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I've seen some disturbing shit in Detroit, but was more on edge in certain parts of Baltimore/Washington.

Both my residential and cell are 647 numbers; I used to have a 416 number, but when I moved to my new apartment, I got Rogers home phone, and they put me on a 647. I was pretty annoyed about that at first, but I've had the number for over a year, and it doesn't bother me anymore.

^ you'd think... But as I've said above, when my aunt and uncle came to Pearson two years ago, they were shoved into a room -- very unpleasantly -- and waited there for half an hour; no interpreter came, but they managed to communicate with gestures and few words when someone from the...

Well, we don't know if they felt threatened. In fact, people tried to help the man. And they, and I'm sure he, thought the RCMP would help him, not taser him within seconds of getting there. The investigation will likely be the usual whitewash--it's not the first time or the last time this...

They come in, they see a confused man; he thinks they're here to help him. He does NOTHING, absolutely NOTHING to provoke a taser shot. If that's the first response the RCMP has in a situation where a man is clearly unarmed, we've got a PROBLEM. The fact that it happened in an airport is...

Sheppard never should have been built. It should always have been LRT... and LRT is commonly used in European cities; Oporto serves as an obvious example, but there are many more. I am, however, not entirely sure as to why the Sheppard subway cannot be converted to LRT... Could we not lower...

Yup... the transcript is the final straw. And that in supposedly international Canada we have no translators, no slavophiles WHATSOEVER to help the man out. Not that I'm surprised. My aunt and uncle had to wait 30 minutes at Pearson because they spoke German but not a word of English; the...

Video shows man calm before being tasered in Vancouver Nov 14, 2007 10:03 PM THE CANADIAN PRESS http://www.thestar.com/News/article/276565 VANCOUVER – Animalistic cries of pain are the last the world hears of a newly-arrived immigrant in dramatic video released Wednesday. The images...

^ don't sales start at 6? This ludicrous hysteria makes me believe that market is indeed overheated.

77 Elm is an absolutely hideous building, precisely because of the terrible base. It offers absolutely no kidness to anyone beneath it. I'd shed no tears to see it gone. That part of downtown, in general, doesn't do much for me. I do love Robarts, however, though the interior could use work.

I saw her interview this morning as I was getting ready to commute out of the city; I really did like the straight message, and the reality that tax cuts at the federal level mean more tax at the muni. Good on her!

I thought the same thing; it sounds like a completely reasonable and obvious approach.

^ my fave too.

A very photogenic part of town indeed.

Feudal serfs did not, feudal land owners did.

Yeah, I had a good laugh when I read that myself. I wonder if it is cluelessness or pro-market propaganda, considering it's a business prof sputtering this nonsense.

While 'majority rule' is a simplification of democracy, I'd say it's a necessary component. In other words, how can you win anything without 50%+1 of the vote? That's certainly how the parliament settles disputes. FPTP is an ancient system we inherited from a feudal system. Many of the...

The system has lots to do with how people vote -- why vote for the NDP candidate in a rural conservative riding? No chance of success there. Strategic voting occurs in all political voting systems, but whereas strategic voting in certain systems maximizes the political spectrum, here it does...

I would have prefered STV over any other, but I think the system is too smart for us... Though I would have preferred MMP over FPTP which I consider the most deeply flawed electoral system of all, along with closed list PR.

^ it's probably not wrong to assume that up to 50% of the ballots once again elected nobody... How anyone can find that acceptable, I've no idea. I've a lot of respect for BC where STV, a much more complicated system, was at least met with some understanding and actually almost got the super...