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I started playing around with federal debt numbers after listening to David Frum babble about how horrible Trudeau was for Canada... Turns out Mulroney expanded debt far more than Trudeau. Here are a few stats to view for federal debt in Canada. Year - Debt (in $Millions) 1970 - $20,293...

Urban Toronto seemingly is the only forum I've been to that has almost no time lapse before the forum settings require an edit tag. Is this a setting the management would consider changing? I almost always do a lot of editing within a minute or a few minutes after a post and hate seeing the...

Here are some HD video shots from Canada Day 2010 last week in Ottawa. This is at the end of the Canada Day ceremonies in the beginning of the day with the snowbird jets flying over with the cannon salute. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dLKLKqaX6A After nightfall here is the fireworks...

I took the following videos for Pride Toronto 2010. Urbanites can notice I was standing across from One East Bloor's hole in the ground. I make a small appearance with my little gay flag: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DP-z3VijcRc Video 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1O0TIfNT2A8...

President Barack Obama received the Nobel Prize for Peace because of political reasons. People internationally bought his rhetoric. Yet recently he announced he's accelerating the war in Afghanistan with 30,000 more troops and a general goal to possibly start withdrawal after 2012, but no...

http://www.cbc.ca/arts/media/story/2009/10/21/cbc-news-renewal.html Changes to The National as CBC unveils new look Last Updated: Wednesday, October 21, 2009 | 8:35 PM ET Comments253Recommend129 CBC News The CBC is launching a new 10-minute late-night local newscast and a 10-minute...

Considering my status, I'd like to change my name to Brandon412 from now on. ~Thanks

Guys, its a bit funny to me at this point, but I won't be coming up to Toronto afterall this summer. Immigration worked, I have a study permit, but my financial aid has fallen through. I'm ineligible for any Canadian based aid, but my US aid was supposed to come through. Talk about a bizzaire...

http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/07/01/health-canadian-aids-hiv-vaccine-kang.html Canadian HIV vaccine ready for human tests Last Updated: Wednesday, July 1, 2009 | 8:47 AM ET An HIV/AIDS vaccine developed in Canada has passed safety tests in animals and the researchers are awaiting...

As many of you know, health care is the number one concern of mine domestically when speaking of national policy. I want to encourage Canadians to cherish the health care system, because if you are to lose it then it will be gone forever. Luckily I don't think that will ever happen, but it still...

http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/06/26/hiv.aids.atlas.map/index.html Atlas highlights HIV/AIDS burden in Southeast (CNN) -- The Southeast is among the areas of the United States with the highest concentration of cases of HIV and AIDS, according to a new online tool called the National...

I used to be an avid Apple fan back in high school, but switched to Windows and never looked back thereafter. Still I like to keep up on Apple news. This is pretty amazing news for me, sounds like he found a doctor in the US who was willing to be bought off, put him in front of the transplant...

Any of you had a chance to try the new Opera browser? Lately I've been experiencing lots of issues with IE not loading web sites at random, seems to be a DNS problem but its only a guess. I use Google Chrome and Firefox when I can, but a particular problem I noticed with those browsers is that...

Do you think Ignatieff is pulling the plug on the Harper government? I don't think he will, but lets take a poll before Monday. Any thoughts?

^The letter informing me of the decision today. Guys, I hope you all take a moment to celebrate with me. Seven years ago in May of 2002 I went to Toronto and fell madly in love. Not with a human being, but with a city and country and culture that I passionately wanted to be a part of...

http://www.thestar.com/article/642209 I was reading about energy and wanted to think about nuclear energy as an option for helping meet future energy needs. This article really doesn't represent what I'd like to discuss, such as what happened with McGuinty's plan to build nuclear energy in...

http://www.forbes.com/2009/05/05/world-happiest-places-lifestyle-travel-world-happiest_slide_2.html?partner=yahootravel Of course these kinds of rankings can be humorous, but at least its fun to read. Forbes Magazine's Happiest Places Survey 10) Belgium 9) Norway 8) New Zealand 7)...

The US Senate is finally conducting hearings and meetings about how to bring together a so-called 'universal' health delivery system. BUT, on its very first day Washington (as usual) excluded all single-payer voices from the debate. They were removed by police under direction of the...

http://www.thestar.com/business/article/631083 Jobless rate stabilizes Numbers are much better than economists expected May 08, 2009 01:05 PM Ann Perry Business Reporter Canada's economy took an unexpected break in April from the punishing job losses that have pummelled it...

http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/05/04/sekaly-aids.html Top AIDS researcher to leave Montreal for U.S. institute One of the top AIDS researchers in Canada is moving to the United States because of cuts in funding, he says. Rafick-Pierre Sékaly has extensive expertise in vaccine...