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The people who named them “Indians” thought they made it to the Indian Ocean. They should be called whatever they wish to be called. Why is it up to you?

In conversations with friends, acquaintances, and others . . . . there is a palpable hatred toward the present Liberal government, and especially towards Justin Trudeau. Canada has devolved under his leadership. Disturbing times . . .

The investigation is over with the predictable results. Trudeau and his band of trolls now know that they're completely 'un-touchable' . . . . free rein granted, carry on with impunity. The precedent has been set for future Emergency Act 'emergencies' . . . . such as parking violations, littering, or even openly questioning this appalling federal government on their behavior and their propensity to deceive. Carry on Justin, make Hardner, ExFlyer, Queenie85, and their ilk happy . . . . . and remember Justin, Canada loves you.

IF ^this is true, the Oath Keepers were really foolish to plan a major crime there. But the FACT is, there is a pile of evidence against Rhodes & Co of which you are obviously ignorant.

And those reasons were circumstantial having to do with the reopening of the economy, directly causing increased DEMAND and the choking of SUPPLY by the Russian invasion of Ukraine. We have it FAR BETTER than most of the Western world, but you guys totally IGNORE that and continually try to blame Biden for ALL OF IT. Just STUPID.

Not quite equivalent. We have to clean up the mine. We don't have to treat natives like fragile children who have to be carefully protected, nurtured and have all their decisions made for them by us. I'm not clear on the scope of the question. What would be done differently about native schools? Or what would be done differently to integrate natives? I'll assume the latter. And the answer to that is difficult because we face the problem that the majority of the representatives of natives are quite content, thanks very much, with the present system. They and their families are at the top of the pyramid and have little reason to want that pyramid torn down and replaced with something that wouldn't pay them nearly so well or give them any real power. A professor whose name I forget said something once about how the leaders of disadvantaged minority groups rarely have much interest in pursuing goals which might result in promoting the disadvantaged minority and moving them into harmony with the whole because if that succeeds they no longer need those leaders. Which means you're going to have to overcome almost certain opposition from native chiefs and go over their heads to the natives themselves in proposing solutions that would result in abandoning the reserve system and the Indian Act in favor of a change which would be challenging and tumultuous but result in a better life in the long run. And certainly a better life for their kids. You need to overcome fear of the unknown, reassure people that they'll have something to fall back on. It ain't going to be easy, and would require determination for a long-term solution which none of our leaders have so far shown much inclination for. They are not separate nations. That is a polite fiction, like an adult patting a child's head and congratulating them on some terrible creation they've just presented you with. Most of these 'nations' are under 2,000 people strong. That's not a nation. It's barely a village. Not to mention separate nations don't need to have 100% of their bills paid by someone else. Quebec, btw, is not a nation either, but that's a whole other argument about political cowardice. A nation without a sense of shared identity is brittle and will fracture at the stress lines and dissolve into violence under pressure. Of course there would eventually be cost savings. Do you imagine Canadians are going to put up with paying their way forever? It's going to last only until the majority of power brokers in parliament are not white. Once the Asians take over - and they will inevitably take over given immigration and birth levels) natives are going to be faced with some pretty goddam harsh choices because I've never met a non white immigrant who had ANY sympathy for natives (I'm sure there are at least some who do). And the ones with the least sympathy are the ones whose culture is most demanding of hard work. And yes, I'm aware Jagmeet Singh makes all kinds of mouth noises about supporting natives, but he's a trust fund rich boy who operates on an ideological level quite different from most people.

"White nationalist rage and threats of violence, up to and including civil war. And Republicans are seemingly happy to either sit back and watch it happen or, in many cases, to add fuel to the already out-of-control right wing terrorist fire burning in America." ... Nationalists are now the #1 domestic terrorist threat in America. You've all read what the Nationalists on this forum have threatened. The internet has b come their sounding board, its become these domestic terrorists vehicle for spreading their rage. "Civil War was trending on Twitter with people wondering if it will happen. It has already begun…. except for the shooting,” influencer Juanita Broaddrick declared on Truth Social, which Trump established after twitter banned him. Influencer Lydia Shaffer, who names herself ‘Conservative Barbie,’ posted: “Civil war has been declared,’” the center’s study said." The white house and the DOJ have set up specific units to monitor and disrupt these domestic terrorists, focusing on individuals and small cells. These moronic Nationalist fools are setting to themselves up for a hard fall. Because when you're foolish enough to push America, America pushes back https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/republicans-join-in-with-white-nationalist-attacks-and-civil-war-threats/&sa=U&ved=2ahUKEwiYmbWa9s77AhUVEEQIHY1JAk8QFnoECAsQAg&usg=AOvVaw0chPSlwTj7H8oqcFFyBoiE

Actually I do. WTF is wrong with them, we haven't used heating oil since the 1970s. They like stinky furnaces?

So the answers yes....

The only way leftists can win a debate points is by swatting down straw man arguments. Get used to it.

By that logic, this means that since there was no America when the first white settlers came to what is now America, their descendants can’t be called Americans either. The logic there is….. questionable, to say the least.

No. He just wants Freedom of Speech. More importantly, and end to leftists broadcasting lies (eg: "it prevents infection and stops the spread) while simultaneously stifling the truth. In a perfect world, the Dems could still lie while conservatives tell the truth.

What's the proverb that starts with: "From the mouths of CrakHoBabies..." again?

I agree with Eyeball here the commission is not about who is at fault, but there should be something done on this side of the equation. although there was a lot of fingers pointing on who screwed up and who did not, including from the PM. The commission was about did the government meet all the requirements to use the EMA. And examine all the resons why it was needed. We all knew the outcome before day one of the commission, nobody is going to lose their jobs, or any punishment be dealt out, Liberal government will come out of this as always, smelling like shitty roses, we would have wasted countless millions on a commission we did not really need. What it will do is set precedence for the next government, the EMA will be much easier to use, knowing beforehand the consequences of using it in the first place. The government did not even meet the definition of what is required by the federal government's official definition and policy laid out already, instead they used CSIS definition as it was less descriptive, easier to manipulate, maybe those loopholes can be closed. One has to ask how many other examples are their out there with these loopholes.

Given the point that Rhodes was convicted, your response was, “Oh, what about Scaffold Man?” That is the very definition of Whataboutism. As for Ray Epps, he’s one of you people. You guys just decided to throw him under the bus for no reason. I think all those people who rioted on Jan 6, or who conspired, ought to be in jail for 20 years or more. They’ve so far charged several hundred and they have several hundred more to go.

If election fraud is not widespread, then it is not impacting the outcome of elections. Therefore, why is it necessary to disenfranchise voters who don’t have ID’s, such as (surprise, surprise) urban black people who take the bus, don’t own cars and therefore don’t need driver’s licenses? (“Oh, it’s just a coincidence that our law will disproportionately impact black people and the poor…”)

I clearly asked you on multiple occasions to present evidence viable enough to be substantiated in a court of law. You failed son. That's on you peanut.

Why did you even bother to post that 300 dead peoples ballots might have been cast? Your pointing out worthless trivia and acting like it's pertinent. It's moronic and weak.

Said the white nationalist who's threatened (actually promised) violent repercussions if his white Nationalist agendas not followed. You are the opposite of a patriot. You are morally and ethically deficient. Your claims have no value because they are all based on gossip, innuendo, speculation and assumptions. Therefore your absurd opinions are complete Garbage.

For a guy as smart as you are Queen, you seem to have forgotten what Canadian federal government does or is supposed to do. The primary mission of the government is to keep the country running, and when nessicary making those tough decisions when they are not popular. In our case each PM or government has their own agenda, on what they think is best for the country, which comes first and foremost, you did not get a vote or say in that, and then if there is room to keep some people happy then sure they'll slide a little something in there, make no mistake the government is not the people's puppet. Why is it that the government cannot account for all the funding spent on the pandemic, CERB, PPE, Vaccines, only account for less than 1/2 that spent. 47.500 Canadians deaths is a tragic, but why are you fixated on this pandemic, why are we OK with spending all that we did. why was it so important to spend well over 700 billion. when this nation faces much worse than this pandemic. Cancer kills 45,000 men and 40,000 women each year, Cancer statistics at a glance | Canadian Cancer Society Heart disease kills 54,000 people every year. The Top 10 Leading Causes of Death in Canada | Finder Canada There is a whole list of what kills people in Canada, the covid numbers for 2020, were 16, 151 everyone is tragic, but we did not shut down the country, nor did we spend over 1/2 trillion federal dollars on any of the rest of the ones on the list, infact very little government spending goes into cancer research, most of it is sponsored by regular Canadians out of their own pockets, as most research of diseases are. The Cerb was a program designed to be taken advantage of, with well over thousands of Canadian teenagers collecting cerb while living at home with parents who's income was over 200 k. nor the thousand others that claimed they did not know all the rules collected CERB and then were given a reprieve by the government. Did it benefit the nation yes for the most part it did, but not all, did it prevent large chunks of private business from closing no it did not so there was good point and bad points. but was it worth 700 bil nope.

I didn't actually - I suppose incompetence would have been a foregone factor in any case.

If you actually read the BS nonsense you post, it says things like, "We identified 30,000 potentially dead registered voters." They didn't identify that these people actually voted except in two or three cases. If you could perform arithmetic, you'd realize that with 330 million people in the country, not filtering 30,000 recent deaths is not an actual crisis, and it's not 30,000 false votes, it's hand-waving. Heritage claims 1,396 proven instances of voter fraud going back twenty-two years. And, this includes crimes such as vote-buying. In other cases, people were convicted because they took a legitimate, signed absentee ballot to the collection box. That shouldn't even be a crime.

Once again: There is no evidence that lack of ID has resulted in fraudulent voting. If that evidence existed, I might agree with you. But voting is a Constitutional right, it has historically been illegally and unconstitutionally denied to people in America. Therefore, no restrictions on the right should be imposed without cause. And there is no cause.

Here is the bottom line: There is no evidence that fraud occurs because of a lack of Voter ID, and election systems have been steadily moving to absentee and vote by mail. Therefore, the only purpose of Voter ID laws is to prevent legitimate voters from voting. This is not ok.

And those brown people are not too happy about those animals who are illegally violating our borders and not waiting their turn.

Do you imagine that "democracy" gives truckers the right to block traffic for weeks, which imperils others' employment, and LIVES if ambulances can't get through? If so, what have you been smoking?

What did Biden do to "harm the economy" besides pulling us out of the pandemic recession and lead us to record low unemployment? Before you say, "inflation," think twice about the FACT that inflation is higher around the world than here.

Not as much as you like to bogeyman it out to be, that's for certain. but this wasn't what you were asking. You were asking why merit-based hiring/promotion is bad, which nobody was arguing. So, once again, you're making things up to debate against. Sure, but they don't have to be identical. You offered up reasoning for why minorities don't join the Canadian forces, but they're obviously not true because those same minorities are joining in the US in outsized numbers. Unless you can reasonably explain how American Asians are so much less scarred by colonialism etc than Canadian Asians, this theory falls on its face. This 20 year old you're talking about is yet another another straw man you've invented to argue against. Cop out of what? ?

Right wingers here should pay ATTENTION to the DETAILS of the EVIDENCE presented in this trial. IF they did, they would not be so clueless about what happened on Jan 6th.

Well, don't look now but this seems like a pretty massive back-peddle to me. I'm pretty sure this is the very first thing I've ever said here that hasn't been dismissed as a lie. It's like a paradigm shift.

Only according to you though. I've not found anything anywhere from any reputable source that explains why the fallacy doesn't apply here.

That's what government is for. The King and Parliament collect taxes and spend them to provide the people what they want. If the Government did not do what the people want, some would say that is tyranny. How would you suggest we keep people home during the pandemic without giving them cerb? Would you do what the Chinese do and just lock them in their apartments and weld the doors shut? If the building catches fire...well to heck with them if they can't take a joke. The US didn't do enough to keep people safe in their bubbles and they suffered the worst catastrophe in their history. 47.5 thousand deaths in Canada was a tragedy, but if the government did not react the way they did, we could have lost another 60 thousand people.

Because it was vetted and printed by a highly respected science publication. No you really don't know that at all and if you'd carefully and without malice and jumping 20' in the air read the Scientific American article or any other publication on the topic of base rate fallacy you might understand why.

Elon is driving that site into the ground. He's actually not all that smart.

Everything seems to be cancel-culture bullshit as far as your concerned. If a thread goes on long enough, you're almost guaranteed to bring it up. Yes, they're public knowledge, which is why it was so awkward that you presented the bogeyman case of all of purple-haired ninnies giving away friendly positions, considering it wouldn't even be allowed in a combat zone. because you're not asking intelligent questions? Stuff like: I'm not really sure you're using the term flow-chart properly, but nobody's said merit-based hiring and promotion is bad. You're making up stuff to debate against. The effort has been ongoing for 10+ years, and started long before the Liberals took over. The Conservative administration understood the issue and where demographics were headed. No doubt there are differences, but then your explanation that ethnic minorities just aren't interested in the military (as a symbol of ethnic repression/colonialism or whatever) falls flat on its face simply by examining the US forces and it's more diverse makeup. Maybe you could explain why black people in the US join up in outsized numbers, but in Canada we somehow have more colonial baggage...or something? We have the same problem across the board. The occupations are not attractive for anyone right now. I considered it after university (RCAF mainly), and the idea of spending years rotating through buttf*** nowhere places (like Cold Lake) turned me away. I suspect a large part of the problem is millennial tendencies towards researching every decision they make and, like me, not liking what I was finding, not to mention hearing from people coming back how frustrating it was in general. They've also done studies on how poor the recruitment practices have been, sending out grey-haired sergeants almost old enough to be the prospects' grandfathers to career fairs and expecting them to be able to communicate effectively with kids less than half their age. I don't have the answers for why recruitment has been failing. I DO know that listening to dinosaurs like Michel Maisonneuve ramble is not going to attract the young people the military needs, because by and large they just don't share those attitudes.

1. Acknowledged. 2. Any room in there to acknowledge superior weaponry? I'm thinking that reason is in the mix somewhere. 3. I like that you said 'fix'. If we were to suppress all use of shame-inducing terms and wringing of crying cloths but committed to fixing things I would be fine with that. 4. I like that you said 'fix'.

The difference is you're a liar. Look at the title of the thread... 85.7% of Covid Deaths in Canada Were Among the Multi-Vaxed from Aug to Sept of 2022. Jabbing 85% of the Population Didn't Reduce Deaths That was proven. Go fish

True enough, but that was likely because of the media attention the military was getting more than anything else. Debatable. Though as a sweeping generalization there's some truth to that, I've played enough co-ed sports throughout my life to know that there are plenty of women out there with the strength and intensity for combat roles. Nobody's suggesting we need 50% of our combat ranks filled with 100 lb waifs with no upper body strength though. Gee, the military's recruitment efforts focusing on visible minorities and women started long before Trudeau came to power. I wonder if that's because even the Harper Conservatives understood the changing times.

? Stop projecting. Your culture-war bullshit is exhausting. It's all you seem to care about these days and somehow you manage to swing almost every topic back to cancel-culture and wokeness, whether or not it has anything to do with the debate. I don't have to have served in the military to know when you have no idea what you're talking about. You didn't even know what the new dress rules were before you started bullshitting about purple-haired dandies giving away combat positions. While you pretend to know why minorities aren't joining the military, those same minorities are joining in outsized numbers in the US military, a country with similar history and demographic trends.

FIFY. ?

What amazes me is you and the rest of the left are just figuring it out, after being on the planet for centuries, the left just does not have the character traits to do these jobs like the military, police force, any job that gets assigned unlimited liability. you know the ones, like courage, patriotism, honesty, bravery, honor. The fact is you need the right to keep those things that go bump in the middle of the night away from you, to allow you to sleep on top of your bed as suppose under it. Not sure why you are so afraid of those that protect the nation day and night, maybe someone stole your girlfriend, or maybe you failed or were rejected from one of those institutions, I'm sure there is a story with lots of tears and blubbering behind it. You starve whatever it is that scares you, or drives your nightmares, the fact will remain you need us more than we need you.

I'm pointing out that even with all the output from those wind farms there is still an energy crisis in the UK. I am all for domestic oil and gas production. I'll shrug off your latest insult just knowing you're the kind of person that wouldn't dare say it to anyone's face.

No one is buying food FOR YOU TO STEAL IT. You've only revealed the DEPTH of YOUR DEPRAVITY. ?

Wow, here I am putting up a link from CNN. It does seem like there is currently an energy crisis in the UK. Same old story, moving way too fast without a viable alternative ready to take up the slack. UK energy crisis is 'bigger than the pandemic' | CNN Business So with all this abundant wind energy, why am I still reading articles about the UK energy crisis?

Yeah, that's basically true. I mean quotas aren't a thing anymore, but there is definitely an effort for better representation, diversity and inclusion of marginalized groups. Both for a sense of fairness and for, on the business side, enhanced performance. And to pursue that objective there is a conscious effort to shift some of the "benefit of the doubt" from the group that used to have exclusive access to groups that have not. Of course, that's just a bridge. If our society, institutions and offices are representative, the built-in advantages disappear. ETA: more on quotas. It's much more organic than that now. Nobody says, "We're short on X, go hire one." Instead, for example, when I'm hiring I'm asking HR/recruiting for a diverse slate of candidatesv and then hire the best candidate. If you only interview five white guys from ivy league schools, that's who gets hired. If you see a diversity of talent you naturally end up with a more diverse team.

Wait, I thought that facts don't care about your feelings? It's a fact, contrary to your assertion, that Democrats are better educated. Now, because you're a dishonest troll, you want to move the goalpost to say that Republicans are more educated in subjects that you, personally, find valuable. The reality of the marketplace though laughs at you. Unless you've been asleep (or deluded) for the last 40 years, rust-belt industries and other unskilled or semi-skilled jobs have given way to new economy jobs in tech, science, research, medicine etc. Knowledge workers, educated people skewing heavily Democrat. America builds less and creates more. And in this transition, there's a big population of uneducated workers who have been left behind. Unlike substitute teaching in Florida, a warm body and a GED won't cut it in the new economy. You can't get by anymore without an education--or at a minimum some specialized training. That's the gateway to the middle class now. Everyone knows that. Even the a Republicans. Ironically, I worked with the Trump administration on their skills and training campaign trying to make that very point. (I held my nose and did the right thing because it was right.) As educated people increasingly choose Democratic policies, Republicans will increasingly have to tailor their platform to the "left behind" crowd. They need to make up the numbers somehow. And *those* Republicans, the uneducated, angry, fearful white men are no longer essential to the economy. They don't have skills that are in demand. They will be replaced by automation or by less entitled, more competitive minorities and women.

As usual, you've confidentially stated as fact the exact opposite of reality. Lol Democrats, as a group, are substantially better educated than Republicans. A college degree is now becoming a significant predictor is party affiliation. And the gap is even greater among people with graduate degrees. Republicans are increasingly becoming the party of white people without a college education--particularly men. Those are facts. As for what's driving those trends, I believe it's the erosion of white- and male privilege. For most of the history of this country being white and male was a leg up within any given social strata. Whether factories and farming or banking and business, white men were more likely to be hired, more likely to be promoted and to earn higher wages then minorities and women. All else being equal, white men could get ahead without trying as hard. Now though, as the playing field begins to level a bit, that privelege isn't what it used to be. They have to actually compete with women and minorities. And those without education are the least prepared to compete. They see it as a loss, this erosion of privelege -- and it truthfully is. Losing white, male privelege makes life harder for that demographic. It doesn't matter whether the privelege is right or wrong, they still feel the loss, and they'll fight it. So of course they'll turn away from the party that is more aligned to equality and embrace the party that works to keep women and minorities "in their place."

Someone's pissed that their spouse got some money? Is that what this thread is about?

Celebrating and being thankful for the autumn harvest seems pretty racist to me. I'm sure there's historical inaccuracies in a lot of narratives we tell ourselves, and it's fine to acknowledge it, but i don't think we should demonize the holiday entirely for it. The left are big party poopers on our holidays for some reason, they dwell on the negative in everything. Yet the right seems to like to deny that these negatives even exist.