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I don't see any problem with a dislike button, only snowflakes would be offended by it. Having additional choices is fine as well (e.g. funny, interesting, etc.) but tend not to get much use. Having a running total for the user does not add much value, so if someone is offended by that then I have no problem not displaying that. The purpose of like/dislike is to show your agreement or disagreement with a post, not a popularity contest. Having only like is similar to the the coddling that so many in here are vocally against. It would be nice if you could see who voted how, nobody needs to hide their opinion.

I joined the Conservative Party today.. I plan on voting for the most likely person to beat O'Leary or Leitch. I am saving the Conservatives from themselves.

How do we search for the posts that got "likes"?

So you agree that Muslims from 7 country's are banned. I wonder why they forgot to include the ones that have actually done damage to US citizens, like maybe the ones flying the planes into the twin towers?

That is the point. We don't have to encourage, welcome or support those coming to Canada who want to retain bigoted values or values that challenge fundamental democratic values we hold dear. On the other hand it doesn't mean we then react by deliberately taking an entire group of people. assign them all the same negative traits and write them all off. Its wrong. We can't turn in to the very thing we object to. It makes no logical sense.

I don't actually support PR or a Ranked system. I'm just opposed to dishonesty of this man. To make this issue a cornerstone of his election platform to garner support from Green's and the NDP then to reverse course is the worst kind of politics. The sheen is all but gone from the Sunny Ways rhetoric of late 2015. And to throw a rookie MP to the wolves to take all the heat for this dishonesty? To quote the man himself what a "Piece of Sh!t". I would support a referendum on EC. Ontario had one in 2007 for the MMP system that actually does the best to balance the idea that people's vote do count for something even though their riding doesn't go their way but keeps the regional representation of the Commons intact. It was soundly defeated. The idea that they scrapped it because the feedback they were getting was that the question would need a referendum is the best example of taking your ball and going home. What a set of petulant children!

I certainly acknowllege that people can make unfair demands. But that does not mean you and I should encourage unfairness.

I think the very fact that no one ever heard of the victims speaks volumes. They weren't criminals, terrorists, rapists, or anything other than peaceful folk carrying on with their lives day to day. I think the mere fact that simple muslims - and there is lots of them - have never come to your attention in any way speaks a fuck-ton about what they think and believe. They don't have nothing to prove to anyone by the simple fact that they arn't in the news. The ones that do make the news do not, in any way that I can imagine, make demands that others prove something to you or army guy or anyone else, justified.

If putting the country in perpetual debt to buy off special interests is a thousand times better... cash for access being a thousand times better... no major govt funded infrastructure projects as promised being a thousand times better...

Nothing. It's none of your business whatsoever if they choose to do that.

WOW.....nice try though....

Thank you for that thoughtful post. I don't recall having heard the term 'rage killing' in that context before and I find it a very apt description of these loner attacks. I think you are right to differentiate between rage killings and terrorism.

I see the incidents are similar, what i don't see is an ... a equal response by both sides...For instance during this attack, there has been overwhelming response by all Canadians to condemn this attack, Canadians are Pissed off, not just the muslim community but most Canadians....they want justice and they want it bad....we are talking more about this attack as a nation, not all of it is good, but we are talking..... Cpl Cirillo attack , on the other hand , yes it sparked some discussions, most of them were about muslims, and terrorism, and the muslim community did say a few things....condemning the attacks, etc etc , but there is always a but.....their response was some what muted to a point.....Here we have other Muslims offering to pay for funerals, to rebuild the mosque, and so on....we have other Canadians also offering help both financial and in support of making this right...... and alot of this support response is coming from other Canadians, across Canada....Not that this is a bad thing, maybe we are just growing tired of the terrorism thing....and the next attack i hope the muslim community steps it up as well.....they need to be the leaders in this fight....regardless of whom carries out the attack.....show other Canadians where they stand, to stop this growing tit for tat thing....all terrorism needs to be put down hard....it needs to happen fast....Canadian muslim population needs to send the message to incoming muslims as well ....you rock the boat, we'll throw you out....don't bring all that hate into our new country....They need to earn the trust of other Canadians....

Honestly this moderate liberal shtick is just such garbage, it was in fact a lie, ultimately the liberals only wanted reform if they were going to get the reform they preferred, not the reform Canadians preferred, when they realized that a ranked ballot wasn't in the offing they killed it. They lied. Just like they lied about UNDRIP, just like they lied about the deficit, just like they lied about that cap on indigenous spending, home mail delivery, small business taxes, balance budgets, etc. They lied with election reform to be more appealing to NDP voters just like they lied about UNDRIP to get more native voters. Yes, he was there, and he said some really stupid things, like not wanting election reform because it's not good for Canadians...after he told us we had to have it, he also basically admitted that it was ranked ballot or bust, but you go ahead and spin for them.

2 women thrown under the bus the our feminist leader.

It's a major failure... should drive a bunch of votes to the NDP for people who care about the issue, assuming we ever hear from the NDP again.... they seem to have disappeared.

There are promises you break and then there are outright lies you tell to get elected, UNDRIP, deficit, election reform, and several others. They would only have accepted a ranked ballot system because that means liberal rule forever, they weren't getting it, so they killed it. It's pretty cynical, but the liberals are always the worst for this sort of thing, and they always get away with it more. UNDRIP was another prime example, they vilified the cons for not adopting it and two months after they were elected suddenly figured out it wasn't possible, they wanted to buy those native votes, so they lied to them, the conservatives were honest about it and were evil for it, that's Canadian politics in a nutshell.

You mean a Liberal politician lied to the Canadian people? I don't believe it. That can't happen. I live in Ontario and the Ontario Liberals would never do that.

I've been crying for the victims since I first heard about this. Does this mean I can't also have compassion for the parents, whose son has committed an unspeakable act?

I think it's a ridiculous idea.

Oh well, I have little doubt they'll do it again with Kinder Morgan..........now emboldened by the "victory" at Standing Rock.........Trudeau picked the wrong time to approve a pipeline.

Agreed, but perpetual rights for software development work product is very different from posts in a public web forum. The question of forum post author rights has been debated ever since forums/bulletin boards have existed. The consensus is that authors retain copyright for their original content and intellectual property, but forum owners control the compilation of volunteered content from users implicitly, and explicitly if enumerated in the TOS. Forum owners cannot usually appropriate member content for other reasons outside of fair use doctrine. The existence of an unbounded edit feature does not extinguish forum owners' control of volunteered content, if for only the technical reason that the content can easily be restored if desired. Moreover, forum owners or their designees (moderators) are given great latitude (rightly or wrongly) to edit and or delete forum member content for a variety of reasons, regardless of content/IP considerations. Forum owners have the larger burden of legal liability as well, and will usually remove content when formally requested to do so or by C+D letter. Bottom line: Don't post in this forum if one is concerned with perpetual existence of posts. Rage quitting and petulance is not a good enough reason to delete all user content.

I once posted a link to an open letter written to ISIS detailing why they weren't following Islam. This letter was signed by hundreds of Imams and other leaders of Islam, and the response here was to discredit it. I've posted you-tube videos of ordinary Muslims standing up and saying that terrorism is wrong, and they're ignored. I've posted info and links to what most Muslims believe and teach, that terrorism is wrong and un-Islamic, but the right-wingers on this site stick with Islamic hate sites like answering-islam or religion of peace. Its pretty convenient for you guys to ignore Muslims standing up against terrorism, then complain that they don't. It's funny that when a kid goes from normal kind of guy to Muslim killer after being exposed to right-wing, anti-Muslim rhetoric, Conservatives say ... Nothing to do with us! Maybe right wingers need to show some leadership so kids aren't radicalized.

I like the current system at the Globe & Mail, they have 5 choices to react (like, funny, wow, sad, disagree). You can also see who voted for each. I am still debating the community moderation policy there. When you post, you have to 'moderate' 2 other posts.

He is just making stuff up again. If there was an actual RCMP investigation into Norman for treason/national security concerns, we'd hear about it after he'd been arrested. Before that, there would be nothing. My turn to speculate: Norman wrote something to his boss or to the Defence Minister or Trudeau saying they had their head up their asses about... well everything related to defence. and defence procurement. Accuracy of that aside, if he had revealed state secrets he'd be in the brig. And he is not.

If that is the case what is the CDS doing, ......to much speculation.....running rampant in this government , at least let us know what he is being charged with.....we can talk details later....

Good point. If Muslims are expected to answer for the crazies aming them, why not also the right? (Or the left, or whatever ideology a killer might claim).

My preference is on the first day take one of those hop on, hop off bus tours. They give you a sense of the place, and many ideas on where to return for a closer look on foot. You can also take a guided tour bus, but inevitably they turn into a constant pitch to buy stuff all day.

I really don't get why people are getting pissy about this. Why would anyone sane feel the need to go back over months and years of back and forth postings and erase everything they wrote here? It's stupid. It's not like it's under your name anyway so you can't even be trying to cover your dumb words from being searched by employers or girlfriends or whatever. And it's not like anything we write here is significant anyway.

To that end, I have saved all my MLW "content"...it is indexed and searchable offline. When things get slow in real time, I go back and read old topics for a good laugh. Between MLW archives, Google cache, and the NSA, we can be immortal !

They are the best thing. I like taking them even in cities I am familiar with because I always learn something. Other neat things about Istanbul: the plane trees of Sultanahmet - very impressive to an outbacker facing withered black spruce most of the time; boat trips; Turkish Delight; driving back and forth between Europe and Asia; how they shave your neck when they give you a haircut. I looked half-human afterwards and have been doing it when I shave ever since.

Yes but that does not show exactly which of thousands of posts got likes. That page turns it into a competition which exactly what we don't want. I would rather see that page deleted and replaced with a page that shows the 'liked' posts sorted time. I dislike such ranking systems because they encourage people to be partisan and ignore the quality and/or substance of the post and simply vote for it because they agree/disagree with it. I would rather see a system that encourage people to like posts based on substance rather than whether they agreed with it.

oh the irony....

IMO, a simple up vote would be better. Edit: I noticed I got a dislike for my post asking for "how to search". That is simply absurd.

I think a "like" feature would be nice. Or an upvote/downvote. It's a simple method of showing you agree/disagree with a certain post. A lot of times I see a post I enjoy or agree with and would love a way to show some extra recognition to that post besides just quoting it and saying "I agree" or "good post".

Trudeau will be a one-termer, not because of his lies....and his questionable ethics. It'll be because of TRUMP! I'm predicting a payback from Trump that will cost Trudeau his demise in the next election.

"reputation" points is a dumb idea. Can this forum get any worse???