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While wealth is not equal to income, there's zero doubt that those with higher incomes will have more wealth. It's much less likely that those with low incomes have a lot of wealth since the income from any investments made in any businesses and properties has to be reported AS income. The...

I would say that's definitely overoptimistic, and does rather oversimplify the situation.

Some folk'll never eat a skunk But then again some folk'll Like Cletus The slack jawed yokel.

Should we start to 'mercy' kill selected elements of people living in group homes and mental hospitals, many of them who have physical and mental problems? They can't speak for themselves, BUT were we in their shoes, surely we wouldn't want to live their life???!!! We need a separate thread...

Tchotchkes Shops? Really??!!!!

If you actually open up your eyes, you'll find we still have a healthy selection of mid-19th century stock in the old city.

Extremism of almost any kind can. Patriotism/nationalism, scientism (witness the eugenics movement, which, sadly, is still not completely gone), etc.

The online archives are a good way to spend 24-48 hours, clutching coffee and refusing to go to bed.

I sure hope this is true. Although I am not a big fan of the building in general, a granite reclad would go a long way in making it a respectable building.

One of the articles posted earlier by Zephyr actually explains this pretty well. I don't think it's really about religion, but it's not just any old type of violence: it's violence and control against women that exists here, there, everywhere. We see it all the time in Canada with murders and...

Now this is just silly... How often does this happen? Is this something that happens monthly, or yearly among the Muslim community in the GTA? No.

Lovely pictures of a fantastic little town. It does need a bit of TLC, however.

I have no problem with either.

^ that's... interesting.

^ the name is fine; nothing special, but it's not offensive to me either. I am not a fan of most of the alternatives suggested, to tell the truth.

I don't like the blues because they are dark -- exactly the opposite of what we should have this time of the year. I would really like to see more whites, yellows, and bright greens.

Foreign born... a bit surprised at the results at the moment. I can't agree with MetroMan's theory; immigrants are a vital part of the city's transformation.

^ I'd like to see that small grim midwestern US town that has half the number of high-rises shown in that pic. Make that 1/10th.

Well, really, Bosnian/Bosniak, Croatian, Serbian, and possibly Montenegrin.