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I would modify Sun Tzu's line of thought that defence everywhere is defence nowhere to apply to social safety nets: the larger the net the less it protects. Where entitlements have expanded to the point they aren't actually being paid for the vaunted "social safety net" is full of holes and will...

Is the CBC so broke/poor they can't do actual research into the issue and instead resort to little more than superficial blog style hypothetical pondering?

Oil sands, oil shale etc while more expensive than a lot of conventional production is still in the $30-$40/barrel range which provides solid profit even if oil drops to $50-$60/barrel. Add in less risk of getting tangled in regional wars (middle east) or nationalizations (South America) and...

I accept that helping smart and/or motivated people get an education provides benefits for society as a whole. What doesn't seem worthwhile is giving the dumb and/or lazy a facsimile of one. It is like the mortgage bubble: helping people who can make the payments get a mortgage can have wider...

The +'s and -'s of first past the post don't add up any worse than those of other systems. In democracies they have to retain popular support or they get voted out of office and have some of thier work reversed. What I find in poor taste is equating anything that happens in Canada with a...

Observer bias, the nuts on our side don't seem as extreme as those on the other side purely because of where we are standing. It's also a common rhetorical tactic to hype this bias to get more support from people. Lots of people get trapped in it even though they often recognize the dishonestly...

I agree, Redeye's answer is very well done. A Parliamentary Information and Research Service document available at the Library of Partliament: The Insured Mortgage Purchase Program Further on is a section titled "Is the IMPP a Gift to the Financial Institutions?". Note this document has a...

I can only see it helping if it leads to more employment which it just might. Higher employment in a given region means more weeks of work to qualify for EI and fewer weeks of benefits. Looking at the current EI Program Characteristics it would take a fairly large move to do it however...

Coyne has lost his marbles and is just babbling incoherently. Harper promised to cut the GST and unlike the Liberals promise to abolish it he followed through. That exposes statements like "discarded every principle it had ever held and every commitment it had ever made" to be the overheated...

I don't think it would it be a no-go zone for a century. Devastation is not evident today in Japan (1979 article). The EMP threat requires a special weapon if it's low yield or a high yield weapon and a delivery system that likely put it out of reach for non-state actors.

The Conservative government announced they would lift the ban on transmitting early election results in mid January.  Ref: CBC: Tories to lift ban on transmitting early election results

The fibreglass bow dome was damaged and it was reported as such in the fall along with there being possible damage to Sonar and a small ballast tank leak.

The PBO comes across as useless. It warns about structural deficits that must be tackled but then when action is actually contemplated says it isn't necessary. Which is it? Controlling the growth of some programs sure seems like a very prudent way to tackle structural deficits.

No reasoning or analysis in it at all, just a endless barrage of factoids, anecdotes, comments and opinions followed by conclusions that take the opinions as fact.  Often they are barely related to each other. While some of the opinions and conclusions may be true there is nothing in the article...

Thanks for the reply. Easier to understand where your viewpoint is coming from. A case could be made that the Tea Party added support for bringing the issues to both more visibility and some action. They don't own the issues but are responsible for some recent action on them.

A single post ago you were decrying opinion pieces devoid of facts. While this is your opinion which is good it is devoid of any facts or anything else to back it up or even let the rest of us know what you think is skewed. Any article links or examples of how the article in question gives a...

The big infrastructure parts required are: [list type=decimal] Transposition of oil to refinery Refinery Transportation of end products to users [/list] In addition it makes more sense to build #2 at locations with multiple sources of oil and #3 from areas with multiple refineries so neither...

They do provide a detailed breakdown in their yearly financial reports. I notice the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) gave them 437,701€ in 2010 for example. They list all individual donors over 1000€ and provide a total for all less than 1000€ which was 12,518€ in 2010. They...

I guess the NDP doesn't want to invade or do an intervention in Darfur anymore. Or participate in any future UN peacekeeping missions.

Natives want the trappings of modern and native societies without being part of modern society. That hasn't worked in the past and won't work in the future. They have to find some middle ground where they assimilate enough to get what they desire of modern society while retaining a lot of the...