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That's the DRIVING principle of capitalism though.

Read the posted links in the OP, they are paying a lump sum per year. I guess it is now left wing to actually read something.

There was absolutely no evidence of Ballot Box stuffing. In fact, Dominion Voting Machines, a Canadian company, was awarded the largest monetary legal settlement in American history, against FOX News, for their false claims against them. Meanwhile, Trump refused to concede office, and tried to subvert democracy by staging an insurrection. This has never happened in modern US history. So we can once again look forward to an armed revolt if Trump loses the election. Sadly, I think it may be successful the second time around.

The irony of that clearly escapes you " Its a sad day for democracy if a leader is elected by the people". Whooo kaaaayy........ Reminds me of that quote from one us politician back in the day who said "Democracy is far too important to leave to the people' Any time an election is freely and fairly fought and won it's a victory for democracy no matter who wins. The problem is the americans always decide the other side cheated, no matter which side wins the other side believes that. Trump wins - russian collusion. Biden wins - ballot box stuffing. It goes back forever. They've done polls on this. I have sympathy for the americans - in a choice between biden and trump you have no really awesome options. Trump does far better on the economy and general governance but he's very divisive, prone to 3 am tweets that are not well thought out and have real impacts, entirely fuelled by spite, and all that causes problems. Biden is just plain useless. A disaster on the long term economy, utterly incapable of having a cohesive plan for the country. a foreign relations mess, generally not the friend of good governance. But he tweets less. IF we're being honest trump is probably the best shot. he can't stay in for more than 4 years, the economy will probably do well under him, and maybe that will give the dems and the republicans a chance to pause and think about what they're putting forward as candidates.

I am so disappointed that Google kowtowed to the Feds and will now pay $74 million USD ($100 million CAD) to the Canadian news organizations. https://www.cp24.com/mobile/news/google-to-pay-100m-a-year-to-canadian-news-publishers-in-deal-with-ottawa-1.6665893?cache=yes https://apnews.com/article/google-news-canada-0c12334603bad9d150e6a7ade7002eb1 So, in addition to the what $650 to $750 million the feds give to the media , Google gives an extra $100 mill. If the media is so bad it cannot even attract advertisers to itself, why should anyone pay, especially my taxes pay? When I watch the local news, I get 15 to 20 minutes of local news, then Toronto news and then world news from American sources. My local newspapers have gone form 30 or more pages a day to, last week the biggest was 12 pages and a lot of it was from American or European sources. Bell and CTV have closed radio stations and fired hundreds of employees. Newspapers fired reporters. The fed money and now Google money will not stop the media downsizing. Google caved and they are wrong. Facebook announce they have not lost any subscribers or money since they stopped Canadian news links so hopefully they will not cave. https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-metas-news-ban-fails-to-dent-facebook-usage/

I'm not sure I follow. There are rules that govern warfare. While there's no referee, the countries that operate outside of the rules, those who are seen to transgress the norms of conflict, do face consequences in the global community. All true. But not really relevant to what is happening today or the actions Israel is taking today. Everybody--including terrorist groups--rationalize the murder of civilians based on past grievances. Everyone knows that the Jewish people have a long history of being mistreated. However, that knowledge doesn't do much to change the feeling when we now see them mistreating another powerless group. Nobody cares if Israel fights Hamas. More power to them. But many thousands of dead non-combatants is a problem. Well, I know that the terrible Hamas attack triggered this round of reprisals. But you can bet the Palestinians do not feel like they "started it." To them, the "start" was long ago. They very much feel like this is an act of defiance in a decades-long state of oppression. And it's a point not without some merit. Does that make Hamas right? Nope. They were wrong. But Palestinians are inarguably in a shitty situation and have been for ages. At any rate, the "who started it" conversation is really beside the point. It doesn't really matter who started it. The historical finger-pointing is not what people are concerned about. The world was horrified when 1,300 Israeli civilians were murdered. The world is increasingly horrified that the response to that is murder thousands of Palestinian non-combatants. It's not even an eye for an eye. It's ten eyes for an eye. It doesn't feel like justice anymore. It feels like a solution. It feels like a pointlessly bloody escalation. Let me reiterate: Israel needs allies. It needs support from the United States, among others. And one of the absolute best ways to undermine and eventually lose that support is by becoming--in a shocking and public way-- the brutal oppressors that the Palestinian's have been telling the world about. If the hegemonic state looks like a villain, today's terrorists start to look like tomorrow's freedom fighters.

I am so tired about hearing about polls a year out, a whole lot can happen between now and then. Biden or Trump could die, they are both really old. Trump could be found guilty and go to jail or be found guilty and win on appeals or he can even be found not guilty in all four cases and that will change the calculus. We could find out that Biden was in fact corrupt as hell and taking money from foreign government for favors through his son The economy could get better or we could fall into a recession with high unemployment that could change things. Fact is polls in December a year before the election are useless.

1. That just doesn't compute. They are trying to get revenue any way they can and obviously the shareholders love 13 Billion Dollars. 2. They want profit. 3. For sure but everybody wants to load the dice... even a little.

1. 'Equivalent' is subjective. Capitalism DEMANDED a $13B subsidy in St. Thomas Ontario to create a factory there. Was that equivalent exchange ? What's the equivalent exchange for a life-saving drug ? It's infinite, bounded only by how much they can get. 2. That was Thatcher's take. Truth is, Socialism and Capitalism both allow for public and private ownership. The principle of capitalism is that private ownership is better and the principle of socialism is that not always. 3. Sometimes I'm a little predatory, Red-A-Tory... Red Tory...

So yours are all legal? Goiod. Then you won't mind telling me where the farm is.

Robochild has zero foresight. He can only live in the now.

A. The Gaza Health Ministry didn't rape or burn anyone. They aren't soldiers. They are hospital staff and administrators.? B. For the umpteenth time, their figures are given credence because they have been historically credible. And literally no one is in a better position to count the bodies. C. Is there a number of times that I can give that same answer, after which you will stop asking the same question? Sorry, did you have some kind of intelligent point to make?

Biden leads Trump Updated: Dec. 05, 2023, 7:49 a.m.| Published: Dec. 05, 2023, 7:44 a.m. Esp among LIKELY VOTERS.

Maybe. One president said he would speak softly, and carry a big stick. Or not... Perhaps it is time for someone to speak out against all the bullshit. In other words to SPEAK LOUDLY, AND CARRY AN EVEN BIGGER STICK!

No.

It will be a sad day for democracy, and the Western World in general, if Trump were re-elected. I'm praying that his cognitive abilities decline at a faster pace.

The truth is the Palestinian children and young people are taught to hate Israel and the Jews from day one. That is just the way they grow up. There are some Palestinians that work in Israel and have realized that hate is a fruitless path but they do not control the majority living in the West Bank, Gaza, and elsewhere in the middle east. Since there is nothing that anyone can do to change that, things will just continue the way they are indefinitely.

LOL - well all this is true. Trump is charasmatic in his way but he doesn't really know how to run a solid campaign. A campaign is not just getting the crowd in front of you to laugh or clap. People aren't just deciding if the like you. THe only reason he won in 2016 was clinton is even WORSE at campaigning - truly a horrible campaign. So trump's campaign was more effective in comparison. But you noticed that whomever the media focused on went down in the polls - in other words each time one of them spoke and got the spotlight they sunk, and then the other would do it, then back to the first and it was this weird race to the bottom where you got the sensation that if either stopped talking they'd win by default Which is basically exactly what happened with biden in 2020 - he cried covid and hid in his basement for almost the whole campaign. And trump talked himself out of a presidency. This time trump has to learn to paint a picture, he's got to give people something solid to vote for more like he did with 'make America great again' and focus on his vision, not calling people 'sleepy joe' and such.

Well - they're not ALL 'combatants' - just because you voted for a war doesn't mean you're a fighter. But - that doesn't mean all the civillians are 'civillians' either. Many women and children are being used to ferry weapons and ammo to the soldiers and to carry messages etc etc. Those people are actively involved in the war and are fair game. But of course - if a woman pushing a pram full of ammo gets hit by israeli fire they'll quickly clean up the ammo and start crying for the cameras about how this innocent woman got shot for no reason.

Agreed. He needs to keep that shit close to the vest but continue smiling while he snipes CNN and those interfering jackass election riggers.

So, Palestine and Palestinians have no right to exist either and Israel has the right to tell them where they can live?? Not defending any part of the shit show over there but, all are culpable for what is going on over there.

How is any of this on the topic of slandering Elon Musk?

Simple. Google takes news outlet’s product for free and then sells it for profit to their advertisers. Do you really think that’s fair? In any other aspect of life that is mot allowed.

Oh my GOD - that is truly one of the most pathetic excuse efforts i've seen in ages Its' not her illegal activites with mail servers etc, it's not bengazi or her hubby raping people and her covering it up, it's not a truly horrible campaign effort to begin with... she was just too tired to win. Can't the dems get their candidates a red bull or something? Or find someone under 80?

But it's rendered many gunfights irrelevant. Unless their endgame is genocide, Israel's current strategy is going to create a lot more fighters than they kill. By rolling around in the mud of mass civilian casualties, Israel has surrendered the moral high ground. They are very publicly becoming everything Hamas has accused them of being. And after the world has watched Israel bomb thousands of non-combatants, thousands of regular men, women and children just trying to keep their families safe, it will be difficult to reclaim the mantle of a just cause. The next time Hamas 2.0 attacks, a MUCH larger portion of the global community will see Hamas 2.0 not as terrorists, but as freedom fighters against an oppressive apartheid state.

In terms of prosecuting the war on Hamas? I'd suggest that the only way to do so legitimately is to shift more focus toward pursuing Hamas on the ground. They have an elite military and it's much more precise than bombardment. And while I understand that the cost in military lives would be higher, that has to be weighed against fundamental justice and international support. Collateral damage is supposed to mean that accidents happen and sometimes civilians are caught in the crossfire. In this case, even with Israel's 2:1 ratio, they have reversed the meaning of collateral damage. They are mostly killing civilian--and if they are lucky, some Hamas fighters are being killed as collateral damage. It's a famously complex situation and fraught with implications to global politics. I'm probably not equipped to armchair quarterback this. None of us are. But that's my best suggestion. And in the larger sense, I gave my suggestion for re-legitimizing their war in the other thread: "What I actually think they should be do is to take advantage of the moment. End the blockade and the military action as leverage to force a two-state solution on their terms, force an election in new Palestine and give the Palestinian people a voice. Let them decide right now if they want their own state with a chance at real self governance, or whether they want to fight to the bitter end with Hamas as stateless refugees." Right now, Israel is losing this fight in every way that matters. And they're doing it to themselves. In my view, they are being politically outsmarted and outmaneuvered.

I have answered that multiple times. They have earned credibility by being accurate and transparent in past reporting. With a demonstrated record of reliability one should need a positive reason to suddenly mistrust them, no? One shouldn't assume that something has changed without evidence, right? I mean, we're just talking logic. A source that is historically reliable should get the benefit of the doubt. Particularly when no one is currently in an informed position from which to contradict that source. It's true that they don't distinguish or set aside the death toll of actual fighters, but that seems largely irrelevant. Credible estimates say there are about 25,000 Hamas fighters in Gaza, and 2+ million civilians. That's a bit over 1%. A rounding error. Books and artillery don't distinguish. If you'd like to say that 1 or 2 percent of the dead are fighters, knock yourself out. It still adds up to an unimaginable humanitarian toll. The IDF grades itself much more generously, claiming for every two civilians they have killed one militant. I don't think that's much to cheer about. They could probably improve that record if they stopped bombing civilians.

Maybe they shouldn't have started a war.

Vlad the Destroyer would never try to pass off a stalled offensive and ignominious retreat as some sort of strategic maneuver would he.?. Speaking of timelines, his two week war is now getting close to two years. All part of Vlad's grand plan of course.

So hey...are you emplying illegals there farmer boy? What do you pay them? Where's your farm?

Not strange, he always has.

I know they are not unlimited. What is the visa for unskilled workers? More often for mere bone spurs which didn't keep them from playing college sports. LMAO

https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/court-victory-for-teacher-silenced-for-transgender-book-criticism An Ontario judge has declared that human rights legislation “does not prohibit public discussion of anything,” in a free-speech victory for a teacher who was shut down when she raised concerns at a school board meeting about transgender-themed books in elementary school libraries. “What happened here should not happen in a democratic society,” Ontario Superior Court Justice James Ramsay said in the case of now-retired teacher Carolyn Burjoski. “The Human Rights Code does not prohibit public discussion of issues related to transgenderism or minors and transgenderism. It does not prohibit public discussion of anything.” The judge was ruling on an attempt by the Waterloo Region District School Board to have Burjoski’s defamation lawsuit against the board and its former chair, Scott Piatkowski, thrown out. Burjoski’s ouster from a board meeting on Jan. 17, 2022 drew international attention. She was ejected after discussing publications she said are available in the libraries of kindergarten to Grade 6 schools. She had begun to argue the books made it seem too simple and “cool” to medically transition to another gender when Piatkowski cut short her presentation. She launched a defamation lawsuit, which the board sought to have thrown out. In a Nov. 23 ruling, Ramsay dismissed the bid and ordered the board to pay Burjoski $30,000 in costs. He said her claims have merit and should be allowed to proceed, adding the comments made against her were “defamatory.” This is a fantastic win. If you have seen what she said and the books she referred to and the passages in it she definitely had a point, and they threw her out and hounded her into the hospital for daring to stand up for children. This is a major victory against the woke hard left trans/gay community and their brown shirts who seek to silence anyone who DARES to even consider questioning their logic. 30 grand just for legal fees and the defamation suit is still to come.

Well at the rate trudeau piles them in, there' no time to integrate them into our society so they have to move into places where there's a large community already for support.

That video is depressing. That's how you know it's the truth lol.

When I see those two post I can't help but picture them as that photo of Rudy Giuliani with his brains leaking down the side of his head.

Let's not get carried away. Only half of them voted to expel Santos. -- Long overdue, but I'm still surprised it happened. I didn't expect it because they just ejected a guy because he has an ethics problem and is facing 23 felony charges. Seems like it will lead to some very awkward questions when they have to turn around and campaign for a man with an ethics problem and 90+ felony charges. I figured no one would want to deal with that contrast and those questions.

If he were a "good" homosexual he would recognize his disorder and get psychiatric help. Nobody should support fraudulent lying con men no matter who they are.

Do you actually hear yourself? ?

So the OP has zero to say on the discussion paper... I mean, who can't see a point there. Paul Magder was famous for fighting for the right to open on the Lord's Day for years... Even the FP article doesn't disagree and calls official holidays a 'glaring exception to Canada’s record on religious tolerance '. Most of the rest of the article just cites the paper...

More importantly, the USA is not a post-national state led by a putz with a progressive, "feminist agenda". Far from "sinking", the USA's economy is breaking records for growth and employment for over a generation. But all is not lost for the leftists in the USA and the like minded sycophants watching breathlessly in Canada....there is another election in just one month !

This list attempts to equate losers who rob banks and get involved in violent domestic disputes with politically/religiously motivated terrorists. Here's the difference. These violent losers would have run afoul of the law whether they were racists or white supremacists or not. It's like they tried to pick apart the ranks of criminals and loose cannons who became serial killers to find some who were racists, too. I won't deny that you can describe some of these people's actions as terrorist in nature, but for the most part terror was not their intent. That FEAR group might have become a terrorist group but they did not commit any terrorist incidents. The real difference between them and the religiously inspired is that the danger from the latter is far greater in that what they seek to do is kill many, many random people. I don't see it likely that right wingers are going to set off bombs in streets, markets or shopping malls with the intent of just slaughtering dozens of people. They aren't going to try and blow up power plants or poison water supplies or blow up passenger planes or trains. If all we worried about with regard to Muslim terrorists was they might shoot some guy to steal his gun or rob a bank we'd be putting a lot fewer resources into stopping them. So I don't think you can say Americans are in more danger from right wing extremists than Muslim extremists.

Let's see a list of the terrorist attacks.

My point is that calling them 'terrorists' seems to depend on whether they are Muslim and say 'Allah'. Then it's nonsense to say 'most terrorists are Muslim' ... because we only call them terrorists if they are Muslim.

But... he didn't say "Alllah told me to kill" after stabbing people on the street or at his workplace or where he lived. He went to one of the few places in Toronto he could find Canadian military people and attacked them. Do you really think this is coincidental to ISIS calling on its adherents to attack police and military in their homelands?

circumference

Well what could go wrong. Just ask the Wuhan staff, they may be able to offer a suggestion.