Eternal optimist

Sure, if you're buying what the Liberals are selling, I think it's very telling that they plan to just add carbon tax proceeds to the general coffers. I agree on your other points though, if they were sincere about it, they could invest in credits for more charging stations for electric vehicles, stuff like that...unfortunately the very nature of our democratic system has forced every party to look at most 4 years into the future..

From a purely economic perspective, a carbon tax (a.k.a end user tax) is the most logical way to do it. People will be forced to use less, as a direct result of the goods that are taxed costing more. The exact same logic has been used by our government in the past with so-called "sin-taxes" (tobacco tax, which adds about 50% to the cost of cigarettes, and additional levies on alcohol, for example). Of course, the disadvantages of applying this to carbon, is it's often an additional tax on essentials - such as your Hydro bill... this hurts the working poor the most. As always, raising taxes is also generally an unpopular move by politicians. The other problem with the current plan is lots of commercial emitters are exempt, which to be honest kind of defeats the purpose. The Liberals have implemented the Carbon Action Incentive (CAI) on personal tax returns - which gives money back to people on their taxes, to offset against increased expenses from the incoming carbon tax levies. The CAI is a blatant attempt at buying votes by the Liberals, and further muddies the water with where Trudeau really stands on climate change. The last thing that makes carbon tax schemes so difficult is determining how much carbon actually went into an item... for example, if an organic widget is home-grown in Winnipeg, and no trucks etc. are used to bring it to market (also in Winnipeg), it could conceivably have produced less carbon than a similar organic widget trucked into Winnipeg from North Dakota. However, if that same widget was made more efficiently in North Dakota, it could actually have less of a carbon footprint. How do you even track that? It get particularly problematic when you consider imports from overseas, especially with foreign countries that don't currently have a carbon plan. tldr; I don't know how to fairly tax it best - but economists generally agree that a tax like this curbs consumer usage, which is the supposed goal.

Then logically, a carbon tax (or similar economic policy), would curb global usage of limited resources (i.e. fossil fuels). Limiting usage would allow the human race a longer period of time to find an alternative, how could that be a bad thing?

Even if we were to concede that the CO2 effect on global warming does take on a logarithmic effect, you're admitting we'll eventually get to the point where temperatures significantly impact life on Earth. Why not curb bad habits now, whilst they're still manageable?

Just came here to further discuss the inadequacies of Regina overall as a host city (town?) for the Grey Cup...but looks like you guys have all the bases covered.

Just a heads up in Manitoba provincial elections, you are legally entitled to decline your ballot. Good way to tell them they all suck. Unfortunately for the federal elections you aren't allowed to decline your ballot... hilariously enough though, there is a group that promotes and encourages disgruntled voters to eat their ballot (the Edible Ballot Society) Fair warning though - eating your ballot is a federal crime under the Canada Elections Act.

Ah, but using your logic, provided I don't believe in retirement, it doesn't exist and thus you'd never be able to retire.

What? The information I provided for male/female dentists explicitly states that it only includes dentists that work full-time hours.

Alright, I'm done - there's obviously no convincing you, respectfully I think we should just agree to disagree.

Alright then, lets' remove even more factors. The NHS tables provide the wages by work category and can be split by gender: https://www12.statcan.gc.ca/nhs-enm/2011/dp-pd/dt-td/Rp-eng.cfm?TABID=2&LANG=E&APATH=3&DETAIL=0&DIM=0&FL=A&FREE=0&GC=0&GK=0&GRP=0&PID=106738&PRID=0&PTYPE=105277&S=0&SHOWALL=0&SUB=0&Temporal=2013&THEME=98&VID=0&VNAMEE=&VNAMEF= Using your example, if you look at dentists, the average male dentist, working full-time, not on maternity leave, earned $133,062 back in 2011. The average female dentist, also working full-time, not on maternity leave, earned $81,962. Note that dental hygienists have their own cohort, which even there males earn higher wages ($67,885 vs $55,816).

Average earnings by gender, per Statistics Canada: https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1/en/tv.action?pid=1110014301

Of course there is a gender pay gap - the difficulty lies not in establishing and acknowledging its' existence... but in implementing proper economic policy to help close the gap.

Guys... lets start Professional Organized New Zany International League and pitch it to Dundon see if he'll invest. We'll call it the PONZI League for short, I'm sure Dundon has another $250 million kicking around....

The cracks in this league from inadequate talent are starting to show like a late night infomercial for a totally useless product that's been on the air for just a liiiiitle too long...

I like how in the Riders' signing announcement proclaims he's a former Grey Cup champ. Yeah, from 2017 as a bench warmer playing in only five games...talk about grasping at straws.

I understand your stance - but a business has to maintain some level of self-control, over-expansion can be just as dangerous as lack of brand recognition in markets. I would argue the US expansion diluted the CFL brand detrimentally, and pushed it further into the realm of "bush league" by American viewership..

I'd like to present the court with Exhibit A: CFL's 1993 USA expansion.

The Argos and Lions this FA:

Yeah, he's been fantastic for the organization both on and off the field, as for free agency... I wonder how the recent flashy QB signings will affect the available cash remaining for other players...

This sounds like an obscure new rule requirement from the AAF.

I don't know about that, I think we were 0-0 this time last February as well...