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  1. Zeitgeist
    1. Only since the Freedom Convoy and Poilievre criticism illustrated how owned and beholden our MSM is to government did CBC and some other mainstream news become more careful. They’re still full of radical left woke nonsense and should be defunded of taxpayers’ hard-earned money. 2. Wow, so now you’re a shill for the Communist Party of China? Incredible Many Toronto Star articles are socialist opinion pieces from woke Liberal-NDP sycophants. Conrad Black, a great Canadian intellectual, businessman, and truth teller created the National Post after buying Sun Media and the National Post. And you call yourself a conservative?
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    I understand wanting to find reputable sources, but the traditional trusted news sources are not as neutral as they used to be. News sections that purport to be objective often read like opinion pieces. The only credible major newspaper left in Canada is the National Post, mostly because its owners aren’t as dependent on or concerned about government funding. I used to think it was a conservative paper, but all popular political options in Canada are middle left to radical left now. Epoch Times is also quite good. My former favourite for more local Toronto and Ontario news, the Toronto Star, sounds too much now like the Marxist-Leninist rags handed out free when I was in university. For fair North American content I read Free Press on Substack, which is left leaning but very much open to a plurality of opinions. Rising on YouTube is also good but America-focused. For the Catholic perspective I read Lifesite News, though it’s very critical of the Francis Pontificate, and I can see why. Beyond that I mostly pull information from my daily Apple News feeds, which come from a variety of sources. YouTube is more fringe but quite censored. Rumble is even more fringe, but on those platforms you’ll find insightful interviews with people like Matt Taibi or Michael Shellenberger, who are serious journalists with important critiques.
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    They refer to Trudeau as a part standing for the whole. It’s a figure of speech, a synecdoche: “The Crown has decided.” Anyway if I hadn’t found the information about the bill there’s no guarantee that it would’ve been posted. You’re welcome.
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    Increasingly it seems that our society would be leaps and bounds ahead if our Feds stopped governing and drafting new legislation several years ago. All of these bills are so obviously bad that it would be better to have stopped passing bills altogether than to attempt even to modify these bills. Our next government needs to drop the activism and get the basics right.
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    Deflection. You sound worse than when you started. What does “fat American guy” have to do with ideas, or is your stereotyping and prejudice so deep that you can’t smell your own farts? I no longer accept your self-descriptions of Christian or conservative because much of what you say is counter to any definitions I’ve seen of either attribute.
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    I read and consider opposing views. When you comment on something you haven’t read or viewed, you lose credibility. Hardner is Christian the way that Trudeau is black.
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    That’s impressive. He sounds like a Stoic. If he can remain his own person, speak his mind, and advocate for prosperity and constitutional rights, he may have a long bright future as PM. The rot sets in when politicians become beholden to special interests and create sinecures for cronies. Trudeau has inflated the size of government by 40% and increased our debt by as much in 8 years. His government is obsessed with creating and imposing expensive government programs on the population when they can’t get the basics of federal government responsibilities right: issuing passports, running the Indigenous file, procuring for the military, etc. Poilievre will have to slash spending, eliminate carbon taxes, and ban DEI/woke shit. If he does these three things alone, he will be successful.
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    Fair point. It comes from the secular fascists in Quebec, but Trudeau often kowtows to the Bloc and Quebec.
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    So you didn’t watch the videos. Your comments on Peterson have weakened your position.
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    That’s totalitarian capitalism, China style, except our system imposes a state LGBTQ religion and may soon euthanize children and the mentally ill who don’t have decision-making capacity (how can someone who is mentally ill?). Oh and don’t forget legal hard drugs. Canada is removing freedoms and incentivizing bad health and self-destruction in unprecedented ways.
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    It’s truly frightening what the Trudeau regime pushes to legislate. Bill C-63 is the end of free speech. Bill 376 is the end of freedom of religion. Any view that someone dislikes can be viewed by some as hateful. Really we need to get away from the idea of banning “hate speech”. Speech isn’t violence. Threatening violence isn’t okay and there are already laws to prevent that. There are laws to protect children from online harm and revenge porn, but they must be enforced. There are ways to prevent people from being targeted by verbal insults that don’t require speech bans, jail terms, and fines. Employers and institutions have codes of conduct. Parents can prevent young kids from having cell phones or going online unsupervised. So can schools.
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    A rational government would legislate all of this nonsense away. Our courts and governments have caved into gender ideologues. They’re redefining words in order to legitimize a false reality that has no scientific basis. This will continue as long as people remain afraid to speak out. Our population is running scared from potential cancellation. Sadly there are few people who can afford to take the risk to speak out publicly. Those who do have been made examples of: Jordan Peterson, Monique Le Grange, Amy Hamm, etc.. Rational thought and freedom of speech are under attack in Canada.
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    You’re correct that Canada has declined significantly. Really America is the model. I would agree that the lifestyles in parts of Europe are quite good for average citizens, such as France with its high productivity. People tout the size of Germany’s economy and trade or the social safety nets of Scandinavian countries. It’s a mixed bag. In much of Europe, especially the north, the cost of living is very high. It’s harder to do business because of regulations and taxation. Europe is a continent of nanny states where much is taken care of by the state but it’s harder to be an entrepreneur. Brussels is imposing regulations on the climate front that are disempowering farmers, raising prices, and creating security risks due to unreliable energy sources, especially in places like Germany. Europe is overrun by migrant security risks that these countries aren’t equipped to house or contain. France is resorting to forms of secular fascism to contain radical Islam, putting pressure on its constitutional rights. Britain is struggling to regain control of her economy and security. I do see disadvantages of leaving the EU, but I think British people decided it’s better to be in control of your own destiny than to be beholden to Brussels and Frankfurt. Britain is certainly vulnerable, as is Canada. It’s hard for countries and cultures to sustain themselves culturally without compromising economically and vice versa. I think it’s the British way of life that citizens are seeking to protect. Americans are doing better at protecting their way of life. Canada is certainly more vulnerable.
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    My point is clear but I’ll rephrase it: Before you write off entire media platforms because they aren’t the ones with which you grew up, and before you play the game of worldly superiority by writing off content before viewing it because it has the word “Christian” in its title, give a moment to considering your biases and ideological capture. I keep waiting for some kind of breakthrough where you realize it’s no longer 1995. I suggest you take a risk and get out of your comfort zone. Here’s some misinformation from a couple of dumb hacks. I wonder if you’ll see any value in it or if you’ll approach with the same pretence and miss an opportunity for growth.
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    There was nothing dubious about the sources. How you characterized them was misleading and dismissive. Only when you saw Atwood’s name in the mix did you ascribe legitimacy. Apparently all YouTube content including the highly informative Rising is misinformation according to you. You also fail to see how mainstream media is frequently co-opted by officialdom. The Minister’s redirection of readers to The Canadian Press (mentioned in the National Post article) is a perfect example.
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    No. You’re not the arbiter of acceptable news sources. I don’t know what you mean. Get your head out of the sand. You’re uncritical about many important issues, critical about the unimportant. I remember defending your moderation. That was a mistake. That commentator on YouTube said nothing false or radical, but maybe you don’t like his accent or think that in some oblique way he’s MAGA or alt-right or some form of the unwashed? Or is it that he’s Christian? Such blatant biases and animosity are inappropriate for a moderator.
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    I posted the Armstrong Economics article in the first post. It provides facts about the bill, including the section of the Constitution that it nullifies. How much more hand-holding do you need?
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    She’s one of Canada’s greats, and she’s from my alma mater.
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    Well done to cite Margaret Atwood, an acceptable human in Mikey’s elite world. Maybe she went to his alma mater.
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    You can Google like anyone else. Why would I make this up? This is where your lassitude catches up with you. Pay attention to current affairs.
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    Canadian governments are throwing their own populations under the bus, stripping away freedoms and living standards, following China into the abyss. France is there too. The only lasting defence of the increasing squeeze on our way of life is, “At least we’re not China or Russia.” So sad what’s happening in Canada and many parts of the West. People need to understand that they employ government. Governments need to understand that they work for the people, all people, including families and average working people.
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    As Canada continues to bring in so-called anti-hate speech laws that increasingly narrow the range of free speech, this latest bill removes the ability to oppose alternative sexual lifestyles and gender ideology on the basis of religious exemption. It strips away the basic constitutional right to express one’s religious beliefs. This will no doubt require silence before the accelerating sexualization of children and the attack on the traditional family. How much more destruction do we allow our government and courts to do to family life? This is all of course in a context of falling birth rates and more and more government interventions and restrictions on how citizens choose to express themselves. ”Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has passed numerous pieces of legislation prohibiting free speech in Canada, yet nothing has been as restrictive as Bill C-367, an amendment to the Criminal Code that will prohibit Canadians from expressing “an opinion based on a belief in a religious text. If passed, people can be arrested for quoting the Bible on Canadian soil.” Armstrong Economics Please note that if you are reading this in Canada, due to government restrictions, you may not be able to open the following links: https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/international-news/great-reset/canada-moves-to-ban-christianity-changes-to-bill-c-367/
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    The EU worked at first to contain Germany and facilitate trade. I think it served the members fairly well for periods. The problem is that Brussels extorts money from member states to pay for ideological projects and hamstrings the economies of member states, as countries can no longer lower interest rates and devalue their currencies when unemployment rates go up and the economy falters. Britain realized her independence as a nation state was at stake. I miss the access that my British passport provided when it was in the EU. However, Britain now has better control of immigration and can set her own domestic and foreign affairs. Europe is an overtaxed, over-regulated class system where only the multi-generational wealthy live North American lifestyles. The European middle class has less disposable income and is essentially beholden to elite climate fascists who don’t understand where their food comes from. EU farmers are being taxed and regulated out of existence. They’ve also screwed up their energy production as part of their climate crusade and made themselves vulnerable to Putin, who is licking his chops waiting for Trump to walk away from NATO. Britain figured out that America runs the show, maintained its military and close ties to the US, and got out of the EU. In an ideal world some form of EU with a teensy weensy government in Brussels would be okay, but the EU is ideologically captured by the China-led UN. So is Canada for that matter.
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    You do you in your creepy dystopia. I’ll migrate to a saner civilization.
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    That’s a sick perspective that’s very much the 2030 Agenda and ESG. You do realize that to slash the population to what your twisted perspective of sustainability requires can only be done by either mass murder or mass sterilization. It probably also means mass enslavement and indoctrination to achieve your goals. Smarten up. The entire world’s population can be fed by food produced in the San Fernando Valley. Your comments about religion are very stupid. Christianity supports marriage between a man and a woman and opposes abortion, which is the killing of human life, no matter how you try to rationalize it. With regard to women’s rights, which religion do you think supports them more, Christianity or Islam? You and the other 60’s train wreck milquetoast Boomers are exemplars of the reason Canada is fast-tracked to self-destruction and lost in the ideology of cultural Marxist radical left lunatics. Under your direction, Canada’s ability to maintain itself as some kind of UN jurisdiction would depend entirely upon destabilizing mass immigration. I hope that the youngest generations see the folly of the 60’s love children who are essentially asleep at the wheel. Be careful what you wish for, because you would be quickly euthanized in your old age in the effort to create the “pure” world you envision. The churches would be either mosques, condos or dance clubs. Your grandaughters and grandsons sons would be promiscuous singles aborting and hormonally sterilizing themselves into menopause and old age. Oh well, the rise and fall of empires…
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