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quote After the Cross a new entity came into existence—the church that Jesus Christ promised He would build (Mt 16:18). As a result, there are now three divisions of mankind: Jews, Gentiles and the church. Paul tells us that we are to "Give none offence, neither to the Jews, nor to the Gentiles, nor to the church of God" (1 Cor:10:32 ). It is absolutely essential to understand that these three groups exist side by side in today's world, to distinguish between them, and to recognize that God deals with each differently. Unquote Jews, Gentiles, and the Church | thebereancall.org Wrong. I do not dislike Muslims. I disagree with the religion. Big difference. Your other comments are not worthy of a reply.

It's actually preferable if the new variant became the dominant strain. It's 30% less severe than delta.

As usual you got it all wrong again. Trump was on the pedophile express just once and never after that once Trump found out what pedophile Epstein was all about. Trump even banned pedophile Epstein from ever being invited back to Trumps home in Mara Logo in Florida for good. Trump drooped pedophile Epstein like a hot lave rock. You appear to be more of a supporter of pedophile Epstein than with Trump. Why is that anyway? Why do you like backing pedophiles like Epstein? Your hatred for Trump is once again showing. You really have to stop listening to CNN or the CBC. Your leftist liberal brain has gone really way out of whack. It's time for an IQ checkup. Just a suggestion. ?

now who is the mindreader? throw more stones from your glass house, character assassinator

Well Canada has a mixed record in environmental protection and sustainable practices. I agree that we’re behind much of Northern Europe, but that’s probably because we haven’t faced the same pressing necessity to manage our land more carefully. Ever been to a crowded beach in Belgium? There are reasons why many European countries had much higher death rates from Covid, and it’s not just about public health policy. Our forest management has improved and, as we can see in BC, balancing land management with natural resource development can be very hard given radical voices from both sides. Our city planning in Ontario improved greatly with the Greenbelt and densification policies to prevent sprawl. The Great Lakes protections in place since the 80’s have helped. So did eliminating coal plants. The residential school business is much more complicated than at first glance it appears. The Canadian government had to deal with the reality of a scattered uneducated Indigenous population that on the most part couldn’t cope successfully in modern society. Free education was seen by progressives as a leg up, but providing it required residence for those from small communities, as it still does today in Indigenous run schools. It seems radical making kids leave their parents by today’s standards, and there were exemptions, but mandatory education for children is still seen as a social good. Not providing free public education would be seen as much worse. The reserve system and Indian Act have been attempts at preserving culture and providing support, but the truth is that one can’t be truly independent with so much outside intervention and so little Indigenous investment. Access to local resources has worked well in the sustainable areas. I believe in the ingenuity of Canadians and our institutions to solve our problems and achieve great things, but we have to stop apologizing and drawing attention to past imperfections that are water under the bridge and that seemed right at the time. I can’t think of any other country that apologizes and makes restitution as much as Canada. We need to drop the victim mentality and think about what we can do to make Canada better.

Sadly, I must agree. The real question is when will Canadians stop being completely ignorant of the real issues and continue to elect virtue signaling morons who buy their votes with our grandchildren's money. Then there is the obvious follow-on question: when will the so-called Conservatives put together a slate of conservative candidates instead of trying to out liberal the Liberals???

Partisan BS all put aside: If getting government completely out of the sick care process worked, then the US would have costs similar to ours instead of double and their results would be better, not the dismally worse that they are. Trying to treat medicine (a social service) as a business simply doesn't work all that well - except for the minority that can afford good sick care. I think you will find the COVID experience in the US was little different for other patients from what it was here. AND, they had and continue to have far higher mortality results. Really sad that people on waiting lists died or deteriorated into untreatable status, but you could say the same thing about putting them in the place of someone who would have died without the ability of the available facilities to treat their Wuhan Virus.

Damning? That's ridiculous. To sum it up for you in easy-to-understand terms, they found the effectiveness of the vaccine has deteriorated. It is still effective at reducing hospitalization and transmission, but as the virus mutates (primarily among the unvaccinated), we find we need additional mitigation efforts and boosters to stop the spread. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10654-021-00808-7 Sorry to nip your quest to spread stupid misinformation in the bud.

People who think health care is a "zero sum game". Until they need it of course. Then they learn

What made Canada great was her freedoms, democratic institutions, and openness to new and better ways. At its core was the Protestant Work Ethic, the wisdom of old Rome (the Vatican through New France), the expansiveness of the British Navy, the ultra-modern cosmopolitanism of modern media (McLuhan, Bell, Nortel), the tremendous work to protect freedom through world wars (Mackenzie King, St. Laurent), peacekeeping (Pearson), universal health care (Douglas), and international aid (Trudeau Senior, Mulroney, Harper, Bethune). The best of them could stick handle the Americans by finding common cause (Mulroney, Chrétien, Harper). Trudeau Junior overspends and undermines our history of industriousness and pride by catering to victimhood and constantly apologizing for the founding forces that are the foundation of one of the most successful countries on Earth Kowtowing to foreign powers and letting both spending and immigration escalate without a clear sense of what is worth protecting and supplementing is selling out the country. I’m not sure any mainstream party has the honesty and courage to call out the identity politics nonsense and get us back on track.

Hindsight is always 20/20.

I disagree that it’s how we needed to triage. I think if we could go back and do it over, we would’ve tweaked things a bit.

They didn't guard the damn borders close enough and now as a result only 2 weeks after this damn VARIANTvirus entered Canada we have 21% of all those tested positive in Ontario infected with this variant. We have idiots running this country. CLOSE THE DAMN BORDERS TO ALL TRAVELLERS.

It's a tragedy. I would like to see a comparison against other countries though. We did a lot better than some. The 'Marxist ideology' comment comes out of nowhere, and is likely a result of you being afraid of bogeymen under your bed. Marxist and Communist parties got about 4,500 votes each in the election - far less than the Rhino party even. You need to stop being hysterical and start asking yourself what you don't know. That's what grown-ups do, they understand the limits of their abilities you see. Cheers.

He's on the road to re-election. He's realized the RoFo style of confrontation wouldn't get him through COVID and that his political bread is buttered by straddling the middle. He has no issue with kicking Anti-Vaxxers out of the party, unlike one bald federal leader, we all know.

Of course not, you steer clear of sources with actual facts. Let's see your sources Beave. You got busted here for lying about this already, so post a link if you think that's true. Crystal ball says..... Beave just keeps on lying and pretends that he doesn't proof of anything.

"Half of our remaining richest farmland will be paved over. " Then why do you want to facilitate this by bringing in 30 million+ more people? (doubling the population) "If a certain amount of net population increase is necessary," Key word "if". Why do you think a certain net population increase is necessary? " the focus should be on making northern communities with the potential to be sustainable the focus for future growth. It would provide the necessary workforce to tap national resources" Read more environmental destruction so that you can try to grow your antlers. "sustainable the focus for future growth." There is nothing sustainable about future growth. Endless growth is a tumour.

That's just stupidity talking. You've had months to learn about the pseudovaxes' shortcomings & side-effects and yet you're still just spewing idiotic propaganda. There are a lot of very good reasons for not vaxing but until one of your favourite propaganda outlets finally acknowledges it you'll just keep your head in the sand. It's Russian collusion all over again for you. Will you ever start to question what you see on TV? It's just weird that you don't yet.

the day that Canada moved out of Britain's basement and into America's attic

Dec. 11, 1931, an act of the British Parliament, the Statute of Westminster, recognized the independence of Canada, New Zealand, South Africa and Australia.

New COVID article on CBC. Our poster Alice tested the waters and achieved the expected result. While we are paying those cretins they hire idiots to remove legitimate content , just so their propaganda goes ahead unimpeded.

The notion that any one or more ethnic groups has special and exclusive ownership or title to a specific territory or land, apart from the ownership of private property, in this day and age, is very difficult to argue and prove. Various peoples have warred and kicked each other out of lands for thousands of years. Apart from maintaining existing territorial privileges in the Indian Act and reserve system for those Indigenous peoples who insist on keeping them, I would discourage adding more land claims to this creepy apartheid system that creates two categories of citizens. Dividing Canadians, such that some get special benefits on the basis of their ethnic status, is wrong and hasn’t worked. It sows resentment. Either these groups are totally independent entities on totally independent territories or they are not. We’ve inherited this mess and have to manage it without adding to the problem. Federal money has skewed markets and maintained some unsustainable remote communities that could never survive in the modern world without such support. It creates cultures of dependence. The most successful Indigenous areas seem to be the ones that have to take most of the responsibility for managing their people and resources unto themselves. They get to benefit from tapping their own human and natural resources, but without collecting their own taxes and paying for their own infrastructure, hospitals, schools, etc., they are not truly independent, and everyone knows it. Calling Indigenous victims of colonialism is an oversimplification. Indigenous and settlers have been together for hundreds of years. Oppression occurred for sure, as all cultural groups have oppressed each other for thousands of years. Hopefully now we know better and can move on from oppressive practices, but substance abuse and suicide still exist in Indigenous run schools and you’re going to have some form of residential schools as long as small remote isolated communities exist. Sad but true. With regard to the impacts of high immigration on a society that doesn’t have enough transportation infrastructure to move people hastily and efficiently, enough housing to make it affordable, and enough places outside the biggest few cities that people actually want to settle, it’s important to consider the impacts of adding hundreds of thousands more people to the mix each year. Yes there are environmental impacts and there are impacts to social cohesion as some of these new arrivals don’t bother to integrate with Canadian society. Some don’t really value it. Outside Quebec we don’t really demand much assimilation or respect for existing Canadian culture. Part of the problem is that we have stopped valuing our own cultures. We slam the cultures of the main founding cultures of Canada, French and English, as “colonial” and oppressive without appreciating that these cultures were some of the most progressive of their day. They brought us common law, democracy, free universal public education, and much of what we consider essential to human rights. Indigenous cultures contribute to these foundations as well and we’re taking more time today to appreciate those contributions. I think we’re doing a few things wrong today. We’re throwing away democracy and freedom to pander to voices of fear and paranoia. We’re crushing working people with fuel and food prices because we think that hitting them with carbon taxes is going to save the planet when there are cheaper and more sensible ways to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, such as incorporating green energy into the building code. We’re also failing to see that some cultural values are more productive and healthy than others in the efforts to build and maintain a cohesive, thriving democracy. An emerging and dangerous trend is the turning over of responsibility for our organizations to systems or algorithms that have no inherent values. We become slaves to compliance in order to enjoy basic freedoms. I see this in our current public health Puritanism and the new puritanical fight against climate change. Canada could accommodate millions more people in the north without overwhelming our metropolitan areas in the south, but only if we have policies that encourage northern settlement. I don’t know why such a push to the North isn’t integrated into some form of immigration policy, such as a minimum period of residence outside certain regions prior to the granting of full citizenship. There could at least be a fast track incentive form of citizenship for this. There’s much that we could do to improve Canada cheaply and affordably, but our leaders often take the easy way out for political expediency, borrowing money and saddling future generations with debt to buy off voters and pay for dubious pet projects.