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Crazy right wingers think Trudeau is an embarrassment. Meanwhile, they carry on denying climate change and think women’s rights are akin to murder... I know which ones I think are more embarrassing.... Your post is fluff Betsy. It’s nothing of substance. It’s about personality... which is meaningless.

No shortage of labels out there, meaningless as they are.

On politicians pretending they know better about what the result of the trial should have been. Saying anything that amounts to commenting on the correctness of the verdict, to improve your public image or ensure an appropriate approval rating, should be criticized in Canada,” Lacy said, adding public figures should stick to offering sympathies over the tragic loss of life. http://nationalpost.com/news/politics/political-commentary-on-court-verdicts-hurts-views-of-justice-system-lawyers

Interesting point of view. This makes me think, Mr. Trudeau could be the same kind of leader as Mr. Trump, just on the opposite side of the political spectrum. He has the same style, appeal to emotionalism. His personal background is similar too... born into wealth, fame, guaranteed success, with no prior experience in politics. No prior experience in working at all, really. Although Trump does have more as a businessman. Or is that Businesskind. But now I think there really is something to this. When I saw the video of Trudeau confronting that woman at the town hall over her use of the word "mankind", I immediately felt he was bullying her. Not just because of the word, but because of what she was saying about her religious belief. She was a Christian, I think, and asked him to participate with her group, and he pretty much just blew her off like she was a nut. Had she been wearing a Hijab, he probably would have been much nicer.

...but still doing far better than Trudeau and Canadian markets/economy. Trudeau wishes he had it so bad.

This case has proven a very old adage..."better to be judged by twelve than carried by six".

It will be soon enough, you just watch..

I would do anything possible and necessary, laws be damned. Better them dead than my family, and if I have to go to jail for that so be it. The article you linked in the OP only talks about "protecting property", as if that is all that was at stake in the Stanley case. It was not. Some details of the testimony here- Spencer said members of the Stanley family were working that day on their farm and were not “looking for trouble” when an SUV carrying five young people, including Boushie, from the Red Pheasant First Nation reserve pulled into their driveway. Stanley didn’t have the luxury of waiting for police to arrive on his isolated farm, his lawyer said. Spencer said the case is about protecting people from harm. Spencer said Stanley feared his wife was stuck beneath a vehicle that had entered their yard. Stanley “had to get that thing stopped,” Spencer said. Link Trudeau has also made a statement on this case, just this morning. Trudeau should learn to keep his mouth shut, he was not involved in the trial and did not hear all the evidence. In speaking out, he risks tainting the case and could possibly make it more difficult to press additional charges. Trudeau- always looking for an opportunity to push emotional hot buttons - please shut up.

Mixed response to your reply to Accountability now. Sorry. But you insulted him/her as being American. I don't get the hostility against a country that was founded on enlightenment principles versus our Canadian "loyalists" to dictators and authoritarians. (Our original Canadians, that is.) People are stupid here in Canada. I'm as much bothered by those on the right utilizing the actual "logical' fallacies involved to plant themselves as somehow more righteous.

I'll give you my honest opinion as a bit of a fusion insider. I don't think fusion will ever be helpful to address climate change in the way that most people envision, for the simple reason that solar is getting cheaper so quickly. Unlike many other energy technologies, solar panels are just solid state, semiconductor-type products, and they follow a Moore's law like path for cost/performance. In another decade or two, no other power source will be competitive with solar for cost / $. Solar energy IS fusion energy, the reactor just happens to be a ways away. The energy storage problem for solar energy is so much simpler to solve than fusion energy that there's just no contest. Even after fusion is developed, the problem is it will be hard to make cost effective, for a number of reasons. 1. The technology involved is fundamentally expensive compared to what you need for other large scale power plants. Even once all the science and engineering is done, you fundamentally need gigantic superconducting magnets, liquid helium cooling systems, exotic materials that can withstand intense neutron bombardment, dangerous radioactive gases, precision diagnostics for rapid feedback control, and advanced pulse power systems. Most of these require rare and expensive materials and precision manufacturing, and are fundamentally not necessary for any other large scale industrial process meaning that economies of scale will be doubtful. 2. The physics of fusion are such that the bigger the reactor, the easier it is to get to work. While ITER is targetting 500 MW of thermal power, the reality is that any large scale plant based on the ITER (tokamak) design would need to be >5 GW to be efficient, stable, and anywhere close to cost effective. Unfortunately, almost no electrical grid is designed to be able to distribute > 5 GW from individual sources. Instead, grids distribute power from multiple smaller reactors which rarely exceed 1 GW. To make effective use of fusion energy based on the ITER concept, national energy grids would have to be upgraded specifically for that purpose (although there are other fusion reactor designs that may work better at smaller scales), adding further to the cost. 3. In 20 years, well before fusion is close to ready for prime time, solar will be < $0.01/kWh. All that said, fusion energy IS very important. Why? One simple reason: space. Fusion energy offers greater energy density and power density than any other energy source that we have a serious chance of putting into practical use this century. For both space power and space propulsion, fusion will offer new possibilities that are not otherwise achievable. Solar energy becomes much less effective in the outer solar system since you are farther from the Sun. While Mars might plausibly be colonized using solar energy, the moons of Jupiter and Saturn cannot be, and they are in many ways the more intriguing targets. Fusion energy even has high enough performance that interstellar journeys to some of the closest star systems become conceivable on human-relevant timescales, whereas without fusion the best you could do is thousands of years. Fusion energy will be the foundational technology of humankind's expansion off Earth. And, in the meanwhile, fusion energy is of great interest for applications in naval reactors. Fission reactors pose proliferation and contamination risks that fusion ones would not, and for the military, as with space, the cost of a reactor in an aircraft carrier or submarine is not as important as it would be for a commercial application. Fusion even offers possible applications in aircraft propulsion though that is farther off. The biggest help that fusion may be able to provide to help when it comes to emissions would be if fusion reactors become employed in trans-oceanic shipping. Shipping (on ships not on land) is responsible for 17% of worldwide emissions, and if you replaced all those oil powered ships with fusion reactors that would be a big help.

Yes, and the important criteria for trust is the color of ones skin. No, not racism at all. Just a poor little white woman wanting to be surrounded by white because she is afraid of brown.

I will say this for a poster who has asked I speak out as well. I have close friends who left Iran for Israel and Canada-some Jews, some Bahaiis, some Muslims. I also know gays, Zoroastreans who had to leave Iran. I don't claim to speak for Iranians. I do listen to many that came here to get away from the extremist fundamentalist theocracy. Iran had its issues with its Shah yes but it was a modern nation. Persians as I call Iranians because they are Persian, were not enemies of Israel or the West or anyone. Since the theocracy took over people have been living under tyranny. Brave Iranians-Persians have died, been tortured, trying to change the government. Students can and do die and get tortured as do journalists, etc. Ironically we have trendy leftists in this country who speak out saying the Hijab is something we should be tolerant of and yet in Iran it can be seen as a symbol of repression against women. We don't get what it means in Iran. We don't get what Iranians live with. We have idiots like the brother of Justin Trudeau who made a bull crap documentary extolling the virtues of the theocracy in Iran. I can only pray the people of Iran find their way out of their current situation and I think we should support the students, the people morally try break free. Its a struggle no different then people breaking free from the Communist regimes in the East of Europe at one point. Our Prime Minister should speak up a bit more. I know Iranians in Canada fear if they say anything their families back home might get it. I get that. So I just say to them, I think many of us hope your people win their battle for freedom.

There is also a tendency among some groups to idealize natives and minorities, as though they are perfected human beings who are purely victims of the evil "whites". A more detailed read of history reveals there never was a Noble Savage. However, I don't want to appear insensitive or one-sided. My heart goes out to the poorest ones at the very bottom of the food chain. They are as much a victim of exploitation by their own leaders today, the Chiefs, as they are by colonialism years ago.

It's about personality???? Are you for real? Heck - even a fifth grader would understand why he's being mocked! It's because of what he said! "PEOPLE-KIND!"

I didn't know what to title it. Should have placed subject links. But it expresses my own disgust at who I believe is responsible for the very 'racism' ( and 'sexism') that is caused from our Constitution's forceful cultural puritanical laws [Multiculturalism] disguised as communal-love when it implicitly presents and fosters more hatred only.