EPA standards can be installed. Essentially, that meant that only those stoves with catalytic converters qualified- the stoves also must be CSA approved. Many of these stoves are made in Canada, then sent to the US for EPA certification so they can be installed in Canada. Is it different building code in Ontario?

You left out: employment and a viable economy.

Read the book recently- it is very good.

No, the catcher problem is a minor hole compared to the bullpen and the way we play(Gibbons). (and perhaps the best move that AA made as GM was signing Russ Martin) Grilli is not the saviour. His most memorable moment was in the 9th against the Orioles, when he came into the game with a 2 run lead. He walked two, plus one hit. It took a great catch by Carrera off a near grand slam to unclench everybodys sphincter slightly, then Grilli struck out Schoop who luckily swung at every pitch so we could squeak out a win.. The model is not the Orioles or BoSox. The model is the Royals and Giants. You know, winners. They all had good pitching and a balanced attack. Modern baseball offences have three key elements: power, speed and situational strategy. The Jays at present have only one of the three, sporadically. We won't ever have a lot of team speed, so it must be replaced somewhat by strategy, and there we are also far short . The Royals beat us easily last year, and one reason was they employed every weapon possible to generate runs. There are many examples of this, but one that sticks out was a play in the AL final by Lorenzo Cain. Runners first and second and he shows bunt. #3 hitter, power guy, showing bunt! Can you imagine Bautista, Mr Macho, even pretending to bunt? Donaldson comes in a step or two, just in case. Next pitch, they steal third. Next pitch after that, a sac fly scores a run. It was all planned and all executed. We just do not do that sort of thing very often, and when we do try our players fail to execute often.

Sorry, but the Trudeau advisers are now advising the Kurds pretty much exclusively. Anyway, all the Yazidis have already received their warm Canadian blankets and best wishes from Ottawa. Those women just brought it on themselves if they didn't leave, right? Hey Waldo, when do you think the Liberal government will have to duck and run when the Kurds achieve their shorter term goals, which won't be long now? The Kurds want to secure their northern Iraq territory from ISIS, and secure what they see as their oil fields. After that, they don't and won't much give a shit what happens in the rest of Iraq and Syria. They are going to pull back their troops from engaging ISIS, who will Trudeau advise then? Maybe the Turks? Nope, he has already severely pissed them off by supporting the secessionist Kurds. The Iraqis? Nope, same reason. I expect to hear a 'mission accomplished' in the next few months from Our Boy. The cut and run will be complete, back to pressing domestic issues like debating the wording of the anthem for days.

Trudeau made two, or perhaps 3 promises. One is that he would have a fair and open competition to replace the ageing fleet of F 18s. Second, no replacement would be sole sourced. The other was that Canada would not buy the F35. He is now in the position of breaking one OR MORE of those promises, since how can you possibly not include the F35 in any 'fair and open ' assessment? Well, you can do it by pretending that the viable life of the current F18s cannot be extended to 2025 for a reasonable cost. Then you can pretend that acquiring a second fleet- of Super Hornets- is somehow not a sole source because it is 'interim'. He does not wish to explain how or why an interim is required at all. Of course, the reason is that Canada will get sued and lose a multi billion dollar lawsuit from Lockheed if Canada breaks one of the promises and just awards the longterm replacement Super Hornets from Boeing without assessment of alternatives. By pretending that the Super Hornets are 'interim' he hopes to avoid the lawsuit. Good luck with that. Oh and if they don't choose the Super Hornets as the longterm replacements, they'll have three sets of infrastructure and training costs: F18, Super Hornet, and the undertermined replacemnt for both in a few years. Trudeau is between a rock and a hard place, all of his own making. A better man would simply spend $400 million to extend the life of the F18 to 2025, then go to competition. Instead, we enter into a longterm Festivus of Stupidity in homage to his massive pride/hubris. oh wait, BUT HARPER!

You are absolutely and totally wrong. They care, because whatever we do not do- they have to pick up the load.

Yet, hanging on to a wild card spot is not what you clearly expected. They are teetering. Yes, EE is valuable, but not so much to the Jays except for what he does or does not do right now. His value for the future is quickly approaching nothing. Obviously. Every game he is great in is another game closer to free agency, and one nothc lower on what you get for him as a rental for a contending team. Now explain why Encarnacion would sign with the Jays, unless they offer him absolutely monster money and big term? Yes, I get that the fans love him and that 'Management ' wants him to stay, but why would he sign now with the Jays except for stupid money? And again, did you learn nothing from last year, for example, regarding the value of offence? Balanced teams are required to win championships. The Jays still have some big holes. Grilli doesn't fill them. For example, the bullpen has no lefties now. Loup is hopeless, Cecil was hopeless until he got hurt, Venditti is looking like a novelty item, Scott Diamond sayonara. And the rest....... meh. Sanchez will help the bullpen, and hurt the starters. Net zero, at best. On another topic, do the Jays not have any catchers at all in their system that can hit better than Thole? He is at .107, an nearly automatic out and is often a double play candidate . Dickey has a career .175 average. he can hit off the bench, something that Thole is never asked to do because he is awful. He only catches once every five days and is not very good at that either. He is like having a starting pitcher that never wins or contributes to a win.

We have many skilled advisers deployed by Trudeau in the region. They could advise the Yezidi women to leave.

Check out Mikkelsen in a movie called The Hunt. He is a fine actor.

Nothing has changed. The Jays still have two serious problems to address before they can approach being a championship team. Bullpen and Gibbons. Is Atkins still the GM? Shapiro involved at all? Haven't heard a peep from them for ages. The team is teetering still, and if the Jays miss the playoffs plus lose one or both of the heart of their lineup for no return- both men better be sure their current hiding place remains well hidden from Jays fans. ' And this might well be the last shot for the Jays at winning anything, for a long time. On the 'major free agent screwup list' the Jays are running 50% as of today. Bautista is having a 'meh' season so far, so it is possible they can sign him though unlikely. Is his slightly weak season a sign that the eyars are catching up? Do they want an old geezer at huge money on a long term deal? Or is it just a blip? Encarnacion is having a fine year, so he has no reason at all to sign with anybody before free agency. That means the Jays will get very little in trade for either of them now, if they decide they cannot win it all this year. Two rental guys. I expect this 'management' group knows they missed the boat on both these guys, they had to either sign or trade them pre season and now they are writing scripts to cover all eventualities.

Or just sort out the Olympic nonsense and dump this joke tournament. Actually, it will be sorted by the China Olys in 2022 because the Chinese will force the IOC off their high horse.

In pro baseball, 'on the field' members of the team-anybody who does or may step onto the playing field except training staff- is required by the rules to wear a uniform that is the same as other team members.

You just cannot help yourself. Harper forced Trudeau to choose between breaking two Trudeau campaign promises? Magick. Pure Magick. a or b?

You have the mistaken belief that this is a national competition. It is not. It is a showcase and fundraiser for the NHL/NHLPA. And it is also a cookie thrown to fans to thwart backlash at their upcoming announcement that the NHL won't be going to the Olympics. .By having weak sisters like Slovakia and Germany send teams, it would eliminate participation of many European players entirely. Of the players named to Team Europe, 8 of them are not from Germany and Slovakia. Of the players named, only 2 are from Germany and 5 from Slovakia. The only logical conclusion is that Team Europe is a much stronger team than either Germany or Slovakia would have been. Neither country has enough quality NHL players to compete at this tournament.

What reason do you have to believe that Canada is a secular nation? First sentence of our Constitution/Charter: "Whereas Canada is founded upon principles that recognize the supremacy of God and the rule of law"