johnefrancis

Sounds good to me. No point leaving a bunch of open senate seats for some future govt to fill.

I look forward to Trudeau's many non-partisan senators to blocking a future attempt by Poilievre to bypass the charter of rights using the notwithstanding clause federally. The senate would be right to reject that when conservatives try to advance attacks on whatever marginalized group they want blame for their own failings (probably transgendered people).

The senate would be right to reject that.

family farms are a tiny part of the ag industry. In the US it was under 10%. The image of a pastoral low-intensity 19th century family farm has been drilled into peoples' minds by food industry advertising for 100 years. People like that image but it's not real.

Ag is big business. Loans and leases for land, equipment, inputs, most of the labour isn't from the business operator.

There's probably under 10k family farms in Canada that would be impacted by a transfer to family and they can easily be exempted, it's chump change for tax revenue.

link goes to article about biodegradable micro beads

"cures" involving immunosuppression have been around for a long time. It's not a good outcome for most, the side effects of immunosuppression are worse than taking insulin.

The main patient discussed uses immunosuppression but later in the article they discuss some progress that doesn't involve halting the immune system. That's the potential breakthrough.

looks like pseudoscience bullshit to me.

dong!

iBRICS now.

the NDP isn't putting any sort of socialist reform on the table. They aren't talking about redistribution and optimising the economy for continuing prosperity with redistribution and environmental sustainability. They don't organize well and treat volunteers poorly. They let Trudeau scoop their long held positions on social justice while Mulcair wanted to talk about balanced budgets. Singh has done little to reform the party. Otherwise..great job on squeezing a few concessions out of the LPC. Even if they stick, they'll be under permanent attack until they're in as bad shape as the rest of Canada's antiquated social programs.

Whoopsie, sorry about your chromosome arms breaking off, while we were trying to cure your mild genetic disease. Hey, did you always glow blue? Don't you bark at me! Get back! Aiiiiiiii bones crunching

Ubuntu 16? OK...

the increases they're asking for probably don't make up for the high inflation in the recent past. Particularly if inflation, as measured for consumers at that income level, doesn't stay at 2% or less for the next 4 years.

looks right side up to me