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This needs to be said repeatedly, every time a know-nothing Putin fan or an anti-western Zealot tries to say otherwise. You can have all kinds of problems with the West but this action is reprehensible and the patsies and trolls are making themselves known by supporting it.

The National Post reports in at least one article that China has opened three police stations under a different heading in the Toronto area. How is this even possible and why has Trudeau said and done nothing on this? Sabrina Maddeaux: How hard can it be for the Liberals to say Chinese laws don’t apply in Canada? (msn.com)

You know, I continued to read the thread after I posted, and I now know exactly where you get this nonsense. You are clearly possessed by demons who have clouded your judgment and obscured from you the fact of your own possession. Case closed.

The fighting is about Ukraine not willing to part with 20 % of their country, and Russia using force under some ridiculous claim of riding the area of Nazi's...This was an internal issue for the Ukrainian government and the people of the east to solve, not for Mother Russia to step into, at the cost of well over 60, 000 Russia soldiers and god knows how many Ukrainians. Putin was expecting a quick military victory, same as the last time, with the western world quickly forgetting the other annexations. And now he has stepped in a pile of shit, and the only way out of this is either nuclear war, or Putin's death. There are democratic counties that do not allow succession or separation, such as the US etc, and all those people that voted in favor have the option of moving back to Mother Russia, there are no squatters' rights when it comes to nations.

Probably the smartest thing you've ever said on this forum, with the irony completely lost on you.

That's something a Putin fanboy would say. Putin started this war. He tried to take over the country, failed miserably. He's now trying to annex territory he does not possess and threatening nuclear war if he can't retain said territory. There is a faction of Western people with military training that have gone to Ukraine to fight. Good on them. Putin is being the warmonger by trying to conscript people that have no desire to die in Ukraine.

It’s all about empowering the fringe at the expense of the vast majority of people. It’s not about being open minded or compassionate anymore. It’s a form of child abuse, but now the institutions we pay to raise our kids are openly supporting this teacher’s right to identify as trans Chesty Morgan role playing with power tools over the rights of children to learn in an environment without distraction or moral turpitude. It’s gone past the point of tolerance to corrupting the young. We’re just now seeing the effects of the past several years of moral collapse. Add the impact of the pandemic and you’re getting a front row seat to the real time collapse of civilization.

You gotta stop watching those right wing propaganda sites. Your gratuitous accusations just make you look foolish.

Oh, you mean like Trump did. Oh you mean like Trump did.

1) His post doesn't imply - it "proves". 2) Are you honestly trying to say that there are still black people here who are suffering 'intergenerational trauma' from something that happened to less than 800 people over 170 years ago? Why ask such a stupid question? Do you not understand the concept of historical context? FYI slavery was the most normal thing in the world to everyone, everywhere, for every single moment of recorded history, yet diversity trainers [and people like you] talk about it like it was unique to America and Britain. That's 100% wrong. Do you know what actually was unique to America and Britain? Being a world power and abolishing slavery. Just learn this MH: The Persians, Chinese, Assyrians, Egyptians, Greeks, Moors, Hittites, Ottomans, Mongols, Umayyads, Huns, Aztecs, and every other world power that you can name had slaves, and none of them even considered abolishing slavery. Abolishing slavery when you are in a position of power is a uniquely British & American policy. You're trying to vilify Canada for our role in slave ownership when 0.000000% of the Canadians ever experienced slavery for more than 1 second. FFS dude, I know that you can't se the stupidity in your comments, but at least stay out of the conversation if you're that clueless.

Anyone who works in Canada has had to sit through Diversity training. Listen to lies about systemic racism and imaginary oppression. Let's fact check anti black racism and the lies about blacks being enslaved in Canada. The Conquest of New France by the British in 1763 gave New France to the British Empire. Yes, pre-confederation, which predates Canada, there was slavery. The colonists and British parliament were quick to end slavery. Upper Canada (which is now Ontario) abolished slavery in 1793/94 which predates Canada. In 1834, slavery was banned in all British colonies. This is 33 years before Canada existed. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Act_Against_Slavery On March 25, 1807, the slave trade was abolished throughout the British Empire – of which British North America was a part – making it illegal to buy or sell human beings and ending much of the transatlantic trade. On Prince Edward Island, the complete abolition of slavery was pronounced by the legislature on 1825, nine years before the Imperial abolition of 1834. https://humanrights.ca/story/the-story-of-slavery-in-canadian-history Now we know Canada that never had slavery but France and Britain did in their colonies. Of course, Canada is not responsible for the actions of the previous empires that ruled here but for context, the extent of slavery here should be explored. Between 1671 and 1834, there was an estimated 1, 400 Black slaves in the colonies. For the entire 17th century, there were only 7 slaves who were Blacks in the colonies. After 1760, the number of Black slaves in the colony increased considerably, from 300 to more than 800. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Act_Against_Slavery In the 1800's, the numbers also dropped with the above laws impacting the legality of slavery. Canada saved many slaves through the Underground Railroad. In 1834, there were less than 800 Black slaves in the colony. At the time of Confederation, there were zero Black slaves in Canada. Obviously, the few hundred former slaves experienced inter generational trauma. We are now in 2022 and hearing more and more about how racist and oppressive Canada is. Are we to believe these few hundred people from 1834 that were enslaved are still oppressed? It's been almost 200 years. Do Jewish people claim oppression in 2022 because of Nazi Germany in the 30 and 40's? Chinese people do not claim they face "barriers " in 2022 because of the Chinese Head Tax. Japanese are not talking about inter generational trauma despite WW2. All of three aforementioned groups do better than " whites " in earnings. Yet each has a legitimate claim to having faced systemic barriers and oppression. Why does only one group, based on a few hundred people 200 years ago, suffer from inter generational trauma? Now, we also have to believe that all Black people experience intergenerational trauma from slavery. Even immigrants from Africa who were never enslaved. Even people who immigrated here and are highly successful and would NEVER go back to their country of origin. People like Desmond and Anthony Morgan. Professional race baiters, according to some, selling their grift. Morgan makes 150k/year " fighting anti black racism" in Toronto. This is tax payers dollars. The anti black racism unit actually has racist programs that are only available to black people. Interesting that an anti racism unit engages in racial discrimination with tax dollars. https://www.sunshineliststats.com/Salary/anthonymorgan/2021/9/?employer=cityoftoronto How about Canadians who suffered through WW1, the depression, and WW2? That impacted millions and millions of people less than a hundred years ago but they recovered. If someone was one of the 1,000 people linked to pre Canada slavery, they had 7 generations to recover. 200 years to learn a trade/skill , start a business, acquire wealth. That is not a disadvantage. No one mentions in these diversity sessions that Indigenous and Blacks were also slave owners and that slavery pre existed European arrival. It was a common practice. Slave-owning people of what became Canada were, for example, the fishing societies, such as the Yurok, that lived along the Pacific coast from Alaska to California,[7] on what is sometimes described as the Pacific or Northern Northwest Coast. Some of the indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast, such as the Haida and Tlingit, were traditionally known as fierce warriors and slave-traders, raiding as far as California. Slavery was hereditary, the slaves being prisoners of war and their descendants were slaves.[8] Some nations in British Columbia continued to segregate and ostracize the descendants of slaves as late as the 1970s. Despite the British Empire abolishing Slavery, it continued in Africa. The African slavers continued to sell Black people and still do to this day. On any given day in 2016, an estimated 9.2 million men, women, and children were living in modern slavery in Africa. The region has the highest rate of prevalence, with 7.6 people living in modern slavery for every 1,000 people in the region. https://www.globalslaveryindex.org/2018/findings/regional-analysis/africa/#:~:text=Index%3A Africa Report.-,Prevalence within Africa,1%2C000 people in the region. Canada. Wake up. You're being fed lies and division and hate. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_Canada https://www.historymuseum.ca/virtual-museum-of-new-france/population/slavery/#:~:text=The slave population (show),and one-third were Blacks. https://www.sunshineliststats.com/Salary/anthonymorgan/2021/9/?employer=cityoftoronto

He's not. If you knew anything about history, you'd know that the pretexts that Hitler cooked up for the annexation of western Czechoslovakia were almost identical to Putin's for Ukraine. "Ethnic Germans Russians are being oppressed in the Sudetenland Donbas! We must intervene!" Magnificent work confirming everyone's impression of your ignorance. While raving about Neo-Nazis and parroting Kremlin talking points, you appear to know nothing about the actual Nazis whose footsteps Putin is following.

Reality is a bitch is it not, politicians will do anything to get elected, including dropping the very people who got him this far... sliding to the towards the center is expected, his campaign team knows that if they want to get elected. But 3 years is a long time, anything could happen, Justin could become popular once again, (knock on wood that does not become true)

I read the National Post every morning and wonder why he funds them to print nothing but anti-Trudeau shit on every front page? Some massive ultra leftist reverse-psychology conspiracy perhaps?

You'd think that the various cycles of stars in general...we have a lot of samples to study there...and our star in particular would figure big in all of this climate crisis narrative. But instead they rattle on about CO2 like it must be defeated. I noted no crisis this summer (rather nice, actually)...your experience may differ. Planted a few trees...take that mean ol' carbon dioxide.

EVERY tree that is planted, is a tree that would not have grown otherwise, at least not as soon. Duh. AKA, accelerated.

You’re once again resorting to childish personal insults as lame attempt to compensate for your lack of facts or intelligence. Par for the course, right from the fascist thug playbook.

Why is this about Poilievre? Who's in charge of Canada? Who's the PM? CHINA HAS ESTABLISHED ITSELF IN OUR MIDST - that means nothing to you? To you - our sovereignty is freaking joke? Trying to muddle the issue? Lol - are you a mole for China? ? Are you so blinded by partisanship?

The swollen ego is looking back at the thousands (or more) mythologies that mankind has invented to explain a poorly understood world, and thinking that you, personally, have been blessed by being born into the one true faith. You have been told the right stories, but everyone else in human history outside of your sect has been told the wrong stories. Must be nice. No wonder you feel so comfortable ignoring science. Rather, it takes a great deal of humility to admit that there are many answers we don't have and aspire to someday understand more fully. "I don't know, yet" is always a greater and more honest answer than "goddidit."

No, what you mistook as an apology for totalitarianism was my mockery of your insistence that we're living in that state. I don't think you suffer from dementia or Alzheimer's I simply think your a loon. What unconstitutional ideas?

The strategy being used by Putin in Ukraine is identical to that used by Hitler in the Anschluss, Sudetenland, Czechoslovakia and Poland. You have the Nazi label pinned on the wrong shirt.

1. Not good enough IMO. Two reasons: 1) We can't "grow" old growth and 2) burning wood is a bad way to increase CO2 in the atmosphere 2. Ok 3. You seem to have answered this, thanks. I can see a bit more how this would be cited as 'green' since they burn refuse anyway... but still a little surprising.

You'll note, no matter how bad things got for the Americans in Korea or Vietnam or for the Russians in Afghanistan neither resorted to Nukes. Putin lost this war before it started. Even if the West didn't assist Ukraine with weapons, this would have been a protracted Guerilla conflict.

This topic is, I think, an indication of the degree of resentment I see growing among many people, primarily white males, towards the continuous bleating of the activist world, major media and government of all types regarding diversity and inclusion and equity. I feel this resentment myself, to some degree, though insulated by not having any real economic worries. There is only so long you can shout at someone for their imagined deficiencies before they start getting mad. I see Black people all over the Canadian media these days. Virtually every commercial has at least one black person in it. Every newscast has black people as reporters, newsreaders, etc, and there seems to be a wildly disproportionate number of stories about or interviewing of black people, despite their being a bit over 3% of the population. All of this is a result of the collective sense of self-loathing and guilt so many progressives seem to feel because they've been told they have to by their American mentors. Canadian progressives take their cue from down south. If American progressives are 'taking a knee' for black lives matter then Canadian progressives are damned well going to do the same, even in a lockdown. Witness that sanctimonious puffball Trudeau doing so last year. And of course, the flurry of diversity, equity and inclusiveness hectoring, lecturing and badgering down south has been echoed by the same thing up here. Because stuff. Question it and you're just showing your 'white fragility'. But Canada does not have America's long and bitter history of slavery and racism, nor its inner city slums. Granted, this is as much due to geography as policy, but even so, we had a miniscule number prior to confederacy and none whatsoever afterward. Canada's entire population of Black people numbered a few tens of thousands as late as the 1970s. The great majority of those here today are immigrants. It's awfully difficult to justify the hand-wringing and lecturing White Canadians have been and continue to be subjected to largely on their behalf. Canada is so racist, after all, that we let in millions and millions of black and brown people with nary a word of protest. And therein lies the basic source of resentment. Being called an innately racist society and being constantly lectured on our racist past on behalf of... immigrants is absurd and cannot fail to breed resentment, not only towards the groups hectoring them but towards minorities as well. It's difficult to logically justify hiring or promoting a black or brown immigrant over a white Canadian due to the former's 'trauma' over some imagined past as a victim of racism when neither they nor their ancestors were here to experience it. And it's difficult, if not impossible to justify continually nagging white Canadians about our racism when our lack of racism is amply demonstrated by the millions of non white people we have allowed into our country. And as the economy deteriorates that resentment is going to grow, especially with the likes of Trudeau and SIngh fanning the flames at every opportunity.

So how many slaves did your family own, anyways?

People need certain rights enshrined in law because people like you just can't seem allow them naturally without a bunch of whining and complaining - discrimination in other words.

Lol. I'm not sure where you get this stuff, but yes, you can watch evolution happen in a laboratory setting. You just need subjects with short enough reproductive cycles. It's documented with bacteria, plants, etc. Even in simplest terms, humans have selectively bred plants and animals to the point of mechanical reproductive incompatibility within the same species, effectively forking two evolutionary tracks. Just add time. And yes, there are also "transitional" fossils. Setting aside the fact that all fossils are transitional in the long arc of evolution, there are many that satisfy even the layperson's definition of transitional, bearing features of antecedent and descendant.

Sorry Bud. Not a Prog. Not trained to ignore the obvious. First immediate clue of a false equivalency there is in the names. So now if you want to convince me the 2 things are equal, I'll need a list. The son of the Vice President was given a big fat paycheck by a Ukrainian energy company for a job he had no qualifications for. Next he was taking checks from the Chinese for "the Big Guy." Show me how the circumstances were the same for the In-law, Kushner. In fact show me how Kushner is just a cracked up whore monger with no real qualifications for anything. Don't just dangle a doubtful insinuation like it means something.

Ya I've been wondering about this too. Question: if the black community makes up only about 3% of the Canadian population, why are most of our advertising depicting black folks and/or mixed couples? And why are fat people now all over our advertisements? Is this "equity"? Is it "equality"? Or is it "racism"?

Oh boy. Let us correct ourselves then. Black slavery existed in the British Colony that eventually became Canada. ?

First Liz Truss, then Giorgia Meloni, now Brazil is headed to a run off with a right of center candidate, or “fascist”. How many heads will explode around here if yet another nation freely elects a conservative? Looks like voting Trump in was just being ahead of the curve.

When you people are capable of discussion, can read what's written in front of you and can do more than post moronic memes. moot points and what you think are insults, feel free to continue on the subject. I hate to disappoint you but 1953 is not going to happen again despite your best efforts, so you're wasting your time thinking like it is still then.

They've agreed it won't be Russia.

The MSM and the Libs and Dems are trying to bully everyone into believing that Putin sabotaged NS 1 & 2, just like they tried to bully everyone into taking the jab, believing that the virus came naturally from a bat-pangolin-human progression, Hunter's laptop was Russian disinformation, etc. Fact is that people who were stupid enough to believe the MSM about everything they saw for the last ten years, without any questions at all, will just believe this without question as well. The fact that all the earlier stories were proven to be fake means nothing to them. Leftists say "Fool me once, that's ok, fool me twice, still ok, fool me 75 times, it's still better than admitting that I was sucked in the previous 74 times."

You are poorly informed. First of all, Nord Stream 2 was completed as well as Nord Stream 1, according to Wikipedia. The video is 7 months old, it might not have been completed then. Second, both were sabotaged, according to Wikipedia. The only thing one could say is that since Biden said Nord 2 in the above video, he can’t be blamed for the sabotage that occurred on Nord 1, which is a stupid argument. Either way, Biden clearly threatens to end Nord 2 if Russia invaded, and then both 1 and 2 are hit. Anyone who can add 1 plus 1 can think this one through. Again, If you want to make your stand for Biden after what he threatens to do happens, fill your boots.

So read about it if you want to, I don't care. It's bullshit. Planting trees? Do you know what happens if you don't plant trees? Trees grow anyways. Show me where they planted a bunch of trees where none would have grown...

Unlike Canadians here who pretend to know what's happening in the US, I won't do that for Canada. It does not mention offsets in his plan here: Andrew Scheer unveils climate plan promising 'green technology, not taxes'

No evidence for religion. Plenty of evidence for carbon offset CONTRACTS. Understanding the carbon offset market

You have nothing but your big mouth to claim ^this. Carbon offset CONTRACTS are real no matter how much you IMAGINE they are not.

Turkey does not border Russia. But That was over 60 years ago and not relevant. Among other things, the US has had Cruise missile technology since the 80's which can evade Russian radar and delivery a payload anywhere inside of Russia. So having missile bases in Ukraine or Turkey is no longer very important.

civilizational collapse in the sense of the end of the Pax Americana and associated postwar liberal order 1914 was the last civilization collapse the sun came up again in 1919, but it was a totally different civilization

Carbon offsets are bullshit. They fly in jets and cruise in yachts and then lie about why it's ok for them to put more CO2 into the atmosphere in one month than you do in a lifetime. If carbon offsets were a real thing then why wouldn't they just buy a bunch of carbon offsets but still live sustainably? I'll tell you why, it's for the exact same reason that your liberal elites could attend the Met Gala without masks but all of the vaccinated peons still had to wear masks. It's for the exact same reason that your liberal elites could have big meals in indoor restaurants during covid or get their hair done at a salon but all of the peons had to eat at Wendy's and cut their own hair. Gimme a break. You're sucked into every bullshit thing that comes out of Biden's/Trudeau's mouth. It's as pathetic as it is hilarious.

I compare our country's actions to the nearly 2000 year old moral basis (do unto others yadda yadda) we were using for our laws at the time. We knew better but acted like assholes anyway. In any case I'm proud of the fact that Canadians today (some of us at least) are willing to tackle such an immense issue and do right by it. Better late than never and certainly better than adding another blemish, which is make excuses for not doing anything.

they are ethnonationalists tho like I dated a Mohawk girl, and she was a Maracle, Mohawk royalty she was stunningly beautiful, she was highly educated, an activist but I couldn't be her boyfriend for more than a May September romance in Toronto because the Mohawks would never accept me as a suitor for one of their women just like the ethnonationalist Quebecois, the Indians simply do not want to submit to the globalized Anglo-American culture je me souviens

Good question. Trudeau has no spine.

all leader of major partys get a bump once elected... however it's probably more of people being tired of trudeau cause 7 years then PP being viewed as the savior lol.. the guy can't handle pressure if he becomes pm him crying the media is fake when he screws up or someone in his government screws up will atleast be entertaining i suppose

Stop lying. Ukraine threatened Russia with NATO at their doorstep. Russia did what the US would have done - they did what Kennedy did in Cuba in '61.

I lived in Italy for four years, the right has two strands. Pragmatic, tough on illegal immigration, anti corruption, get the insane government red tape off the backs of business. And then there is the real far right which still has a bromance with Mussolini. I do not think she is the later.

The real lunatics here are those leftist liberal dumbocrats who once went and took a cry me a river tantrum when they said that Trump stole the 2016 election from the donkey dumbocrats. Hello there blue boy. Lol. The pro Antifa and BLM pro democrat terrorists were committing all kinds of criminal acts like looting, rioting and burning down cities while the MAGA crowd were pretty much peaceful. They did not loot, riot or burn the capital building down down or do anything all that terrible looking. Your true blue pro liberal nonsense is showing. Your democrats are now whining and crying about how those two governors from the states of Florida and Texas are now sending all those illegal aliens to blue states but yet they appear to want to forget that Bidumb was and is still doing the same thing and sending thousands of illegals off to red states. It's wakey-wakey time, blue boy. Lol. The real babies here are the loser dumbocrats who truly are an exercise in futility and hypocrisy. On Jan. 6th an innocent woman was shot and killed by a cowardly capital hill police murderer. The killer should never have used his gun to shoot and kill an innocent demonstrator. The woman was no danger to him. The killer was behind closed doors. Anyway, I would be running too if you have a capital hill police coward shooting at you, blue boy. ?

Once again - the post wasn't to you. But I will address the first point: 1) " black Canadians didn't live under slavery to the degree that American blacks did, so they're ok." His post most certainly doesn't prove that they are ok. Make your own posts if you want to say something.