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I know a lot of Canadians have died serving this very flag, my best friend made the long trip home with this flag draped over his coffin, and while you don't have to respect it, that is a matter of choice, it comes with the many freedoms you take advantage of living in this nation everyday...Freedoms that many men and women have paid a price for you to enjoy...And yet you are willing to live under all the protections it provides you and some how you have gathered up the courage to bad mouth it's flag which is a national symbol of this nation with all it's warts and all it has given the world. *uck you, you give me your address and I'll gladly send you the money for a plane ticket back to the communist country you came from. Where freedom is nothing more than a foreign concept, We could have you back in the gulag in the matter of days comrade..

I don't always agree with Conrad Black but on this one I definitely think he's on track. Trudeau's moronic flag at half staff gesture was typical at first, all style without substance. But in lieu of anything else he's kept it permanently at half staff for months now with no indication it will ever change. This is confusing foreigners, as Black points out, something I hadn't really considered. The most frequent opening conversational gambit that I encountered during the past three very social weeks in the refreshingly mask-free, socially undistanced city of London, was the question of why the Canadian flag on top of Canada House in Trafalgar Square appeared to be permanently at half-mast. I had the heavy duty of conceding that it was part of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau‘s endlessly protracted act of national self-humiliation and confected grief over the history of the white man’s treatment of Indigenous people in Canada over the last 500 years. The many informed people whom I encountered in London could not be described as a broadly based and deeply enthusiastic group of admirers of Justin Trudeau as a leader and clear champion of the Canadian national interest. In general, in my experience, he is seen in Europe, as in the United States, as the chic and dapper bearer of a name well-known in Canada, who deserves the credit due to being a consecutive election winner in a G7 country, but is nevertheless seen as a feckless and rather superficial posturer. Like most people when absent from the country where they reside, I always do my best to put Canada‘s case forward as persuasively as I can to doubting foreigners. My explanation for a permanent flag in official mourning over the Canadian High Commission in the greatest public square in Britain was greeted with universal, and not always polite, incredulity. It is a challenging posture to try to defend. For reasons that he will perhaps someday make clear, Trudeau has taken it upon himself to go to unheard of and absurdly histrionic lengths to propagate the historic fraud that Canada should be permanently ashamed of its treatment of the native inhabitants of the land. https://nationalpost.com/opinion/conrad-black-lowered-flags-are-a-symbol-of-a-nation-in-decline

Unfortunately the pandemic revealed what we know deep down and seldom discuss: Our “rights” and laws are promissory notes that we create in the hope that they’ll be respected, but there’s always a “notwithstanding clause” or condition that allows for governments to trounce our protections. Individuals and whole social organizations will throw mores out the window under duress. We create institutions and countries to give us the illusion of permanence and control. That’s why we have to respect nature and have our own backup plans for when the social order breaks down. People do unpredictable things under unusual circumstances. However, if we don’t fight like hell to ensure that certain rights are protected, such as freedom of movement, association, livelihood, etc., then they will be violated for dubious reasons. I think we’re already there.

The flag will remain at half mast, fully vaccinated people will continue to be required to wear masks, the English language will be outlawed in Quebec in federal buildings (and all public buildings), resource development will be discouraged, taxes on transportation and food will be raised along with the salaries of our highest paid public servants. Canada is ruled by privileged, out of touch posers. Canadians support them because they’ve become so complacent, weakened, and brainwashed by official narratives that they’re unable or unwilling to question the status quo. Canada is being transformed from a forward-thinking advanced country to a zombie people of self-identified victims who blame their shortcomings on perceived past or current “injustices”. Collect the pogey, pass the doob, ridicule colonial Canada, and give away the farm to the most radical selfish people. Trudeau’s Canada is a country of shame, reparations, and living in the past.

Canada not able to get a full mast is highly symbolic gesture.

This one is kind of better, but we don\t have just French, British, Scottish and Irish in Canada. I think our flag now should be a tapestry of the flags of all countries and nations in the world.

There's lots of evidence, you just don't believe it. Here, and here, and here, and here ... and on and on and on. It was first noted in the 1800s that certain gases would create a warmer atmosphere, and that over time, would increase earth's temperature. Every thing has come to pass as theorized, way back then, read all about it here. But you don't believe it, God will take care of everything, you don't have to worry. Lack of action on climate change estimated to have cost 0.6 Trillion the US already.

Well, you can always go back to your home country since you hate this one so much.

Sabaton is this Swedish metal band that does military themed songs. In this one the Russians are the good guys. Cause Nazis, of course: Defense of Moscow

The new Haiduk album Diabolica

In Austria (population 8.9 million) the total ICU capacity is 2,000 beds. In Quebec (population 8.9 million) with 95 patients the "the system is running at 155%" (minister). That would be less than 5% (five) of Austria's capacity. In Ontario (population 14.7 million) ICU utilization of around 300 earlier this fall caused cries of doom and catastrophe. In Austria, it would have been 15% of the total capacity. Can you see the difference? Spend uncounted amounts of public dollars on yourself; for decades, dive and swim in public money; appoint yourself obscene multi-hundred-thousand compensations and million-dollar golden parachutes; but when the system is actually needed, all you can produce is aiiii! and oiiii!!! and let's have another lockdown! Sounds like effective management of public resources, Canada style.

It’s really not a difficult concept.

More on how Russia's huge disinformation network works. They will put comments on mainstream western media sites on an 'almost industrial scale' and then regurgitate those opinions in its own media as examples of how people in the West support Putin and think the West is collapsing. A major operation to influence public opinion saw comments posted on Western media articles in support of Russian interests, according to new research. Cardiff University's Crime and Security Research Institute found 32 prominent media websites across 16 countries were targeted including Mail Online, the Express and the Times. The comments were fed back into Russian-language media outlets as the basis for stories, researchers said. The tactic was spotted this year. But the operation is believed to have been escalating since at least 2018 and recently focused on the Western withdrawal from Afghanistan. https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-58441662