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One year ago today was The Beast. I didn't expect it to hit me like it is. My house is still not re-built and I still miss Whiskey every day. I can't think of him being trapped in the fire and not cry. I'm one of the 25% of Fort Mac people who will not be returning. I found a job elsewhere and am settled here now. There's hardly a day that goes by that I don't need something and then remember I lost it in the fire. One of the items I miss the most and regret losing was a beautiful flamenco shawl that a freind brought back from Spain for me. The Beast kicked my a$$, but here I am!

I'm fairly sure that any social justice warrior would be horrified at the very idea that we might collect such information, and would immediately condemn you as a clearly immoral clone of Hitler himself.

I'm curious - Is there a word for the bigotry of Muslims towards Westerners? Or are we saying that doesn't exist? Is there a study being done about the rise in crimes against Canadians by Muslims? Because as the Muslim population in our town grew, so did incidents of Muslims slapping, kicking, throwing objects at, verbal abuse, etc directed at Westerners. We also didn't get a hotline for reporting the incidents. Although I did report once to the RCMP when I had an object thrown at my head and required stitches. Could it be that bigotry is a 2-way street? Could it be that some Muslims are bringing this on themselves?

Indeed. I've been thinking a lot about this lately. The 20th century was dominated by a battle between ideas as well. It was essentially classical liberalism against authoritarianism (which came in the flavors of communism and fascism). In the 21st century, communism and fascism are pretty much behind us (China isn't communist in any meaningful sense of the word any more). Also, classical liberalism has largely lost its conviction. So now in the world I see a few ideas shaping things: - religious resurgence / extremism: this applies to the rise of extremist/political Islam, as well as religious resurgence in America. - "leftism" as described in my post above: it's not the leftism of the 20th century, not communism or socialism though it takes some things from both. It's got elements of collectivism and racism too. But whatever we call it, it is an increasingly powerful ideological movement in Western countries especially among the younger generations and in urban centers. - classical liberalism: it largely won out over all competitors in the 20th century, but now seems to be running out of steam. In Western countries which are the home of this set of ideas, they now find few strong advocates anywhere on the political spectrum. Still, it for now has a lot of influence just by inertia and because a lot of institutions are built on it as a foundation. I'm probably missing a few more...

I think 10-20 years ago, if someone was accused of being racist by some mainstream media source, it was a big deal. Today, it's just shrugged off by many people as more alarmism, namecalling, bullshit, and fake news. Which is why the millions of times that Trump was called racist, sexist, bigoted, etc, didn't hurt his election. The left you talk about is spiraling deeper and deeper into its own vortex of ever more bizarre theories rooted in issues of group identity. The right of course has many other issues which I also deeply disagree with (science aversion, religiosity, security theatre, etc). 5 years ago if you asked me which side puts me off more in America, I would have said the right... the tendency towards theocracy in particular is especially offensive to me. But today, even with how horrible and essentially evil the Republican party is, I think the left puts me off more. The worst ideas of Republicans seem so obviously flawed that a mere moment of cooler heads prevailing would see such policies stopped or rolled back. On the other hand, the worst ideas from the left are part of a broad-based cultural outlook that inherently dis-empowers opponents, silences criticism, punishes non-conformity, and calls upon all of its followers to quash dissent and sees quashing dissent as a virtue. I don't know quite what the right "-ism" word is for where the left is going - this odd mixture of group identity politics, preference for groups rights and group justice over individual rights and individual justice, disagreement-silencing, embrace of emotion over objectivity, disregard for economic reality, and self-loathing of its own history and civilization. Whatever word history will come to use to describe this set of beliefs which are coalescing from the left wing into some kind of ideological movement in the early 21st century... I think it is as dangerous and inherently evil as communism or fascism were in the 20th century.

The US gave-up nerve agents during the Nixon administration....long, long ago.

You think they'll feel better if they're killed by some other kind of armored vehicle instead? Mind you, that isn't what would happen. If Canada got on its high horse and refused to sell these LAVs to the Saudis General Dynamics would shrug and move the production south to one of its American plants, and then sell them anyway. Of course, social justice warriors love making grand gestures that demonstrate how noble and moral they are, even if the gesture has zero impact - at least when someone else has to pay for them.

Your argument is patently silly. I don't think much of the Sauds either, but my positions are generally influenced by something you seem to have ignored: realism. Nothing Canada does is going to influence the behaviour of Saudi Arabia. There are nations lined up and waiting to sell them weapons if we pull back. Nobody will give a damn except the people whose jobs depend on the sales. What we could and should do is bar Saudi money from coming here to help fund religious groups, build mosques, or pay for imams. We should not allow them any influence in this country, and should bar the future immigration of anyone who subscribes to the Wahabi school of Islam.

Are you volunteering to be the first one killed when some Muslim loser is influenced by this promotion of terrorism and starts stabbing people at random or running them over? You know, it's illegal to shout fire in a crowded theater even though someone else can quietly say "But there's no fire". It's not a point of discussion. To promote terrorism is to promote murder. Period. It's not something that can be engaged with an intellectual argument, especially when the appeal is generally based on religion.

" an aging population will be the story of Canada’s population for decades to come" https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2017/05/03/canada-now-has-more-seniors-than-children-census-reveals.html Die seniors, die !

https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2017/05/02/canadian-armed-forces-suffering-from-underfunding.html WoW it has taken the liberals how long to figure that DND is in trouble when it comes to equipment.....unnamed sources confirming we are starting from a hole position....enough so that the minister is saying it might lead to a national debate on HOW we fund our military..... For the liberals to even bring it up must mean it is serious.

You make it sound like the liberals won that election because they they had the best people and best platform.........But that was not what happened at all, or have you forgotten the ANYTHING but harper campaign, where Liberals, NDP, and Green threw in with each other to get Harper out.....They got elected because NDP and Green votes went to the liberals, to ensure a Con defeat....I wonder if that is going to happen next election.....not on your life.....liberals are masters at the art of the promise, and not keeping them, shit the PM might as well be call himself Trump for all the lies and broken promises he has spewed......and the contempt thing, Did they not give parliament the info they requested, and is the liberals any further in finishing the replacement project for the F-18's.....How about solving the procurement mess....No....what have they done....well they make a great effort to point out errors and mistakes in the CONs previous government.....but really that is all they got, except broken promises....and lies....lots of lies.....Man it might be nice if they the liberals could point to some of their own successes. instead of looking back and blaming every problem we have as a nation on the cons.....

Wow, conspiracy theory in action. No way could a white right-winger have done this, right? Even though he confessed and turned himself in. Even though the 'other guy' turned out to be someone attempting to render aid and was mis-identified in the chaos of dealing with 19 wounded people and 6 dead ones. Just wow.

Which is why they changed the 'story'

More bald faced Liberal lies this big one about Harper from the PM himself. http://www.torontosun.com/2017/05/03/furey-trudeau-tells-world-media-alternative-facts-about-canadas-muslim-related-policies

Christian churches get attacked by vandals all the time and you hear very little. Spray some paint on a mosque and the hate police are out in force. Time for muslims to grow some thicker skin.

Oh, is that the "story" now? It changes so often. But, I recall the initial reports even if you do not. Two men in masks yelling Allahu Akbar...but that sure didn't fit the narrative!

Gee, why would (hate) crimes against Jews be on the rise in Canada when there used to be few if not NONE.

Thank you for confirming that President Trump is being very presidential, just like many previous U.S. presidents' objections to negative press...like Obama, Bush, Clinton, Bush, Reagan, Carter, Ford....all the way back to Lincoln.

Oh...you mean the attack on the mosque by two men in masks yelling Allahu Akbar? Now conveniently ONE "white supremacist" who apparently loves Trump when not loving Tommy Douglas? That attack?

The animosity is mostly towards the political ideology they embrace. Is it wrong of me to dislike Communism? How about Fascism? That's okay, right? Why is it immoral for me to dislike Islam?

I didn't have to evacuate, I was out of town at the time. So I don't have that trauma. A lot of my freinds up there have pictures of moose - sometimes 3 or 4 of them - coming into the town and nibbling on their landscaping the last few weeks. I think it's becasue there's so much devastation in the forest still, they are coming in for food. A few years ago we had a very late spring and the bears were a problem in town. I'm thinking they may start making their way into town again this year. This fire was just so devastating for everything in the region.

The U.S. should leave South Korea so all of the critics can get exactly what they don't want...Korean War v2.0. Throw China a bone.....

Seriously? People are fed up worldwide being held hostage to ridiculous ideology. Just read a paper or turn on your TV...it's not just on MLW, and it certainly isn't race bias.

They are taking over.

No more Skippy for Canada...one less American thing to boycott. http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/skippy-peanut-butter-hormel-1.4095453

Agreed...such laws would be unconstitutional in the United States. The most abhorrent forms of free speech are what need to be protected the most. "Liberals" Al Goldstein, Lenny Bruce, and Larry Flynt proved that in courts decades ago.

If eastern Canada (Ontario, Quebec, and the maritimes would stop importing and using Saudi conflict oil and start using Alberta oil instead, it would be a lot better. Eastern Canada spends hundreds of millions of dollars on Saudi oil as Ezra Levant has been pointing out for a long time. He wrote a book on it.

The Saudis and Iranians are the reason for the current glut. OPEC has a ton of control on the global price of oil based on their output, and who they share it with, and SA is the leading producer of oil within OPEC in the ME, the Saudis have more than double the production & almost twice the proven reserves of any other ME country. OPEC put an embargo on Canada, the US and others in 1973 for political reasons and it dove-tailed our economy (along with the preceding monetary/market crisis). OPEC rose the price of oil to over $5 a barrel, an increase of 70%. The US has made sure that would never happen again. ME oil makes the US and western countries A TON of money. The US and others have been selling ME/OPEC countries like SA a ton of military weapons since the 1970's with the money ME OPEC countries have made from oil. A politically unstable ME is actually great business for the west (as long as SA is friendly & stable), it keeps ME countries with the need to be highly armed. Amazing when you look at a map of the ME that Saudi Arabia is one of the only major countries that has remained highly stable politically and has virtually avoided war through the decades. Virtually every other country has been a shit-show. No doubt the SA regime has major US backing at all costs & SA can maintain a tight grip inside it's own country with arms & turning a blind eye to abuses, which in turn helped inspire Bin Laden & the 15 Saudi 9/11 hijackers etc to attack. The US has made sure the 1979 Iranian Revolution would never happen in SA, which it hasn't, but a Wahabi revolution has instead targeted the US/West largely outside SA. Both Shia (1979 Iran) & Sunni revolutionaries (al-Qaeda, ISIS) have gone to war with the US for their internal meddling, based out of the 3 highest oil producing countries in the ME (SA, Iran, Iraq). Coincidence?

I get that you're attempting to insult me personally, but are doing a rather poor job of it. Try again.

You're free to vote for whomever you like. Your confusion comes from assumption.

You're the one dealing in conspiracies. US boogie men are your big issue when the real dealers of today's sarin are elsewhere. Perhaps post a picture of Rummie shaking hands with Saddam way back to prove it. Chemical weapons destruction facilities on the mainland. However, VX doesn't just burn-up in an incinerator being designed to resist fire. That took Johnston Island with its special processing units. So if your theory is true, whatever precursors that still might exist for sarin in Kentucky and Colorado were shipped to Assad, eh? What does the US get out of this apparent use of WMDs

You're free to subscribe to the likes of Briebart. You'll still be wrong.