kraychik

In Canada, self-defence has been greatly neutered, and in some instances, criminalized.

Hating America is a staple of the Canadian left. And it's crawled all the way up the food chain to our highest elected officials. It's not uncommon, in fact it's quite common. It comes from politicians like Libby Davies (who is also a vocal apologist for Hamas, Hezbollah, and other mass-murdering terrorist outfits), Carolyn Parrish, and goes all the way down to the white trash at pee-wee hockey tournaments who burn the American flag when playing an American team in Quebec. Anti-Americanism is rampant in Canada among the left.

Ok, so fighting back won't stop bullying in every single case. Do you want an award for that insight? Want the ultimate solution? Expulsion. That not working? Imprisonment. It's not complicated.

Where did I say you couldn't support whatever you want to support? All I did was challenge the absurdity of your envisioned ideal scenario for the UN.

Yes, because self-defence is murder.

So we got another one of those leftists that equates self-defence with "escalation of violence".

Hating America is how the Canadian left defines its national identity. It still wins points among the left in Canada. We have a socialistic party in Canada known as the NDP, who you may be familiar with. Well, their friendly dictator Jack Layton recently died and they needed to select a new leader (he didn't have a son). So during their intra-party campaign one of their top candidates, then 29-year-old Catherine Ashton, accused the now leader of the NDP Thomas Mulcair of "American-style dirty tricks" (whatever that means). This type of anti-American rhetoric gives the Canadian left paroxysms of ecstasy. This same anti-American leftist bait was used by America-hater NDP MP Pat Martin, accusing the Conservative Party of "importing American-style dirty tricks" in a false scandal which ironically ended up implicating his own party once an investigation took place. http://www.hilltimes.com/news/politics/2012/02/28/tories-imported-american-style-dirty-tricks-and-now-theyre-getting-caught-says/29764 Hating America is the favourite pastime of the Canadian left, second only to removing the keeping of scores from sports leagues for young people so that there will be no winners or losers at the end of the soccer match.

Not to mention the millions of dollars in support they receive from leftist media outlets favourable to their electoral campaigns like the CBC and Toronto Star. The heavily leftist slant of the Canadian media landscape doesn't get counted as campaign contributions, of course.

I think it's a sort of one-a-week hour-ish depression. For some people it's only once a month. It gets better as you get older and spend more time in the hospital.

Good luck proving those false assertions of election fraud. I wonder if you'll make a mea culpa like Pat Martin, after his lies and slander about the manufactured "robocall scandal" were so exposed that even the leftist Canadian media outlets couldn't bury it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bX0KxXNMOtw

It's actually unbelievably simple. Harassment should be absolutely not tolerated by schools. Harassing and bullying other classmates? Immediate expulsion. Problem solved.

Yeah, fighting back is simply too simple. Simple answers don't bode well for leftists who want to justify another complex governmental department preceded by expensive (fake) research endeavours. I mean, it's just gotta be more complicated than that! It has to be!

Actually, yes. That does somewhat offset it. But the average income in China is so much lower than in the USA, whereas Canada's average income is only a little lower than that in the USA, yet things cost more in Canada. Paying higher prices for almost everything isn't something that Canada should be proud of, and isn't something sane Canadians enjoy doing.

"Venomously"? You're using your interpretive skills again, I see. His viewpoint on this issue is clearly leftist, and I'm characterizing him accurately with respect to this. Desiring a greater centralization of control over the projection of military power in the hands of the UN at the expense of sovereign free states is pure leftism. There's not other way to describe it.

Fight back at the lockers and you won't need to worry about the "networked bullies".

So how is that relevant to what I said earlier? The same principle applies to stopping bullying - stand up for yourself and, in the words of Scott Thompson, "grow a pair!". We don't need these wishy-washy "It Gets Better" campaigns where we lionize the victims of bullying. Rule number one is to stop being a victim.

So Tea Party folks that want reduced government encroachment over the economy are automatically hypocritical if they want the maintenance of Medicare for current seniors? There's a lot of room for advocating more economic liberty in America while still being concerned about cuts to Medicare which many seniors have made central to their retirement plans. There's a lot of space in between puritanical libertarians on the one hand and socialistic policies on the other.

What's Carr got to do with this discussion?

That wasn't implied at all. What's implied is that there's a good degree of economic cooperation between the two nations and that it's something to be appreciative of. I don't think this forum needs your non-existent interpretation services given the fact that we all speak English.

The problem is because Canadians are paying more for the same products and services from the same retailers. Compare costco.com and costco.ca, or walmart.com and walmart.ca. It's frustrating to know that you have to pay ten to twenty percent more simply because of failing socialistic policies (regulations, licensing fees, taxation, etc). The standard of living in Canada in financial terms is lower than in America for preventable reasons.

If Romney loses, it'll be because he didn't have the courage to oppose these ridiculous measures. Plenty of Americans are smart enough to realize that you can't just legislate goods and services into existence with the stroke of a pen. Forcing insurance companies to absorb losses in the form of denying them the ability to screen applicants for insurance based on pre-existing conditions and obligating them to extend insurance to children up to the age of twenty-eight is socialistic fantasy. The insurance companies will either go bankrupt or shift these costs to all other stakeholders in the form of increased premiums and deductibles and lower salaries for their employees. There's no such thing as a free lunch. Romney's clueless advisers are clearly telling him to be a leftist on these details, and it may cost him the election.

You realize bullying didn't start in 2005, right?

I don't care what the CEO of J Crew might have said. The argument holds no water.

This is obviously because of greater economic liberty in America. The government creates less inefficiencies in America than in Canada. Although it does seem pretty clear to me that guyser intended to type, "...because the Canadian retailer can."

You are 100% wrong.