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Why should Canadians be subject to Marxist intervention and control of everything in society, what we read, what we see on television, what we are taught, what we hear on media? We need to dump the politicians that promote and support interventionist, Marxist, control.

The media per se isn't bad, it's mostly starving, because of changing technologies and the way people digest information. The public still needs news however so funding for public broadcasting should be increased to ensure that happens. If trust is the issue and people are afraid all they'd be getting is propaganda then pile on the transparency and accountability.

1. Ok then why is it so hard to provide an example right off the top of your head ? Surely the temptation to make me look stupid is great, is it not ?

https://financialpost.com/news/canadians-think-short-changed-carbon-tax-rebates A quarter of respondents said they did not get a rebate and 34 per cent said they were paying more in carbon tax than they were getting back. Another 17 per cent said they were satisfied with the rebate and 24 per cent were unsure what they were getting. The Liberal government should be most concerned about how lower-income Canadians view the rebate, the pollster said. An analysis by the Parliamentary Budget Office found lower-income Canadians are “nearly guaranteed” to get back more than they pay, yet the poll found they are just as uncertain about benefiting from the rebate as higher-income Canadians. The last thing the liberals want is for people to be actually looking at what they spend and what they get back. That's NOT what they want to see happen. And this is just what people pay directly - i doubt even 2 percent really understand how much carbon tax is burned in to the cost of the things they buy. And surprise surprise - it didn't save the planet.

LOL! "Someone set themselves on fire outside the Israeli consulate in Atlanta on Friday in what was likely "an extreme act of political protest," the city's police chief said. A Palestinian flag was recovered at the scene and was "part of the protest," Chief Darin Schierbaum said at a news conference in response to a question about unconfirmed reports that the individual had been wearing a flag. Authorities did not offer any details about the individual, including gender or age." https://www.newsmax.com/us/atlanta-israel/2023/12/01/id/1144461/

China and Saudi started working on that almost as soon as Biden was elected. Leftard media is doing an amazing job of keeping their viewers in the dark about all of the damage that the Biden administration has done to the US. It's crazy how far the US has spiralled in just 3 years, but Biden's followers honestly think that this is a golden age. I'd say that they deserve what they have coming to them if they manage to elect the next polished turd, but the sad thing is that it's future generations who will really bear the brunt of Biden's follies.

What a load of steaming horseshit spouted about. You think Google gives a flying you know what about $100 million to settle/ I's not 2000 anymore, that's pocket change to them. And they're not the main offender. You just search with Google, and a little is unpaid use of Cdn content on YouTubes. Meta's the one with the bulk of news links and in user posts buried among their pages of fraudulent and malware ads. You think it's Marxist to protect Cdn culture and business revenues? Prefer a nice healthy tariff on all foreign based social media instead? It's absurd to stand up for a foreign billionaire or corporation ahead of your own couintry's interests and more so when it affects you not at all.

This, Assuming it's related to the schools you let them speak and share whatever they want to. Then you consider it and in their case probably point out what they want is illegal and also oh hell no and thank you very much and F*ck off - but you listen to them first and then you make that determination. indicates your understanding that that they get one chance to make their case. and this, You DO have to let them into EVERY discussion a public group like the school board has. indicates you think they get to make their case in EVERY discussion. Not just one IOW. You're usually the pedantic one, I'm just throwing it back in your face.

Almost all police officers are taught that technique including Canadian officers but applying it for nine minutes goes completely against how they were trained to use it.

At the heart of this issue lies the fact that no one trusts our media anymore. A full 50% of Canadians are aware that nothing that comes out of CTV, CBC or Global can be believed. Among those who would still consider them somewhat legitimate news sources, they're not even the furthest left, so they lose a lot of the "desperate for drivel" crowd to sources like MSNBC and CNN. https://brioux.tv/blog/2021/01/22/in-canada-and-the-us-cnn-has-become-a-ratings-juggernaut/ They're just serving a small niche market now. Being a news outlet is a lot like being an 18-27 yr old girl these days. They feel like they need to be the sleaziest to attract the attention of suitable partners, when in reality, if they just valued dignity and self-respect they'd stand out above the crowd like Mt Fuji.

No, I support the news media being owned by Canadians. Why would I need to cry about false news with the sort of transparency and accountability measures I mentioned? The media will probably have to get used to a few changes too I suppose but I fail to see why that would include legal protection for reportage of malfeasance or dodgy behaviour, especially when investigating it in the private/secret domain of things like corporations, criminal groups or public/private organizations involved in criminality. I'm specifically addressing the concerns that a public broadcaster = propaganda.

I was about the same age in the early 70's when a friend's parents opened Lovecraft which I believe was Toronto's first adult sex-store. My Dad did some of their early graphic designing for advertising. They used to have us move boxes of stock around the storeroom on occasion. There was no porn but enough other stuff to get us into trouble. I'll never forget the time we opened a couple of boxes containing dildoes and fake vaginas - of course we started sticking one into the other laughing our heads off just when my buddy's mom walked in. Better than the cops walking in I suppose. They got raided a couple of times.

What's Canadian news content... Breaking News......"'Mary took a little lamb with a face as white as snow to the hockey game". "Don Cherry bad". Don't forget to tune in to next weeks breaking news.

Yes i tis caving. They could very easily continued as they were and not pay and not carry any Canadian news as they had since August. They decided to pay...or, cave BY the way, the $100m is CAD which equated to $74 USD. The $150m was from Google and Meta combined. 1. So, the people do not know what is best for them so, we let government tell us? LOL 2. 3. I agree wholeheartedly. If you want news, go to the actual news media websites.

I don't see why I shouldn't be okay. I don't know enough of the nuts and bolts to tell what it costs I'd start at the deputy minister level on up to the PMO. Full on public access to meetings, minutes, any and all that deal with things in the public's domain...a FOI Act that requires governments to make special requests to secretize information (sans encroaching on clear and obvious national security issues) rather than the other way around...no in-camera lobbying. You should know by now what I mean by transparency. The public audits everything and of course we'd also have a much better opportunity to address concerns that we're only being fed propaganda and fake news.

I just had a strange thought(not unusual for me). I was about to say "Hey, how about the girls on Charley's Angels and what they were doing in their trailer together?" or something like that. But then I never had such thoughts back then. Not about them together, I mean. In that time we (the friends/people I hung with) never really thought about lesbians. Today, any two hot girls who briefly hug each other has guys thinking along those lines. Society has changed a lot in that regard, I think. And I think porn has had a lot of influence there.

At the heart of this is the principle that the market doesn't always serve the public interest. Pretty much everyone believes in government but what people want regulated changes from person to person. Mulroney felt so strongly about protecting Canadian culture that foreign media ownership was disallowed under the Free Trade Agreement. The CRTC blocked American ads for decades. We only know about most Canadian pop music because of Canadian content requirements. Etc. Etc.

I would have killed when I was a kid to get hold of the kind of internet porn that's so freely available now. The best I could do was skim the Playboy, Penthouse and Hustler at the newsstand at the nearby corner store. I sent away for a video once but it got seized at the border. I was deathly afraid they'd call my parents but they just sent the one notice which I happily grabbed in the mail. Kids today have it so easy. There was nothing incorrect about what they said...

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Marxist-leaning politicians do it because they can. Canada is becoming more interventionist and authoritarian every day. What religion do you think Trudeau etc. are most connected with besides Karl Marx's religion. Loraine Boettner warned about this in his book Roman Catholicism over sixty years ago. Roman Catholicism : Loraine Boettner : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive One would think after a thousand years of tyrannical rule by Rome over the population until the Reformation around the 1500s, that people would wake up. Apparently not. We are going backward.

So you allegedly went there for the purpose of taking a verbal shot at Elon Musk? You do realize that he'll never hear of this groundbreaking moment do you?

"Guess I didn't really think this through."

"Baker's preliminary report had sparked anger after it found "no physical findings" to "support a diagnosis of traumatic asphyxia or strangulation". The report had also suggested Floyd's had underlying conditions which contributed to his death. According to the report, Floyd's death had been caused by the "combined effects of Mr Floyd's being restrained by police, underlying health conditions and any potential intoxicants in his system". In an updated report filed two months later, Baker confirmed he had found traces of fentanyl—an opioid used as recreational drug—in Floyd's system, but stated that could not be identified as the cause of death. According to the documents, Floyd had 11 ng/mL of fentanyl in his blood, a dose that could have been justified an overdose verdict had his death occurred in different circumstances." https://www.newsweek.com/george-floyd-autopsy-report-cause-death-1579393 Fact is...Chauvin is the victim of "social justice" instead of legal justice.

1. Yes, but subjectively. Even within the Church there is disagreement as to what "Catholic" means with regards to LGBTQ right ? A dear old teacher of mine, devoutly Catholic and gay, had his life partner acknowledged by the priest at the funeral. It was regarded by those in attendance as an act of mercy and kindness. 2. I get it - but change within the church does happen, even in a popular way and at the expense of Catholic doctrine. I'm thinking about Vasectomies, Divorces and Big Macs on Fridays... things that were alien to us growing up. 3. They *might* put such a thing to a vote. Votes on such things are few and far between, mostly because: - Votes don't happen on matters of detail - Accommodation of LGBTQ people is decided at higher levels, ie. board policy and ultimately the constitution - You would likely get a vote if those in power stood to gain from it, reinforce their status etc. Your example of a public board would likely not result in a change in policy, IMO. You are looking to do what's "right" according to your values, but thinking that your view is also "popular". I'm not sure it is. Even an elected Catholic Board only voted 6-4 against hoising a Pride flag at an education centre (not a classroom). Also the Classroom thing would have to be mandated and would be a messy affair, legally. Again, I am thinking systemically here because to change the system you have to have a large number of people supporting the idea.

Well, I've tried to convince and invite you to be more than a useless troll. You've declined. I don't suppose there's any reason to see your posts anymore. Good luck in your future endeavors.

Blah blah blah. The same crowd who believed 2000 Mules was a factual documentary are going to eat up this crap. They are the same people crazy enough to believe that it's a coincidence that a man begging for air died after a full-grown police officer sat on him for 9 minutes. ? It took about 2 minutes to check and see who made this gem. Turns out it's a reporter for a kook propaganda outfit who happens to be married to a disgraced former Minneapolis police officer and union leader who himself was accused and disciplined multiple times for violence and racism--including accusations from fellow officers. But it's your life. If you've got nearly two hours (or whatever) to devote to a source with no credibility and a clear bias, knock yourself out. I'm sure you'll "learn" so much. ?

There there now. We already knew. (You really think this style of yours is worthwhile? It's just the laziest, lowest form of trolling. Do better.)

You sound happy at the prospect. As far as I'm concerned, these refugees of yours can go back to where they came from... Or to your house.

The above is a lot different than when you said; Everyone gets at least one opportunity to speak, more if they succeed at securing a motion that makes their issue a business matter for the board to address in subsequent deliberations and motions that act on those deliberations. Without these your issue is tabled and the board/discussion moves on to the next item. If you insist on ignoring the rules that govern the discussion you could find yourself in a pickle. You have issues with following well-established processes. Nothing would ever get done in any discussion especially in a public one if it treated evidence the way you do for example - demanding impossible evidence then citing its absence and insisting your proposition is true because it has not yet been proven false. IE refusing to acknowledge the burden of proof is on the positive claimant. It sounds like the board screwed up how it ran things which led to this becoming a federal case. Most public boards I've been on or seen in action had an accounting or municipal officer to keep the board from doing something outside the rules usually due to misunderstanding their scope of responsibility but sometimes to try and push the envelope on issues.

It's also worth noting that Minneapolis paid out a $27 million settlement on a wrongful death suit.

Nope. I doubt it severely. If you and others like you really thought that you'd have never backed the liberals or the carbon tax. So we know you're not serious about it But hey - i'm sure if you vote for justin a few more times he'll solve it for sure I tell you what - if 2100 rolls around and on that day we see people storming north by the billion i'll owe you a beer.

They'll finally have something legitimate to complain about. THey'll hate that.

Awww - that's ok big guy - we are all aware you're inherently dishonest. I mean - you are a leftie after all. it's not like you can help it.

^This uninformed OPINION does NOT MATTER in the slightest. You weren't on the jury nor did you hear the EVIDENCE. Everything AFTER cuffed and unconscious was ASSAULT. AKA, unnecessary violence. Esp with 6 cops available to restrain him.

Sure it does; it always works because it's the truth. You see, pervert, I always have the truth. We know this because I torpedo every argument that you make.

If you have a reasonable question then don't bury it in a multi-paragraph wall of hyperbole. I already told you I stopped reading when you were telling us about how the climate alarmists want us all to go live in caves. ? There are plenty of climate alarmists out there. There are also a lot of denialists, flat-earthers, conspiracy kooks etc. Gad Saad is smart enough to understand how effective hyperbole can be in riling up susceptible minds. He didn't write that piece to convince anyone of anything. It was nothing but a hot-take to reassure people like you of how you already feel. ?

IF they REAAAAAALLY feel that strongly, they should ALL do it at the same time! Well they burn babies to death, they burn themselves to death. At least they're equal-opportunity psychopaths. They may be absolutely bat crap crazy but at least they're consistent.

A groomer...making gross accusations to cover his intentions. How very obvious. Now where's that list?

People who think like you are often sexually attracted to young children. Not always, but far more than the general population. Once again, another forum member projecting his sexual deviancy onto others, as a deflection technique.

If he was a 'good' homosexual would you support him? Or do you only support fraudulent lying con men if they're hetero and pay for their women?

When all Congressional actions are based on gossip and unsupported theories, you get a useless congress.

A whole industry has grown up around being a professional victim unfortunately. Those people will not want to give up their money

And here’s another major hit on the US dollar. 15 BRICS members are in the process of halting the use of the Yankee buck for oil settlements. https://watcher.guru/news/brics-15-countries-to-ditch-us-dollar-for-oil-trade#:~:text=India and the UAE already,for oil and gas trade. “The new BRICS members are laying the foundation for the de-dollarization initiatives. India and the UAE already settled oil trade in local currencies in September this year. The move was a historic landmark shifting away from the US dollar for oil and gas trade. India paid its local currency, the Rupee, to settle 1 million barrels of oil with the UAE.” … “New BRICS member, The United Arab Emirates (UAE) is looking to settle oil payments in local currencies and sideline the US dollar. The UAE is looking for potential countries that would like to settle payments in local currencies like the Dirham. Recent reports indicate that the UAE is looking to renew oil and gas trade agreements with 15 countries that are willing to pay local currencies for settlement.“

and yet...here I am not running away. ? Somewhere along the way to your 30th thread complaining about the muslims/blacks/woke/trannies/environmentalists, you painted a good picture of what informs and motivates your..."ideas". Reasonable, cool-headed people looking for intelligent discussion don't start threads with hysterical titles like, "Progressive diversity cult is killing the western world", or suggest that "climate alarmists" want to shut down all industry and make everyone live in caves. How oblivious can you be?

1. I'm a conservative. And I have never called you a Chud. Do you think you're one ? You seem to be upset and yet I have never said that to you. 2. I already addressed that ? Why are you repeating yourself ? 3. I have used the term 40 times this year, before this post. So not daily. I care about principles so point it out when I don't follow them. 4. Ok then. I don't think I dodge questions. Again, point it out and I will answer. I'm certainly not consciously using such a tactic. 5. What's the definition of Chud ? I haven't given one. 6. HA HA HA ... everyone ? No. I am one and that's for me to say. I would say that Trumpy types and Chuds are not conservative. They hate the courts, except when they rule in their favour. They hate institutions like public health and knowledge. I use the term "Chud" lovingly, as a tag, but they will call you a pedophile, groomer and such and shriek in disbelieve if you use the loving term for them. Again - I didn't call you one. I don't know why you're so upset with me.

Henry Kissinger dies despite his young age. RIP

The problem is that if you apply pressure on a person like that you are liable to kill them. Humans are exquisitely vulnerable to asphyxia in certain positions. We should be able to learn such basics. And do I really have to point out that resisting arrest should not be a capital offence? Maybe on this forum. Where I clearly do not belong.

Chauvin is a disgrace to his profession, I don't understand why you continue to make excuses for someone who makes all cops look bad. Do you think you are doing police a favour?

Moonbox seems unaware that Saudi Arabia and the US had an oil treaty for fifty years. So the Saudis would threaten and play act and make noise, but they were basically America’s b-I-t-c-h. In turn they received protection and other favourable items. But that oil deal ended in 2022, and the US walked away from the Saudis because with Biden in power, they think they can wean themselves off of oil by way of the electric car, etc. Dirty energy(lithium mined in third world countries and said batteries charged by nuke and other dirty power) and all. So China and BRICS came calling and now Saudi Arabia is a member and no longer has the best interests of the US in mind. I shouldn’t have to point this out, but since the legacy media pays so little attention to anything that goes against the official narrative, folks like moonboy are clueless and blame Twitter. Don't look now, but oil is up another $4/barrel. And Biden already drained the national oil reserves down to unsafe levels. Weird, eh?

the US Dollar is the reserve currency simply because America spends more money than any other state by many orders of magnitude thus countries end up getting paid in US Dollars for their products & services hence every country ends up holding a vast quantity of US Dollars making it the easiest currency for those countries to do business in that cannot be challenged by the BRICs because they simply cannot spend enough of their currencies in comparison to the US Dollar it really has nothing to do with gold, the gold standard is a separate issue from the reserve currency