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If we consider that education is a provincial matter, but that many aspects of government and the economy are regulated federally, does that pose challenges in coordinating education with other national objectives? For instance, owing to less of a clear division between federal and state...

I was just watching on the news today that owing to rising fuel costs, access to resources, and rising incomes in China, some manufacturing plants are moving to Canada... from China! I knew this would happen sooner or later. So, is free trade really that bad? Also, I'd say another benefit of...

YouTube - ‪English: No Longer the World Language - CBN.com‬‏ Good thing or bad? As for negative impacts, should fewer Philipinos, Panamanians, and others over time learn English, clearly it will put more pressure on Canadians to learn English to maintain their international markets. If we...

Obama urges Palestinian state based on '67 borders - World - CBC News Should be interesting.

Key CSIS, RCMP operative denounced to U.S.: WikiLeaks - Toronto - CBC News What the hell is going on here? Is CSIS not aware that by just spewing out any random name on the list because of 'suspicions' and nothing else, they're screwing royally with the lives of potentially innocent people...

While I'm not particularly in favour of foreign aid, we can't deny the possibility of a left-leaning coalition government in 4 or 5 years time which would be in favour of such funding. At that stage, debating whether to fund foreign aid and by how much would be a moot point, then the only...

One thing that has often turned me away from more government intervention in the economy is the lack of grassroots direction. Recently for example the NDP proposed increasing funding for the Canada Council for the arts. As to how much this Council should get would not be decided by the...

Europe has the European People's Party, comprising various centre-right parties, all pro-EU, some socially conservative, and all economically liberal or conservative. So essentially as a whole it is a moderately socially conservative, economically liberal, and internationalist or at least...

Increase funding to Canada Council, NDP says - Politics - CBC News Hmmm... people are struggling to live, and we need to fund the arts? Has the NDP never heard of Maslow's hierarchy of needs? While there certainly is much legitimate criticism of the legitimacy of the hierarchy (after all...

I'm in favour of free trade, as many on these forums know, and so in spite of my lack of support for the Conservative Party, I'm at least thankful that for the next 4 years at least we're not likely to have to worry about a turn to protectionism. However, come next election, should the left...

We often hear of how there is much racism on the right. There there may be truth to it (and bearing in mind that even then not all on the right are racist), we seem to be seeing a creeping of it into the left too. And again, just as I'm not saying all on the right are racist, I'm not saying...

Furor over horse meat on food show - Arts & Entertainment - CBC News Seems there is controversy over horse meat on a TV show. Now I eat vegan, so needless ot say it's not like I see much difference between beef and horse meat. But what I don't understand is why meat eaters would make such a...

High global debt will impact Canada: Carney - Business - CBC News interesting how Carney points out Canada is not responding well enogh to this global power shift.

Seeing that we're not likely to see any legal protection for the pre-born any time soon, how do we at least make abortion more attractive? Among some options I could see: 1. Provide quality education for all. We could look at year-round schooling for nine years starting at the age of 5...

The thread title says it all. So I'll start with some of my ideas, but please feel free to add your own. First off, we should sell crown resources (oil, lumber, minerals, etc.) to exploitation companies at a higher price. First off, this would increase government revenue at least on a...

Party leaders wield too much power: Milliken - Politics - CBC News I personally totally agree that MPs need the freedom to vote their conscience and not that of the leader. it's not right that the leader's riding has so many MPs representing it while other ridings have none. Your thoughts on...

We've been hearing of gas price woes at the pumps lately, along with various strategies on how to cope. Before we look at solutions, I think we first need to look at the problem. For years governments have been subsidizing the gas industry via tax exemptions etc., resulting in artificially low...

If we consider: 1. that the majority Conservative Party has at least some members among its ranks (e.g. Scott Reid: lament for a Notion ) in favour of moving towards territorial bilingualism as a more cost-effective federal language policy, 2. that the NDP has at least some members in favour of...

Judging from what we're reading in the media lately with people being falsely informed that polling stations have changed locations, and people in some locations having to sign affidavits that they hadn't voted yet owing to their names having been crossed off, I'm getting worried. I realize...

Should the conservative Party win a minority of seats in the House, and the NDP win the second biggest number with the Bloc and Liberals being decimated, an NDP-led coalition is almost certain. Should that happen, there is a strong possibility that they would push for proportional...