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Firstly, I'm making a distinction between collectors' coins and trading coins. Collectors' coins tend to be worth much more than the spot value of the metal itself and fluctuate in price independently of the spot price of the metal whereas trading coins tend to be worth only a little more than...

Sophie and Hans Scholl and other members of the German resistance should enjoy the central focus of German history of the Nazi era. It would give Germany real heroes to look up to. Then again for all I know, they might already be doing that. baRvF6ZBK18

Trump administration reveals goals for NAFTA talks - Politics - CBC News Even a fool can get some things right sometimes. "The section on agricultural goods does not explicitly target Canada's supply management system for dairy, poultry and eggs, but the Trump administration is seeking to...

What this would mean is that if I offer to work for an income that is higher than what the government can offer in social assistance and an employer accepts my offer, I would have a legal right to turn my back on the socia assistance in favour of the better offer and my employer would have a...

'We're going to fight': El Salvador teen rape victim to appeal 30-year sentence for stillbirth - Home | As It Happens | CBC Radio I morally oppose abortion, yet even I find this to be appalling. If she didn't know she was pregnant, how was she supposed to seek help she didn't know she needed...

Ottawa businesses fear wage hike could force layoffs - Ottawa - CBC News With the minimum wage so high, I can bet that unskilled workers will be offering to work under the table to get a job, and employers will feel tempted to take them up on the offer. On second though, maybe they'll be...

I remember a conversation years ago with someone complaining that we needed stricter Canadian-content rules because she watched too many US programmes. I explained to her that I seldom watched TV and tended to read books from different countries. She was taken aback by finding herself in the...

Councillor wields new power to put 'bunkhouse' developers on the spot - Ottawa - CBC News Until it could irritate the middle to upper classes. Then we're all for regulation. Interesting how the world works. NIMBYism is alive and well it would seem.

https://www.gsma.com/publicpolicy/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/GSMA_White-Paper_Mandatory-Registration-of-Prepaid-SIM-Users_32pgWEBv3.pdf On the one hand, it's known that criminals use prepaid phone to remain anonymous. On the other hand, There's this from Wikipedia: [While there is no doubt...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulation_of_Interception_of_Communications_and_Provision_of_Communication-related_Information_Act,_2002 Does Canada need a law like this one? I'be been thinking about just how easily I'd bought a prepaid mobile phone recently. Though I paid by card, I could...

Bank of Canada may hike interest rate for 1st time in 7 years next week - Business - CBC News With all of that borrowing and spending, it looks like rates will now need to go up. If Canada were smart, we'd profit from the economic growth south of the border by raising taxes, reducing...

The liberals want to change it, the conservatives not. Simple solution: de-officialize it and let everyone sing it as they like. It works for the UK with the Royal anthem, no? Likewise for holidays. Instead of officializing national indigenous people's day, just de-officialize Canada Day...

FjK3JoA0Lac Looks like the Nazi soldiers participating in the Blitzkrieg were blitzed on Chrystal meth. UsgCAObh7qo Fascinating. It would seem that the same chrystal meth that helped the Wehrmacht blitz Poland, France, etc. devastated it by the time its troops reached Russia, hallucinating...

The US population all knew (or ought to have known) what it was voting for when it voted for the name I shall not name. Why do now all act surprised each time another surprise comes out of the White House? Out of respect for people with disabilities, let's please just not name him for the next...

11 June 2008? https://www.aadnc-aandc.gc.ca/eng/1100100015644/1100100015649

Woman shoots boyfriend dead in YouTube stunt gone wrong - World - CBC News Unlike murder which is intentional, manslaughter is strictly unintentional. Once it's determined that there is not enough evidence to prove murder and there is reason to believe that the killing is accidental, I think...

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/investigations/oxycontin/article33448409/ Interesting article here. It turns out physicians were initially highly hesitant to prescribe opiods but Purdue invested massive sums of money to promote Oxycontin to them, with much of the advertising being...

Free trade between provinces? That would be anarchy: Neil Macdonald - CBC News | Opinion Canada: a protectionist nationalist's dream-come-true.

Given the money that Federal departments spend on travel, why does the Government of Canada not establish a videoconferencing room in each major city that any Federal department could rent out for meetings and such? I don't deny that a civil servant must sometimes physically travel to one...

Present Canadian laws push private health care abroad, a loss of valuable source of potential consumer spending and tax revenue in the Canadian economy. Meanwhile, we scratch our heads wondering where we'll get the money to help First Nations communities. Why not allow privately-funded health...