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1 minute ago, WestCanMan said:
1) I'm not the one who classified them as "died of covid". I'm just the messenger. Health Canada said that they "died of covid".
No one asked for "peer-reviewed articles" to verify that 15,000 people really died of covid in 2020.
2) That's the same standard for "died of covid" that was applied to determine the 15,000 covid deaths in 2020. Was it done to freak people out back in 2020, or did those people also just die because they were old?
3) Why do you take this so personally? You seem determined to weasel out of looking at the basic facts from Health Canada.
Honestly, I am not taking this personally at all but if what I think you’re saying is true it would be a serious problem for vaccines and the health system. Are you saying that being vaccinated against COVID was more dangerous than not being vaccinated in people who were otherwise the same in terms of age, health etc.?
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11 minutes ago, Michael Hardner said:
Well it's very possible to control them, as evidenced by their response. I get it - if the government came to my house and told me that I would have to give them 1/2 my earnings I'd be upset too... if it was 1916 that is. They don't consider themselves to be subject to national control and maybe they should now.
Gabbing here is an option; US high tech in general is compulsory for the vast majority of us. What they provide is like a utility, a water company, say, but one we have absolutely no control over. A small example would be electronic health records. If they’re American, are they built with backdoors to allow US government surveillance? From what Snowden and others have revealed, if they were nobody would be allowed to tell us. And what Google (also the owner of Fitbit), Apple and Facebook have on many of us is far more detailed than any health record.
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On 10/19/2023 at 6:15 PM, WestCanMan said:
FYI that's called lying by omission, but they go way further than that.
For example, they led people to believe that the Freedom Convoy was a bunch of Nazi/Confederate hooligans out defacing monuments and statues and harassing people, and that was all actual lies. By comparison, they portrayed BLMers as peaceful, decent people but they were majority bigots, with a large contingent of them being violent bigots who destroyed billions of dollars worth of homes and businesses.
Those entire narratives were lies from top to bottom.
They portrayed the vax as perfectly healthy for a long time after the evidence was out that it was killing some people. Then they pushed the "Pandemic of the unvaxxed" when Health Canada's own website showed that the majority of covid deaths were actually occurring among the multi-vaxed. There's no bigger lie than that. Probably the majority of Canadians still believe it.
It's logical for you to act like a child? Ok pal.
Ahhhh, so now you can't answer the question.
I'll pose it to you again:
Do you honestly think that the the FBI don't lie after all this time?
Can you say, in no uncertain terms, that you believe that the FBI doesn't lie?
Stop dodging. You understood the question perfectly well.
Can you say, in no uncertain terms, that you believe that the FBI doesn't lie?
I've called them outright liars dozens of times because they've been caught in several lies. Why do you need to sit on the fence?
You brought this topic up yourself, are you too scared to offer a firm opinion?
You're confusing me with the leftard horde here. I don't get busted for lying. You guys do, all the time.
When you're not lying you're offering up childish opinions like "Dr Ford and E J Caroll's claims have merit".
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It is absolutely lying. Do you think that no one at CTV or CBC or Global knew that multi-vaxxed people were dying? 16,000 of them died in 2022... How could they not have known?
That's higher than the total number of covid deaths in 2020, and in 2020 they looked under every nook and cranny to dig up covid stories to fill the news cycle.
They even managed to scratch up the story of a healthy 49 yr old man in England (he was quite fat and looked way older than that) who died of covid (to scare us into believing that covid kills healthy people maybe?) and yet somehow they 'didn't notice' 16,000 multi-vaxxed Candians dying all around them? How the F is that a thing?
That's not "Oops, we missed it, tee hee", that's cherry-picking on a barbaric scale. It's like "We didn't see that pod of whales washed up on the beach, but we did find a seagull with a bit of oil on his leg."
Do you honestly think that not one single person at any of those 3 major TV news networks ever said "Hey, let's find some actual death by vax status stats to see what the ratio of vaxed/unvaxed deaths in Canada is right now"?
They lied, for sure. 1,000% they lied. At the very best, if you need to let them off the hook with your ultra-pathetic standards, they failed so utterly in the performance of their due diligence as journalists that they should all be fired. Literally every single journalist, talking head, and all of their support staff at all 3 of the major networks should be fired - they're that incompetent. Are you really gonna go with that as your final answer?
What are you trying to say here and do you have peer-reviewed articles to back it up? People who are vaccinated are still mortal. Many of them are old and they will die anyway.
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On 10/11/2023 at 5:24 PM, Michael Hardner said:
The amount of control nations had over mass media in the past was astronomical compared to the big tech giants.
And there isn't even a public option to compete with them.
But that’s a national decision. The social media giants are foreign companies operating around the world that nobody outside America and China has any control over, with the US govt often being powerless too. We don’t seem to be alarmed by this.
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On 10/16/2023 at 9:33 PM, robosmith said:
The New Testament completely contradicts the Old Testament. And that's just the start.
The Old Testament is a desert survival guide; kill or be killed. The New Testament is what the Life of Brian shows it to be, a holy book compatible with foreign rule where law and order is no longer a problem and natural homicidal tendencies have to be curbed.
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On 10/16/2023 at 2:45 PM, reason10 said:
The land of Israel has been populated by the Jewish people since 2000 BC. Here's the timeline, in case you didn't realize that it is their homeland, as designated by Yahweh.
1900 BC:
- Abraham chosen by God as the Father
of the Jewish Nation.
A whole load of religious malarkey.
May 1948:
- the UN established the State of Israel,
the nation of Jews.
Don't buy the Palestinian lies that they are entitled to the land. It simply is not true. Yahweh will also provide a way for his chosen people to live in Israel, as He has for thousands of years.
Fact.
And facts don't care about your feelings, rag heads.
So let’s assume for a moment that biblical borefest is true. Do those who live a very long time in a place have exclusive rights to it in perpetuity? Do you see where I am going with this?
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The FPTP voting system punishes small national parties like the NDP and favours regional ones like the BQ. People understand that and tend to vote for the large party nearest their interests when a general election comes around. The question for left-wingers becomes an unpalatable one: do you want Trudeau or Poilievre?
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On 10/17/2023 at 10:00 PM, CdnFox said:
Frankly i think if we're going to have universal health care we should have pharmacare - paying for the guy who can tell you what you need but not paying for what you need sounds stupid to me - but most provinces already have some version of it, and most people have it through work. I'm not sure the average person will see a big difference.
Some of the working poor don’t have it which sends a terrible message. I saw a newly arrived doctor from the UK prescribing fertility medication here and finding out to his amazement that the patient couldn’t afford it.
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Good news in our sea of gloom. Mr. Faucette is still alive one month after his transplant. He and his wife seem to have a great attitude to his perilous situation. So far there has been no sign of infection or rejection.
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We’ll have to see the fine details on this. Somebody who has been on Skid Row for decades probably has other illnesses and will have suffered a great deal already. However, I don’t think young addicts should be offered this drastic alternative.
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22 hours ago, RedDog said:
It’s a difficult challenge. We’re a country who evidently can’t keep drugs out of prisons.
Many countries are in the same boat.
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3 hours ago, blackbird said:
Nonsense. I do put quotations marks around the material I quote or put the word quote at the beginning and unquote at the end. Have you not noticed that? Then followed by the source link.
Mate, you copied and pasted an entire article from the NP. Did you obtain permission from them to do that? Selected quotes are OK as long as you give a link for people to see the rest at the original site. That’s how it works in Internetland. This forum provides tools for quotation to make it unambiguous. Let me show you how they work:
QuoteExactly two weeks ago, waves of Hamas terrorists rampaged through southern Israel, torturing, maiming, murdering and raping innocent civilians. Babies, children and the elderly were taken hostage in the Gaza Strip. Many watched their family members slaughtered before being kidnapped by Hamas.
3 hours ago, blackbird said:There is no copyright infringement when it is not forbidden to quote. I always give the website link it came from which gives credit to the source. So there is no infringement of anything. Article posted on the internet are there for a purpose. The purpose being to broadcast to as many people as possible.
3 hours ago, blackbird said:The other thing is: The purpose is to spread the article to as many people as possible. That is the reason the article is posted on the internet in the first place. So of course the more people it is given to the happier the originators are, especially when the link to its source is included, which I do. I am not running a business or receiving any compensation. So there is no infringement. Quit trying to silence others.
Actually, they want people to visit their site as well.
In no way am I trying to silence you. If you want people to read what you write, make it easier.
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13 hours ago, blackbird said:
If I just post a few points, then there would be no context. Without the context, you likely would not accept it. That's why it is sometimes necessary to spend 5 or 10 minutes to read something to get the full picture.
You could make the point about Jews being in that part of the world for thousands of years in a paragraph or two. I’m not disputing it, by the way. Israel and Palestine is one conflict of many where both parties can claim deep roots in the region. Tribes give all sorts of reasons for fighting over land - religious, political, past atrocities etc. - but I would argue these are secondary. Our gods are worshipped and the enemy’s gods are smashed. The land itself is what the fight is really about.
A housekeeping point. Put quoted material from other authors in a quoted box so we can clearly see it’s theirs and not yours. For copyright reasons, keep the quote as brief as possible and add a link for us to read the rest so we don’t get accused of infringing their legal rights here.
Just to be completely clear on this: I condemn the recent actions of Hamas without reservation.-
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Perhaps liberal democracy is just an inherently unlikely form of government? It has always been the exception and is certainly in retreat these days. The world’s two largest states embraced capitalism but rejected other aspects of the Western state. India, never fully democratic in practice, is sliding into sectarian autocracy while China fulfils nearly all the criteria of a totalitarianism these days. More important to most on the planet are order and a minimum level of prosperity.
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14 minutes ago, blackbird said:
You haven't read the history of the area and say you don't read much. So it is impossible to have a rational conversation.
Try to make your points more concisely. Nobody is going to read a tedious and tendentious screed
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1 hour ago, blackbird said:
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This article is adapted from a Hebrew-language version of the same article, which ran earlier this year at the Israeli publication ICE.
Anti-Israel lies have taken such a strong hold in Western college campuses and throughout the media that basic historical truths about the Jewish people's undeniable right to the Land of Israel have been tossed aside and replaced with falsehoods that fuel conflict and ignorance.
These truths, drawn from ancient and modern history, archaeology, and even international and U.S. law, do not simply disprove the Palestinian propaganda depiction of Jewish usurpers who swooped in a century ago to steal Arab land. These truths demonstrate that the Jewish people have a long-standing and exclusive right to the Land of Israel.
Countless archaeological artifacts have been discovered confirming the Bible's descriptions of the ancient Kingdoms of Judea and Israel.
The "Siloam Inscription" is one of the most important of those archaeological discoveries. These are ancient Hebrew engravings on the wall of the Siloam tunnel, which transported water and was built during the reign of Hezekiah, the king of Judea, almost 2,800 years ago.
The Hebrew inscription describes the tunnel's construction, confirming the story of the mining of the Siloam tunnel as described in the Bible. It was unearthed in the ancient City of David in eastern Jerusalem.
The Siloam Inscription. This is a passage of inscribed text found in the Siloam tunnel which brings water from the Gihon Spring to the Pool of Siloam, located in the City of David in East Jerusalem neighborhood of Shiloah or Silwan. The inscription records the construction of the tunnel, which has been dated to the 8th century B.C.E. on the basis of the writing style.CULTURE CLUB/GETTY IMAGES
In the 1st century B.C.E., the Kingdom of Judea was conquered by the Roman Empire. There is no historical dispute that in both the early Roman period and the Greek period, most of the Jewish people lived in the Land of Israel.
After more than a century of Roman rule, the Jews rebelled against the Romans in the Great Revolt of 66 C.E. The Jewish revolt was a resounding failure, resulting in the destruction of the Second Temple. Still, even after the crushing military defeat, many Jews remained in the Land of Israel.
To celebrate their triumph over the Jews, the Romans erected the Arch of Titus, which depicts the scene of the Roman victory procession in Rome after the suppression of the Jewish revolt. This huge marble gate, which dates to the 1st century C.E., shows Roman soldiers hauling off holy vessels from the Jewish Temple in Jerusalem, including the Menorah (which is today the official symbol of the State of Israel).
The author at the Arch of Titus in Rome, ItalyCOURTESY OF YAIR NETANYAHU
The Arch of Titus can still be found today in central Rome. Near the arch is the Colosseum, which was partially erected thanks to the money and treasure the Romans plundered from the Second Temple in Jerusalem.
Some Roman coins have also been discovered from this period bearing the inscription "Judaea conquered." The "Judaea Capta" coins were a special edition of Roman currency issued by the Roman Emperor Vespasian to celebrate the quelling of the Jewish rebellion by his son Titus.
One of the two ancient bronze coins, which according to Israel Antiquities Authority archaeologists were struck by the Roman procurator of Judea, Valerius Gratus, in the year 17/18 CE and recently were revealed in excavations beneath the Western Wall in Jerusalem's Old City are exposed to the media' on November 23, 2011 in Israel.LIOR MIZRAHI/GETTY IMAGES
The last Jewish revolt against the Romans, the Bar Kokhba revolt, broke out in 132 C.E. in response to harsher anti-Jewish persecution by the Roman Empire.
Following the suppression of the revolt, Emperor Hadrian decided to punish the Jews by changing the name of the province from "Judea" to "Palestine."
For the Romans, the name "Palestine" had nothing to do with modern-day Palestinians, who of course did not even remotely exist at the time. The Romans knew the coastal region of the Land of Israel as "Palestine," which was named after the ancient Philistine people who once inhabited the coastal territory of the Land of Israel.
The Philistines were part of the "sea people" who were said to have come from the island of Crete and invaded the eastern Mediterranean 3,200 years ago. The Philistines disappeared from the history books when the Assyrians conquered and exiled them some 700 years before the Roman period.
A 2019 DNA study of skeletons exhumed from Philistine tombs in the coastal Israeli cities of Ashdod and Ashkelon found that the Philistines come from a "southern European gene pool." In other words, the ancient Philistines have no genetic relation whatsoever to the modern Palestinian-Arabs.
The decision of Emperor Hadrian to change the name of the land to Palestine led to the use of that replacement name in the Roman Empire—and from there, to the various languages of the peoples of Europe.
After the Bar Kokhba revolt suppression, a large Jewish settlement remained in the Land of Israel for the next 600 years, throughout the first centuries of the Christian Byzantine period.
The Holy Land was largely emptied of Jews only after the Arab conquest in the 7th century C.E. The Arabs dispossessed the Jews of their farmland, leaving most of them with no choice but to leave. Despite this, the Jews maintained a continual presence in the four cities of Jerusalem, Hebron, Tiberias, and Safed.
Throughout the Ottoman period in the Land of Israel, from 1517 to 1917 C.E., the land was an insignificant part of the Ottoman Empire. It was not even an Ottoman province in its own right, but only a part of the province of Syria. All the historical records of Europeans and Americans who visited the Holy Land during the Ottoman Empire period depicted an empty and abandoned land.
In the mid-19th century, for example, Mark Twain visited the Land of Israel. Twain described it as a "hopeless, dreary, heartbroken land."
The land began to develop again only with the start of the Jewish settlements after the establishment of the Zionist movement, initiating waves of Jewish immigration to the Holy Land.
Significant development came only after the conquest of the land by the British Empire in 1917. This period is when many Arabs from neighboring countries made their way into the Land of Israel as migrant workers. Interestingly, the most popular surnames in the Palestinian Authority and Gaza Strip today include "Hijazi" (a region in Saudi Arabia), "Al-Masri" (which means Egyptian in Arabic), and "Halabi" (which is the city of Aleppo in Syria in Arabic). Other examples abound.
Before the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948, the only people who called themselves "Palestinians" were the Jews. Many Zionist and Jewish organizations in Israel even incorporated the name Palestine into their names, such as the Zionist Jewish newspaper Palestine Post, which is now known as The Jerusalem Post.
After the end of World War I, the victorious powers gathered in the city of San Remo, Italy. There, it was decided that the new territories that France and Britain occupied from the Ottoman Empire in the Middle East would be managed as temporary mandates. Turkey officially ceded to Britain all its territory in the Middle East, including Palestine.
A mandate to rule the Land of Israel—the British Mandate for Palestine, from the ancient Roman name—was given to the British (among other areas) by the League of Nations, the organization that preceded the UN. A mandate was given for a limited time, with the aim of preparing the local people for eventual independence and self-rule. With the Mandate for Palestine, Britain officially reiterated all its commitments from the 1917 Balfour Declaration to a national home for the Jewish people in the Land of Israel.
The Mandate for Palestine's founding document explicitly stated that a national home for the Jewish people would be established in its territory. It did not expressly mention a national home for any other people.
The Mandate documented the deep historical connection between the Jewish people and the Land of Israel, from biblical times to the present day. The territory designated for the British Mandate of Palestine included Transjordan (today, the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan), Israel, Gaza, and Judea and Samaria (i.e., the West Bank).
The charter of the British Mandate for Palestine has been ratified by the British Parliament, the U.S. Congress, and the League of Nations. When the UN was established, it ratified all the Mandates of the League of Nations, including the British Mandate for Palestine. The Mandate, therefore, is a binding international treaty which has become part of international law, British law, and American law.
The international legal status of the Land of Israel has not changed since the British Mandate, except for Israel's formal renunciation of Transjordan as part of the 1994 peace treaty between Israel and Jordan.
After the declaration of Israeli independence in 1948, the Arab armies invaded with the aim of eliminating every Jew there. They failed in their mission, but the Jordanian army managed to conquer Judea and Samaria and eastern Jerusalem (naming it the "West Bank"), and the Egyptian army seized the Gaza Strip.
The armistice line with the West Bank was, and still is, called the "Green Line." Crucially, this line constituted only a temporary ceasefire line, and attained no formal legal or political validity. Israel appealed to Jordan and Egypt after the 1948 invasion to designate the Green Line as an international border, but the Arab nations did not agree because they did not recognize Israel as a legitimate state at all.
Jews were forced to flee from their communities that fell on the "Arab side" of the Green Line. Immediately after the war, the Jordanian army blew up all the synagogues in the Old City of Jerusalem and chopped up Jewish gravestones to pave roads.
In the 1967 Six-Day War, Egypt, Syria, and Jordan tried again to destroy Israel. The State of Israel won the war and took the Golan Heights, Judea and Samaria (West Bank), the Sinai Peninsula, and the Gaza strip. All the territory occupied in the war (except for the Sinai) belongs to the Jewish people according to international law, in accordance with the Treaty of San Remo and the British Mandate for Palestine. Israel returned the whole of Sinai to Egypt in the peace treaty of 1979, and unilaterally pulled out of Gaza in 2005.
Unfortunately, these facts have been replaced with propagandistic Palestinian lies, which have permeated Western media and academia alike. That narrative must be countered, and the best way to do so is with the cold, hard facts.
Yair Netanyahu is an Israeli radio host and columnist with a M.A. in government. He is the son of former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. unquote
Why the Jewish People Are the Rightful Owners of the Land of Israel | Opinion (newsweek.com)
Me no read that much.
Humans have been all over the place. My ancestors trekked across Africa, Asia and Europe. Can I claim anything along the way? The DNA record suggests many ancestors of modern Jews were German, French, Arab etc.
British Palestine is an example of what happens when a tsunami of foreigners arrives in your land; as any First Nations person can tell you, they tend to take over. This Balfour Declaration was like Pope Adrian allegedly handing over Ireland to England; it wasn’t his to give. For internal British political reasons, the governing authority of Palestine betrayed its duty of care to the people already there.
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5 hours ago, Army Guy said:
This is an example of how easy it is today to destroy a mans career, his ability to stay at his own home, all becasue of his opinion, this clearly violates the meaning of what freedom of speech is all about. Don't get me wrong i do not agree with his opinions, however i do agree with his freedom to express them regardless of what i think.
I find that what happened to this doctor is an example of todays cancel culture ..., and if we should cancel anything it would be this culture were when we don't like what someone is saying we destroy it regardless of consequences...maybe that is what we need more robust means to defend against and punish those that use this cancel culture...
Ontario doctor suspended, his address published after pro-Palestinian social media posts (msn.com)
If that suspension really is just about his views on a non-medical matter, then no doctor should post their views on social media again under their own name because somebody is always offended. In fairness, there may have been previous ‘issues’ not related to politics.
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On 10/9/2023 at 11:43 PM, blackbird said:
No, they have no historic claim to any part of Germany. But they do have a historic claim to the land of Israel. Big difference.
You conveniently ignore this quote from Wikipedia.
What are historic claims at this point? Do I have an historic claim to an acre of Ethiopia, given that all non-African humans hailed from that neck of the woods originally?
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An early Pink Floyd album which is more melodic than I remembered.
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The West, especially Britain, has been cosying up to Azerbaijani tyrant, Ilham Aliyev, for years:
And the Turks under Erdogan remain keen to kill Armenians in 2023.
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On 10/9/2023 at 12:13 PM, I am Groot said:
While there is some truth in that it wouldn't account for the number of single-parent families in poorer black communities. The men there certainly can't be said to be great bread earners. And while I haven't seen any actual study I'm willing to bet that if you did a poll of men in a prison and men working at Microsoft it would show the former group to be far more successful with women and have more children.
I think it does account for that. Poor men don’t earn significantly more than their partners. Therefore they are not bringing enough benefit to the household to be worth putting up with. Also you’re conflating fathering children and living together. Women tend to draw a clear distinction between those activities. Unless compelling reasons are offered, they’ve enough people to mind at home already.
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4 hours ago, CdnFox said:
Well sort of. It is true that its 'average income' is higher - but also they are a very 'young' province. The average age is lower than most- mainly because their older people tend to move to bc in very large numbers. Why would you suffer those winters in your 60's when you can have a fantastic home on the island with green grass you can actually see most of the time in december. That means more of their population is still working, so when people talk about the contributions from adults you have to keep that in mind. Meantime BC is paying the medical bills from a bunch of older people who aren't contributing much tax revenues due to their age and who paid into the alberta system all their lives. You dont hear them claimoring to correct that little issue tho
You’d want to pick your spot in BC with care these days.
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48 minutes ago, CdnFox said:
But the one you missed that i think is the MOST misunderstood is - alberta does NOT pay into 'equalization'. At no point in history has the gov't of alberta ever cut a cheque for 'equalization'. And everyone in alberta seems to think that's how it works. Alberta 'pays into' equalization.
Equalization comes from income tax, and eveyrone in Canada pays the same income tax. If you make 100 k in montreal or calgary- you're paying the same amount into 'equalization'.
There are just more of those high earners in Alberta as a percentage of the total, so the effect is that taxpayers from the province contribute more to federal income tax.
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5 hours ago, blackbird said:
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Footnote 19 of the same Wikipedia article cites to a April 13, 1971 article from The Ottawa Journal. The article states that the Trudeaus were visiting an unidentified island in the Caribbean and wanted the press to give them privacy:
To be clear: they disclosed all the other locations they visited but asked the press for privacy when they went to the “unidentified” island. Come on.
Justin Trudeau was born 8 1/2 months later. In 1976, Pierre eagerly became the first NATO leader to travel to Cuba. He brought his wife. Before even leaving the tarmac, both Trudeaus were showing an unusual amount of familiarity with Fidel considering he was a national leader they just allegedly met. Within hours of their first official meeting, Margaret was photographed intimately touching and holding Fidel Castro with both arms. The Trudeaus announced they had become besties with the dictator and sang his praises during the height of his human rights violations."
So they go for a romantic holiday, Fidel steps in and Pierre is totally cool about it? I think everyone in Canada can agree that Trudeau père had a big ego.
Should Hamas support rallies in Canada be stopped?
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I’d be more in favour of prosecuting explicit actions that show support of Hamas, e.g. waving the Hamas flag as opposed to the Palestinian one, or clear statements of hatred against Jews. That would narrow down the job for the police a lot.