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LIke who? There just aren't many well-known conservatives in Canada outside politics. And in the federal realm none in power for years. The media/academia are, on the whole, pretty progressive, and they pump out progressive messaging 24/7.

Ah yes, if only the Conservative party was more like the Liberal party...

As I recall, 25 years ago much of the Left loved China and saw it as a terrific improvement over the Capitalist west. Much of the Left has also embraced, at various times, the Soviet Union, Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua, and Vietnam, among others.

More like the Liberals and media find ways to use the same tired hot-button social issues to keep them out of power, much as Americans do. Only here it's worse because these issues aren't even issues in Canada. The Liberals just pretend they're suddenly in danger to scare people into voting for them.

Isn't posting a stupid topic like this against the rules around here?

But I judge EVERYTHING. You can all me a judgemental bastard, if you want to. You won't be the first. The country has a black population of just over 3% but the media push black people out at us at every opportunity. And why that bugs me is that they're not doing it by accident. They're doing it as a kind of triumphalist virtue signaling to show everyone how unracist they are. We get the US network Detroit stations on my cable dial and I'm a news junkie. Even the Detroit news stations don't put two black newscasters on their news shows. But my local news does. Neither of whom was there before George Floyd. No, it's virtue signaling. Which I despise. And as a stockholder in many companies it irritates me to see advertising that doesn't appear to be aimed at a company's principal market. If you insist that the person to be hired is a wheelchair user then it is. If you deliberately hire people for their race it's most definitely discriminatory. Yeah? So you think that's better? How many kids committed suicide when you were young? How many cut themselves? How many were depressed or suffering anxiety and needed medical treatment? How many were lonely? How many were hopeless? How many would instantly drop a friend if they told an incorrect joke or used a bad word? Today's world, aside from technological improvements, is not really an improvement for the majority of people over the world when most of us were young. Nor even when our parents were younger. It's better if you're gay. It's better if you're black, or of some other racial minority - though we had almost none when I was a kid, but it's not better for the great majority. There's less tolerance for racial remarks but also less tolerance for any kind of belief or statement that veers off what has been established as the proper way to think. Society, in a lot of ways, is in more of a mental straightjacket than it was in the 1970s

What's silly - and dishonest - is saying Trudeau tells us how great we are. This is the man who said, quite happily, that we weren't a nation (except for Quebec) and had no core identity. This is the man who goes around apologizing everywhere he can for what a terrible place this is, even to the UN. This is a man who says every institution in Canada is 'systemically racist'.

That sounds kind of childish to me.

And how long ago did you go to school? I bet there isn't much of it in today's schools. We live in a time where showing any sense of pride in nation draws accusations of white supremacy and racism. From whom?

Why is it you feel the need to constantly reply on topics you clearly have nothing of value to say?

That, of course, was certainly not the point. The point was to take in the entirety of it, the good, the bad, the context, all. Paying attention to its faults? When, prior to this article, have you heard anyone paying attention to its benefits? Ever? Much like we hear all about our own history's faults these days, but never a good thing that was accomplished.

Everyone who is properly woke likes to talk about decolonization as if reaching it at some point in time is similar to the rapture. But what it mostly involves is destroying our history, traditions and culture to leave us swaying in the wind. For it seeks to replace our history with nothing more than guilt and shame. But looked at properly, with both warts and beauty, colonialism had its successes and failures like any other kind of political system or idea. And it produced the country we live in today. Shortly before he died in 2013, Chinua Achebe — often considered Africa’s greatest novelist — was asked if his view of colonialism had changed in the half-century since he wrote Things Fall Apart, his famous first novel critical of British rule in his homeland of Nigeria. “The legacy of colonialism is not a simple one,” he explained to the interviewer, “but one of great complexity with contradictions — good things as well as bad.” Today, Achebe’s regard for historical complexity seems like outright heresy. Where once nuance was allowed, over the past decade colonialism has become universally synonymous with racism, violence and exploitation. As such, all vestiges of it must be removed from sight. Nowhere has this Manichean perspective taken root with as much conviction as in Canada, with governments, universities and museums now racing to “decolonize” their institutions as quickly as possible. Statues must come down. Exhibits closed. Names changed. Narratives rewritten. Our new national story is that nothing good ever came from colonialism. Nigel Biggar begs to differ. https://nationalpost.com/opinion/colonialism-contained-good-things-as-well-as-bad-why-cant-we-just-accept-that

It sounds to me as if your view of 'left wing' requires a hammer and sickle on the page.

I read Left wing media. They are as frozen in their silos as some of the Right. They don't cover such things not because they aren't happening but because they go against THE MESSAGE. It's the same reason they shy away from reporting on black violence towards whites or asians and are obsessed with any hint of violence directed AT blacks by white people. Bernie is not a man much connected with reality, nor are his supporters.

Germany gets 27% of its electricity from wind power. Another 10% is from solar. It spends tens of billions on renewable energy sources and research. Unfortunately, it also has one of those pizza parliaments and the Greens were kingmakers who forced the ruling party to get rid of nuclear. Now its nuclear plants have closed down they've had to reopen coal plants instead! LOL

I have lost a great deal of confidence in CNN since the BLM riots which were "mostly peaceful'. That being said it's still more accurate than FOX. And its coverage of the Russian collusion story was not 'fake news'. Trump's relationship with Russia is inexplicable other than he covets their election help and/or fears what they have on him.

You know, I knew you'd seize on that to dismiss it. But this article was considered acceptably true to be featured on the Macdonald Laurier Institute site. And the information contained in it is easily verified or would be easily shown to be false with very little effort. The Left dismisses all news that comes from right-wing sites even though the mainstream media and Left sites never cover such things. If you know so little about Canada and its politics that you haven't even heard of this bill or what it does then what's the point of even trying to carry on a conversation with you? Clearly you exist in a tight, shielded silo which admits no outside information.

https://macdonaldlaurier.ca/with-bill-c-11-now-law-what-to-watch-out-for-to-fight-online-censorship-peter-menzies-in-the-epoch-times/

Please don't quote me in such a way that your cuts, which are, of course, deliberate, change the meaning of what I wrote. If you're incapable of disagreeing in any articulate or intelligent fashion then simply don't reply.

Yeah, the bills the government recently passed to control what people can say and post on the internet.

Is it impossible for you to imagine one might judge a foreign culture as being less than ours, of containing many bad elements without regard to the skin colour of those who represent that culture? What if the foreign culture comes from a white country? Can we judge it harshly, then? Or is that still racist?

It's impossible not to notice how many black people are on TV and in commercials, in movies, or suddenly reading and reporting news as the media desperately virtue signal how unracist they are.

Russia did the same thing for the same amount of time. So did China, to a lesser degree. How come world terrorists didn't go after them?

And a crook. Let's not forget that.