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It is not a contract, the bylaws are a caveat on title that applies to any owner of a share in the corporation. If they were written in Mandarin, or any language other than English, they could not be registered at BC Land Titles and therefore would have no effect. I think the meetings could be conducted in any 'reasonable' way the board chooses. In court the decision would hinge on what is reasonable. Reguar meetings are often restricted to board members unless an owner has an agenda item that is allowed for discussion. , It would not be unreasonable for a complex with many Chineses owners to translate minutes into Chinese, nor would it be unreasonable for those same minutes to be tranlated into Engish. Condo boards have wide latitiude in their affairs.

What contract are you talking about? The service contracts the condo board has with their management company? Contracts with service providers? Or are you talking about the 'contract' that is the bylaws of the condo corproation, the paper that defines the powers of the boards and responsibilities/rights of owners? Because that 'contract' is incumbent on everybody, and is part and parcel of the title to each unit. As an owner, you accept it as law until under the terms of the contract. That document is also registered in Land Titles by and for the condo corporation, and I very much doubt that Land Titles accepts documents that are not in English. So what 'contract' are you talking about?

But not everybody is in a position to both sell out and help Assad. I think only Iran and Russia are contenders, and Russia really wants and needs their only Mediterranean base ti remain as is. In normal times the dictator scum end up in either Paris or elsewhere in the ME. Assad might find a home in Iran but Russia would be far more friendly.

I don't know. It won't be easy to find a puppet with so many puppetmasters and competing interests. Democracy is not required for the bases to remain, note the current and past situation .

Cheap money, cheap energy, lots of workers available and still everybody leaves town and takes their capital with them. Where are Harper and Mike Harris when you need somebody to lynch? No I won't go there, not when we have Wynne and Trudeau to lead us to a prosperous future!

The one promise that Trudeau absolutely will keep is to change the way we vote. He'll change it to a system that insures his re election and Liberal governments for generations. Promises made or kept won't matter after that, he can do or say pretty much anything . I understand this meets with the wholehearted approval of many people here.

That is ridiculous. Russia would sell out Assad and will in a heartbeat if conditions were right. He knows it too. But for now, their interests coincide but Assads hand gets steadily weaker.. Peace is not possible in Syria as long as Assad is leader. He knows that too. What Russia wants is a guarantee to keep their militiary bases in Syria indefinitely. Russia also wants to be seen inside and outside Russia as 'back in the game' as a major world player, and not as brutal invaders of neighbours. What Assad wants in the end game is not to have him and his entire family strung from nooses on the street in Damascus. He is no doubt resigned to an exile in luxury on the black Sea. He'll get it.

I watched Ex Machina again. Brilliant movie, one of the 10 Best in 2015.

Some posters here are just not filled with revolutionary fervour.

Listen, we're going to need to buy a few gigawatts of power from time to time on really short notice. Could you leave some of that fictitious base load generating capacity in place for 50 years or so? ] Thanks A Green Canada.

That is not the least bit 'progressive'. Get with the program or face re-education.

I think these brave eco-warriors should burn down the Quebec National Assembly. The swine that occupy it now allow the oil to go to the Montreal House of Horrors refinery that is the destination for this dirty Alberta oil. The correct feedstock for the refinery is the traditional sources: Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Iran. Those scum in cowboy hats need to be punished.

Is that going to be a positive number? Are you going to make a big dent in that $300 billion debt if interest rates flutter up a tad?

'Alberta government figures' are wholly unreliable, they are just making stuff up as they go. Their own Minister of Finance admitted as much today in announcing they will defer some of their promises to the day when fairy dust and hope pays the bills. He also blew off the credit rating downgrade recently announced....... which will obviously make it more expensive to borrow all the money that same govt has promised to borrow.......all repaid by somebody someday hopefully sunny ways real change.... Yep. Notley is borrowing the money to buy the Koolaid that we are all supposed to enjoy drinking. mass storage billions. who do you think pays for that Waldo?

Thats OK. they care very deeply about you . They are like Jesus or your dog in that way, you don't have to reciprocate

Sportsnet really needs the Leafs to be better.

It is difficult to imagine how you would get this notion. The purpose of religious indoctrination is to assert institutional control of young minds and bind them to their faith by 'saving their heathen from themselves'. It is a proven way to get and keep people pliant and obedient. The Catholic Church has been doing it very well for 2000+ years. The Anglicans(who are very nearly Catholic too of course) fought it out with the Catholics across Canada. Resdidential schools were far more successful for the churches than any other method after all they had what were essentially prison camps conditions with no escape. They also had missionaries everywhere at the same time, but they were much less successful, not least because they could not imprison and torture adults nearly as easily as at the schools.

I'd watch it but only if Bob Saget could be his actual funny, corrosive and foulmouthed self

There needs to be a wholesale change of attitude on both sides of this. And support for what that means to citizens. One way we can all help is to acknowledge that there is a joint responsibility to fix a grotesque, longstanding stain on our countries heart and soul. And by citizens I mean all of us, not just white or red or black or yellow.

I am going to undertake an experiment rarely seen here: a thread about the positive. Kindly edit yourself accordingly! I'll start. I happened to be bellringing for the Salvation Army the other day at a local supermarket, a two hour shift on a weekday afternoon. I am not at all religious, and have no particular connection to the SA. But.....my parents liked what they did way back when, and I had time and a friend asked for help.... I live in Alberta, and quite a few people are out of work here. I thought I would collect very little. I was wrong. I was astonished at the generosity of people. There was a big stack of bills and coins in the kettle when I started, and I guesstimated the drop in my 2 hours was in the order of $400. Two people put in $50, including one older woman who really did not look like she could afford it. I thanked her for her generosity, she said " I've been looking for you guys!!". I offered her a little candy cane, but said she had to tell me if she had been naughty or nice to qualify for it.. She thrust it back at me with a cackle and said " in that case you better hang onto it!". She must have been 85 at least. I thought it would be boring. It was not. I left feeling good about my community. I need to do more and I will.

And Predators have a rare rare thing: a surplus of excellent defencemen and they are in need of offence. Tampa cannot let him go for nothing. A likely scenario is sign him to a whopper contract and trade him, which is not common in the NHL but this is an unusual circumstance.

And ancient history at that. You're right about winners wanting to play for winners. I don't see Stamkos having any motivation to play in Toronto because he used to live there, and a hometown discount?... please..... From a fan/media viewpoint, Toronto is the ultimate horror show for hockey players. Stamkos is 25, a great player and at the height of his career. I cannot think of any coherent reason why he'd waste that career on a team that has no hope of success (like a Cup) with or without him. Toronto is the place where you go when you're 35 and fading fast, not 25 and at your peak.The best bet for the Leafs is through the draft, at least initially.

The Leafs and their fans have become pawns in a negotiation between Stamkos agents and Tampa. The press here is saying he added 'like' to a single Tweet, which has caused Leafs Nation to simultaneously ejaculate. Stamkos can get 10 mililion + from pretty much anybody. What possible reason would he have to pick Toronto, where he will be treated like God for the first two weeks of the season, then shat upon daily for the rest of his life? All the while being harassed by the press relentlessly.

What do the Leafs have that would get them Stamkos in a trade?. And why would he want to come to A Graveyard of Broken Dreams?

Me too. The Oilers occupied a playoff spot in December for several hours! Sunny ways! I look forward to celebrating the Leafs achievement soon of 50 consecutive years without reaching a final. It is a remarkable record that will bring many Canadians together.