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It's basically just a sign of how docile and submissive English Canadians have become in the face of attacks on their community. Two generations of being told that showing the slightest hint of pride or even care about your language, culture, values or heritage makes you a bigot and probable white supremacist have been quite effective. So all three parties know that they can suck up to Quebec's Francophone majority by kicking Quebec anglos in the teeth and pay no price elsewhere. The federal government recruits francophone immigrants to send to french language areas outside Quebec to fight against the assimilation of those communities. If it tried to do that in Quebec, importing Anglos to prevent assimilation, there'd be riots in the street. Now it's obeying Quebec's anti-Anglo government, which is trying to ethnically cleanse the province of English speakers by placing federally regulated industries under the control of Quebec's language cops and Quebec's bigoted language laws. So much for even the pretense of supporting both communities equally. And they'll pay no price. Anglos in Quebec have nowhere else to go and Anglos outside Quebec won't care.

This is what the Left always says about such complaints. Because the news is owned by some rich corporation it couldn't possibly be biased to the Left. That shows a vast ignorance of the distance between the business people up in corporate and the people who are doing the reporting and editing. Businessmen rarely try to tell 'the talent' what they should be covering for better ratings. That's left up to the local reports, editors and producers to determine. I'm not obsessed with such things. I'm slightly obsessed with politics, true. And to some degree, society and its health and security, including future health. But I'm not obsessed with anything the way you're obsessed with knowing what color of underwear everyone in government is wearing at any given moment, and what they had for lunch, and who they spoke to, and what company their favorite chair is made by.

Where does this primary interest you speak of come from? Some of it comes from our very much antiracist educational system, but the bulk of it is coming from the media. The media is doing it partly due to ratings, sure, but they could get just as high ratings if not higher by beating the tribal drumbeat against black crime or something like that, as opposed to ignoring it. Nice strawman. Because I believe the media is twisting the story to put out 'the message' in order to convince people to agree with their own progressive views there's something wrong with me? I don't see how. Are you going to argue that the media will cover a white cop killing a black criminal no more and no differently than a black cop killing a white criminal? Because we know that's not true. When a blonde housewife was gunned down by a black cop who was a member of the same police department as the guy who killed George Floyd it got mostly local coverage. But in what coverage it did get, not a single article referred to him as black, nor her as white. It was a cop who drew and fired on and killed a completely innocent woman for no reason whatsoever but that he was apparently startled. But races were never mentioned by the media. I cannot imagine a situation where the coverage would be the same if it had been the white cop in the car who killed the housewife, and if she'd been black. Maybe you're the one who should look in a mirror and ask yourself why you believe the coverage ought to be so different.

No. I'm decrying the media CREATING perceptions. And I'm not using stats because my argument isn't "Black people create crime disproportionately as compared to White people" but that the media focuses inordinately on white v black racism or violence while mostly ignoring black v white racism and violence (or black v asian racism and violence for that matter). In the same way as they focus obsessively on pro-trans messaging. The only (for want of a better term) anti-trans people you'll ever see in the mainstream media are cranks and portrayed as such. I would say that of course there is racism. And in Canada there's a ton of it coming from newcomers who grew up in cultures where racism flourished (and continues to flourish) without any societal criticism. THAT racism is almost never mentioned by the media. We're told to obsess over minor instance of subjective racism, or supposed racism, or even subconscious racism - by white people. The presumption is this is a great and terrible and daunting threat to all non-whites when it really isn't. Out and out racism by whites in Canada is rarely much of an issue for non-whites. And for every black guy not hired by a white person because of their skin there's probably fifty black guys hired specifically due to their skin by corporations and government agencies. No, we should be relying on common sense. The idea that someone can just make a self-declaration that they are now a member of another gender and we're to accept that is lunacy. Especially when they're kids. Everyone knows there's no common sense to the idea of letting male-bodied individuals compete with women in sporting events either. I didn't so much defend him as point out the absurdity of a situation where a teenage boy who doesn't like the idea of other teenage boys intruding into girls' bathrooms and locker rooms should be suspended by a Catholic high school. The suspension itself was ridiculous. The arrest was just the topping on the pie. The idea that stating your view on such things is so problematic that it makes trans people feel unsafe is dumb. And the belief their feeling of being unsafe, however unrealistic it is, simply because some guy doesn't think they're really girls trumps his right to an education is nonsensical. It's high farce. He can't be at school because some trans kid doesn't like that he disbelieves his fantasy and so feels 'unsafe'? Ridiculous!

I watched the coverage of each of the cases of people being shot/shot at last week when they accidentally moved into someone's territory. The teenager shot on a porch. The girl shot in her car when they drove into someone's driveway. The two cheerleaders shot when they got into (and quickly got out of) the wrong car. The little girl and her father shot when kids chased a ball into an angry neighbor's yard. The only case where the races of the people were mentioned was the one where the black teen was shot by the white homeowner. And it was mentioned in every instance and the story was covered repeatedly over several days. Because any suggestion of black-on-white racism IS the most salacious and sensational, as far as the media are concerned. And in this way they create the belief that racism is everywhere. It is the same way with police shootings of black men. The statistics don't exist. You would have to go into the schools and interview staff all across America (or Canada) and hope that you can get some of them to talk about things like this. And in most cases they would refuse. Or you would have to go through police records (assuming you could gain access) and hope that at some point a description or some other statement in a note would indicate the 'woman' arrested was biologically male. How? By complaining about it on what few social media platforms won't ban you for going against 'the message'? Because the media, especially in Canada, is pretty much unanimous in their determination to broadcast a narrative of evil white racism, homophobia, and transphobia, gleefully seizing on every instance of white on black violence or violence against trans people and beaming it out to the world while ignoring context as well as any other kind of racism or violence, especially black on white, or poor behaviour by trans people.

You're forgetting this is a discussion around what ISN'T being reported through the media. As I pointed out below, they will not point out someone being trans unless they have to. As an example, we have silly stories about a 'woman' being arrested for raping a woman. That's how it's written down by police. That's how it's reported. But it's not a woman. It's a guy in a dress. Or not. If trans 'women' are being arrested, prosecuted and convicted as women, then where are your stats? Crime stats aren't kept on trans as a category. And as was pointed out, it's not even a crime if an adult male-bodied individual wags his wiener at a bunch of adolescent girls because HE is considered a SHE simply by them asserting that as a fact. What's more, if that individual than sexually assaults one the police will record is as a woman arrested for sexual assault. So what good are your stats? They lead with whatever they can assert shows racism, regardless of context. A half dozen of the same type of crime can occur and the media will pay little attention to any of them unless there's a black victim and a white aggressor. This then becomes the (incorrect) public view of what is going on.

Being victims, sure. That goes with the message. Committing crime? I know of only one; the school shooter. And it's not like they could hide that. Because they go out of their way to report any crime against trans. A statistics isn't a story. It's context; background that ought to be included when discussing police/black interactions. A story is like when hundreds of 'youths' show up at an expensive shopping area downtown smashing and grabbing things. Except if they're black it's not much of a story. Look at the recent shootings of people who accidentally intruded into others' space. The one that got by far the most coverage, for days, was the black kid shot by the white homeowner. Their races were prominently mentioned with every story. The white girl shot by a black homeowner was mentioned once, with no mention of race, as was the girl killed by the old white dude when she drove onto his driveway. The shooting of the cheerleaders who accidentally got into the wrong car, then got out again was likewise barely covered, with no races mentioned. If he were a guy it would have been indecent exposure. But since he claims to be a she no crime was committed. But you still had four 14 year old girls confronted with a naked male of 18.

What does 'violence involving trans folk mean'? Are you denying the media is pro trans? How often have you seen stories in the mainstream questioning trans orthodoxy? Black crime rates are not reported in this country, and rarely reported in the US either. What crime was committed here?

Yeah it's not just Toronto. Thanks, Trudeau. Like things weren't bad enough you had to go and make them worse. Police in Alberta’s capital say 2022 saw the highest number of violent crimes ever reported in a single year. Edmonton police data shows that 2,880 people were arrested and released in 2017. Of those, 1,784 people, or 60 per cent, were involved in violent crimes again, including three homicides between 2017 and 2019. After Bill C-75 was passed, at least 3,647 people were arrested and released in 2020 in Edmonton. Of those, 2,482 people, or 68 per cent, were engaged in violent crimes again, with 26 homicides between 2020 and January 2023." Oh, also this little nugget. Between January and March of this year, firearm-related crimes jumped 75 per cent compared to the same period last year. Gee, I thought tightening gun control laws was going to do away with this sort of thing!? https://nationalpost.com/pmn/news-pmn/canada-news-pmn/edmonton-recorded-highest-number-of-violent-crimes-last-year-police

Where would such data come from? This situation was not reported to the police. No crime occurred. No record kept.

This is a single case. Granted. But how much coverage did it get? Basically none. I spotted it on Ground News, and the only media covering it were small ones on the right. No centrist or left media mentioned it. I would suggest, then, that this is hardly a unique case, and that in all likelihood this happens with some frequency (what frequency isn't known) and we simply rarely hear about it. This is particularly true if you only watch/view centrist or left media. They just don't cover things that go against 'the message'. Similarly, you've probably rarely or never seen anything about the flash mobs of young black people in the US who have attacked shoppers and shopping areas in the US. Sometimes dozens, sometimes hundreds of them gleefully smashing store windows, stealing merchandise, and assaulting white passersby. When such things are covered it's mostly only locally, and the mob is referred to variously as 'youths' or 'teenagers'. The major media largely avoid covering such stories because they feel the viewership might tend to become more racist or transphobic. So we really have no idea how often this sort of thing happens.

Eighteen-year-old male student showing up naked in girls shower at high school. "I'm trans by the way." https://wlos.com/news/nation-world/after-trans-woman-exposed-genitalia-to-freshman-girls-in-locker-room-shower-school-district-faces-legal-scrutiny?utm_source=ground.news&utm_medium=referral

$13 billion is by far and away the most money any Canadian government has ever spent on buying some jobs off a company - 3000 btw not 8000. It's the worst kind of corporate welfare.

It'll cost $7B to build the plant. Why don't we just build the damn plant ourselves and save $6B? At least that way we can be sure it won't be closed down as soon as the time is up and Volkswagon gets a better offer elsewhere.

You can't think of a cheaper way to bring life to a town of under 14k people than thirteen billion bucks? This is almost a million dollars for every man, woman and child in St. Thomas. And note it is "up to" 8,000 jobs, no guarantee it won't be 2,000. \

Just to start with, what's with the "capitalistic exploitation"? Do you imagine socialist countries don't exploit natural resources? The Soviets certainly did. Venezuela does. China does. What socioeconomic system do you believe would fail to exploit the planet's resources? I don't know of one. So why even mention capitalism? The only countries which seem to show any care for protecting the earth and cutting pollution are the Capitalist countries of the West. It's non-Western countries that are throwing up coal plants by the score. It's non-western countries with little or no pollution controls. And the bullshit about natives being 'stewards of the land' fails to take into account that the natives, when here alone, didn't exploit the earth because they didn't know how. It's not like they were so close to the earth they couldn't bear to cut down giant trees or dig up the earth. They just couldn't. They don't seem to be all that reluctant to engage in forestry and mining on property they own today. Our socioeconomic system is also investing hundreds of billions in alternative energy and pollution control technologies. Which we have because of Capitalism. You mean like all our health problems are due to white supremacy and racism?

Okay. Explain the practicality of this. Ultimately, the report concludes that climate change and poor public health are caused by many of the same things: “White supremacy, capitalism, colonialism, and racism.” I'm critiquing the lack of science and the injection of far-left ideological nonsense in its place. Oh, stop playing games.

You didn't give me much to work with aside from a complaint that we're all driving off a cliff because of conservatives. What kind of careful reply did you expect from that?

Oh, and what kind of change would you like Comrade eyeball? Want to close down all the oil wells and live in our mud huts? Or perhaps just increase the punishment penalty for daring to heat our homes so that we drive the rest of our industries out of the country? I'm sure China and India will welcome them and continue to build more coal plants to provide them with cheap energy.

No. It's pointing out that when you are as caught up in an ideology as these people are reality can be readily brushed aside. There is certainly nothing of reality in this nonsensical report. No. It means guests of the natives, who are praised for their ties to the land. It's a criticism of a university system that is not properly educating people. I pointed out at the top how this is an example of why so many conservatives are showing disdain for academia. It's because academia is in the throws of an ideological storm that ignores truth and fact in favor of nonsense like this. First of all, the report doesn't say that. It says Capitalism needs to be toppled. Second, this is a report on health. What's fairness and environmental goals and racism got to do with that? The authors never say. They simply assert that these are the big problems with public health. Which is lunacy.

Is there not a single topic on this site you won't creep into to spew your lunatic anti-Catholic drivel?

This is the view of the urban elites who graduated from liberal arts courses at woke universities. It's not based on fact but on ideology. Or did you miss where they say we need to learn to be 'good guests' here? As if this isn't really our country. Do you think the extremist ideology behind that doesn't inform every single thing they say about climate change and healthcare? As for climate change, Capitalism has lifted billions out of extreme poverty. And it is only the wealth it creates which would allow us to put in place measures to deal with the inevitable consequences of global warming. That they don't seem to understand this points to the fundamental ignorance people are graduating with. Again, ideology over fact, zealotry over common sense. And what has changed is that people like this who would have once been laughingly dismissed are taken seriously by Trudeau and his ilk, and appointed to boards, bureaus and agencies.