Coulter's Ottawa speech cancelled after protests

[CDAgirlMI 51]

To the bolded part, not even close. However, the U.S. would have to worry that Canada doesn't roll over one night and shut off their oil supply

1. Banks

2. Real Estate

The Canadian banks weren't in trouble from what I know.

I can't make a comment about the rest of the country (can't look it up right now), but I can tell you the real estate market in Toronto & GTA is (still) doing very well.

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

1. Banks

2. Real Estate

The Canadian banks weren't in trouble from what I know.

I can't make a comment about the rest of the country (can't look it up right now), but I can tell you the real estate market in Toronto & GTA is (still) doing very well.

The Canadian Banks weren't in trouble? The ABCP crisis never happened? I remember those days when hundreds of billions of dollars went essentially "poof" overnight. Liquidity in Canada was tighter than a virgin.

And looking at the real estate situation, you did have quite a dent in the market in 2008. And while it seems to rebound, it has many worried that it's more bubbling than rebounding. That fist sentence in the article below there sounds awefully familiar. That was the situation back in 2005/2006 down here in Florida. Real Estate agents barely had the FOR SALE sign up and people got into bidding wars on the property.

Bubble Trouble

Dec 2009

Should we worry about the overheated housing market?

By Bert Archer

Anyone who’s bought a house recently knows all too well how much the real estate market has rebounded: bidding wars, bully offers and buyers paying $100,000 over asking are the norm as low mortgage rates fuel an irrationally competitive culture.

The problem is a shortage of listings. Consider the sales-to-inventory ratio—the number of homes sold, relative to the number of homes on the market. Twenty per cent is considered a balanced market; anything lower is considered a buyer’s market (last winter hovered around 13 per cent); and anything higher is a seller’s market. It climbed to 59 per cent this past summer, the highest it’s been since just before the crash of 1989, a boom and bust cycle that made 2008 look like a fender bender.

Real estate speculators are split on whether we’re experiencing a short-term recovery bounce (typical of post-recession periods) or the begin­nings of another housing bubble. Interest rates are expected to increase by the end of the year; the very lowest rates could double before too long. Will prices keep rising? And can overextended homebuyers keep up?

Sherry Cooper, the chief economist of the Bank of Montreal, predicts the price wars will taper off this winter. Until then, agents like Winhan Wong, of Sutton Group Associates Realty, are taking advan­tage of the pre-Christmas rush. It’s a good time to be a seller’s agent. “I can have something listed for less than a week right now,” Wong says. “Then my job is over, and I get paid.”

19% appreciation in a year? That sounds healthy?.

March 3, 2010 -- Greater Toronto REALTORS® reported 7,291 sales through the Multiple Listing Service® (MLS®) in February, representing a 77 per cent increase over February 2009. The average price for these transactions was up 19 per cent year-over-year to $431,509.

Edited March 25, 2010 by Mr. Big Dog

[Danno 1,228]

I was reading about this whole Coulter debacle. What isn't mentioned in the OP was a stop at the University of Western Ontario in London, ON that followed her attempt in Ottawa. During the course of her speech, Coulter stated that muslims should not be allowed to fly. When a female muslim student asked her duing the Q&A period what she should do if she shouldn't be allowed to fly to travel. Coulter's response was that she should fly on her flying carpet, or ride a camel. I know that she's a harpy and merely says stuff to get a reaction out of people, but I will be glad to dance on her grave one day.

JUst when you started to give us "The rest of the story".. you failed.

Her reference was pointed at those Muslims who where acting so odd that they got taken off a flight for investigation, they later ended up suing the airline.

I'm bettin many people would agree, if your muslim customs cause you to act odd and appear like.. well a terrorist DON"T FLY.

Perhaps for these folks a camel is more fitting.

Bottom line is, liberals at en ever quickening pace are becoming more and more shrill in their zeal to drown out others they don't agree with.

[JimandChristy 1,689]

Ann Coulter is....

[Sofiyya 1,687]

Hell yea! I wouldn't be surprised to find out that she's really a **!

Allowed to exist on the same continent. :blink: Canada needs HER permission merely to "exist"?

She's a bully, an ignorant bully to boot. Canadian soldiers, members of the Canadian army, are fighting and dying in Afghanistan to protect the same freedom and the same values that the US is fighting for. Canadians fought in WWII including landings at Normandy, fought in Korea, and fought in Operation Desert Storm. Shame on Ann Coulter. Shame.

[Sofiyya 1,687]

JUst when you started to give us "The rest of the story".. you failed.

Her reference was pointed at those Muslims who where acting so odd that they got taken off a flight for investigation, they later ended up suing the airline.

I'm bettin many people would agree, if your muslim customs cause you to act odd and appear like.. well a terrorist DON"T FLY.

Perhaps for these folks a camel is more fitting.

Bottom line is, liberals at en ever quickening pace are becoming more and more shrill in their zeal to drown out others they don't agree with.

How do you "appear like a terrorist"? What are odd Muslim customs? I fly alot, so this would be good to know.

The camel remark was stupid when Ann said it, and it's even more stupid when you say it.

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

How do you "appear like a terrorist"? What are odd Muslim customs? I fly alot, so this would be good to know.

I can't wait for Danno to spell it out for you.

And here, I'm actually agreeing with you. I think this whole Muslim paranoia has gone way too far. Bothers me every time I speak with Muslim friends of mine hearing the prejudice they run into day in and day out. It's just not right.

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

JUst when you started to give us "The rest of the story".. you failed.

Her reference was pointed at those Muslims who where acting so odd that they got taken off a flight for investigation, they later ended up suing the airline.

I'm bettin many people would agree, if your muslim customs cause you to act odd and appear like.. well a terrorist DON"T FLY.

Perhaps for these folks a camel is more fitting.

Bottom line is, liberals at en ever quickening pace are becoming more and more shrill in their zeal to drown out others they don't agree with.

Wow, you'll defend any smelly old ####### of an argument, won't you.

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

JUst when you started to give us "The rest of the story".. you failed.

Her reference was pointed at those Muslims who where acting so odd that they got taken off a flight for investigation, they later ended up suing the airline.

I'm bettin many people would agree, if your muslim customs cause you to act odd and appear like.. well a terrorist DON"T FLY.

Perhaps for these folks a camel is more fitting.

Bottom line is, liberals at en ever quickening pace are becoming more and more shrill in their zeal to drown out others they don't agree with.

Wow, you'll defend any smelly old ####### of an argument, won't you.

Birds of a feather...

Edited March 26, 2010 by Mr. Big Dog

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

Turds of a feather.

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

Turds of a feather.

typo. my bad

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

Though I guess it would be more accurate to say:

Turds of a sweetcorn.

[CDAgirlMI 51]

The Canadian Banks weren't in trouble? The ABCP crisis never happened? I remember those days when hundreds of billions of dollars went essentially "poof" overnight. Liquidity in Canada was tighter than a virgin.

And looking at the real estate situation, you did have quite a dent in the market in 2008. And while it seems to rebound, it has many worried that it's more bubbling than rebounding. That fist sentence in the article below there sounds awefully familiar. That was the situation back in 2005/2006 down here in Florida. Real Estate agents barely had the FOR SALE sign up and people got into bidding wars on the property.

19% appreciation in a year? That sounds healthy?.

March 3, 2010 -- Greater Toronto REALTORS® reported 7,291 sales through the Multiple Listing Service® (MLS®) in February, representing a 77 per cent increase over February 2009. The average price for these transactions was up 19 per cent year-over-year to $431,509.

I'm in Michigan & the phrase "its a buyer's market" is a severe understatement. Foreclosures everywhere. I'd take a 19% increase over a depreciation anyday.

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

I'm in Michigan & the phrase "its a buyer's market" is a severe understatement. Foreclosures everywhere. I'd take a 19% increase over a depreciation anyday.

I'm in Florida and this is a buyer's market, too. But it turned into the buyer's market following a few years of an insane seller's market where property values appreciated along the lines you see north of the border today. A 19% rate of annual appreciation is plain and simply not sustainable and - if recent real estate history has tought us anything - should be cause for concern. It's not a healthy picture.

[PhiLandShiR 18]

negative. free speech is a one way street to the modern liberal

Don't forget to include the modern conservative in that too.