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Don't forget that trainers can carry up to 20 blankets each. I'm talking about those really nice warm Hudsons Bay blankets.

The C series is a massive mistake, which is why Bombardier is in deep deep shit and begging for more billions from Canadian taxpayers. Again. Bombarider was doing OK with business jets and commuter craft until they gambled it all on the C series. The business jet biz is slumping as it always does in slow economic times. They lost focus on the area where they excelled, commuter aircraft, and Embraer has now eaten their lunch and taken much of their market. Now it appears that Trudeau will pick a combat fighter based on how it can help the shareholders of Bombardier at the expense of the ROC. How do we get ot these f***king idiotic places where politics supplants sense?

It might be cheaper to shore up the economy in Quebec the traditonal Liberal way: by gettign Chuck Guite to deliver a few hundred million to the ad agencies in Montreal. This Bombardier injection is pretty much endless and will be many billions deep and of course pointless. It will be pointless because the aircraft they are building aren't required in the marketplace. Oh and the marketplace already has two global builders with far deeper pockets than Quebec City, Ottawa or Edmonton.

Correct. to make it worse, they chose to neglect their business base in commuter aircraft and while they were doing that Embraer has comprehensively eaten their lunch. This will not end well. But let us not forget that Bombardier is based in Quebec. That matters a lot. The budget will balance itself.

I'd like to hear your reasoning why either of those things would happen- PCs going NDP or NDP going PC? For both, the Liberals are much closer to their base ideology. And for those who do choose to think about it, I very much doubt they would vote NDp first, Rhino second so as to deny an actual contender a chance. I think they would think " if it cannot be my candidate, who is least worse"? I am also interested in why you think that Canadians would bother to get informed. Very few of them do now, what would shift the majority of Canadians in the next 2 years into an examination of complex and somewhat arcane electoral choices? Nope, the Liberals will not risk another debacle like they had under the latter days of Chretien, followed by Martin, Ignatieff, Dion. They have an opportunity now to crush the opposition both NDP and CPC for generations with ranked ballots. They won't pass this one by.

Pretty well actually But best of all, they are building hosues in USA again. Having access means nothing unless there is demand. there is both access and demand now. And no tax or duty.

You don't get to rank anybody seventh, there will be only three choices that are counted. - first second third. Anything else is a spoiled ballot. First one to 50% wins.

And replacing it with ranked ballots Why? Because it virtually ensures we'll have Liberal Governments for a very very long time. His campaign promise says that this was the last FPTP federal election. People think that means proprep, but it ain't so, not exactly. In the next year or two, there will be somber and sober parliamentary committees, Senate studies, citizen committees and forums coming out the yinyang. Plenty of newsprint and pixels will be expended in a show of studying the options. But ya heard it here first- the decision has been made. The change will be to ranked ballots for electing MPs. Via party lists, large riding slates or whatever- it will be ranked ballots. Trudeau knows that proprep means there will probably never be a majority govt of any stripe again. He'd be picking PC and NDP cabinet members right now today if we had proprep, because nobody is likely to win clear majorities for the foreseeable future. But ranked ballots....... In practical terms, you vote your first second and third choice of preference of the candidates on the ballot. The third place(and lower) votes are dropped. The second place votes are added to the first place votes. The candidate who gets to 50% wins the seat. In very practical terms......the Liberals win resoundingly. Always. PC voters pick PC first, always Liberal second, never NDP. NDP voters pick NDP first. always Liberal second, never PC. Liberal voters pick Liberal first, and split between NDP and PC second. Note the trend? Wait for it, appearing at your ballot box in 2019. You'll get a chance to vote for Xavier Trudeau in about 2045.

Bridge of Spies was watchable, an interesting vignette of the early Cold War years. Tom Hanks is predictably solid, if not stolid as a civilian thrust into an unusual (and mostly fact based) role in East Berlin. The actor that rocked my socks in this movie- again- is Mark Rylance as a Soviet spy. I had never seen Rylance before his wonderful turn in a HBO mini series this year called Wolf Hall which is based on the terrific book by Hilary Mantel. Rylance is apparently a renowned live theater actor, and both these roles are gripping. Now for a connnection to The Wire... Amy Ryan was great in Season 2 of The Wire and plays Tom Hanks buttoned down suburban missus in Bridge of Spies.

I thought there were many funny moments in the Wire. Bunk was hilarious often, in his drunken tirades with Jimmy. Bubbles and Herc were also pretty funny often.

Baffling, but that can change in a heartbeat..... The interim manager is just that, and the new guy when found may fire Gibbons and bring in his own man. That gives Shapiro an out, since getting rid of both AA and Gibbons in his first 48 hours on the clock might have been a bit much. The last two playoff series confirmed that Gibby is not up for the task of using the tools that he has in hand. Yost showed him how it is done. IMO an essential element is pressure, as in putting pressure on teams to make good pays to get you out. Gibby does not gamble much, or rather gambles on the wrong horse. You'll know the culture has changed when we see Bautista or Encarnation laying down a squeeze to win a game. KC wouldn't think twice about getting Cain or Hosmer to do just that. It would never cross Gibbons mind. What AA didn't get was the control he had with a disinterested Beeston nominally his boss. He will have trouble finding that situation again anywhere in baseball. Shapiro told him that he intended to be involved in personnel, which Beeston was not..Did I hear correctly that the term was actually only 2 years? That is a square kick in the sack to AA if true. Five is more common, unless Shapiro and Rogers are wondering if 3 months of success vs a few years of futility was worth only 2 years. The Jays are also not going to repeat unless they buy and trade for pitching, and lots of it. Will Rogers open their wallets and increase their payroll for pitching? Is Estrada worth monster money, knowing that he is 32 and has had exactly one very good season preceded by several mediocre years? Which of their roster players can they give up to trade hitting for pitching?

I think the OP is some kind of agent provocateur, keeping the NDP in their traditional pigeonhole........and therefore no threat to Trudeau Jr. The NDP is at its usual leadership and membership crossroads: do they want to rule or not?

I agree that the govt has a responsibility to deliver mail to all of us. There is nothing cast in granite that says Canada Post has to do it entirely . Canada Post itself knows it cannot compete for all the business and doesn't right now.

nope, that is not true Urban deliveries can be done for far less than the current $.80 per item by the private sector. Now calculate the volume of mail going to Iqaluit or Pangnirtung or Dognuts SK. It is absolutely miniscule, of no real consequence. So do we subsidize the delivery of little mail to the little communities, or subsidize Canada Post to the tune of a billion or two per year every year? I know which one is my pick.

Is somebody going to fix the horrors of Harpers legacy? balanced budget, low interest rates, dormant Quebec separatist movement, moderately brisk economy, low personal taxes, and moderate unemployment rate? This cannot stand.

No, the vast majority of amateur sports function on money supplied by parents directly or indirectly, via their pockets or by fundraising. Some elite or 'representative' teams do have sponsors, but the heart of this is not commercial. Elite teams are competitive: you have to excel to make the team, to get playing time, to stay on the roster. If your behaviour disrupts the main purpose of elite teams: to develop players and win games- you are gonzo. if it is your parents that are disruptive, the player exits. It may sound harsh, but all of this is carefully explained pre season. It is entirely common for parents to completely lose perspective in kids sports, and it is amplified when the kid is a good athlete.

The Wire would be my nominee for "Best TV Ever". The first couple of episodes are challenging to understand the language, which is actually English of a sort. Turn on the captions. It is worth the work.

Agreed, we can all manage to pick it up from a community box. Now. let's let Canada Post get on with their business plan to survive in a dying industry, without our subsidy.

'Deadwood' is based on a wonderful book of the same name by Pete Dexter. All the same characters, but of course much shorter than 4 or 5 seasons worth of material. That book led me to read several others by Dexter, all of them worthy reads. The man can write.

I don't think Rogers does blame Shapiro, since they just came out with statements that they had offered AA a generous contract with term. But AA knows that Shapiro and Beeston are very different animals. there is a new sheriff, AA would actually now have a boss, and that his own value will never be higher in the GM market. Just as free agents like to test the waters, so do managers. I think they all want jobs like Shapiros, which are far less public and much more secure. It is still a kick in the nuts for Shapiro. He is under the gun right now despite surprisingly inheriting a very different situation than that which he was hired for in August. Expectations are much much higher now, and today si his official first day of work. If the Jays had gone on to flop as was their norm in the regular season, he could just not hire AA or Gibbons and nobody would hardly notice much less give a shit. Now there are plenty of people watching, and many of them think he is off on the wrong foot. Do you see Gibbons surviving this process? I don't.

Is the massive Canadian dog and pony show that is beginnig its hurtle towards the Paris dog and pony show climate conference travelling in a solar powered windship, or are they taking one of those carbon bleating government A320 aircraft? And with the advanced technology available, wouldn't it be prudent to save our planet and do all those meetings and speechifying by low carbon low cost Skype?

Oh goody, Liberals and advertising..... what could go wrong there?

I am wrong about term and money. It was about Shapiro. AA has had a free hand with baseball decisions for years, Beerton has been on cruise control for years and occasionally helped him out dealing with the suits at Rogers. Now Shapiro enters the scene, is an alpha type, and hands AA a new job description along with an offer of money and term. But the new contract starts and ends with 'Shapiro has first and last call on everything'. The golden leash around AAs neck went from virtual to pretty snug. Exit AA, His phone is ringing from other organizations anyway......... Now the heat is really on Shapiro. They will give him a pass on being responsible for losing a very popular manager. But only if Shapiro puts lots of bums in seats next year. And that means winning.

" you are a vampire"

http://www.dw.com/en/denmark-takes-action-against-refugees/a-18702816 This is recent, but Denmark has long discouraged the brown man from residency and citizenship is pretty much impossible. Skilled workers are more welcome.