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?Impact

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  1. Confirmed through "how fundamentally rotten the left was...lens of delusion of left wing media" Yes, the right wing media is all news and no partisanship. I also have a bridge from Manhattan for sale.
  2. I am asking for science, you have so far provided zero science. If you think cell division is human life, then what about that drop of blood you spilled. How many human lives have you murdered?
  3. Eyeball has it right, if you want right wing trash then the Toronto Sun is your place to go. If it is over the board rabid cesspool you love to hang out in then The Rebel is right up your alley. The one national newspaper you didn't mention is the Globe and Mail, but that might be too much news and not enough sensationalism for your liking. Other Canadian newspapers of note are The Montreal Gazette, The Calgary Herald, The Ottawa Citizen, The Chronicle Herald, Le Devior, and La Presse.
  4. Why shouldn't a country that is so heavily influenced by American popular culture not be influenced by American style political corruption? Ask any Canadian about House of Cards, and they will probably tell you that it is American, and the 'U' in 'FU' stands for Underwood not Urquhart.
  5. Perhaps that should be reflected in the title then. b.t.w., I am still waiting for some science.
  6. I think there is a significant tangible benefit to doing appointments rather than elections. Elections are influenced by a single factor - money. Politics, platform, and even the individual are about 1 billion steps behind the money. I like the idea of doing appointments for the upper house, the only problem is we are brain dead in allowing the Prime Minister do the appointments. They should be done by a multi-partisan committee (makeup of said committee should reflect the popular vote in the last election), and the province to which the Senate seat is assigned should actually get at least 50% say (again part of the committee with similar makeup). Appointments should have a much stronger vetting process on actual capabilities, other than being able to smile and raise money for said Prime Minster.
  7. Canada entered World War I almost 3 years prior to America Canada entered World War II more than a year prior to America
  8. Yes. Technically the Governor-General does the appointing, but I am not aware of a single case where he or she did so without the Prime Minister pulling the strings other than the first 73 Senators in 1867; they were appointed by Royal proclamation but under the advice of the original elected members of Parliament (in that case the partisan division in the Senate almost exactly reflected the party standing in the House of Commons). The Prime Minister has always picked along partisan lines with only 3 notable exceptions: Conservative PM John A. MacDonald (1867-1891) picked 9 Liberals and 3 others (14% of his total) Liberal PM Pierre Trudeau (1968-1984) picked 8 Conservatives and 3 others (14% of his total) Liberal PM Paul Martin (2003-2006) picked 5 Conservatives (30% of his total) Other than that all Prime Ministers have either been 90% or more partisan, with most of them being either 100% partisan or a single token exception.
  9. Saskatchewan, Alberta, and even Manitoba were creations of the the country and never joined.
  10. There are only 20 federations with an upper house, it would be interesting to see how many of them give equal representation to the member states within them. It would be further interesting how many of those have great disparity between the population sizes of the member states (94:1 for Canada, 67:1 for the US), and there is plenty of displeasure in the US about their level of disparity. The nice thing about the US is at least the peoples representative by state is almost 1:1 where in Canada it is 3:1. Do you think people in Kenora like to think of themselves as being lumped in with people from Toronto? Do you know that it is shorter to drive from Flin Flon Manitoba to Kamloops BC, than it is from Kenora Ontario to Toronto Ontario?
  11. What does that have to do with representation in Confederation?
  12. The PCs have a bigger gravy train than the Liberals, the only difference is their gravy train only stops at the door of their corporate crony buddies. The PCs cut back on spending by giving away the farm to their friends and have them collect inflated revenue from the farm; Hydro, 407ETR, labs for monitoring water quality, etc.
  13. No, BC is a true province the joined Canada. The rest are just subdivisions of the territories. Perhaps Ontario could subdivide into multiple provinces in order to not get diluted as has been the course for the past century.
  14. What "science" starts a human life at conception? Is it the DNA in the cell? Then all human cells are human life, and spill a drop of blood (white blood cells) and you are committing murder. The embryo is nothing more than a parasite, unable to survive on its own. Yes, it may divide and grow for a couple of days before implanting in the uterus but unless it implants it will die. We can grow other human cells outside the body, the example of blood cells above is used to grow platelets outside the body with hope of helping people suffering from hemophilia and other conditions.
  15. Lot's of fake talk about 'proportional representation' in the Senate, but what it really boils down to is the west screwing Ontario. Ontario has more population than all four western provinces put together. If considering 'regions' then perhaps Ontario should be 3 regions (GTA, eastern/southwestern Ontario, and Northern Ontario).
  16. No, you miss the point. The Ontario Progressive Conservatives have been very bad at winning elections. Nobody, repeat nobody wanted the Liberals last time around and very few the previous time; they just wanted the PCs even less.
  17. As soon as he began to gain the upper hand, I said to myself the conspiracy theories are only moments away.
  18. The Ontario Progressive Conservatives have been sent to the woodshed for 13 years and counting.
  19. Godwin, are you there? Hello Goodwin!
  20. Anti-choice says that nurture has nothing to do with humanity. To the anti-choice crowd, Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel is a prime example of humanity.
  21. We can't even remotely say that Japan is founded on Judeo-Christian values. Are couples there allowed to be married? What about gay couples? What about if they immigrate to Canada?
  22. What about Tehran?
  23. Do you oppose the use of the term "marriage" in civil and non Judeo-Christian religions?
  24. Exodus 22:18 - Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live. Note it explicitly applies only to a female sorceress, I am safe practicing my sorcery.
  25. Perhaps we only took 1000 steps forward when we should have taken 2000, but what choice did we have? Bernier? What qualifications does he have, other than leaking more state secrets than Clinton?
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