herbie

Good God the usual nitpicking BS barely relevant to the subject. Objecting to some singer that inserts a word in the anthem rather than jazzing it up to something barely recognizable. Jimi Hendrix did that 50 years ago, everyone since is a peepee-poor mimic. That makes her 'left'? Implying Canadian content regs are subsidies and therefore 'left'. Condemning the CBC for costing money while they handout multiples of it's budget to private Telcos to do their job? Cagey Bee sez: You mek me laff comrades...hwah hwah hwah.!

I won't go on that you've bought the rightwing pitch on 'bias', I'll just note you don't get out much. A - 'the Internet' is the worst place to get news B - You haven't noticed the paywalls on legacy news sites C - You bought the CRTC bull about Canadians and Internet access. They lie thru their teeth, claim it's available without regard to price and under-define the concept of high speed Internet. I had a 30Mb up& down unlimited connection in 2014 for only $4200 a month. In 2005 I paid $5000 a month for 10 Mbps to resell & share to the whole town. D- you're sold on the concept that people should have to pay for news and information on their own country, to some private for profit corporation. Knowing well that the country can't maintain a PBS like system. We run a local OTA rebroadcast here funded by the local taxes, I'm used to hearing ppl stand up and swear that satellite and cable TV only costs about $10 a month so why should they have to pay (like $25 a year) just cuz someone else can't pay for satellite. Total lie, and I was the only one with guts to stand up and say so. Our local rebroadcast was set up in the early 1970s - when ppl had the brains to understand what was better and less expensive rather than if the idea was "left" or "right". They did so because they knew the cable outfit would only connect the densest downtown core and leave everyone else with nothing. As they DID - 40 years later when rules were rewritten. Then a few years ago the Telco bought the cable company out, boosted the rates on lower Internet packages so it wouldn't hurt the old 'diesel" lines and yeah - now you can get 120 Mb if you want to pay $120 a month. Pay the telco $120 or the cable $120, or the WISP $120 or Elon $150 and you can get your new for free. BTW the OTA broadcast is still going. 31 TV stations and 10 FM radio. And thanks to co-op management and digital tv all for less than the original grant. And there really are a few who are flatly opposed won't watch it and pay $100 for satellite instead, because it's communist.

The bias that it reports the news and is clear what is opinion? Or that it reports the government's side is on an issue more often than some Joe Id10t's? It doesn't hold back on reporting gov't mistakes and scandals, regardless of the party in power. Or is the issue that it will report on consumer issues, environmental issues, native issues and worker issues that no other outfit even will but you don't like and don't want to hear? Or is it the issue that anyone anywhere in Canada can out up an antenna and recieve it for free - and you're so Americanized you'll sing out Who Must Pay? Who Must Pay? Why should I pay for his? This bias bullshit is a Big Lie repeated over the last few decades so that people actually believe it is true. A reporters job is to report the events, and if the powers that be have a statement that too. Not to seek out 2nd opinions. hat's your job, and their Editorial board.

Which is what everyone does. Just as everyone wants an SUV because they're more useful. And the inherent problems with hybrids can and will be solved, look at Mazda's idea of an updated rotary engine that runs at a steady RPM for best mileage and least pollution. That will take care of people with only one car, which believe it or not is a minority. There's your range problem gone a huge reduction in fuel and CO2, tie in a little BEV putt putt in your 2 car garage and the family's all set. And at risk of 1,000 pages of excuses not to, Toyota and Honda are investing billions on FUEL CELL vehicles. Forge ahead with stories of the future with cars burning on every corner and vehicles exploding like the Hindenburg...

No, it's the definition of insurance policy. Milk them for as much as you can and deny them as much as you can.

Partly because we have access to too much information. All sorts of news from all over the world all the time. Anecdote: my step daughter blew up at me for saying she was 'helicopter Mom' because she walked her 11 yr old daughter to and from school one and a half blocks away. She said there were SEVEN 'registered child molesters' in her complex alone. She lived in Terrace BC at the time, I doubt there were 7 in the entire town. If there was ONE in her complex everyone would know his name, they could verify it at the cop shop. Where did she get the info? From her FB friends... from a local paper report of someone caught with kiddy porn on their computer... from TV news reports that could've been from any big city,,, and from her dropout level perception of blending everything together and assuming. That's why we're full of Hunter Biden's laptop, panics over balloons and rages against woke and never real political issues.

So if you insist gun control is absolutely useless then you must admit your society has turned to complete shit, won't you? Like OMG can't even admit that the country that makes all the guns isn't the one where guns in Canada are being smuggled in from... you think Canada is like Palestine, Africa or Haiti and the gangs are using AK47s?

I always accuse these so-called conservatives of wanting to go back to 1953. Well 1953 had it's good points. Someone posting pics implying the President was a child molester wouold've had their face slap[ped clean down the block. Someone who bragged about molesting women, paid hush money to hookers, sucked up to US enemies while stabbing allies in the back and attempting to overthrow the elected gov't by force would have fried on the electric chair.

Please make an effort to recognize sarcasm. I know it's difficult on this forum where so many have so little political knowledge they claim gov'ts are communist and then demand actual communism as a solution while still condemning it.. just like they demand 'strong leadership', glorification of tradition, militarism, myths of a lost past and nationalism and hatred of immigrants yet claim that you, not they are fascists. Short of re-establishing the Homesteader's Act they can do very little about housing. Can't order anyone to build more, can't order the banks to lend money and you don't want them to build apartment with their own money. You still couldn't afford one if they did with today's costs and standards. Just re4ad another request by a young family looking for a 3 bdrm rental or rent to own for $1000 a month max. Get real FFS. If they coughed up $20K up front and signed for 10 years I know dozens of places here in the boonies but you know damn well they can't even come up with that. And they're expecting that shit in Vancouver, Toronto, Calgary etc. Was all we could do with two $1500/mo incomes and 18% interest 40 yrs ago to get a $65,000 home.

True, it's nonsense puritanical attitude that's crept north of the border. Outraged by a politician that got a blowjob, accepting of a con man that led a coup...

The gov't that can barely get your passport or EI cheque to you in a timely and orderly fashion is controlling housing prices? The one that upped my assessment 6 yrs ago by $800 after we did $65,000 in improvements? And then last year assessed us 60% more over 2021? The one that says 7% yearly inflation means a loaf of bread or a pork chopdoubles every year? Why they must be communist, they make and build houses, raise cattle, grow wheat and refine the oil... the company name on my paycheck was fake for all those years I worked. The foreman was secretly a commissar.. I suppose if I ever sell my principal residence, they'll take all my money away and turn it into a Drag queen library/Free heroin dispensary too....

Which has to do what with Rustad or his riding? Other than what I can tell you... during the Enbridge days he was smart enough to say little, even nod to the anti-pipeline groups while his riding assn were gleefully rubbing their hands together and submitting their work crews and machinery to get in on the cash cow. How he gleefully stood for a photo ops accepting community donations. from Enbridge. He was pretty decent on forestry issues, so much so the NDP drafted him during the big fire season here, but in retrospect he encouraged overcutting, did nothing to oppose centralization and his entire party completely caved to the USA on appurtenance during softwood talks. Abandoning support for the carbon tax, which his own party implemented a decade before anyone else, his stand on Covid issues and the total loss of support among local native bands makes him a supreme candidate for the BC Conservatives. He's hoping for massive support from Vanderhoof ( derided locally as Jesusland ) churchies. Good effing luck. Maybe PP should consider him federally, he's deplorable enough.

OMG you need to include females in a study of gay males? Gee, show us again how intelligent you are. uhhh.. they forgot to include the cows in the field in their report on Nesting Habits of Eagles...

I will say again, if you feel you must answer the door with a gun in your hand any sane person would move. That's proof your society has already collapsed.

Oh FFS !

You just noticing that? Communism/leftism stands for anything they don't like, they have no clue what it actually means. Same as you can read their posts and they'll check every box under 'definition of fascism' yet they'll deny it at the top of their lungs and claim you are the fascist.

So Rustad is back in the news. Now he's running as a Conservative. Anti-vax, anti-carbon tax, Convoyeur... surprise, surprise. Now the NDP has a solid chance in this riding. Or the local farm boys will elect yet another insignificant benchwarmer for the 5th consecutive decade.

The brick himself so pronounces.

Oh FFS I step away again., These ppl with brains as solid as bricks are never going learn, they can't, they don't want to. Just page after page of the same spewage from those dim enough to consider themselves conservatives. Like duhhh now it was the citizens of Ottawa being inconvenienced that were the fascists, led by fools that couldn't get into the USA griping how they couldn't get back, that every one else were sheeple and how they're all so much smarter than doctors and judges.

Yes, perhaps Trudeau should have met with them and wasted his time. As you always do with dimwits. I mean after years, they're still dumb enough to believe they had valid points.

And I laugh at the single subject of dozens of posts and conclude that reason will spend his retirement, sitting in an easy chair with a loaded 44 magnum, hoping and salivating over the thought someone may break in and he can shoot them. Seems fixated over the subject.

Reality really triggers the peanut gallery doesn't it? As someone who's seen several real riots where baton wielding cops charged on horseback I get a suoreme laugh at the limp wristed freedumbers definition of being bumped into as being trampled. And point out how just like the tribunal found, due to the chickenshit response of the Ottawa cops, the actual majority of freedom loving, law abiding Canadians were only mad at Trudeau for taking so long to act.

Well it must be a massive communist conspiracy as it triggered his warped reality so bad he couldn't get a coherent statement out. I mean we all know what he wanted to talk about but truth and reality are just too hard to accept for some people.

The entire MAGA right... those little girls. The ones who shower in their undies because they don't want to see their own tiny members. Doesn't bother the team, but Fox is outraged!

when I read this article this morning I wondered how log it would take for the peanut gallery of this forum to post threads defending a hater as the victim.