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		<title>A matter of age discrimination?</title>
		<description>Discuss A matter of age discrimination?</description>
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			<title>belle says:</title>
			<link>http://www.lethbridgeherald.com/opinions/a-matter-of-age-discrimination-112712.html#comment-14335</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Assini...the two cases I stated are true cases. These decisions are being done. The B.C case of Christian B&B losing to the other couple is fact. You failed to answer my question. The Muslim man who refused to cut the Womans hair (Toronto) is being taken before the HR's. My questions was...who's going to win? The ruling will favor either his religous beliefs or her as a woman. There is a hierarchy be determined in Human rights courts, and all the answers are not in yet.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>belle</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Sun, 02 Dec 2012 10:57:49 --600</pubDate>
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			<title>assiniboia says:</title>
			<link>http://www.lethbridgeherald.com/opinions/a-matter-of-age-discrimination-112712.html#comment-14330</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Here you go with your false equivalencies again. Access to cheap insurance is not a human rights issue. You confuse prejudging with discrimination. You prejudged HIV sufferers all day yesterday. Sometimes it is acceptable to prejudge. The Bay doesn't carry the clothes I like: I have to spend more to go to a Calgary Bay to get them. The Bay has prejudged Lethbridge shoppers because they want to get profit from their stock. Insurers, similarly, can't wait ten years to be recouped for an accident. That's why tickets boost your rates: they suggest a greater future risk of accident. This kind of prejudice does not create an unreasonable barrier to access. It is nothing like, say, being an African-American girl trying to go to school in the south in the 1950s. That was discrimination. You think that you should hold a federal job without French? Write a letter. But you can't discuss that issue because some old guy thinks that older drivers are more careful than we think.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>assiniboia</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Sun, 02 Dec 2012 10:00:52 --600</pubDate>
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			<title>belle says:</title>
			<link>http://www.lethbridgeherald.com/opinions/a-matter-of-age-discrimination-112712.html#comment-14328</link>
			<description><![CDATA[My biggest issue is the hierarchy we are creating in the name of equality. You can't discriminate based on age..except sometimes. Human rights protects both religion and sexual preferance but preferance trumps religion. Case: Non-heterosexual couple wins case against christian couple that refuses to rent out the bed and breakfast to them based on religous grounds. Next case in Ontario: Muslim man refuses, on religous grounds to cut a womans hair (also happens to be non-heterosexual, though I don't think this is part of the suit). Which right will trump the other here, the Womans or the religion? We had great intentions with equal rights, and I believe ALL should be equal. But we are now assigning values to each right, and where is it going to end? How can we possibly have equal rights when there are different rights and values assigned to each one?]]></description>
			<dc:creator>belle</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Sun, 02 Dec 2012 02:18:59 --600</pubDate>
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			<title>jmho says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[to a certain extent I agree with this last post of yours. but the point here is has the elderly driver had tickets or accients? If he/she has not then the rate should not go up-the same as for you. It should be based on the driver's history-nothing else.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>jmho</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Sat, 01 Dec 2012 22:03:06 --600</pubDate>
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			<title>belle says:</title>
			<link>http://www.lethbridgeherald.com/opinions/a-matter-of-age-discrimination-112712.html#comment-14323</link>
			<description><![CDATA[There are ways of equalizing premiums and they are used in many situations. Group insurance, like I have at work where the premiums are the same for all and averaged (pooled) so we all pay the same. I'm not sure this is fair, but it treats us all the same. This is pretty much how health care and drug plans work and I hear no complaints. health.alberta shows drug plans that are $63.50 for any single, regardless of use/age/gender. I'm pretty much a user pay kinda person. If I have tickets or accidents I would expect that my rates go up but not yours, and would suggest this as the way to go for elderly drivers as well.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>belle</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Sat, 01 Dec 2012 20:45:10 --600</pubDate>
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			<title>belle says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Ok then lets just deal with insurance. Not only age can be used as a factor for cost of premiums but gender can. We accept it, perhaps not agree, but accept. IF the insurance companys' are basing it on statistical proof, young males are a bigger danger, old age costs more etc. Health Care costs are MORE for Women than men. Prescription drugs are used more (more cost) by Women. Why are the premiums NOT higher for the statistical high cost user? The same cannot be said for Life insurance! As a Male, I pay more than a Female. As I get older my premiums go up (as do my Wifes, but still cheaper). My point to my posts was and is (barring the mistake on my part for mentioning race) that discrimination IS allowed under a number of circumstances. It's just called another name, "statistical fact" or "affirmative action" etc.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>belle</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Sat, 01 Dec 2012 09:03:14 --600</pubDate>
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			<title>assiniboia says:</title>
			<link>http://www.lethbridgeherald.com/opinions/a-matter-of-age-discrimination-112712.html#comment-14296</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Is there discrimination in the world? Yes. Can political correctness over-correct? Yes. But "discrimination" is asserted all-too-often. The "market" is not perfect (hat tip to JohnGr), but I believe it to be efficient. If there was no reason to believe that drivers 80+ cost us, as underwriters of our own insurance, more money, someone would figure that out and offer cut-rate insurance to those drivers and clean up. That's the issue with this editorial, that and how insurance works by accumulating capital ahead of catastrophe by estimating risk (rather than paying out after the fact). Reverse discrimination, etc, against whites or Christians or men has nothing to do with it.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>assiniboia</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Fri, 30 Nov 2012 23:27:51 --600</pubDate>
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			<title>Boris says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Well when you keep bringing up "White", that is exactly what you are turning it into Belle. Deny it all you want and tell us it is something else, but that is what you are doing. 3 posts, mentioned "White" 8 times.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Boris</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Fri, 30 Nov 2012 22:54:35 --600</pubDate>
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			<title>belle says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[It is NOT just to "drag it down to the race card) as I hate that myself. Under Human Rights legislation there are specific laws regarding discrimination based on Race/Sex/Religion and Gender. These laws only protect certain people within them. You will be hard pressed to find any convictions (I have yet to see ONE) where a White Male or a Christian of either gender have been sucessful at claiming discrimination. The reason, and you can look it up yourself...These groups are NOT a minority group! There are hate crimes tried for religious grounds quite often...but never on behalf of Christians. As you can easily find, even though we have laws that SHOULD prevent higher fees based on age..we don't stop the practice. The same stood or still stands for Gender...insurance for example.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>belle</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Fri, 30 Nov 2012 21:19:49 --600</pubDate>
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			<title>Kyle says:</title>
			<link>http://www.lethbridgeherald.com/opinions/a-matter-of-age-discrimination-112712.html#comment-14292</link>
			<description><![CDATA[That moment when a post is just too inconvenient to address honestly and you need a way to turn it around and go back on the attack.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Kyle</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Fri, 30 Nov 2012 20:09:19 --600</pubDate>
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