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Why do you not like Israel or global trade? The current Israeli government presents some issues but it has been an ally for decades. Having a global economy is better for the economy than protectionism.

LMAO! You can put the theory into practice with simple experiments in high school science class as easily as you can prove anthropogenic climate change. In fact you could run the experiments simultaneously to test and prove the effects of AGW.

Poilievre, period. It's disrespectful for anyone to challenge him.

If Mr. Poilievre will listen to others and take advice, he might just pull it off. Regardless, the proof will be in Mr. CanFox's and my conflicting predictions (wager) in, or before, 2030. Nothing any of us on this forum can say, will have any impact on the question.

I dropped out of Sunday School...it cut into my TV cartoons time.

If we get into a recession Carney could be under attack from a resurgent NDP on the left and PP on the right. He has moved the party towards the right and has left space on the left for the NDP to fill. Somebody like McPherson could revive the party and eat into his left-wing support. Trump will probably be less of a factor which will hurt Carney as well.

When you take into account all the expenses involved in building the energy sources, and the massive batteries needed to make their energy somewhat more practical (batteries don't store enough energy at that scale to last for weeks at a time, and solar is weak all winter long), and the environmental costs to build them, and the petroleum used to build them, and the petroleum products required to run them, and their extreme environmental impact at the end of their service life, and the fact that solar ONLY creates energy when energy is in low demand here, just makes them more of a hobby than a real-life solution. Energy is a need, not a luxury. Affordable energy is a need, not a luxury. You can't build an economy on expensive, ineffective energy sources. Canada can't afford to continue to live at the standard of life that we previously enjoyed while destroying our energy sector. It's like quitting your day job and just getting a Sunday morning paper route but still expecting to afford all the same things you did while you were working. Herbie's next quote: "I quit my day job and then bought a house using only the money that I earned delivering newspapers on Sunday morning! Honest injun!"

Methinks the Carney bloom is in the autumn of his year. The Carney was booed at the Grey Cup game. TSN turned down the volume so as not to upset their paymaster.

Apart from slavery, bounties on Indians and the odd massacre of civilians in places like Vietnam. Canada doesn’t have nearly the brutal history of racism and violence, but if you behave yourselves, you too can someday wear a maple leaf. When you’re looking to invade, you can replace it with an eagle and talons.

I wouldn’t be as pessimistic as that for the Tories. Lord knows what state the country will be in next year or the year after. There’s no floor on how low the economy might go in these strange times. One thing’s for sure - the honeymoon with Carney will be truly over. PP would have a much better chance of winning an election then IMO.

You should address the actual issue. What would you say if Pierre tried to replace the PBO after he was critical of parts of this budget? You're being disingenuous.

Yup, it's all lies. 😇

Good article. Another one I skimmed through and thought was quite good from just a few hours ago: https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/sitrep-111625-overblown-energy-strikes Simplicius' article ends with fairly extensive quoting of an article from the the Independent, this one: https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/europe/nato-war-russia-ukraine-soldiers-drones-b2863755.html I'll quote the final lines from the above article: ** Nato’s regular armed forces are rarely, if ever, trained how to treat themselves for long periods with antibiotics and intravenous drips. And, above all, they are unprepared for the potential mass casualties that Nato forces would face in a conflict with Russia. “We almost can’t comprehend the scale of those losses,” says Ed Arnold, a former British Army officer who is now with Rusi. Gangrene among Ukrainian soldiers is commonplace because they are stuck on the front lines for so long. Britain’s biggest mobile field hospital has a capacity of only 80 general beds and 10 for intensive care. In a Ukraine-type war where the UK, and Nato, can expect hundreds of casualties every day, the capacity to cope is just not there. “We should have Ukrainians training [British officers] at Sandhurst (Royal Military Academy) at the moment,” adds Arnold. “There should be a resident Ukrainian platoon, which regularly rotates, giving us the actual download on what’s going on.” ** The final line from Simplicius' article: ** Well, it seems the smart-alecks are finally wising up. **

True. It's ALWAYS someone or something else. If it ever comes to the point where all the straights, all the Christians, basically all good people are gone away, those cultists will have no choice but to turn on each other.

There's an awful lot that's worth laughing at. It's hard to keep track of sometimes I guess. What I was laughing at in the first case and still am is your statement In fact, the study of faith, from a Christian perspective, is a scientific endeavor that utilizes facts, evidence, and methodology to interpret biblical writings." The rest was all worth laughing at too. No it's not...its clearly pointed at you. If you're seriously implying you can't see that it's because you're deliberately lying.

I was laughing at your accusation I wasn't engaging you honestly in the posts preceding the one you're presently whining about. First I corrected your impression I didn't understand what science is, and then I freely offered you an opinion on what it isn't. Two separate things you apparently can't handle at once except to say this is engaging with you dishonestly and now you're doubling down on it. Just my opinion but that basically makes you both a liar and a douchebag.

Measles is deadly for more than this and causes serious complications and hospitalizations for more than this. No, it is not. Folks like you continue to argue about this vaccine as if it only matters that the people who care get vaccinated. That is simply not true, or how vaccines like this work best in actually eradicating a disease to fully mitigate the threat. Sigh. I did not refer to any specific science for you to sit here calling it all lies. This is what you do though... No, it is not stupid just because you say it is. The point still stands, you can't actually refute it, that you are trying to play the logical fallacy game of attacking the source instead of dealing with the substance. You want to keep railing about COVID, and I did not mention it at all. I am speaking about science in general, that regardless of what you think of anyone or their being liars, that doesn't change the actual science or facts.

I gave you an honest answer to a presumably honest question. I was laughing at how you, like so many other rightists around here, run away when that happens.

Appointed by Canada but must be approved by the King....and while it is ceremonial, we still follow the policies...

Dipshit, you're just admitting that wind and solar are intermittent, ie unreliable, ie practically useless. Dipshit, left4rds are the ones saying that "green energy" is so much greener and better. I wasn't the one who made that up. Dipshit, Trudeau is the one who killed the energy sector, Notley would have just been his sidekick in that endeavour, but a distant second. It's bizarre BS for you to blame Danielle Smith. Dipshit, not all of the energy used in Canada is turned into electricity first. Most of the homes in BC are heated with n-gas. However, electricity is still important, and coal was a perfectly reliable source of energy, along with nuclear and hydro. NGas is not as reliable as coal: BC had a pipeline explosion in 2018 and we were one rupture away from an absolute catastrophe. Not only would tens of thousands of homes been without heat, normal homeowners can't just turn furnaces on after the gas line runs dry. We don't have enough qualified professionals in BC to turn everyone's furnace back on in one month. Your "enemies" - coal, gas and oil - aren't our actual enemies as Canadians. Our enemies are Trudeau, Carney, the rest of the LPOC, and the CBC.

I literally quoted you. Now you do what you usually do: write a lengthy, pointless response that doesn't actually address the argument at hand. Sure you did: "and it comes through a pipe on-demand" Or I will just keep quoting you and calling you out for the ignorance you spread. This is exactly what happens. There are seasons where more gas is needed and less gas is needed, they do in fact store gas in tanks and underground caverns. Once again, you are back to your ignorant magic pipe theory, where gas just magically flows through the pipe at the perfect amount always needed. How are you this stupid? Your car HAS A GAS TANK. LOL It is not some magic fuel line that just produces gas at the magic rate needed. There is something wrong with you, that you are this unable to keep straight who you are talking to. I never said a thing about "cans of gasoline" And now you fall back on just lying. YOU were the one who ignorantly claimed: "Furthermore gas power plants are not powered by “petroleum” or “liquified” natural gas. It’s just regular natural gas, non-liquified, and it comes through a pipe on-demand, not cans ergo it doesn’t need to be “stored” you’re just parroting terms you don’t understand. " All I did was make the factual point that Natural Gas does indeed get liquified for storage and transport. Once again, there is something wrong with your. I never made any such argument. My contributions here have only been to point out the ignorant things you say about how batteries work and how Natural Gas plants work.

This is probably true. Putin probably is under pressure to win this war. I wouldn't be surprised if most Russians would rather he level the country and be done with it. But that ain'-a-gonna happen. THIS probably will. https://www.msn.com/en-us/politics/international-relations/russia-has-won-the-ukraine-war-and-defeated-nato/ar-AA1GdgFn

What’s hilarious is that Trump announces his sham investigation into Democrats’ alleged Epstein ties ONLY after emails come out indicating Trump knew about Epstein’s girls and had been around them. It’s such a desperate and transparent attempt at distraction and the fact that he only wants to investigate democrats not others in Epstein’s orbit is pathetic. There has never been a more corrupt regime so willing to abuse power than this president.

Nothing is going to come of it and everyone knows it, but I'm quite sure that the assigned prosecutor will be the immediate darling of the unhinged lefties. Meanwhile.........

Umm being on the left IS being wrong all the time Again pretty much the left No still pretty much the left Pretty much anytime the left makes an accusation of something it's actually a confession of their own behavior and an attempt to deflect. You guys take projection to a new level And you demonstrated here all the time. You make ridiculous and nonsense statements either attacking the right Or defending the left and it's always childish nonsense. Let's have a demonstration. The PBO just announced that carney's budget violates every other countries definition versus capital. Including England which is where carney learned his version of this. Comment on that. Explain how that's okay without using any lies or deflecting or anything like that

Yes. I commented on the seriousness and deadliness of Measles, and your response was: "TBH, my understanding of measles is that it's only really serious for children that are too young to get the vaccine for it anyways. " You completely ignored directly responding to the seriousness of the disease and falsely downplayed it as only being bad for children too young to get the vaccine. Notice the word "particularly" and "higher rish" there. It doesn't mean there isn't risk or serious complications for others. No, you completely ignore the point and create some bogus alternative by saying "pretty much" Yes, the science. I did not provide anything here for you to claim I cited something that is a lie. This is your usual game of arguing against things imagined. The science, the facts, the point I am making, is that these don't change just because you want to attack the source. If someone is a liar, and they tell you that Walmart sells water... it doesn't mean Walmart doesn't sell water, that is a fact independent of them being a liar. Do you get it now?

Actually... AI Overview In June 2020, both the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) and The Lancet retracted high-profile COVID-19 studies that relied on data from the company Surgisphere because the data could not be independently verified. The NEJM study focused on cardiovascular disease and blood pressure medications in COVID-19 patients, not hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) as the user's query might suggest.

Gavin Newsom for California’s Race-Based Redistricting Plan 11/13/2025 07:00 AM EST WASHINGTON – The Justice Department announced today that it filed legal action against Governor Gavin Newsom and Secretary of State Shirley Weber for the State of California’s newly adopted redistricting plan enacted with the passage of Proposition 50. The suit alleges that the plan mandates racially gerrymandered congressional districts in violation of the Equal Protection Clause ********** Go figure. The left is doing something racist...again.

Ottawa is not one of our 3 largest cities, and housing costs are out of control here too. As an example, I bought my current home, a new 2 br bungalow about 10 years ago for a $490k. It had $30k worth of extras thrown in atop the bare-bones buy price, so that would have been $470k. Today, a similar home by the same builder, 45 minutes outside the city, is selling for $865k bare bones. Ie, no finished basement, no granite countertops, no fences, rain gutters, central air, etc. I recently bought a condo for a relative who will be paying me rent. They couldn't buy it themselves because they didn't have the credit to take out the loan and couldn't save the $70k down payment. It's the second time I've had to do that. Rentals for apartments in this city are very expensive, worse if you want something that isn't in a bad neighborhood. Now for society, that means young people putting off leaving home because they can't afford anything. And even when they do leave, they often have to have a roommate. And even then it's hard to afford. So they're basically putting off adulthood. Couples who have to pinch pennies to afford a small apartment are not going to have children anytime soon, and they're not going to be very happy about how things are working. Which means they'll be much more likely to listen to the far Left eat-the-rich types who promise more taxes, more government spending, more government regulations. It's all a recipe for disaster. So why not reduce immigration and foreign workers for a while? Because business wouldn't like it?

Poilievre is well aware of nuances in language which is why this answer surprised me. When asked whether all his MPs would vote against the budget, instead of a simple “yes” he replied that they all opposed the budget which is not exactly the same thing. One could oppose the budget and not turn up, for example. The chat in Ottawa seems to be that Liberal and BQ MPs are the least uneasy about another election if it comes to that.

How are you this dumb? Oh wow, the so-called battery expert that doesn't understand how batteries work is now proclaiming to be an expert on racism, well documented no less!

How is anyone supposed to take that seriously? Whomever wrote that has a severe case of TDS and proudly displays it. Nothing in that article was serious, damning or even true.

Well, when just 1 Prime Minister doubles the national debt since the country's existence and brings it to the brink of bankruptcy, institutes soft on crime laws that allow pedos and criminals to roam free, hands out free drugs on streetcorners and vending machines, has the most scandals in Canadian history, botches immigration to the point it exhausts housing, jobs and the economy and gives away $11 billion borrowed dollars for gender sensitive issues in OTHER countries, and then pays the media $1.5 billion to gaslight the public into thinking it's all just imaginary.......I think that's significant. And not in any way normal.

Don't know many women, do you? Peddling old bigoted bull$hit again.

Who even thinks about what church a politician goes to? What an simple-minded areshole reason to vote for someone.

Glad to see you’re still a white trash racist POS in addition to having your woman-hating rape fantasies. It must be a real treat to have the trailer next to yours down at the trailer park.

One has to admit, it comes up as a democratic talking point constantly. "We need impoverished workers Willing to work for below minimum wage to harvest our food so we can buy it at an affordable price especially zucchini." They literally demand that without this borderline slave labor americans would have to pay more for their food. When you point it out that it's modern day slavery they studder and backpeddal but it always comes back to the same thing : we need lots of poverty level workers to do our bidding

Evidence? Ok. You were empathetic and thus OK with this stampede of new slaves. And now you are so against having them rounded up and sent packing, that your OK with this. note the metaphorical way that fight ended... You are now fighting to keep your new-found Pedros and Jesuses. Slavers.

Do the Tories really want to force Canadians into another election? That may not be universally welcomed.

Maybe screaming at clouds, and cheering for assassinations, genocides and assassination attempts is therapeutic.

There's been a gentle but consistent and noticeable decline in his popularity and in Canadians faith in which direction the country is: For several months now. I think a lot of people our emotionally invested in their choice you don't want to admit that they're wrong yet but they are quickly becoming concerned and disenfranchised. I think a lot of people are resigned to giving him at least a year to see what he can do even if they aren't really happy so far. But I think come next spring, when the NDP has a new leader and it's the one year anniversary of him coming into power and we still don't have a good deal with the united states and our economy is still in the tank and they're already pipelines being built and people are still struggling to afford food and inflation is still fairly high for primary goods like food and housing, I think suddenly people are going to decide they had enough

The real losers are Canadians, that have seen their country devastated by terrible liberal policies. We used to be on par with the United States in terms of per capita GDP. Now we’ve fallen 40% behind them since 2015. That means that the average American earns 40% more than the average Canadian now, when it used to be equal.

LOL, you have gone on for pages crying about being off topic now = running away.

You are such a sad pathetic liar. That is not what you laughed at: I said: "People who have faith, beliefs, and religions or whatever you want to try to call it now, all acquire knowledge with scientific methods too. In fact, the study of faith, from a Christian perspective, is a scientific endeavor that utilizes facts, evidence, and methodology to interpret biblical writings." Your response: "LMAO!" You did not correct anything. Your response was: "In any case science is a method - it definitely isn't a religion." And I pointed out: "Good thing the discussion was not centered on any claim by me or others that science is a religion. Once again... you can't engage honestly. " This is you admitting what you are.

When you note that there are many interpretations you prove my point. nobody is questioning the validity, i'm saying that humans are imperfect communicators. That doesn't make the bible wrong, it just means you can't take it word for word. There are numerous elements in the bible which are unclear and are the subject of debate as a result, so yes there are "errors" like that, tho i wouldn't call them that. Nobody ownplayed the bible, you've got that in your head and you're not paying attention to what's being said. and yes, if something can be interpreted in numerous ways then it is imperfect in conveying the author's intent. That doesn't make it wrong, but it means that it can't be taken literally word for word ipso facto. And I haven't made any emotional arguments, I am observing you becoming emotional and irrational and I'm advising you that that's not necessary because it's a result of your misunderstanding rather than somebody attacking your beliefs. It is literally the same thing as me saying the bible should not be taken literally as a result of man and his communication being flawed. I noticed you tried to switch that into me saying the bible is flawed. I did not say that, I said man wrote the bible and he is flawed as a communicator. The fact that there are many interpretations to various passages proves that Beyond any arguable doubt. If the communication was perfect it would be crystal clear what was intended and there would be no arguing it And nobody is saying that making an effort to interpret or understand the work somehow invalidates it or means it isn't from god. That's something you got into your head and can't seem to shake out of your head no matter how many times you are told that it's ridiculous to think that And while there may be consensus on a great number of things that doesn't change what I said one tiny bit Now get over yourself. Nobody challenged your bible, nobody challenged god, and I'm about fed up with your childishness. There is no possible way for human communication to be precise and perfect and you cannot take the bible verbatim word for word which is agreed upon by every single religious expert out there. So give your head a shake and move on

I accept your admission of defeat Mind you what were you going to say, the facts are clear and you were wrong. LOL i love when you get so mad at the fact you're wrong that you start in with the grade school 'insult names' The fact that so many other people chose someone other than carney must really have gotten under your skin. Seems to really bother you. And they didn't even like him enough to give him a majority. At any other time in history getting 42% of the vote would definitely give you a majority but it wasn't good enough for him to do that. I guess just not enough people trusted him