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Robosmith, I polltely disagree. Whether the US chooses Biden or Trump - or even RFK Jr, America will survive. Moderators, I think Robosmith is a robot.

Not to worry. Joe's handlers will unleash rainbow power on all of them. They'll be coloring their hair and gender affirming in no time.

In REALITY, the only money given to Iran was ALREADY THEIRS and it was held mostly in FOREIGN BANKS. Of course you never knew that cause they never told you on FOS LIES.

You mean like all the Scandinavian countries, Finland and Switzerland? Good old Canadian sense of entitlement. We have a right to be defended. By someone else

A lot of people have the money to pay for extra private health care services in Canada. Perhaps that is the solution to the failing health system we have. Perhaps it is something Canadians should seriously look at. Something must be done about the terrible situation with health care. Right now the health care system is in a crisis and around a million people in B.C. alone don't have a family doctor. Emergency rooms close sometimes in some places. There are not enough beds in some hospitals and not enough necessary services. Long waiting lists for some surgeries. People sometimes wait a year for a procedure. That is not health care. If we had a mixture of private and public, then those with money could use private for some things if they so choose. That would take the pressure off the public system and reduce waiting times, etc. I am sure lots of people would be willing to pay for their own health insurance for certain procedures when they need it. Why deny people the choice if they have the money for insurance and maybe a deductible for a procedure? That is a possible solution to the failing health care system. Government is under pressure to fund all kinds of services in society and just can't seem to fix the broken health care system. Does anyone have a solution that is better?

Bush Jnr was in Florida, and then boarded Air Force One to fly to Nebraska. ====== In similar circumstances, what would other world leaders have done? IMHO, Churchill, de Gaulle, Thatcher and Trudeau Snr would immediately insisted to return to the capital. Putin? No doubt in my mind. He would not have flown to Novosibirisk. Stalin was afraid to fly but he stayed in Moscow. Hitler died in Berlin. I suspect that Biden, like Bush Jnr, would follow the advice of his handlers - flee. Trump? Crazy like a fox, huge ego, he'd insist on returning to Washington.

There's no other ways to look at it: post WWII order and system is gone. Dead. There's no incremental means to pedal it back: fantasies. Illusions. What the new age of the world will be, look and feel like will be decided in the course of a few years that follow. Don't say you didn't know it was a surprise.

Hmmmm - repetitive and formulaic responses, coupled with denial of the validity of the testing method. I"m going to have to give the first Round to August i'm afraid, that certainly did sound like a bottish reply Robosmith.

DELUGINAL is off googling syllogism cause he doesn't understand LOGIC at all. Who am I kidding? DELUGINAL doesn't care enough about LOGIC to even google it.

To this you wrote "It's called a logical conclusion." Since you've invoked logic, could you please write this out as a syllogism, that is both sound and valid. Cheers

1. Picture doesn't prove anything. 2. What's the issue with that VPN?

Probably should put on some pants too i guess. And maybe a 'cup'?

Another Bravo.

1. The Government not the people. 2. So dismiss it then. Dismiss their methodology and their effort. It's pretty easy for you to do so in the 15 seconds it takes to write a post. Others are working to solve problems.

Bravo. This is one poster knowledgeable in what he is writing. He researches before posting like the other opening his mouth wide with no background or knowledge encouraging a murderous regime to do more harm to its nation and the world.

Yes, this, absolutely. It is mind-boggling that Canadians who trained as doctors and nurses in the US, who have been working in that capacity in the US, can't come to Canada and work without an enormous amount of time-consuming paperwork, testing, and mandatory training. Doctors can't even more between provinces and set up shop! And the people in the way are all doctors. It is the doctors associations, the CMA and provincial medical licensing groups that are steadfast in demanding processes that take years and years before foreign-trained doctors can work here. Even if they're from the US, UK, or other 1st world countries. And it's not much easier for nurses. Maybe set up one national licensing group for doctors as a privately operated organization but operating under federal government guidelines and oversight to license a doctor to practice anywhere in Canada. How many provinces will object to such doctors practicing in their province? It isn't the provincial governments right now that license doctors and nurses, after all. It's their own associations but backed by law. I don't think Ontario, for one, would object, and would probably amend their law to allow for such people to practice. medicine there.

More argument via image. Iran wants you to think their citizens hate Israel and the US. But is it so ? This poll says not. https://gamaan.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/GAMAAN-IR-Survey-English-Report-Final.pdf

The solution for our healthcare crisis has to start with more doctors, nurses and other medical personnel. Nothing else, no changes to how the system functions will work well with the existing shortage. And that shortage is created by government. There are far more qualified applicants for medical and nursing schools than those schools can accommodate. The number of nursing/medical school spaces was frozen by governments for decades. They were only recently increased in Ontario. But from what I have read they can only be increased so fast so far due to the lack of instructors, classrooms, and then on the far end, the number of supervising doctors and nurses for the mandatory hands-on coop period for nurses and residency periods at hospitals for doctors. I don't know if the number of spaces has been increased in other provinces. I would suggest the numbers be increased nationwide as fast and far as possible. To this end they should be actively recruiting RNs and doctors who have retired or left the profession to help as instructors. The lack of family physicians can be remedied by increasing their fees or lowering tuition for those who elect to take family medicine or both. Doctors should not be forced to be businessmen. It's a waste of time which could be devoted to seeing patients. Family doctors prefer to work in team setting where there are colleagues in both family medicine and varied specialties to consult with. More of these organizations should be set up.

I worked on the initial stages of a few government initiatives in the past. I can verify that I witnessed what you are talking about. The preventative measures to waste end up wasting far more than the problem they're designing to solve. When I worked for the civil service, I saw a massive internal effort put into effect because a Globe and Mail article detected a somewhat minor error. It doesn't matter that nobody cares, they can't have the risk of a perception of something going wrong. Question Period is the symptom: Poilievre finds out about a guy whose truck was stolen, and detected that it was on an outbound ship. The layman thinks " if that were my truck, I should be able to just go down there, show my ownership and get the dock master to give me my truck" ... ah well.... We had initial meetings only because they would invite so many people to meetings and ask for revisions to our proposal over and over again... new people would attend the next meeting and insist more changes. We figured out that this would be unworkable, so we insisted our proposal limit the structure and number of revisions to the product as well as timliness. Well, guess what... that didn't work because only the Deputy Minister could have final say and he wouldn't have the time to meet with us with any kind of predictability. We saw where this was going and told them we weren't going to work with them anymore. I'm not sure if they recognized what was happening, or whether they they just thought we weren't flexible enough. Anyway I got very curious over how the companies that dealt with this operated. I guess the unbelievable ArriveCan costs explained it.

Upper management is EXTREMELY risk-averse. I've said it before, but if it costs $100 to monitor how spending is being done in order to avoid $1 being misspent senior management will approve that in an instant. In addition, to avoid ever being blamed for anything, any new project of whatever size has to have massive buy-in from as many 'clients and interested groups within the public service as possible. This requires innumerable reports, documentation, meetings, and time-consuming changes and alterations before anything sees the light of day. All of which is designed to shield management from blame, not to make sure the eventual project works. Witness Phoenix, which is a disaster and has been for years. No one was ever disciplined for it either.

this is always where the girls ended up falling to the side of the road and quitting they just couldn't keep up with the men while carrying rucksacks women can perform many military tasks, particularly service support trades but they just aren't built for the infantry

I get it. I don't blame you for being emotional either... Believe me I get emotional about policy too. But I come here to listen and share ideas. Maybe I get resentful having to read the emotional outbursts of folks I disagree with politically. I don't know. Maybe I shouldn't and maybe I do. But I do try to see the value in other opinions, and try to love the chuds. This is an example where the chuds are on the left side of the social spectrum btw. Which is why 'chud' doesn't apply solely to populists or conservatives like me.

who is going to attack Canada with military forces and from where ? it's 9 million square kilometres of territory, with an ocean on three sides, plus General Winter even the US military is not capable of invading and occupying Canada so there is really no conventional military threat to Canada at all

the problem for both sides in Ukraine is called "the transparent battlefield" both sides can see deep into each others rear areas so nobody can achieve any sort of surprise if they mass their forces to attack, the other side has plenty of time to reinforce their defences so it's right back to World War One, where nobody can achieve a breakthrough of the lines

The war in Ukraine would not have happened if Russia had realized how hard it would be. It happened because they thought Ukraine would be a pushover. Just as it had been the last time. Just as Georgia had been. The only reason there isn't war in Taiwan is because China thinks it would be too costly right now. Because the US is determined to defend Taiwan at least until it gets its own chip plants up and operating. Weakness in the face of warlords like Putin and Xi almost invites war. What would be the cost of a properly sized and equipped NATO vs the cost of an invasion by Russia and the war that would follow? Because right now there are only a handful of countries in Europe with decent-sized and equipped militaries. And Canada is certainly not among them. We are freeloaders relying on the Americans. Just as Europe has until very recently. But that American factor that deters the warlords might disappear in another year. And then where will we be? Defenseless. The head of CSIS recently told the inquiry into foreign interference that China does it because there is no cost to it. It faces no opposition from Canada. Its agents are not arrested and there is no bad publicity to worry about. If you make it the same way for the world's warlords to take what they want there will be war everywhere.

I've wondered about this myself but admittedly, I have little in the way of supporting facts to defend an opinion on the subject. Given a finite amount of personnel resources though, would the private system detract from a public one already in shambles? Perhaps the best and brightest would migrate there to the detriment of the masses. In other words, if we only had 10 doctors and they were split evenly between the two sectors would those who couldn't afford private care suffer more than they are now? I don't know... In some locations mobile clinics and empowering pharmacists with increased authority to write prescriptions has worked pretty well (I think). I haven't looked into the idea of there being a true shortage of practitioners either. Do we really have less doctors per capita now than we did when the system worked or has it become bloated and fat; something akin to a corn fed Meat King chicken that collapses under its own weight? If it truly is a shortage, and if we were to start now (like today) the solution may be 5 years away assuming maximum effort, no attrition, and no more immigration/aging population creating increased demand; tough conditions to navigate I think. Attrition, operational tempo and recruiting in experienced based occupations requires close scrutiny and an eye on the horizon. Training times are long and costs high. As to the solution, assuming my province had a medical school, I would lean toward paid tuition (books and subsidized housing) in return for an obligatory period of service wherever needed (in the province). Something like pilot training in the RCAF except a whole lot cheeper. But beware, it needs a steady hand on the controls and good weather radar. The military has taken its eye off the attrition, tempo and recruiting equation to such an extent that attrition has made personnel deficits (the ability to out train them) and mentoring (at operational units) a huge problem. I think collapse is looming without immediate action, sort of like the chicken thing. IMO, it's now a "pull pole" lock and load moment not to be squandered.

Nope, that's between you and them... I'm guessing y'all enjoy the banter so fire at will, it's of no interest to me. As to being off topic, some of the covid issues discussed here wouldn't be so contentious had people just minded their own business and left their neighbours in peace. There could easily be a 100 page thread on all aspects of that alone, the effects of it are broad spectrum with lasting consequences, some of which (like lipids vs the BBB) we don't even know about yet. I won't drag the thread further afield, I'll just leave you with a final thought: I'm suggesting that Covid was a big deal and that there's a lot of lessons here for the wise to reflect on. When I hear things like "the Governor has moved on" (I know you didn't say that BTW) or some condescending comment like "it's an old issue, get over son," I see that it usually comes from a contingent of people who were absolutely wrong about absolutely everything. Not only did they get everything wrong (that wasn't good enough for them) they had to hurt a bunch of people in the process and be mindlessly hateful whilst doing it. Insert snippy voice here "move along son." Well, not so damn fast partner... just who do you think you are? Look at the damage caused and then consider the effect of snippy, condescending comments or BS memes on those who refuse to entertain the prospect of covid madness version 2.0. It's not a statistically insignificant group and you may be in for a surprise by antagonizing them further. I was suggesting that doing so creates an easily anticipated backlash on election day, I was suggesting that the people who do that aren't going to like the result, and I was suggesting that all you had to do (not meaning you personally BTW) to avoid that was pretty much nothing. Clearly I can only speak for myself but the whole road rage thing doesn't work with me (or, dare I say, people like me). It actually works against the rager, they seem to confuse good nature with fearful compliance, those days are over, best just stay in your car now... I guess that was my point. Your meme was simply a target of opportunity, a vehicle to make that point, a chance to suggest that the authors of such memes may not like what's coming down the pipe and to suggest they only have themselves to blame for that. I'd also suggest they prepare to get crushed on election day and lose the support they previously enjoyed from moderate minded liberals. I see all of this as self inflicted and perfectly predictable. Were you really expecting a different result? As with the previous post, please note:

1. With luck, we will have a Kissinger world order as in 1815. 2. Trust me. Lebanese always argue. 3. Iran is two-sided. Wait. 4. Mail-in votes. In critical counties, in critical states, the Dems win. Kryptonite. 5. No explanation needed.

Mike and his kind prefer to focus on the 'trans rights' side of things and if a few kids happen to get hurt along the way, that's a sacrifice they're willing to make. If you have to explain it to them.... i mean what can you say about that.

You forgot that Trump lost four soldiers in Sudan one month into his Presidency. And the U.S. was still fighting the Afghan War. And Syria was completely exploding. And N Korea firing missiles. And a badly mismanaged pandemic. Guess you were as asleep as you claim Biden is.

You misunderstood my quote, i said it only takes 5 lbs of trigger pull to send a round down range...anyone can do it...becoming a Infanteer is no simple task, not for the faint hearted, nor is it for the weak...

The chattering Gibbons in the Whitehouse have allowed many conflicts to start and the small minded think that's okay.

They have to be dishonest. The truth of the matter is incredibly sick.

https://nypost.com/2022/06/18/detransitioned-teens-explain-why-they-regret-changing-genders/ It's disgusting. Dr.s who do this belong in jail.

The Orange Surrender Monkey will appease you away from war.

You didn't explain anything. All you, the guy who usually runs around calling people chuds, has said is you don't think it's helpful to call people names. Honestly @Nationalist, i don't know why we bother even trying to discuss things with this guy. He's dishonest to an extreme.

Yeah OK LOL Sure, private health care with and insurance....like the US??? Ask the populace what they want... LOL Oh and stick lazy people and old people in mental institutions...like they do in communist and socialist countries?? LOL Anyway, not very christian of you....do unto others and honour thy neighbour, help and love etc etc LOL

No, not true. I don't believe that. You are making stuff up of course just to be contrary. That is your thing. Nice try. Government should only be doing the minimal things for law and order. Not providing all the social services. If people don't want to make an effort themselves, too bad. Those who can't work for legitimate reasons should be taken care of as should seniors and mentally ill in mental institutions. If we had a proper system, we would have private health care with good medical insurance. Then we would have good, professional and quick medical care. But we have been conned into the mess we are in by Socialist-minded people who want everything handed to them on a silver platter. That's why the country is in the mess it is in.

No need to be extreme. No one is trying to sell that to anyone. Finland has one of the most powerful militaries in Europe with a population the size of BC. Surely we can find something between what we have now and your hysterical trillion dollars. Conscription is regarded as a good thing in many countries. In 2013, Switzerland had a referendum on abolishing conscription. 73% voted to keep it.

You forget Space Force, American Reserves, Army and Air Force National Guard, Coast Guard. The Air Force reserve has more members than all of the CAF. The US Army reserve has nearly 4 times the number of CAF total members. National Guard has over 400K members. Point is, comparing is fruitless.

Parliament has very right to "grill" the CEO's Besides, BCE gets hundreds of millions form Governmental so the government has every right to ask why they lay off thousands of people and increase prices and still accept lots of money from them. they needed to explain themselves and their actions. Laying off people, accepting government money and giving shareholders profit money. You didn't fly off the handle when the CEO's of grocery chains were called before parliament. That has nothing to do with socialism or Marxism. It has everything to do with what are you doing with all the money we gave you. Your single minded obsession with socialism and marxism prevents you from understanding all governments are supposed to give its citizens what they want.

It's just a shame, but that's the price the vigilantes are imposing for Israel's crimes

Misleading title. With Navy, Air Force -our military has about 50,000. By comparison, the US with 10x our population has about 1.4 million active military. IOW, the US has about 3x our numbers. I favour our way of doing things. ===== In Canada and the US, soldiers now choose to join. (In Canada, we have always had a voluntary military. Since Nixon, the US has not had conscription.) IMHO, when a State resorts to military conscription, its leaders are imposing a tax - a weird tax.

In the conflict between Israel, the United States, and the Palestinians, Iran, the good ones are the Palestinians and the Iranians. Israel's provocative acts against Iran is a plot by Israel to make Iran go to war and the United States to go after them, and while the focus is on the war, they will be able to kill all Palestinians.