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That might explain why they sabatoged his plane.

Now it’s the DNC that controls the FBI? You believe Donald Trump, who hires only the best, appointed a man to lead the FBI who would take orders from the Democratic National Committee? You crazy.

The RCMP only get what their political masters tell them to get.

I think that you gobble up so much CNN propaganda that it's coming out of your ass. Trump inherited a global tire fire and by the time he was gone islamic terrorism was a memory, islamic state was gone, American servicemen hadn't died in Afghanistan in 18 months, Arab nations had normalized relations with Israel, Ukraine and Russia hadn't had any escalation in military friction, NATO embers were on alert that their contributions were insufficient, important trade issues with China had been addressed, etc. The world wasn't backsliding at all when Trump was POTUS, pretty much everything got better. It was the exact opposite of when Obama and Biden were POTUS. Two global dumpster fires later...

The primary reason that I do not like Trump is his well demonstrated tendency to take conspiracy theories seriously. I can't take someone seriously who honestly believes in these mostly fabricated (but not disprovable) stories.

Unfortunately the plane self-identifies as a rock.

He's such an insufferable little potato. An embarrassment to Canada.

Exactly my point. Who does this all now serve? The natives? Not really eh? So who? It appears to benefit the band chiefs, their councils and gives Libbies a nice rosie glow to think they're "saving" someone. Yet for all their meddling, all they've accomplished is to: 1. Perpetuate an unhealthy relationship and propagate segregation. 2. Justify a bloated bureaucracy. 3. Enrich the leadership. Conclusion: Abject Failure.

I think social media plays some role too. We admire extreme opinions more than we used to.

Your post is a swath of negative generalization @Moonlight Graham I'll just post this. Find the Western countries on the corruption list https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corruption_Perceptions_Index#:~:text=Denmark%2C Finland%2C New Zealand%2C,Sudan (both scoring 13).

Sorry - but that's just not true and anyone with half a brain can see why your 'facts' aren't facts. You compare obama's second term for example with trumps first neglecting to mention he reduced deficit spending FROM THE INSANE HIGH THAT HE HIMSELF PUSHED IT TO EARLIER. Unemployment fell faster under obama because of his reckless spending - which again you don't mention here despite including his first year magically all of a sudden, And again compare obama's second to trump's first. Trump's economy was better https://archive.ph/H3M6V A cursory look at those numbers might lead you to believe that the improvement under Trump was at best a continuation of a trend that began nearly a decade earlier It’s necessary to place those numbers in context. By 2016, officials in the Treasury Department and at the Federal Reserve had concluded that the economy was at full employment and that further improvement in the labor market was unlikely. This was in line with the Congressional Budget Office’s guidance that further declines in the unemployment rate would push the economy beyond its sustainable capacity. So - trump increased employment while the dems and others said it was impossible Family income rocketed up under trump - so not only were more employed the jobs were better And while you dismiss the bump in gdp it's still a very real bump - achieved in just 3 years before covid hit It would be wrong to say trump was massively better than obama - but if you actually compare apples to apples instead of trying to cherry pick your data - in the few short years he had trump did better.

I'm sure there's SOME way to look less relevant on the world stage.... but i can't think of it right now.

I recently got involved in a discussion with some foreigners (Americans and others) about American foreign policy and specifically about the Vietnam War. The discussion was provoked because a few people had seen the 1970s movie Coming Home on satellite TV. I tried to explain that the movie was a product of Hollywood, and it was made for commercial reasons. I also made the following more basic argument, as someone who is not American: IMV, the Vietnam War (like wars in Greece in the 1940s, Korea in the 1950s or Afghanistan in the 1970s and other proxy wars elsewhere) was one battle in the Cold War. The US (the West) ultimately won the Cold War. In World War II, the Allies lost many battles and suffered many setbacks but they ultimately defeated Nazi Germany and Imperialist Japan. IMV, Vietnam was one loss in the Cold War like Tobruk or Dieppe were losses in WWII - important battles lost in a larger war ultimatetly won. It has also been fashionable to believe that America lost the Vietnam War because of domestic American public opinion. I disagree. Again, in my view, the Vietnam War was one battle in a larger Cold War and America (and the West) ultimately won the Cold War. When an open democracy stands up to an organized authoritarian regime, or its proxy, we should all be thankful.

it's still not going away the majority of Canadians are still either leftists or useful idi*ts for the left thus I think you will at best encounter a stalemate rather than a decisive shift to the right

By the results. But the liberal supports don't take action to fight corruption even when the results AND the negotiatons are known. You've never been able to explain why more would be better when we don't do anything with what we've got already. Other than to say somehow that's harper's fault.

As you know, I lived and worked at our Canuck embassy for several years in the 90s in Prague. I can tell you that about 85% of all Czechs wanted the Soviet to fall. Everyone you met in those days, had been to the protests of the Velvet Revolution and were proud of it. They wanted what they figured was "freedom". What they got was something completely different. The IMF and World Bank both descended on the Czechs...as they did to all ex-Soviet nations...and waved billions of greenbacks under their noses in exchange for their entire infrastructure. Electricity...fuel...hell even the hiways were sold off to "Western Interests". The hiways! This happened all over the place...except Russia. Today a lot of those people are completely disillusioned. They feel they were lied to. They've been had. Between the foreign ownership of everything and the squeeze the EU likes to put them all under, the people now look back with fond longing. There was a sense of community then according to the people I've spoken to. You could afford to eat and heat your home. People had a common enemy...the Communists. Now people are enemies with each other in a mad scramble to get whats left of the nation. What crumbs the west left and didn't yet devour. THIS...is our empire in action. Sort o' leaves a rotten after-taste in your mouth...don' it.

Bravo. Game Set Match.!

And that's what happens when it becomes obvious that the media here is lying to us. Maybe @Michael Hardner can speak to them and convince them to stop lying?

Any housing is better than no housing.!

If you think the trans issue is going to hurt the Tories you haven't been paying attention. It's not just hard-right conservatives who think it's gone way too far, it's almost everyone but progressives.

A lot of this neglects the impact of automation. We met with leaders in the mining industry and guess what? They have for the last two years been replacing low level mining personnel with machines. That mythical time where manufacturing was the key to one's economic growth may be in the past. Do I like this? Not especially but nothing I can do to stop it.

ESPN radio did this experiment. For one week, the talk show hosts only focused on stats, analytics, and breaking down games. No predictions, no social topics, no "hot takes". Ratings dropped by 85%. The second week, they turned the tables and had the hosts do nothing but strong, adamant opinions and predictions along with carte blanche to bring social justice topics into it. Ratings not only recovered from the previous week but were up 15% in the net. That should tell you all you need to know about our preferences when it comes to extreme opinions.

Well, should I repeat again that all politics if and when left to its own instruments will end up self-serving, and much much more so, the partisan politics. Liberals are influenced by some star eyed globalists, sure whereas Conservatives, more by traditional clans like oil, tobacco and guns. There's no good answer for the society in this dilemma. It went a bit farther, added some to the prosperity and now it's in the stagnation mode and to move ahead from here, we will have to find, think and create new answers. Swapping bobbleheads wouldn't do a thing.

Yes except...trust is EARNED and the institutions have lost all trust. Minus the abundance of coke and other such drugs.

Although I think Peterson's opinions on Climate are misinformed to the level of crackpot, and his arrogance and misguidedness reveal hypocrisy, lack of professionalism and such... I don't think opinions on Climate Change themselves are worthy of sanction by the professional body of Psychologists. I realize I have sided against Peterson on this issue in the past but on the Climate point the College has overreached IMO.

To be honest - i really don't know what the hell is going on in their minds. If it was just now - i'd say that yes, their actions appear to be driven by fear and panic. But - this has been going on since the day trump got elected and before. It's borderline cult-ish and fanatic. Like you feel like if you looked at their planning calendar it would start with "8:30 - wake up. 8:31 - hate trump" And then just be 'hate trump hate trump' for all the other time slots. I mean, the republicans can be silly about stuff too - i thought 4 years of 'show us your birth certificiate' was pretty amusing. But - nobody took that seriously or refused to put obama on the ballot and nobody spent night and day trying to get him arrested on ANY crime at all. And it was funny But this? Imagine thinking that calling someone an insurrectionist in a document is the same as the court ruling it's an insurrection. It's insane. Like... "maybe that person shouldn't be free on the streets" level of insane. And yeah - they're completely driving Trump's success right now.

Your OPINION is USELESS without FACTS!!!!!!!!!!!!

Or Stele ? But what i REALLY meant is my spellchecker disagrees with you and says you suck As a Canadian i hope like hell that means jaggers is going to backstab justin and we're going to the polls early Trump is polling better than biden right now, independents included. AND when you look at voter distribution he's more efficient too. If the election were held to day and the polls proved accurate trump would be the new/old president Man that's gotta tick you off.

Creating a fake dossier and using it to justify an fbi investigation is. A lot of the other ones are too, Sorry, Remember - Your OpIniOn is WORTHLESSS wIThouT FAAAACTS! And you're drooling again. It's even easier to repeat these facts when they're simply facts Sorry that the truth upsets you so much. I know that to you lefties the truth is like throwing holy water on a vampire.

Politicians simply can't be trusted to act in the national interest or interests of voters. They don't have the ethics or integrity. What trust or legitimacy remains for these people? They aren't even worth the salary we pay them. We should have direct democracy on all the key issues and let the lawyers figure out the details. Cut out the middle man selling us on snake oil. Let public intellectuals and twitter and MLW and Youtubers etc debate the issues. 1 vote every few years just isn't good enough. The people need more direct control over their country.

Four of the last five and the last two FBI directors were appointed by Republican presidents.

If you don't know the Dems control the FBI then you don't have enough knowledge of the topic to chime in on it.

Are you sure? I thought that their requirement to pay taxes was based on whether they lived on the res or not. IE, live on res and pay no income taxes regardless of where you work, or live off res and pay income taxes.

I feel a lot of it comes from hubris in this field. Thinking they've cured the incurable. While psychiatry has come a long way its got a long ways to go still.

French names belong in France. Not the western hemisphere.

Now that you know that Trudeau called the unvaxed "racists and misogynists", and asked Canadians if we should be "tolerated", what do you have to say about that? You're very critical about a mere poster on an internet forum who posted an editorial comment about Trudeau's hate-mongering instead of the link to Trudeau actually saying ti *shudder*: 1) do you have anything to say about Trudeau's hatemongering? 2) do you have anything to say about how little coverage it got here on CTV and CBC? Even Bill Maher down in the US commented about it, and guys like that almost never talk about Canadian politics. How did CBC and CTV "miss the story"? If Trump said that he would have been impeached Again, what do you have to say about the fact that you didn't even know about this?

I don't think it's really a question anymore that democracy is breaking down. We have a majority of one party who have already dispensed with democracy--literally. They are fully on record supporting Trump's attempt to remain in power by simply pressuring Pence to unilaterally declare him the winner. Not only are they not offended to the core at this coup plot, as any decent American would be, they are trying to put him back in a position of power. I've disliked the GOP's authoritarian trend for a long time, but I NEVER thought in my lifetime I'd see an American president attempt to seize power through extralegal means. And I certainly didn't think it would happen without a stern rebuke from self-proclaimed patriots. The truth is that they are not patriots. They have neither respect nor love for the America of the founding fathers. They crave only power and dominance and will try to "win" at any cost. Who needs a democracy when you have a strongman to swoon over??

Right up until that nonsense the democrats tried with Clarence Thomas, this criminalization of political differences that you see now would not have been tolerated. Since that point you've seen a denegration of politics by the Democrat party

Like I said, what she does is her business and I really don't care. I also don't blame PP for taking advantage of the opportunity. I just don't think airlines should be inflicting political messages on their passengers or giving politicians PA time on their flights.

I don't care what Arden does. If you think PP will be flying commercial if he becomes PM, you are a fool.

Politics exists downsream of culture. The politics has taken that turn because the culture has - if someone disagrees hurt them. Punish them. Cancel them. Don't allow opposing views. If someone wants to talk and you don't like what they have to say - burn the stage down. If i'm having a tough time it's the fault of whitey/the govt/the immigrants/privlidge And i should hate and strike back at those things. Parents and society allowing that kind of crap thinking poisons the water and we get the kind of politics we have to pander to it,

That's a hell of a lot better than here where AFAIK nobody has seriously considered the numbers of students that can be admitted for over 20 years - until last year. The tuition fees for medical education are also absurdly low by our standards, but that could allow for the much lower salaries French doctors get. I mean, as it stands Canadian nurses can apparently make as much as French doctors. I wonder why we don't get more French nurses immigrating to Quebec... We could do the same for tuition, but we'd need to put in place financial disincentives for doctors, nurses, and others to take the basically almost free training and then skip across the border to practice in the US. That seems kind of odd to me. From what a quick google tells me the Canadian average is only 950 while in Quebec it's 685. Yet family doctors often seem rushed and overworked, without sufficient time to really explore background issues with their patients. Quebecers I know have to wait weeks, sometimes months for appointments with their GP. I wonder if ours have a lot more paperwork eating up their time. The Canadian comparison is $265k (US$195k) But then, they need to pay off far higher student loans. And we need to compete with America or we'll lose them all. Free or nearly free tuition combined with a requirement they pay off the real cost if they leave (the real cost being the cost if not subsidized AT ALL by the government, more like what a foreign student would pay). I wonder if we did away with the requirement to get a bachelor degree before going to medical school, as it is done in a number of other countries would help here. Not only would it reduce the cost and time of training but perhaps it would make them inelliglbe for a quick jump across the border to work in the US.

Sure there is. It's published everywhere. Biden REALLY screwed the pooch there And everyone knows the economy got moving on it's own. Obviously. You lock people up for a while, then open the country back up and of COURSE they're going to get out and spend. Nobody thought differently. But biden dumped fuel on that fire and voila - instant runaway inflation. We had a similar problem here with our leftie prime minister. And there's TONNES of evidence - why do you feel the need to lie like that? Is it because you're ashamed of biden? I could certainly understand that. It does explain why he's tanking in the polls. And sure - biden is only slightly lower than trump in the polls, very close to neck and neck but slightly below in most. So - lets put that in perspective. The public has a choice between a narcissistic billionare who's getting sued every other week and is now up on criminal charges and who frequently caused massive incidents and twitterstorms when in office and who's very presence was considered divisive by many and.... biden. A sitting president who should have all the advantage. And they're saying "lets look at trump again here..."

By your logic, Barack Obama can run for President again, because he hasn’t been convicted of being President twice.

She is innocent unless proven guilty. The law provides the penalties in the case of a conviction. She is responsible for her actions. I always admired Ali. He broke the law and took responsibility.

Doesn't matter what politicians or crown wants, the court will decide whether they are guilty and what if any penalties apply.

Except for murder, no one gets a maximum sentence for anything in this country.

Mischief under the criminal code is a serious offence. It is a section that covers things like vandalism among other offences. People mistakenly associate the charge with a prank. If she is convicted, she could possibly get a sentence of ten years in prison. It is unlikely to be the maximum in this case, but if she is convicted, she may face a few years. On top of that, she will carry a criminal record which has its own set of ramifications for her. She is not being charged with opposing the government.

Leich and Barber are getting due process. The courts will decide, not politicians.

No he isn't. He's a pride cultist, he feeds into climate hysteria, and the border is wide open. He's also a racist and a liar. And I haven't even gotten into his bullshit economy - we are STILL dealing with inflation.