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Just so you know, the term used for recent contracts is an agreement or land claim settlement. If you say 'treaty' I and others will assume you refer to a written agreement from long ago, as was common in the Praiiries and Central Canada.. Yes, common in Yukon and the other Territoires too. self government!

What a silly analogy Larionov attempts here, since "Johnny Gaudreau in Calgary, Patrick Kane and Jonathan Toews in Chicago " all play for very displined, systemic teams. If you act as a 'free spirit' with Quenneville or Hartley(or Babcock or Hitchcock or...) your ass will bestapled to the bench and stay there. As Hitchcock said so clearly" when our team has the puck, you can do whatever you want. When the other team has the puck, you'll do what you I tell you to do". All of those are successful coaches and teams, even Calgary has been a surprise because they play a firce system of defence first, score on tranisition. Toews is a great two way player, and even Kane and Gaudreu backcheck. Yakupov is trying to do it better lately, but most often he is goalsucking, getting caught out of position and exposed defensively, a liability. He does not see the game one move ahead.

That a load of crap. Lupul came to the team that had just gone a couple months before to Game 7 of the Stanley Cup final. There was no 'constant losing' at that point and none of the young players in Edmonton now were on the team played with Lupul. Lupul had -by far- the worst plus/minus on the team, and it was because he was lazy, entitled and put forth no effort at all. The effect was the other way around: Lupul had that 'loser' effect on the other players. Looks like it spread to his ultimate destination : Toronto.

CBC was recently playing the "highlights" of the flag debate in 1965. It went on for months, and sounded exactly like Parliament does today. Oppositional, confrontational, insulting, filled with rancour. Lester Pearson forced closure and that was how we got a new flag. What were you saying about consensus again?

This is what you said: In Canada, people live on reserves as a result of treaties signed long ago. How did your neighbours come to reside on their reserve before they signed a treaty? Do you perhaps mean a land claims settlement was signed recently?

They already lived on a reserve, but just recently signed a treaty? What do you mean?

Portland runs its potable water system from a series of water towers?. That is an astonishing fact.

Sewage treatment plants are very expensive undertakings, and nobody wants them in their neighbourhood. That means that in metro areas very large plants are common, and that means that effluent is often pumped long distances. It is advantageous to use gravity, but often that cannot happen. Sewage plants are often built not at the bottom of hills, but on plains so they can have large settling ponds. The last leg of the disposal may involve a vertical drop into a river.

Never watch the Oscars, who has that kind of time? I've seen all the Best Picture Oscar Nominated movies. Unfortunately, anything that Jimmy says is tarnished by the reality that Jimmy himself has nothing to offer except self centered wankery. He is a vapid airhead. You can discard every word he says before he says it. Just saying. Anderson is very much a love-em or hate-em kind of director. All his movies have a gentle, quirky context and style. His most approachable movie is probably The Royal Tennebaums. With AS, I think it was simply recognition that it is just not a very good movie. They had to nominate it because it is making so much money, and it is about the most mainstream American style movie of the bunch- no homosexuals, a hero of sorts, and plenty of brown people getting shot in the head. Bingo. Hollywood is about money. Every director, actor,studio, tech person will benefit enormously from a nomination or win last night.

Taking a more macro view, permitting a quarter million people into the country each year is the status quo. And what has been the result in Canada since changes to immigration policy and adminsitration in 1989? A relatively strong, vibrant and growing economy is what I see . If you'd like an example of how having very limited immigration harms an economy, review what has happened and is happening in Japan. hey have had the opposite experience to Canada and the opposite result, their economy is in severe trouble as their population ages rapidly. Immigration is not the only factor to success or failure, but it is a critical component.

Not much about the Alberta rogue-Wiebo Ludwig- was peaceful. His actions were both destructive and violent. An entirely innocent teenage girl was murdered on his farm and nobody was charged. The crime is still unsolved, but clearly it was Ludwigs followers. There was no police violence at all. try again.

It was terrible when the last Liberal Majority government raped the provinces on health care

They sell everything except your name and street address. I did note that exemption, right from the beginning. And of course postal codes cover only a small location, so they know more or less where you live within a couple hundred meters radius. I won't mock you for being wrong or unaware about the $120m. I recall a promo a few years ago done by a group of local car dealerships. In the mail households received a tube that contained a car key and an invitation to make an appointment to come down to three dealerships. You had to take a vehicle for a test drive and listen to a sales spiel . Then you were allowed to try to use your key to start a display vehicle. I checked around and learned that the promo was geared to demographics based on Stats Can info. Different neighbourhoods got different invitiations to different dealers, based on their different demogrpahics as purchased from Stats Canada. One of the vehicles was a Chrysler minivan, areas with moderate incomes and plots of kids got those invitiations. The idea was to match products with the right people. and get them into a vehicle they needed and could afford for a few minutes. They were grouped like that as well- Minivan, Pontiac and Toyota together. Jaguar, Lincoln and Acura in another. We joked that winning the Jaguar should be for somebody with lots of money and no brain. Not sure how they could figure that from Stats Can info.

It is interesting that a single woman with a scarf on her head can terrify so many people. Imagine what she could do with a tablecloth.

You are NOT a Harper supporter, just a dishonest Liberal who likes to troll. Three completely wrong statements in sentence of only 14 words. I think you have achieved a personal best. Congratulations You're angry because you've been exposed. Now let's get to the heart of it. What exactly is it about this woman that frightens you so badly?

Oh, I thought you meant when 'at contact', when the later arrivals took the land from Clovis. You must have meant when white people arrived and did the same to the then current aboriginal groups. That contact.

Yep, and that is what ticks people off. A brown person with an accent and different clothes has exactly the same rights in Canada as everybody else. The horror.

It's you that keeps asserting that if a person wear a veil, they must be hardcore extremist Muslims. So prove it. Prove that this woman is somehow evil or a criminal and unworthy. Islam is not at issue here. It is not illegal in Canada to worship or to wear a headcover or to wear a veil. Who else do you hate Argus? What other groups offend you by association? Actually, I thoroughly enjoy how this riles the bigots. You're also going to lose in court on this one, again. Better stock up on the blood pressure meds, an aneurysm awaits.

I am a Harper supporter and think she is right and he is wrong in this case.

I'm sure they have. I'm equally sure that First Nations will fight the Feds and each other like wolverines over every square inch on every map. It's only human. What about displaced Clovis descendants? Don';t they get a share?

Count me in. It is an essential work tool for me. I don't game, take selfies, look at many videos or participate in social media on it. I have an older Iphone and know its life must be limited. I'll be going back to Android soon, when I have time for all the tedium associated with changing phones and platforms. The Iphone works OK. What will take me away from Apple is Itunes. I hate it. I hate the intrusiveness. I hate the wholesale vertical integration of their products. I hate the difficulties of syncing contacts and date with non-Apple products. Buh bye.

No. Which items of clothing other than the veil do you feel are inappropriate at the citizenship oath ceremony?

FFS, she wears the veil because it is her belief that to reveal her face to strangers is immodest. It is simply your bigoted assumption that THIS PERSON believes she in inferior. Perhaps it is you who considers her inferior. Some Muslim women cover their hair with a scarf because they think to leave it bare is immodest. I have to keep repeating things to penetrate the dense fog that seems to surround you on the subject of your pigeonholing and forcing individuals into little boxes where people you do not like live. I understand that it makes sweeping generaliztions about people and groups of people much easier. But no, you cannot factually state that somebody who wears a veil is a hardcore extremist and wholly orthodox Muslim. How do you know that about this person? Even it it were true, what difference does it make in the subject at hand, which is wearing a veil at the very end of a process already essentially consumnated?

Was he the president that won the Nobel Peace Prize? Anybody have any doubt about Putins actual intentions when he agreed to a ceasefire last week in Minsk?

Haven't some SNC-Lavalin executives already been charged in this case?