Big Guy
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Great idea. Create some singular sites to which closet racists will be drawn so that we can identify and rebuke them. It is like putting out scraps of food which draw cockroaches from the corners - then turn on the light and squash them as a group under your shoe.
There have been a very small minority of Canadians who still bemoan the dissolution of the Klan. Perhaps they still have their pillow cases and will now have a place where they can meet, chant and burn a star and crescent.
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Kelly Leich just buried her chances of the leadership of the party - and rightly so. His view is a minority and unpopular one for most Canadians. Rona Ambrose has been trying to quickly separate herself and the party from Leich's statements. Her misguided "abuse line" during the election helped kill any chances for a Harper victory and this latest idea had killed her leadership chances.
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After the tears have dried and the goodbyes have been said, all we have to hold onto are the happy memories that we’ve shared with our loved ones who have passed, this is what keeps them alive in our hearts and in our minds, and they will continue to live on, through us.
My condolences.
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We get a thread about some tasteless anonymous comments on a political board. We also have a few of the intelligent posters on the board pointing fingers and trading demeaning insults. Surely folks, all of you have something positive to add but you waste your time in this sandbox tossing zingers at each other. You have all contributed positively to discussions here in the past so why do you have to back into the cesspool of far-right, far-left accusations as if a political position makes a person good or bad?
I know you are all capable of intelligent and civil discourse - I have seen it here.
Must be a full moon.
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Many folks go for a cold beer after a hockey game or practice but they usually get together at a home or a pub. In Manitoba, they seem to get right to the point:
Seems an awful lot of work for 2 cases of beer.
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Fortunately, there are many areas where the Israeli of annexation of Palestinian land is not accepted:
Activists have launched an app enabling people to instantly check if a product is made by a company supporting Israel. Hope it is also available in Canada. It's a slick bit of technology created by the group behind the event, the Campaign to Boycott Supporters of Israel in Lebanon, which was founded back in 2002 and is arguably the oldest organised effort to peacefully challenge Israel's occupation of Palestine on an economic and cultural level.
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The last three posts indicate that there is hope for this site. Nice to see civility break out - for that reason I will continue to follow this.
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Still nice to see a shirtless world leader who makes a shirtless Putin look his age.
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That's nice.
I am glad you agree. I believe that in most cases in developed countries it is the individual who seeks the religion. Not everybody is "religious" to the point where their religion begins to dictate their life style. Most people are "cafeteria" Catholics or Protestants or Muslims or Hindus, Buddhists, Jainisms or Sikhs or ...
I believe that those who subscribe to any particular religion cherry pick parts of their tenets as guides for their lifestyle. There are millions of divorced Catholics and millions of Jews who do not eat only kosher food.
There are more and more people on this earth who are seeking answers and are not finding them in any specific religion so they choose to create their own around some traditional base. The need for spirituality is very personal and can be personalized to individual need. I have found that when a person describes themselves as a Catholic or Jew or Muslim or whatever, what they are describing is the base of their personally molded philosophy of life.
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I don't know if this has been discussed or mentioned in the media, but when the shirtless PM came out of a cave and ran into some tourists, where was the RCMP? Does he not take any when he goes out, or was this maybe a set up photo op for the PM?
The RCMP has developed some secret technology. If you are referring to the following picture:
Then the armed RCMP guy is camouflaged as a yellow surf board.
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You don't even understand that labour doesn't follow supply and demand like widgets because here's an imbalance of power between employers and employees. And you want me to give credit to your position? The very first article I posted addressed past studies and made it a point to show how economists have been coming around to a new understanding thanks to numerous real-world examples of the previous bought being wrong. You still can't wrap your head around that. And frankly I don't care because you're a dogmatic partisan wo no interest in learning anything that doesn't confirm your biases. It's a simple truism that businesses thrive when customers have money to spend. Customers get their money from businesses paying them better wages. If that simple truth is lost on you, then there's no hope for any discussion with you because you are not just blind but wrong. Completely and totally wrong.
I am not an economist nor pretend to be. Respectfully - How does one then identify the point at which the employees are getting paid "too much" (i.e. minimal wage too high) and the economy suffers?
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Islam still isn't a race of people. It's a religion and political ideology. Both you and I could convert today by simply reciting the Shahada with witnesses. But, as far as Allah is concerned, merely reciting the Shahada is enough to make one Muslim. No witnesses needed. In fact, if you reject the idea found in the Shahada...even as a non-believer...you have a one way ticket to the Inferno.
It covers all the bases...I'll give Islam that.
I always thought that religion and spirituality was just between the individual and their God.
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I guess there is a reason why democracies have a judicial system that is separate from the politics.
Thank God there are some sane individuals on this earth.
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I am curious how they "level" the playing field with people competing with different disabilities in the same event.
For example there's an ad they've been showing of a swimmer with obvious cerebral palsy. Does she compete against only people with similar cerebral palsy? Or does she have an advantage or disadvantage over other people because her condition is worse or less.
That is why I have great difficulty with the Paralympic concept. It tries to ride the coattails of the "real" Olympics but has nothing really to do with competition and or deciding on who is better than whom. It may make supporters "feel good" about setting up an artificial criteria for competition but has no validity in reality.
The other difficulty I have is the money spent on this event could be spent on providing prosthetics to people so they could just find employment rather than paying for certain handicapped people to get to these artificial and useless events.
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The Chinese are the only ones that continued that. The others were Canadians by second generation. That isn't happening with Muslims. The second generation is more religious than their immigrant parents - with all the cultural values and views that suggests.
A little knowledge is a dangerous thing.
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While I believe in full accommodation as part of the spirit of this great country, I disagree with the decision on hijabs for Mounties - as I did years ago with turbans for Mounties. The Mounties, like any law enforcement force, are there to minimize conflict and protect people from each other and themselves. The stupidity and hate that I see from our resident racists would only be increased if they had to take instruction from someone who is obviously "not one of them".
These racists have enough problems of controlling themselves without the added temptation of having to follow orders from "one of them" just because they wear the uniform.
While I would enjoy watching one of these racists smacked down by a hijab wearing Mountie because of their refusal to "follow orders" I do fear for those in the vicinity who may get caught in the process of a racist getting his/her due.
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I neither believe them nor disbelieve them. As I don't know, I default to the choice. I'm pro choice.
I don't find anything offensive about anything women choose to wear, or not wear, in public or in private, anywhere in the world. I just think that the fact that they might not choose it should not be something we are afraid to mention. You just mentioned that many women will check with their husbands that their choice of wear for an event is appropriate. What's wrong with mentioning that many women will wear clothing out of fear for what might happen if they dont?
It happens all the time. Visit a woman's shelter and you will find how prevalent the practice continues in all parts of Canada - and especially rural communities. What evidence do you have that it is more prevalent in Canadian Muslims than it is in the rest of the Canadian population?
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I am a true Canadian patriot, not a cowardly one who will give up their culture and traditions just to please others from wherever. Works for me.
When you equate the assimilation of new cultures and traditions as a cowardly approach then you are no patriot. You are not not even a good Canadian.
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I do. I also think there are some women who dress a certain way because they are terrified of what might happen if they don't, regardless of the views of their spouses. I also think there are some women who dress a certain way because it is just easier to do so, to avoid the fuss.
It is accepted that there are probably some women of the Muslim faith who dress the way they do to satisfy their faith or their husbands wishes or both. But there are women of all kinds of faiths whose husbands dictate how they dress, where they go and who they see. There many women who will check with their husbands that their choice of wear for an event is appropriate.
There are very many instances where Muslim women, when asked, say that what they wear is their choice. Do you not believe them?
What do you find offensive or a problem with women wearing a hajib or other clothing in public?
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Not sure.
One strong possibility is a snap election though. I think one could rationally look at the Brexit vote as the moral equivalent of a non-confidence vote. Didn't Mulroney resign right after Charlottetown? And true, it was the end of the five years so Campbell had to go to the polls but I have no doubt she would have anyway.
Personally, I do not understand all of the benefits and liabilities of membership in the EU for Britain. I do have some understanding of the process required to change the existing condition. Very few times are things changed when only 50% of those interested want change. It is the majority of those who voted and who did not vote originally to direct the government to make a very major change for their future.
The fact that it requires a vote (majority) to trigger the process and the party supporting the change has to live with and facilitate the changes makes it doubtful (for me) that the support and energy exists for the long run.
It would require a majority government or a minority coalition to pass the legislation to trigger the process.
I do not believe that the conditions exist to-day or will exist in the future to pass this legislation.
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What an incredibly thoughtless post. The Paralympics are the 2nd largest sporting event in the world and your post reduces paralympic athletes to nothing more than competing for the amusement of fully abled people.
Why don't you consider the inspiration and hopes they provide to both the disabled and others who are not disabled. When I see someone competing in a wheelchair or on a sled with loss of limbs I feel humbled and inspired. Obviously it doesn't turn your crank but don't take away the glory from these athletes.
We obviously see things differently. The post is not thought less, in fact it is an position I have had for a number of years questioning how government money and resources were targeted in athletics.
I have watched some of the competitions and do not find a person with no arms, using a particular kick, competing with others in the same (or similar) disability transporting across deep water to be humbled or inspired. I find it bizarre and not dissimilar to things I had seen in the past in carnival shows displaying deformed people as a highlight. I find nothing amusing about that.
When I see "someone competing in a wheelchair or on a sled with loss of limbs" I feel very good for them and applaud their ability to deal with life's bad turns but what has that got to do with athletics and competition?
Just because you are handicapped does not mean that you are stupid. These folks understand that the vast, vast number of handicapped people on this planet not only have a shortened life expectancy but certainly not the support and funding to compete in anything. This is a showcase for rich, entitled handicapped folks.
I would much prefer that any monies Canadian taxpayers have NOT be put into this questionable spectacle be put towards prosthetics and transportation devices for those who cannot afford them - just to survive - not to compete.
BTW - I may disagree with your opinions but I do respect where they are coming from. I do appreciate your criticism and hope they never end.
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Would the economy flourish if we allowed slave labor?
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Thank god Canada supports the Paralympic athletes.
Interesting opinion but what does that have to do with accommodating male/female segregation for Muslims?
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Which men? Those who order women what to do under the guise of protecting them from men ordering them what to do or the men ordering them what to do.
I personally believe that a woman should be allowed to wear what she wants. A burka in Paris, a bikini in Mecca, it doesn't matter to me. I'm just not dumb enough to believe that the women wearing that stuff are all doing so because they choose to.
But as I can't differentiate between those who do and those who don't but are forced to anyway, I default to the choice, or appearance thereof.
So you think there are some women dress the way their spouses order them to?
Wasting Canadian Blood and Treasure
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Joining our forces is career decision. I think the vast majority of our soldiers know what they are getting into and still choose that career. There appear to be a philosophical shift in the way our government wishes to use the military. It wants to move from "peacemaking" (as the Americans call engagements in nation building) to peacekeeping - which most Canadians seem to prefer.
The individual joins the military knowing that they are subject to the changing governments and/or changing whims of governments. This includes financing, deployments, foreign policy etc.
I find it fruitless when anyone complains about their career choice. They made the choice, they did so with the knowledge of the conditions and can always leave. Most of us had the opportunity to join the military as a career but chose not to do so because of the nature of the work. Others chose to join. That was their choice.