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Forum: Editorial Discussions Topic: Budget might bring gasoline tax relief: MacKay |
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Posted: Wed Apr 19, 2006 3:05 pm
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| I agree absolutely. Notwithstanding that taxation is just another kind of theft, raising the price of gasoline isn't going to stop people from driving. What else are they supposed to do? I don't know what it's like where other contributors live but public transport in this city (Regina) is a joke. I... |
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Forum: Editorial Discussions Topic: Canada's Census - What Can You Do? |
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Posted: Mon Apr 10, 2006 3:54 am
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Replies: 6
Views: 75
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| Has anyone every tried to oppose the census directly? How about indirect methods? Not being home consistently, asking for a new form in some obscure language, filling in the form with a 7H pencil, spilling coffee on it, etc. |
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Forum: Editorial Discussions Topic: The unbearable lightness of Harper's five vows |
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Posted: Mon Mar 20, 2006 2:50 pm
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| Man of substance? In the usual sense certainly not. Baaically I think Harper is a thug and this fact is just starting to make itself known. Simpson's piece in the Globe was not too bad as editorials go. Certainly better than the adjacent nonsense by Rex Murphy. I mean rambling on about the fact that... |
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Forum: Editorial Discussions Topic: The Other Seal Hunt |
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Posted: Sun Mar 19, 2006 6:32 am
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Replies: 7
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| It would interesting to find out just how much income is actually generated by these seal hunts, wherever they may exist. I've heard that the average in the maritimes is about 1000 dollars per hunter although I've yet to see many references. Doesn't sound like much. Anyway some of the "reasons&... |
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Forum: Editorial Discussions Topic: U.S. puts machine-guns on Great Lakes coast guard vessels |
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Posted: Fri Mar 17, 2006 2:35 am
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Replies: 10
Views: 100
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| 7.62 mm is a Nato round for small arms. That way we(they) could more easily organize a multinational task force with northern European approval if any peacekeeping ...er ... I mean "peacemaking" action is required north of the Great Lakes. |
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Forum: Editorial Discussions Topic: Afghanistan: Where's Jack Layton? |
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Posted: Wed Mar 15, 2006 8:14 pm
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Replies: 17
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| I doubt if Layton would ever do anything. He wants to be all things to all people, ie. must not be seen as being against "our boys". The NDP has been like this for years, unfortunately. |
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Forum: Editorial Discussions Topic: Afghan War Isn't Ours |
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Posted: Mon Mar 13, 2006 6:31 pm
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Replies: 10
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| I think the proper way to describe the operation in Afghanistan would be "police action". To begin, let's accept a essential fact that all governments are protection rackets. As Bertrand Russell once stated about religion, the state " achieves a certain amount of good after doing a gr... |
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Forum: Editorial Discussions Topic: Anti-Census Website Launched |
| shagya |
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Posted: Sun Mar 12, 2006 2:48 am
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Replies: 27
Views: 264
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| Has anyone ever fought Statistics Canada on this? |
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Forum: Editorial Discussions Topic: Anti-Census Website Launched |
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Posted: Sun Mar 12, 2006 2:32 am
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Replies: 27
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| Perhaps he'll include dinosaurs in the census. After all they're only as old as us (Duh). |
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Forum: Editorial Discussions Topic: Afghanistan: What Does it Serve Canada? |
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Posted: Mon Mar 06, 2006 4:10 am
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Replies: 12
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| Exactly. Did anyone hear the discussion last Sunday on "Cross Country Check-Up"? I only heard part of this but it appears that most people phoning in were being "screened" in order to give Rex Murphy what he wants...a cheering section for "our boys" etc.. [This is the s... |
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Forum: Editorial Discussions Topic: Not Our Way |
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Posted: Thu Mar 02, 2006 7:09 am
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Replies: 7
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| Exactly. Some doctors double book appointments so that two people are coming in at a given time. The assumption is that one of them will not show up, which is not always true. Of course the habit of running to the doctor for trivial problems or asking for antibotics for viral infections must be a pa... |
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Forum: Editorial Discussions Topic: A tale of two deficits |
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Posted: Thu Mar 02, 2006 6:59 am
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Replies: 10
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| Just rambling here but I wonder why some people get themselves in so much debt in the first place? For some with smaller incomes it might be "sort off" understandable ( although not always reasonable). But for families and individuals who are reasonably well off what is the point of new ca... |
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Forum: Editorial Discussions Topic: A Petition for the Children |
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Posted: Wed Mar 01, 2006 11:04 pm
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Replies: 11
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| This thing has really got people going. That's fine. I'll just comment on one point. As someone who actually lived through the 1960s as a teenager I have to say that the image of a universal bohemia was largely a product of the media ( like so many silly things). The drug culture was a passing anoma... |
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Forum: Editorial Discussions Topic: A Petition for the Children |
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Posted: Wed Mar 01, 2006 8:15 am
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Replies: 11
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| Sticks and stones ,etc,etc.. You obviously didn't understand what was said. |
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Forum: Editorial Discussions Topic: A Petition for the Children |
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Posted: Wed Mar 01, 2006 3:18 am
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Replies: 11
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| Here is an item , from an American commentator, which describes my feelings about daycare as well as anything I've seen. " Something unfashionable became fashionable during the early 1980's, and I'm not talking about greed, junk bonds, or Ronald Reagan. But rather, this is something that is tru... |
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