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I think an appropriate group of right leaning citizens should approach the federal government with a proposal for a national news outlet that leans their way. They'd have to wait until a right wing government is back in power but if they think the CBC is so biased it's only fair that they have a...

Agree. While our view of the past can change, or even be manipulated, that qualifies as a deliberate distortion and not an actual change.

People are happy with him here, I fully expect him to keep his seat. That will be good enough for me. Canada as a whole is unlikely to put the NDP in power federally, that's an awful big step top the left for a country still jockeying over different flavours of center.

That doesn't leave a lot to choose from does it? The spin-off right wing fringe parties aren't established enough to be a serious threat, and splitting the right wing vote is a ticket to ride for the Liberals. O'Toole is at the head of a party in disarray as centrists and social conservative...

Not so much the programs themselves, but the oversight. Who is checking for liars when they say “Yes, I am actively seeking employment” ? More important among our social benefits are our education and healthcare programs.

I don't think so. Our current blend of free market capitalism and social programs is not something our voters are likely to vote away anytime soon. It's just a little out of whack in that the freedom we give to the corporate sector isn't being used responsibly, it serves the very few at the...

Those will come back as the vaccination program progresses and restrictions are lifted. I do agree though that too much free money like EI and the Covid Relief payments are keeping people out of the lower income job market like most tourist sector jobs. We've watched that for decades here in...

This isn't something I've heard of. Can you elaborate ?

That's the tough spot O'Toole is in. Too close to center and he loses the far right within his party. Even now he is seeing dissent within the party ranks, and outwardly they are bleeding support to fringe parties like the PPC and Maverick party who see his current trouble as opportunity for...

Nailed it.

How old are you ? I'm mid-sixties, and when I grew up the norm was stay-at-home moms while Dad brought home the bacon, enough to keep ahead of house payments, car payments, put food on the table and maybe take a family holiday in the summer or put a kid through college. What's the norm today ...

Canada is nothing like Venezuela.

I don't know about that, re-writing the english language to suit your own agenda doesn't sound particularly progressive. The dictionary definition of 'woke' was just fine until somebody perverted it to mean something else.

There's a balance point in there somewhere. An under-regulated corporate sector has given us a vanishing middle class and poison rivers. Handing the keys to the hen-house to the foxes is a stupid bet at the best of times.

You're missing my point. You don't hear the left hollering communist and socialist all the time because those are slurs generally coming from the right. It was an attempt at irony. Racist/supremacist are no more applicable to everyone on the right than socialist/communist is applicable to...

Complicated topic. Is not one measure of a society's state of evolution in how it looks after its less fortunate ? But in the case of addiction, the victim is often unable to see the problem, and the thought of forcing help upon them crosses some pretty big moral boundaries. Similar moral...

Which brings us back to a lack of integrity among our elected officials. Pretty much all our elected officials. I wish I had a solution. I thought that having enough independent of decent character MPs to constitute a swing vote might help keep the major parties in line, but people of decent...

I was talking about Alberta oil production in general, 85% of which comes from the oilsands. I'm not sure what you're talking about.

Not to my knowledge, heavy oil only there. I'm not talking about heavy oil at all, I'm talking about bitumen. Most of what is removed from bitumen when it is upgraded is sulphur, there are monster stacks of it at all the sites I have worked at where upgrading is performed. Some heavy metals...

Upgraders produce synthetic crude, any refinery can use that stuff. CNRL, Suncor Base Plant and the old Syncrude site at Mildred Lake all have on-site upgraders, as does Shell's Scotford refinery in Fort Saskatchewan. Bitumin needs a high conversion refinery and Canada only has one at present...