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CNN has a headline of "President Obama to react to winning Nobel Peace Prize. Watch live at 10:30 a.m. ET." How artificial can you get, he has already reacted to it when he first heard it.

The chances of a liberal majority are low, that leaves at best a minority government that since they can no longer work with the conservative government works with the NDP and the Bloc. Sure it won't be a coalition in name as they wouldn't need it to form the government but it would be in...

Here is a better link, the one given above includes a search and is cut off. This one links to the article itself instead: We'll never see a Canadian Ted Kennedy By Blair Williams, Citizen Special September 1, 2009

Newt resigned from his house seat and speaker position in 1998. Needless to say he lost the staff he had as speaker and house member at that time.

States are just as guilty of at times treating children like property and indoctrinating them. While the law allows parents to act poorly at times depending on your viewpoint on specific topics it also helps prevent the state from doing so on a much larger scale.

My comment was more on general advertising claims that aren't fullfilled not full disclosure of all details and drawbacks. A fast food place that advertises "A place to eat healthy food" should have a decent number of menu items that fit that description. Banks need the trust of customers and...

A free market can develop problems when deceit is involved. Some players will fail to see through it harming the market as a whole. Degenerate markets then evolve with built in deceit by most or all players. Look at plane ticket list prices and cell phone monthly plans for example. The large...

Even if you pay your balance in full each month so you don't get hit with interest fees the banks still make money from the transaction fees charged to merchants. The average for Canadian retailers is around 2% of the purchase. That more than covers advancing the money for a month or so, and any...

A large plane touring a city by visiting various landmarks like the Status of Liberty at low altitude is a rare occurrence. Doing it while tailed by a fighter jet is even less common.

While you can get a driver's license before being able to vote it won't be long before you are voting. Seems like a good idea to get names close to voting age. Strangely one part of the article says: Federal departments have no national framework that allows them work together in managing...

So would Cubans as they don't grow enough to feed themselves and import from places like Canada. Cuban purchasing agency Alimport buying Canadian foods over US foods. For 2007 seems Canada sold 150,000 tons of wheat to Cuba which has a population of around 11.3 million. That works out to 13kg...

I would say it's more as I become knowledgeable about a subject the less tolerant I am of rhetoric over substance in discussions of it and quickly grow tired of bullshit from any side. Life is too short to constantly wade through dreck. I try to be short and factual in putting forth my opinions...

The people to the immediate left and right have heels together and pants that widen at the thighs. He has legs apart and straight pants. The second person to his right with straight pants and heels together has a fairly straight shadow. The missing stripe can actually be seen in other...

I am just glad he went ahead and did it. The spectacle of a Liberal-NDP-Bloc coalition buying support by promising senate appointments was cringe worthy and seeing the option taken away from them was priceless.

In a democracy it sure does. Right or wrong, foolish or wise the opinions of Canadians matter in crafting public policy. Although you dismiss it, "Would making more firearms available and more accessible to the general population for these reasons, probably cause more of these incidents that...

Banks were forced to lend to some groups of people that should never have been given loans. Bundling them into securities was a way for banks to protect themselves and shed the risk. The government assisted them in doing this with expanding the operations of Freddie Mac/Fannie May along with...

It's a population thing. Large needy population gets lots of money. Large successful population pays lots of money. Look at the per capita revenue vs expenditures: Federal Government Finances: An Examination of Federal Revenues and Expenditures in the Provinces then multiply some of the per...

There is lots of compulsion and forcing in a democracy. Every law is a compulsion to act or not act in a some way. The basics of democracy is the people get a say in how they are governed. Some argue (like I do) that compulsory voting would strengthen the connection between those that govern and...

Our democracy relies on the people expressing their desires about who should represent them in government. Not voting destroys that. Compulsory voting also gets rid of all the voter registration drives and get out the vote efforts. Both of which are huge wastes of time and money. Myself I do...

High interest low fee savings accounts are a product of a financial situation for banks that may be changing so they might not be around in the same form a few years from now. GICs are really *insured* investments, it's an insurance/underwriting company that backs the guarantee and while...