canadensis

By definition investing in chip stocks is not gambling.

Buying $62K worth of Nortel shares is Gambling.

We can thank a few generations of fire supression for this. The one thing that our National Parks have figured out is controlled burns. The Bow Crow is a tinder box with 60+ years of fuel in some places. Let it burn!

You don't need to hack into anyones computer to realize that we are being hosed by the global warming zealots. Just log onto environment Canada's website and look through the temperature archives...

Well I don't know any rabid anglers either. You have some points, however the Parks officials should focus on the bigger issues rather than the Rogue Brown Trout causing all that environmental damage. The last I checked the watersheds in Banff are not a closed loop? I just see the parks as refugia for tourists, this is what the native species are competing against. Parks are a refugia for all wild, so lets pave all the roads, have an information center, paved parking lots and improved trails leading to sensitive areas, and in the really fuched up examples as Banff is throw a pile of tourist infrastructure into the middle and then wonder what the problem is??

Great rationale? On a limited basis we should be able to hunt in the parks. Why relocate or sterilize the elk when I could feed my family with one? I guess it would not be proper for me to field dress my elk on the faiway of the 9th hole? Seems a little more natural to me than going there for a weekend getaway at the spa up at the Banff Springs?? What is wrong with conservation? This is also an option.. The rabid parkies are the greedy ones in the debate.

I certainly hope that you are not buying a new 3wt rig?

Uber, Looks like we may agree on this as well. There has been rumblings of banning ALL fishing in the parks for years. I wonder if the Parks marketing divivision is down the hall from the biologists, or in a different building? Do they talk? As far a the Buffalo, I think it is great. I am sure the semi-tame, lumbering beasts will on occasion stroll out of the park and will make an easy way to fill a freezer, my freezer! The ironic thing is I can stay in a 5 star hotel, go for dinner, take a chair lift to the top of a mountain, swim in the hot pool, go for a train ride, a bus tour, buy a funky sweater, sit in a coffe shop browsing the interweb, all smack dab in the middle of a prime wildlife corridor in a National Park, yet they want to ban fishing????? Oh ya, I forgot- they do not allow Drive-thru's - Talk about a bunch of environmental mavericks!

Comon Dube, don't sugar coat it and tell us how you really feel.. Oh- And UUber- They also do sell refillable mugs. Looks like they are trying- tough to fault that. Timmies

The best place for a young lad to get his first part-time job is McD's.

Good point about the roll up cup. I have seen people handed another cup when they are out of prize cups when they order their size. I agree a waste.

Welcome to the discussion Wolf man. Your well informed and researched personal comments are always welcome. You must have some serious connections at CRA to get my annual salary from my interweb username... Insert gay pokey thing here------>

Sounds like you have it covered.

Ya the strip mine comment was a bit out there. I think that Tim's customers are not as worried about recycling, paper or refillable cups, the ennvironment, etc, as Starbuck patrons. Big corps are not stupid and this is obvious in their marketing. Yes (Peter) even all the do good programs like Patagonia as you mention are profit driven. You bet that Patagonia has a spreadsheet that shows how their programs with the 1% for the planet, and recycling for fleece is profit driven. Simply put this is their niche. Reading your post fairwx it looks like we may agree on a thing or two... All this typing is making me want a coffee. I think I will go to the Horton drive thru, get my go cup and ask them to put it in a bag for good measure. I may have to fill up the Hummer on the way, she is low on fuel from all the warm-up idling with this cold weather. Thank god for my auto starter.

Peter, Tim Horton is a leader in this. I have eaten Chili there that came in a bread bowl!

It boils down to two completely different customer bases, and what their expectations are of each said company. How Starbucks is marketed, programs as you mention are expected. I would betcha that if Tim Horton made his cups out of a material that never degraded and was open strip mined in the whale back his customers would be happy if it saved them 2 bits on a cup of joe. That is just my hunch though.

I quoted SL and it was directed at him, not everyone that works for the Government. He makes it sound like all free enterprise is a descendant from the devil. I am sure there many hard working, rational, non NDP people that work for the Government, you sound like one. Thanks for serving our Country! Although the loudest certainly come across as entitled .

It is called supply and demend SL. Gotta love how you lump all landlords together and then hope they go broke. You are truly a piece of work. Must be nice to sit back, collect a Government paycheck, retire with a Government pension, which BTW is all on the backs of hardworking, entrapreneurial citizens , and yes landlords which enable guys with your holier than thou attitude.

My first post on littering was tonge in cheek, not too obvious, eh?

Heh.. So you think more rules and eliminating drive thru's will stop this? Last I checked there are laws against littering and all kinds of roadside turn-outs with trash receptacals as well as signage along the roads that post the fine. Some people poach while they are fishing, laws address that too. With the flawed logic some have I guess it would be an easier move to just ban fishing where poaching is a problem. Please tell me how you or anyone would prevent someone else from doing something stupid? Remember, littering is against the law, there are Provincial laws, and local bylaws in every city, town, and municipality to curb it. I am sure everyone that litters knows it is illegal and wrong, just like all other laws that fools break.

Good tip!

It was a fact based statement.

Thank god none of that either, well for sure a few old red necks. Never have seen dredlocks or spandex-metro hiking pants there either.

How bout neither hotels, logging, or O&G in some areas? I can only think of one area in the Province like that. Luckily most don't know of it because there are no hotels, roads or restuarants. Never have seen a Timmie cup in the area either.

Never did say there was a problem with a reusable cup. I am simply pointing out the folly in thinking that; -This will reduce litter in the ditches. Lotsa other *hit in the ditches besides Tim cups. Paper cups are not toxic. There are way bigger causes to rally behind. -So many people are willing to "sacrifice" and use a reusable cup and/or reusable shopping bags and think that this has some kind of impact. Same folly in thinking driving a hybrid is "helping" the environment?? The reality is the vast majority of people don't want to sacrifice things in their lives that will make a difference. So they pick a few small, irrelevant things, "green things" to do that are easy and add no inconvenience to their plush gluttenous lifestyle. It is mostly, if not all window dressing so people percieve you as being part of the whole solution BS. Move to a smaller house walking/cycling distance to work, install a high effeceincy furnace, kill a moose for winter meat, plant a garden, don't live above your means, and try to be self sufficient with your BASIC needs. Bottom line is being a cheap old miser is very, if not the most "green" move you can make. Not specific to this board, but most eco geeks are all about the perception but mostly clueless about reality. What is funny about it all is how many of'em in Cow Town work for big oil in one capacity or the other. So you see Pete I am just (insert gay pokey guy here) trying to swim upstream here a bit as all the do gooders float by with rose colored glasses and their myopic attitudes of what makes a difference.