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1 hour ago, capricorn said:
Then we have a fiasco in Cornwall where a number of asylum seekers are being housed. Local authorities in Cornwall have complained that no one appears to be in charge of the situation so information is not forthcoming and no one designated to answer their questions and concerns.
It's not a fiasco, this is just more over-reaction.
QuoteConst. Daniel Cloutier, a Cornwall police spokesman, says almost 300 Haitians have arrived recently and, so far, there have been no problems and none are anticipated.
She said the community is “fairly receptive” to the new arrivals, who are not being detained and can circulate freely in the community. Typical questions are: How many are there? How long will they be staying at the Nav Centre? What is cost to the city?
“The next most popular question is: What can we do? What do they need?”
That’s because children account for one in five of the new arrivals, she said.
“The folks are not detained. They’re in the community, they’re walking about, it’s nice weather and there are children, so people are saying what do the kids need, and how can we help?”
http://globalnews.ca/news/3685885/cornwall-haitian-asylum-seekers/
Many people were getting all hyped up about Mexicans crossing the border when Canada lifted the visa requirements but it has since stabalized and the same reaction is happening with the Haitian claimants:
QuoteCanada can handle the load, Mr. Beuze said. The UN representative also cautioned against relying too much on projections. He noted Canada expected an influx of Mexican asylum seekers when Ottawa lifted a visa requirement for visits. It didn’t happen. This winter, as the number of border-hopping asylum claimants increased exponentially from January to March, many predicted the numbers would explode when the snow melted. Instead, the numbers from April to June stabilized before the July spike.
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5 hours ago, dialamah said:
We do regularly scream bloody murder about government policies that might encourage and support working people having more kids - daycare, maternal and paternal leave, tax breaks, a livable minimum wage.
And no one's interested in the incentives.
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11 hours ago, Hal 9000 said:
I'm pretty sure that US history does not glorify slavery and if there is some sensativity to monuments, maybe it's up to the parties involved to rewrite a more accurate account on those monuments or statues, maybe erect some of the people who fought against it. People both black and white are better served to have those statues in place as a reminder of the past.
There is a solution that doesn't require teenage marxists tearing down statues and trying to hide the truth.
Do you want context?
"And one thing to think about is, forget about for a moment whatever might have motivated these men to have fought. The fact is, had they won, you would have had an independent nation overseeing the largest and most powerful system of slavery in the modern world."
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/amp/bb/shifting-history-confederate-monuments
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1 hour ago, betsy said:
The Canadian media - being all liberal rags - will protect him. We don't really have a conservative mainstream media to balance things out, so we're like a Communist regime in that way - the media is a huge propaganda machine for the liberals.
That's odd when you consider that in the 2015 election The Globe and Mail, National Post, Toronto Sun, Ottawa Citizen as well as all The Sun newspapers all endorsed the conservative party.
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If a student has some sort of learning disability that requires accommodation from the educational system they can get a diagnosis that will carry them through elementary school, high school and post secondary. At least here in BC. That may include extra time to complete exams, assignments etc. It's been around for a very long time and there have been no complaints that i can see in BC.
As i say, this is a stupid and poorly written opinion piece. I guess they were desperate for material. Who knows.
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1 minute ago, Argus said:
What I'm suggesting is that people who are better at something should be rewarded for being better at it. I don't think it makes sense to say "Look, I'm not as smart as those people so it's not fair for me to have to reach the same standards". Life is not fair. Some are smarter, taller, more beautiful, more talented than others. Would you suggest an orchestra hire musicians based on anything but which is the best? Should one be hired who is less capable because he or she suffers stress and anxiety while performing in public? The whole point of the exam is to see who is the best. Making accommodation based on someone having mental impairment of some sort defeats that point.
Someone taking longer to complete a task is not stupider than someone else.
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What a stupid opinion piece. Students asking for extra time to complete an exam is not the same as the Olympics. They are asking for a fair chance to succeed in life. Everyone deserves a fair chance for that pursuit in life. Are you suggesting only high achievers get a stab at a financially secure and successful life.
In the end, what does an extra hour or so hurt. These are all young people hoping to carve out a life and if it takes someone longer to complete a task it doesn't really matter in the real world as long as it's completed successfully
This is a poor opinion piece that deserves to be chucked in the trash bin.
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On 2017-08-15 at 5:05 AM, betsy said:
Right wing extremism is on the rise - which shouldn't come as a surprise. I've been saying it for a decade now, that the pendulum tend to swing from one extreme end to the other. Extreme left wing ideology and extreme right wing.
I know that extreme right wing is the same as white supremacists, KKK, white nationalists.
What does extreme left wing ideology represent? I've always been confused by that label.
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Samantha Bee interviewed former neo-nazi who's group fights Extremism.
Obama had approved 400,000 funding for this group to fight violent extremism which trump's administration had quickly pulled.
"Now, the group is crowdfunding to "fight hate and racism." It has raised nearly $37,000 of its $400,000 goal. (You can donate right here.)
"White people created this problem, and it's our job to fix it," Christian Picciolini, co-founder of the group, told Samantha Bee. The full segment will air in September.
The show released the clip Monday, days after a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, resulted in the death of three people, including Heather Heyer, who was killed when a car rammed into a crowd of people protesting the neo-Nazis, KKK members, and other white supremacists who had gathered in the city.
“If they had given us the funding right away within a month or two of being awarded, we would have been up and running before Charlottesville," Tony McAleer, another Life After Hate co-founder, told The Hill. "Whether or not we would have made a difference, it’s impossible to know.""
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I can't state my abhorrence to this event better than these guys:
Jimmy Fallon
Stephen Colbert
Seth Meyers
http://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/late-night-trump-charlottesville-1.4247647
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18 minutes ago, Argus said:
I'm sorry, but it sounds like you are an apologist for the violent hatred espoused by the far left at this rally.
You are confused It's the KKK and anti-Semitism that was spewing hatred.
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One thing for sure is that Trump in his tepid speech has again exposed America's white identity crisis and their Presidents bigotry.
He has also exposed racial hatred that is alive and thriving. Perhaps this will bring to light and cause further discussion
Now if only he will call the demonstration out for what it really was. A KKK and anti Semite demonstration espousing hate towards noncaucasions. This is what 'lets make America great again' is really about.
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4 hours ago, Argus said:
. I've noticed a lot of the community policing talks and public relations is done by women. There also seem to be women at the desk most of the times when I have to visit the police station.
As something of a police junkie I can't tell you the number of times I've seen videos in everything from COPS to youtube videos of male and female police trying to overpower a large male and being unable to do so because the woman is too physically weak and lightweight to help much.
Yes let's rely on the facts stated by Argus.
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3 hours ago, Argus said:
From today's Globe: Interesting that women are lower in stress tolerance. That would cause greater problems in some of the jobs the progressives keep trying to shove women into, especially policing and the military.
What a ridiculous assumption. That assumption of course if based on your own personal opinion. If You Want Less Police Violence, Hire More Female Cops
QuoteWhile the stats suggested that female cops aren’t reluctant to use force, the commission reasoned, they’re not nearly as likely to use excessive force. “With some exceptions, female officers interviewed believed they were more communicative, more skillful at de-escalating potentially violent situations and less confrontational,” the report reads. “A suspect’s defiance and disrespect of an officer often gives rise to use of force by an officer. Many officers, both male and female, believe female officers are less personally challenged by defiant suspects and feel less need to deal with defiance with immediate force or confrontational language.”
QuoteMale cops are way more expensive to employ than their female peers because of force, finding that male cops are two to three times more likely to have citizens name them in excessive force complaints than female cops, that male cops cost taxpayers between 2.5 and 5.5 times more than the average female officer in the payouts of excessive-force liability lawsuits, and that a male cop is 8.5 times more likely to have allegations of excessive force sustained against him than a policewoman would.
QuoteThe gender disparity in the police force, argues Feminist Majority executive director Katherine Spillar, comes from the way policing is marketed. Would-be cops are recruited with promises of car chases and helicopter rescues, which fit traditional masculine values, while most of police work is nonviolent beat-walking and working with communities, with appeal to traditionally feminine values. Additionally, testing still has a physical strength component, while it should focus more on the ability to de-escalate potentially violent situations, which appears to be the direction of progressing policing.
QuoteSo there’s a pretty clear logic to reducing excessive force in American policing. If de-escalation is the way of the future — as it’s been shown to be in Las Vegas, Dallas, and New York — then it makes lots of sense to have the humans doing the police work be more biologically and culturally disposed to peace. They’re called women.
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An interesting Q&A in this post QA Talk Explores Role of Islamic Feminism
Here are a couple of excerpts:
QuoteCC: What does Islamic feminism say about Muslim women wearing the hijab?
SH: So Islamic feminism — I am very careful not to speak of it as a monolithic term. We have multiple forms of Islamic feminism, just as we have multiple forms of feminism in general. Western, mainstream feminism has different waves, different forms of feminism. So Islamic feminism is like that as well. We have Muslim feminists, Muslim women who identify as feminists, Muslim men who identify as feminists who come in different shapes and sizes and who come from different belief systems. The one thing we have in common is that they’re Muslim, but they interpret Islam or the Quran very, very differently across the world. … I live in Austin, Texas, and here, Muslim women have a completely different approach to practicing Islam. So there’s no one way to answer that question. There’s no one rule that Islamic feminism practices on the hijab. But one thing that I would say that probably is standard at this point is there’s no oppression or there’s no compulsion in Islam from God. And so, when a woman does wear the hijab, she has to be respected for that choice — assuming it’s a choice. And if a woman is wearing it out of pressure, there are broader, larger factors, social/political factors that go into why women make the kind of choices we make. So if I meet a Muslim woman who identifies as a feminist who wears the hijab, I’m going to accept that. … Also, the more important thing is that Muslim feminists are actually not obsessed with the hijab. And this is a very Western thing, the obsession with the hijab. … So Muslim feminists challenge that by focusing on much more integral, much more serious, much more pressing concerns that Muslim women are facing. And the hijab is really not a concern for the most part.
QuoteCC: What are misconceptions about Islamic feminism?
SH: One of the most important things they get wrong is they imagine one way that Islam can let Muslim women practice Islam. … We don’t practice Islam the same way. We don’t have the same experiences because Islam or religions aren’t the ones that create experiences for the most part. What we experience is a product of a lot of other things — our class, our gender, our sexual orientation, the neighborhood, the kinds of politics. Those kinds of things play a much more important role than Islam. Islam doesn’t explain anything. Islam as a religion — Islam as a practice — doesn’t really explain much on why women are treated in a particular way. It’s politics for the most part. So I would say something the one thing people get wrong is they assume … that there is such a thing as what Islam says about women or what Muslim women think or what Muslim women experience. There’s just no such thing. It’s so much more complicated than that.
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Just now, Goddess said:
Sometimes. In this case, certainly.
Most times.
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3 minutes ago, Goddess said:
They are frequently shouted down and threatened by their own Muslim community
Sure they are but that is part of reform.
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10 minutes ago, Hal 9000 said:
OK, what if a school board was hiring teachers and they had a 95/5 ratio of female to male candidates and hired 5 male and 5 female teachers, would you agree that the top 10 just happen to be 5 male and 5 female? Seriously? The worst male teacher candidate would have to be better than over 90% of the females! To me, that would defy logic.
what if they are equal candidates? Wouldn't you want your son to see a male elementary school teacher considering that probably 50% of the class is male students? In that case, I would have no problem with a male teacher being hired.
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Just now, Hal 9000 said:
Of course it does! Wake up!
No it doesn't
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11 minutes ago, Hal 9000 said:
If 90-95% of candidates are men, then logic being logic, yes!
If you honestly believe that out of 100 candidates (95 male, 5 female) the best 10 just happen to consist of 5 female and 5 male, then you'd be living in some dream world.
Your logic doesnt make sense. Just because there are less female applicants it doesn't make them less qualified.
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Just now, Hal 9000 said:
I wouldn't want a police force that is taking every single woman and refusing better candidates because of gender - I know that. I want my daughters to be protected by the best police force and officers possible.
You are assuming that the men are better candidates.
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1 minute ago, betsy said:
Lift up thy eyes, and read the title of this thread.
Betsy, your posts are being responded to and if you don't like the responses then don't post.
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1 minute ago, betsy said:
You're now going to follow that irrelevant issue.....which will derail this topic about ISLAM!
So I bid you bye-bye.
Wtf? I'm responding to your post and now all of a sudden I'm derailing?
The Left invites terrorists into our home
in Federal Politics in Canada
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Argus you are scaring me. Where in Canada are these crazed violent terrorists and fanatical religious monsters with their violent anti social values and beliefs?