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The original article is a couched reference to justifying Muslim extremist ideology over progressive Muslims who believe they should be allowed to have a more individualistic say in their approach to life and religion because the latter is considered corrupt and a Western virus further considered a threat to Islam. I support progressive Muslims seeking to liberate their people from oppressive extremists who use the power of a collective of like minded followers to control the way their fellow Muslims should interpret the Koran or live life. I would contend Individualism and collectivism are Yin and Yang. Too much of either causes imbalance and negative consequences. Me personally I believe God is an abstract concept and is an energy that we can connect and get glimpses of when we witness it it create for the sake of sharing and giving positively.. Myself, I believe religions are the result of humans who tried to create rules to prevent us from killing each other and giving in to our primal instincts and then went further to be used by individuals to control us using peer group pressure. I would argue I am no one's God but my own. If my humility and failures can be turned into positive lessons and I or maybe someone else gains strength from that to be positive, then good, but life proceeded me and proceeds me and neither I nor anyone claiming to speak for God has the right to claim we are an authority on it and tell others what they must believe-they have to decide on an individual and intimate level with their own selves.. We are all at our best just humble witnesses of the endless potential of creation if we choose to be just like we can choose to be agents of destruction and negation. The very same religious words can be used as a healing device or weapon to injure or kill. How we use the words is what determines its context and meaning not the words themselves. I have seen what some call God not in men with beards screaming or pointing fingers but in the movement of air, water, leaves, birds flying, animals in the wild, the sounds and tones of music in instruments and voice , certain smells from plants, kids laughing, people crying. I don't much need a prayer myself or a man with a beard to show me that. I got nothing against men with beards and will help them help others, but I worship nothing but appreciate everything. Worship to me is a wors of fear. I can't imagine in my reality any creative energy source demanding I worship it. It would be far beyond such a need which is a human need I believe we project onto what we think it is along with other human characteristics because we don't really know how to define it. Hell I would say you don't need to define it. You just need sometimes to get glimpses of it by feeling it through doing something that helps someone or something else simply for the sake of helping them. That's all you need to see glimpses of it I think. To hell with getting on one's knees and getting caught up in obsessive compulsive rituals triggered by anxiety and fear.

Did you really think it would be anything else? Did anyone think that this hundred million dollar waste of time would challenge any of the progressive narratives or cast any shade on the natives themselves for their behaviour? Of course not! It's all the fault of those evil white people! We're committing genocide by... letting native men kill native women... Not that we're exactly letting them. Investigations into the murders of native women are just as intense as those of white women, and the solution rates are virtually identical at 88% for natives vs 89% fo white women. Oh, and by the way, native men are murdered at a much higher rate. But the inquiry wan't concerned with them. Men, even native men, are of little concern these days. So they want there to be harsher penalties for anyone who harms a native woman than one who harms a white woman or man. As if native women were some kind of special group placed on a podium to be protected above all others. How this is supposed to gel with the demand for lower sentences for natives offenders is never gone into. Are they to get longer time in front of the healing circle if the person they kill is a female native? The inquiry was only supposed to look into the violence perpetrated against native women over the last thirty years, but you knew it wouldn't confine itself to that. And you knew our craven, spineless prime minister would get on his apology stool again and accept full blame on our behalf. Instead he was quick to say the justice system has failed them - without explaining how. The inquiry report uses the word 'genocide' dozens of times, and the lead progressive in charge stated baldly "This report is about deliberate race, identity and gender-based genocide," Which, of course, is so much bullshit. I think most Canadians will hear this and shake their heads in contempt at the idea that we're committing deliberate genocide on anyone, much less native women who are being killed by their drunken, drugged up spouses and relatives. I know Scheer won't have the balls to say anything about this, but I wonder what Bernier's response will be. https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-inquiry-on-missing-and-murdered-indigenous-calls-on-all-canadians-to/ https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-violence-against-indigenous-women-and-girls-is-not-a-relic-of-canadas/

This overflows to the Local Politics but I shall post it here. Watson on the news today was indicating the OC Transpo fares will increase before the LRT is even ready for public use. His notion was that they need to pay for the project. Let's not forget the are 1.5 BILLION over budget. Which is something the taxpayers and patrons of the public transportation system should NEVER have to pay for. Maybe Jim Watson can pitch some of his own money into the project, I might be willing to pay an increase of the fare. Until then, screw him. https://ottawa.ctvnews.ca/rtg-will-not-achieve-handover-date-for-confederation-line-by-end-of-june-1.4450827

It's pretty sad that there is so much hatred for Trump. It's not merely disliking the man,it is flat-out hatred. He's certainly not politically correct and frankly I find that refreshing. The US economy is humming along very nicely with better rates of growth than Obama had. It is truly remarkable that he was able to win the presidency(fair and square) in spite of relentless attacks by the mainstream media.

I do not think that there is one Canadian in Canada who knows as to why they hate Trump so much? The only reason that I can see for that is because of our anti Trump leftist lieberal Canadian media who have told them that Trump has been a disaster for Canada and they just eat it up willy-nilly without checking out as to whether what is being told to them is all true or not. Some Canadians are just too dumb and too stunned to run a popsicle stand. They should not be allowed to vote. Just saying.

Relax. For every Yazmeen NDPer there's also a Kevin O'Leary who has no time for the Libs and their "nanny snowflake" agenda as you like to call it. Canada is in an enviable position when it comes to having a well-run society that strikes a healthy balance between unfettered Social Darwinist capitalism and the so-called nanny European cradle-to-grave support system. I would recommend reading about human development indicators. The top countries for quality of life and human development are almost always the Scandinavian countries, which have higher levels of taxation than Canada. This country is not some communist enclave. Canada will always have a progressive strain and this is a good thing. The excesses on the left come mostly from naïve students and people who haven't really worked for a living. I do think Trudeau has drunk too much campus Koolaid. He irresponsibly empowered cultural revolutionaries, but Canadians are wizening to it. The consensus among the electorate is that pipelines need to be built, carbon taxes must either removed or replaced by a less economically damaging climate initiative, and the PM must be harsher on China and trade. Basically drop the naivety in a hurry.

Yes, McKenna - pollution is no longer free! The Philippines and Malaysia should bill Canada for the mountain of plastic dumped in those countries! What does McKenna and her boss expect these countries to do with those plastics? Dump them in the ocean? Hypocrisy is the name of the game. Carbon tax is just a ......money grab!

Ms McKenna's new addition from today: Environment and Climate Change Canada - Weather issued a tornado warning for Gatineau and the National Capital Region. Please stay safe, pay attention to instructions from authorities, and take cover immediately if threatening weather approaches With this type of environment protection no wonder we start getting tornadoes in Gatineau. Hope Parliament Hill is spared, or should I hope for the opposite.

There is no such thing. They either failed or switched gears and became oligarchies. I'm pretty sure workers were worked to the bone in either case. Name me a Canadian or American socialist that is saying this is what we should do too. I mean an actual name and a quote thereof, some something that isn't...nebulous.

1. Yes, Andrew Scheer is such a monumental high achiever and brilliant visionary. I guess you didn't say that, but seriously any of the major leaders are interchangeable. 2. Safety Minister ? Ok then...

The saving grace of this cohort of Liberals is that they truly are the most vacuous bunch of Himbos and Bimbos yet. Ralph Goodale is about the only one who has any competence, the rest of them are a danger to themselves.

Sign of weakness, Team Climate Barbie is who we thought they were, corrupt, incompetent and not very clever, so now they are getting desperate as the Scheercucks have closed the gap on them.

Ms McKenna added the following material to her Facebook page together with two pictures - one of burning Albertan forests and one of Jason Kenney looking happily at the sky: "As families are forced from their homes by fires, including one that's grown to be more than three times the size of Edmonton, my thoughts go out to everyone affected. We'll keep taking action and fighting climate change with Albertans and all Canadians — for our environment, for our health, and for our future." Her post points at an article titles "As Alberta Burns, Jason Kenney Repeals Carbon Tax" So by "taking action" Ms McKenna means "paying carbon tax". She is OK with putting another 2,000km gas, oil or bitumen pipeline on the map. She is fine with the deforestation going on over the Coastal mountains. She is totally fine with bringing another 300,000 Indians or Chinese to Canada next year and finding them jobs. She is also fine with companies polluting our waters and dumping toxic sludge in pristine rivers and glaciers. She is fine with all dead animals on the roads and railways or poisoned beside tailing ponds. She is fine with increase air pollution by more airplanes and helicopters in the sky. She's perfectly fine with increased levels of noise pollution even on Saturdays. Of course she is, the bitch has no clue what she is doing as she has no environmental degree or even basic knowledge to back up her ministerial post. All she can come up with is "PAY YOUR CARBON TAX and LET US DO THAT MAGIC FOR YOU!. YOU WILL BE SAVED" No McKenna, I do not think so.

And in typical Canadian fashion the "solution" is a pointless money grab which will have no effect on the climate whatsoever, it's just more virtue signalling. It's like dealing with children.

If that is what you really are, you have my undying respect.

Socialists try to hard - socialism will come naturally on its own in the absence of sociopathy. Making governments transparent to the greatest extent possible is the key.

I'm more like a zealot of the governed. You just don't get that difference do you? Can't allow for the existence of a political atheist in your universe?

It is true that cultural Marxism is thriving, no longer a quaint notion from Columbia University elites. Now that media has been democratized, the left is attempting to shut down the marketplace for ideas and those who would protect free speech rights.