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Merry Christmas, I hope you and yours have a great holiday period, yes even liberals lets not forget the NDP....what the heck it's x-mas....I'm still working on the greens, nobody is perfect OK...

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to all! And most importantly, a Joyful Solstice as the days will start getting longer soon! Yay! https://m.imgur.com/t/awesome/1KytDTQ

Finish your shopping in November and don't host any parties. Then enjoy December.

This is getting way to serious, I was only poking fun at some of your national sports thats all, I by no means are making light of anyone who wave died while playing a game... no game is ever worth anyone dying over....

You said the majority of Muslim nations "forbid" it. Clearly, they do not "forbid" it. Nice try at moving the goalposts - a favourite apologist trick of your's.

If the deep state democrats keep on trying to impeach President Trump with their treasonous actions, that day may just come. Those pro 2nd amendment pro Trump supporters are getting fed up with the democrats and their traitorous impeachable actions and their deep state MSM controlling the narrative. Those bunch of buffoons in the Democratic party have tried everything they can to try and impeach Trump, and they keep losing all the time. They know that they cannot win but they keep on trying. Sore election losers. Deplorable. The democrats are just like the liberals are in Canada. They both are out to change America and Canada, and are trying their hardest to try and turn both those two countries into third world globalist hell holes, with the liberals and the democrats running the show forever. Those two stunned and foolish party's never offer anything that we the people really ever need or want but they are very good at forcing everything that we do not want on we the people. Sadly, there is no 2nd amendment here in Canada, not to forget to mention that we do not even have a 1st amendment in Canada. We have the Charter of Rights, but that piece of useless rag paper does not really protect freedom of speech, and the words in that rag can be interpreted into so many ways as to be able to take away and deny anyone's freedom of speech away from them. We have hate laws that are in contrary to what the COR says that all Canadians have. Their right to their freedom of expression. the Canadian and American MSM liberal media is no friend of we the people. They have become the enemy. Disgusting.

That's actually off the mark in the other direction, and that's the problem we're having now, a demonization of "white settlers", as though much of what happened that by today's standards would be called injustice happened all of a sudden, intentionally, with unjust treatment in mind. For almost the first 150 years of European settlement in Canada, from about 1608 until 1750, European settlers came and Indigenous peoples more or less continued their way of life amongst the scattered European settlements. Fur and other trading lifted both the Indigenous and non-Indigenous. For example, Indigenous benefitted from horses and hunting rifles. Europeans benefitted from acquiring corn, potatoes and tobacco (blessing or curse?). Smallpox and other diseases to which Indigenous did not have the same immunity as Europeans, did kill many Indigenous, but so did the Black Death (plague) in Europe at different times. Europeans and Indigenous in what is now Canada formed alliances (French-Huron and Iroquois-English, for example) and interbred (Metis). Indigenous didn't have the same notions of property as Europeans, but they also didn't have the near the same level of social organization or advancement in terms of what we would associate with an advanced civilization today, except perhaps in the more settled and wealthy coastal villages in BC. Obviously Central and South America (and parts of what is now the Southwest US) had advanced Indigenous civilizations. Aztecs, Mayans, Incas, and further back to the Olmecs and others demonstrated advanced civilizations for those historic periods. There was certainly plenty of war among most Indigenous groups in Canada, and most of the territory was occupied by different groups at different times, one group displacing another. Within Canada, the clash of civilizations really picked up in the 19th century as more and more Europeans arrived, many of them fleeing poverty and starvation in places like Ireland during the potato famine. These immigrants came with their customs and values and set up their communities to reflect what they knew. As these growing communities pushed further north and west there was push-back over land, treaties were formed, and occasionally there were violent clashes, such as just prior to the founding of Manitoba. The first schools and mandatory education in what became the first provinces of Canada were run by a mix of different Christian denominations and the government. Education was seen as progressive as it is today, but one of the dominant beliefs among most educators at that time was that Indigenous beliefs ran counter to the dominant religious beliefs of the society and that other "Indian" cultural practices and the persistent use of Indigenous languages were preventing progress for Indigenous. As is the case today, education for many small northern communities means leaving the reserve for education. Indigenous were not forced to stay on the reserve in the way you characterize, but yes, there were Indian agents who saw to it that Indigenous kids attended school. Indigenous did not have voting rights, and in the case of residential schools, many Indigenous children lived far from their parents and were forced to shed their cultural traditions. It was a misguided practice, but the authorities thought they were helping. Families suffered and there was abuse in schools. However, abuse existed in most schools (non-Indigenous and Indigenous). Even today many children from small northern communities must leave home to attend high schools. The high school may be Indigenous run, but that doesn't make it much easier on families. Sir John A. McDonald is demonized for saying that the government of Canada shouldn't feed or clothe the Indigenous. He wasn't being genocidal. He was making a point about the moral hazard of government stepping in to do the bulk of the work that people should be doing for themselves, such as clothing, feeding, and housing people. Was he wrong? What we have now are many reserves where government stepped in to build housing and infrastructure that the local community has neither the skills nor the resources to replace or maintain. It didn't matter before Indigenous people began living in and expecting the kinds of housing and infrastructure that the Europeans expected, but who doesn't want warm, well-built shelter? It is true that sometimes the reserves created were not the native territory of the people living there and that the treaties were poorly or unfairly brokered. Courts are settling these and it will take time. The Indian Act enshrines the reserve system, for good and bad. There are some advantages in terms of taxation and free higher education, but at the same time, the Indian Act is archaic and racist by today's standards. There are certainly tax and land benefits to having Indian Status, which is a form of two-tier citizenship. It needs to be replaced, but there are vested interests that benefit from the current state of affairs. The federal and probably all provincial government would like to see it replaced, but the changes have to be proposed by Indigenous people or else the government leaves itself open to accusations of interference. There are two major problems with the reserve system: 1. Unsustainable communities that offer little in the way of natural resource or other business development or that may not be near any major centres and amenities are maintained at tremendous cost to locals and government. 2. Because no tax revenue is collected from reserves and yet there is an expectation that government should solve infrastructure and other problems on the reserves, there is a huge net government expenditure required and a lack of local investment or ownership of local infrastructure. If renters generally don't take as good care of buildings as owners, imagine how much worse it is when there's no rent paid or collected. Ideally, Indigenous peoples should be self-sustaining by drawing on their own natural and personal resources. That's how it should be. It works better in communities rich with natural resources, particularly out west and in places like Nunavut where true self-government exists and there's no question about who owns the resources, even if outside companies are paid to extract or the federal government builds infrastructure. True political self-determination requires true economic self-sustainability. There is some corruption on reserves where chiefs or the band councils misappropriate funds. There are also situations where Indigenous communities make a lot of money from private companies for extracting natural resources, yet they double dip and receive outside government funding. This is possible because such contracts with private business are protected from disclosure to the public and governments. So progress for the Indigenous is a mixed bag. I think the reserve system and Indian Act are broken, but I don't think they are easily replaced, nor do I think the problems will all be solved because some Indigenous benefit from the conditions that are the source of the problem. All governments can really do is promise to sustain the funding and seek to support Indigenous-led reforms, as long as they are truly representative of the vast majority of Indigenous people. That's another problem, some of the loudest and most aggressive voices are not the most representative voices, as we saw on the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women Inquiry. Racism does exist, including among police. It's also important to recognize that there's a certain amount of responsibility ascribable to Indigenous peoples for the problems that they face today, despite the poor context in which these problems have arisen. We need to seek ways to expand opportunities, but if it's about more money, there will always be push-back from taxpayers, and most of the taxes are paid by non-Indigenous peoples. The generations that are trying to address the systemic problems that remain today did not create these systems. This is particularly apparent in cities where up to half of the population are foreign born. How much responsibility do they have for centuries-old injustices, many of which weren't seen as injustices at the time?

Eyeball you have literally no clue how important the media actually is, and how much damage their bias causes. Our country is stuck with the worst PM in the last 30 years because of media bias, and he has good reason to feel like his ethics breaches and undemocratic tendencies are a-ok because the media will cover for him. It's just as bad to have state-controlled media here as it is in Venezuela or Iran.

Atta girl, Tulsi. Way to be one of the only sane Democrats in the House.

You know it’s the Christmas season when progressives bring up the winter solstice! They just can’t help themselves! Ever year they think they’re being creative.

I kinda feel sorry for Trump though... I mean, he had a rather tough time growing up. His brother didn't survive that. And now he is so obviously inwardly empty of things and clings to his own delusions of grandeur. Even his business is obviously built on money laundering for Russian oligarchs, north korea etc... Its a pretty empty existence. And its not like the history books will be quoting him or anything except in mokery.

A Cambridge student asks Jordan Peterson a carefully thought-out and enunciated question on whether the world will pull together now to fight climate change. "No." Peterson gives a short, concise, educated answer on just what the world can and cannot do about climate change and global warming.

The United Nations failed right out of the gate and to understand why you have to go back to the Second World War and the naive assumptions of its progenitor Franklin Delano Roosevelt. FDR was a Communist sympathizer who was enthralled by Joseph Stalin, or as FDR called him "my dear Mister Stalin". FDR's vision was that America and the Soviet Union were going to rule the world together in the aftermath of the war, a new world order under the banner of a "United Nations". The failure was baked into the cake, because obviously Stalin and the Soviets were not who FDR believed them to be, and as soon as the war was over, things fell apart rather quickly. Because it was FDR's legacy project it had momentum, but once he was dead it simply became a Self Licking Ice Cream Cone boondoggle which it has been ever since. There's no real impetus to get rid of it so long as the Americans are willing to pay for it, but it's folly to think you are going to replace it with something which is going to work better. In the end, Hegemons with thermonuclear deterrents are not going to submit themselves to a collective government, what you see is what you're going to get, no matter how you slice it. Frankly it would be existentially dangerous to try to empower such an institution with any sort of force behind it, as that would simply incite said Hegmons to invoke their deterrents and that's how accidents happen wherein your children die in a nuclear firestorm. These One World Government schemes are naive utopianism, they just get people killed, and at the level of Hegemons, that could be billions of people in the end. The two stage fission-fusion thermonuclear bomb rendered this fantasy a deadly delusion. The Americans already tried the UN route in 1962 and almost blew themselves up, after that, no more UN, they went to a Red Phone straight from the White House to the Kremlin because confrontation at the UN just muddied the very deep and dangerous waters of the Cold War. At 15 minutes notice to launch on warning hair trigger alert; nobody puts baby in a corner. That's why it doesn't work and it's never going to work. One world kumbaya nuclear disarmament? Yeah, that's not happening neither, because of these utopian fantasies of global governance, ever more countries are breaking out with their own deterrents in the face of it so they too cannot be put in a corner, and now we are up to nine and counting. . .

He asked for a quid pro quo then said he did not. Like everything, he says something then a second later denies he said it. He's on record of doing this over 3,000 times with public statements. It is a constant feature of his pathological lying an essential characteristic of his narcissistic personality disorder and his lack of impulse control between subconscious and conscious thoughts probably caused by adhd. Is he a liar. In one sense absolutely yes because in many cases he lies deliberately and without remorse. In other cases I would venture to say he has no clue what-so-ever and people are afraid in his inner circle to control his lack of impulse control. People deny his lying the way they do alcoholic or drug addicted behaviour. They go along with the fantasy no different than they did with Hitler or Stalin. Is it based on fear? For some maybe, for others its the fact they will glorify anyone they think has power and thus you can have pedophiles like Michael Jackson molesting children for years and people glorifying him and looking the other way. Thus we have Justin Trudeau red h anded caught lying and violating the most basic of ethical doctrine and principles of rules of justice and people continue to vote him back in with a double standard because they think he is their version of royalty or celebrity. Would it surprise me he gets voted back in. No at this point the collective i..q. of Americans who vote is at 5. Too much Budweiser beer and brain damage from football. I think at this point the best candidate for President should be Vince McMahon. At least he can follow a script and build an empire.