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Forum: Editorial Discussions Topic: Privatization's the Name of the Game for Accident-Prone Trai |
| RickW |
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Posted: Thu Aug 01, 2013 11:57 am
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| So how did this railway get the OK from the government to operate with a single conductor - one of two in the entire nation? |
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Forum: Editorial Discussions Topic: Hungry Canadian aboriginal children were used in government |
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Posted: Thu Aug 01, 2013 11:54 am
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| FFS that's exactly what they'd have got with if they were at home. No milk. No dentist. No vitamins. It wasn't right to withhold the shit, but it isn't fucking "torture". "Strange" though, how these aboriginals managed to exist for some 10,000 years before white man "showed... |
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Forum: Editorial Discussions Topic: Moving oil safely |
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Posted: Thu Aug 01, 2013 7:49 am
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| http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2013/07/19/nobody_understands_ongoing_spills_at_alberta_oilsands_operation.bb.html Oil spills at a major oil sands operation in Alberta have been ongoing for at least six weeks and have cast doubts on the safety of underground extraction methods, according to docum... |
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Forum: Editorial Discussions Topic: Moving oil safely |
| RickW |
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Posted: Wed Jul 31, 2013 8:40 am
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I suspect though, that those who argue for large scale shipments of hazardous products are not those who would choose to live next to a corridor......
It's (inevitably it seems) someone else's risk for my benefit/comfort/convenience. |
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Forum: Editorial Discussions Topic: The Red And Green Pony: A Canadian Masterpiece |
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Posted: Wed Jul 31, 2013 8:36 am
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| Someone had to fill the void they left in terms of championing the individual. I see no candidates on the horizon to fill that portfolio. This would hardly be the actions of any government "championing the individual": http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/story/2013/07/20/bc-ei-... |
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Forum: Editorial Discussions Topic: The Red And Green Pony: A Canadian Masterpiece |
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Posted: Tue Jul 30, 2013 11:43 am
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| seems to suggest that Canadians were Trudeau Liberals long before there was even a Trudeau. Canadians were indeed "Trudeau Liberals" long before the advent of the man himself. In fact, Trudeau himself was captured by the decades-old notion of the state as father and protector: https://www... |
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Forum: Editorial Discussions Topic: Reflections On Canada Day: What Are Some Canadian Traits? |
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Posted: Sun Jul 07, 2013 5:23 pm
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| instead of piping it to be refined in Texas It's called "spending our capital", shipping raw product and counting it as "profit". I would go further and say that the refined products should only be used to boost other industries within the nation. Then THOSE products can be used... |
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Forum: Editorial Discussions Topic: The Reserve Paradox, Part One: The Same Old Story |
| RickW |
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Posted: Sun Jul 07, 2013 10:56 am
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| What I said on your article "Reflections on Canada Day", is as valid here. From the getgo, the people who occupied these lands prior to the arrival of Europeans, were (and are) nuisances, getting in the way of the primary reason for the existence of this country - exploitation of resources. We Canuc... |
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Forum: Editorial Discussions Topic: An Open Letter to the Hon. Neil Wittmann, Chief Justice, Cou |
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Posted: Sun Jul 07, 2013 10:44 am
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Individualist Individualist: Another letter for the crank file.
Nope! |
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Forum: Editorial Discussions Topic: Reflections On Canada Day: What Are Some Canadian Traits? |
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Posted: Sun Jul 07, 2013 10:02 am
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| Canada, from the getgo, has been about resource exploitation. All else was and is, secondary to this bedrock precept. The movers and shakers in this country are not interested in developments that remove the emphasis on resource extraction. There is, for instance, little interest is utilizing our re... |
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Forum: Editorial Discussions Topic: Brent Rathgeber: Standing Up For Responsible Government |
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Posted: Tue Jul 02, 2013 5:32 pm
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| My Bad! After the fact, the apologists for Dief, for excample Paul Jackson: http://ggower.com/dief/text/calsun1.shtml made all kinds of excuses for the hatchet job done on the Arrow. However, no one I can find dares touch the Avro Jetliner. http://aviation.technomuses.ca/collections/artifacts/aircra... |
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Forum: Editorial Discussions Topic: Brent Rathgeber: Standing Up For Responsible Government |
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Posted: Mon Jul 01, 2013 2:50 pm
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I agree about Dief with a gun pointing at his head. And because he was a populist, he did a few things for the good the ordinary people of this country. But what could Kennedy & Co. have possibly said to make him back down on the Arrow so thoroughly?
BTW HAPPY CANADA DAY, EH!! |
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Forum: Editorial Discussions Topic: Brent Rathgeber: Standing Up For Responsible Government |
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Posted: Sun Jun 30, 2013 8:35 pm
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| it included property rights. Hardly something one would expect from a simple "bureaucrat". Dief WAS a populist. It would only make sense for him to champion something that would aid the "little guy" in the continual war against Big Biz. But there's Big Biz and then there's BIG B... |
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Forum: Editorial Discussions Topic: Brent Rathgeber: Standing Up For Responsible Government |
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Posted: Sat Jun 29, 2013 4:26 pm
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| Both the Arrow and the Jetliner have merits far beyond simple mythology. Dief isn't to be excused that easily for his "faux pas". If ever there was a turning point in Canuck history, it would be his egregious error in judgement. Dief was a bureaucrat, not a leader, and was instrumental in ... |
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Forum: Editorial Discussions Topic: Brent Rathgeber: Standing Up For Responsible Government |
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Posted: Fri Jun 28, 2013 4:56 pm
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| Self sufficency is the new bogeyman, topping any other reference to "terrorism"....... |
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