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Do you people in Alberta keep Stelmach in a cave where news media cannot reach him.
Those pictures were seen around the world.....

Syncrude duck pictures not seen by Stelmach
CBC.ca -
Alberta Premier Ed Stelmach said Monday he has not seen pictures of oil-soaked ducks dying and struggling on a lake that have been shown at the Syncrude trial into environmental charges against the company full story

Were the �pictures of oil-soaked ducks dying and struggling on a lake that have been shown at the Syncrude trial� the same pictures that �were seen around the world�?

Do they allow cameras and/or video recorders into courts?

Do they release evidence shown during trials to the news media or public during the trial?

Has Stelmach attended the Syncrude trial?

Canada's Greece? Ontario better get its act together

Dogpatch — 03/ 09/ 10 4:10 pm

Author: Dogpatch

Posted: 03/ 09/ 10 4:10 pm

RedDog wrote:

Post Tenebras Lux wrote:

Hey, don't worry. B.C. is pushing hard to beat Ontario into spending oblivion.

Don't leave out the spendaholics in the Alberta Legislature. They can piss to the wind with anyone.

I'm lucky - I live in la fairlyland province - Qu�bec

The govt pisses money away like they won the lottery and they know Ottawa will cover their bad spending habits

just kidding on the last smiley-winky thing

ScotiaBank reports $1-billion profit

sturmgeshutz — 03/ 09/ 10 4:09 pm

Author: sturmgeshutz

Posted: 03/ 09/ 10 4:09 pm

I feel for them, they should of made twice that.

Palin Notes Irony of Using Canada Health Care

concan — 03/ 09/ 10 4:06 pm

Author: concan

Posted: 03/ 09/ 10 4:06 pm

centrestage wrote:

Goes to show that Palin is not politically savy

Why is that? Because she doesn't talk out of both sides of her mouth?

What is politically savvy other than pretending to do something for the people, lying to the people and taking bribes in form of lobbyism and kickbacks.

That's the name of the political con game.

Savvy politicians are crooks.

Palin is maybe simple but she's real.

I'd stop defending her if I saw one credible piece of journalism linking her to DC cronies, the government industrial military complex or the pharma-medical lobby.

As for Canada and Canadian politics... the corruption is not any different but Canadians are not interested as long as the propaganda is "Go Canada Go" on all channels. Dream on.

Coulter In Canada - March 2010

OC — 03/ 09/ 10 4:04 pm

Author: OC

Posted: 03/ 09/ 10 4:04 pm

Edward Kennedy wrote:

OC wrote:

A good Ann Coulter clip.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vg7IhR0ccgo

canuckistan had good men who volunteered to go to Vietnam and that is what she is thinking.

No. That's not what the video shows.

Consequences of failing to understand the historical context

Dogpatch — 03/ 09/ 10 4:03 pm

Author: Dogpatch

Posted: 03/ 09/ 10 4:03 pm

I am not going to call Jesus Christ God, but i do question your following statement:

"Satan has been done away with. Christ IS ruling NOW!!!!"

perhaps its the ying - yang thing, duality, heaven and hell... whatever - my question is how can you have a God without a devil (Satan, Beelzebub, Lucifer, Meririm etc...)

Doesn't the end of days star Satan?

Tom Delay: People Are Unemployed Because They Want To Be

Monorprise — 03/ 09/ 10 4:00 pm

Author: Monorprise

Posted: 03/ 09/ 10 4:00 pm

You see even with dept spending, your paying the price for this behavior in terms of competition with the artificial demand for resources.

This is because money only has the value of its relative quantity to all the other items of an economy(everything).

The same could be said if a rich man suddenly spent all his money in one area, the prices of everything would be high, as a result practically speaking all the other people of the area would be temporarily poor in such supply due to such a resulting shortage.

Now reverse that where you have a sudden drop in demand and you have the economic comprehending or "stimulating" effects of an economy in recession.

Not only are all goods and services(including labor due to unemployment) relatively cheaper, as a result the start up and operating cost of any new economic operations cheaper and more affordable.

An economy is thus limited only by the individual imagination of people to come up with new goods and services to sell to each-other.

This system of course breaks down anytime you implement any kind of price fixing, as such fixing establishes barrier to the operations of the supply-demand chain.

In short as supply thus necessarily becomes first come first serve, so too does jobs, and economic opportunities.

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Of course such price fixing only works in an environment in which there is a monopoly of some sort able to control a critical step in the economic chain, such a government. Otherwise their competition would either under or over price them and outsell or out preform them.

American lawmakers look to pull out of NAFTA

Dogpatch — 03/ 09/ 10 3:50 pm

Author: Dogpatch

Posted: 03/ 09/ 10 3:50 pm

This can't be good

Quote:

American lawmakers look to pull out of NAFTA

Forget about the trouble Canada had with the Buy America policy, there is a new game in Washington; it�s called Block Canada. A group of congressmen have given their backing to a bill that if passed, would see President Barack Obama give six-months notice that the United States was withdrawing from the North American Free Trade Agreement.

Representative Gene Taylor, a Democrat from Mississippi, introduced the bill last Thursday and quickly found the support of 27 cosponsors in both the Democratic and Republican parties. The bill has attracted support from moderates and the fringe in both parties as well, with several members of the Blue Dog Coalition of moderate Democrats signing on alongside libertarians like Ron Paul on the Republican side or Dennis Kucinich of the Democratic left. The bill also has fairly wide spread geographical support with representatives from 16 different states.

With more the $1 billion per day in cross border trade between Canada and the United States, politicians in Ottawa need to be concerned about any threat that would limit access to the U.S. market. The recent Buy America provisions of the Recovery Act of 2009 were credited with the loss of thousands of jobs and millions of dollars in lost business for Canadian companies.

The Canadian impact of cancelling NAFTA is likely to have little sway with the sponsors of this bill, their concern is the health of the U.S. economy. Rep. Taylor is quoted by Reuters as saying, �At a time when 10 to 12 percent of the American people are unemployed, I think Congress has an obligation to put people back to work.�

While supporters have long credited NAFTA with helping boost trade and create jobs, opponents like cosponsor Bart Stupak, a Michigan Democrat, say the trade treaty has cost American jobs, �I remain opposed to NAFTA because it continues to hurt the U.S. economy and put Americans out of work. I am pleased to join my colleagues to propose a repeal of this failed trade policy. NAFTA has failed to deliver the benefits that were promised and has cost Michigan hundreds of thousands of good manufacturing jobs.�

Stupak relies on data from the Economic Policy Institute which claims Michigan in particular lost 63,000 jobs as a result of NAFTA while the United States as a whole lost 1 million jobs as a result of NAFTA.

President Obama has promised to support freer trade and NAFTA in particular since coming to office, yet he was known for critiquing the pact while campaigning to be president. During a speech two years ago in Ohio, then candidate Obama was critical of rival Hillary Clinton and her support for NAFTA saying the United States can�t keep passing unfair trade deals. �One million jobs have been lost because of NAFTA" Obama told his audience, "including nearly 50,000 jobs here in Ohio. And yet, ten years after NAFTA passed, Senator Clinton said it was good for America. Well, I don't think NAFTA has been good for America - and I never have.�

Expect Canadian politicians to downplay this threat but there are plenty of reasons to worry, the first among them, President Obama�s past statements and long history of opposition to NAFTA. This is also an election year in the United States with the entire House of Representatives and 36 Senate seats up for grabs. With unemployment still running high in the United States, offering populist solutions like closing the borders could strike a chord with an agitated public. Finally, don�t expect this anti-NAFTA push to just come from the Democrats, not only has Taylor�s bill picked up support from Republicans but the growing Tea Party movement in the United States, which leans right, is attracting plenty of anti-trade supporters who say it is time to put America first.

Brian Lilley is the Ottawa Bureau Chief for radio stations Newstalk 1010 in Toronto and CJAD 800 in Montreal. Follow Brian on Twitter to get the latest as it happens.
Montreal Examiner

Rahim Jaffer Cocaine Charges?

Angleland — 03/ 09/ 10 3:33 pm

Author: Angleland

Posted: 03/ 09/ 10 3:33 pm

He might have complained he was profiled. When all esle fails, pull ot the you know what card.

'Brave' TTC Workers mock elderly, bllind, infirm and others

ChangingColours — 03/ 09/ 10 3:21 pm

Author: ChangingColours

Posted: 03/ 09/ 10 3:21 pm

Break the unions and you will finally get some decent service from public employees.

Canada MPs to dine on seal meat

styky — 03/ 09/ 10 3:11 pm

Author: styky

Posted: 03/ 09/ 10 3:11 pm

Love the cartoon that heads up the article.

PMO harpoons Liberal divisions on seal hunt

Jane Taber

The Prime Minister�s Office is accusing Michael Ignatieff of playing politics with the seal hunt and the lives of those who depend on it after a Liberal Senator reintroduced his bill to ban the hunt. continued

Give disabled perv a break: Lawyer

Edward Kennedy — 03/ 09/ 10 2:50 pm

Author: Edward Kennedy

Posted: 03/ 09/ 10 2:50 pm

What is wrong with you all? Maybe he is a paid up member of nambla.

If that is so, it is a legal organization and the cool and politically correct thing to do is to be tolerant. Go join the liberal party, or the dippers, and then ignore this situation, after all, the lieberal creed is "if it feels good do it". BY that then he is innocent, after all, he is just anothert lieberal, you know, the party that the fools in ontario elected to power? Don't you all know we gotta learn to be tolerant?

Time for a Sterilization Tax

DA_Champion — 03/ 09/ 10 2:49 pm

Author: DA_Champion

Posted: 03/ 09/ 10 2:49 pm

Red Green wrote:

Hodgson wrote:

One problem I see is that you're saying we need to promote a higher birth rate in order to "save" the current social welfare state.

It's the current social welfare state that has contributed to the collapse of the birth rate.

Exactly. Govt decides that there are too many old people who are living in poverty because they didn't save enough in their working lives, so they get involved by introducing cradle-to-grave welfare. Then in order to pay for it, they raise taxes. As a result people have less income and stop having children because they need a two income household. And on top of it, the govt sucks all the oxygen out of private initiatives to help people in need so private funds dry up there as well. Then the govt says it needs to raise taxes to support all the programs it has created that has destroyed traditional family structures and private charity. And so it goes....

And SoCons like paycheck see govt as the solution, rather than the problem, so they encourage yet more govt "solutions"

paycheck thanks for validating everything I have been saying about SoCons on this board. You'd make one hell of a Nazi if they were still around.

Would you actually allow seniors to starve to death? Would you eliminate social security completely?