The Unknown Poster

Well you'd think that. But I think many Canadians understand the wasted vote thing and will choose the party with the best chance of winning. If a conservative voter wants to vote for someone else I think the NDP right now are more viable and sensible seeming.

It's still early. Didn't the Conservatives poll ahead early in the election before they won? The early favourable polls for the NDP might be a by product of people who want change. But those people have to vote. And if they were formed Cons they have to change their mind I suspect some Disillusioned Cons are considering NDP. But when push comes to shove who knows. Plus if Justin can make any headway he might pull some lefties towards the centre and split that vote.

Yes, 2017. You never know. The U.S. is weird about classified information. Look at Roswell. Let people think aliens crashed and refuse to release documents and it turns out it was a military weather balloon. What a secret.

That about sums up his qualifications to be PM lol

My concern would be Harper would retire and a less tightly tun party loses a majority to the NDP. My prediction this far out is actually a minority Cons government.

No idea what Canucks are doing.

I don't want to pile on but last election the anti-Harper crowd acted like no one wanted Harper and that the left was the rightful government. Then he won. Again. I find the conservatives are generally quieter about their positions.

@theScore: Canucks, Brandon Sutter agree to 5-year, $21.875M contract extension.

I've always wondered why Trudeau or Mulcair aren't ever seen at any sporting events. Seems like pretty cheap publicity. Even Pierre took in almost every Grey Cup game, even if he didn't know a football from a meatball... Harper is a legitimate fan. Those other guys would probably puke at the thought of sitting with the beer swilling masses.

I love Canada and we should have a social safety net. But it gets abused. I'm not sure my former co-worker making well over a hundred grand should get cheap free child care at the expense of me paying higher taxes. People are angry about easing old age pension to 67. My circle of friends would love money earlier. But we understand and we accept that we have a greater knowledge and tools to save. We understand life spans are longer. We accept it.

The mafia put him in power. Richard Nixon won the 1960 election. But the mafia insured that the Kennedys won. And then the Kennedys turn on the mafia. Not too smart. Nixon didn't win. The mafia influenced Union leadership to vote for Kennedy. Even had Sinatra campaigning for him Some believe John didn't know the deals his father was making. Bobby was always wanting to go after organized crime. They say it was Bobby that told John to stop seeing one of his mistresses (was it Munroe?) because she was also linked to a mob boss. I'm not sure who these "powerful people" would be that decide who wins and who dies. It would have been just as easy to defeat him in the next election than murder a sitting president. As I've gotten older and less likely believe fantastic tales I think it was less grand than we've all romanticized it to be. Not one lone nut. But probably a small group. They say the driver was in on it because he slowed down. The secret service were in on it because no one responded I think it's more likely no one thought it could happen and were all taken by surprise. My favourite theory is the video evidence that the driver turned and shot John in the head in front of everyone and no one noticed.

The scariest thing is that there many people out there who think it's perfectly OK to jack up taxes and send like crazy. Usually people who don't have any money of their own. That much in foreign aid increase????? Charity starts at home and there are tens of thousands right HERE who could be aided by that cash. Im sort of wondering what type of person is attracted to the NDP. I noticed a former co-worker posting on FB after the election announcement saying how we *must* get rid of Harper. She probably makes $60,000-$70,000 a year. Married. So lets say household income is $120,000-$140,000. Has 2-3 kids. Why would she be attracted to the NDP? Not being a parent I cant say for sure... but could it be the free child care? Tax credits for having kids? Fitting into that perfect demographic that would benefit the most? While single people or wealthy (wealthier) people pay more?

I have no clue. But I'd suspect MLBAM would likely cost a premium as they are industry leaders. Although WWE Network is only $9.99. I think they spend around $3 of that on "partners" ie. MLBAM, and other carriers.

And they dont want change because the old leadership would never be able to function in a new world. They hand pick the executive. Its a joke. What a great gig. Employee funded dictatorship. I noticed in the minutes of one meeting that the president sole-sourced her office being professionally painted. I wanted to ask if she had three quotes to show us but it wasnt worth the battle.

The same concept should go for government unions that require workers to join unions as part of their job. People should have the freedom to "opt out" of their union and keep their union dues in their pockets. It shouldn't be mandatory membership. Of course, if this actually happened, most government unions would collapse almost over night. I'm not sure about that. Many people in unions are just as passionate for them as many people are against them. I've been forced to be in some unions in some places that I've worked, and there are many hardcore pro union people that work there. Also, if the government unions dissolved, the pay and benefits that many civil servants get would be reduced to be in-line with industry averages, so why would they get rid of their unions? Government is one work place that isn't there to turn a profit and can't close up shop if pay and benefits don't make fiscal sense. It is the perfect place for unions to thrive. I actually agree with this. If a workplace is unionized, then all employees should be in it. I was part of one where we had to opt in to being a member but if we didnt, we still paid dues and were still represented. We just werent official members. You have to protect people from themselves. If a workplace is negotiating collectively, you cant allow for X amount to sabotage it or be enticed by management to sabotage it. All or none. Im not fully anti-union. Just that unions seem to think its still 1912. And it isnt. I sat in an informal "disciplinary" meeting once and the childish insults and smarmy remarks were almost unbearable. I was embarrassed. Collective negotiation is great. When it's done properly by intelligent adults.

LOL - what he meant was "the Company will tell you what was really said and done, as opposed to the massive pile of bullshit we feed you". Yeah unions as they stand now really have past their best before date. I get that they are still needed to some extent but on the other hand, they really seem to only serve to perpetuate the union bureaucracy rather than protect and serve members. The expenditure of millions of member dues on political campaigns in support of the NDP really is sickening and shouldn't be allowed. No special interest group should be able to spend money that it receives in this way, in support of any party. It's just morally wrong. Just like watching the BCTF here in BC spend millions of dollars supporting the BC NDP, all because they know the BC NDP will bend over and give them whatever they want, at the expense of taxpayers, students and parents. Barf. They are very anti-technology. Its almost absurd. Like if I email them wanting a specific answer, they reply "call me". Their website looks like garbage and they dont have the CBA's online. It took them months to actually print up the booklet form of the new agreement. I asked why it was taking so long and got some condescending response about how "these things take time". I replied "I could take it to staples and have it done in an hour." When I asked why the agreement wasnt on the website "We dont do that and no union does that." As if the agreement is a secret. Except, as I pointed out, their expired agreements were online. doh. We just have a terrible, awful executive. Before I ended up on the outs, the president would routinely bad mouth people to me. Very gossipy. Every meeting I've been to, they ask for an email address. So I ask why they bother collecting that if they never intent to use it. "We prefer to have face to face meetings". I said "you realise that five minutes into the first group meeting, everyone back at the office knows what the details are, right? Because we all text, email, phone and talk to each other." Send a ******* group email and pretend its at least 1999. Disgraceful.

I agree with this, but that is completely different than there being a law to cap political contributions from unions. I meant cap how much of my dues can be spent on arbitrary things. My dues should fund the union, not the political whims of the executive.

if I own a business, its my decision how I spend the money. Unions arent privately owned. They are supposed to serve their members. Let them let their members vote on it. They wont because they dont want to risk members choosing to forgo the political payments in favour of lower dues. At the very least, give us details as to where our money is going. And let me choose where my portion goes. Let Conservative minded union members ear mark their portion of dues to the Conservatives. See how that goes over...lol

Its actually amazing the the NDP dont win every election with the unions in their back pocket.

Drives me crazy. I guess the argument is, the money they spend on politics is to benefit the union members. But I wish there was a law to cap it or reduce it or make it public what was being spent. I attended one of my union meetings during a recent provincial election and at the end of the meeting, the executive implored the members to do everything they could to get the NDP re-elected. It wasnt even "this is business" they were agonized over the idea of the NDP possibly losing. It really bothered me. But there is no talking to my union. ive never met a more paranoid, mean spirited bunch of people. During our last contract negotiation, I attended a meeting and they brought in a top guy from Ontario. He belittled management...and not the BOD or executive teams, the front line managers, many of whom used to be in our union and many people in our union aspired to move up to that front line management. Not to mention the managers were also unionized. They also belittled other unions. It was disgraceful. They are incredibly secretive and wont tell the members anything. When asked why they couldnt email us the result of recent talks (email to our work email), they were incredulous..."How stupid do you think we are?" the union president asked. "The company will read the emails." "So what," I asked. "Im pretty sure the company knows what they agreed to in the meeting they were in." Just a miserable, paranoid bunch

I think people can have opinions but they should be better than personal insults or fear mongering. I havent heard very much that is reasonable in regards to Anti-Harper. Most of the average poeple on social media just do the "Stop this man before its too late" or "save democracy by voting out Harper" without giving any context to any of that. Like is Harper really going to destroy the world? Is Canada going to turn into a dictatorship? Ofcourse not. So they need to stop with the hyperbole and look at facts. I used to vote Liberal. I changed my mind. I now vote Conservative. But I can change my mind. But not with these tactics. Why is it a long election? Because its a good strategy for the party in power I guess. Didnt the Liberals have an election that was almost as long? Parties always use whatever they can to their advantage. The first party that decides to simply be as fair and impartial as they can will be the first one to lose. The NDP have the unions in their back pocket, campaigning for them, spending my union dues. But thats allowed. The NDP take advantage of that.

DJ Bean @DJ_Bean Per a source, MLB's Baseball Advanced Media will take over NHL's web ops, apps, streaming video, etc. in 2016. Announcement tomorrow. This is a good move. MLB Advanced Media is considered an industry leader. They do HBO's streaming. They do WWE's Network streaming.

I would LOVE to keep a lot more of the money I make. And see higher taxes on other items. If I want to buy a new escalade, Im paying a ton of tax, but thats my choice. And guess what, if Im taking home more of my paycheck, I probably would buy that Escalade.

I agree about the GST. But it was promised and promise kept. So points for Cons. I'd prefer lower income tax and higher sales taxes.

Agreed. If I was a Staff Sergeant, Captain, Chief...whatever, I'd be reminding my officers every single day that citizens have the right to film and it should be met with politeness and support. The argument will be their safety. But thats part of the job now. I'd have no problem with officers not wearing their names on the uniform, just badge numbers. But realistically, being publicly identified comes with the job. I had read that the NYPD used to use a clip from Road House as part of their training. Didnt specify which scene but I assume its the one where Dalton is giving instructions to the group in his first staff meeting. "be nice. If you have to walk someone, walk them...but be nice. If you cant walk them alone, someone will help you and you will walk them together...but be nice." "How will we know when not to be nice?" "You wont. I'll tell you." When we hired new security, I told them the same thing (though not inspired by Road House). Be nice. Always be in the right. You can be a prick down the road if needed but you cant start off being a prick and turn nice. Doesnt work. Always be nice.