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Indeed...Unfortunately, they are incapable to differentiate sports players from politicians.... Ordinarily, Nike would offer their products to sportsmen from other countries free as a promotion. Iranian football players have to buy their own trainers. It is also very difficult for Iranian fans to purchase football shirt of their favourite player as it is not standard. Interestingly, Nike slogans in black and white writing that usually comes up with slogan: "Just do it" has been slightly modified now

Well then good for you Dialamah….well done, I'm sure if you thought about it for more than a second even YOU can find a few things that Canadians have had to change or accommodate so our culture could be more accommodating…..it seems to be the Canadian thing to do, almost rates up there with slagging Americans or in your case Israelis... I mean every day our government is going on the media and saying sorry to someone for things we have done in the past, since our inception......and this is not some victim prone conservative thing, like there is a thing, I mean how many groups did harper say sorry to........this is a Justin , liberal thing, having to accommodate everyone about everything until there is nothing left of the original idea...from our national anthem....to our Christmas holidays....we are obsessed with changing things to accommodate someone....The whole idea of immigrants coming to a new land was to escape there own....not to transport their culture to Canadian shores, but to become part of our culture....to embrace it and all of it's whacky ideas and practices...But for the most part that seems to much for new comers to do, this is why we have massive Muslim enclaves in Toronto ,and else were or china towns in BC, most immigrants band together with their own culture they are not interested in becoming Canadians, but rather exports from their own nations...Travel down these places and you'll lucky to see English signs, or even have the owners speak English to customers, this is not what immigration was suppose to look like......... then people like you come on here and demand "what have you changed" ...everything has changed.....And while it does not effect me in a huge way, every second of my day.....it does not change the fact changes or accommodations where made... And no where in my post did I say I have suffered under these accommodations…..…..I said I am tired of making accommodations to everyone and every group that comes along.....

Is hate good? Should we allow the censorship of hate speech? 1 Thessalonians 5:21 Test all things; hold fast what is good. Proverbs 3:12 For whom the Lord loveth he correcteth; even as a father the son in whom he delighteth. God seems to think correcting hateful thoughts or actions is good and correction often times includes showing hate for what is though or done. I have tested the notions of and concepts of hate and love and find both to be quite useful. There is a time to love and a time to hate even in these days where Google and others who control the net are actively censoring us? Should we allow ourselves to hate and speak against those things that deserve to be hated or should we allow the censors to muzzle us? Are censors coming to take away our freedom of speech if it has a hate component? "First they came for the Jews, but I did nothing because I'm not a Jew. Then they came for the socialists, but I did nothing because I'm not a socialist. Then they came for the Catholics, but I did nothing because I'm not a Catholic. Finally, they came for me, but by then there was no one left to help me." – Pastor Father Niemoller (1946)” "Censorship reflects society's lack of confidence in itself. It is a hallmark of an authoritarian regime." - Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart Does hate serve a good purpose for us? For evil to grow, all good people who know what to hate need do is allow censorship and the end of freedom of speech. Regards DL

Sure...Canada demonstrated this capacity by planning and executing the overthrow of Haiti's democratically elected president in 2004 with the U.S. and France. Lots more "moral authority" was in play when Canada bombed Iraq, Serbia, and Libya...with NATO. The U.S. has plenty more than just hard power....the U.S. dollar is the world's reserve currency....Canada's dollar has become the peso. The U.S. has the largest IMF voting block at 18%. The U.S. leads the world in R&D investment...Canada lags far behind many other nations. Canada's "brain drain" is mostly to the United States. The U.S. has more landed immigrants from around the world than any other nation...20% of the total...no other nation comes close. Immigrants are still trying to get into the USA, regardless of Trump. The Canadian economy and culture is dominated by America...a choice that Canadians have made long ago. So enjoy our latest president, just like all the rest. Canada gets no say in the matter.

Nike's action against the Iranian soccer team was cowardly and unnecessary and sent the wrong message to the people of Iran. Wherever possible, sport should not be mixed with politics. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/global-opinions/wp/2018/06/15/nike-tells-irans-world-cup-team-to-find-other-shoes/?utm_term=.ad9187fa1661 And they're called boots BTW.

They banned public screening because they fear gatherings of any kind. When people come together then they unite for the common goal to overthrow the regime. In the past they have cracked down hard on celebrations of any kind especially mixed gender celebrations. Unless they realize that there is nothing they can do about it like yesterday. I see that one more time YOU come to the defense of this regime. And why not they are stealing money that belong to the iranian people and giving it away to your people while keeping people of the richest country in the world as poor. Iran and Iranians have no interest or part in the Arab Israeli conflict. Iran is neither. Historically Arabs have done significantly more harm to Iran and Iranians than Israel ever could (has done none sofar) the latest example being the 1980 invasion. So fight your own war at your own expense and casualties.

This is actually a very good idea on several levels. First, Ford and Trump probably would get along a hell of a lot better than Trump and Trudeau. Second, if the Americans wanted to cut a deal but make Trudeau look bad this is the way to do it. Much of the automotive, steel, aluminum and dairy industries are in Ontario, and since Canada's federal government has been busy discussing trade with senators, congressmen and governors there's no reason the Americans couldn't do the same with one of our premiers. I bet Trump would love the idea of doing an end run around Trudeau with a guy who 'admires' him, and has been compared to him. And if the deal is reasonable then whether the feds approve of it or not they still come out looking bad and Ford and Trump come out looking good. http://ottawacitizen.com/opinion/columnists/hyder-why-doug-ford-should-go-to-washington

This is not inconsistent with Trump's objectives....he has specifically called for less of the "post WW2 burden" to preserve rules based order on mostly the U.S. dime. America cannot sustain current levels of deficits and growth in national debt. The U.S. is not a large export economy as a percentage of GDP compared to a nation like Canada. Chrystia Freeland has repeatedly pounded the U.S. to continue paying the most in blood and treasure to preserve the favourite topic in her book, including human rights. Trump, Obama , and other presidents have repeatedly pointed out that NATO members like Canada and Germany have refused to raise defence spending to agreed levels (2% of GDP).

Define saving face when trump is known world wide as a pathological liar. I’m not sure a guy who fantasizes about dating his own daughter can ever save face.

My point is not that government should not provide translation, nor even services in both official languages. My point is that government and governmental institutions should not attempt to stand in the way, much less reverse, the normal processes of integration. It is the policy of most governments in Canada to do just that, to help preserve minority language communities wherever they exist. The federal government even has a special immigration program which brings French speaking immigrants into Canada specifically to settle into minority Francophone communities outside of Quebec to help sustain them. And of course, all levels of government fund language and cultural support programs for minority languages. French should simply have been allowed to survive - or not, as normal human behaviour patterns would have it. No attempt to suppress, but nor to preserve.

It's far too early to assess whether Trump's rapprochement with Kim and the NK regime will have any lasting beneficial effect. Kim, like Trump, is unpredictable. The meeting between the two doesn't convince me of much. If anything, at this point it appears the South Korean regime has been instrumental in promoting peace with its neighbour. I don't know if this has gone far enough so far to warrant a Nobel, but SK's president would appear to have the greatest claim among those involved.

I love FOX news the only source for real and truthful news and none of that fake and lying and phony stuff. LOL.

It depends on what you mean by the word "hate." There's been an increasing tendency in the West to equate the meaning of hate merely with perceived offense. This is untenable in the Western intellectual context, which is grounded in a philosophy of challenge and objective criticism. In Canada, for instance, criticism of some religious practices and beliefs is often conflated these days with "phobia" or fear and is thus held to be promoting hatred, even where there's no obvious justification for this conclusion. Even defending secularism, which an eminently reasonable concept in a pluralistic society, gets lumped by some into the category of promoting hatred. We need to get back to basics here, and acknowledge the primacy of free speech before we lose sight of the virtues of Western intellectual inquiry and criticism.

Generally speaking, I oppose the concept of censorship. I do, however, believe it necessary to restrict speech that's intended to incite violence against members of any specific group, which historically has been the intent of hate speech laws in democratic countries. In a free and democratic society, there must be no topics that are presumptively deemed to be beyond the realm of public discourse. The role of a responsible citizenry is to ensure that debate is fairly and civilly conducted. The tendency to bully others into silence has seemingly increased, and particularly so in academia, which is disturbing. Democracy can't survive without freedom of speech and anybody who says otherwise is either a fool or is taking the rest of us for fools.

Look will stop calling me a liberal. I'm a fascist get it straight.