These are not opinions, folks. These are several facts of life in Canada. You can't disagree with facts. You can only try to argue that your facts are more important. It's pathetic to see commenters posting "Disagree" or "Sad"  or "Funny" simply because they don't like these facts and don't want to be reminded about them, because they don't conform to their dogmatic ideologies.

  The G & M should encourage much more "replies" and much less of these childish emoticons. They should arrange things so that you can't react with a simplistic ambiguous emoticon without first leaving a reply to a comment.