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The NDP orange wave or whatever was Jack Layton. Period. They had people win who barely knew they were even running. No one cared. They voted for Jack. Mulcair is no Jack. And in a more serious issue-based election, people looked closer and realised they dont like what they see. Had Justin been leader of the NDP, maybe it would be different. Although I dont find him particularly charismatic. Maybe it's his drama roots, but he always seems to be trying too hard and "over-acting". As for the Cons, I dont see them fracturing. I do think Harper will step down if they lose. But not because they lose. If they somehow win a majority, I think he'd step down during his term. He's been leader and PM for awhile. I would like to think the members are too smart of put their far right desires ahead of a more balanced right wing agenda. Why be a right wing nut that loses when you can be a moderate winner? And I think Harper will maintain a lot of "elder statesman" respect...at least until a new leader is installed and tries to shove him out to pasture.

Nope. Mario could have been but wasn't. Can't label a player most special player based on what-if arguments. Hmmm...how about he was the most awe-inspiring player of all time (or at least his generation). Just ridiculous talent. Keep trying, Gretzky claimed that one as well, regardless of generation. :-) Not to me, he didnt. Fair enough, I can't give you a hard time on this, we all have our favorites. I once tried, with my Winnipeg Jet Bias in full use, to argue with some Oiler fans that my all time favorite Jet, Thomas Steen, was a better passer/playmaker in traffic than Gretzky. I didn't get any takers. I once argued that Brett Hull was better than Wayne. But i was trying to say he was better *at that time* but still, I was laughed out of the room. It happens. lol

I dont know. The thing about Vince is, he doesnt get personal. Well, he sort of does to a degree but he will work with anyone that he thinks will make money or make the show better. Hunter has long been someone who cuts balls off. And when it comes to the business, how would Hunter react to John Cena suggesting his girlfriend should get a big push as the best Diva when they are trying to usher in a "revolution" of better workers? Clearly Vince placates his top guy which isnt always best either. Would Hunter placate him? Would he thumb his nose at him to the detriment of the relationship? We know Hunter told Kurt Angle "not interested". Is that personal? is it a business decision? Would he bring in Eric Bischoff? Would he bring back Hulk Hogan? Things we dont know because of Hunter's limited exposure in the business side of things.

Nope. Mario could have been but wasn't. Can't label a player most special player based on what-if arguments. Hmmm...how about he was the most awe-inspiring player of all time (or at least his generation). Just ridiculous talent. Keep trying, Gretzky claimed that one as well, regardless of generation. :-) Not to me, he didnt.

Promises, Promises (GlobalNews): Conservatives: Extend parental leave benefits under employment insurance, including extending the length of time mothers and fathers would have their jobs protected to 18 months from the current one year. Give parents the option of stretching EI benefits over 18 months, starting next year. Open a two-year pilot project to allow parents to earn self-employment income while on EI. Provide a $1-billion package to help the auto industry cope with the repercussions of the Trans-Pacific Partnership. Renew funding for Brain Canada, a non-profit organization devoted to comprehensive neurological research. Create a tip line for people to report “barbaric cultural practices.” Create a formal list of criminal gangs, similar to what is done with designated terrorist groups. Put $2.5 million more a year into efforts to steer teens away from gang activity. Enact a law imposing two-year, mandatory minimum sentence for financial fraud over $5,000 with multiple victims, unless the offender pays full restitution. Aim to create 700,000 new homeowners by 2020. Provide $700 million for light-rail transit in Surrey, B.C. Establish new RCMP human trafficking teams in Toronto, Vancouver, Calgary and Winnipeg at an annual cost of $8 million for five years. Renew the national plan to combat human trafficking for five years at a cost of $20 million. By 2020, add 665 personnel to Canada’s special operation forces, which consists of 1,900 members. Bring in a “tax lock” law barring increases to federal personal and business income taxes, sales taxes and “discretionary payroll taxes” such as CPP and EI. Re-establish College Militaire Royal as a full-fledged, degree-granting military university. Impose travel bans against people who’ve already been sanctioned by the Canadian government and expand the list of reasons for implementing sanctions. Aim to create 1.3 million net new jobs by 2020. Issue official veterans cards as formal proof of service to every member of the military who completes basic training and is honourably released. Create a $100-million manufacturing technology demonstration fund available to large, pre-commercial projects in the advanced manufacturing sector. Bring in legislation to ensure that criminals sentenced to life are not eligible for parole. Toughen penalties for drunk drivers. Provide new money for child advocacy centres. Bring in a $2,000 tax credit for single seniors to help nearly 1.6 million seniors with pension income. Commit $10 million over five years to the Kanishka project established in 2011 to fund research into preventing and countering violent extremism. Invest $20 million in the lobster industry over three years, including a $15-million partnership with the Lobster Council of Canada to market and promote lobster abroad, plus $5 million for research. Raise government contribution when low- and middle-income families invest in education savings plans. A family earning up to $44,000 would get $200 for the first $500 put away for a child’s higher education plan each year, while a family earning up to $88,000 would receive $100 on the first $500 each year. Increase the maximum annual Canada Disability Savings Grant for low- and middle-class families to $4,000 from $3,500. Create and endowment fund for museums that would match the money the institutions raise privately, with a cap of about $15 million a year. Allot $5 million annually for programs to sustain habitats that support bird, moose and turkey populations, starting in 2017. Create a family bird-hunting permit and allow the use of crossbows for hunting birds. Earmark $9 million over three years starting in 2016 for a tourism program to attract recreational anglers, hunters and snowmobiles from the U.S. Establish a Canadian Forces reserve unit in the Yukon, the first such unit in the territory since the Yukon Regiment was disbanded in 1968. Extend the existing 15 per cent mineral exploration tax credit first implemented in 2006, and create a new 25 per cent credit for hard-to-reach mines. Establish a not-for-profit agency in Burlington, Ont., to help develop new products and technology for manufacturing, with a budget of $30 million a year for five years. Set up a new trade-promotion office to help attract new business for exporters, paid for by reallocating other government resources. Add $40 million over five years for an existing federal loans program that offers financial support to new Canadians while they complete the foreign credential recognition process. The money comes on top of $35 million committed to the program in the last budget. Spend $200 million to expand the country’s high-speed broadband Internet network across remote and rural areas. Support for a new marine terminal in Montreal and an expanded cruise ship terminal in Quebec City. Provide a tax break on membership fees to organizations such as the Kiwanis, Lions and Royal Canadian Legion. An extended partnership with the Pacific Salmon Foundation and $15 million to restore British Columbia estuaries. Increase the value of the 15 per cent non-refundable adoption expense tax credit to $20,000 from $15,000 and make it fully refundable. Cut “red tape” for businesses stemming from legislation and policy rules in addition to regulations. Better harmonize child car seat regulations with those of the United States to provide more choice and better prices. Simplify the calculation of home-office expense deductions. Resurrect the “life means life” legislation that died in the Commons when the election was called. The bill would mean that those who commit the most heinous murders or high treason, would spend the rest of their lives behind bars. Add 6,000 people to the ranks of the Canadian Forces reserves at a cost of $163 million over three years and $63.4 million going forward once the target of 30,000 personnel is reached. Improve the earnings loss benefit for veterans with service-related disabilities or injuries by letting them earn up to $10,000 in outside work, without losing any government funding. Spend $14 million to pave a stretch of a scenic highway between Fort Smith and Hay River in the Northwest Territories. Raise to $35,000 the amount that first-time home buyers can withdraw tax free from RRSPs to finance a home purchase. Track the impact of home purchases by foreign, non-residents to ensure this doesn’t skew the market against Canadian buyers. Another $4.5 million a year, on top of the $22 million currently budgeted, for an RCMP team designed to crack down on illegal drug labs and marijuana grow-ops. Allot $500,000 a year over four years on a national toll-free hotline for parents to call to get information about drug use among youth. Bring 10,000 additional refugees from Syria and Iraq. Spend $9 million over three years to help the Office of Religious Freedom protect places of worship and religious artifacts targeted by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. Expand federal laws that make it a crime for Canadians to head overseas to fight alongside groups officially identified by the federal government as a terrorist organization. Essentially it would declare certain areas no-travel zones for most Canadians, with exceptions for journalists and humanitarian workers. A permanent home-renovation tax credit – an update to the temporary credit introduced in 2009 – costing $1.5 billion a year, but contingent on a stronger economy. Applies to $5,000 worth of renovation costs, down from $10,000 in 2009. Increase the apprenticeship job creation tax credit, first introduced in 2006 to create incentives to foster skilled trades, to a maximum of $2,500, up from $2,000, and extend it to include the third and fourth years of eligible training. NDP: Commit $4.8 billion over the next eight years for aboriginal education. Provide $60 million over four years to Telefilm Canada and the National Film Board. Loosen rules for grants from the Canada Council for the Arts. Allow self-employed artists to average their incomes. Establish a new $10-million digital content fund to support celebrations of Canada’s 150th anniversary in 2017. A New Democrat government would not ratify a Trans Pacific Partnership. Spend $200 million over four years to help retrofit 50,000 homes and 15,000 apartments to make them more energy efficient. Invest $150 million over four years in a green municipal fund to help with sustainable local projects and cleaner transit. Establish an Office of the Parliamentary Science Officer and put $100 million toward helping 25 northern and remote communities wean themselves off diesel generation. Spend $32 million over four years to ensure more northerners have access to nutritious food. Launch a national cap and trade plan to combat greenhouse gas emissions. Provinces would be allowed to opt out if their efforts to bring down emissions are as good or better than those of the federal government. Boost the forestry sector with $55 million for manufacturing facilities, $40-million for research and development, and $10 million to promote Canadian wood products abroad. Freeze EI premiums for the next four years and spend more on training, while increasing benefits for young people, so-called precarious workers and new parents. Ease eligibility restrictions for EI benefits. Spend $454 million over four years to provide treatment for veterans suffering from the effects of post-traumatic stress disorder. Reopen the maritime rescue sub-centre in St. John’s, N.L., and reopen the Coast Guard marine communications and traffic services centres in St. John’s and St. Anthony. Have coast guard search and rescue capabilities available at all hours. Provide $2.6 billion over four years and work with provinces to establish universal prescription drug coverage. Aim to cut drug costs by 30 per cent through bulk purchases. Set up a $100-million, four-year mental health innovation fund for children and youth, including $15 million a year for health-care providers and community mental health associations and $10 million a year for research and information-sharing among health-care providers. Invest $300 million to build 200 additional health clinics and spend $200 million on recruitment grants for health-care professionals. Devote $40 million to deal with Alzheimer’s and dementia, including money for research, screening, early diagnosis and treatment and help for families seeking care for afflicted relatives. Spend $1.8 billion over four years to help provinces bolster health care for seniors by expanding home care for 41,000 seniors, creating 5,000 more nursing beds and improving palliative care services. Provide up to $100 million a year to create more than 40,000 jobs, paid internships and co-op placements for youth over four years. End Canadian participation in the bombing campaign against ISIL in Iraq and Syria. Bring 10,000 Syrian refugees into the country by the end of the year. Set aside an additional $90 million for the automotive supplier innovation program over the next five years. Create a $160-million, four-year fund to help small- and medium-sized aerospace companies adopt new technology and increase production. Convene a first minister’s meeting to discuss expansion of the Canada and Quebec pension plans within six months of taking office. Invest $28 million in Sport Canada to support youth sports. Invest $30 million in Destination Canada over three years to promote tourism. Invest $40 million over four years to restore cuts to shelters for women fleeing violence, creating or renovating 2,100 spaces in first-stage shelters and 350 spaces in transition houses. Reverse a planned reduction in the rate of increase in provincial health transfers, due to set in two years from now. A $40-million tax credit for businesses that invest in machinery, equipment and property used in innovative research and development. A balanced budget in the first year of an NDP mandate. Increase the guaranteed income supplement for the poorest seniors by $400 million; return the age of eligibility for old age security back to 65 from 67. Create a million child care spaces over eight years, including 110,000 in B.C., where child-care costs are highest. The party says the cost to parents would be no more than $15 a day. Spend $250 million over four years to recruit 2,500 new police officers. Commit $100 million year thereafter to a recruiting program. Commit $7 million a year to a Joint Emergency Preparedness Program for disasters such as floods and fires and earmark an additional $2 million for emergency training programs. Invest $30 million over three years in Destination Canada, a Crown corporation responsible for promoting Canada as a tourist destination. Bring in legislation to make the parliamentary budget officer a fully independent officer of Parliament and require government departments and agencies to make financial information available to the PBO. Create a payment-protection program for farmers who don’t get paid if they sell their products to U.S. companies that go bankrupt. Liberals: Sign the United Nations Arms Trade Treaty, which covers conventional weaponry. Increase Canada Student Grants by 50 per cent to $3,000 a year. Allow students to wait until they’re earning at least $25,000 a year before requiring them to start repaying student loans. Impose new restrictions on marketing unhealthy food and drinks to children. Help fund a Montreal rapid transit expansion, as well as a light-rail project on the Champlain Bridge linking Montreal to the suburban South Shore. Spent $3 billion over four years on home care and improve access to and reduce the cost of prescription medications through bulk purchasing. Establish a pan-Canadian Expert Advisory Council on Mental Health. Put up $200 million a year for three years to help research facilities, small business incubators and exporters and invest another $100 million a year for an industrial research assistance program. Ease rules to speed up family reunification for immigrants. Scrap the visa requirement for Mexicans travelling to Canada. Provide $380 million in additional funding for the arts and undo Conservative funding cuts to the CBC. Scrap the purchase of the F-35 fighter jet and instead buy cheaper planes to replace the aging CF-18s and use the savings to pay for offshore Arctic patrol vessels for the navy being built in Halifax. Provide $1.5 billion for public transit in Calgary as well as unspecified financing for flood control measures in the city. Give $500 million to the provinces for skilled trades training, and devote $200 million for federal training programs. Set aside another $50 million to help aboriginal people improve their skills and job prospects. Spend $1.5 billion over four years on a youth job strategy to help 125,000 young people find a job. Put a moratorium on tanker traffic along the northern coast of British Columbia. Reinstate $40-million cut from the ocean science and monitoring program at the Department of Fisheries and Oceans. Increase protected marine and coastal areas to five per cent from 1.3 per cent by 2017, and to 10 per cent by 2020. Eliminate the GST on all new rental builds and give up to $125 million a year to landlords renovating aging units. Kill a planned toll system on a rebuilt Champlain Bridge in Montreal. Over $120 billion for infrastructure projects across Canada. A refundable tax benefit of up to $150 for teachers who spend their own money on school supplies. $300 million a year to reform veterans’ benefits and delivery of services to vets. Make employment insurance compassionate care benefits available to anyone caring for a seriously ill family member and make the program more flexible by allowing the six-month benefit to be claimed in blocks of time over a year-long period. Change labour laws to ensure that employees in federally regulated industries have the right to ask their bosses for flexible work hours. Invest $200 million a year to develop clean technologies in forestry, fisheries, mining, energy and farming. Put another $100 million into organizations that promote clean technology firms. Lower the federal income tax rate to 20.5 per cent on incomes between $44,700 and $89,401, paying for it by raising taxes on the wealthiest one per cent. Bring in a new, tax-free child benefit to replace the Conservative universal child benefit. Add $515 million a year to funding for First Nations education, rising through the mandate to a total of $2.6 billion. Add another $500 million over three years for education infrastructure and $50 million more a year for a program that helps aboriginals in post-secondary education. Bring in a merit-based appointment process for the Senate.

You think the Cons are guilty of playing on voters' desire/admiration of someone's physical attractiveness, specifically the party leader? If you think the Cons are using Harper's sex appeal to score votes then you're either very wrong or perhaps an elderly lady. Not that Harper's a bad looking guy but he's no Justin! lol For the record, it's a great tactic by the Liberals.

I dont know. Do you? I never specified all voters. But there is always a lot of voters that will vote for style over substance. And the Liberals know that and run ads to capitalize on it.

Nope. Mario could have been but wasn't. Can't label a player most special player based on what-if arguments. Hmmm...how about he was the most awe-inspiring player of all time (or at least his generation). Just ridiculous talent.

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Size doesnt dictate skill. If Mario played the same amount of games as Wayne, he comes in at 2800 points. But Mario would likely have had a higher PPG since he retired with over 2 points per game. His PPG lowered when he hung on too long to help sell tickets in Pittsburgh. And while you cant discount injuries, we're not talking about the usual injuries. Mario was struck down by cancer and a debilliating back injury. Some nights, he could barely stand and would score five points. Mario was the most special player of all time. Had he not had the crazy back injury and had not retired early, perhaps he doesnt out score Wayne over a career, but he probably takes the points in one season record and maybe the goals in one season record. And that would juice his legacy a bit more. Both are great. Wayne had the greater career. I just think if Mario had not had two crazy health issues, he ends up a lot more likely to be considered by many to be the most talented player of all time.

Very good. Tyler Breeze was tremendous tonight.Makes you wonder how Hunter can book NXT, Steph can sit ringside and yet on RAW they screw up the women so badly. Vince It blows my mind really. Im watching Bayley and Sasha kill it out there. Hunter & Sara Del Rey are handing out flowers, Steph is sitting with Charlotte, Becky and Lita and chanting "women's wrestling" with the crowd. And then you tune into RAW and they all forget? I can honestly say if someone said Steph and/or Vince replied to criticism with "yeah but thats just NXT, this is WWE", I'd believe it. But hey, no one in NXT is dating John Cena so you dont have to book his princess as the division killer.

Liberals have 120 seats on the poll tracker. And team New Dumb is down to 84 seats and dropping, daily. So happy to see that.... Some people like bashing Trudeau but he's done well and is winning Liberal seats back. He's pretty deserving of the bashing. He has no substance to anything he says. But never discount the voters who dont know/dont care about the issues and see a young, good looking guy with a name they recognize. But his rise has also corresponded to the decline in the NDP. The benefit of the Liberals is they can draw from both factions of undecided or disillusioned who dont want to switch all the way right or all the way left. He's seen as the safe place to park a vote.

Very good. Tyler Breeze was tremendous tonight. Makes you wonder how Hunter can book NXT, Steph can sit ringside and yet on RAW they screw up the women so badly.

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Great players don't take many nights off....Gretzky is head and shoulders above everyone else...he almost averaged 2 points per game during his career....think about that for a minute. I am not a huge Gretzky fan and hated the whiner when he played. Doesn't take away from what he did though. Mario averaged the same. In fact Mario was over 2 points per game until he hung on a bit long near the end because the pens needed him Mario would have broke Wayne's points in a season record and maybe goals too. Cancer and a serious back injury struck him down. Over all Wayne was greater. But Mario had more God given talent. Had he been healthy and played a full career, yikes.

Mario was so good he could take nights off and still be the greatest hockey player that ever loved. I officially rank then 1.Mario 2. Wayne. The rest is just the rest.

That's not the instinct though. It's to close ranks and lie and cheat to protect the bad apples.

You can't have it without a script and the script is on the original bottle. I assume that's tje issue here. He might have been given a chance to produce a script but couldn't. Percs and things of that nature are truly wonderful. I have a bottle right now that I use very sparingly because it's hard to get. I filled the scriot shortly after filling a T3 script and the pharmacy questioned me and called the doctor.

Crosby is a much more complete player than Gretzky. Gretzky had more pure talent. Mario was better than both.

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Can't just end his contract. And that was a big contract. Buy him out. That alone is enough to retire on.

Chevy looked really bad.. He looks extremely bloated up. Best part of the film to me was hearing Holiday Road again. It wasnt bad but missed the heart of the originals. I think 2-3 people were actually killed in the movie. Weird. Should have got Christy Brinkley driving the Ferrari again... Movies like that need to be homages to the originals, not just making a new money and slapping on the name of a classic and hoping people come to see it.

ED209? Nothing could go wrong there. ;-)

There is a film on Netflix called (I think) Pink Ribbon Inc or something like that. Sorry, off topic, but speaking of Netflix, I hear its a good watch especially at this time of the year, detailing the con of some cancer charities, like the one WWE supports like crazy.

Im doing a pool tonight. I have a pretty good track record in my group.