Remiel

Why do you have to vote for Hudak and just not the Liberals?

This is beyond insane. This guy should be tried for sedition.

Precisely what technologies were invented because of the Iraq War that would not otherwise have been invented?

Here is the audio of an interview with at least one fellow who thinks all this outrage over Sterling's comments is kind of a joke. And not because he is an apologist for racism or anything like that, but because the comments are hardly the worst thing known about Sterling: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6bLKe9-Mto#t=165 And it has been known for a long time.

There is no way the Canadian Senate could be expected to function properly if every province had the same number of Senate seats. Stop looking at the American model and thinking you can play paint by numbers to apply it up here. They have fifty states. And they each get two representatives. That is an extremely diverse set up interests with many large and many small states. In Canada we have ten. Two are big, a few are medium sized and the rest are small. Not to mention: Do you really expect PEI is going to give up its guarantee to as many Commons seats as Senate seats? Should a province with 130,000 people have twenty legislators in Parliament?

You should revisit the comparison between stakeholders and shareholders as it applies to business. They same dynamic occurs in many places.

Gee, I could have sworn there was a country in the Middle East that was filled with Jews.

Everybody in the West has a stake in who becomes the next president. To pretend otherwise is to ignore the basic reality of geopolitics.

Or Mary Landrieu, Louisiana Senator.

Maggie Hassan, Governor of New Hampshire?

There are fewer indigenous people in Canada and the US combined than there are Jews; by a lot. And many individual groups have the same outmarriage issues. There is also no Israel for indigenous people. Whatever else you might think, to say that Jews are more demographically challenged than indigenous Canadians and Americans is almost certainly false.

Sometimes it is easy to forget that not everyone who posts on the Internet is middle aged or lower, .

Milliband kind of stuck his foot in it when he said he wanted to be the first Jewish PM, to the dismay of Disraeli fans and overzealous Jews. But what Cameron is harping on here is crass and stupid beyond belief. His main opponent is Jewish and he is emphasizing that Britain is a "Christian country" ? Perhaps the mods can forgive me this one time for using the expression: WHAT. THE. -BLEEP-. ???

In normal polite society when children have a party featuring underage drinking do we view the host parents as responsible regardless of whether they sanctioned the particular behaviour?

I think the real deficiency with her argument is that she is not discriminating enough. If you have any familiarity with native activists at all, you know that for most of them indigenous cultures are not completely interchangeable. Using the criterion of being an "indigenous person" says virtually nothing about whether your children will identify foremost with your own indigenous culture or your significant others indigenous culture: which are not the same culture. It would be like saying I plan to preserve my Scottish culture by marrying someone who is at least 1/4 white. It. Just. Makes. No. Sense.

Personally I think protesting a Laureen Harper event is actually injurious to the public: it promotes the idea that the spouse of the PM has some sort of role vis-a-vis public policy and debate. And formally they absolutely should not. This incident is a kind of a bizarre counter-point to the insistence on a meeting with the Governor General last year.

What in God's name are these numbers for? If voter turnout in cities was only 20% then how the Hell could you manage an overall turnout of 60% when cities are something like 80% of the population? Does the 20% of the country that lives in rural areas account for 44% of the total population that voter? No, obviously they do not.

Political differences are real differences. When was the last time you heard about Germany and Austria forming a single country? That was an idea that existed before long anyone had ever heard the name "Adolf Hitler" . The Germans and Austrians are still descended from the same people, yet the history of the Nazis and the Anschluss will probably mean it is not a thing again for a long, long time.

An awful lot of people who are unambiguously members of native cultures do not speak their native language. That is just a fact due to the legacy of residential schools. I do think this expansion is awful though. It actually undercuts many of the arguments of the more thoughful native activists: that nations are not merely a product of bloodlines, but rather of culture and belief. Canada sure as hell do not offer citizenship to everyone who has even a drop of Canadian blood.

An electoral democracy cannot say abide a situation and remain healthy where substantial numbers of people decide not to vote for superficial reasons like laziness or forgetfulness. Everyone who does not vote should have some kind of normative premise backing up their decision. If that makes it any clearer...

If Islam were following the same schedule as Christianity they would have until about 2127 (1517+610) to get their act together. The World cannot necessarily wait that long, but that is a slightly different question.

Westminster Parliament: A People's History.

In an electoral democracy it is complete unacceptable for the state to not, at the very least, promote the conscious and intentional decision to vote or not vote. The state that does not attempt to engage its citizens is the state sliding towards expunging their means of input altogether.

I think you can criticize the continued popularity of Islam all you like as long as you can accept that based on the same standards Christianity should have been expunged centuries ago and only historical accident permitted it to survive long enough to become less brutal enough that we can tolerate it.

Watching the average government employee for malfeasance would be a colossal waste of time (the viewers) and money (the governments/the publics). Watching politicians 24/7 would be stupid because even if it worked it would just lead them to putting on a pure act 100% of the time. It would be the death of the little remaining honest and earnestness. And it assumes that it would not in fact detract from the sort of work they are obligated to do (and I believe it would). Keeping an eye on government is not about literally keeping an eye on government at all times.