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Forum: Editorial Discussions Topic: ISRAEL ATTACKS JUSTICE BOAT; KIDNAPS HUMAN RIGHTS WORKERS; C |
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Posted: Tue Jul 07, 2009 11:37 am
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| This Amnesty International report recived almost no coverage here or elsewhere, including the internet, seems like they have indeed got away with it and so a continuation of the same behaviour should not be a surprise! "Israel's failure to properly investigate its forces' conduct in Gaza, including ... |
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Forum: Editorial Discussions Topic: Will NAFTA exterminate Canadian pesticide bans? |
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Posted: Wed Apr 01, 2009 12:53 pm
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| The ban on pesticides for domestic use will be hotly contested and debated from both sides of the "environmental" fence but I predict the main issue of whether a �company� can challenge a �country�s� in this case a legitimate Provincial governments, right to legislate what can and cannot be done / s... |
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Forum: Editorial Discussions Topic: On Line Employment Insurance application useless |
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Posted: Mon Mar 09, 2009 6:14 am
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Replies: 17
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| Best get that detector seviced, it need recalibrating. No NDP lovers here, or Lib or Con for that matter! |
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Forum: Democracy Topic: Whither Democracy in Canada? |
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Posted: Sun Mar 08, 2009 1:23 pm
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| I have not monotored the "forums" in a while, prefering a more restrained debate, however the title caught my eye (having been the one to post it) and so will respond with this.... Our "democracy" is in deep trouble, but how do we change things democraticaly? Anything other than ... |
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Forum: Editorial Discussions Topic: On Line Employment Insurance application useless |
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Posted: Sun Mar 08, 2009 11:16 am
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| Well guys I hope you are enjoying you “philosophical” discussion, from my point of view it matters little who hold the reigns of power, the capitalists, the socialists, the right, the left or whom ever. The point is that none of these “ideologies” need be totality exclusive, for each has its good an... |
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Forum: Editorial Discussions Topic: On Line Employment Insurance application useless |
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Posted: Tue Mar 03, 2009 10:17 am
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There is some good news however, at least the payments are backdated to when you first became eligable and will be recived about two weeks AFTER you put your ROI in their hands.
But the online instructions still suck! |
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Forum: Editorial Discussions Topic: On Line Employment Insurance application useless |
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Posted: Thu Feb 26, 2009 3:02 pm
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| Thanks Milton, as in any other organization there are good and bad employees, it is the system that sucks however. I have just had a long conversation with our claimant who just returned form the local office to see where our claim stood, it seems the local office, where you MUST attend in order to ... |
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Forum: Editorial Discussions Topic: The Wisdom of Protectionism. The Madness of Free Trade. |
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Posted: Sun Feb 22, 2009 6:39 am
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| Oh dear, I have been enjoying this exchange from the sidelines and was not going to get into it but I just cannot let this one go without a rebuttal…. “If someone creates a product that nobody wants, it is worth nothing. …….Without that basic market discipline, anyone can make anything and claim to ... |
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Forum: Editorial Discussions Topic: Three Strikes Against Michael Ignatieff |
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Posted: Mon Feb 02, 2009 2:02 pm
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| We are probably going to have to agree to disagree on this one but…. “In a minority situation, the government must work with the opposition to avoid elections. Which is what they seem to be doing now.” Exactly “NOW”, until the threat of a coalition emerged they tried to rule like a majority and ther... |
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Forum: Editorial Discussions Topic: Three Strikes Against Michael Ignatieff |
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Posted: Mon Feb 02, 2009 6:51 am
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| Dr C, we have (or perhaps had would be a better description) a parliamentary democracy based upon the British tradition. As such we cannot pick and chose which rules we like and which we don’t, that is what Mr Harper does, a coalition clearly IS democratic and a reasonable and necessary way of avoid... |
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Forum: Editorial Discussions Topic: Grits and Tories are the new coalition, Layton says |
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Posted: Fri Jan 30, 2009 2:35 pm
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| Just one more demonstration that they ALL put the Party before the People. Its getting bad when the Separatist leader is starting to look like the only leader you can believe. He, at least is honest in his aims! |
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Forum: Editorial Discussions Topic: World Food Supply |
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Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2009 5:48 pm
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| The Green party are the only party that "gets it" they have produced their own proposal for a stimulus package, one extract is shown below but the whole thing is well worth a read. The full document which contains some good ideas that did not happen can be viewed at http://www.greenparty.c... |
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Forum: Editorial Discussions Topic: Maclean's Magazine: the Destruction of a Canadian Instituti |
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Posted: Mon Jan 26, 2009 6:04 pm
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| In government (all levels): - it's incredibly difficult to hire good people, because of the HR rules and processes - it's almost impossible to fire bad people, for the same reasons - the incentives are for managers to build large empires, which result in quantity of "headcount" being prized over qua... |
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Forum: Editorial Discussions Topic: An open letter to my fellow Canadians concerning the parliam |
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Posted: Wed Jan 14, 2009 6:16 am
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| Thanks garabru, as I say in my header “I try to give positive input” but some days its really hard to do so. My initial reactions to some of these stories would not come under the heading of “reasonable” comment or debate! |
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Forum: Editorial Discussions Topic: An open letter to my fellow Canadians concerning the parliam |
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Posted: Tue Jan 13, 2009 8:01 am
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Replies: 12
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