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Agree on Buehrle. He is "Most Likely To Get Crushed Early" by a strong hitting team. But I would not take him out to put Stroman in as a starter. And there is no reason at all to hurry Stroman back for big innings of work, he has hopefully a long career ahead. I'd consider Hutch as long relief in the playoffs, perhaps the same with Stroman. Sanchez could also pitch more than one inning. It is conceivable to go with 3 starters in the playoffs and your three are the best picks at this point.

Ever get into an accident with somebody that does not have insurance? No, I guess not or you would not persist in this. Yeah, people who ride Uber can pretend they assume the risk, but no f**king way do they or you get to foist that risk on me or my family. I want my government to insist that every private vehcicle on the road have insurance, and to prosecute those that do not. I don't give a rats ass about middle men and their license. Give everybody a license for free if you want. Include them on milk cartons. But every public carrier./taxi must have adequate insurnace and be able to prove that.

The Minister of Energys most direct connection with the oil and gas industry is that she probably has a gas furnace in her home, and she has experience sending them a cheque every month. Nothing is a surprise, the chiefs of staff are political appointees with political agendas. They get their orders daily from Notleys office, then tell their Ministers what to do, say and think. Much more worrisome is the recent appointment of BC poltical operative John Heaney to a newly created and very senior civil service post in Alberta.

Why should anybody have insurance then? UberX is a common carrier, a taxi for hire taking people point a to point b for pay. Being dispatched via a smartphone does not change that they are uninsured vehicles. Really, Uber Corporate does not need the public spreading their rote bullshit about 'sharing'. Save that for the mentally disabled and people attending kindergarten.

You have failed to dodge the issue: insurance. Licensing is one issue, and I agree that there is little benefit to consumers in the traditional licensing system. Perhaps they should just delete taxi licensing fees, and raise porpterty taxes to cover the lost revenue. But only a fool would drive a vehicle without 3rd party insurance, and only a fool would get into a vehicle that they know has no insurance, which is the case with UberX drivers and vehicles. Local/provincial governments are civilly negligent if they permit anybody, including UberX, to operate without insurance for common carriers like UberX - which are clearly taxis. Stifle your anger about taxi service for a moment, and consider the larger picture.

So you subscribe to notion that people who knowingly drive uninsured vehicles are some kind of taxi freedom fighters?.

How are they not useful? They are extremely useful and often very effective in getting greater benefit for their members, which is after all their core purpose. They are also useful in providing poltical pressure and delivering bloc votes. For example, they were very influential in electing both Alison Redford and Rachel Notley in Alberta. And that is in a province with less big labour presence than many others.

Imagine a union backing its members no matter what they say or do.

What for? He hasn't refused any assignments, just said he would. And I doubt Calgary Transit would now pick him our of hundreds of staff for this assignment, that would be provocative.

Martin is like Tulo though- so good defensively that you cannot take them out entirely. Martin is banged up and needs to sit for a week, Navarro can handle the job. They cannot really replace Tulo at SS though, not for very long. Both are at least hitting over .200, but Tulo is just not getting on base enough which is Job One for leadoff guys.

I don't know why the guy would want to work for a transit system that endorses Satan.

You could ask the same question of Tulo, who plays and leads off every day. His offence is not good, and he has very few clutch hits since he came to the Jays. But he adds a dimension of fine fielding that matters. They need to move him into the 6 or 7 spot, and Revere into leadoff until Tulo wakes up. They Jays are using Smoak well IMO. They have a great record when he is in the game, though he often gets into games late, when the Jays are winning, as a defensive specialist. He is a switch hitter too, very important in a team full of right hand bats Colabello is having a fine year at the plate, but sucks in the field. EE is average in the field, but you cannot take his bat out. So, EE every day either at first or DH. Smoak a situational platoon at first plus late game insert, and an occasional DH or pinch hitter. Colabello a regualr DH, occasional first base, and sometimes pinch hitter. Pretty much what they do now. The Jays also need to give Martin a week off, he looks hurt all the time.

Show me the money. No, not my money- show me the private sector source of billions and billions of dollars who would have any interest in investing in green energy in Canada. And please don't say government money. Who is buying your green technology? Unemployed workers? Closed factories? Industries that have departed? I guess welfare offices need electric lights too.

My one and only problem with the CBC is its annual massive subsidy to provide entertainment and news. Entertainment and news are commodities that I can and do purchase on the open market. CBC is heavily subsidized by taxpayers. If CBC supporters love the network, let them put their money where their mouth is, and pay for it themselves. I do just this already with another public broadcaster(and one that is actually older than the CBC) . It is a business model that works fine.

well, in reality they did not take that game as much as the Rangers just gave it away. Walk, walk, bloop by Tulo and an error on a routine play. But am I allowed to critique a win? Price pitching tonight

It's hard to imagine how an advocacy group for the CBC could have any supporters at the CBC.

No, it doesn't mean that at all. Alberta still has higher average incomes than the toher provinces, so the have-nots aren't going to lose a dime. Alberta and Albertans will though. It's a race to the bottom.

Yes, it is hard to imagine how an advocacy group for the CBC could have any supporters at the CBC. It's kind of like how it is just impossible to think that health services unions would have any interest at all in helping out the Friends of Medicare.

I'm caught up now on this one, It is good, a fine sketch from the 80s.

Tulo has looked pretty grim at the plate after a promising start. But he is a big upgrade from Reyes defensively. Revere has now rounded into form and is getting on base, which is the prime requirement of a leadoff hitter. And I agree that Tulo needs to move down in the order, perhaps into 5th or 6th spot until he gets his mojo back. He can be and will be much better at the plate. Don't agree about Colabello though. Smoak is a far far better fielder than Colabello, and the Jays don't really need Colabellos RH bat most days. I know Chris made a nice play there the other day, but Smoak is much better defensively. And Smoak hits left, a rarity on the team. Cola is part of a much stronger bench, but he is often an adventure in the field. They need to give Pillar some regualr time off, he is looking tired.

That wasn't the game or Revere at bat I meant. It was the 4-3 loss to the Yankees. There was one out in the bottom of the ninth with Jays runners at second and third. His job is to make contact and get the ball on the ground, on the right side if at all possible. Tie game, two out. Instead, he flailed away at three balls in the dirt and struck out on 4 pitches. He was trying to be the hero and score both runners. Instead, we lost. Situational hitting. Not.

Mulcair has a handicap in that his party is itself polarized and he does not have control of signifciant factions within the party. Every NDP leader knows that to gain a majority, they must move to the center and be seen to have moved. So far, that has been impossible. The Tories did it in the last decade.

something has gone wrong with my computer. I see references to GIS and the difference between GIS and OAS. Wally does not. I expect the feds to pay the provinces much of the underpayment for the GIS, and leave it to them to give the oldies a bonus cheque or not. Sadly, Grandma s not a victim here, much to Waldos chagrin.

But raising corporate taxes would mean many lost jobs, of course. Oh I see, if you are unemployed you can stay home and lok after the kids. Income splitting is geared towards stay at home parents- people who wouldn't need a daycare subsidy- isn't cancelling income splitting going to cost more for daycare, not less? And doesn't slowing down savings rates by canning TFSAs just mean the state has to provide more support to people when they retire. I'd have to see more numbers to comprehend how these measures could possibly fund 1 million kids in subsidized daycare. And all just at the time when many boomers start to draw on state pensions and start to really suck the life out of health care. How do you see that working?

Income splitting?