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It doesn't matter where the smoke appeared to come from. Abundance of caution.

I knew that for at least a week now. Old news.

No you didn't because today is Sunday, Feb 8 2015 and the decision was announced Friday Feb 6 2015. That's 2 days ago, and I submitted the story the same morning.

Or you can read the date on the actual judgment, again just 2 days ago.

Sure, and apparently Toronto also has trouble with snow and ice and traffic and commuter rail being shutdown.

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Just like the knife lobby in China:

http://www.cp24.com/world/police-22-kids-hurt-in-knife-attack-at-chinese-school-1.1079052

There will always be crazies. They will find a way.

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Wow this is great news ! Oh but wait, the fees will probably go down now. Yeah now that Bell has entered the market, I will see a tremendous price drop.
Bell has been there with Fido for a long time now. They have similar price plan. They have no incentive to lower any price. Competition is non existent
when companies agree to keep fees high.

"The Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development says Canadian cellphone rates are the third-highest amongst surveyed countries, behind the United States and Spain."
from here http://www.cp24.com/servlet/an/local/CTVNews/20090811/090811_cell_fees/20090811/?hub=CP24Morning

And there is competition coming here but if you look at what the CEO says : "Price is not the way to differentiate yourself in the marketplace," said president Dave Dobbin. "It's about value. It's about being simple."
from here http://ca.news.finance.yahoo.com/s/28122009/2/biz-finance-consumers-rogers-bell-telus-new-wireless-companies.html

As long as consumers are willing to giveaway 55 dollar a month for a phone they will have a price gadget that matches the market.

28 y.o. Toronto woman was killed by a 5 tonne delivery truck. She was on her phone and walked under the rear wheels of a truck, that was making a left turn. The driver could not have possibly seen her because of the truck length and the fact that he was making a left turn. She walked under the rear wheels herself because apparently she was unable to evaluate the situation around herself while on her cell phone.

Darwin award, obviously, but it shows a case where a pedestrian was a hazard (this time to herself) because she was so distracted.

Lying to us, ranging from the petty ("My grandma survived WWI, which she was born after")

This was on the day his grandmother died (Nov 3 - the day before the election). Do you think historical accuracy was on his mind at that point? Do you actually believe that he purposefully lied instead of simply not bothering to fact check his public eulogy of his grandmother?

to the serious ("I oppose telecom immunity in the wiretapping fiasco")

That is one weakness in his record - he voted on the telecom immunity on the perception that if he didn't Republicans would attack him on being weak on security, which is a bad excuse.

Spouting elitist bullshit that implies only those pitiable poor people are religious, and favor strong gun rights (and, by extension, implying that these are things which are to be stamped out, rather than the purely personal choice they are).

No - he was saying that economic difficulties make it easier to find comfort in those things. Look at where the Bible Belt is and you'll see it corresponds quite well with where people like their guns and where the economy isn't as strong.

He appointed a man who didn't pay his fucking taxes to be Secretary of the Treasury. If you or I don't pay taxes? We go to jail.

Blatantly false. If you don't pay your taxes, at most you'll get your fine. If you evade your taxes (actively seek to not pay them by hiding and whatnot), then you will go to jail.

The tragic part about Obama, especially his FISA vote, and Sec. Treas. appointment, is that he's shown us that, contrary to what he'd like us to believe, he's just another politician serving his ends, not ours.

FISA yes, Sec Treas no (see above).
So far, any criticism of his actual presidency is nonexistant (except for manufactured BS controversy like the Sec Treas thing) and he's already managed to sign some good executive orders (closing Gitmo, strengthening FOIA, freezing salary increases, strong ethics guidelines regarding lobbying, mandatory ethics lectures for his staff).

Also, regarding the Sec Treas thing. He initially repayed whatever the IRS audit specified almost 10 years ago (that's the way audits work). Then the Obama transition team directed him to pay further after they performed their own audit (not sure what timeframe the transition team was talking about). It wasn't even the IRS that said he owed taxes. source

So your saying rather than hoping to get bill gates credit card number I should just buy a lottery ticket?

Nope.