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The government is not talking about forcing religious institutions to perfrom gay marriages, and the law of the land only forces the Justice of the Peace at City Hall to perform gay marriages- all other legal marriage performers can make up their own mind.  There is some debate within the...

If you're not religious, why would you want a piece of paper from an organized religion blessing your marriage? The PACS agreement in France doesn't say anything about the sexual relationship between the partners who enter into it- it could be any two people who live together and want to form a...

So would Canada be better off if our heavily subsidised primary and secondary eduction systems moved to a free market system?

Time to add stun guns to the banned list: Police worried over increasing criminal use of stun guns http://www.cbc.ca/story/canada/national/2005/12/12/stunguns051212.html And snowballs: Assault charges laid after snowball fight turns ugly...

I would like to think that per unit of time handling firearms, military and police have much fewer ND's than the civilian population.  I really have no idea if it's true, but I would like to think that.  The paranoia about ND's that was instilled in me during my basic training would certainly...

The part of the "handguns for defence" argument that I find most disturbing is this: unless you have been a policeman or been a member of a specific branch of the military, you have not received any training whatsoever in how to make a good decision in a stressful tactical environment.  In...

You can still vote by special ballot- I registered last week. http://www.elections.ca/content.asp?section=ele&document=index&dir=39ge/ec78610&lang=e&textonly=false

We continue to find new reserves all the time, but not at the same rate we used to.  There is a much debated theory called Hubbert's Peak.  Hubbert (in the 1950's) examined all of the new oilfield discoveries in the US, and came up with a predictive model.  Examining new discoveries is difficult...

Salt (although MRE's are a close second...) What was the name of soldier who lost siblings on D-day and inspired the story for Saving Private Ryan?

So you saw video on some other right wing media outlet instead of Fox News.  I still think you're missing a big part of the picture of what actually happened here. Ordinary citizens aren't fearful of the "troubles".  Chirac and his gang were already fearful of the next election, since it has...

Yep- kudos to Harper for answering honestly.  But I would have had much more respect for him if he said something along the lines of: "I personally disagree with gay marriage.  Polling has shown that this is a very divisive issue that is evenly split for and against.  The duly elected government...

A friend of mine that I work with is Egyptian, and I was asking him about the election news.  He's happy the Muslim Brotherhood is doing well in the elections, for the simple fact that there will now be a second voice in the legislature.  His opinion is that the Brotherhood is a peaceful...

The politicians are appalled, because they actually have to work in December, and trudge around in the cold to campaign.  The Ottawa press corps is appalled, since they'll have to work hard during a traditional slow-news month.  I doubt the average Canadian is all that offended. Of course the...

And I'll turn that question around: have you heard what the rioters are chanting and saying amongst each other?  The media reporting on this issue has been spotty and quite partisan.  FoxNews sees jihadist conspiracies, and Al-Jazeera sees the French aristocracy pissing on the poor Muslims.  The...

This movie was released in France last week (for Armistice Day).  It tells the story of Christmas in the trenches in 1914, and the fraternizations that went on between friend and foe.  The action centers around French, Scottish, and German companies that come together to celebrate the holiday by...

I think there's a lot of that going on.  A buddy of mine accidentally broke his rear window a couple of weeks ago, and then had his car broken into and his GPS stolen a couple of days ago.  He said the insurance process was pretty bureaucratic (this is France, after all) but it was also much...

Just to see how much LCI is downplaying the riots, here's the website: http://www.lci.fr/  At the moment, there's a burning car front and center, and the first headline is about de Villepin's first visit to les banlieues.  So they're certainly not ignoring the story- they're just not amping it...

I can certainly attest to that.  I live in the 15th arrondissement, and I work in the suburbs south of town.  I haven't seen any evidence of the riots personally.  A buddy of mine (who doesn't pay too much attention to the news) didn't know there were riots going on until his Mum phoned him last...

As evidence of the coordination, I heard on the radio this morning that several kids that were arrested over the weekend told the cops that the riots would stop if Sarkozy (the Interior Minister) resigned.   Who knows if that would actually happen, but Sarkozy, de Villepin, and Chirac have shown...

Including one Clasper. Swords. http://www.oakeshott.org/Typo.html