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Remember the good old days when Sarah Palin was the lunatic?

Cmon Contrarian you sound a little 'off' today, did some nefarious basterd spike the brownies.

Oh sorry - i didn't realize you had no sense of humor at all. Humor is usually a sign of intelligence, i mistakenly over estimated yours. My mistake, I apologize for the offense. I'll keep it basic from here on for you. More amused than disliked. I thought you were making a bit of a joke, but as we've established you don't have a sense of humour so, my mistake. For your statement to remain true however you would have to define what 'war of convenience' meant. It would seem that a reasonably definition could be " a war that conveniently has benefits to a country". If we accept the dictionary definition of 'convenient' as being something that's suitable to one's needs or purpose then in this particular context the terms 'war of convenience' and 'convenient war' would be synonymous. So you'd have to explain the difference and justify your use of the term to actually make the argument. No, that's just silly. to be "at war' you literally have to be in the war. Supplying goods to warring nations is not the same as being 'at war' or a participant in the war. If that's how it worked we would already be referring to this as world war 3 - with most of the western nations giving at least some supplies and support to the war effort with china, iran and many of the other nations on that side of the curtain providing support as well. It's even more countries than ww2. So again, for that to make sense the countries would have to be what is known as 'belligerents'. And at this time they are not. Speaking of beligerant, you managed to take a small bit of humour and turn it into an opportunity to demonstrate you were wrong. Good "thinking".

Trudeau wants parliaments national security committee to investigate the Chinese interference. So he wants an all-MP/senator committee made of mostly Liberals to investigate? No thanks.

Who are you to decide anything for anyone? Earlier you claimed to speak for the American people. Eat some humble pie, listen more, learn more, and try again.

Well yeah - csis can't release information unless authorized by the gov't of the day. That's a necessary design element to your security apparatus But a more interesting question is why did the authorities believe that it's not worth investigating more into the interference itself, but IS worth trying to find out who spilled the beans about it. As to why the gov't didn't want the info getting out -well i think we know that.

Hopefully he did, but a lot of people don't. I have a couple of friends that spend their time staring at TA charts and trying to tell me how they understand where the market is going. They always have excuses why their analysis turned out wrong. It was never their fault. Sort of tongue-in-cheek but not the worst advice out there. The best and most consistent investors out there are the ones who take advantage of market dislocations. That's how Warren Buffet invests, if you want to simplify it. Considering almost nobody has defined pension plans anymore, very few of them would get forced into anything. The defined contribution plans would give all of these investors a choice. 95% of them would have no idea whatsoever what they're investing in, and would follow a box-tick exercise and end up in a fund-of-funds that's diversified to the point of extreme mediocrity. They almost always can. Most of these plans (in Canada for example) would be administered by a large FI and would have a large list of funds to choose from. If their employer is matching their contributions, the employee is entirely in charge of choosing the funds with the benefit plan administrator. As I said, I'm not an ESG guy myself, but the hatred and disdain for it is blown out of proportion and it's tied up completely in the greater culture war. Most of it is nonsense. The reality is that the bleeding heart ESG funds that only invest in solar power and carebear companies are self-eliminated after not very long. At the end of the day, the fund has to perform or it's not going to last, whether or not it's ESG.

Over ten thousand Canadians died during delays and cancellations through the 2020-21 COVID-19 pandemic, a new SecondStreet.org report reveals. These were from causes other than Covid. These people died because of lack of treatment for cancer, heart conditions, etc., not from Covid.

Crypto isn't a stock and it is useless, but the sort of thinking that goes into crypto investing is the same you were trying to describe here. Invest in things that are going UP and it's easy! Just avoid stuff that's going DOWN! The problem is that whatever's up today (or was yesterday) could very possibly be down tomorrow, and the folks who hopped on the bandwagon when things were going up are usually the ones who get blasted up the backside when things go down. I don't think you actually understand what ESG is and how it's implemented. Personally, I don't bother with it, don't recommend it to clients, and have in the past talked people out of it. If a company is focusing too much on ESG as part of their marketing pitch, it's probably because they don't otherwise have a leg to stand on. The problem is that these concepts aren't mutually exclusive. There are "ESG" funds that outperform on a consistent basis, and then there are high performing funds that don't market themselves as ESG but follow and practice many of its principles. The other side of it is that there are some bleeding hearts out there that simply won't invest unless their tender souls feel good about what they're doing. What's the point in taking away their options? If you want to go invest in coal mining and Raytheon, nobody's stopping you, but I don't know why you'd feel compelled to limit the options from the granola hemp crowd wanting to feel like they're doing their part.

To be blunt it was VERY common to hear about it before covid. There are dozens and dozens of articles about how understaffing and wait times are horrible. Covid for a short time made a really bad situation worse, but it's pretty much over and we're still seeing the same problems. In fact they're getting worse. And for the first time we really are seeing people die waiting for care, and more than one or two. It's easy to blame covid becuase it was front and center in every paper every single day but the problem was serious before covid and has continued to get worse after covid.

Socialism = big gov't and Naziism is the epitome of big government. I can't imagine Naziism without socialism, and without control of the most credulous, easily divided among us.

Nobody's forcing anyone. Nobody gets to pick what their pension plans are investing in, so railing about ESGs and complaining you're "forced" into that is no different than some hippie protesting that CPP invests in railways/pipelines crossing native lands. Get over it, buttercup. The reason ESG has become popular is because they represent measurable risks to a portfolio, which is critical for a pension plan. Because a pension plan has very clear and very predictable cash flow needs, investing in short-sighted companies that only care about this year or next year's stock performance is a terrible bet. The companies planning for success 10+ years out are much, much more attractive by and large. Companies like, say, SNC Lavalin or Rio Tinto would score poorly on an ESG framework and be avoided. Regardless, the ESG framework is just a way of thinking. Republicans can beat the drums of the culture war and "ban" it, but that won't change anything outside of the US and it won't even change how companies like Blackrock etc invest. The only thing that this changes is that companies promoting ESG will have to update their marketing material and terminology. It's a waste of everyone's time.

Yes thank you at least a Christian has enough sense to combat this!

This sad attack on free speech is an attack on democracy itself. Fundamental to democracy is the edict: ”I may not agree with what you say, but I’ll defend to the death your right to say it.” Voltaire (Arouet)

What are we arguing about again?

well he presents himself as the defender of NATO when in fact the entire purpose of NATO is to defend American freedom to include the first amendment right to criticize America vehemently, as all Americans do in fact, by Brandenburg v. Ohio, America actually defends the right to be a Nazi, that was the case

Super Sleuth Contrarian is here to save us all...from uncomfortable truths and opposing points of view.

he's literally deranged apparently now you are the "Communist FSB attacking the Commonwealth" paranoid delusional ramblings

I find that generally, folks who act like this are incapable of rational discussion. If you disagree with them...they don't have the intellect to argue their case...and resort to childishness.

I've said I am retired, I've never claimed to speak on behalf of the CAF none the less, CAF policy is that any service member is within their rights to speak of their own experiences I'm not trolling you, you are trolling me

you're not stopping me from doing anything and your paranoid delusional ramblings simply present as mental illness

It raises some questions about old issues as well - like remember those chinese scientists who worked in the canadian lab that suddenly got fired and went to china? And the liberals blocked any attempt to get details about that with extreme effort?

That's been an argument since the beginning.

I hope Minhaj gets the job permanently.

You may not have said it or meant it but yet it's largely true. This is a VERY convenient war for the us and allies. Putin was completely retarded to start it. Without wasting a single allied life, the russians are being severely depleted militarily and will be years building back up to where they were before, if they can at all. THat's pretty convenient. As you say, the allies get to get rid of aging weapons systems AND they get to test them in real combat doing so, so they can learn how to make the next ones better and even more effective. They get to see how they can be used effectively in the field. That's VERY convenient. You can't pay for that kind of testing . The russians are losing credibility globally which will help the US negotiating in foreign areas such as the middle east. That's convenient as well. This whole thing comes with a package price of a few billion a year - which is NOTHING. The US's defense budget is about 819 billion dollars when it's at peace! Fighting a war and running your enemy into the ground for a few billion dollars is a super mega bargain! That's not just convenient, it's frugal! And of course unless russia manages to take all of the ukraine, from now on whatever is left of it will be solidly in the US's corner and control, so the russians have basically handed a major military and economic asset to the US. The US won't even have to let them join nato to get fully miliary access to the country moving forward. Ukraine sold itself to the us for the arms it needed. Meanwhile the Russains are selling themselves - to china. Who is going to be a MUCH less pleasant overlord

all my Republican brethren are keenly interested in Canadian politics now the Freedom Convoy struggle to overthrow the Chinese Communist traitors in Canada that's all over the number one shows in America, Joe Rogan Podcast & Tucker Carlson Tonight down with the Democrat traitors to the Republic and their Liberal proxies in Canada too

most of them are choosing to fight against the Kremlin apparently as there is no more Russian city in Ukraine than Kharkiv yet they threw Putin back at the gates in a battle straight out of the Second World War this insane total war of annihilation is in fact driving ethnic Russians in Ukraine towards the West even the Russians in Russia have no hatred of Ukrainians, everybody in Russia has friends in Ukraine they only reason they can be incited to fight is that Putin has convinced them that America is the real enemy that is the play, this is revanchism against America for the Soviet self inflicted defeat in the First Cold War Ukraine is just a proxy you know how this works, Zeitgeist the Liberals play the same card in Canada Iron Curtain against the Declaration of Independence who was going to overthrow Justin Trudeau ? not Putin, Trudeau said it was the Republicans which, God willing, will come to pass in the end Trudeau is Putin, Putin is Trudeau may all these tyrants fall, in the face of American Freedom the shot heard round the world, glory, glory, hallelujah

There are certainly issues with wait times here in Canada. It's not really free either since it's paid for by our tax dollars. For my first hernia surgery I waited 5 months and at the time I thought it was a long time to wait as I was still working and in a lot of discomfort. The second time around, it took exactly 1 year from the time of diagnosis until the actual surgery, from May of 2021 until June of 2022. As it's been pointed out above, I don't worry about getting hit with some massive bill from the hospital but we certainly do have some pretty long wait times. Any time that a politician suggests looking at more private sector involvement there is an outcry, usually from the left about going down the road to an American style system. Which country has the best health care system in the world? A quick search gave some very different results so it's hard to say. I can say with a large degree of certainty it's not Canada although I doubt we are the worst either. We shouldn't be afraid to look at how the other developed nations are doing it and see what works and what doesn't.

They’re invited now. Imagine how the US would feel about Canada becoming a military and security extension of China. Oh wait…

When you get to hell, never say I didn't warn you. Chick.com: He Never Told Us (retail)

Why shouldn’t fund managers be permitted to do what they want?

"They look lovingly into the eyes of their captors" "Their inability to understand the world is soothed by the strong voice of the big man telling them all will be well"

PP will make no significant changes, unless you soak in identity politics...

Nobody cares. It's been a couple of days now and the mainstream media is like "Ho hum". Hardly a thing about this is appearing anywhere. A Liberal MP is, according to CSIS, a knowing agent of a hostile foreign power that puts Muslims in concentration camps. And the media doesn't care. But oh let a couple of Tory MPs do a picture with a European MEP whose party is against immigration and anti-Islam and it's headline news from coast to coast with breathless outrage being voiced on all the political panels.