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Hilarious delusion. The number of Russian casualties is equivalent to 87% of its original invasion force. Not 87% of its combat troops, 87% of the entire invasion army, cooks and janitors and all, along with 2/3 of all its pre-invasion armour. Russias army was thrown backwards from the gates of Kyiv all away across the Dnipro river in the east. Even if a peace treaty were signed tomorrow and Russia got to keep what it still held this is an embarrassing loss for Russia Plus now they’re deep in hock to their close allies China and Iran. Their military and economy have been so damaged it is essentially useless for anything except defending and dying in the trenches built in Ukraine.

Russia could have peace tomorrow just by going home. As you must constantly be reminded, Russia is invading Ukraine, not the other way around.

When the Army said they desperately needed MANPADS this is not what they meant! But don’t you worry folks. This is actually all part of the CAF’s program to supply the new C-69 Used Tampon Extended Range Artillery System. (UTERAS). These ethically sourced, biodegradable, non-lethal munitions are guaranteed to cause even the most determined enemy to beat a hasty retreat!

RCN's fifth AOPS HMCS Frédérick Rolette has officially launched The Royal Canadian Navy’s fifth Arctic and Offshore Patrol Ship (AOPS), the future HMCS Frédérick Rolette, was launched on December 9, 2023, at Halifax Shipyard. The launch of the fifth of six AOPS for the Royal Canadian Navy, marks a significant milestone for Canada’s National Shipbuilding Strategy (NSS) and the revitalization of the Royal Canadian Navy’s combatant fleet. A full two months ahead of schedule, the 103-metre future HMCS Frédérick Rolette transitioned from Halifax Shipyard’s land level facility to a submersible barge on December 8th and launched in the Bedford Basin on December 9th. The ship, constructed by over 2,400 shipbuilders, is now pier side at Halifax Shipyard where work continues in preparation for sea trials and handover to the Royal Canadian Navy in September 2024. Inside Halifax Shipyard’s facilities, the Royal Canadian Navy’s sixth AOPS, the future HMCS Robert Hampton Gray and the first AOPS variant for the Canadian Coast Guard are under construction, with work progressing as planned. A generation of shipbuilders will deliver six AOPS for the Royal Canadian Navy, two AOPS for the Canadian Coast Guard, and 15 Canadian Surface Combatant ships for the Royal Canadian Navy as part of the NSS. “The launch of future HMCS Frédérick Rolette is another milestone achieved on our mission to deliver ships for Canada,” said Dirk Lesko, President, Irving Shipbuilding Inc. “I’m proud of the teamwork that delivered this result”. http://www.canadiandefencereview.com/UserFiles/Image/2023_images/0U1A5497%20-%20WEB.jpgCharles Frédérick Rolette was born in Québec City on September 23, 1785, and joined the Royal Navy as a midshipman while a young teen. He distinguished himself during the War of 1812, earning a reputation as a bold and quick-thinking officer. The historical Canton of Rolette, located on the south shore of the St. Lawrence River, roughly 50 km southeast of the town of Montmagny, Québec, near the American border, was established in 1868 in his honour. Just before the outbreak of the War of 1812, Rolette was posted to Amherstburg, Upper Canada (now Ontario) as Lieutenant in command of the brig General Hunter. When word of the outbreak of war reached Amherstburg on July 3, 1812, Rolette acted immediately, capturing an American vessel, the Cuyahoga, before the American crew even realized that their country had declared war on Britain. This was the first action of the War of 1812 and a significant prize as the Cuyahoga carried the American commander General William Hull’s papers and dispatches. This provided the British with significant early intelligence on American strength and deployment. At a time when it was not yet customary to award medals to military personnel in recognition of conspicuous gallantry, Lieutenant Rolette was mentioned in dispatches by senior military officers on several occasions during the war. At the capture of Detroit, Major-General Isaac Brock praised Rolette’s conduct in the highest terms: “I have watched you during the action,” said the general, “you behaved like a lion, and I will remember you.” Published: December 9, 2023 https://www.canadiandefencereview.com/news/rcn-s-fifth-aops-hmcs-fr-d-rick-rolette-has-officially-launched

Chretien and Martin massively cut budgets and downloaded to provinces, and provinces did the same and downloaded to municipalities. Many provincial leaders like Mike Harris and Ralph Klein were even worse. Canada’s crumbling infrastructure, healthcare, mushrooming class room sizes etc have been constant news stories for decades. Most services have been severely underfunded for long periods Trudeaus spending increases have been largely on new programs not shoring up the critically underfunded ones which will take decades and multiple prime ministers to fix

False! I’m shocked (not really) that you’re unaware of who built our railroads. Pop Quiz Hot Shot: What class were the Russian immigrants? OMG you know nothing. Canada was founded on the fur trade with the indigenous peoples who traded and guided the various European powers and fought their continental proxy wars on their behalf like the Beaver Wars (look it up if you’ve never heard of it). There would be no recognizable Canada without indigenous peoples. The “federal state” system of government (look it up if you don’t know the term) which was first practiced almost exclusively by Canada and USA was based on the Iroquois confederacy. The word “CANADA” is literally an indigenous word and most places in Canada are named after indigenous people or their words including the country, 4 provinces, one territory, 4 of the 5 Great Lakes, and countless towns, cities, rivers, mountains, geological features etc. Indigenous people played crucial roles in the war of 1812

You see any Russian men there?

But to Army’s point spending increases appear to be mostly new program spending as opposed to fixing the old programs and departments that have been cut to the bone. Furthermore hat we don’t see are commitments to stable long term funding so that departments can make long-term plans and strategic investments . They’re like someone living paycheque to paycheque. Will they get same budget as last year? A lot more? A lot less? Who knows? Not them! And for the funding they do get, a lot of it is special purpose funding, one-time funding, strings-attached funding, etc but less of the kind of funding that allows them to make those long term plans and investments or is simply free for them to allocate wherever they may decide its needed. The fiscal austerity we’ve lived under for the past 30-40 years is insidious, the wounds are deep and don’t magically heal overnight, they have multigenerational effect. The military is a perfect example, it’s real easy to create a critical shortage of 16,000 personnel in the CAF overnight with the stroke of a pen, but it will take years to fill those vacancies with skilled and trained personnel if/when the funding is even ever restored. Even as underfunded as our military is, it often can’t spend all of the money it does receive in a year because of those same personnel shortages. There are simply not enough people to move these projects forward in a timely manner, among other problems. It’s like a person who’s been starved for so long they no longer have the strength to feed themselves even when some food is occasionally offered

Were we? My post was in response to the OP and then you responded to me. That sounds like you’re deflecting. No you are slow and on the draw. You’re going in circles. Are you aware that Russians are neither British nor French? If you want to say Canada was founded by the British and French fine even though that’s not what you’ve been saying up until now and you’re now changing your argument BUT if that’s your new position then you can’t also say it was founded by Russians as you did earlier. As Ive said many times now Russians don’t get to claim to have founded Canada simply because they are the same skin colour as the British and French people who actually did. Russians have a very different culture, ethnicity and religion from British and French. Concepts of freedom, democracy, independent judiciary and civil/human rights are foreign concepts to Russians even to this day. So to summarize a person can say accurately : ”Canada was founded ONLY by British and French and nobody else” if you want to only speak of founding fathers, politicians judges, institutions, democracy, etc OR ”Canada was founded by many groups of immigrants some of whom were Russian and some of which were non-whites” if you want to also talk about everyday people who contributed to Canadian economy. But to claims that ALL WHITE PEOPLE INCLUDING RUSSIANS BUT EXCLUDING NON-WHITES founded Canada is absurd In my last post I honestly thought “I don’t have to spell it out in this much detail” but I guess that’s something I was ACTUALLY wrong about.

You’re no India expert, once again you’re selectively citing only the “evidence” that supports a narrative you’ve already chosen before reading any evidence, something you’re notorious for. BTW Not too long ago on here you were also telling us how the Sikhs are bloodthirsty terrorists. And as you conveniently avoid acknowledging, for every historical misdeed or atrocity you level against Muslims, remember White Christian Europeans were doing to each other and to other nations as well and eventually on a march large scale once they started invading and colonizing Africa and tue New World. It’s your hilarious hypocrisy that lose your shit whenever people want to talk about colonialism and slavery because it’s “in the past” then you rattle off your screed about Muslims in medieval times.

The Chrétien-Harper connection is a rare thing in our polarized times The image leaped off the screen a couple of days ago. A photo of Stephen Harper and Jean Chrétien grinning like lifelong buddies in each other’s presence. “Always wonderful to catch up with a true gentleman and friend,” wrote former prime minister Harper, who posted the pals picon X. The Conservative warrior obviously wanted his close ties to the lunch-bucket Liberal well known. Mr. Harper’s protégé, the hyperpartisan Pierre Poilievre, probably wasn’t too thrilled. Mr. Harper, he knew, despised Liberals. Few could doubt that. David Emerson, the floor-crossing British Columbian who served in the cabinets of the Liberal Paul Martin and Mr. Harper, once told me that one of the big differences was the degree of contempt Mr. Harper had for Liberals. It was visceral, he said. “Sometimes it was just startling to me.” Story continues below advertisement So what was he thinking, giving a former Liberal prime minister a shout out while Mr. Poilievre, headed for an election, works to paint the Liberals as destroyers of the country? As for the little guy from Shawinigan, he wouldn’t be too worried about what fellow Liberals thought of the photograph. In his, let’s call it advanced middle age, the 89-year-old Mr. Chrétien has been enjoying life. He comes across as being more lucid and having more spring in his step than Joe Biden, to whom he has sometimes been compared. During his stewardship, Justin Trudeau ill-advisedly has paid Mr. Chrétien and old-guard Liberals little heed. Mr. Chrétien has probably spent more time of late conferring with Mr. Harper than with the Liberal PM. What’s pleasing about the Harper-Chrétien photo is that it is such a departure from the temper of our times, which sees polarization at a brutal level and many complaining that the country has never been so divided. The perennial gripe about Canadian disunity gets a little tiresome. Yes, there are fissures, some of them serious. But when hasn’t there been? And why wouldn’t there be? Given our giant sprawling land mass, given the differences between east and west, between French and English speakers, between Indigenous Peoples and others, between right and left – what is to be expected? That there shouldn’t be divisions is irrational. That the divisions won’t endure is a pipe dream. The new information age that gives vent to all the yellers and haters makes conditions seem worse. That they are worse than ever, as some claim, is delusional. As I have previously noted, we need only go back to the early 1990s, when we had a separatist party as the official Opposition, when the Reform Party was staging a rebellion in the West, when there was a deep recession with third-world debt levels, and when a Quebec referendum put the country on a knife edge. That was when Mr. Chrétien was in power and Mr. Harper was soon to be. They were on opposite sides; their ideological differences mirrored those of the country and still do. But despite the differences, they maintained respect for one another. Their good rapport is driven by a number of commonalities. They were tough-minded, fiscally prudent, problem-solving non-visionaries. They were suspicious of elites and passionate about the Canadian North. Historian Arthur Milnes, who has been in meetings with them, said: “What I witnessed in private is that both men are very funny behind the scenes and simply enjoy each other’s company. I recall them meeting privately at the late Ralph Klein’s funeral in Calgary. With their funny stories about him, they had each other, and me, in stitches.” Story continues below advertisement Their camaraderie doesn’t mean there’s been a narrowing of the philosophical divide. Mr. Harper chairs the International Democratic Union, a global alliance of right-wing parties. Mr. Chrétien wouldn’t touch that with a barge pole. Back in the day, Mr. Harper berated Mr. Chrétien for not joining the invasion of Iraq. He took advantage of the sponsorship scandal, which happened under Mr. Chrétien’s watch, to make his way to the Prime Minister’s Office. Mr. Chrétien was out of office by the time Mr. Harper came to power, but has gone after him many times since. During the 2015 campaign, he said Mr. Harper’s foreign policies cast Canada as a “cold-hearted” nation and that he has “shamed Canada.” The photo Mr. Harper tweeted brought forth a lot of surprised reactions and a lot of well wishers. It won’t have much impact. But it was nice to see that the two old combatants could link arms. It sets a good bridging-the-divide example: They’re Canadian, and they can get along, despite their differences. https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-the-harper-chretien-connection-is-a-welcome-divergence-in-our/

No. You’re lost again. The OP in this thread is a person of apparent Russian descent claiming Canada was founded by whites. If the claim is that Russians helped found Canada simply on the basis of being early immigrants who contributed to the economy then you can”t say Canada was founded by Whites because indigenous peoples and many early immigrants were non-white and also contributed. Get it?

There was ethnic cleansing on both sides, stupid. For example the Muslim population in neighbouring Punjab India is less than 2%. Look no amount of internet self-ejumacation in your 50’s is going to make up for your lifetime of being a high school dropout Homer Simpson Stop trying to speak authoritatively on subjects when you never even developed the basic knowledge or comprehension skills to properly understand them. Oha and also Israel didn’t “manage their partition” Britain and the international community did. You are also ignorant of the Zionists terrorist attacks against the Britiamd Arabs that occurred during the Jewish Insurgency in the years leading up to the creation of Israel. The most famous of these was the King David Hotel bombing which killed a number of British troops. And BTW the State of Israel’s earliest hero, David Ben-Gurion, the first Israeli PM, was a Polish-born Jew who voluntarily immigrated to Ottoman-controlled Palestine in 1909 for the purpose of advocating zionism and later attended University of Istanbul in Turkey itself which undermines your evil Jew-slaughtering Ottoman theory. Show the numbers then

GOP Wife in Sex Scandal Erased From Conservative Site Moms for Liberty co-founder Bridget Ziegler appears to have departed her role at the conservative Leadership Institute, which removed her name from its website in the wake of a three-way sex scandal and criminal probe involving her husband. … The move comes days after a local journalism watchdog revealed that Sarasota police are investigating allegations that her husband, Florida Republican chairman Christian Ziegler, raped a woman with whom the couple had previously had a ménage à trois. Ziegler became the think-tank’s director of school board programs in August 2022, helping to train right-leaning candidates for office….Bridget Ziegler also helped Gov. Ron DeSantis create the “Don’t Say Gay” bill and stood by him as he signed it into law…. According to a search warrant affidavit, Christian Ziegler contacted one of his female friends about having a sexual encounter with him and his wife on Oct. 2. But when the woman learned Bridget Ziegler wouldn’t join the meeting, she informed him she wasn’t interested via text: “Sorry I was mostly in for her.” The woman says that Christian Ziegler showed up at her home anyway and raped her. https://www.thedailybeast.com/bridget-ziegler-wife-of-florida-gop-boss-christian-ziegler-erased-from-leadership-instit

Of course. My own family to Canada as “Germans from Russia” ethnic Germans who lived in what is now the Ukraine for about 100 yrs before coming to the prairies in the late 1800s. . Many non-white immigrants have been in Canada a long time also. Chinese workers built the railroads, Blacks from USA and Caribbean came also, even some Turks, Syrian and Lebanese came early. Russians built Canada to the same degree as these non-white immigrants did. They don’t get special credit for building Canada simply for having the same skin colour as British and French.

Huh? That makes no sense. Newspapers don’t buy ads, they sell them. Unfortunately google is a monopoly that controls online advertising and all the infrastructure so they’re like a middleman broker who keeps the advertisers money for themselves and leaves the newspapers with very little.

11? I’m not seeing that.

Hey professor when did you get our PHD in Indian history? Oh right you’re just selectively regurgitating some new found info. Your record of ridiculously cherry-picking convenient details while ignoring mountains of others remains intact. Let’s just end this discussion with the fact that atrocities were committed by all sides. The Muslims were not the exclusive villains and the others were not the exclusive victims. All sides gave as good as they got and got as good as they gave.

They were helped al lot more by Indigenous, Black and Chinese people than they were by Russians. Russians get no special credit over those other groups for “making” Canada simply by being White.

Most people do not get their news by doing web searches first of all. They browse news headlines that Google, Facebook et al scrape from the internet. Second of all as I mentioned Google does make an exceptional amount of money from ads on the news outlets site no matter how the reader ended up there. Thisnis because Google has a near monopoly on online advertising. Your very own conservative newspaper National Post describes it as follows: Matt Stoller: Google is stealing from Canadian newspapers and advertisers And it's killing our news providers … Google inflated its profits, redirecting advertising revenues from newspapers to itself. It’s a complex story, but at the heart of it is what looks like theft. Most of us think of Google as a search engine, and it is. But Google has many other lines of business. This particular suit involves display ads on the open web, which are what you find on the Wall Street Journal or ESPN. These ads are bought and sold in an unusual manner. If a user goes to the site of a newspaper, unbeknownst to the consumer, a highly complex financial market kicks into gear. Newspapers no longer sell most of their advertising directly but have become integrated into a giant set of global auctions. In these auctions, advertisers bid for the right to place their ad not into a specific newspaper, but in front of a specific user. Money then changes hands, from the buyer of the ad to the publisher, with a set of middlemen each taking a cut. This happens in a split second, billions of times a day. At this point, online advertising is far bigger than the stock market in terms of the number of transactions. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Well, guess who runs the software to manage this financial market? Google. And guess who takes the lion’s share of the revenue? Google. There’s a decade-plus-long backstory to this scheme. In the mid-2000s, Google transitioned from its role as a search engine into the main intermediary of all online advertising. In 2005, Google had a lot of advertisers that were buying its search ads. It also started to let smaller websites put strips of ads up and gave them a share of the revenue. Ad industry insiders at the time realized that advertising was transitioning from a Mad Men-style set of local, regional and national markets to an automated set of marketplaces. Google’s strategy wasn’t to remain a search engine, but to expand and control all online advertising. But the firm had a problem. It couldn’t break into the market for the space on big established publisher sites, because that market was already controlled by another near-monopolist, DoubleClick. DoubleClick had 60 per cent market share in the software used by publishers to manage how they sell ads on their site, or what’s known as an ad server. So, Google’s then-CEO, Eric Schmidt, did what every good monopolist does when in a lax policy regime: he bought his rival — DoubleClick — in 2007. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Google then had all the elements needed to organize the market. It controlled a lot of advertiser money because it had millions of advertisers who entrusted it with their campaigns through its search engine and ad network; it controlled most publisher ad space through its DoubleClick purchase; and it owned an exchange, AdX, which came with DoubleClick. It also had search data for most users, as well as DoubleClick’s vault of data. Over the next 10 years, Google tied all of these products together in a way meant to exclude rivals. And since ad pricing was opaque, Google could and did manipulate auctions to ensure that rivals delivered worse prices for publishers and ad buyers who used them. Today, Google controls the brokerages on both sides, the exchange in the middle, the data, and the pricing. It manages where ad money flows, and to whom. According to its own internal analysis, Google takes 35 cents out of every dollar spent on advertising, an extraordinarily large sum across tens of billions of dollars of online advertising.…. https://nationalpost.com/opinion/google-is-stealing-from-canadian-newspapers-and-advertisers/wcm/6a66f2c0-39bb-4451-b02b-60185d7e42ca/amp/

Yeah but that’s not how it works. The entire story renders on Google Amp so you read the news outlet’s content on the google platform not on the news outlet’s website

11 weeks ago: “I never quit” Now: Kevin McCarthy resigning from Congress after being ousted as House speaker https://abcnews.go.com/amp/Politics/kevin-mccarthy-retiring-congress-after-ousted-house-speaker/story?id=105425178 ?

Google makes money from that in many ways. The google search page itself has ads and sponsored links and websites pay to have a higher ranking isn search results. Secondly, web search is a convenient way for google to put tracking and ad cookies on people’s computers which provide data to Google that they harvests and monetize. Third just about every page on just about every news site has ads powered by Google ads so Google is in fact profiting from those ads plus those ads are also a source of more google cookies.

Yes it does the WEF “issue” is a right wing conspiracy theory about “globalists elites” trying to take over the world and free trade/globalism is a core part of that conspiracy. You’re right that conservatives have always been free trade globalists and still are. But PP is trying to cash in on the far right fringe and defend his right flank from People’s Party (the other PP) with his cryptocurrency stunts and his anti-Ukraine trade comments. Nobody’s silencing anyone. Just because some disagrees with you doesn’t mean you’re being silenced. That’s a made-up rule. And in this instance it’s not practical or reasonable for the purpose of setting up this highly specialized and extremely brief job of setting up this machinery. What are we supposed to send Canadians to Korea to study this machinery for 2 years just so they can can come back and get a temp 3 month job setting it up? Het over it. Thousands of Canadian jobs are being created in the construction and operation of this facility. Conservatives are zeroing in on this because they need to criticize SOMETHING and they think this will resonate with their blue collar supporters who don’t pay attention to details. Where precisely is the guarantee that Pierre Poillievre won’t secretly hire foreign temp workers for his own business? Where is the precisely is the guarantee that you’re not a drug dealer? The point being you’re asking for proof of a negative. I mean we know about these temp workers because they’ve publicly shared those details. Nowhere does the agreement say they have blanket permission to import unlimited number of temp workers indefinitely. There’s no reason to believe there would be any significant number of foreign workers beyond those they’ve announced who will be setting up the equipment. I don’t even think PP has challenged that. It’s clear that the explanation provided is reasonable and the alternative is unreasonable. . They met with Windsor police and told them to expect 1600 TFWs thats how this story cam to light. Why would they arrange a meeting with police and then tell them this? They’ve come out publicly and explained the reasons for the TFW and it’s reasonable Canada doesn’t even have a single large scale battery facility…not ONE. How is it you think we have workers skilled and experienced to set up this advanced and highly specialized equipment? That skill and experience will only evolve in Canada AFTER the plant is up and running

Simple. Google takes news outlet’s product for free and then sells it for profit to their advertisers. Do you really think that’s fair? In any other aspect of life that is mot allowed.