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I first started noticing the politicization of the CBC in the mid 2000's. At some point leading up to the Harper days, I remember it getting scolded by the Ombudsman for left-leaning bias. I can't find articles for it that far back, but it's been a slow-burn. It's not just leadership either. Over time, the leadership influences hiring and that culture ends up taking root top-down and bottom-up. You end up with a lack of diversity of viewpoints. In today's age, despite its bias, I'd still consider the CBC "moderate" compared to corporate shills like the Toronto Star or the National Post, but I'm not paying taxes to support the other two. I can just ignore them. When you see the former CEO battling it out in public with Pierre Poilievre, you get a clear perspective of its priorities. It's tough to maintain objectivity when you're being attacked, but as a publicly-funded broadcaster, your job is to show Canadians your value, not attack political opponents. Almost nobody does anymore.

Russia created, armed, trained funded and ultimately controlled those troops, many of whom were Wagner mercenaries or Russian regular army soldiers on secondment.. Why else would Russia have signed multiple ceasefire agreements with Ukraine over the years prior to 2022. As usual the only clueless dumbass is you Those numbers are soldiers from both sides , stupid. The only “slaughtering” ie mass killing of civilians has been done by Russian troops. 1.so? 2.Putin has shown the same also. What a joke you don’t give a shit about anything except worshipping Teump and now Putin Just like you and Trump want Russia needs China, North Korea and Iran NOW Trump is an accomplice to their coalition. LMAO!!! SAYS THE FUY WHO BELIEVES PUTIN PROPAGANDA Youve cited zero facts just a brutal dictators lies. And I know tou MAGA dumbasses like to throw around random words without thinking about wht they mean but any understanding od the word “cult” can’t apply to people who believe the widely held mainstream majority opinion. YOU are the one with the fringe views. YOU are the one who worships one man above all and allows him to define your reality. YOU are the one supporting a dictator and believing his propaganda over all facts. What’s illegitimate is the propaganda Putin and his little biotch Trump tell to justify Putin’s Hitler-style illegal invasion and annexation of another sovereign country. Oh and you were probably born illegitimate too, weren’t you?

This is what Bill Clinton had to say about Vlad Isn't that weird? It sounds just like Trump! Like...word for word. And the left hated it.

Exactly. Maybe those $8 handfuls of raspberrys going up to $10 will reboot our own production again. Can't believe a handful costs more than we earned picking them in a day!

If it's smart, it will just be targeted to hurt specifically Republican areas, on goods that are easily replaceable. Nobody needs Bourbon or JD, for example. I think we're probably limited in what damage we can do with our own tariffs. The greater impact on Americans will be consumer prices as all of their inputs from Canada become substantially more expensive. Meanwhile, much of what Canada actually trades is raw materials, which trade openly on the global markets and only need proper export channels. If nothing else, hopefully this encourages Canada to diversify its export markets and trading relationships.

That is perhaps one of the stupidest statements ever said. And given your past post history that's quite an accomplishment Conservatives are the only moral people. They focus on results and giving opportunity. The left such as you focuses on virtue signaling and fake solutions that only appease your echo chamber. On top of that what we were talking about is the job of the CBC. And it is quite telling that you somehow believe that the CBC is a political entity and not a public broadcaster. When I say the CBC should be politically neutral you immediately think no, it should be political and that's why the CPC is wrong The CBC is not supposed to be a political organization. The CBC is supposed to be neutral and serve all Canadians regardless of their political stripe. it was never intended to be an activist agency And your failure to understand that is why it needs to be destroyed

What joke, no one was strong armed to join NATO. Eastern European countries that spent 45 years under the Soviet boot needed no encouragement at all. Russia has been the aggressor. Russia is the only country that has attacked a neighbour. Your lifetime supply of Russian Kool Aid must have a lot of vodka in it.

America's right wing doesn't want to. They'd rather watch international relations go up in flames.

I've seen what you posted around here man give it up. You've been rootin' for Putin since day one. Has your dad seen that?

It's pretty obvious this country is going to have to reinvent itself to remain sovereign. I could be tough slog but reducing economic dependence on the US can't be a bad thing. Tariffs may take some manufacturing south but reciprocal tariffs will encourage US companies to have manufacturing capability in Canada to serve our markets, as they did before NAFTA. A market of over 40 million is not insignificant.

"Need to see"? We live next door and have been watching it for decades. Since the border changed from 'welcome northern brothers' to 'you're just another f*cking foreigner' days. WN, OR, CA, the redwoods and Death Valley will remain memories and photos in an old album, I'd sooner visit Quebec and Newfoundland than ever go to Florida, Vegas, or Hawaii

There’s no need for another Tesla to be sold here while this attack on us continues.

Not really, you are trying to apply your thinking. Not the same thing.

And we should "negotiate" with a man who tears up his own trade agreements? Shut off the oil & hydro for a couple days. So the US public sits up and takes notice.

American and European politicians are corrupted by bomb dealers whom they meet every week to offer their products. We need to get rid of them and make sure they can't be re-elected and make a global treaty to abolish all guns.

Not sure why you are saying this? Obsession??? Only posting news articles. I did not make them up. Ia m not the one hero worshipping criminals. My point, all along, has been , you break the law, get arrested, get charged, go to trial and are convicted, then you are done. That is what they did. How can anyone be envious of having a criminal record??? There is no honour or principal in achieving a convicted criminal status and having that on your record...which will be with you for life.

Do you see how you are advocating for the second coming of the Axis v the Allies?

Tariffs are a great idea if you can produce the goods domestically with little to no adjustment. Its a way for the US in this case to stimulate production of these goods instead of getting them from Canada or wherever. Crude oil, auto parts, machinery, lumber, and construction hardware are the biggest exports from Canada to the US. Some of these are difficult to produce and so ramping up US production of them is not going to be seamless. In the meantime, Canada can easily sell these essential goods elsewhere.

If i was in Canada, I would boycott as much US goods as I could reasonably do. I do not find that these tariffs are justified.

If you are too dishonest to admit what your assertion was or have already forgotten, no worries. I already made my point.

You could go back to Ontario . . . and stay there. Take eyeball with you. Send 'the west' a postcard . . . . Bye bye 😎

He's not backing Putin. He is trying to end the war. Putin invading Ukraine doesn't make me happy in any way. You should also consider the Russian perspective, as in the continuing expansion of NATO in Europe. U.S. Secretary of State James Baker’s famous “not one inch eastward” assurance about NATO expansion in his meeting with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev on February 9, 1990, was part of a cascade of assurances about Soviet security given by Western leaders to Gorbachev and other Soviet officials throughout the process of German unification in 1990 and on into 1991, according to declassified U.S., Soviet, German, British and French documents posted today by the National Security Archive at George Washington University They said they would not expand to the east if the Russians agreed to German reunification. Russia did agree but the West did not honour it's side of the deal. I am no fan of Russia or Putin but every side has it's own different perspective.

There is no right wing in Canada everyone's left of the hot dog stand, even the beer stand has some Bud Lite left.

You never had a case before now, you still don't.

I want to stop the proliferation of dictators in the world. They shouldn't be and there's no reason to think anyone would. The EU and NATO are not a protection racket like America. Russia is a threat to stability in the world. They're vandals, arsonists and murderers. More dangerous than terrorists given the respectability they've been afforded, especially by powerful Western money launderers. Sure if this is your idea of peace, harmony and goodwill. WTF is the matter with you?

Larry Johnson thinks it's unlikely that Zelensky will apologize, I think he may well be right. As I've said before, Trump has his flaws, but one flaw he does -not- have is this crazy wishful thinking of many warmongers on both the left and the right. I suspect that the most important statement Trump made in his tiff with Zelensky was this one: "Trump: [shouting] “You're gambling with the lives of millions of people. You're gambling with World War Three. You're gambling with World War Three" Source: https://www.msn.com/en-us/politics/government/trump-zelensky-transcript-in-full-every-word-of-astonishing-white-house-exchange-over-ukraine-russia-war/ar-AA1A0EtW I firmly believe that Trump is right on this. Zelensky was considering getting nukes even -before- Russia's military operation in Ukraine began, and Putin was certainly listening- he even responded, and all of this was before his operation. Zelensky hasn't changed course and his wish to get western powers to escalate things to this level has been something he's done repeateadly, even getting the U.S. and other western powers to literally help him bomb Russia. What if Putin was a bit less restrained and decided to bomb the countries that were helping bomb Russia back? Scott Ritter suggested this could have indeed led to World War III in an article he wrote back in September 2024: https://consortiumnews.com/2024/09/19/scott-ritter-72-hours/ Fortunately, Putin decided to avoid doing this, and perhaps for this reason alone, World War III didn't ensue. Trump, to his credit, wants to avoid these types of possibilities entirely. I've heard that he also wants to essentially have an Israeli style Iron Dome for the U.S., with satellites able to take out nukes from orbit and the like. I think diplomacy's a -much- better option, but it goes to show that Trump takes the potential of World War III quite seriously, which is something that Biden, who I think most would agree wasn't really all there by the end of his term, didn't seem to a lot of the time (there were thankfully some exceptions).

Ok - you had me up 'til that point.

Ya gits wut ya pays fer.

Yep. Zelensky attacked Trump in public. I don't know why he thought that would be beneficial. He clearly realized, later, that what he did was a huge mistake. But he still didn't apologize. When he apologizes, he will get it all back. One of Tro's best qualities is his ability to forgive.

Ahhh yes, the old woke game of "i'm losing, change the topic!"

It's a really good question. To date the EU has donated more than the US, it's true, but still they only represent about 60% or so of the money given to you crane and even that wasn't enough to win the war. In fact it's barely enough arguably to not lose the war. A 40% reduction in financing will not be easy to make up and they will have to be extremely strategic about how they do it What they really need more than anything is the one thing they havent' had so far and that's a reasonable exit strategy to end the war. It is true that the war has strained russia terribly and if they can keep bleeding the russians they may improve their bargaining position, but at the end of the day they're still going to have to have something that works for all parties. And that will have to include some sort of vision for a post war circumstance that protects Ukraine without threatening Russia. I guess if they're willing to increase spending AND willing to ramp up production to something close to a wartime footing AND if they come up with some sort of endgame which would allow them to focus their money and efforts today to achieve then they might be able to make something happen. But while i'm confidient something like that COULD happen i'm extremely doubtful they'll get together and pull it off.

...yawn... the CIA was so desperate to thwart the spread of communism that it partnered with everyone from right-wing terrorists to the Vatican to the Mafia I was posting shit like this 25 years ago sonny. Your dad was probably calling me a commie sympathizer for doing so. Good, the US has it coming.

He's trying to force appeasement. It doesn't faze you a bit that all your old allies are utterly disgusted?

Not from your POV, no. You don't see NATO as a threat because you live inside the NATO propaganda bubble like the rest of us. You get your news filtered through western media and social media fact-checkers like the rest of us do. But from Russia's POV, NATO are militarily and economically aggressive liars and bullies. Why isn't Nato expanding into Mexico? If Canada can be in NATO, why not Mexico? Australia? Brazil? Cote D'Ivoire? Japan? South Korea? Would China let NATO into Japan? Taiwan? So why does NATO aggressively court little Georgia, so far east that it's partly in Asia? Why do they want them? Does the addition of Georgia to NATO really make NATO stronger, or do we court them for another reason? And what might that be? NATO's job right now is to bully and economically strangle Russia. Say what you want, but that's what we're up to. The US tried to pull Ukraine into the fold, and Russia said enough is enough. Good for them. F Ukraine. F Zelenski. If you can't be a good neighbour, take your lumps and don't cry to me.

Broomsticks with bananas tied to the end. Bang Bang Stabby Stabby.

How are they different? However, even if the policies are different, don’t you think it’s the rhetoric that is the issue for most Canadians? Clearly are looking for a way not to vote for PP, for some reason.

Who was the cause of war? Is peace at the cost of appeasing Putin actually going to generate lasting peace?

Unless you were like President Bone Spurs and could pay a doctor to exempt you so you could fight your heroic war against STD's.

How long before MAGA realize he's stepping on their faces, too?

Thats about right.... Thats how politics work, they feed of the citizens then spew their message based on that....have you not noticed the liberal flip flop on carbon pricing... I get it your more comfortable with Carney, and jagmeet who have lied to you on many occasions....they have the right attitudes they lie, cheat, misuse tax dollars , did i say lie, dishonest, have sh!tty moral s or values....i can see why attitude would win over those traits.

Are any members of your Forces gonna "protect the Constitution from all enemies both foreign and domestic"? Sure ain't the foreigners actively working to rip it up. Backers of President Bonespur got no right to question others commitment to democracy

Putin, Trump and you you silly dingbat. Trudeau is with the good guys. Haven't you been following the news? North Koreans are dying alongside Trump's allies fighting for a better future for Putin, Trump and you and your kids. That is what you want isn't it?

To bring down an elephant, the lion needs the pack. Trump has managed to lose his.

Canada doesn't, but I can't speak for anyone else. Sorry, that's just stupid on so many levels. brokering peace isn't "allying" with Russia this has nothing to do with NoKo there are basically zero Germans involved on either side, that's a weird insert into the topic the neo-Nazis involved in the war - the Azovs - fight for Ukraine.

The completely erratic way Trump is handling the tariff file just shows how absolutely unfit for office he is. The reason for tariffs keeps changing The deadline for the tariffs keeps changing with hardly any explanation Lies, more lies and not a shred of evidence or fact to support anything they’ve claimed Oh and surprise the 10% tariff recently implemented against China last month is going up by another 10% effective immediately. Just because. Now even the amount of the tariffs against Canada and Mexico are up in the air, 48 hours from the most recently announced deadline The latest message from the White House is that the orange emperor will decree a tariff amount that day based on his mood and his fancies and there may be different amounts for different products if that’s what happens to please him in the moment It’s clear they have absolutely no clue what they’re doing or dealing with and policy affecting billions of dollars is based on nothing except Trump’s unpredictable whims and zero knowledge or serious consideration. Its not even imperial rule-by-decree, its rule-by-erratic whim. This is toxic for anyone trying to do business in the US. Imagine you are a US business that has imports or exports somewhere in your supply or distribution chains, you can’t make investments or manage risks when nobody has any fukin clue what might happen or when. Uncertainty and instability are worse for business than any tax-and-spend big government liberal regime has ever been. Trump has already alienated every country except Russia and North Korea. He even managed to make enemies of the Canadian conservative party and the Canadian business community, both of whom are naturally deferential to and reverential of the US by default, with conservatives especially loyal to republicans. It takes a special kind of incompetence for Trump to have screwed that up for no real reason. And it’s barely been a month. The real shitshow hasn’t even started yet

I tried to make myself clear on why Zelenski should apologize. There's also an old saying about not shitting in someone else's house.