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Import fees and NAFTA ??
What I want to know is why there are import fees for a product that was made in Puerto Rico for an American company and shipped into Canada? Every one of these countries is encompassed in NAFTA and not to be charged duty. If there is no duty, there i...
An Amish boy and his father ...
A fifteen year old Amish boy and his father were in a mall. They wereamazed by almost everything they saw, but especially by two shiny, silverwalls that could move apart and then slide back together again.The boy asked, 'What is this Father?'The fath...
Re: Quebec
Why many contests exclude Quebec residents Have you ever wondered why the rules for so many contests exclude residents of Quebec from eligibility? Franchisors who are considering operating contests would be well-advised to research the applicable law...
Snow in Not So Sunny Saskatchewan.
Got this in the last 24 hrs
Why does Google require account holders to register a phone number?
One seems to need to register a cell phone # in order to set up a Google account. What about folks who don't HAVE one?
Andrew Coyne: To recap, the prime minister is not responsible for almost anything
To recap, the prime minister is not responsible. He is not responsible for appointing Mike Duffy and Pamela Wallin and Patrick Brazeau to the Senate. He is not responsible for appointing senators from provinces in which they were not resident, and he...
One of the reasons I don't like organized religion
This church on Steeled in Toronto must have caused big bucks. Why couldn't they just meet in a park and have their service. The money spent on this church could have gone a long way to help the poor and homeless. Isn't that the Christian thing to do?
Just in time for Halloween
http://www.upworthy.com/watch-these-4-girls-destroy-the-female-stereotype-like-the-monsters-they-are-rw1-9b?c=ufb1
Music
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQ6RjP7MlXk
Thank you Mr Harper
In the last few years, whenever economic news were good, the Harper government took credit. Whenever news were not so good, the Harper government always found someone or something else to blame. This morning the Bank of Canada released its most recen...
Justin Trudeau and Liberals focus on long game as fall session nears
OTTAWA — Justin Trudeau continues to generate a disproportionate amount of excitement and media attention more than six months after winning the federal Liberal leadership. But can it be sustained, and will it translate into electoral success?The nex...
Two Suzukis
The two Suzukis: There’s Saint Suzuki, the one you see on CBC, and Secret Suzuki, the capitalist millionaire There are two David Suzukis.Most of us know one of the Suzukis. Let’s call him Saint Suzuki. That’s the Suzuki whose TV show on the CBC const...
Smile For The Day
HAPPY FALL! FROM:
I just woke up...
A few hours ago, I sat in my favourite chair ready to listen to the Speech of the Throne by the Governor General. After a few minutes of platitutes, I fell asleep. Did I miss anything? I mean anything real?
Shipbuilding scheduling conflict means taxpayers on the hook for an extra $55-million
OTTAWA — Canadian taxpayers will be forced to shell out an extra $55-million due to a scheduling conflict in the federal government’s national shipbuilding strategy, senior officials have confirmed.At the same time, Canada’s navy will be forced to re...
TWAS THE NIGHT OF THANKSGIVING,
TWAS THE NIGHT OF THANKSGIVING,BUT I JUST COULDN'T SLEEP.I TRIED COUNTING BACKWARDS,I TRIED COUNTING SHEEP. THE LEFTOVERS BECKONED -THE DARK MEAT AND WHITE,BUT I FOUGHT THE TEMPTATIONWITH ALL OF MY MIGHT. TOSSING AND TURNING WITH ANTICIPATION,THE THO...
Andrew Coyne: U.S. and Canadian political systems both dysfunctional, in opposing ways
One way of explaining the current breakdown in the U.S. political system is in partisan terms. If only those Republican congressmen were not so intransigent. If only Barack Obama would negotiate.But this does not get us very far. It does not explain ...
The Conservative plan to become Canada’s Natural Governing Party
OTTAWA — Canada’s Conservatives, after nearly eight years of power, have become the country’s Establishment Party.Traditionally viewed as a collection of misfits who couldn’t keep power once they achieved it — and who stabbed each other in the back d...
Happy Columbus Day
For all the people in the world that celebrate the discovery of the new world,
Paypal Buyer Protection Doesn't apply to Software Key Purchases
Just got burned by a seller ijn France for $40. He sold me a Steam purchase of ROME II. My son had the game less than 24 hours before it was disabled by Steam at the request of the game's manufacturer. I can only assume that the license key fraudelen...
Kwame Kilpatrick, ex-Detroit mayor, sentenced to 28 years
Former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick was sentenced by a federal judge on Thursday to 28 years in prison after he was convicted of public corruption including bribery, extortion and racketeering, which prosecutors said had worsened the city's financi...
When the UN probes Canada’s First Nations tragedy, don’t expect results
After months of failed attempts seeking permission to enter Canada and investigate the relationship between Indigenous peoples and Canadians, James Anaya, Special Rapporteur to the United Nations on Indigenous peoples, has arrived. He was greeted ear...
SOME GOOD READING FOR THE FLOCK
http://www.cbc.ca/m/touch/politics/story/1.1927667
NDP pour cold water on Tory efforts to force election over cost of cancelled gas plants
Ontario’s New Democrats poured cold water Wednesday on efforts by the Progressive Conservatives to force a snap election over the $1.1-billion the Liberal government spent to cancel gas plants in Oakville and Mississauga.The Liberals killed the gas p...
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