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Tomorrow is the Remembrance Day in Canada. Lets remember those who made the ultimate sacrifice with their lives all over the world in Europe, Africa, Afghanistan etc. so the we live in democracy. Lets not take our Western democratic system and freedom for granted. Many lost their lives so that we have what we have. Lets not jeopardize our democratic system either by going extreme and hence undermine sacrifices made or populate our land of freedom with those with do not believe in freedom and democratic values. God bless all those who made those sacrifices. May then rest in heaven and peace.

Cherry called out all Torontonians, not just immigrants. I'm more disgusted by Ron McLeans tail between the legs apology. What a spineless weasel.

Of course, I have nothing against the religious beliefs of people who adhere to their religion, however, for me personally, marrying of an adult man to a girl is immoral and I can not react indifferently to this topic. Early marriage and early onset of sexual activity have long-term consequences for women's health. Also, in poor countries, a young mother, being forced to quit her education and begin to do household work, is deprived of the opportunity to get a profession and is economically or completely dependent on her husband.

Die in a fire, Post National State. Don Cherry will live forever.

Perhaps I could explain to you my understanding of how this administration works. Trump 'works' perhaps an hour and a half to two hours a day'. This consists of public appearances, things like greeting visiting sports teams or giving medals to soldiers or a meeting foreign dignitary. That is basically all Trump does, other than yelling at his staff whenever they say or do something that irritates him. I'm reminded of what Lyndsey Graham said once. He was being interviewed as a possible vice presidential running mate to Trump and was told he would be in charge of foreign and domestic policy. When he asked wth Trump would be doing he was told "He'll be in charge of making America great again". Mike Pence is basically running the shop. If there's a report to be read, Pence reads it because Trump doesn't like to read anything that isn't about him. The intelligence people brief Pence, not Trump, because Trump isn't interested. If there's an important meeting, Pence runs it because Trump couldn't be bothered. If there are administrative decisions to be made, Pence makes them. The only time Trump interjects is when he sees something on TV and decides to tweet out a sudden policy change (which takes everyone in the White House by surprise). Trump watches TV and plays on his phone and golfs and slurps coke. That's about it for him. And just as detractors had warned, all this did was result in more stock-buybacks and dividend payments to owners. It did not result in an upsurge of economic activity, any more than the tax cut did. Trump understands business no more than he understands government, economics, intelligence, diplomacy or the military. Policies, regulations and government behaviour are all directed and overseen by Mike Pence. Oh? How? It did not 'take off'. The economy has been on a steady, upward trajectory since 2009.

"You people" who "come here" for "our" milk and honey. Pretending you don't understand the meaning of words is a common debate tactic but it never works.

It will mean the world to him, and they can't take it away from me, I'm MCpl (ret.) CD forever, with the medal or without. Don taking one for the team, has brought some meaning to this day, I'll let him know. I'm feeling it now. Ducimus

Well played. I'm sure Don will appreciate it.

Perfect way for Cherry to go out. Showing his true colours for all to see. What a joke of a human.

I've written my letter. Not too long, just a thank you note, hand written. I'm putting my Canadian Forces long service medal in along with it, Don can have it, I'll never wear it, my gift to him, on behalf of Her Majesty.

He's eighty five years old, at that age, all the chickenshit starts to fall away, I simply offer him the highest compliment I can to a civilian, and that is that we troops always considered him to be one of the boys.

Tell him to do just do his own coaches corner live after HNIC first intermission, and post it to youtube. Tell him if it wasn't for him, hockey probably would have been nerfed even more than it already is. Tell him to take Rogers ratings, out of spite. I've never disliked Canada and Canadians more than I do right now, absolutely loathsome. *spits tobacco juice*

Now is the time I will return compliments in kind to Don, for his relentless advocacy over the years, Tho I think I shall simply write him a letter expressing my appreciation and fraternity. If I address with my rank (ret.) I'm sure he will read it.

I'm boycotting Rogers. How dare they take Don Cherry away? Hopefully there's a giant backlash that makes them hire him back, this is ridiculous.

If Alberta's oilsands are profitable, then the free market will take care of it, if the oilsand's aren't profitable then the government shouldn't be propping them up to make them profitable. Economic nationalism is for rubes.

I actually agree with jacee for once, stop the presses.

Trump never made any real issue of the wall until the Democrats took the House. Suddenly he's Mr. Tough Guy demanding money for his wall. He wasn't opposing MccConnell, he was opposing Pelosi. DACA was the same thing, trying to pressure Pelosi.

No, YOU miss the point. Which is that Bloomberg is a self-made multi-billionaire while Trump's wealth comes from daddy, he's had several major bankruptcies, and his credit is so bad he can't borrow money from American banks any more. No one even knows what Trump is worth since no one knows how much of the buildings he purportedly owns are actually owned by eastern European oligarchs Trump owes massive amounts of money to. Have you ever seen me express an opinion supportive of our government's position on the miliitary or foreign policy? Nope. So I am entirely consist in opposing western leaders who kowtow to foreign dictators. But that's neither here nor there as my point was about Trump and Bloomberg's relative economic savvy and success, not Russia.

In a way, I do. Even if you come from a country that was not involved in our wars you should recognize that the world today would be much different had they not fought. And if you are from this country and are too cheap to buy one, piss off. Hosers.

Old man complains about immigrants not wearing poppies. Progressives' heads explode as they run around in circles with arms in the air shrieking in horror. Big yawn.

Guess again....Michael Bloomberg was all over opportunities in/with Russia, including RFNY sponsorship as mayor: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/mayor-michael-bloomberg-russian-investment-forum_b_4192311

The technologies exist now. What we need is a free market breakthrough. The oil industry is now only profitable because it is propped up by public subsidies, distorting the free market. Get oil off welfare: Remove only 30% of public oil subsidies, and the renewable energy industry is immediately more profitable. Investors immediately abandon oil, and both investments and profits flow to the renewable energy industry. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/aug/01/fossil-fuel-subsidy-cash-pay-green-energy-transition Redirecting small portion of subsidies would unleash clean energy revolution, says report Easy. Not complicated. Remove some oil subsidies. Free the market. Save the world. It is that simple.

Edit: deleted comment- when I tell myself to go to bed, I really should shut up and go to bed. My apologies to all.

What I understand is if there is no work where you are, move to where there is work. You can't work in the resourse extraction business without knowing it is uncertain and you have to be flexible.

I don't understand that response. When I lost my job in the Yukon, I didn't waste time blaming somebody else. I moved to where there was work and got on with my life. Alberta and BC have great education systems. It means if your work in the forest industry or the oil patch goes south, you have the skills to do something else. I went to work for a major bank in the Kootenays and after that became a peace officer in Saskatchewan. There are lots of jobs in BC. The place is booming. You just have to go where they are.

Actually I'm talking about both. Protip: dont complain about a subject being "boring" if your posting in a thread about said subject.

https://www.latimes.com/projects/marshall-islands-nuclear-testing-sea-level-rise/ It may be boring to you, but to some people it's a harsh reality that is not simply fixed with money.

The Greens are the only ones who would prioritize environmental issues. The others are pretenders. But blaming it on the parties is weak. The reason that the parties have won't prioritize it is that too few people are demanding action. Imagine World War II where everyone says "Yeah, someone should go fight those Nazis" but nobody is willing to give up anything until everyone else does first. That's exactly the situation we're in today. European countries are showing much more progress than we are. And China and India are showing bolder leadership in technology development. One day, we're going to wake up and find the world has passed us by while we're arguing over the toxic, carcinogenic sludge in Northern Alberta.

To an extent I agree. But that does not mean he will win the nomination. The Democrats seem determined to put forth a candidate as unelectable as possible.

Real class PPC!!!. Sexist, racist and likely a Nazi too. Women to you are just like tools. No difference between you and those women hater mullahs in Mid East you just likely wear a tie instead of turban. I quoted you in case you edited so that intelligent people who may agree with some of your views know where you come from and what you stand for. Shame.

Bloomberg is a turd at best as well. Just because everyone else sucks doesn't make Bloomberg good, he's just yet another turd in the Dem 2020 punch bowl. There is already a billionaire running, there is already a New York mayor running, Bloomberg adds nothing new to the mix really, except large soda bans and stop and frisk.

Bloomberg would get killed against Trump, if he even gets there, which he won't. This is the face of Stop and Frisk out to ban large soda's that we are talking about here. He's a former Republican, he's older than Biden and has no charisma. He's not even the only billionaire in the race, nor is he the only New York mayor in the race. Bloomberg only looks good on paper, he is not a strong candidate, he probably won't enter the race any higher than fourth with an announcement boost. Having his own money to blow on the race is all he has going for him.

Premier Kenny is dealing with several problems. Firstly is the inconcieved "Wexit" movement that ignores the fact that separation means a hermetically sealed state, cut off from the west coast by BC and a violent backlash from Canadians who won't take the destruction of Canada lying down. Kenny is no doubt trying to defuse that problem. His second problem is the question of his legitamacy from the allegations of cheating in the leadership race.