Moonlight Graham

Meanwhile Carney passes law giving birthright citizenship to kids born outside Canada. Unbelievable.

"We acknowledge we live on X traditional territory. We're not going to leave of course, but it makes us feel better to say these things. while not having to actually do anything. "

There were estimated only about a million indigenous people or less in Canada pre-Columbus. Many of those died from disease exposure. Some of the land is stolen, mainly along shoreline where they would have lived, but the vast majority of Canada was uninhabited even pre-Columbus.

Sounds like people are leaving Canada because the country sucks these days. I blame Canadians themselves for continuing to re-elect fools at all levels of government.

Did bush_Cheney die of covid or something?

Boomer-approved!

Read what I said again. I said yeah sometimes the cops abuse Menzies' rights. In no way whatsoever have I defended the cops. I'm calling the cops clowns for what they do to Menzies and that Menzies is also a clown.

How is that defending cops? I'm criticizing them. They're both clowns.

Sorry where did I defend the cops?

The police and David Menzies are d*cks. They deserve each other. It's a symbiotic relationship.

I get your point. In principle I agree. Carney comes off as the docile polite Canadian as the boorish American tramples on him, which is a bad look for us. The problem is if Carney is going to start getting into little sparring matches with Trump just to clear up a point on TV here and there that are largely meaningless he risks Trump having a hissy fit and doing something dumb policy-wise just to get back at us which would hurt Canada. It would be better if the relationship doesn't go how the Trudeau-Trump relationship went if possible. Diplomacy is a an art. Carney is in a real bind, he's damned if he does/damned if he doesn't. And hunched over he looks like Billy Bob Thorton from Sling Blade haha. But even Carney he looked like Stephen Hawking i'd much prefer that over having a frat-boy DEI activist as our PM.

They should just report the news, like the Canadian Press does. Being as biased as The Star is unacceptable for a public broadcaster. At least you admit their bias, thank you. I still watch The National sometimes. The first 30-40 minutes are good, it's just the main headlines and the facts. Then the last 30-40 minutes comes the "personal interest stories" or commentary and other stripe. I don't mind the Coyne/Hebert panel since there's differing views and they aren't too biased. The CBC News website....i don't even bother. I look for news that's much more dry and trying to be less politically correct, like CTV News or Globe and Mail. Then I will go to The Star, CBC News, National Post, and some smaller outlets to find stories of opinions on the left and right that the "dry" more objective often won't cover. People on twitter will post stories much of the media won't touch either, but you always have to take those with a grain of salt and do your research because they're always coming from some slant with an agenda and purposefully leave out context.

I don't understand your point. Yes you can defend Israel when it acts justly and criticize them when they don't. There's a lot of gray area and subjectivity for sure that's up for debate.

18+ would be nice.

That's simply not true.

The thing is sometimes the police etc do abuse David Menzies' rights, but Menzies also knows EXACTLY what he's doing and purposefully goads police etc into a confrontation to acquire an "unjust" reaction from them and catch it on video. Rebel then uses the footage to convince their readers to donate money for some legal defense or whatnot. It's some tabloid scheme nonsense. Rebel does have some usefulness since they report things that the MSM never would, but they're a hot mess. The state of journalism in this country has really hit the sh*ts since the fall of physical newspapers.

CBC News is propaganda. I might visit CBC News once a month just for curiosity to see how bad it is. CBC News on television isn't as bad, they mostly stick to major stories unless the talking heads come on, which is when I turn the channel.

False. How old are you, 5?

The point of building the settlements is not simply "security buffer zones". I defend Israel as much as anyone, but the denial of food aid is a war crime.

Using the denial of food aid as a weapon of war.

Trump's focus for deportations has largely been criminals, including in LA. Looks like he's pointing that out and saying he's not going to deport all illegals, which he hasn't been doing anyways. Maybe this is his way of trying to quell some of the uproar in LA.

They have to prove it in court. Trump lost every lawsuit.

The issue is the US is a nuclear power and Iran isn't. The US can retaliate against China, including cyberwarfare etc. Granted, the US needs to be very careful in regards to China, like they were with the USSR during the Cold War.

Are you saying no actions of Israel should ever be criticized? I support their right to self-defense and to eliminate Hamas but they do sometimes go too far. Israel is far more ethical than Hamas, but Hamas shouldn't be the standard of behaviour. I do think it's very hypocrtical

Fair point. I understand why they occupied the Golan Heights etc for strategic defense purposes, I don't blame them for that. But that's different than building West Bank settlements and using the denial of food as a war tactic. Israel is never going to please everyone but they do themselves no favors in international eyes when they do things like commit war crimes. Israel's existence depends on international support from the US and other western countries, and that support shouldn't be completely unconditional.