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Encouraging everyone to retreat into separate identity tribes while demonizing the one tribe we all belong to and suppressing our collective pride for it is a really bad idea. This has been the ideology of the woke left, including our current government of the past 8 years. Yes we're all different and always have been, but we need to reject divisive identity politics and vote the current government out of office because they're destroying the country.

Canada as a nation state with its largely great history (relative to other countries) and traditions, including its English and French roots, Judeo-Christian values, and constitutional rights, have been undermined by special interest groups and identity politics ideologies. I think that this has happened mostly because of the quite valid concerns about an overbearing government that played loose with respecting constitutional rights during the pandemic and spends an inordinate amount of time and effort kowtowing to unaccountable international bodies promoting rather fascistic ideas about how we should live that don’t impact the elites who promote these ideas. We’re losing our living standards and quality of life, including housing affordability and economic opportunity, in order to satisfy questionable pushes for high immigration, carbon taxes, and radical ideas about gender and alternative lifestyles. Canada is now famous for weird nonsense like freezing the bank accounts of government political opponents, martial law, free hard drugs, gender language, legal euthanasia, and a new false narrative about Canada as a shameful genocidal and racist country. Most of this has happened since 2015, when the Trudeau Liberals first came into office, but I’m not sure yet that the Conservatives will be much better.

Remember class, there are no stupid questions. Except for herbie's.

Yes, I agree, we need to maintain a calm, civil and intellectual dialogue. Keep perspective on the scale of things. I find climate alarmism detrimental to the discussion, just as climate change denial can be. But in the end, real substantive change must come from political leaders and industry. And so far we have seen about 30 years of empty promises, failed commitments and foot-dragging. Perhaps these are the people who don't really believe in climate change.

The answer is simple... Don't listen to people who are screaming unless there's an immediate threat in your eyeline. We're here to talk about issues in a way that's a little more elevated than that.

And when it is cold and does snow a lot, these people start screaming that it's "climate change causing extreme weather!!!" <insert chicken-little icon> Meanwhile we haven't really gone up much in global temperature yet. Although the average is rising, and things are changing (glacial melting has increased) we haven't reached the so-called "tipping point" where effects become impactful, which is still projected to be years away. So why are they screaming like it's already here, now? The projections for climate change are on the order of decades to centuries. Relax everybody.

It is bullshit and only the "tweenkiest" of Tweenkies now try to sell the lies. The whole world has witnessed the abject failure that has been the Biden administration. Gas prices, over spending, open boarders, new wars, a spectacular surrender. Let's go Brandon!

You may have just committed a felony.

Ya...that makes sense...

That's true @Nationalist. There is, after all, a minimum intelligence requirement. "Applicants are required by military regulation to have a percentile score on a standardized test called the ASVAB that is 31 or more, which is roughly comparable to an IQ score on the Stanford-Binet scale of a little bit less than 92, for high school graduates seeking to enter the Army or Navy" I mean, there's just no way he's getting in.

I had to put this here because it's such a good, succinct explanation of how and why our society became so quickly divided against itself and why politics became bitter and nasty. With each new development and each new conversation, I’ve been forced to wonder: What has happened to my country? How did we go from being a proudly pluralistic liberal democracy to a polarized nation that memory holes The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank and de-banks those who reject the party line? I never used to get asked about what happened to Canada. We’ve long been viewed as a model country. But recently, the social fabric has frayed dramatically, and in a remarkably short period of time, with the culture wars apparent in Europe and the United States playing out here in extreme ways. The next question on many people’s minds is: How did we get here? https://thehub.ca/2024-01-20/tara-henley-what-happened-to-canada/

This is the sort of issue that Poilievre will 'focus' his time on fixing - a convenient distraction while making the world even safer for the 1%.

Why the hate for Alberta and Premier D. Smith? She's doing what's good for her province. Anger management and meds not really working out for you?

You and Hardner are such commies. collectivizers who don’t support protecting property. That’s a big constitutional difference between Canada and the US.

If I didn't believe that I wouldn't have invested in things like a fishing boat, logging equipment, Airbnb or improvements to my property. Right-wingers believe they know everything they need to know about people like me. Right-wingers also seem to believe everyone needs to forever sniff the butts of their betters to get ahead. It adds a truly significant weight to an economic playing field already heavily tilted by politicians and all levels of government in the direction of the 1%. Like I said above, governments encourage it, right-wingers cheer and the 1% laugh all the way to the proverbial bank.

Nonsense. It's human nature to take whatever they can. Some more than others. The old saying, "what's yours is mine but what's mine is my own". Amen... Sorry Apeoplekind.

Can what we have now really be called the 'canadian way' anymore tho? The canadian was was acceptance of others even if you STRONGLY disagreed with them. And a willingness to accept consensus. I see neither evident today. Do we still help each other out the way we used to? Do we have a common morality or moral compas we can all use to guide us? Do we stand up against corruption in our leaders? Do we keep our kids safe? Do we get out on the land and fish and hunt in any large numbers anymore? What are our 'shared experiences'? The fact is i see what used to be the canadian way vanishing quickly - i don't know what way we have right now but its not the Canadian way.

ICE trucks? Oh the humanity...

I guess it was just a short-lived illusion of the wealthy classes following 2 incredibly destructive world wars that perhaps sharing the wealth more fairly might avoid the economic root causes of such wars in the future.

Here's the thing WestCanMan, We know EVERYONE gets richer when the capitalist economy grows and produces more. The majority goes to people who do the most work but it pulls everyone up. That's their reward for creating the wealth everyone benefits from But - people like eyeball believe that wealth cannot be created, you can't add wealth or value to the universe - there is a finite amount of wealth in existence and so if one person has more of it than another they MUST have stolen it. This is why deep down they want to take all the wealth from everyone and distribute it evenly. But their wrong. Wealth isn't a 'thing', it must constantly be created or it vanishes. And what they want to do will destroy creation of wealth so as it vanishes nobody has anything. That's communism. And that's why it doesn't work. But you'll never get him to understand that.

Can't we just use conditioner? I'm asking for herbie.

What happened to Canada? The same thing that happened everywhere else in North America. The 1% decided to keep more of the capital gains they were willing to share with our grandfather's. They invested those gains in other countries ripe for the picking. Our governments encouraged it and conservatives cheered it. Everything's gone down hill since and now the left gets blamed while the 1% laughs all the way to the bank. I actually blame the left too for having put up with it for so long. What we really need is a good old fashioned grassroots class war to shake things up. Which of course is what caused our grandfather's employers to share capital gains around more fairly in the first place. It's an age old perennial problem for which there's usually only one solution.

Wait, are you questioning the scientific knowledge of Greta Thunberg and Leonardo DiCaprio? HERESY!!!!!! If man-made global warming isn't real then why does Justin Trudeau buy carbon offsets for the jumbo jet that he flies his media sycophants around in? Do you buy carbon offsets? Are you a good guy, hewbie? You must have wads of cash from your unbelievably successful home renovation business. Why not just buy carbon offsets anyways, to save the world? Just so ya know, I actually have a carbon offset company. Here are some pictures of some of the trees that I planted: Planted last April: : A picture of one of my tree farms: One of my urban sites. This used to be one big city but I demolished some buildings to plant trees - that's how much I love them: Here's a before and after picture of some trees I planted at the oil sands in Alberta, where people are so racist that they don't get vaccinated, and they even drive trucks, if you can believe it: Pretty good, hey? Who do you think planted all those trees if not me? I'm a pretty busy guy, as you can see, but I need more money or the planet will die by February 19th.

I agree with you. That's why I'm willing to give you 10K for the plane ticket and the coffin. It's for freedom. It's a just war. Please, take my donation and fight for Ukraine.

Not true. Texas failed because it isn't part of a state wide grid system, Alberta was saved because it is part of a province wide grid system and could draw from BC and Sask. BC imported 20% of its power last year due to low water levels in reservoirs. Solar and wind were useless to Alberta during the recent cold snap because the wind doesn't blow when those big arctic high pressures dominate and solar is next to useless because days are so short and the sun is so low on the horizon.

That’s exactly right. At a time when the country needs to move right just to end the insanity, conservatives continue to be demonized by government and media. The Conservatives themselves renounced conservativism to get elected, defeating their whole purpose. We also created this big distinction between fiscal and social conservatives and made social conservative socially unacceptable. I’d argue that we’re reaping what we’ve sown on that, because now that we’ve put same sex marriage in parallel with heterosexual, gone ultra-permissive on divorce and abortion, created confusion on gender, and suppressed fertility, we are even more dependent on mass immigration to counter our negative birth rate, creating new social tensions and pressures on our infrastructure. We’ve destabilized the traditional family, made housing unaffordable for young people unless they’re basically dual income no kids, and we’re now literally killing citizens instead of treating them. Add the shaming of our country as colonial, patriarchal and racist, and you have the ingredients of a cynical population dependent on an overbearing collectivist state with declining living standards. Thank God that there are a few brave leaders like Javier Milei pushing back. Of course leaders like him are immediately designated as alt-right by our knee-jerk radical left nanny government and its crony mainstream media.

I think that was a major part of the problem, but i think it began even before then. I think that strong tribalism especially on the left showed up in the states, and i think it crept its way into canada. And i think trudeau watched how obama successfully utilized that to win elections and decided to copy it, and became exceptionally divisive. Long before covid the was pulling the 'deplorables' card basically saying all conservatives are white supremacists and you should hate them. Rich were evil. Leaders from the west can't rule the country, it doesn't' work they're too stupid. And it went from there. He weaponized covid to turn us against each other for sure, but that was just part of it. And with so many immigrants the communities are not as tight as they should be - and that plays into 'dividisons' as well. And i just don't see that healing any time soon. How long till it's safe to mention out loud you're a conservative at work again? Probably not in the next 20 years. You literally risk being cancelled in many workplaces just for saying that.

Nope. Patently false lies. The First Step act became a law in 2018. Always happy to educate Americans about their own country. The din of lies and screaming in US media must make it hard to cope.

A two-page memo announced weeks before the election (early voting was already open, FFS) is not an accomplishment. It's a campaign stunt. You may be a gullible sucker for that sort of thing, but Black Americans were not. 92%. Black Americans remembered the Central Park Five, the remembers attacks on BLM, the United the Right disaster, the clansmen and neo-nazis at the Trump rallies, the Confederate flags flying. No, Black Americans were not fooled.

They never did better, we can't vote for a guy who doesn't demand a cease fire in Gaza, this guy doesn't appear to be when you hear him speak but he is a monster, nothing less. Him or Trudeau are just hypocrites to have votes but open your eyes and see their real nature. They are cowards and monsters

Pull the rug out? Lol. You REALLY don't know anything about American politics. All you've done is post Trump's campaign marketing. Do you know what the "Platinum Plan" actually was? A two-page memo announced just before polls opened so that Trump could have a photo op with Lil' Wayne, because he was polling very poorly with Black Americans. Ugly, cynical and self-serving. Vintage Trump. Black Americans were not fooled as easily as you are, and they voted 92% for Biden. They know Trump's a racist and they know which party is trying to address racial inequity. And yes, we have a persistent and pervasive race problem in the US. Do you know who we have HBCUs? Because for generations Black Americans were shut out of "mainstream" higher education. They HAD to bootstrap their own.

That's nonsense. The inverse of that bumfuzzled "logic" is that the economic crash at the end of his term hurt blacks, proving he was definitely racist. The state of the economy has nothing to do with whether a president is racist. Obviously. If you want to know if Trump is racist, look to his many racist comments and actions. His documented discrimination against blacks as a landlord, his full page ad calling for the death penalty for 5 black teens--even after they were acquitted. And more. It's an extensive history.

See the issue is calling oneself a "Trump Supporter". I am not necessarily a supporter of any person, because people are complex and may differ on various salient points. For example, I might support Trump's ideas on restricting trade with China, but not his advice on ingesting Draino to fight covid-19. In any case the drug problem in the last ten years or so has gone "high", as if it's on "steroids". But the reasl issue is deadly street drugs (fentanyl) coming from... China. So again, I support the notion of restricting trade with them. Actually I support banning all trade from them, but it can't be done overnight. Ah, if only I were king... .... Reading the link MH provided, it states that the epidemic of drug overdose deaths is so extreme. Trump said that just one drug dealer can be responsible for hundreds of deaths. That needs to be stopped. Ask the families of young kids who made a mistake, and are dead. I do not support capital punishment in the form of death penalty in principle, as I am a Canadian. The state has no right to take life, imo. Life sentence no parole.

Johnson's "Great Society" was the scam of the century.

Is my understanding, in the US they like their welfare-slave class. By that I mean the illegal latino migrants that make up a certain percent of the population, which they readily use as labourers for the lowest cost. You can't complain about your working conditions or terrible wages when you're an illegal immigrant. Blatant racism is rampant in America. A few Canadians I know that moved there were fairly shocked at the culture. Everything's about race.

That's wildly disingenuous. Trump didn't do anything specifically FOR blacks. Low general unemployment included low black unemployment. That's it. The unemployment gap between whites and blacks didn't close. It tracked the same historical levels out always does.

Oh herbie - i doubt you could kill a spider, i don't think you'll be growing the balls to shoot people any time soon. i suspect you'll just continue shooting your mouth off and be content with that

ICBM. Inter Continental Ballistic Missile. Kim Jong Un has missiles, but no ICBM missiles.

Actually I am convinced Trump is mentally unstable and therefore totally unfit for President of anything but a well padded cell .

😂 Love it

.08% alcohol in your bloodstream means that you are legally impaired. The number itself means nothing if you don't know what normal is.

But we have a nice warmongering, corrupt president at this moment, and it doesn't even make you bat an eye. Thank you for your moral compass though.

Hey guys thats a little unfair Justin has brought many things to the country...we have weed, did i mention weed....there is also limitless genders....we have 134 Lgbtq days of celbration....we have take a knee for black lives matter, lets not forget fossil fuels taxes at the pump, and at the manufacturer , i mean i love those....i also love our climate change plan...and now we have spent 50 bill plus for new battery plants to be built....i mean i could go on for days... the guy deserves not sure what to write here, maybe a liberal can finish it for me...I'm getting a little puke in my mouth

I wouldn’t have voted Democrat in 1870, I would have voted Republican. But that was 150 years ago. I’m not voting for something 150 years or 50 years ago, I’m voting TODAY. And TODAY, we have Nikki Haley stating that the Civil War wasn’t caused by slavery and then doubling down by saying that America’s never been a racist country. It makes no sense to me. Politicians constantly claim that America is falling apart and being destroyed and this is the worse time ever… but don’t you DARE say that anything bad ever happened in our nation’s history! WTF? The truth is that today is the best our nation’s ever been. We’re stronger than ever. We aren’t at war. We have widespread prosperity and our civil rights conditions are the best they’ve ever been. But we aren’t perfect and there’s room for improvement. Nothing wrong with Making America Better.

Add in Colorado, Georgia, New York, and a good strong part of Arizona. Trumps race weakens every day. Nikki gains. You can hear it in Trump's voice, his desperation showing in his attacks on her. Yet she rises above them. and gains.

Here's the problem. Fire alarms work because they are a sudden unexpected noise that startles people into action. But - if you leave the fire alarm running all day and nite then eventually people learn to tune it out. At that point another fire alarm isn't going to be noticed The dems and supporters have been saying the world is about to end because trump non stop as loudly as they can since the day he got elected. Remember when it was "my god, he's got the nuclear codes!!!" So now nobody is listening. If anything they're actually making things worse for themselves because when people tune out the noise they start to look at track records and that's not what the dems wanted. If the dems were smart they'd have held their fire on the whole 'orange man bad' routine for now, and they'd have had like one or two court cases. 6000 court cases including a jaywalking ticket from 1967 and daily claims that hes' trying to take over the country and he'll be a hitler and he grinds babies bones for his bread etc has now made the US tone deaf to it and they're like 'yeah yeah - so you say you can bring jobs back?"

Russia’s GDP is smaller than Canada’s. Their military is corrupt and incompetent and their soldiers are dying by the tens of thousands in Ukraine. Putin has to keep one eye over his shoulder on his own Oligarchs and warlords and worry about potential breakaway republics in places like Chechnya if his military is tied up for too long in a costly conflict and he’s perceived as to weak to counter their moves In short he would never attack NATO directly. If he did it would come from some indirect proxy like Wagner or some ragtag militia like the one he raise ld in Eastern Ukraine or possibly a puppet state like Belarus or Serbia. .

Another admirer of a psychotic dictator thug. "Genius". "Very honorable person". What' s wrong with today's "conservatives"? And where (would) will it take them?

Your understanding is not on point. I do not like to see any potential human aborted, but that does not give me the right to impose my desire to save it onto another. Mine is a complicated view sometimes but I always take the moral position which is usually not where the religious are.

Sadly, it may have given in to the long, encapsulated and encoded in generations of uneventful coasting tradition of complacency. The first serious shake up will bring it right to the fore, while we long forgot how to understand and solve serious problems. And look at the bunch lining up before us in this century. It's gonna be fun.