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How come no one is pointing out that China, fast becoming the world's biggest fascist state, has been responsible for three major world epidemics in the last couple of decades because of its corrupt, backward, incompetent, horrifically unhygienic food handling practices? Oh, it's culture? Well fuck their culture! If they want to keep practicing their 'culture' like this the world needs to ban any travel between that shithole and the rest of us. Because these diseases keep getting worse and worse and one of these days we're going to get something like SARS, with a 30% death rate, only with the same level of contagiousness as the current Covid 19. Everyone's walking on egg shells not to criticize them. Governments because they're afraid of offending them. Business because they've got their peckers up desperate for Chinese cash. And of course, the lefty assholes who can't bear the thought of ANY criticism of a 'brown' country. Because like that would be RACIST! Well fuck them too. I'd say the same if it was Sweden. The world has enough problems without these constantly emerging diseases from the bloated shithole of China.

Unless you are brocoli then you take it personally when people begin eating you,. Get a hold of your petunias people. Hoarding toilet paper and macaroni and cheese...really? The media and many people are to blame for group hysteria. There is educated awareness and there is stupid counter-productive hysteria. Its your choice whether to panic or use common sense and wash your phacking hands and relax. Hiding from life, fearing life, imagining viruses killing you is all bullshit. For phack's sake. This country had far worse with polio. We have had Sars, Legionaire's disease, AIDS, Spanish flue, Avian flu, swine flu, flus and viruses since the homo sapiens species existed and began shitting in his/her own water supply. Ignorance of illness will not help a damn thing. 10% of people who get it will not die from it. Bullshit. Oh maybe we should panic. Maybe we should send all kinds of emails hyping this...thanks but phack off. Its simply attention getting hysteria for a generation tin the first world who have never had anything threaten them and now feeling an invisible boogy man for the first time is gonna get em. You think people in the 3rd and 4th world who die from diaheria are sitting around like some of you wetting themselves out of fear? Get real man. This virus panic is a classic example of sheltered affluent people struggling with a phenomena most of the world lives with as a fact, of life. So I am actually fed up with the number of fearful sheep I hear. No I will not jump on any bandwagon of fear as some of you seem to be asking. I also expect the usual to come on here and blame it on immigrants or yellow skinned bastards, etc. I just had some lady lecture me not to walk 6 feet near her or touch doors as I was entering a building this a.m. She read it on the internet,. Just so you know, I have tuberculosis, leprosy, bubonic plague, std's, rabies, aids, mumps, measles, small pox, diptheria, German measles(oh its from those Germans) whooping cough, scabies, lice, syphilis, hepititis a,b.c, herpes (all 12 complexes of them), impitago, cholera, typhus, typhoid fever, ebola and whatever it is zombies get and Woody Harelson kills. Ok? Now kiss me.

Words and tone are trivial, what is actually being done is what matters. Elevating words and tone above what is actually being done is what rubes do to reach for straws to attack politicians they don't like. The media and Trump haters would attack his words and tone regardless of what he says or how he says it, they move the goalposts and cherry pick petty trivial things to judge him on because judging him on actual meaningful criteria reveals that he's doing a better job than they think he is and the last thing they want to do is admit that to themselves or others. The underlying action is vastly more important than the words, phrasing or tone describing that action, pro tip. If you are going to attack Trump in ways that aren't grasping at straws, you need to focus on criticizing what he does, not what he says, or the way he says it. If instead you focus on words and tone, then you simply don't have good ammo to actually attack him with, otherwise there would be no need to resort to such weak sauce attacks in the first place, because you'd have much better criticisms at your disposal and wouldn't need to use an avalanche of bad critiques to attempt to cover up the weakness of your case. You would just lead with the good material and have an infinitely stronger case than you would by watering it down with cherry picked petty trivial sh*t.

Whatever fear and panic we want to avoid, we sure don't need the lack of common sense that Justin and Sophie have demonstrated thus far. Gosh, how about not flying around the globe when there's a pandemic underway.

Governments can change the constitution. Get a conservative one in place, and I bet with all the provincial conservative governments they could get a constitutional amendment passed which said anything they wanted it to say about aboriginal rights. And if you don't think this is gonna happen some day you're kidding yourself. A growing percentage of the population is made up of immigrants and they have ZERO respect for natives and their problems. These are people who came halfway around the world to try and get here and have a better life. You think they have any sympathy for people who insist on living in the boonies and holding their hands out for more welfare? You think they want to continue to pay them because of some ancient treaty with the King of England?

This town is officially out of TP. Stupid panicking morons went out and bought every single packet. Not even the expensive stuff, like your triple-plies, and such. Not that we could use that around here anyway, these old toilets always get clogged with that stuff. It has to be two-ply. Nothing at Loblaws. I heard even Shoppers Drug Mart is sold out. Might have to order some online... amazon can get em sent worldwide to your door within the same day.

It was more of the case that "neutral" was dominated by the liberal leanings of journalists that competed using old television and print media models. Fox News Corp. upset that balance with a right leaning, pro-business product that found a very large audience and revenue. CBS' 60 minutes use to feature a "Point-Counterpoint" segment that offered air time for competing views, CNN had "Crossfire", etc. that separated the political sparring from hard news. Then the Internet blew up and democratized all sources and access. Editors and standards could no longer control the flow of "news".

Fox News wouldn’t exist if the mainstream media was actually objective. There would be no demand for it. But the mainstream media obviously is far from being objective. Hence a demand for a media that allows and broadcasts points of view that would otherwise be ignored.

1. Yes...I have noticed the pullback. Many things are more important than Trump. 2. Given U.S. history, Trump's ending will not be anything new regardless of how it unfolds. President Garfield only lasted six months. 3. Satan is rumoured to have more of a natural red complexion...and horns. Mocking Trump's bronzer skin means playing the game Trump's way.

The cbc loathe Trump and will take any opportunity to watch him make a fool of himself - they are rarely disappointed which I'm sure brings glee to the hearts of all those virtue-signalling censorious twits in the corp.

It's not a game. I had to self isolate and I gave it to my wife also....

The list of Indigenous groups that have officially endorsed the Frontier project has grown to 14: Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation Mikisew Cree First Nation Fort McKay First Nation Fort Chipewyan Métis Fort McKay Métis Fort McMurray Métis 1935 Fort McMurray First Nation #468 Métis Nation of Alberta - Region 1 and its member locals: Athabasca Landing Local # 2010 Buffalo Lake Local # 2002 Conklin Local # 193 Lac La Biche Local # 1909 Owl River Local # 1949 Willow Lake Local # 780 https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/tmx-irc-indigenous-1.4975243 Currently 189 bands are members of the Indian Resource Council https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/article-first-nations-group-offers-to-buy-225-per-cent-stake-in-transcanadas/

You can’t shut down activities that aren’t illegal. I thought you believed in the rule of law? You picking n choosing again?

Nobody has immunity to this particular strain because it's new. That's what makes it different from other flus. When no one has immunity, there is a risk that an overwhelming number of people get it all at once, crippling our health care and service distribution networks. Prudently limiting people's exposure over time will flatten the curve and allow us to function as it passes. We don't need to shut down the schools forever---just long enough to limit exposure in the short term. Now go wash your hands.

Well, this ordeal has been a gut punch to many governments around the world, regardless of current leadership. One of the lessons has been to separate politics from the crisis, but that is difficult to do.

Yes...best wishes for Sophie and family to recover quickly, but it does look a bit cavalier to an outside observer. Despite the political incorrectness, travel has clearly been identified as a primary vector for the virus. Flattening the curve will require more travel restrictions so that limited hospital beds and ventilators are not overwhelmed.

There is a 20 years undertaking period. First, if you want to sponsor your parents/grandparents, you must show that you are making enough income to sponsor them. If your parents and your parents go on welfare, the government has every right to go after you just like the CRA goes after people. More info. From what I have seen from our clients, many of these sponsored parents that come into Canada end up supporting their children by taking care of their grandchildren. This allows the mothers, who are usually the caretakers, go to work to make money and pay more taxes. I refuse to follow your narrative of screaming about 20K elderly a year coming to Canada like it's an issue. For some reason you prefer not to talk about our skilled worker system, in which most of our immigrants come through. You refuse to talk about the competitive point system that these skilled workers come through where if you are over 30 years old, or uneducated, or have low English levels, you have no chance of immigrating. You refuse to talk about our ageing workforce. You refuse to talk about the low number of children we are having. You refuse to talk about that Trump, yes Trump, talking about copying our immigration system. To you, it's all about screaming about a non-issues, because that's what The Rebel wants you to scream about.

If the Dems pull the plug on Biden, they don't have anyone on the bench who can save them anyway, so no need to worry.

Yes, he did. At least he corrected himself right away.

True. Your post has bothered me. Why do 1800s male Europeans write about women, but 1900s male Americans write about men? Heck, the only Chinese novel is about women.

So let me get this straight. You're offended on behalf of a country whose unhygienic food practices has led to bird flu, sars, and now this latest virus afflicting the world because... because... why exactly? Why do you get angry about the thought of anyone daring to mock or criticize China over this? Because all the deaths in Europe and North America, not to mention all the economic disarray can be laid squarely at the feet of China. China SHOULD be criticized. SEVERELY. It's got billions of dollars to spread around the world now on various propaganda and influence projects, tens of billions to spend on its military, but it still keeps the kind of unhygienic food practices you might find in a lost Amazonian tribe. Yet their people jet around the world now, carrying their filthy germs with them whenever these practices inspire yet another bloody disease. And no one has the balls to get in their face and tell them they either need to reign this shit in or stay in their own damned, shit-filled country.

The illegal pipeline protests.

As we speak our PM is bunkered down in his home, wiping his arse with the Constitution. As usual.

I've been through toilet paper hoarding in the U.S. several times. Stockpiling toilet paper is cheap and the stuff has an unlimited shelf life. The U.S. (and Canada) are mostly self sufficient for production of TP, but the fear was that supply chains would break down for other reasons (oil embargo, pulp paper, transportation, labour strikes, etc.). Fancy two-ply toilet paper that is very soft on one's bum is relatively new. We had many different methods to get the job done when TP was not available, including cut up clothing or linens. When my sister was in Rwanda right before the massacres started (1993) for the World Bank Group, we would send he care packages and the most desired item was...you guessed it...toilet paper ! The African version was very rough like sandpaper and only one ply, even when it was available.

Yes but not because of their skin colour but because of their not being part of their ancestry or traditions. I do not mean so get into a semantic argument with you at all. The poiint I am trying to make is is the same one we Jews do when we explain Zionism. We do not define our collective as a race any more than gays do with their collective or aboriginals do with their collective. Its not something I meant to argue in the sense that the above does not happen. It does. Also the point is no we can not go backwards and uninvent Canada . I agree with your point dwelling on the past not to make changes is pointless. Some aboriginal leaders are in denial, others are realistic and pragmatic, some are trying to find a balance between their traditions and our current Western technological ways. You all know that. I just think we sometimes misstate their collective identity as one based on race. It never was. That's a European concept invented by aEuropean to subjectively describe what people looked like based on secondary genetic characteristics such as lip size, nose shape, hair texture, amount of melanin in the skin. Its been proven scientifically absurd by what we know today about genetics and native peoples in Canada did not use it. Why would they? Also I can not speak for native peoples but someone for the sake of debate as I have, has raised the response. You'd have to ask native peoples how they define themselves. I don't myself define them by nose size or skin colour. I define them by their traditions/customs as they have asked me to. Lol you would no doubt call it being politically correct. No just I hate being referred to as a race-I know how that feels. I do not define you by your race. I define you by our individual opinions. You are Argus to me not someone white guy even if you are an albino.

You really gotta decide when you think the law is important and when you don’t . Because in some instances you don’t care about the law. You can’t pick and choose.

Defining yourself by common ancestry has little practical difference from defining yourself by race. You can still ethnically cleanse someone from your territory who doesn't look like you.

What nonsense are you spewing? You think most Canadians want to keep race-based status and lands? It’s creepy and anachronistic. I’m quite educated on the subject and I’ve read the recommendations of the inquiries, some of which were so clearly politicized that they undermined the inquiry, such as providing a universal basic income. Talk about off topic. So at what point in a person’s occupation of a territory does it become theirs? Under the law it has to be exclusive and continuous for a long period. How many people can make those claims? What about all other displaced peoples over the centuries? Again, I respect Indigenous making decisions for themselves about what to do with that they have, and the courts recognize treaties and help establish title. Those facts don’t change the fact that no group has a veto in Canada over projects in the public interest. Establishing title doesn’t change the fact. In this case, most Wet’suwet’en support the gas pipeline anyway, so you’re chasing a red herring to support a false cause, but the effects of such tactics, including the blockades, send a chill over investment that will hurt these communities for decades to come. So much for self-sustainability and self-determination.

Canadians understand it. Most respect it, and would like governments to be more proactive in resolving issues BEFORE conflicts arise. But you seem uninterested in the legalities of Canada. Only white supremacists use that "race-based" ranting, a very small minority though big on trolling discussion boards with such nonsense. Lol

No, that’s a narrative told by a segment of the population. People listen politely and make their own judgements about what happened and entitlements. Most people are just working and paying their taxes. The idea of a race-based form of special status tied to a piece of land is simply outside of most people’s experience, especially when its very existence is so reliant on outside support, the support of people who are working and paying taxes. Stories about colonial injustice will only garner so much attention because most countries and peoples have experienced forms of colonialism and moved on. Think of our high immigrant population. Are they stealing Canadians’ land? Do you blame them for 300 year-old injustices? Canada does have lots of opportunity, but sometimes people have to move to get a piece of it. Why is it not okay for some Indigenous to do that? Is it because intermarriage with non-Indigenous might take remove status benefits? Is it because leaving the reserve means giving up the tax breaks? It’s another form of injustice when people cannot sell their land to seek opportunity elsewhere because the reserve land is held in “common.” The problems are structural within the Indian Act.

I’m not asking for a breakdown. I’m saying that if title lands weren’t clarified, it wasn’t because of government holding up the process. It’s because of a failure of some Wet’suwet’en to provide evidence establishing those boundaries in court. How can you claim that groups whose ancestors moved to different parts of the country without a sense of private property, who often warred with one another, and only occupied small sections of the country, are entitled to the proceeds of development they didn’t do themselves when it’s off “their” land. Who invested in the machinery? Who built the schools, hospitals, and roads? Who paid for it all? Are non-Wet’suwet’en occupying this Wet’suwet’en land and taking resources without providing revenue? It doesn’t matter at this point. Investment will be minimal until the residents signal that they can make decisions that will be accepted by the dissenting minority. In a functional democracy, the minority doesn’t hold the majority hostage, backstopped by blockades and sabotage of private and government property. It looks like a ploy to get money for nothing. Again, it’s here nor there now because industry and business investment won’t come to high risk areas like that.

You have anything to support your claims?

That's a laugh. These types of people are not interested in information, only disinformation and fear mongering. I regularly see comments that state our deficit is due to Trudeau's support for refugees. The average informed voter has a duty to shout down these idiots and make it clear to politicians that this kind of populism doesn't work with you.

Sometimes you are brilliant, Moonlight.

You're making a whole lot of assumptions about our new poster friend. You don't know if they can work or not. I agree with you that every step and incentive should be taken to give people with disabilities the ability to be employed. A system of dependence helps nobody. But there also needs to be a social safety net for people who truly need it, especially in the short term in order to get people back on their feet. The issue with $3 minimum wage is that nobody can live on $3 an hour. We could have $3 an hour, but a doctor should also determine a # between zero and 40 re: how many hours a disabled person is able to work per week and which tasks they can and can't perform, and a disabled person should be forced to work something approximating the # of hours the doctor says as a condition for receiving public disability funding to top up their income to something livable.

Get a new case worker if you don't like this one. You have problems expressing yourself when emotional because of your anxiety, you should bring along someone you know who is good at speaking up who can be an advocate for you and explain your thoughts to your caseworker for you. This will help you immensely. Also, force yourself to at least have a part-time job if you can. Not having a job and sitting around the house or whatnot is not good for your mental health, so stay busy if you can't work. And find healthy ways to cope with your anxiety. Meditation, exercise etc. If you're going to have a vice, choose unhealthy food or sex over drugs/alcohol/smoking.

And yet the government maintains detailed maps of Indigenous territories. Lol There was another issue regarding detailed description, but it was resolved by the Tsilhqot'in ruling (2014). It's now up to the government to declare title, now beginning with the current agreement on process, now under discussion in Wet'suet'en territory. Review the relevant Supreme Court cases. Educate yourself to find your own answers. Or alternatively ... accept that the law is the law. Off "their" land? All of Canada is someone's traditional Indigenous territory. Lol