Michael Hardner

No, they were Canadian.

My grandparents were around in WW1, but worked in supply side etc. What they had back then is what we're heading towards today: families working to have food and shelter and not much more.

What's the role of other factors, like capitalism though? And I doubt women had to be "convinced" to have the rights to choose such things. I do feel that family life is a more difficult path now, being IN it and all but portraying the wandering of the Zeitgeist as a scheme doesn't fit. The deeper narrative is that religion is quickly dying, but hasn't been replaced by anything more meaningful than consumerism. We don't have a common purpose, I reckon.

When people start citing Debord, we are really close to the end of MAGA😂

I'm also a descendant of the "families souches". My French grandparents taught mercy and humour, and there are now 40 people in Ontario and Quebec who espouse their values. Our economic systems upturned the traditions of large families that stayed close. The impacts are pervasive and underappreciated.

Oh yes but Carney did much worse for Canada with his firm Waddabout that got 736M$ US. No need to cite 👎 Remember Lincoln's Crypto currency? Yes, corruption is normal and Biden...

Yes the team knows what the leadership denies.

I've been here literally 10 times longer in terms of years. Has he beat me in number of posts yet? 😂

I think a court already put a restriction on quoting the Bible in some contexts in Canada. And yes it was Leviticus

I'm talking to the pool members...

Back on pg 23 I noted that since the government didn't fall 'in a matter of weeks' we were going to open a pool on how long this thread would go on. SO MUCH response... But sadly, now that we're on page 32... we only have two folks left in the pool... And since the pool only went up to 10, we will return the money if/when we get past 10 pages...

You might want to ask why someone wants to single out one factor, namely religion, as the reason people are left behind and backwards. Nothing to do with military, economic storyline. It's like when a Muslim commits a crime, they want to associate that to the religion because it's a key marker of difference to them. If a Christian commits a crime, it's like... Man with brown hair commits crime... I.E. The religion of the perpetrator is meaningless because he's like us.

If you had FOUR in the pool... please turn in your card and pay up.... Note to eyeball - the committee rejected your bid to cover "over 100 pages" with a single bet, sorry.

There are wealthy layabouts The point is to expunge narratives, personas, stereotypes and take a systems view when looking at our political economy. Is it working? Are the wealthy investing in things that provide Mutual benefit? Is there incentive to work and improve oneself? I feel that in this great poker game, many people are throwing in their cards lately.

Guilbeault quits Carney’s cabinet over energy deal with Alberta There's a photo and a link to the story ... So can we agree it's being talked about?

🤔 2nd story on CBC website.

JBG, Morris Dancer - you guys had THREE in the pool.... please pay before EOD thanks.

0, 1, 2 pages in the pool - PLEASE PAY UP.

God, I hope not. The end needs to come soon, lessons need to be learned.... 😂

I saw that as an early adolescent... lovely film and maybe the first grown-up film I 'got'. Good for Bogie for playing a loser for once

You are up close with the dichotomy of democracy that Aristotle and Plato even struggled with 2500 years ago: A ship that is guided by a mob rather than a captain will eventually run ashore and yet, if you give a captain sole ownership of the rudder you will fail even more frequently. The moib now has become the Khmer Rouge - anyone who has a whiff of intellectualism or academia about them is a traitor to these people. This means we'll be guided by Captain Crunches instead of Horatio Helsons. Fake horatios abound and even very intelligent folks are swayed by them.

Hadn't thought of that one before...

If you had ZERO PAGES in the pool, you have lost.

Read my post again. You can't associate a single crime to a trend without statistics.

Focusing on individual crimes is anti-system thinking, since we could be seeing huge drops in crime rates due to effective programs and yet a single egregious incident would cast doubt on how well we're doing. If we could get people to focus on the big picture, and de-focus on emotional responses to every single thing then we would get further ahead.