You should note that a university team is not a junior team. Source: I am Canadian.

Why should scientists argue with self taught climate idiots? I doubt you'd trust a self-taught doctor to treat cancer over an oncologist, and most (sensible) people recognize that public health officials know more about the harms and benefits of vaccinations then Internet lurkers.

Okay, dude. No one is going to stop you from calling women "females" whenever you want. You're just going to sound like a weirdo when you do. But you would probably sound like a weirdo anyway, so no biggie.

So essentially no, you've never been called "male," you've been referred to as male in official environments. Big difference.

Does anyone ever call you "male"? "Hey males, what up tonight?" "Oh ladies, are we all going to meet some MALES tonight!?" "Yo, my main male!"

I was going to say the same thing — "women" is a completely acceptable term that means (more or less) the exact same thing.

I'd be in favor of not letting young people drive until they were 25. Seems fair.

I'm sure that there was some sexism at play in her unpopularity in her caucus, which is in some ways literally an old boys club (40 years of the same party in power will do that). I don't think the PC caucus reflects the values of the population as a whole, though, and in any case this next election could be their…

How about making the elderly, I don't know, pay for the re-testing?

That's not a fair comparison. The Alberta provincial conservatives are about as left wing as the average liberal party in another province (hence the formation of the Wild Rose party). Similarly, the BC Liberals are actually conservatives. The names do not directly correspond with their politics.

If you go Calgary, actually, you'll see that there's a monument of the Famous Five downtown to celebrate the largely Albertan women who fought for the right to vote nationwide. Until recently, the province's top two political leaders were women (and a woman is poised to win the election if dissatisfaction with the…

Calgary has Tory ridings for historical and geographical reasons (largely the NEP and fuck you, eastern establishment; in that order) that do not reflect on the city's politics, which are quite progressive. As evidence by the election of a Harvard city planning wonk who happens to the first Muslim elected in a major…

Very respectable Red Tory values that got them reduced to a rump of two seats in their losing election to Jean Chretien, and then about twelve in the period prior to their union with the Canadian Alliance / Reform party. There are reasons apart from the conniving of mythical Albertan proto-rednecks that the PCs chose…

Do you have any examples of that, or is that just a manifestation of Edmontonian tall poppy syndrome? Look at Calgary's mayor (v. liberal Toronto's, for example).

By what standard? It has public health care with no premiums, strong public schools and universities, a reasonable social safety net, publicly funded sex change surgeries and good access to publicly funded abortion. By US standards it's run by moderate Democrats.

This kind of inter-provincial stereotyping doesn't move Canada forward. You can't credibly maintain that all four million Albertans are ignorant rednecks.

Northeast regional bike sharing program?

The article is talking about e-bikes, not simple bike shares. Everyone is already sold on simple bike shares.

True, but the corporate tax rate is 26.5 percent to the US's 40 percent. http://www.kpmg.com/global/en/serv…

Well, the least fiscally conservative province, Quebec, is in terrible debt shape as a percentage of GDP, while the more fiscally conservative provinces keep the country afloat.