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Speed, skill, teamwork, discipline, strategy, endurance, strength, courage.... hockey is Canada’s sport. Sportsmanship is a quality of the athlete and the team. Hockey and every other sport has examples of fine and poor sportsmanship. Maligning the entire sport of hockey represents ignorance and bad faith.

And politics

Allegations on Twitter against Bill Peters - Calgary Flames head coach - using the N-word 10 years ago... making a stir. Details coming out about recently fired Leafs Head Coach uncouth motivational tactics. All of this is starting to sound like the "Me Too" movement. Thoughts?

They act like hacking people to death in Western countries has been around for centuries and we're just noticing it now.

Oh get fucked. I'm not going to justify any machete attack on anyone for any reason. Cherry picking machete attacks motivated by radical Islam does not justify linking a gang related incident in a cinema to Islam. It's clear what your motivation for doing that was.

And you make mine for me - apologists will deny ANYTHING and EVERYTHING going on in Islam. Tell me, the 73 year old woman who was volunteering to deliver meals and got hacked by a Muslim with a machete in Vermont......justify that one now. I'll wait.

OK. Let's put that one aside. You don't like that one. Thats fine. What about all the other hacking deaths, the attacks on police and military, the attacks on women? How come machete attacks are suddenly all the rage in London and the rest of the world? Nothing to do with Islam, is that it? Nothing to do with ISIS sending out a call to Muslims to attack with knives and machetes? Is that your stance? All these attacks are "fake news", are they?

You dont' believe in Islamic terrorism, so this is no surprise.

Yes, apologists for Islamic extremism often use the tack that it has to be "organized" terrorism to count. Because of tougher security measures it's getting more difficult for radicals to commit large acts of terrorism like what was done on 9/11 or the London bombings. For many years now, the focus has been on inciting individuals within Islam to attack using common and easily available methods - driving vehicles into crowds, machete attacks, acid attacks. It's all still terrorism.

I'm not "ok" with lots of things that people choose to do, but if it is their choice, I have to just shrug. Vaping, for instance - smells bad, is stupid and has now killed people. But it's not illegal so ... shrug. True, and its heartbreaking to read first person accounts about young girls who are expected to dress a certain way for "honor and respect", who hate and who feel dehumanized or even sexualized because of it - I recall a girl wondering why she had to cover in front of her father; did it mean he thought of her in a sexual way? Stories like that make me very sad. I think Muslims growing up in Western countries will be able to change this idea of "honor" to one of choice, and an honest expression of faith or modesty rather than a forced one. I think that the internet is allowing upcoming generations in more repressive countries also understand that there are other choices and that they do have a right to them. I think it will be a natural progression of Islam that women will choose for themselves, whether or not to cover. Although really, as I write this I'm thinking - is that seriously the most pressing issue for women living in oppressive circumstances, whether imposed by government or family? I think not.

Ya, I know where you stand on that. If Christians did it, you'd be howling about Islamophobia and racism and inciting to violence and hatred. But when Muslims do it, it's a "harmless prank." Lose some weight maybe?

Nope. No worries there.

Hello? No one said Islam was driving the figures - that's just your strawman, red herring fallacy to get people to stop discussing Islam. This is what was said: the incidences of Islam using machete attacks in its arsenal of weapons to terrorize is increasing. In every country. You're the only one trying to switch the discussion to "knife crime in general." I fully understand why you and Dia need to deny this.

Unless you are prepared to accept that the vast majority of machete attacks have nothing to do with Islam we are just going to go around in circles. I understand fully why you won't. Of course I am not going to deny that machete attacks have been carried out in the name of Islam but it is gang crime which is driving the rising figures.

I think it's pretty pathetic that your favourite religion is wreaking havoc, death and destruction in every country of the world and you choose to attack the ones who want to discuss the situation.

It's both. As the article pointed out, machete attacking started with Islamist fanatics hacking a British soldier to death in broad daylight on a busy street. The same as driving vans into crowds to kill as many as possible started with Islamics.

They do seem to be increasing, one every 90 mins. in the U.K. also acid attacks in London are on the rise, this is dated but speaks to the issue https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/acid-attacks-uk-highest-world-figures-police-revealed-a8098236.html It’s also disappointing to see the left supporting the hijab and other forms of female oppression as women are being imprisoned for refusing to wear it. https://www.skynews.com.au/details/_6108124167001 She told Sky News the “woke brigade” are guilty of hypocrisy when they champion this garment. “Putting it (the hijab) on the cover of Sports Illustrated, that’s an example of that hypocrisy, of that betrayal of freedom, that betrayal of feminism and betrayal of freedom”.

While this is the wrong thread for this comment: THIS is one of the reasons I hate Liberals/liberals. Wife and I are army brats and we were both civilian employees on base when Trudeau senior and the incredibly flakey Paul Hellyer did their very best to destroy the armed forces. It was turned from a highly respected military operation to an experiment in social engineering. This was in B&B times before multiculturalism was the virtue signalling buzzword. NCOs (non-commissioned officers) were canvassed to find who was francophone and those people were offered chance to become commissioned officers - essentially with no regard to their ability, skills, experience or even mental stability. Later "unification" was the final Liberal assault on a force and society that none of them could understand (in fact, there really wasn't and is not much at all that they DO understand to this very day). They have moved on from destroying SOME of the institutions that defined Canada to assaulting ALL of them and our values.

The ostracized who don't have their free speech taken away will feel less ostracized than those who do. The right of people's feelings to not to be hurt is not more important than free speech, try again. Last I checked the former wasn't a constitutional right, while the latter is, and that isn't just a coincidence.

Sport is supposed to be fun. It is just a game. Attempting to hurt an opponant is cheating in its worst form. A coach's first responsiblity is to ensure his/her players are enjoying playing the game while teaching the skills neccessary to enhance the game. Fighting is assault and should result in jail time, on or off the ice. I find it disturbing that we would rather pay to watch a sport than actually go out and play. I live for skiing but I would never pay to watch it. Avery Brundage had many disgusting faults but time has proven him right on one thing, money ruins sport.

What's not to like? Those romantic Knights of the desert... Adventures in far away, romantic places... with a desert bad-boy... ... nomad, vagabond, call me what you will...

If you're attempting to suggest such laws go against the will of the people the PEW research polls flatly contradict you. Such laws, even the most violent ones calling for death for adultery and blaspheme, are overwhelmingly supported in most of the Muslim world. Perhaps if 57 Muslim states around the world did not act so very much like a monolithic bloc you'd have a point. I have no doubt at all you are a racist. You'd be condemning Islam wholeheartedly were it not for them being brown. You, like other liberal bigots, judge people mainly by their skin colour, and excuse poor behaviour by non-whites because you don't think they're really human. You are the worst sort of unapologetic racist.

I think almost everyone does that. Only morons ignore Islamic terrorism.

Evil "white men" in particular.

Actually, you have done this quite often.

$720/month is less than welfare. Welfare (Ontario) for a single person is $343 (Basic needs - food, clothing, personal supplies) Plus $390 (Shelter Maximum for Rent + utilities) = $733 Homeless people are sleeping "under bridges" because 1- welfare amounts are not enough to pay rent and eat, and 2- they are more often single men, who never qualify for subsidized public housing because they are never a priority and there isn't enough public housing provided to meet their needs. Wages paid for full-time work must be sufficient for a person to live on. Businesses that can't pay people a wage they can live on are not viable businesses and deserve to go bankrupt and shut down, as there are lots of businesses that can succeed while paying livable wages. "Everything" would not get cheaper with poverty wages. People would be homeless and malnourished, and we know that public costs (that we all pay) get much more expensive when more people are homeless and malnourished: hospitals, policing and all social services become much more expensive. You are either supremely ill-informed, or just being ridiculous.

This is all typical of what happens when Casino Capitalism replaces genuine capitalism. Giving money to Wall/Bay Street instead of investing on Main Street is the cause. It is aided by government taxing the shit out of created wealth and going very light on speculative gain (wealth re-distribution). Simple to pull off when banks own the political process lock, stock and barrel.

Nice utopian dream . . . . too bad it's not reality. The reality is that Quebec isn't interested in contributing anything to hold this country together. Always got their hand out for other folks money, and bitching about it. Want them to separate, want them to leave. Want them to stfu. Canada's cancer . . . Quebec.

Canada was built by successive waves of immigrants who came here and worked hard - because they had no choice. And they integrated because they had no choice. Their old homeland was a world away and there were no social services. The situation now is completely different. You're lying. I've already posted cites earlier in this thread which show otherwise. The cost to us is many billions of dollars every year. Even when refugees do start to work they rarely rise above minimum wage because they lack the language, education and job skills to do so. Which means they never pay taxes. I don't blame them, of course, for trying to come here. I blame the Marxist left in Canada who hate this country and hate everything about the West, and want to turn it into a third world hotel without any vestiges of western values, traditions or culture. Without them the migrants would quickly be sent home again and that would discourage others from coming.