A good example of a wrong fact that too many people believe. As soon as people really started traveling, especially on the ocean, it became obvious that the Earth is not flat. Something like 2500 years ago a Greek used geometry to measure the circumference of the Earth though there were idiots like Columbus who were convinced the world was much smaller then the generally accepted size.

Nissan is a better example, try nissan.com

Wish someone could explain that to my right wing government. They originally got voted in by complaining the other party was paying off the debt instead of lowering taxes more and since they've been in they've ran a deficit for 8 years while bragging that being conservative means they're good money managers. Now that they claim to have rebalanced the budget thanks to the oil revenues, they're once again cutting taxes for the rich rather then paying off the debt. Our debt to GDP ratio is horrible.

Yes, but slowing down the spread of mental illness would probably benefit society.

Actually socialism is defined by one fact, the people own the means of production. Examples include credit unions and co-ops as socialist entities without any government regulation beyond the regulation given to capitalist entities. Another example is the mill down the road from me where when it was going to be closed the workers bought it and kept it running.
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It's fine if a woman decides to be a housewife, it's just nice if she has a choice.

Only so many supertankers can fit into Burrard Inlet and the people of Vancouver really don't want a stream of supertankers sailing through the narrows.

Edit, I misread your post.
The Federal government has OKed a pipeline. Perhaps it'll get built depending on whether the Federal government can overwhelm the Supreme Court with unconstitutional laws.

Back in the '50's.

Getting the people of BC to agree to pipelines and oil tankers navigating some of the more treacherous waters of N. America for little benefit to them besides the most expensive gas in N. America

My thinking is that an educated woman (or anyone actually) is more likely to understand the benefits of family planning and how to implement it as well as being more motivated to do more with her life then being a housewife.
Of course it also depends on how enlightened the man is which often also depends on education.

They are building a second pipeline (twinning the existent one) to Vancouver but the port of Vancouver ca only handle a tanker a day plus the people are not happy with the risk and lack of benefits. They are also pushing ahead with the Northern Gateway to Kitimat (just south of Alaska) but no one wants that either and the natives have sovereignty over much of the route and once again even if built it can only handle so many supertankers. They're also planning on reversing the flow of the pipeline to the Atlantic.
The point is that they (the oil companies, the Government of Alberta and the Federal Government) want to move as much product as possible as the Federal Government (ran by a failed economist) knows oil will never drop in price and we should be a one trick pony with oil being the one trick.

You left out educated women who can take advantage of numbers 1 and 2.

The virus that's most likely to cause an epidemic is the flu, mostly due to how often it mutates. Vaccinations don't help much for a new strain of the Spanish Flu.
The real danger is common bacteria. With the overuse of antibiotics and the resulting antibiotic resistance of bacteria we're likely to be back where we were a hundred years ago with simple infections being the leading cause of death.

No, America pays less for Canadian bitumen then the rest of the world. Currently Canada has one major market for its bitumen and that market knows it and pays less. This is why the Northern Gateway, Energy East, the southern BC pipeline twining whose name slips my mind right now and Keystone XL are so important to Alberta, get the heavy oil to world markets and get world prices rather then Texas prices.