Comments for made in Canada

Comment on Energy Boom: Why Canada will be a Global Leader by Javorszarvas

Javorszarvas — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 09:54:17 +0000

Interesting, but have concerns:

1 -Which part of Canada? I am afraid of environmental diseaster for the beautiful landscape. Something like in Nigeria where they have moved villages, and the leaking tubes cause numerous rivers polluted.

2 -Instead of crude oil we should move on for safer energy. This article /info is not reinforcing this.

Comment on James Bond is Canadian! by Richard Tatomir

Richard Tatomir — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 10:16:29 +0000

I was intrigued by the story about 007 being a real Canadian working for the British Intelligence during WWII. I knew the talent existed for this kink of work by a Canadian soldier and was pleased that Ian Fleming confirmed the identity of his character for the fans. Hats off to Ian.

Comment on Harper consistently embarrasses Canada abroad by Mike Casey

Mike Casey — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 22:01:44 +0000

Wow, I didn’t realize that Canadians faced these injustices around the world. Hopefully Harper gets the message – good luck.

Comment on Is Barack Obama bad for Canada? by Nick Gjergji

Nick Gjergji — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 16:14:36 +0000

So is Obama really bad for Canada?
Hi,
This is good that you are talking for oil production from oil sands, the pollution and Mr. Obama concepts for dirty oil sands.
Mr. Obama really is good for Canada. This is because He is making every effort to bring back the US from the recession, stop the unemployment, and develop the US economy. On other side this can be translated on more energy requirement, being this from wind Sun or whatever else. One thing is clear to me. The US during years 1981-2008 have increased the coal production by 1.1 %to 1.5 % reaching the coal production 1062 million tones on year 2008. I believe that Mr. Obama know that the produced coal from the US is polluting the atmosphere. And this pollution is 15.7 % of the total pollution on the world only from coal.
Let we see the Canadian oil production including here conventional oil and dirty oil from oil sands. The Canadian oil production during 2008 reached 156.7 million tones which is only 14.7 % of all coal production from the US on the same year.
If Mr. Obama is talking for dirty oil, I believe that he has the good intention to drop even more the price of oil. Having this intention hi will help the US to recover the economy.
Mr. Obama understands that the energy demand in the US requires spending billions of dollars to import the energy they need. Simple calculations will help everybody to understand that the US president Mr. Obama is saving the country and other countries, the oil producers including here and the Canada, are paying for this. I will mention on these moments that based on the US oil consumption, more than 50 % of it is from import. This 50% is around 10 million barrel per day. If the oil price will be the highest that all we tasted during 2008, let say 140 $/bbl, then the US needs 1.4 billion US Dollar to by it. For a year the US will need 511 Billion dollars for this import.
In fact Mr. Obama has been very successful during all the time he is the President of US. The Oil price dropped bellow 40$/bbl and it is actually about 70 $/BBL. Using simple calculations I will accept that the average oil price during this time of year 2009 is 55 $/ bbl, that means that Mr. Obama is saving about 850 million dollars on every day or about 300 billion of dollars for the year 2008. We can understand on this point that a part of the US savings is lost indirectly from Canadian oil export, being this conventional or dirty oil from oil sands.

Comment on Petition to save the CBC by Derek

Derek — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 14:40:17 +0000

This isnt a heath care plan, UI or CPP. Its a television company. It should generate a profit. It doesnt, because the CBC is pathetically run and their employees are too numerous and overpaid. If people realy cared about the CBC they would watch it, and CBC wouldnt be losing so much money because their advertising revenue would be higher. In short, the CBC should trim the fat and/or improve their programming.

Comment on Energy Boom: Why Canada will be a Global Leader by SabSobbyGaima

SabSobbyGaima — Wed, 20 May 2009 17:59:28 +0000

Wonderful writing,, Will come back again soon!

Comment on Top Canadian Political Gaffes by Sam

Sam — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 02:47:36 +0000

lol these are hilarious!

Comment on Top Canadian Political Gaffes by Roger Strong

Roger Strong — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 01:31:34 +0000

My favorite Canadian political quotes:

“I’m not going to play politics on the floor of the House of Commons.”
- Liberal leader John Turner

“In Pierre Trudeau, Canada has finally produced a Prime Minister worthy of assassination.”
- John Diefenbaker

“Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.”
– Lester B. Pearson

“The election is not a time to discuss serious issues.”
– Kim Campbell

“The fact is the statements are perfectly consistent, but more importantly, I don’t have all the facts.”
– Prime Minister Paul Martin.

“I’ve been called treacherous, stupid, venal, lazy… and that’s only by the Tories.”
– Peter McKay, Conservative MP and former Tory leader.

Comment on Top Weekly Canadian News ~ 28/03/09 by Mike

Mike — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 21:11:51 +0000

That may make a lot of people happy – with the student loan interest. A lot of people here in the US are in no hurry to graduate and look for a job in this economy.

Comment on Petition to save the CBC by Mike

Mike — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 21:07:45 +0000

Companies go under all the time. If they are such a national treasure why doesn’t a private citizen give them a lone? I think there needs to be some accountability in corporations, who shouldn’t rely on taxpayer dollars to keep their business afloat.