Zeitgeist

You’re naive to the dangers of giving more surveillance power and control to government. It has and will be abused. There’s a list of Snowdens and Asanges out there who are basically stateless because government didn’t like being called out. You can look at China to see how a state uses power against its citizens. Social credit systems are not science fiction. CBDCs are emblematic of government distrust of citizens and a way to know exactly what you buy, where you buy it, and from whom. They can be switched off like a tap. If you don’t see the risk for abuse and the clear privacy violation, I can’t help you. Like our new internet controls, the justification will be your “safety”. No thanks.

Nice try. People can and should express their moral positions when they are forced into situations that they oppose on moral grounds. People who don’t are cowards. Why should people accept educational messaging that they oppose? People may generally tolerate different lifestyles as long as they aren’t forced to wear a badge that supports such lifestyles. Another problem with the “Pride flag” is that it’s a grab bag of groups with different characteristics. People may generally accept that people with different sexual orientations follow their desires, have relationships, get married, etc., but they may oppose gay marriage or they may oppose the notion that one can change sexual identity through drugs, surgery, or the mere expression that one is another gender. People may not agree that there are over 10 or 100 genders. People may not agree that dysphoria isn’t a mental disorder when our psychology manuals still describe it as a mental disorder. People may see gender affirmation as abusive or dangerous at best. People may see the rising number of de-transitioners who feel that they were pressured into surgery and now feel regret. People may see how progressive Sweden did an about face and banned gender transition surgeries for kids after seeing the negative fallout. If I allow my kids’ school to fly a Pride flag, I’m accepting a lot of perspectives. Why should I? What about the multitude of other identity groups? Keep it simple please. Canadian, provincial, even municipal flags are fine. Great education can and should be provided without getting into such clear indoctrination that offends the morality of so many people.

Watched by whom? Don’t you see that anyone who is “watching” and policing reasonable views is sick? Are you sick, in someone’s employ? My opinions have always been about ensuring that our basic rights aren’t compromised. You have consistently defended trouncing rights. You throw in some criticism of Liberal policies, but I saw your creepy defence of government overreach from when you started coming on here around a year ago. It’s your right to be an apologist for poor governance. You do you.

Michael will support whatever happens. He doesn’t take a position except to defend the status quo. Populism doesn’t really mean anything. People have input and vote. My bet is that one third of parents like the woke shit, one third hate it, and one third either don’t care or are too busy or disengaged to do anything. My one take away from this is that these Muslims have the courage of their convictions. They’ll take and follow through on a moral position, which impresses me.

Blackbird has gone all in on his religious perspective, which I may not always agree with, but don’t pretend that your atheist perspective is more verifiable, because it isn’t. You can’t point to anything that disproves God’s existence, nor can you disprove Blackbird’s position. If you said that you don’t take a position on whether or not God exists because neither position is verifiable without evidence, which is the agnostic position, that would be less of a faith-based perspective. What you don’t seem to appreciate about religious people is that their beliefs are faith-based, and some people have strong faith. I don’t judge these people. You do, yet you cannot prove that God doesn’t exist. Your atheism is no less a belief than that of a theist. In fact, it’s highly arguable that existence is miraculous, since it cannot be explained, yet it cannot be denied.

You can’t explain why there is anything at all instead of nothing. The belief in God like the belief that there is no God requires a leap of faith. You can’t point to anything for incontrovertible evidence. Disparaging Blackbird is disparaging yourself. Your views are no more and no less faith-based.

What is the point of flying a flag that symbolizes certain sexual lifestyles and identities? Can we have flags for all other causes and identities in that case? Perhaps the Ukrainians won’t like the Russian flag. Maybe the China flag won’t resonate well with everyone.

You can’t separate people’s religious beliefs from people. Don’t be ridiculous. If you don’t want crucifixes or stars of David symbols in our education system, don’t impose pride flags. They’re a violation of many people’s religious beliefs. The Catholic system has constitutional protections for religious education.

This issue isn’t inclusion. Everyone is loved. As usual you’re being disingenuous. The concern is the publicly funded education system taking a stance that affirms certain sexual lifestyle choices with symbols and proclamations that run counter to many families’ religious beliefs and to other human rights, such as women’s rights in the case of trans women competing in women’s sports and being admitted to women’s private spaces. Schools are not the places for such ideological indoctrination.

How much are the Libs paying you? It’s not worth it.

You and Moonbox are such total sellouts

Are you really that much of a sucker? How would you like your access to funds turned off if the government doesn’t like what you’re buying or your political views? Maybe that’s a bad food choice or you’re doing too much driving this month, destroying the planet. After what happened with the freezing of bank accounts in Canada, only very stupid people would support digital central bank currencies. Crypto was supposed to be a way of ensuring that people had money without state control, especially in totalitarian countries. Central bank digital currencies are a way for governments to circumvent that.

You’re right, but you’re talking to naive posters who accept government overreach like the Emergencies Act. They think more government surveillance and controls are fine, including freezing the bank accounts of political opponents. Too many Canadians will accept this kind of totalitarian treatment, so we keep getting more of it.

If you like self-righteousness, phoniness, authoritarianism, damaging Canada’s stature both domestically and internationally, overspending, pitting Canadians against each other by offering privileges and money to certain identity groups while insulting others, a botched vaccine procurement, a military in decline, and censorship, then the Trudeau Liberals are something to celebrate.

You mean he saved us by not closing the border temporarily to visitors from China?

If Toronto didn’t have lower property taxes, the Toronto homeowners with modest incomes wouldn’t be able to keep their homes. The tax mill rate applied to a million dollar home, which is the low average home cost in Toronto, would bury residents who grew up in Toronto. You don’t even know how to be a leftist.

Jack was a good man. I’d like to believe in Olivia too, but I don’t see the acumen or same level of sincerity. Maybe I’m wrong.

Michael you consider yourself conservative but your positions are quite NDP from what I’ve gathered over the years.

So how many months will it take Chow to raise taxes and handouts and to drive away businesses?

Would be fun if we had more bombastic options like Fox, instead of more, “The woodchuck resides in rocky climbs.” https://youtu.be/7xpuEmnOMNw

Can we scrap the CRTC? It seems that apart from imposing anti-free speech censorship rules, limiting media options, and making our limited media options expensive, this agency doesn’t offer much. We don’t need these ninnies to “protect” Canadian culture because they seem to deplore it.

Yes he’s taken political positions. I mean tentative in the sense that he’s also de-emphasized the monarchy. Commonwealth constitutional monarchies are disappearing.

In theory that’s true, but Charles is a tentative monarch unlike his mom. I’m not sure our King would intervene unless the government started slaughtering citizens in the streets. Our GG? She was AWOL during Trudeau’s draconian imposition of the Emergencies Act.

A state that helps people die and is also the provider of healthcare is a state that creates the the conditions for an expanding state killing apparatus. It’s already well underway in Canada, which has among the most radically permissive euthanasia policies in the world. You don’t seem to understand that healthcare is supposed to be about health. Doctors take the Hippocratic Oath to cure people. Helping people die who are not dying is the opposite of healthcare, but this expansion of MAID is in keeping with unlimited abortion rights, the increasing legalization of hard drugs, and the catch and release approach of our justice system to violent criminals. I know you like all this. This is your Canada. Enjoy. I’m hoping to get US citizenship eventually for my family because in my estimation Canada is becoming a radical left wing authoritarian dystopia. Don’t get me wrong though, not all of the US is better than Canada. I’d move to Alberta but it’s colder than Southern Ontario and it’s also being taken over by woke-green totalitarians.

Simon could’ve demonstrated through actions that she wasn’t going to make her position about milking the public for luxuries like high-priced catering and using her power to disparage Canada as colonial and patriarchal. She’s the worst kind of representative because, not only does she not respect her office, she pits Canadians against each other by valuing some identity groups over others. She’s made herself susceptible to the criticism that she doesn’t merit the job and is an equity hire.