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This is the current system. There is per head funding for each student but it's only useable in two places in Ontario: the public school system or the separate school system. In addition everybody has to pay into the common fund those cheques are drawn from so those who want to buy themselves...

Just by the types and amounts of information being gathered by various intelligence programs you can see that a lot of it is applicable to finding the connections between nodes once some are discovered. To bad The New York times, other news organizations and the Democratic Party are against this...

I can see the ads now: Mr Harper says no Liberal MP is competent to be a foreign affairs critic. Mr Dion agrees.

Except it all reads no choice at all except for those with money and they must leave the system not make choices within it. It's nothing but, Don't like it? Then leave/move/etc. The less choices and flexibility in a system the more it will resist change, the less it changes and adapts the bigger...

Promoting education to all I think most would agree is a public good. The majority of Canadians support or realize the necessity of levying taxes to support such a goal. The mechanics of achieving that goal are administrative and in a democracy must involve respecting the right of parents to...

As Aristotle said: "Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion." He went on to defend it as well "And it might be objected that one who uses such power of speech unjustly might do great harm, that is a charge which may be made in...

The issue has changed into "how do we deal with Catholics currently having special treatment" and suggesting Catholics should lose funding is not going to go over well with most parents of the 600,000 kids currently enrolled in Catholic schools. The anti religious undercurrent of some of the...

Some historical background: First there was the Protestant school system. Then Catholics, which were a minority, were granted the right to form their own school system so the could be free of discrimination and teach a Catholic view of the Bible. The Protestant system slowly morphed into the...

There isn't enough currently enrolled in private schools to make it a problem for public school finances and the rebate/voucher wasn't going to be worth enough to matter to anybody actually 'rich'. It's people of modest means who either can't afford or currently have to make major sacrifices to...

I don't support free speech for those who take it away from others through force which is what happens in Iran and several other countries. I won't forget so soon that they beat to death a Canadian reporter and then attempted to and were largely successful in covering it up. Just like any...

The law does not grant an unrestrictred statutory right for non-Catholics to attend Catholic schools minus a religious component. Some relevant parts of the Education Act. Some circumstances where the right is granted including not having to participate in religious instruction and programs...

I don't think they are comparable figures either. The difference between them isn't a number with any real meaning. Where each number is trending over time can give some insight into near term debt accumulation. They can be an indication of how painful paying the interest on additional debt in...

"Proof of cooperation between Iran and Syria in the proliferation and development of weapons of mass destruction was brought to light Monday in a Jane's Magazine report that dozens of Iranian engineers and 15 Syrian officers were killed in a July 23 accident in Syria." JP Article link

I didn't express an opinion one way or the other about the tax cuts only that "amongst the most fiscally irresponsible actions ever taken by any government at any time" was over the top. Mugabe's "actions" were "fiscally irresponsible" as shown by the current ruined state of Zimbabwe's economy...

So Mugabe's actions in Zimbabwe that turned the breadbasket of Africa into a basket case with 1000%+ inflation, millions of refugees and large scale starvation is peanuts compared to Bush chopping off a few % of taxes? Do you have any idea how such over the top statements make you sound to...

The record only runs for 30 years which really isn't very long and they also skip that similar measurements show the ice at the south pole set records the other way - for greatest extent of ice. Leaving that fact out and making statements like "polar regions could be virtually free of ice by the...

Taxes reduce the return on investment so are a drag on investment derived growth. You want growth if you want a raise above inflation or an expansion of the number of people employed. With economic growth there are now more employed people and businesses to tax. The idea is you tax at a smaller...

The debt thing has been mentioned before but should be repeated: if you live in an unstable country investing in or lending money to the markets of a stable country makes sense. If you live in a stable country then investing in less stable countries with higher profit potential also makes sense...

Christianity divided up and fought for a long time with some factions being very brutal in the repression of others. Still divided today but the fighting and repression are thankfully history in most parts of the world. I think hatred and intolerance while providing short term strength against...

Are the seals abandoning the planet in spaceships or something? Polar bears hunt on iceflows because that's where seals hang out, if the seals start hanging out someplace else the polar bears will go looking for them. In fact I see the opposite effect to disappearing iceflows - seals will be...