TreeBeard

It always comes down to what I said in my first post in this topic. A lot of these opinions about how Canada sucks can be summed up as follows: “the party I voted for didn’t get in power. Trudeau sucks. I can’t call people insulting, racist, homophobic names anymore without consequences” ….

Do you think it’s society’s responsibility to feed people who can’t afford food?

Canada used to be a cultural hegemony; European Christians. The opposite of what you claim is true now.

You have anecdotes. I prefer data. Groceries Prices in United Kingdom are 24.7% lower than in Canada

You don’t even remember the country! LOL You were comparing the UK. You only mentioned the USA when you tried to make a point about landmass and a spread out population.

No. Our food travels greater distances to less people, hence, that at least partly (or maybe wholly) explains why our food costs more. Your argument seems to be that our food costs more cuz Canada sucks. I asked if our food has always cost more than the UK, and you couldn’t be bothered to answer. I asked what other factors would make our food cost more, and you didn’t answer. Your reasons are ideological, rather than fact based.

The extremes won’t bring the average up much because a lot less food travels to the extremes due to the lack of population. But, USA includes extreme North too. And their extreme North would skew the numbers more than ours as they need to ship food to Alaska for 700,000+ people, while we ship food to 120,000 people in all 3 territories. If 10lbs of food has to go to the extremes and 1,000lbs stays near the border, the 10lbs won’t affect the average much But, you are arguing against the study when you don’t know the methodology of the study. The numbers don’t conform to your preconceived notions, so you just say it isn’t correct. And call people “Marxist” if they would dare present facts to this forum!

No…. On average, Canadian food travels further.

Thanks for agreeing that it isn’t a religion. Of course, cults are just small religions, so it’s not that either. Can you call acceptance of different people as equal a political ideology? Are human rights political ideologies? I agree they are. But, rather than comparing them to communism, I would compare them to democracy. Very few people think communism is an ideal political ideology worthy of attaining. Democracy? I’d say most people would agree that it’s the ideal. Human rights for gay people? Like democracy, it’s a political ideology that most people agree with.

You- food doesn’t travel further in Canada than USA. Me - cites fact that food travels further in Canada than USA. You - Marxist! Me -

Then having the flag of our country/province is also a religion. The picture of the monarch in public places suddenly becomes a religion. The school’s soccer team banner is a religion. You calling it a religion doesn’t make it one. Under no possible definition is a symbol automatically mean it is a religion. That’s asinine. Religious symbols are religious because they symbolize and actual religion.

You’re simply wrong. The food that Americans eat is not transported nearly as far as ours. USA has a much larger network of railways, which is significantly more efficient than trucks. more of Canada’s food is imported than the USA. The USA produces food in some regions in the winter. Canada has to import more in the winter. One source says the average meal in USA travels 1500mi https://foodwise.org/learn/how-far-does-your-food-travel-to-get-to-your-plate/#:~:text=It is estimated that the,large quantities of fossil fuels. For Canada, it’s 3000km (1875mi) https://nutritower.com/blogs/news/how-far-does-our-food-travel#:~:text=In most cases%2C our produce,produce can be grown locally.

I would celebrate it. If there was a party, or a dance, or a commemorative coin, to mark the occasion then I am in. But I gather that @Michael Hardner does not celebrate the decline of religion. If you’re going to argue that acceptance of people who are a different sexual orientation than “the norm” is equal to religion, then so is teaching that racism is wrong. All of a sudden teaching anything is akin to a religion. Sorry…. Religion has a very clear definition, and it doesn’t include things like the acceptance of other skin colours or sexual orientations. Those aren’t religion.

Inclusiveness and accepting gay kids for who they are isn’t a political issue, other than for those who are vehemently against it. Didn’t you just say in a previous post that there are very few “actual conservatives” in Canada? Why would the culture war be huge over a school showing acceptance of people who are different than the “norm”?

@Michael Hardner , you could have at least used a Canadian reference. Also, what is your graph even showing? Wikipedia has a great table of StatsCan data.

What if he called an election and nothing changed, like the last time? I think we should just wait for the election date to come around and have one then.

Will they build a 3rd school after the next shooting? Seems inefficient.

I wasn’t replying to your post about grocery prices. I was replying to someone else. How do we compare in all those things to the UK? UK has a carbon tax. UK has a higher debt and deficit than Canada. So, tell us which regulations you think is causing the difference in prices. I know for a fact that our smaller population spread out in a country much larger than the UK does lead to higher transportation costs. Do you disagree with that being a factor?

Sounds like a conspiracy theory.

It’s not double the price, but groceries are substantially more expensive in Canada than the UK. Has this changed over the years? Did we used to be cheaper? Can the difference be explained by things like transportation costs being more in Canada? We have a much more spread out population than in the UK, and less people. If we jammed our entire population into a space the size of Saskatchewan, I bet we’d find some efficiencies. But, it doesn’t tell the story you want to spread when we put it into some context, does it?

The premier of Manitoba is a woman.

Why not? My post was about the Conservative premier of Manitoba attending the pride parade. Am I supposed to change the topic?

That’s true, if by “actual conservatives” you mean social conservatives with bigoted attitudes towards gay people. It is very few. A very vocal few. What “more favour” are gay people looking for, do you think?

It dropped for 2 quarters in 2022 and you want to rely on “Better Dwelling” magazine to spell out the doom and gloom scenario? LOL “Fallen precipitously” is pure hyperbole on your part.

Not true. Did you think no one has google to check your claims?