kelownabomberfan

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/nova-scotia-challenges-no-layoff-clause-for-civil-servants-1.3069929 Here's the article. Just plain criminal. Shame NDP shame.

how is that even possible - no layoff clause. I remember the out-going NDP in Nova Scotia did a similar "screw you" to the taxpayers and handicapped the ability of the government taking over to lay off a lot of the unnecessary NDP deadwood they had hired during their 4 years of mismanagement and corruption. In BC the NDP gave the BC teacher's union control of class size and composition, if you can believe it (talk about a conflict of interest) before being punted out of office. The Liberals took away this right almost immediately, and now it's been in court for 15 years, with a final ruling to be handed down by the Supreme Court of Canada (the Supreme Court of BC ruled in the government's favour). Hard to believe that unions can be given rights like no layoff clauses and the ability to hire as many teachers as it sees fit, and the government coming afterwards is powerless to stop this blatant screw job, or has to incur millions of dollars of costs (taxpayer dollars all) just to fix it. We are almost due for another NDP government here in BC, and I can just see those bozos handing the BCTF the class size and composition power again, with another gazillion dollars spent in legal fees after the NDP are punted to claw that right back again. Oh.. I just love the NDP...

I agree with that. I think what cost the PC's was that their leader was so arrogant. As for platforms, I think that the PC's had the right one for the economic situation going on in Alberta right now. The NDP jacking up taxes and spending just isn't what is needed right now in Alberta. As someone else said, time for a sales tax, and also for a government with the balls to cut spending, not ramp it through the roof. Incidentally, I have family working in the Manitoba government right now. Since the Alberta election, many NDP apparatchiks have been fleeing Manitoba to the greener pastures of Alberta, as they've seen the writing on the wall in Manitoba (they will be canned immediately) and so have joined the ranks of the over-paid bureaucrats in Alberta. Notley's been hiring all of them. According to my family member, the unofficial NDP mantra is "why hire 3 people to do the job when you can hire 5?" That's one of the reasons Alberta's spending is out of control, their civil service is ballooning, much like Manitoba's did and BC's did in the 1990's. When the Liberals were elected here in 2001, they canned thousands of useless employees that were literally doing NOTHING. I expect that Manitoba will go through the same cleansing soon.

is Wolseley going to go Green?

yes. I don't think the NDP is blowing their brains out spending money in ridings like Arthur-Virden.

I can agree with this assessment.

ISO - you mentioned several times that you were in hospital and no one said "Hope you are ok now". Hope you are ok now.

having been involved in a few campaigns myself I can verify that this is true. Allocation of resources.

yeah well it's not that hard to forget - just look for the guy coughing up the puck in his own end, over and over and over again.

and it's the same coincidence that we went out in four games straight, while I watched Silfverberg, Kesler, Getzlaf and Perry just skate up and take the puck right off of his stick.

I am no Trump supporter to be sure, but I'd be the first to say that all of the lunatics showing up to protest at his rallies are doing nothing to help their Anti-Trump cause. I find it very anti-democratic to protest candidates running in elections. If they aren't popular they won't be elected, but if you show up and deliberately provoke altercations you really cause people to lose focus on the issues and just get mad that someone who seems crazy is telling you how to vote, and preventing others from hearing all of the issues. Imagine the cries of "undemocratic!!" if people had showed up and protested at Obama rallies. Just let Trump hang himself with his big mouth, and let him hold his campaign rallies in peace. And if you need something to do, rather than go be a jerk at rallies, try getting a job.

This was in response to Iso complaining about the carbon tax, and the Leap Manifesto. So how was Alberta screwed by the previous government such that they now have a horrible carbon tax jammed down their throat? I agree that the previous government made terrible mistakes and had to go. The NDP every once in awhile gets in just because they aren't the other two parties. That happened in Ontario back in the 1990's too, and Nova Scotia recently. But I've yet to see an NDP government elected "by accident" to last more than one term. We will see if Notley can break the trend. Right now it's not looking good.

that is a major problem here for sure - people pay taxes all of their lives in Alberta, Sask and Manitoba and then move to BC when they are in their government pension years. Yet they cause the biggest drain on resources in that stage of their lives. So it's lose-lose for BC. They should do what Quebec does and charge a moving to BC fee. It wouldn't compensate fully but it would help.

if Enstrom is truly our "best" LHD then no wonder we are not in the playoffs. Is it a coincidence that the Jets started winning as soon as he came out of the line-up?

exactly

doing a co-marketing campaign with President's Choice?

I wish everyone would start wearing bowler hats again.

In terms of child poverty, I think Manitoba is number one again. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/child-family-poverty-manitoba-1.3332545

Have to agree with you here ISO. My wife had to spend 4 nights in our hospital here in Kelowna and she was probably the youngest on the entire floor by about 30 years. All the rooms and beds were full of elderly folk who should have been in nursing homes but instead were long-term sitting in a hospital instead. The woman in the same room as my wife had dementia and would essentially shriek most of the time, making it almost impossible to sleep. I got her out of there after 4 nights even though the doctors wanted her to stay, but it's impossible to recover when you can't sleep. How the lunk-head politicians couldn't see this coming I don't know, as the demographics are all there. Did they think everyone would just stay healthy and mobile and then just fall over dead when their time was up? Aging is a degenerative process. Most people aren't going to be able to support themselves and will require care in their last years on earth. So why aren't we as a society ready for this demand? Just boggles the mind.

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I didn't forget them. I just don't see where there's room for all of these guys. Someone's going to have to go. Honestly, with injuries being inevitable, I don't think we'll start the season with Lemieux or our first pick this season in the starting line-up, but they may be there during the season when Perrault gets injured, like he seems to every year, and others go down, which is just the way things are in the NHL now, unless you are Andrew Cogliano. Stafford can be traded for all I care, as long as he's packaged with Enstrom.

Why did you think that? Because you get all of your energy updates from David Suzuki and Al Gore? Coal is one of the cheapest sources of energy in the world. In the US they can just pull it out of the ground and burn it. And there's just a never-ending supply of it to boot. Is it incredibly dirty? Yup. I would fully support going off of coal and going hydro and nuclear, for sure. But not because of the man-made climate change thing, only because of the particulates that burning coal generates. Just look at China. Or visit Cairo sometime. It's particulates that are the problem in these countries, not CO2.

Connor Scheif Wheeler Tkachuk Little Ehlers Petan Copp Armia Lemieux Lowry Dano

did they apply?

Health care is something in this country that is long overdue for a major overhaul. Just throwing money at it isn't the solution. There have to be some tough choices made, or the problems are just being perpetuated. I realize that everyone goes into convulsions and screams if you mention changing anything about our current system, but it doesn't work. Never really has. As my dad's cousin, who is a retired doctor, told me once "if the government made food free tomorrow, everyone would want steak every day. And they'd want that steak every day, even if they didn't eat it. That just doesn't work long-term".