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Is public transit efficient in Victoria? Can it be improved with the growing outlying areas? Like Westshore and Sooke and up Island over the Malahat. I mainly ask due to the increase in bike lanes in Victoria (which I think is a stupid waste of tax money to put them in.), lack of parkcades...

During the movie Minority Report the main character is strolling through a mall, he doesn't want to be noticed; but advertisements start to blaze ads at him as he goes by. Advertisements now use logarithms to place ads on your computer as you surf the net or on social media. Are those ads you...

Since the Eagles album, we know it has frozen over at least once. It occurs in one of my favourite jokes (not telling that). But where and when did this saying come from?

I've been watching CTV news for awhile now. One thing that I noticed is the news feeds. You have a reporter from Winnipeg reporting on something in Israel. You have the reporter from California reporting on an Washington DC incident. Etc, especially if its outside Canada. You don't see CTV...

In the great depression in the 1930s, in the US FDR created national work projects to put America back on track to get Americans working again. The Hoover Dam was built... What projects would Canada have in this day and age. Thing to remember is that Canada is primary a resource/commodity...

When the shooting happened in Vegas, I watched some documentaries on NetFlick. One was the "Bowling for Columbine" on Guns. I first saw Micheal Moore when he won an Oscar for this short film. And his terrible speech afterwards about the presidential election in the US . Controversial yes...

In what ways is Canada a socialist country? How did Canada become socialist? Where there specific times that made it appear so?

The book I am currently reading is Pax Romana- War, Peace and Conquest in the Roman World. "Warfare banished to the frontiers, protected by the army..... the empire was prosperous because it was peaceful. " Its funny alot of our laws come from Roman influence. Ever notice that there are...

Last week as I was approaching an intersection (in a car) in the right hand lane. I was going to make a right hand turn. There was this teenager about 15 feet from the intersection, he runs to make the crosswalk, and when he is about 2 feet into the crosswalk, he stops, looks around and sees...

A new word for an old system. Either through family or close friends of the family. Nowadays I think alot of networking is done thru people you meet either through college/university or jobs you had. Take a look at your social pages, where do most of your friends come from? Work, church...

Where is your next vacation going to be and why? And would you take your favourite SP/SW with you? Would you start a gofundme account to send your favourite SP/SW on a vacation ? By herself.

The Minister of Finance needs your Help. He is spending way too much money and needs to find more revenue. As a Canadian Citizen could you suggest some ways to increase revenues for Canada. In no way I'm I a current fan of the Liberal government, I am asking because as a human being I have to...

So time to think about the future. If you lived in outer space, on a space-station orbiting some planet in the solar system what job would you have or like to have? Because I'm first. For me it would be some type of system engineer. Maybe deep probe maintainer... I would need to know about...

In the past, when Sears was still around, the Sears Catalog had a section on how to order clothing sizes. Nowadays we have websites. Some websites explain their products, answering the questions like who, what, where, why, and how their products worked and or background information on...

Education is a provincial responsibility. Its also a continuing responsibility for ourselves to educate ourselves as society advances. I'm middle aged and think back to the subjects in elementary school. Mainly reading, writing and Mathematics. In high school there were Sciences (biology...

Do you think that the governments that collect taxes are accountable for their spending of your tax dollar? Local, Municipal, provincial and federally?

If the US is going to charge import duties on softwood lumber, why dosen't the Cdn Government have an export tax on the softwood lumber? That way money goes into Cdn coffers rather than the US coffers. If the US needs the softwood, Canada could tax like 20% to 38 % export fee. If the US...

Like most men I see good looking women on TV shows and start to wonder about the possibilities, what it would be like with one, then 2, then 3 women who would go down on each other.. But that is just fantasy. Say you had availble for your fantasy: 1. Retired Sp 2. Current working SP 3. A...