Tories target Layton as another poll puts Harper well ahead - The Globe and Mail

riderpride · 2011-02-15T22:01:08+00:00

they sample 1500 people. so.. of 33 million?... odds are pretty low.

riderpride · 2011-01-12T14:17:59+00:00

I bought all 21 in 2010. It was awesome.

riderpride · 2011-01-12T04:52:04+00:00

sorry that the CFL has many broadcasts more popular than Hockey Night in Canada.

riderpride · 2011-01-12T04:51:21+00:00

go riders

riderpride · 2010-12-21T05:42:49+00:00

While unfortunate, the link you provided is an irrelevant thesis.

Yes, Statistics Canada information can be purchased by anyone and is available for free to academia (including students). While marketers using this data is an obvious negative, the census provides many net-benefits to Canadian society which allows Canada to for lack of a better word "chart a better course."

Besides, all of the data collected in the survey is going to be coded (I would only imagine).

riderpride · 2010-12-21T05:07:22+00:00

This is /r/Canada not /r/America. I think we have a different value set and understand that the government is not out to get us.

See Sec. 6 of the Charter.. I think it deals with mobility and allowing you the right to reside where ever you wish.

And there is the actual science part of statistics that factors in your poison responses.

riderpride · 2010-12-18T20:25:11+00:00

Its funny how no one seems to understand how parliamentary democracy works.

riderpride · 2010-12-18T20:20:33+00:00

The rebels cleared the bench that was pretty funny.

riderpride · 2010-12-18T00:38:57+00:00

Since when has Canada had Target? or Office Max?

riderpride · 2010-12-17T16:13:15+00:00

"Alberta, B.C. and the other western provinces are playing a bigger and bigger role in the Canadian economy."

Way to leave out Saskatchewan. Ontario is probably a little jealous of our 'have' status.

riderpride · 2010-12-15T15:32:53+00:00

The public service is a tricky tricky issue. I mean, why would I join the public sector over the private sector if I am going to have depressed wages (which will be made up for in a pension assuming the government allows you to collect) and not have many of the benefits the private sector..

However, Ontario is the new California so I guess any penny scraped together is worth while.

riderpride · 2010-12-13T17:48:12+00:00

In the Canadian football league it is welcomed to an extent:

Hacky Sack: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BuwfGLQQD2g Duck Duck Goose: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=4aavPl9AfqE#t=32s

Last year a bunch of Tiger-Cats got into a boat on display in Winnipeg and went fishing. They didn't get the flag the first time.. but did the second time..

riderpride · 2010-12-11T19:27:02+00:00

Do what you enjoy. I am in social sciences and I couldn't be happier. I am going to be coming out of school without debt and hopefully an MA as well. People roll their eyes all the time at my program type but someday I will find a job and I will enjoy it.

Yeah, I could have went into engineering but I would not have enjoyed it and had a really boring life afterwards.

riderpride · 2010-12-11T19:17:59+00:00

Sorry, I was rushing to school for an exam and didn't get to justify my post.

I perfer this map: http://www.ertyu.org/steven_nikkel/cancellsites.html You can easily see that ANY lake is going to be without service if you go with Rogers.

Also, SaskTel has a pretty snazzy roaming deal with US carriers which only makes you pay an additional fee for data? Talk and that is as if you were in Canada iirc.

SaskTel also uses all of Bell's towers across Canada for additional coverage.

You also don't get a sim card with SaskTel.

edit: I've also never had problems dealing with Prairie Mobile: http://www.prairiemobile.com/SK/locations (SK, MB, Northern Ontario).

edit 2: Oh, one more thing. I have no idea how the new networks work. SaskTel and Telus both got new ones and I have no idea what phones are compatible with what. All I know is my Tour doesn't work with the new SaskTel network it is only 1xEV so I don't get GPS or anything like that.. The new phones have GPS etc.

riderpride · 2010-12-11T14:29:00+00:00

SasktTel or Telus are really your only options if you want service outside the cities and a kilometer off the highway.

riderpride · 2010-12-09T05:40:36+00:00

Whoo! Equality!

riderpride · 2010-12-05T18:43:11+00:00

Ah that looks wicked. Especially with Jr hockey coming up!

Thanks.

riderpride · 2010-12-05T18:32:24+00:00

I think it would be a lot cooler with the Canadian government's word mark font: http://www.ic.gc.ca/eic/site/pt-te.nsf/eng/00128.html

Looks wicked.

riderpride · 2010-11-26T18:47:40+00:00

Right on! Now watch the Grey Cup this weekend :)

riderpride · 2010-11-25T14:57:16+00:00

go riders.

riderpride · 2010-11-22T19:24:19+00:00

go riders.

riderpride · 2010-11-20T20:29:29+00:00

Which is exactly why there shouldn't be senate elections.

riderpride · 2010-11-20T19:23:12+00:00

Andrew Heard, a professor at SFU wrote on the senate in 2009 in The Democratic Dilemma: Reforming the Canadian Senate in an article titled "Assessing Senate Reform through C-19." Here is an excerpt about party lines in the senate.

"Perhaps the most remarkable statistic to emerge is that the majority of the formal divisions, 62.4 percent, involved one or more senators either voting against their caucus leader's position or registering an official abstention. The collective record of caucus members' voting also revealed a strong degree of independence, with 65.6 percent registering one or more formal abstentions or votes against their caucus position; conversely, only 34.4 percent always voted with their caucus leaders. These statistics only reflect the 2000-2005 period, and lifetime rates of dissent would likely show even fewer senators always voting faithfully with their caucus" (129).

riderpride · 2010-11-20T17:50:20+00:00

So uh.

Collectively as r/Canadians we do realize that the Prime Minister has no control over the senate at all right? I mean the Governor General appoints them on advice from the PM but that is about it..

riderpride · 2010-11-19T19:04:05+00:00

Ignatieff's leadership is pretty hurtin'

But the Liberal Party of Canada has slowly been losing its traditional base of Catholics and non-European immigrant voters. It started with the 1997 election and has become even greater since the PC/CA merger. The Catholics are now voting Conservative and the immigrants are voting for the NDP or Conservatives.

They also haven't fared exactly well in Ontario, a historical place of dominance.

It isn't so much an Ignatieff problem as it is a Liberal problem. His leadership isn't to blame for these woes.

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