RobinBC

RobinBC

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13 years ago @ Macleans.ca - Go away, media. You're... · 2 replies · -38 points

A weak pathetic diatribe from a "journalist", a profession who's trust rating by the public has been falling like a stone in the past ten years.
Leftist bias, self aggrandizement and jumbo size egos from a bunch of people who know nothing about the subjects they write about. Do they really think people haven't started to notice?

Their can spin any story into a "crisis" or any of the other cliches that seem to be the limit of their vocabulary. Over every story is their opinion, the only thing they think matters.

13 years ago @ Macleans.ca - Clash of the conservat... · 1 reply · +2 points

Ted Morton is a fake, a "conservative" who quickly sold out for a cabinet post and is now in a Party that makes up policy based on what they think will "sell". I think Smith will beat Morton silly in an election.

13 years ago @ Macleans.ca - A wasted year? · 3 replies · -3 points

Any Government that manages to keep its nose out of people's business gets my vote. The only people upset about this are the nanny state whiners who have a never ending list of crises the think the Government should spend money on and pass legislation.
Well done Harper. Try doing less next year.

13 years ago @ Macleans.ca - Nothing to fear but Wi... · 1 reply · +1 points

Until the mid 1960s' dentists were trained to put fillings in teeth on a preemptive basis. This is the main reason for high "cavity" rates pre 1970, childrens teeth were filled with amalgam before any actual cavity happened. This practice originated in dental school education in the early 20th century. Not surprisingly post 1970s' kids have a lot less amalgam in their mouths. Ask your dentist.

Although it goes back some decades the fluoride argument was first promoted on a large scale by Crest toothpaste who claimed some very unscientific studies they paid for proved fluoride reduced cavities. This gained the use of fluoride credibilty with the public even though the studies were flawed in many ways.
As far as the science supporting flouride reducing cavities by strengthening tooth enamel there isn't any. The science is based on studies of populations where cavity rates are compared in areas with different levels of flouride. There is no evidence ingesting fluoride strengthens tooth enamel. There is some evidence topical application may do so but this cannot be done with water.

In Canada, the Calgary Health Authority looked into the science" in the 1990s' and couldn't justify fluoride science other than saying there was a scientific consensus it worked (like global warming this consensus is really opinion based on "cause and effect" studies, not hard science). Nonetheless they recommended cutting the current level of fluoride in the Calgary water supply in half.

Of note is the fact the virtually no European nation mandates fluoride in water supplies. If the science is so proven why don't they? In fact the use of fluoride in public water supplies is primarily a North American one, driven by the "nanny" state.

13 years ago @ Macleans.ca - Canada has never offer... · 2 replies · +7 points

Allowing a Sikh to wear a turban while on duty as an RCMP officer was outrageous pandering to our multicultural stupidity. Of course wearing anything Christian was not allowed because it might offend non Christians. That is a reasonable argument but the multicultural bigots allow Sikh, Muslim and any other "minority" to brazenly put their religious belief in everybody's face.
Immigrants must be prepared to assimilate into Canada's culture. Hyphenated Canadians are not Canadian.
Insofar as Indians (Firist Nations, Aboriginals, First Peoples–whatever the nonsense word is these days), their culture(s) are dead. They were created to support a way of life that is gone and pretending otherwise is as ridiculous as British people pretending to be Medieval.
Assigning everyone to a "group" from which some Government determines what rights and privileges you have appeals to the Socialist mindset. This is why the Left embraces the lie of "multiculturalism".

13 years ago @ Macleans.ca - Behind Robert Semrau's... · 0 replies · +10 points

The is no chance the wounded man would have survived, he was in great pain and in a hopeless situation. The action of shooting a wounded person dieing in pain on the battlefield, enemy or friend, is not unknown in any war you care to mention. Trying to apply "justice" from a desk in Ottawa is ridiculous.

13 years ago @ Macleans.ca - Burning Qurans and Gro... · 1 reply · +4 points

A silly argument. People are free to take offense at anything they like. What they cannot be allowed to do is threaten others (a crime); what the State cannot do is make being offensive a crime.
An individual burning a book or slandering the name of Mohammad may be objectionable to some, but it should not be a crime nor should threats of violence against that individual be tolerated.
"Marc" and others equate being offensive (burning a Koran) with threatening to kill someone who burns a Koran.

13 years ago @ Macleans.ca - HST referendum coming ... · 0 replies · +1 points

PST worked by taxing every level of sale with no credit to having paid PST to a supplier. It was a tax on a tax.

In fact what you are asking for is exactly what happened. The HST taxes only things the GST already taxed.

13 years ago @ Macleans.ca - HST referendum coming ... · 0 replies · +1 points

The HST is a good thing. The only mistake was lying to the voters about doing it.
Most people have difficulty understanding they are paying "hidden" taxes like provincial sales taxes so when they see them directly on a bill they think taxes have gone up. Sure some things previous exempt from PST are up but the vast majority of things are not.
The anti HST petition was politics, using anger not economics to succeed. Unfortunately Campbell has no credibility to now present the case for HST. Voters may cut off their noses to spite their face if HST is repealed. What should happen is the provincial portion of the HST should be reduced and the reduction in tax revenues covered off by reduced spending.