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The story of an alleged African war criminal killed in Canada featured on BBC today illustrates the current state of the country's public system. Is it an isolated, exceptional instance? Or a worrying pattern? In any sane, sentient democracy these would be serious questions in the focus of public and media attention. Please read it and try to answer a simple question: if folks like Horace could make it here who couldn't? Some excerpts: "He was alleged to have committed some of the most atrocious crimes that you could imagine - murder whole families, shot people to death, behead people," she said. "His men were involved in the rape of women, opening of pregnant women's stomachs." In 2002, Horace moved across the ocean to Canada, where he applied for refugee status. In 2020 he was shot in a suburb of Toronto. 20 - 2 = eighteen (18, years). Make no mistake it's our taxes yours and mine pay for eighteen years of the useless and clueless "process" with who knows how many people involved some "just doing their job" and others, deliberately milking the generous (out of our pocket, whose else) system. That status was eventually denied, but he remained in the country, appealing his removal several times. In 2009, he applied for permanent resident status, but at the time of his death, he was not a permanent resident, according to Maclean's. What the h@ck is wrong with us? How can an accused war criminal and failed refugee deportee still apply for a permanent residence, with almost all rights of a citizen? Matt Eisenbrandt, who was legal director of the CCIJ at the time of its investigation, told the BBC he gave Canadian police "a mountain of evidence on a silver platter", including the testimony of over a dozen witnesses who described "horrific" crimes allegedly committed by Horace and his soldiers. And now you hear something familiar, dear and known from the roots: Geneviève Groulx, a spokesperson for Canada's justice department, said it does not comment on the existence of war crimes investigations unless charges are brought, in order to Did it answer all your questions dear? Now go to bed, silly. Who do you think this democracy is and working for, silly? I still have one though: is it, in the area of public management, a) well within a sight of Mexico b) in or around Mexico or c) past Mexico? Please make a choice.

the best strategy is to simply wait the Russians out now their manoeuvre war plan to take Ukraine in a blitzkrieg has failed thus they have been reduced to a war of attrition in the Donbass the Russians are hoisting themselves on their own petards "never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake" ~ Bonaparte

You don’t understand that medical discretion is a fundamental right. Being forced to take a government-issued health program in order to be able to leave the country, work, and enjoy other basic citizens’ constitutionally-protected rights is wrong. I’d rather live in a free society with a higher death rate than a prison with a lower death rate. China has a lower Covid death rate than Canada but I don’t want to live there. Vaccines probably protected many people against the much more severe symptoms of Delta and the early variants, but against Omicron the vaccine has marginal value. If it wasn’t for the truckers we’d probably still be wearing mandatory masks and kept from travelling internationally. Yet out of spite and a controlling ideology, our government maintains vaccine mandates for truckers and federal workers. It maintains a sick totalitarian digital vaccine passport system that must be carried on a cell phone (ArriveCAN). If you don’t own a cell phone or struggle with technology, you don’t have the right to travel freely. Canada is less free, more taxed, and more expensive than the U.S. Canadians have been fed a steady diet of fear-mongering narratives by government and state-funded media to justify having less freedom and prosperity. Your defence of dumb policies and attacks on those who oppose such policies just illustrates the problem. Economic hardship is now reminding people why government overreach is so dangerous. They’re slowly waking up to the reality of what they’ve lost. Having medical discretion doesn’t mean you can’t have more vaccines. It just means you can’t shove your medical choices down other people’s throats.

The 90% are the ones who got vaxxed. The other 10% are morons who think the loudest counts, sort of a squeaky wheel mentality. Fuck you you're a majority, you're a fart in a tornado. So who gives a flying fuck about you quoting the booster shot rates... they're already better protected than you. The reason we don't give a shit about you lot is because there's a possibility we might get Covid and get the sniffles, whereas there's a better possibility you'll fucking die. There's 350-400 truckers in this little town and ONE rig and three pickups dragging the flag in the dirt showed up to protest and got mostly the finger. The other 350 were working to feed their kids.

You don't have the elementary vocabulary to distinguish a consequence for a punishment. You are so uneducated that you maybe think your opinion has a weight.

Keep burying your head in the sand, you freaking sad ostrich. It will bury the sound and the vision that your misery is still here. You trying to impose it to everyone else doesn't work anymore, and it's a good thing. If you are so scared of COVID, hide in your bunker. We don't care anymore.

This post aged like milk, like most Covidists talking points for restrictions. You are a bunch of idiots. In Québec, we now require the staff, even infected with COVID to return to their job. Because COVID is so mild that even the staff can work with it even if tested positive, but also because the patients are also COVID positive. You are such an idiot that you want the healthcare system to shut down because you want 0 COVID in society. This is such a stupid take to have in 2022 I can't fathom someone liked your comment. 0 COVID is either a goal wanted from Communist China or from someone from 2020.

argument ad populum appeal to authority that's their prerogative, control freaks

Ya, I know. According to you guys we shouldn't have done anything to combat a pandemic that has killed over 6.5 million people, including over 40,000 Canadians, in spite of all the measures we took.

not more likely to infect people chances of taking up a hospital bed are less than most people who are vaccinated so f*ck off

Of course there are, you are more likely to infect other people and take up needed hospital beds.

So... how was the conversation?

if y'all just left it at that there wouldn't be an issue instead you wish to use the government to punish people who don't do your thing

Can we at least all agree that Biden isn't fit to run a lemonade stand? Don't americans have the right to know who's running their country because it ain't Joe. Joe's just the fall guy.

Speaking of that New York Times article - which seems to be the only thing you and yours are allowed to see on Epps, Mikey... The Hidden Agenda Behind the New York Times’ Desperate Puff Piece on Ray Epps It gives video evidence and rationale making it clear the NYT has its head up its ass while it points in multiple directions away from the obviously guilty Epps. But if you do your proggy refusal to read thing here's the conclusion: "The bottom line here is that Ray Epps is the smoking gun of the Fedsurrection narrative, as studiously documented in Revolver News’ now classic two part series on Epps. If it turns out Epps was acting on behalf of some government agency on January 6, the entire official narrative collapses in one fell swoop."

I'm not a huge fan of Poilievre but I think he does have a chance of beating Trudeau, who is enormously unpopular with many voters. I don't agree with Poilievre's support of the convoy and meeting with them and don't agree with his opposition to vaccine mandates and pandemic measures. But there is nobody else around who could possibly beat Trudeau. So it is a matter of voting for the lesser of he evils. That's how our system works. We have to vote for the lesser evil and there are only a few choices. Jagmeet Singh is the last person I would vote for. He is a diehard Socialist. He thinks billionaires (or millionaires) are the worst and believes they should be taxed very heavily. That is Communism which won't work. It would be a disaster. Most investment would flee from Canada if we had an NDP government. There are many more investment friendly places in the world for them to go. Jagmeet and the NDP don't understand anything at all about the real world. They have a simpleton view of everything. They think government can provide everything for everyone and believe in big government control of everyone. They would be a disaster. It's not how the real world works. Capitalism or free enterprise is the best system in the world and is what produces wealth and prosperity. This has been proven repeatedly. There must be incentive for people to innovate, produce, and work in society. Human nature being what it is will always have lazy, loafers who want to live off others and off government. We can't have government robbing those who produce everything to give everything to the loafers. Jagmeet is also a bit of a revolutionary. He said the Cuban Communist revolution was good for the people. Ignored the fact thousands were killed and thousands locked up in prison and Cubans lost their freedom. Cuba has been struggling in poverty ever since.

Freedom means humanity is free to achieve what one can with one’s talents based on real market demand.

Why not politicize it, eh?

Like my wife who is fighting for her life in the hospital as we speak. She was infected with COVID there and its hampered her recovery from surgery to the point that now she may die. I blame the braking pressure that's been applied to society from taking sufficient action against COVID.

Stupid people do stupid things and stupid people make stupid comments.....which one are you LOL Oh wait, I know