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Macleans.ca : A Quebec speeder may be Canada's worst driver

Fri, 4 Feb 2011 22:15:34 +0000

It was the Ville-Marie Expressway.

Macleans.ca : Easy money men

Thu, 13 Jan 2011 03:59:02 +0000

You're missing some important facts; while the company may be Chinese, it isn't only the Chinese who benefit. The TV is bought in either a Canadian/American/European store. The store benefits, and many times the salesperson makes a commission on the goods they sell. We have the jobs that provide an outlet to sell Chinese products (stores), and it is us (Canadians) who benefit from the product being bought in Canada. While the people at the top of the TV corporation does rake in cash, the Chinese whom are making the product do so at $1 per day, if they're lucky. Would you rather work in an office/as a salesperson in a Western retail company, or work in a Chinese sweat factory? Believe me, we're not the one's being shafted.

Macleans.ca : No vote needed to extend Afghan mission: Harper

Fri, 12 Nov 2010 22:24:23 +0000

“But when we’re talking simply about technical or training missions, I think that is something the executive can do on its own.” This would make sense... if Canada had a Presidential executive branch.

Macleans.ca : 'The morale has sunk to new lows'

Thu, 11 Nov 2010 01:49:21 +0000

How is two tiered health-care American? There are tons of countries that have two tiered health-care. Spouting any change to the health-care system that leans towards privatization as "Con ideology" and "American" certainly hasn't benefited Canadians in the last two decades. The average waiting time in a Montréal ER is 24 hours for crying out loud!

Macleans.ca : Poll: 62 per cent of Quebecers see broad, systemic corruption

Fri, 1 Oct 2010 18:26:46 +0000

The past two weeks Maclean's has been talking about corruption in Québec. Clearly they hit a nerve. What would make you happy? If Maclean's "rednecks" looked at the Bastarache commission and didn't write about it? Didn't discuss it? Didn't discuss the corruption in the construction industry? So the Quebec government can do whatever they want and nobody can criticize them? Would that make you happy?

Macleans.ca : Bonhomme strikes back

Thu, 30 Sep 2010 19:52:54 +0000

Yes, some of them. But I remember going to school after the '95 referendum and having stones and getting spat on because I was a "goddamned englishmen," even though I was 15 and couldn't vote. Racism exists on both sides. Remeber Bouchard's "Québec is a race of whites" remark or Parizeau's "ethnic" slip-up?

Macleans.ca : The House of Commons is profoundly sad at Maclean's

Thu, 30 Sep 2010 02:54:39 +0000

Our politicians taking reasonable criticism and turning it into a patriotic/national debate issue??? Tell me it ain't so!!!

Macleans.ca : What lies beneath Quebec's scandals

Mon, 27 Sep 2010 00:10:52 +0000

Calling Anglo-Saxon culture selfish, and then praising the Quebec model isn't talking about a superior culture?

Macleans.ca : What lies beneath Quebec's scandals

Sat, 25 Sep 2010 16:38:53 +0000

I'm an anglo Quebecer, and I don't believe that Quebecer's and Canadians are different. Albertans are different than Ontarians, Newfoundlander's are different than Quebecers, who are different than Native's, etc. This is what makes Canada great; our diversity. Calling Canadian anglo-saxon culture "selfish" then complaining about Quebec bashing is what drives a lot of hatred towards Quebec. This idea that French culture is superior than any other Canadian culture will do you no good. It makes you look selfish. Here's what you said: "You guys can disagree but there is a way to do it respectfully" I agree. Now listen to your own advice, and stop being a hypocrite.

Macleans.ca : The Righties are coming! The Righties are coming! (And they're speaking French...)

Thu, 2 Sep 2010 05:46:01 +0000

It's well worth a look: [Part 1] http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=146858299... [Part 2] http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-48624770...

Macleans.ca : Hundreds of thousands rally in Washington to "restore honour"

Sun, 29 Aug 2010 23:26:45 +0000

You mean the way it was two years ago?

Macleans.ca : Who loves Iran?

Sat, 28 Aug 2010 16:42:20 +0000

Some political orientations are inherently racist. Criticism of ideological racism, and the people who follow it, is not racism.

Macleans.ca : Who loves Iran?

Sat, 28 Aug 2010 03:43:59 +0000

So anybody whom hates the Iranian regime is a racist? "I wonder what they would do with themselves if they didnt have Iran to blame for everything in their failed lives." I wonder what people like you would do with your lives when you didn't have the West and Jews to blame for everything in your failed theocratic dictatorship.

Macleans.ca : Who loves Iran?

Sat, 28 Aug 2010 03:41:10 +0000

Nothing like Holocaust denial and war-mongering to tickle your fancy, eh?

Macleans.ca : Bellemare admits no independent proof of corruption

Wed, 25 Aug 2010 21:19:21 +0000

And Teflon Charest lives on... Is there any Canadian politician in recent memory that has had such good luck?

Macleans.ca : Sarah Palin greeted by woman with "Worst Governor Ever" banner in Homer, Alaska

Tue, 10 Aug 2010 14:55:08 +0000

Ummm... This is a "McNugget Rampage." Am I missing an inside joke or did someone link the wrong video?

Macleans.ca : Reality and perception

Sat, 24 Jul 2010 20:06:18 +0000

You forgot separatists and people who hate our our troops.

Macleans.ca : Sometimes a gaffe is more than a gaffe

Sat, 17 Jul 2010 08:11:56 +0000

Skewing the line between 'necessary evil' and just plain 'evil' is something that shouldn't be done in any setting. Everybody knows that evil, in terms of ideology, is the implementation of government control that substantially reduces the liberties of citizens. Tax policy and a national census are far from that. I don't consider paying taxes for certain services as an 'evil' or 'necessary evil'. Taxes are necessary in order to pay for basic services. Without taxes, as much as people like to moan about them, we wouldn't be able to fund our military, our schools, hospitals, or pave our roads. I don't see paying taxes for roads, bridges, or some form of health-care system is an 'evil,' nor do I see it as a 'necessary evil.' The free market must have a say, and government shouldn't control everything. People have a right to receive treatments at a hospitals, rich or poor, and receive the best treatments available without extreme financial burden. You're idea that a citizen should keep all the money they make and not have to give it away as a 'good' and anything else as a 'necessary evil' is utopian. It may be nice if that was the case. But that isn't reality. In my opinion not giving some money to people, who are not as well off as me, so they can receive treatment in a hospital is borderline immoral. More private clinics should be allowed in this country, but not at the expense of those whom are less well off.

Macleans.ca : Sometimes a gaffe is more than a gaffe

Sat, 17 Jul 2010 03:43:04 +0000

Harper said in plain anglais that no tax is a good tax. I'm arguing that some taxes are good taxes and not evil, while others are unnecessary. How am I arguing against SCT? You may be interpreting Harper's quote differently than I do; but when I walk through a hospital and see people with cancer whom are getting treatment because of our tax dollars, I don't view that as a "necessary evil." I view the idea of the elimination of taxes, which would in my opinion, lead to less social cohesion and more division as "moronic." Harper states his views on taxes (and public spending in general), then spends us into a 56 billion dollar hole. Either he doesn't know what he's doing (hence "moron"), or he believes that taxes are a good thing yet states the opposite in order to shore up his base (hence "liar").

Macleans.ca : Sometimes a gaffe is more than a gaffe

Sat, 17 Jul 2010 02:20:19 +0000

Stating that the size of government and tax rates must be kept to the point where it is as small as possible to ensure individual rights and freedoms is healthy. Stating that "no tax is a good tax" is clearly unhealthy. Either what he said is moronic, or he's a liar.