Moonlight Graham

I support LGBT and Pride events. I don't support the government telling every city council or mayor they have to fly flags for X or Y causes. Same with crosswalks. That's up to each the city.

Yeah but progressives are leaving twitter for Bluesky, and many left MLW for the other forum. This is highly divisive and unhelpful. Silos and echo chambers are bad. Musk is an arse, but i do think the platform itself is more politically neutral than before. His tweets would have existed whether or not he owned the platform (unless the old owners banned him LOL).

That theory has clearly been debunked, in fact it was almost immediately by the author's former professor. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clash_of_Civilizations

Who the heck would fine a town for not flying a Canadian flag on Canada Day? That's insane. If the residents don't like it they'll vote the mayor out.

The story in the OP is unbelievable. Forcing activist flags on a polity is insane. Doug Ford should abolish the human rights commission and those fake courts run by non-judges.

The page is titled "Teaching about Palestine" and "Nov 29 is the UN International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People. Some useful vocabulary:". They don't even bother to label Hamas a terrorist group (as defined by Canadian law) or mention the word "terrorism/terrorist", and they define "islamophobia" but not "antisemitism". This topic is a hornet's nest for the board admin, I have no idea why they want to be touching it, especially in an elementary school given somebody's especially some parent is going to get offended.

Post-national state. Canada is just a place to hang your hat now. Nobody is signing up to serve in our military anymore. Why defend something you have weak attachment to, or know little about? It's the Liberal way. Canadians see Americans as smug and overly patriotic, which they sometimes can be, and so Canadians kneejerk and want to be the opposite. "Nationalism" and "patriotism" become a dirty word. It's an over-correction and poorly thought out, like many liberal sentiments.

Its wise not to get in the middle of that sh*t show if you want to keep friends LOL. Especially as someone with no skin in the game.

FYi the source didn't call Hamas "a resistance group", they said Hamas' name is abbreviated from their full name "The Islamic Resistance Movement". The sheet of terms seems maybe a little biased towards the pro-Palestinian side though. But its not egregious.

What are the opinions of liberal Jews on this conflict? Are they critical of Netanyahu and have some sympathies to the Palestinians? Are some anti-Zionist?

Mexico saying another country has a drug problem HAHAHA

Yes I remember it.

Sounds like political suicide.

Yes the working classes are getting screwed. And I have no issues with barbed wire and rifles to keep out people trying to enter illegally. If they fired warning shots and then shot adults in the leg if they continued to try to enter illegally then the number of illegal attempts would drop to virtually nothing, and they'd all deserve it. But we don't have the balls to enforce the law. I also have zero issue refusing legal refugee status to anyone who doesn't have the skills/education to keep themselves and their family out of poverty in Canada. Instead we have violent gangs and organized car theft rings in our cities. Relocate them safely to a country more in line with their socioeconomic status. There's large areas of my city that have turned into poverty trash bins. I'm so tired of it. Progressives like yourself are completely incapable of protecting our country because you're too worried about being "nice".

Cite?

I would think this would benefit the rich and hurt the middle class and poor. The rich make far more in money than they can consume, so they invest the rest. Before the GST existed Canada was doing just fine. Get rid of it. Our government wastes money on all sorts of nonsense.

Visiting Trump sounds like a good idea. Better to have good relations with the guy when he takes power. He's going to be the POTUS, so it doesn't matter if Trudeau doesn't like him personally or politically.

Provinces have a Charter veto, not a veto on the whole constitution. Some issues like national defence are federal issues that can't or don't make sense to made by each province. But I do think there should be as much provincial and local control over laws as is reasonable. Problem is the agreement that decides what feds and provinces were in charge of was made in 1867 and re-opening the constitutional is basically impossible in this country because of Quebec.

If Quebec was located on a coast, like BC or Newfoundland, they'd be gone. QC separating would isolate the Atlantic provinces. The Liberal party has been an anti-sovereigntist Quebec party since at least Trudeau Sr.

That's nonsense. Sometimes the courts are right and the provinces can still use the clause. The purpose of the clause was to get the provinces to sign on to something that limited their power, including Quebec, who still didn't.

Does Trudeau like to surround himself with women in cabinet, GG etc because he's a feminist, or because women often swoon to him because of his handsome charms and thus he tends to have more influence over them and support from them compared to men? Food for thought.

All money I pay in GST/HST at time of purcahse is my hard-earned money. They're letting me keep more of my own money, then also sending me a cheque. Of course they aren't sending us the $250 around Xmas when people need it, they're sending it in April after the 2024-25 government fiscal year is over so it doesn't count towards their budget this year so they can still show how nice their budget spending has been this year during the election campaign.

Most of the 9/11 hijackers were Saudi as was bin Laden so why no travel ban from Saudi Arabia?

"Thanks for giving me back my hard-earned money that you take from me in order to try to buy my vote".

Remember when Trump wanted to ban all foreign Muslims but his lawyers told him it was super racist so then he changed it as a ban of people from all Muslim countries instead but then his lawyers told him that he couldn't because the US has key Arab allies like Saudi Arabia so then Trump just settled on banning people from only some Muslim countries? Remember that?