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"Harpo cuts programs like crazy, and basically has never passed a positive thing. As in, a net gain policy-wise. Just cuts." Hell, he sure hasn't cut the prison system.

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you sure? i got it a couple years ago (in my late 30's) after they changed their citizenship rules. if you haven't looked recently, you should definitely review.

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Ummm, this comment will be causing many deep-base harrumphs from the admissions board of the Curmudgeons of Amercia; Statler & Waldorf are decidedly not amused. Just sayin. And how's that Latin coming?

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Gave me a chuckle. Ever since I moved to Montana, I have to laugh when I see people struggling to plant and cultivate blackberries.

I earned my summer money as a teen hacking back acres of invading blackberry bushes. You couldn't keep the things away with a fucking flame thrower.

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Primer for those thinking of moving <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watc..." target="_blank">" rel="nofollow noopener" title="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRI-A3vakVg">http://www.youtube.com/watc...

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That would be because you aren't a <a href="http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/british-columbia\/story\/2012\/12\/17\/bc-pickton-missing-women-report.html" target="_blank">sex trade worker, probably aboriginal</a>, who the police don't consider worth the same level of protection as you.

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Tim Horton's SUCKS!!! I hate the fact that they have scammed the Canadian public into thinking that they are the heartbeat of Canada, or some such crap. They use Mother Parker's coffee, burn it, and their donuts are made in a factory and shipped in.

If I want decent coffee on the run, I go to MacDonald's.

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Not even right-wing Conservatives up here suggest dismantling our health care system. They know that they'd get voted out of office next time round.

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Now, that's not fair. we have some very liberal Liberals. Not everyone who believes in social justice joins the NDP.

And yes, Stephen Harper is a scourge upon the earth, and unless the Liberals and NDP get their fucking act together, we are stuck with Stevie and his merry band of crooks for a long long time.

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SW Ontario is very nice and affordable, and the weather is relatively civilized.

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<a href="http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch\?v=eKLkmTz-kJw" target="_blank">Even better</a>

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Harveys makes a hamburger a beautiful thing.

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<i>Liberal leader Christy Clark, who lost her own riding to a civil liberties lawyer but still gets to be Premier because (we assume) the NHL refuses to institute no-touch icing</i>

She is still Premier because she is the leader-of-the-party-with-the-most-seats-in-the-legislative-assembly (Can you tell I teach high school Civics?) However, she will need to get a seat for herself; it is fundamental to the Westminster tradition that the leader of the government be an elected representative who can answer questions in the legislature, and who can be voted out of office if the people don't like what she does (she is responsible to them, therefore Responsible Government). So now some happy newly-elected Liberal MLA in a really safe seat gets to resign and let her run in a special by-election so that she can once again be a member of the legislative assembly. That would really suck.

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It was a federal Liberal government in 1965 (Pearson) that introduced Medicare. It was a Liberal (Trudeau) who said that the state has no place in the bedrooms of the nation. They liberalized the divorce laws, outlawed capital punishment, and made multiculturalism official policy. Oh, and introduced a long-gun registry in the 1990's which the Tory government just gleefully threw out.

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We should be having a Toronto drinky-thing!

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I got some mean carpentry skills, and know how to fish the Puget Sound, if anyone starts planning a commune.

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