Comments on: All the scientists are running around.

By: Kiri

Kiri — Sun, 21 May 2006 17:42:12 +0000

Wow. I’m fully agreeing with you on that forum. Just reading through a couple threads is more then disgusting the information that’s being passed around. Those kids are going to be coming into the school with absolutely no correct information at this rate… W

ere there any volunteers even asked to help this out? I know tons of people with better information then is being given out here and more then enough time to keep the forums moderated properly.

At this rate it looks like frosh week is going to be making sure all the frosh actually understand the truth and not about just having a good time as it should be.

By: Christine

Christine — Thu, 04 May 2006 13:52:21 +0000

I’ve never cared for any government spending plan that essentially gives cash to people. It’s less effecient.

What burns me about the new budget announcements is that they seem to be trying to widen the economic gap rather than close it.

By: canukie

canukie — Thu, 04 May 2006 13:36:50 +0000

I don’t think any of the liberal leadership candidates are truly left wing anymore. Even the NDP has lost most of it’s leftie core. Just a comment on Gerard Kennedy – when doing his food bank thing he worked hard to bring in corporations and has always had a practical problem-solving approach. I posted a link on my blog to a webcast he did with educators in sept 2005 if you want to know what his ideas were then.

I also like Ken Dryden, for policy alone and he seems more of a real person and less a career driven politician.

As for electibility, many are talking about appearance, charisma, education, bagage, etc and all I can say is you can never tell what makes a candidate work. Jean Chretien was neither pretty nor a wonderful public speaker and yet he was elected more than once. Stephen Harper bores me to death whenever he talks and I find him supremely creepy in every respect. Until recently most people considered Harper too “right wing” to be elected and look where we are now. It really boils down to communicating ideas that connect with the voting public.

Good luck making your choice.

By: Mike Purvis

Mike Purvis — Wed, 03 May 2006 20:51:51 +0000

I find the childcare issue a really frustrating one to talk about. On the one hand, I see the “beer & popcorn” argument as legitimate, but on the other, I loath the notion of state-sponsored day care for all.