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Thirteen is a minor and it`s rape, at least in a civilized moral society, there`s no excuse for it, adopted or not. Funny when a moderate Muslim who speaks out for peace and tolerance, calling out radical Islam, is put down because why, you don`t like peace or his calls for unity and tolerance He sure sounds like someone we should be cheering for, only those who reject peace and tolerance would reject his objectives. https://bcnn1wp.wordpress.com/2019/06/03/how-imam-mohammad-tawhidi-is-fighting-radical-islam-to-build-peace-with-christians-jews/

Complete nonsense. It's perfectly legitimate to protest the tearing down of statues Taliban fashion, and not be a white supremacist.

That's a hoax. He wasn't talking about white supremacists. He was referring to the specific people there protesting the tearing down of statues. What perpetuating fake news.

Part of the latest Progressive attack method which GH likely learned online. Demand apologies (et al) for things one didn't do. Not apologizing?? That shows obvious support for MURDER (sinister music plays). It's a form of Straw Man...

Snopes: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/kamala-harris-ancestor-slaves/ Snopes officially calls this account "unproven" even though they acknowledge that it's Kamala Harris's own father who made the claim that their family owned slaves less than a century before he was born. This is a far more specific claim than Elizabeth Warren's claim to way-back Native American heritage. FWIW here's what Snopes said about her heritage question: LMFAO. They don't give it a "proven" rating, they don't actually give it a "rating" at all, they just say "her DNA test provides strong evidence". They skipped the actual rating because if they did it would have to be "false". That's because she never claimed to be "somewhere between 1/128th and 1/1024th native", she claimed to be a native, and Trump's claim that she was drastically lying by calling herself native on her Harvard entry is bang-on. Anyhoo, back to Snopes disgusting article on Harris, they are looking down their noses at various "right-leaning" sites for reporting on an issue that undoubtedly has merit, even by their own admission: Snopes thinks that they are throwing shade at them for publishing these claims, but they were made by her own father, and they are about someone who died less than 90 years before he was born. IMO that's very good reason to publish those claims. There's no reason to believe that his own family wouldn't be aware of who his ancestors were just a few generations ago, and it's not like he was claiming to be descended from someone awesome. Not many people would make up a story that they were descended from a huge loser. This reminds me of a friend I had back in my early 20's. His name was Kwame and he was half Jamaican and half Nigerian. He went to Nigeria to meet his dad's family and he found out that they were all highly-educated, they were fairly well-to-do, and they were descended from bigtime slave-owners back in the day. It struck me as ironic that if I went into a bar down in Georgia with him the most racist and uninformed people down there would think of me as a slaver and him as a victim. My ancestors worked in coal mines back when they were dangerous, they farmed other people's fields and they fought in wars. Living in a shack on the prairies and working in a coal mine back in the '30's wasn't much better than being a slave, and fighting in a war is worse. I have a huge hatred for condescending Democrat/Liberal morons who act like they belong on a pedestal virtue-signalling when they're actually just ignorant bigots.

Yeah isn't it wonderful that innocent people are being shot and killed because we, the media, and politicians are all afraid to be politically incorrect. Logically nobody wants the social stigma of being labelled a racist and some people are more than willing to try to tack that label on people. I guess we should just have more courage and stand up to the moral bullies.

LOL...the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, eh? About as biased as they get re: anti-Israel. Anyways, your Arab chums got the same deal as Israel at Camp David under Jimmy Carter...or did you think the Egyptian/Jordanians/Saudis/etc found their US military equipment in a cabbage patch?

So how come you're not offering free college to Canadian born people then? Immigration should be simple. You wanna come here and can prove you can make it on your own, okay. But if you can't, then you can't come. And if you come you're not eligible for welfare or other social services. Either make it on your own or leave. As for refugees, almost all the ones we've accepted should have either been rejected as non-compliant with the UN refugee charter we signed, or be in refugee camps near where they live so they can go back as circumstances change. I understand, for example, we're getting lots of Nigerians lately who fly to Europe, then the states, then here to claim refugee status because they say they're bisexual. Apparently more than half of them are making the same claim with the same circumstances, most likely because they've been coached by the same immigration lawyers. None of them should be accepted. None should even be allowed to apply since they bypassed Europe and the US to get here.

You forgot these options , vote for greens or NDP is a vote for Trudeau, looks like we only have two choices this election, liberals or liberals lites...

Rachel Maddow is a Russian agent.

Ridiculous, they go too far as always. They are all part of history and tell a story that shouldn't be forgotten or changed. It's pathetic that people would rather tear down history than worry about health or poverty. Robert E. Lee was an abolitionist. Mayor Khan of London is backing a slavery museum in London, I hope if it happens they remember William Wilberforce and Britain's role in abolishing slavery. Tad off topic but what the heck.

While I don`t agree with rolling back protections, the bald eagle is making a come back so was taken off the endangered list. Meanwhile wind turbines kill hundreds but that’s allowed. http://savetheeaglesinternational.org/new/us-windfarms-kill-10-20-times-more-than-previously-thought.html

But they didn’t know who was going to be there a head of time. So now you’re criticizing people for not being psychic. Brilliant. It’s a legitimate protest. Despite your bias.

Robert E Lee fought for his home state of Virginia and not something else. Lincoln had offered him the top job of commanding the Army of the (soon to be) Potomac...but he refused in order to protect Virginia against invasion...which he did rather well. Lee had already freed his slaves...unlike numerous Union generals. But, I imagine you have zero actual understanding of the US Civil War...so meme away.

Didn't realize that, but Trump didn't say that.

There was a Macleans article by Linda Frum a few years back, the last time gun violence there got the media's attention. It said almost all of it was by Jamaican street gangs. In Ottawa, I can tell you most of it is Somalian street gangs. We don't have numbers because the authorities hide them from us. But I recall an article in the Citizen a few years ago which was on efforts at creating a youth community centre for Somalians, and the reporter let slip that this was really needed since more than half the youths in detention in the Ottawa detention centre were Somalis. That should give you some indication of how big a part refugees play in crime here. Canada has among the lowest proportion of police to population in the western world. That was okay when we were a more homogeneous community, but the arrival of millions of immigrants and refugees, especially from places like Somalia and Jamaica, have greatly increased street violence. There is. The propaganda among the left with the BLM nonsense has definitely spread to Canada, so much so you have the same anti-police attitude and refusal to cooperate among Blacks here.

The study would indicate that it's better to live relatively close to Toronto but not in it.

It is refreshing to see/read some of what is going on in Quebec politics. The national media is so Toronto-centric that Montreal is only grudgingly admitted as being part of Canada. We are, though, cut off from our French bretheren by the very francophone extremism that DOES now exist within the province. QOC's post is one of those rare, and to me most welcome attempts to reach across the Ottawa river past the Rideau Canal. Because of the language barrier, I see more of and know far more about local politics in LA or Boston than Montreal, and that to me is a failure of Canada as a nation. One of the BIG reasons for the rift, though, is the development of the institutions of the Government of Canada to pander to Quebec - at the expense of the ROC. It is these misguided efforts to "hold Canada together" that are the greatest element of what may eventually tear it apart. In a lifetime of involvement with Federal politics and bureaucrats in Canada and its embassies around the world, I am painfully aware of just how extreme that sentiment and effort...let me just call it the Federal drive to put "Quebec of Canada" in virtually everything that wears very thin my tolerance for the federation. Quebec seems susceptible to a sharp left movement in its politics mostly because it IS organized to exist largely as a dependent state. Quebec business turns to Ottawa for endless "special privilege" as does the province itself - and the ROC validates this by continuing to grant such special privileges to Quebec of the ROC. Take a close look how interprovincial trade protectionism exists within la belle province, and many, many other circumstances and one can see that the path to power in the province is to be in political spheres of influence. When government is the master instead of the servant, you will see that movements want and NEED to be in political power to validate and execute their agenda.

To their credit the Harper tories cut funding to the UN relief and works agency for Palestine. I've read a lot of unsavoury things about this agency over the years, including that it's mainly staffed by Palestinians who overtly hate both Israel and Jews and make little effort at hiding it. I've also heard that for a supposedly neutral group its very close to terrorist groups and does not work with the Israeli government at all. There have been reports of them smuggling weapons across the border and moving them around in UN ambulances and trucks. That Canada immediately rejoined the UNRWA as soon as Trudeau was prime minister, with no preconditions is an excellent example of their 'style over substance behaviour, both on the domestic front and internationally. We've forked over $100 million to this corrupt agency since Trudeau took over, with no idea how or where it's being spent, or whose pockets it's going into. In theory, UNRWA exists to provide support to Palestinian refugees: food, shelter, education, health care. The organization has become a highly politicized vehicle that promotes the dream nurtured among Palestinians to destroy Israel and return to their ancestral homes. Israel, and many observers around the world, see UNRWA instead a self-sustaining bureaucratic fiefdom, serving the whims of its executives first, at best, and outright hostile to Israel (and sympathetic to its terrorist attackers) at worst. https://nationalpost.com/opinion/vivian-bercovici-why-hasnt-the-latest-scandal-persuaded-canada-to-cut-off-unrwa

If the news media in this country had even the tiniest bit of integrity, they would blast the Trudeau government hard on this one. My guess: you will only read about it here (or maybe in Yurp)

One of the makers of the list and quoted in the article is from Southern Ontario. Give me a break. From the article: "I feel a bit bad about this because I know the rest of Canada thinks we think we're the centre of the universe, and this isn't really helping that impression. There are a lot of advantages to living here." Having experience in the area, I personally think the GTA is a dystopian hellhole. I'd rather breath fresh air and live among some natural foliage instead of being trapped in an overpopulated urban jungle, but that's just me.

Altai is not interested in rational discussion that competes against his/her worldview. (S)he should stick to Twitter but possibly gets flagged for being a potential recruiter. It appears that (s)he MAY be multiple writers too.

Trudeau warns China...China rolls on floor laughing ass off. https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/trudeau-concerned-hong-kong-1.5244574

The rest of the country laughs at you . . . Self importance is an industry in Ontario. Please stay there.

It's typically related to gang activity from impoverished areas in the GTA, same as in other cities like Ottawa. Regular people don't have a need to carry guns, only if they're selling drugs etc and need protection. Gangs act as families for people who don't have solid families at home, which are disproportionately young men of colour from poor families that are often from broken homes aka single-parent homes. Young women from poor broken homes often have children out of wedlock, give birth to males and then raise them in poor broken homes & the cycle continues. I believe the root of this problem is poverty, more specifically that some (certainly not all) of the refugees and other migrants we bring in to Canada do not have the education/skills to make a good living to live above the poverty line & may also come from rough backgrounds back home (making matters worse). The solution is 5-fold: 1 - More support for refugees and humanitarian migrants like compulsory free language training in english or french, also free college etc. and more investment into settlement programs to support new immigrants, especially those who are poor. Refugees living in homeless shelters etc is unacceptable, we need to support them if we're going to take them in. 2 - Obvious increase in police and community leadership in poor urban neighbourhoods, and a lot of funding & resources given to schools in these areas. 3 - If 1 & 2 does not stop the trend, we need to look at shipping out refugees who, after given the opportunity to improve themselves for free, are not able to get out of poverty & bad situations. They could be transferred to less developed economies such as countries near their home country. 4 - Migrants brought here for non-humanitarian reasons (ie: economic migrants) who are stuck in poverty should be sent back to their original country.

Islam is continuously treated as a skin colour...not only by the non-Muslim supporters of this cult...but also by the media. So any opposition to Islam is racism. That's the plan, anyways. Christianity is from the same desert as Islam, but it isn't treated as a skin colour...and it's okay to bash it as a cult in any terms one would like. Child molesting priests and their enablers? No problem...the media would agree. Islam: child molesting prophet who enables sex with underage girls by its followers? That's FORBIDDEN!

London Mayor Kahan wants sharper knife control https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2018/04/09/london-mayor-knife-control/500328002/?fbclid=IwAR0fPs4Cfh2caGLdYVeHWzQ99sRZpiNaSph1ZpfUjRuvHCbgEhQrd3FUFno

Anyone would denounce it, no one supports shootings of any kind, and you know that. People in Sweden are upset though because the women have been told not to go out alone at night so wouldn't be surprised to see blowback. Why should the women have to be afraid to go out, and it's not just there it's happening in Germany and elsewhere. Grooming gangs are still operating in the U.K. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3390168/Migrant-rape-fears-spread-Europe-Women-told-not-night-assaults-carried-Sweden-Finland-Germany-Austria-Switzerland-amid-warnings-gangs-ordinating-attacks.html https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3481882/Women-warned-not-night-Swedish-town-multiple-sex-attacks-foreigners.html Women in a town in northern Sweden have been warned not to walk alone at night in the wake of a spike in violent assaults and attempted rapes. Police in Östersund made the unusual move to ask women not to go out unaccompanied after dark, after reports of eight brutal attacks, some by 'men of foreign appearance', in just over two weeks. Speaking at a press conference on Monday, police said they 'have never seen anything like it in Östersund', a small town in the north of Sweden with a population of just 45,000. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-42557828

Interesting that this wont get called out on by certain forum members who like to complain every step of the way regarding Islam. Denoucing this would be a good step, but I doubt we'll see that from the 'usual suspects' ..

Disagree with the third world comment. What matters at the end of the day is consumption. People in the third world consume and dispose far, far less than we do. In fact, when you figure the energy use/disposed it takes about 15 people that live in a manner similar to the pre-industrial era to equal the energy use and disposal of one modern Canadian. Also how would immigration change any of that? It would not. Immigrants are generally from industrialized nations (tribal peoples have no interest in our system of 9-5 and taxation. The BBC had a good documentary on that a long time ago. This 'primitive' described our system as 'hell' as they envisioned it.) so moving from one piece of land to another does not change the overall use of energy in/out much in a global sense. What matters is overall global output. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_carbon_dioxide_emissions The only thing that will help the Earth is a one child policy for all peoples, but, especially those industrial and beyond.

IMO the Green Party is just an illegitimate joke of a political party as long as they have E May at the helm. If it came down to her or Trudeau for PM again I'd vote for Trudeau in a heartbeat and Trudeau has already proven himself to be an utter failure at every level. He's getting about 25% on every test, but that's still better than straight zeros. May aside, the Greens seem to completely lack the foresight necessary for a major political party. Their naive, kindergarten-esque world view is the epitome of what you don't want in leadership.

After AOC compared border detention areas to concentration camps, she received invitations to visit real concentration camps. One of which came from the Polish Parliament, the second from a Holocaust survivor group who nominated her for a ‘Nobel’ in Stupidity.

Yeah, that's the thing which has turned me off on Scheer. He won't stand up for anything he believes in. He sidesteps pointed questions and makes bland, vague promises with no specifics. I can't think of a single actual small-c conservative position the so-called Conservative party is offering up. And when you compare, just as an example, his kowtowing to the dairy lobby compared to Bernier's insistence that supply management would be eliminated, well, which is conservative? Anyway, my hope is not so much that the PPC get elected as that this sort of thing draws enough support from the Tories that they have to respond and start putting in place actual conservative policies, on immigration and other subjects.

Snopes does tend to confirm liberal biases, it is biased, but not as much as others. The new left hates anyone they don't agree with (or at least dislikes intensely) therefore... you get the picture.

I am supposedly descended from a guy named John Palmer. According to the birth and death dates provided by Ancestry.ca, he lived to be 117 years old. Go figure. As I tell my children, it is your first name that counts, not your last name. Your reputation is based on your own actions, not those of your parents, which is fortunate for my kids.

Not at all. There's no evidence and every Rabbi has a file, that he transfers to other Rabbis, to keep the names and origins. For example, my grand-father was a Jew in Brazil, and is still recorded as a Jew in Brazil even though he converted to Catholicism. With Crazy Eyes Cortez, it's impossible for her to have Jewish ancestry, I don't believe it whatsoever.