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    While I am not a creationist, just on a side note, many Jewish scholars explain that the 6000 years do not correspond accordingly to years as we count them now. It is not as if they actually believe dinosaurs lived between days 4 and 5. I can't account for Christian creationists, however. Not sure how literal they take it. And just a note on the Conservatives, because it's getting very tiring hearing the same things over and over again. For one, the Conservative party of Canada is not the Bush administration. The Conservatives had cabinet ministers at both the Democratic and Republican conventions and there are many Conservatives, in general, who support the Democrats over the Republicans as well those who support the Republicans but dislike Bush. As for trying to void this country of culture and turning us into a "51st" state per say. Give me a break. And calling the U.S. cultureless is ridiculous in itself. On September 19. the Conservatives announced new funding of $25 million over five years for TV5 -- Quebec's commercial-free arts and culture channel. And with the whole ‘arts cuts’ debacle, from my understanding, net spending on arts and culture had actually increased under the Harper government. The cuts were to programs not deemed priorities or deemed as ineffective. Were they right? Maybe not. I’m not in the arts so I don’t know what the exact impact of these particular programs is. But to act like the Conservatives are trying to just wipe away all culture is an easy cop-out just to remain anti-Conservative. Which federalist party promotes the most provincial autonomy? That would be the Conservatives. And the more provincial autonomy a province has the better able it is to build on defining its own cultural impacts.
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    The shorter you build --> the less money you can make off the property --> the cheaper the materials you have to use. Considering the hotel industry is pretty oversaturated in this city, sometimes the only way hotels will be able to build is by being shorter and cheaper. That's also why condo-hotels are the way to go (but even then, as you can see, that only helps so much).
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    I too don't know much about SRC and I don't have a huge problem with the regular CBC channel, but CBC Newsworld needs to stop being funding by the Canadian public. For one, it should be renamed CBC Editorial-world, two it is the mouthpiece of one political party in particular, (I'll give you a hint, start with LIB and ends with ERAL) and I don't think it's fair Conservatives, Dippers, Bloquists and Greens should have to pay for that garbage.
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    All the things discussed in the throne speech should come at no surprise. They have nothing to do with the amount of Conservative MPs in Quebec. They have been Conservative policies for years now. They are pan-Canadian policies and don't specifically target any province (whereas, for example, the equalization/natural resources thing directly affected Newfoundland). The Quebec party leaders know this and are just trying to attract more voters. This was not a direct hit at Quebec in any way, shape or form; and I think it is ridiculous that anyone, federalist or sovereignist, should take it that way. And on the topic of Ignatieff, not only does he have a lot going against him for being absent from Canada for so long but he will get killed on foreign policy. He supported the Iraq war (lots of grief from the left) and accused Israel of committing war crimes in Lebanon (lots of grief from the right).
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    Let me clarify. What I mean is that because our dollar is correlated with the price of oil, chances are if our dollar is getting lower so is the price of oil.
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    I'd like to see this project moved to the adjacent lot, corner de le montagne.
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    I wouldn't want it to drop any further but a weaker Canadian dollar is actually better for Canada right now, during this global economic slowdown. It will dissuade consumers from buying outside of the country thus helping the Canadian economy. It will help Canadian exporters, who will need it in times like these. And since our dollar is highly correlated to the price of energy, a lower dollar likely means lower prices at the pumps which will help keep money in consumers' pockets and help keep prices down (since transportation costs have much to do with the rising costs of consumer products).
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    I have no opposition to it. Chicago has two baseball teams. I also have no issue with any of you being against it. But if you're going to be against the idea, be sure to have more concrete and objective reasons than "I hate Toronto so it must be a bad idea". I've said it before, and I'll say it again. Many of you marginialize Montreal by your often uneven criticism of issues that have to deal with Toronto. It almost looks as though some of your are envious and afraid to show it. Somehow I feel the idea would not be looked at so negatively by some fo you if the word Toronto was replaced by the name of another city that already has a team. I'm not trying to be condescending but am merely trying to say Montreal is a great city by its own right and there is no need to continually look at Toronto as the cause of any of our misfortunes or shortcomings.
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    Yara: If what your trying to say is that no one's perfect and everyone has made mistakes yes you're right. And by the same token no political party is going to have an entire slate of candidates that everyone is perfectly pleased with. I don't think the fact that a minor candidate is part of Opus Dei should be something so troubling or what Duceppe talks about all day. Opus Dei is part of the Catholic church and under the jurisdiction of the Pope. If one has such a problem with Opus Dei then they might as well have a problem with the Catholic church and Catholics altogether. If it wasn't for the Da Vinci Code (a work of fiction) most people would have never even heard of Opus Dei. A depiction that is not known to be in any way factual other than the fact that they are in fact quite secretive. We have freedom of religion in this country and for a party leader to make such a stink about this, in my view, is deplorable. Using the "hidden agenda/religious fanatic" card is a sign of a lack of ideas on Duceppe's part. You want to fight for Quebec's interests? Then go create some policies and stop harping on a candidate who won't even get elected. And if you're all so concerned with keeping religion where it belongs, in the church, any volunteers for hiking up Mount Royal and getting rid of that cross? No more height restrictions!
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    So let me guess this straight. You're concerned about the candidacy of a Conservative candidate whose chances of winning are slim to none due to the riding he's running in (the Opus Dei member) but are totally willing to vote for a party whose leader has (paraphrased from his Wikipedia page which has links to where the info came from): "actively advocated communism, has held membership in the Workers' Communist Party, subscribed to militant Maoist ideology and was fired from his job as a hospital orderly for "belligerent activities" and even went so far as to intentionally spoil his 1980 sovereignty-association referendum ballot arguing that Québécois should instead focus their efforts on staying united to fight their common capitalist enemy." While you're certainly free to vote for whomever you'd like I don't see the logic in your response yesterday about the Conservatives concerning one of their candidates and your response today concerning the Bloc considering the actions of its leader.
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    By huge I meant as a proportion of students living in the ghetto, not in numbers. However, the number I believe is far greater than a couple hundred. I don't think the list was intended to have anything to do with size of population as much as the 'hipppest' or best area for a Jew to move where there is some Jewish presence. Regardless, the list is quite a bit strange. I can see how the word huge might have been a bit of an overstatement.
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    I doubt it's anywhere near being predominantly Jewish, but there's a huge amount of North American Jewish McGill students who live there so I see how it could technically be included in the list.
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    What do you guys think of the idea of putting the casino/cirque south of Notre Dame somewhere between Wolfe and Papineau, assuming the port would be willing to give up the land. Might complement the Maison de Radio Canada project quite nicely.
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    I'm a huge fan of this project Cataclaw. I imagine expanding St. Hubert airport to be able to handle some medium-size domestic flights as Toronto Island Airport does (Porter airlines) could really sweeten the deal. Our downtown is pretty limited in the area in which it could expand. This move to the south makes perfect sense. It worked for the New Jersey suburbs of Manahattan and I think it could equally work well in Montreal in the next half century.
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    There might still be hope for Le Mackay and Tour Mansfield !!
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    And of course, you're entitled to your opinion as well. I didn't say he didn't have a platform. I've looked into his policies on more than one occasion. But let's be honest how much of the electorate if aware of what he stands for and how many of his own supporters know what he stands for? Of course he has positions. That's not what I was arguing. What I'm arguing is that instead of pushing his positions he pushes this whole 'hope' thing which while on the surface may be fine and dandy it doesn't say much about the proportion of people (not all of course) who choose to vote for him blindly. No one can blame CNN for this. If he wanted to let his opinions be known he could make a much better effort to do so than he currently does. I've heard a lot more about Clinton's and McCain's positions in the media and I highly doubt that's because of media bias. It was his choice to spend 15 minutes rambling on about landscapes and hope; CNN was just televising it. I've heard similar type speeches from both McCain and Clinton with much more substance. As for the GOP. From my understanding/analysis of US politics MPs in Canada have much more say in their leaders decisions than their US equivalents. With that said you can't judge the entire GOP based on the Bush adminsitration. That's precisely why both McCain and Huckabee were both able to make the idea of 'change' a huge part of their campaigns despite 8 years of GOP rule.
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    I voted McCain but I'm pretty much ABO (Anything but Obama). I liked Hilary Clinton before every thing that came out of her mouth turned out to be a lie in the past few weeks. What really bothers me about both Democrat nominees is their use of Anti-NAFTA rhetoric in Ohio to gain support from ailing industry workers when they know very well it's China and not Canada or Mexico that's hurting US industry. It was a despicable political stunt in my opinion. I appreciate McCain's ability to stand for the positions he believes in even if they aren't mainstream Republican (he's very big on the environment for example). I consider him more of a right-wing independent than a true red Republican. As for Obama maybe if he spent less time talking ambiguously about change, and rolling hills (I almost puked during his speech after the Ohio/Vermont/Texas/Rhode Island primaries which consisted primarily of him discussing the plains of 'this place' and the valleys of 'that place') If I wanted the message of hope he provides I'd go find a church preacher to listen to. Since I think what the US needs is someone with clear policies, clear ideas and a clear plan, I don't think Obama's the man. If people want hope they can look to find clergymen, mentors and family members. A president needs to be decisive and clear and I think Obama, while well spoken, 'talks a lot but says very little'.
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    MLS Impact de Montréal

    rosey12387 a répondu à un sujet de mtlurb dans L'actualité

    Here's the working link: http://www.petitiononline.com/MTLMLS09/petition.html
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    Erect projects like Les Diamants and the Mackay and that won’t look so weird anymore. That area is a perfect spot to start building the future of Montreal.
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    MLS Impact de Montréal

    rosey12387 a répondu à un sujet de mtlurb dans L'actualité

    I'll never forget the Expos season when the roof came done a few months before so there was no roof at all. It made the experience infinitely better. The Jays have a retractable roof - it's the best of both worlds; open when they can, closed when it needs to be.
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    MLS Impact de Montréal

    rosey12387 a répondu à un sujet de mtlurb dans L'actualité

    (I didn’t want to start a whole new thread on this because last time I did that I got a whole 0 replies , so I figured this was the most appropriate spot for this post) My Action Plan to bring back the Expos (don’t pay too much attention to the dates they’re just approx./for instance): From the current date (2008): Continue work on the gentrification of the area of the Ville Marie borough east of Papineau and of HoMa (Hochelaga-Maisonneuve). 2008 – Completion of les Résidences Gouverneur For 2009 season – Expansion of Saputo Stadium to 17,000 2010 – Inauguration of the new Planetarium in the Pole Maissoneuve Grand Opening of Cite Nature @ the Olympic Village 2011 – Expansion of Saputo stadium to 20,000 seats Montreal professionnel soccer franchise joins MLS. MLS team uses Big O for very important games. 2012 – By then most of the work on the Quartier des Spectacles should be over. Time to work on the Quartier des Artistes (perhaps?) (rough borders: Papineau to the east, Rachel to the north, the train tracks to the east, the water to the south) an area I learned to really appreciate when my friend lived on de Maisonneuve and Dufresne a couple years ago. 2013 – Montreal gets minor league/independent league baseball team to play at Big O. Yes, it’s huge for that type of team but I have faith they could make it work by covering the higher sections with advertisements or something of the sort. 2018 – With the area surrounding the Pole Maisonneuve booming and with Montrealers perception of the area much improved, as well as the elimination of the perception of it being so far away (with the help of the Notre Dame expressway perhaps) the MLB Montreal Expos return to the Big O (with a retractable roof of course, some much needed beautification of the stadium and the completion of 1 Place Olympique some years before).
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    I have a love-hate relationship with this project and I think I’ve finally figured out why. I like about 2/3 of the project; what really irks me are the two buildings on St. Jacques. They look a bit like ‘the projects’/unfinished. I think the best and cheapest way to fix that is to cap off the roofs of those two building with glass floors (something similar looking to the Ritz renovation). I think it would tie in well with the small building/concourse with the cool glass windows that connects the two buildings and make the project worthy of being downtown.
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    Montréal vs. Toronto

    rosey12387 a répondu à un sujet de mtlurb dans L'actualité

    I definitely think it’s an issue of initiative and initiative alone. If we all stopped lamenting over the federalism/separatism issue for a while (a 5-year moratorium with penalty of mandatory jail time, and none of that time-served-before-the-verdict-counts-as-double crap) I think we all could get a lot done. If we stopped focusing on Quebec as a province or a country, but rather as an entity we are all proud of and would all like to see succeed (something I think virtually any Quebecker could agree on), I think together, all 7.5 million + of us, we could see some great positive change. On a side note, what’s with all the Toronto bashing? Yes, I agree Montreal beats Toronto hands down in many respects but the bashing at times just looks petty, and some times it even looks like jealousy. Toronto has held its own in many respects to become what it is today. People have to stop acting like it is merely problems within Quebec that have given Toronto its current status. No city can utilize the shortcomings of another as a competitive advantage for over 30 years. Let’s face it, Toronto has done some things right, as has Vancouver, Calgary, Boston, New York and many of the other great cities of North America. As they say, “Don’t get mad, get even.” You want to prove Montreal is better than Toronto? (Not pointing fingers at anyone specifically) Take some collective initiative and show it. We have the people, the culture and even the will to do it. All we need now is initiative!
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    Well while I can't speak for the entire Jewish population, 5 years ago all 7 cousins (including my sister and I) lived in Montreal. Today 3 live in Montreal, 2 in Toronto, 1 in NYC and 1 in Boston. And I'll be honest while I do love this city wholeheartedly I have no idea where I'll be situated when I graduate. I also think my family story is very representative of Jews in Montreal in general. Grow up here, love the city, but find much better opportunities elsewhere. I think the solution is creating more jobs in high-paying specialized sectors. Unfortunately, while stating the solution might be easy, finding the method to implement that solution is a whole other ball game.
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    Le Métro | Discussion

    rosey12387 a répondu à un sujet de Cataclaw dans Visions

    I think Cataclaw’s plan is great, although with the planned Trudeau-downtown train shuttle I doubt the government will want to spend the money to extend the blue line all the way to the airport. I also think its great having a line on the west end of the south shore. Hopefully, it would push the south shore’s waterfront to look more like Jersey City and less like Laval. I think many Montrealers are stuck the idea that downtown has to be bounded by the end of the island. When you take the example of New York and Jersey City that obviously does not have to be true. There’s only one thing I’d adapt differently. I’m considering two things: the AMT’s plan to create underground train stations at Edouard Montpetit and Peel and that that the underground train tunnel will soon house trains from the Deux Montagnes, Repentigny-Mascouche line, and possibly the Blainville-St. Jerome if it is in fact rerouted. I’d have this new Peel-South Shore line extended to Edouard Monpetit and make it steel-wheel as opposed to rubber wheels. This way the trains could all stop at Edouard Monpetit allowing for easy access for train riders to any metro line. It would also allow people on the blue line to bypass the already busy east end of the orange line to get downtown. Additionally it would allow the metro to be at surface at some points which would be especially useful from Ile-des-Soeurs to the South Shore where due to the huge distance between the two stations an underground tunnel would be extremely costly and really long for passengers to be underground. (I have to pass through the tunnel from Cartier to de la Concorde several times a week and it’s not nearly as big as that one would be, and it already feels like forever). During rush hour when trains come often I’d have one in two trains do the entire red line route and have the others do Edouard Montpetit-Bonaventure, kind of like the orange line in Laval during rush hour where only every second train comes to Laval.
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