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The Conservatives were elected to a minority government based on a promise to clean up Ottawa after the Liberal sponsorship scandal as well as improving democracy by instituting an elected senate etc. What they;ve done has erode the democratic process by proroguing parliament (shutting it down, ending the session and killing any legislation still in committee) in order to stifle any discussion of the Afghanistan detainee scandal (Con officials had canadian troops hand over detainees in Afghanistan to be tortured), while prorogued, stacking the senate with conservative appointees, who then killed any legislation that passed in the house of commons because the opposition parties hold a majority of seats in the house. Several conservatives were found to have violated electoral spending limits, which amounts to electoral fraud. The conservatives then vowed to eliminate per vote party subsidies which gives $2 per vote to political parties, this would leave the Cons in a much better position to launch a campaign as their fundraising ability outmaches all the other parties. This was the last straw and Opposition parties united to bring down the government and establish a coalition government, instead the Cons prorogued parliament again so the vote couldn't pass and spend the prorogation period on an ad campaign calling a coalition undemocratic because it didn't include his party which recieved the most seats (32%). When they came back the word "coalition" had suffered a black eye from the Con's media campaign. It was pretty quiet from then on until one of the Con ministers changed the wording of a comittee document after it had been agreed upon, effectively having the comittee agree to the opposite of that which they agreed to. That began the initial contempt charge. Then the comittee debating a Con crime bill asked for the cost projections of the bill. The cons refused to provide them repeatedly. 2nd contempt charge. The government then fell on a confidence motion on the passage of the contempt charge. During their reign they have ran media campaign after media campaign of attack ads attacking the other parties and their leaders, as well as using government funds to promote thier party. They even had official documents replace "Government of Canada" with "Harper Government" The Liberals are accusing the Cons of excessive spending on things Canada doesn't need or want. 35 billion on stealth fighter jets which there was no bidding process for, 14 billion on US style megaprisons, etc. We do need new Jets, but 35 billion with no bidding process is silly. Harper is still going on about the "Reckless coalition" despite the current Liberal leader not supporting the coalition at the time it was proposed and denying it multiple times now.

Anyone other Canadians on here following the election? I think its sad how well the Conservatives are polling considering how much they've been screwing up, how much is coming to light in terms of their association with criminals in key areas of the party, as well as their constant use of attack ads that most canadians claim to hate. I mean the Liberals got taken down by a scandal that cost taxpayers 18 million, 4 million by the scandal and 14 million for the investigation, the conservatives have multiple members under investigation for electoral fraud, they prorogued parliament twice in order to avoid discussing issues damaging to the party (or to avoid the opposition forming a coalition government). They were found in contempt of parliament once and were under investigation for a second count but that ended due to an election being called after the government fell on the first count of contempt. Their campaign is almost entirely about the horrors of a Liberal-NDP coalition, despite that being an entirely acceptable outcome in the constitution and in fact several of our allies have coalition governments, while the other parties are campaigning based on what they want to do for the country. Yet they still have a major lead in the polls, even in major left leaning areas. And what appears to be the major sticking point for most canadians on why they are going to vote Conservative? The Liberal leader took teaching positions in Harvard and Oxford and so he was away from the country for years. I was hoping Canadians weren't so stupid.

Depends how much I won. If it was just a million I'd buy a house, car, pay off my debts and invest the rest. If it was like one of those 190 million powerball thingies you americans have, then same, but the house would have a batcave like lair and be constructed like the olden days stuff, mostly stone, so it will last hundreds of years. I'd also buy a controlling interest in a local Fusion company that apparently has promise, and lay down the funds so someone like Obsidian to do a couple dream games.

My excuse is I can't afford lego. They brought back Castles and Space Police, but I don't have the hundreds of dollars or the space to put it.

And the winner for most epic lego goes to: http://www.techeblog.com/index.php/tech-ga...comment-2278481

Don't know if its been posted yet since I don't feel like reading 30+ pages but:

Problem with Quebec leaving is its the source of 80% of our national identity, history, and symbols. Canada without Quebec is not Canada. Agreed on their bigotry though. Almost as bad as the Swiss.

It was awesome except for the guy who played the lead. He sucked pretty hard. It was like they tried finding the person with the least charisma they could find.

Does anyone else hate that they turned Hurlocks into undead chimps in armor?

I will say that the demo didn't adress any of the fears that I had about the game being less deep. An hour or so of combat split up by Mass Effects lousy dialogue system. Whoop di doo. The Diablo 2 skill tree didn't help.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/...e1907126/page1/ More protests in Iran. Looks like Tunisia and Egypt acted as a warning to the governments in the other countries, because their police/military clamped down pretty hard on these protests.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/...article1905328/ Now Yemen as well.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/...article1904949/ Pro-democracy demonstrations in Algeria despite ban on protests.

Yes.

Michael Rosenbaum's portrayal of LL was the best thing about Smallville.(apart from Erica Durance) Kevin Spacey's portrayal was also quite funny. Agreed. FACTOID! In the Justice League cartoon show Michael Rosenbaum was the voice actor for the Flash. In one of the later episodes (JLU actually) He and Luthor swap brains. "You gonna wash your hands?" "No... 'cause I'm Evil." One of the best episodes of JLU

Guy at work got me into Volbeat. I recommend.

Lucifer being on that list pissed me off. He's not a villain in his book or Sandman.

Speaking as a Canadian from Vancouver, I can say the population here is pretty outraged. And its not a widespread thing, its only one company, that I believe is pretty close to being shut down.

The kindle is already really cheap. Think of it this way, it costs about as much as a bookcase, but allows you to take all the books you store on it everywhere you go. Plus getting books 2 bucks cheaper just by owning one isn't bad either. I really want one, got to play with one a month or so ago. I think eventually they'll figure out a way to combine e-ink and tablet displays so you get the benefits of both.

Why do comments here and elsewhere lead me to think some people believe they're building a giant new city rather than just merging municipalities? Merging municipalities won't increase pollution or whatnot, it will make it easier to regulate and therefore reduce pollution rather than having 12 different policies.

I'm really digging Warehouse 13. Jules Verne being a super-genius and actually building some of the crap they wrote about was pretty sweet. Oh, and also being a hot psycho chick who was frozen in bronze only to be thawed out and try to destroy the world is pretty sweet too. Sanctuary was awesome first season, then they killed off a character simply because there were too many white people on the show. (True story, they wanted to replace her with someone "ethnic" in order to draw more immigrant viewers so they made some lame crap up that ruined the entire series in order to kille her)

Saw Tron Legacy on the weekend. When will this 3D trend die? I enjoyed the hell out of the flick, don't get why its got such a negative reaction from critics. Its like they expected something from Disney to not be a popcorn flick.

Dragon Age 2 Witcher 2 Mass Effect 3 Sims: Medieval Magna Mundi Those are the most likely.

I'd like a modded version of the Star Wars prequels that are good. One bit that would improve Revenge of the Sith would be replacing Palpatine murdering 3 Jedi Council members with single slow clumsy lightsaber stabs with something that both makes the emperor look cool and doesn't make the Jedi Council look like a bunch of novices.

The beginning is slow as hell and pretty confusing as well. It'll all pay off later, though... [not an actual spoiler] Its worse when you realize that book 5 is actually the 2nd half of book 4. So he's basically been writing book 4 for like 10 years. And he thinks fans are unreasonable when they tell him to get to work. I mean when his blog is nothing but "I'm going travelling, and when I get back I'm getting ready to go travelling so I can be back in time to go to this convention before I go travelling again and hopefully when my vacation starts I can get to work on that book thingy if football isn't on." Its understandable that fans are irate. He was the lead in the short lived supernatural cop drama New Amsterdam. Wasn't too shabby in it. My concern is a lot of the costumes and props look pretty hokey. Hopefully looks better in the final version rather than production stills.