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Yes, true. But that may not mean all that much. If you look here: https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quotidien/180105/dq180105a-eng.htm, national unemployment is at the lowest point since 1976. So that figure (doomsayers aside) may just be a down-blip on an upward trend.

Concerning Trump's apparent lack of concern for facts, take (for example) his rantings about the dairy trade issue. He seems to be holding out the battered, bleeding body of the Wisconsin dairy industry as an example of how Canada has selfishly and heartlessly screwed the dairy farmers of...

IMHO Canadians need to put down their party politics and realize that we are all in this together. Even the Trump-lovers among us might want to remember what country they belong to (if only for a minute...). Trump and his base really couldn't care less about Canada, nor about any other weird...

I just read the Trump tweets about how Canada terrorizes the US economy. Has that man ever uttered a real fact in entire his life? Who can possibly believe the trash he trots out? It doesn't even match US govt figures. I mean, politicians like to BS-I get it-but I can't ever recall anybody...

It might be worth noting that even volunteer fire depts (ie: most of the fire depts in North America) , who provide much of the first response rescue squad coverage outside big cities with fully career depts, struggle with keeping their rescue techs properly trained and current on a volunteer's...

Here is the kind of civilian volunteer Civil Defense LUSAR unit that was kicking around in the 1950s (see attachment)

Answers: a. the usual suspects; and b. nobody. The success of any Govt's defense procurement and funding policies can be judged only by looking at what is really sitting in the compound, on the apron, or alongside the jetty: never by what is on paper. What I don't understand is how, in the...

So, I looked at the Public Safety LUSAR link, in particular at the training bill for LUSAR. Sorry, but without the additional resources I noted in my earlier e-mail, I really don't see how the unit can achieve the proficiency to operate safely in a significant structural collapse incident...

Oh, well then. It's all good. Nothing to worry about. I say, my good man, shuffle those deck chairs about a bit would you? I'd like a better view of those icebergs.

Oh, no....not this again. I lived through the ill-fated "Op Tasking" episode in the Army decades ago, which was done for more or less the same stated reasons. Kit and tasks were dumped on Reserve units who couldn't really handle either very well. Of course, like all ill-conceived military...

Well, maybe not. I'd like to think that anybody trying to form a government in the Province I live in would base their plans and policies in facts, since I will have to live under that Government. As far as finding solid facts in this matter, here is the link to the Ontario curriculum that...

The last thing I read (National Post, I think) was that about 12 percent of the Ontario population have considered pulling their kids out of school over it, and about 3% have actually done it. About 48% "disapprove" of the curriculum, but I don't know how strongly, or on what grounds. I also...

So, have you read the curriculum? Has anybody here? I haven't (I just found it on the Net today) Is it ludicrous bumf? And are the people who put it together "incompetent know it alls?" Who is being told to sit down and shut up, by who? And what "physical force" is being threatened, against...

No, no, no!! Sheesh! Don't you guys get it? He works for Mr Trump and that's who decides!  And he wouldn't try to do that because, he's like, really smart and he's said a lot of things. And he hears more and more people saying how beautiful and fantastic he is. And anyway, if he fired himself he...

Well... who is "most"? Are most Ontarians upset with it, or only certain groups? This is meant to be a legitimate question, not a rhetorical one.  Certain groups are always upset with various parts of any educational curriculum, because it teaches things they don't agree with. Since we have a...

But then he undiscovered it. Or something. I can't quite follow his logic path. One thing he really needs to do is sack those pesky disloyal US Govt agencies that publish figures that don't support his argument. Or, better yet, just sack everybody who doesn't agree with him.

As Boney M once sang: Ahhh, those Russians. Always bad, always there. Is anybody really surprised that they behave they way they do? More or less the way they always have?  As the great George Kennan, father of Containment, said: "Russia can have at its borders only enemies or vassals".

He may already be drifting toward the edge of the swamp with his comments about limiting abortions for minors and "scrapping" the provincial sex education curriculum. The first of these (abortion limitation) actually makes sense to me: if that had been our daughter when she was a minor, my wife...

OK that image is actually no better... :-X

That might be like talking about the Canadian economy and leaving the US out of it. IMHO Trump already has iconic meaning for people on both sides of the political spectrum in Canada. Two somewhat weird but public examples...