True, but why would any civilized person, as opposed to a subhuman, eat worms or crunch (literally!) on locusts?

Actually the approach of those countries is preferable, because it provides fewer chances for criminals to go underground. It also makes it easier to track individuals who refuse to pay bills, etc. Registration should be mandatory in Canada the way it is in most of Europe.

I love it, especially because you restored the blockquote feature (one of the top 3 functions any blogger MUST have!).

You don't really need it. Just customize your CSS to have your posts justified.

Before you spread (more) misinformation, I suggest you also look at this analysis of the flawed and misleading Los Angeles Times article.

He's got great ideas, but you're right: his record is tainted.

Thank you, Bruce. You're right about what you say about newspapers and the sector's reduction to, perhaps, just one national paper of higher quality. The National Post can serve as a good example here. I recently started reading the paper again (on my iPad), and I have to say that the restructuring in staff, organization and ownership is already being felt. You still find the perennial nitwits who simply won't go away (like Don Martin), but there is some noticeable improvement to content.

You are right: at this point, the only viable option is a change of CPC leadership. The party needs a leader who is not afraid to commit to and implement genuine small-c conservative values. Maxime Bernier has the right ideas (e.g., flat income tax, etc.), but given his origin and his limited English skills, I doubt that he could be elevated to party leader. But we need someone with the commitment and ideas like Bernier who can also connect with all Canadians across the land.

It tried the synched Facebook comments; they don't work. I tried opening the feature that allows commenters to repost their comments to Twitter, Facebook, etc., and that feature doesn't work either. More recently, it has been impossible to connect a new blog to Facebook, and one of my existing blogs actually had the existing connection severed, and now I cannot reestablish it. The only thing that works is the Facebook Like button in the post footer; the rest is dysfunctional. What is more, I have had to disable the Facebook connection on my other blogs, because while it was on, and the Facebook Like feature showed in the sidebar, the up6.typepad.com server (apparently, the server handling that feature) would constantly slow down the loading of my blogs or even freeze up entirely. I need my sites to load as quickly as possible; I simply can't afford to have a slowdown or freeze because of up6.