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It seems the Ontario strategy to avoid costly increases to generating capacity is to decrease demand by driving all business out of province/country. So far, so good.

OK, Trudeau will consult the provinces in some fashion. BFD, what does it matter and who cares? How does that vaildate the result, and provide some detail on my assumptions. From Trudeaus own mouth: campaign promise throne speech promise timetable elimination of proprep as an option parliamentary committee to decide Liberal Party policy The only choice remaining according to his own statements is ranked ballots.

The only way Uber drivers compete here now is by not having valid insurance. I'm not sure why you would endorse that. Would you endorse for example an airline that employed amateur pilots and mechanics. or ran without the same safety regulations as other airlines?

I have worked with half a dozen Iraqi Christians for a few years. They left in complete disarray and the certainty they'd be killed if they stayed, and many have been killed. The headchoppers like rape too, and often group rape.. To be fair to their delicate sensibilities, they also hate Shia Muslims. Proof that.

Move to Mexico. You can keep your citizenship, but have to give up CDN health care and drivers licence. You can buy cheap and good health care there privately, no wait times either. No capital gains tax, income tax is 15% and you can leave all invetsments here if you wish.as long as you pay tax in Mexico you don't here. Of course, you get no benefits from Canada either other than your passport. I already knew a few from Canada that did it in the last couple years, and now two more that have solidified plans since taxes are going up in AB. It is all predictable, innit?

Oh stop, please. It does not matter at all what the provinces think, and nobody is going to consult them in any way that matters. What possible reason would Trudeau have to take their advice? Well, there will be a big show of taking Wynnes advice, naturally. and your statement is incorrect. He has rejected PR , he voted against the NDP MMP proposal in the Commons in 2014. He does support preferentail ballots, it is Liberal policy to support either MMP or preferential, and he already rejected the former..

Syrians are like babies to be kissed for politiicans . I hope Trudeau does not have mononucleosis, he'd be a new Typhoid Marie. Syrians may be bigger than hockey right now. They are for CBC TV.

70 Uber drivers charged in Edmonton, for licensing issues.

But most of all. they are getting goaltending that does not put them in a giant hole every game.

No change in opinion Big Guy. Ranked/preferential ballots are not really a form of proportional representation. There is no requirement at all to 'get the provinces on board'. Consultation with the provinces does not in any way imply that it is binding or has any influence on what happens federally. Don't you think that the Liberals had plenty of time to 'study up on how various forms of reform work'? I think they had about ten years of staring up the organzational colon of the Cons and NDP - ten years of being the third party. They came up with two big questions:1. How do we get back into the PMO office? and 2. How do we insure that we never again end up in that posiiton? Justin Trudeau was the answer to the first question. And ranked ballots are the answer to the second question. Like this : However, Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau himself voted against the motion, alongside the other half of the Liberal parliamentary caucus. So, Trudeau is eliminating any kind of proprep from the forthcoming 'consultation', while adhering to the official Liberal Party policy for electoral reform. What does that leave but the other stated option: preferential ballots? http://www.macleans.ca/politics/the-case-for-mixed-member-proportional-representation/ So the LPC is fully on board, the Commons doesnt matter, the schedule is there, he thinks he has an electoral madate, the choice of ranked ballots is made and the Opposition can do zip about it. 40% of Canadians love anything he does. Like I said, the one and only hurdle is the Senate.. Its the only drama left, how will he circumvent the Senate?

Not really. They populate their game broadcasts with shrill meatheads like John Garrett and Greg Millen and many others . They have so much time to fill with the mega-contract. They have a couple of 'hosts' -like David Amber and George Strombopoulos- that have nothing to offer IMO. The regional broadcasts have on-air ' personalties' that are a long distance from interesting. On the other side, TSN has some superb analysts like Ray Feraro that are underutilized because they have no actual product to produce. James Duthie and Bob MacKenzie are in a simalar boat in the studio. I almost always change channels between periods on Sportsnet.

There is no chance whatsoever that Canada will see any form of proportional representation. There is no reason at all for Trudeau to implement a system that does not favour his party, so he won't. It's pretty much that simple. Proprep would ensure that he and every subsequent govt would be in minorities and coalitions. What could possibly be his motive for choosing proprep? Nope, the deal is done folks. We have the means: a legislative consultation committee that will have a majority of Liberals. We have the timetable: 18 months. We have the motive: it is a campaign promise. Well let's face it- the real motive is to more or less permanently eliminate the Conservatives or NDP as ever forming a government. And this is one promise he won't break. The Liberals have a golden opportunity here, they will do this early in their mandate. The legislative committee will go through the sham of asking Canadians for their input, but there will not be any referendum. It's not a constitutional issue. Trudeaus one big hurdle is getting it through the Senate. I expect to see some strategy on that soon. The timetable is no accident: that Senate hurdle will apply to all legislation, so whatever measures he applies to legislation happening right now will be settled by the time that ranked ballots need to be punched through.

Thanks for that point. It is important to note that when one politician does something sketchy, it follows that one from the other side automatically gets a pass to do something stupid too. That is how we do things in Canada, we want to be fair after all. Harper owes Trudeau " a Duffy" already.

It is a strength of the movie. The reaction of the Church is central to the story. Did you miss all the numerous scenes where the Church management and its proxies exert pressure on the newspaper to deflect and shut down the story? The perception of the Church was the story of the movie, their attitude and actions were what allowed it to happen. Catch a priest buggering children? Move him. Does it again? Move him again. Regarding black hat/white hat, how else do you depict the systematic and insitituional rape of children? Are the children somehow to blame? I'm curious to hear how you would explain the actions of the priests, and the actions of their employers, in a more positive way. What i find interesting is the Church reaction to Spotlight, which has been mostly to thank the producers for bringing this to the attention of the public. Pretty restrained overall. Another interesting aspect is that the movie does not sensationalize the horrific events, there are no tedious repetitive scenes of assaults, tears, victims. It is an account of the story, an exposure of the means by which the Church effectively condoned the horrific activities of many of their staff, not an expllicit exposition of child rapists or their victims. A sobering moment, not that one is needed, is the unadorned list of the very numerous places in the USA and internationally where the Boston exposure led to criminal investigations or abuse. It also notes what happened to the Catholic management involved in this instance, which was either to be shuffled off again, promoted, or both. Good movie.

The regular market price in ON is $.20 per kwh???!!!. No wonder industry is packing up the factories and moving anywhere else. Absolutely f**king clueless,and we get the govt we deserve.

The only certainty is that 10000 refugees means 10000 selfies with Trudeau and that CBC will air every one of them. I do hope Santa Claus, Jesus and food banks don't mind getting bumped to the side in airtime this Christmas.

That would be pretty much insane on the part of the Jays. His trade value drops dramatically as soon as the season starts. If they wait until late in the season they'll get nothing for him because he becomes a rental player. His value is at its highest right now, at the end of a fine season offensively. The Jays have to choose between him and Bautista most likely. Both are getting a bit old, both are coming off great years. Bautista is a much better fielder and runner, a guy who can take right field just about anywhere in MLB as well as hitting in the heart of any lineup. And EE is fairly one dimensional....... great power hitter but an average fielder at best. When a team has some success, usually with a championship, the p[layers want to get paid by somebody. And EE is leveraging that into what will be the final big deal of his career, actually the only big contract. Maybe looking for $15 to $17 million for 5 years? He will get it somewhere, but not from the Jays so they might as well get what they can now. The Jays are unique in that they can afford to lose either EE or Bats, but not both. Bautista is more problematic at age 35 but playing like he is in his prime. The Jays cannot go both long and big money for him, so they might have to give him $20 million per for 3 years to re-sign. Or maybe they trade Bats, sign EE as the cheaper but longer guy, and move Pompey or Saunders into the lineup.

Nobody anywhere has claimed that it would defeat ISIS. But it has certainly slowed their offensive capability, and before the air attacks they were advancing unhindered. And when ISIS advances, they really punish a lot of people that do not deserve it. Of late our former allies have focused a bit on trying to inflict some economic damage on ISIS oil exports. Trudeau had some bad luck with the timing of the Paris attacks, and erred politically by making one of his very first acts as PM elect a call to Obama where the CDN media made sure to highlight his commitment to withdrawal of the warplanes. And he keeps compounding that mistake, when all it would take is a deferral to regain that political capital both domestically and internationally. Stubborn? Uncertain? Badly advised? Clueless? As a nation, we can forgive and he can overcome the first two. The latter two are more scary.

Prices agent was acting under orders from Price to take a dump on Toronto. His feelings are hurt by the Jays not offering anything, but Price is wily enough to trashtalk via proxy..

The answer to the OP question is clearly no. Trudeau has not listened to our allies. Our allies -US, Germany, UK in particualr -are responding to the request from France to help in a tangible way in hurting ISIS. Keep in mind than when this bombing campaign started, ISIS was essentially running amok across Syria and Iraq. The Kurds were holding their own in defence of their territory in the north, but otherwise there was nobody on the ground that could touch ISIS in their daily barbarity. Canada and others undertook to halt the ISIS ground offensive, to buy time for local forces to get organized. That level of organization is certainly not tested, but the air support has hurt ISIS and slowed them considerably at a minimum. The imminent Canadian abscence from the actual fight is not just symbolic, it is duly noted by the international community and most defintitely by our allies. When some claim "Canada is back" is seen by others as "Canada is backing up", and insulting everybody by pretending we can lead from the rear. If it is intended to gain respect, it is a miserable and comprehensive policy failure, both home and abroad. And that is a question that needs an answer. Does Trudeau or more likely his advisors think he has so much political capital that he can piss it away by wrong footing this file too.? All he has to do to regain that capital- and some modicum of respect for abroad-is say and act: "our friends and allies need our help. We'll leave the warplanes in place for 6 months, then we are done in that regard and will switch our role to training and surveillance" It is puzzling and a bit disamying to see him miss the obvious a couple of times on linked files- refugees and ISIS- that matter to Canadians.

Waldo is absolutely right. The Trudeau government will have identified all of them very soon as "one of those people now in camps in Jordan, Turkey and Lebanon. We ';re taking 25 k of them real soon".

No, it will generate almost nothing in net taxes, which we will see soon in Canada. Or that has been the experience of governments everywhere that have tried and ailed to tax the wealthy beyond a certain point. Oh, and captial has never been more portable than it is now. The very wealthy just take their money, keep the passport, and leave. And some well paid workers- like doctors- have no problem simply exporting their skills elsewhere. Thats a double whammy for us, since they were educated at public expense.

Yes, the body was moved and the picture of the policeman cradling him was recreated for the photos we all saw. The child did actually die. The rest was intended for you, Waldo.

It isn't 6% of 4 million. Read The Article

I though it was pulled from deep within the colon of the Liberal Executive Committee, Once the (staged)picture of the dead child on the beach was published, and the oblique relationship to Canada was established- the auction was on.