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This happens after a military member dies while on duty, opposition parties and selected media outlets do a story, just how old our military equipment is , people read it gasp say holy shit I did not know...then turn the page like nothing happened.... well here is another one of those stories, a similar story broke , the last snowbird crash, investigation found that the aircraft was to old and should be replaced, they were looking at running a purchasing program....but like everything else it was stuff aside for something else....today the Tudor aircraft is 57 years old bought when Diefenbaker was PM...anyone remember that guy.....parts for these aircraft are taken off old aircraft in storage, or made from scratch.... these aircraft are scheduled to fly for more years than we would like.... It is cheaper to bury soldiers than it is to buy new equipment.... how cheap do we have to be to put one of our own citizens lives in danger so we can save a few bucks... It's time to put these issues to the forefront, and on the election ballet, but they won't we will continue to bury our troops and act like we are all good with those decisions.... It must be a source of pride for a lot of you.... https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/world/commentary-snowbirds-face-an-uncertain-future-with-aging-planes-dwindling-budgets/ar-BB14j6gf?ocid=spartanntp

I think you're missing the point entirely. The universities-as-enclaves are not a product of the "culture-war". They're one of the primary causes. This is a deeply entrenched, reinforcing feedback loop of academia informing policy makers, who in turn (consulting with peer-reviews) are responsible for funding grants. The funding grants are often what determine the longevity of a researcher, and there's a strong survivorship bias on those promoting the prevailing thinking. The research being done, and thus the research being consulted by policy makers, therefore ends up being tilted in one direction. The curriculum also reflects that. It's profoundly naive to suggest that change is likely going to come organically from within this sort of system. The insular nature of these institutions is obvious when we see the extent to which they're going to stifle and censor alternative viewpoints (however mild), both from their students and their faculty. The fact that Peterson is an academic doesn't prove the "spectrum" is represented. That's extremely disingenuous. He's a singular example and it's not a stretch to say he was punished for going against the grain. Not only that, but his being an outlier and his subsequent notoriety have subjected him to the sort of scrutiny that his multitude of faceless critics never have to worry about. It doesn't even matter what he says anymore. What's the solution? I don't know, maybe you can tell me? I'd argue that the system is fundamentally broken and close-minded, and that much of the federal funding being granted to social sciences is of dubious merit. The natural progression of where this goes is to see the apparatus slowly torn down from outside by hostile book-burning policy makers, and the funding void will get filled with corporate/foreign entities (if at all). I don't like this solution, but it doesn't seem like there are a lot of folks grabbing the banner that JP left on the ground when he "sold out". It's not like academia is showing a lot of perspective, humility or introspection when subjected to criticism. The fact that you somehow felt it was okay to call JP supporters incels but then rankled at my comment of tweed suits (of all things) is, I think, indicative of the challenge people face with actually getting through.

The person that survives is not necessarily the strongest person it is the person that can adapt to change. What you call globalism is here and is not going away, you can work with different aspects of globalism to be better as an individual in a society. Not everything is about Trump, how can a man be 100 % correct ? Is he God ? Second of all Trump is probably one of the most liberal conservatives in power, this is just propaganda that he uses to brainwash people like you, you think Trump gives a damn for the middle American ? He just told them what they wanted to hear and used people's fears to get elected. The biggest lie was that jobs are being taken by foreigners meanwhile the Artificial Intelligence is doing those jobs. He is a FAKE patriot.

DND writes a spec sheet, specs that explain in great detail what this piece of equipment needs to do, it is then given to PWSG, who are all civilians, no military at all, they then go out and pick several pieces of equipment that THEY think might fit the bill, DND tests them, discloses all the faults what they like or disliked, then the whole file gets taken up stairs to the politicians and they have the final decision, and as argus has explained the key factors are off setting "what can the company do for Canada, in most cases the company is asked to spend the equivalent of money in Canada...or transfer tech, also how many jobs can be provided, how many Canadian companies can be engaged....it sounds good on paper, but it costs 2 to 3 times as much, which translates into less equipment for the military, for example the new SAR aircraft, the winner was clearly the one who the most off sets, but the inside cabin height is only 6 feet, and when your wearing a helmet the average 6 foot guy is now 6'3'' tall try bending over hours at a time while staying focus on searching for someone.... Almost every procurement project we have had in the last 40 years has skeletons in the closet...some more famous than others, the LSVW had to be taken to the desert in the US to in order to complete it's testing to see if it would be up to specs...after it had failed 4 times in Canada for driving in the snow...ps there is no snow in the desert...that company was in BC, and has gone under shortly after the contract was finished ...it was a 4 cyl turbo engine , that had to power a 2 ton truck....it also used a new metal brake pads, every time you touched the brakes it would squeal, that could be heard for km's , just what you needed when your trying not to be seen or heard by the bad guys....The army just shakes it's head, atleast it was new...

There'll always be catastrophes. And when global incidents like this happens, it's always the poorest of the poor that bear the brunt of the suffering. The economic hardship for people in the West is somewhat ironic because we've seen 10 plus years of growth and wealth creation. The market correction was bound to happen.

The mainstay of the RCAF is the CF18 which first entered service 37 years ago. There is no replacement on the horizon for at least a decade. At which point they will be 47 years old. For comparison purposes, the Spitfire, the famed fighter from WW2, was retired from the RAF in 1952, 31 years prior to the introduction of the CF-18. Imagine the CF-18 flying against the Spitfire? That is what our fighters are expected to do now - fly against fighters over 30 years newer and more modern than them. And by the time they are replaced? Well, imagine if Canada was till been flying the Spitfire in the year 2000. Because that is how old and obsolete the CF-18s will be.

There's nothing wrong with military procurement. The problem is that the politicians use the military's budget as a kind of regional economic improvement exercise. The military's actual needs are superseded by what the politicians want in the way of jobs for government ridings. Thus we often pay double or triple what is needed for a piece of military equipment so the government can brag about all the jobs they're bringing to individual ridings. And, of course, the negotiations are protracted, and the bidding has an enormous unspoken, underlying aspect involving jobs and money to government ridings and donations and under-the-table promises to government ministers which slows everything way the hell down.

I think I can help. He's saying allowing the call to prayer is Politicians favoring one group of people over "the rest." So the one group of people would be the Muslims. And "the rest" would be what you might call "Kafir" or unbeliever or infidel. No need to thank me. I'm happy to help.

So your citations are Dr. Oz and a book written in 2005? As opposed to the Lancet, the CDC, the FDA etc. This whole Trump era really is a War against expertise. Trump is a the Dunning Kruger mascot. The irony of all this is that Trump is now discrediting studies that show the drug's ineffectiveness as partisan. It was a questionable study that got him to jump aboard the bandwagon in the first place. It's almost like he's a complete hypocrite.

Trump doesn't have evidence, he's not a prosecutor. The DOJ has evidence. It is an established fact that the FBI presented an unverified, uncorroborated dossier as partly verified and independently corroborated when neither was true. They made 17 "significant" errors and omissions in their submissions to get FISA Warrants and renewals. They said that the unverified dossier was just a part of the evidence they had of collusion, but it was all they had, and they knew that it amounted to nothing in late 2017. Still they kept acting like the investigation was producing actual, damning evidence, and they did that for over a year. The spectre of Russian collusion hung over the GOP right through the mid-term elections in late 2018 and basically gave the Dems control of Congress on a silver platter. It is an absolute certainty that high-ranking Dems illegally unmasked Americans and leaked their conversations to the media. It is known that Obama was being appraised of all this illicit behaviour, because of texts that went back and forth between Strzok and Paige and because of how high up in the Dem party the unmasking were coming from. It is known that FBI officials set up the meeting with Flynn with the intention of destroying his career or getting him locked up regardless of whether or not he was guilty of anything. Their messages weren't about "finding evidence" or "proving guilt", they were about getting him to trip up so that they could put the screws to him. Flynn, like most Americans, didn't think that the FBI would lie to him about the extent to which Flynn had erred. Flynn spent millions on his legal defence and when he had no more money, and the FBI were threatening to lock up his kid, Flynn chose to protect his kid with a guilty plea. Then they offered him reduced sentencing to fabricate evidence against Trump. The Dems and the FBI acted like Trump was a criminal for a long time after they admittedly knew that they had nothing, and now it's certain that either Trump is a criminal, or the Dems and the FBI are criminals, but the answer isn't neither.

There ya go. Click the link, it will take you right to where you were intentionally misrepresenting the facts about the Chinese travel ban. Any idiot knows that the POTUS can't force the Chinese gov't to allow Americans to stay there during a pandemic any more than he can stop Americans from coming home. The US DID NOT allow "40,000 travellers" in, they allowed 40,000 Americans to return. So again, you're intentionally dishonest and yet you expect the full truth from others. It's pathetic.

Why do you Trump fans keep citing Travel bans as if they did anything. Unless unilateral, Travel bans are essentially useless.

You forgot to mention the primary reason for harvesting wildlife . . . . food! Did the first European settlers carry a supply of Kraft dinner, were they vegans? They killed wildlife just like the Indians did. Both white/natives still hunt.

When you can't imagine others being motivated by something other than money, in Psychology, it's referred to as 'projection'. If you can't imagine how others think, it's actually your problem. I will reserve my response somewhat for the case that you have proof that this journalist is lying.

That Dude is a drama queen. Pelosi has passed plenty of legislation. Much of it is sitting on Mitch McConnel's desk.

The notion being that by saying so, we remove 'absolute power' from our own governments. You decide toward what or whom you would like to give absolute power. I know my response.