Moonlight Graham

The opposite of being conservative. Which is why the moniker "Progessive Conservatives" makes no sense.

The CRTC should look at most of the channels on TV because most of them are filled with complete trash programming. How many channels, inluding the news networks, are like tabloit networks designed to give 15 y/o girls eating disorders?

Do you have emperical evidence to back this up?

There's a fine line between teaching and ideological brainwashing. Students should be exposed to multiple political points of view. When it comes to political and social positions, students shouldn't be taught them without also debating them and their merits. IMO critical thinking is not taught enough in schools. Writing essays on Shakespeare is not enough. Philosophy is hardly taught whatsoever in K -12. Every belief one has should be questioned/debated for its merits, otherwise people are sheep. But of course, many parents and teachers don't like this because it's dangerous to the agendas they wish program into young people's minds.

Every new Windows release since XP seems to annoy me in some new way.

Just testing my quotes. I cleared my Firefox cache and it works better now. I get the quote boxes so I can edit now. Before a quote would just appear with no box or time/date and just be indented so it was hard to edit. Seems good so far for me, though it looks a bit different is all.

What does sj mean? Well I never heard of social justice math, interesting.

socialist, just wondering, what grade levels are you planning on teaching? how much social justice do they teach in elementary grades k - 6?

Seems like you want to teach your potential students to be compassionate idiots.

Pay the good ones more, pay the bad ones and the new ones (for which there are way too many thus little demand) less.

Pretty crazy. Most people injured by broken glass as they rushed to stare at the scene in the sky from their buildings etc. If I were there I would have thought it was a missile or a plane. Apparently it exploded in the sky before it was able to hit the ground in one piece, which caused the large boom.

I'm not a constitutional expert, but I know many things are outlined specifically (written) in our constitution, and many things are also not, and are done by convention. For example, there is no written mention of the "prime minister" or his/her function(s) in any Canadian constitutional document. Therefore, how can the GG be "constitutionally bound to follow the prime minister's direction over that of any provincial election or lieutenant governor-in-council" (or do you mean the cabinet, not the PM)? I'm not sure, but is it by convention or by written law that the GG follows the advice of the cabinet? Doesn't the GG have the power to unilaterally appoint senators, but by convention the GG follows the advice of cabinet (let by the PM)? I'm not sure.

Some of the suspects of the Toronto 18 (some were immigrants, some were born Canadian), and you could also argue Ahmed Khadr.

Culture, family, friends. There are lot of reasons. If you lived in ie: Japan for a few years and became a Japanese citizen, and a Canadian & a Japanese squared off in the finals of an Olympic event, who would you cheer for? Maybe it both, but can't tell me you'd have zero emotional ties to the Canadian team. When you grow up somewhere and live there most of your life, then move to another country for however many years and become a citizen, it's human nature to have strong residual emotional ties to your former home, unless you 100% hated it for some reason. There are also many reasons why people move countries & become citizens, sometimes it for work/economics, marriage, family, war. Interesting study: That and some more interesting reading: http://en.wikipedia....ip#cite_note-37 That's your opinion.

which situations?

So some of the situations that occurred during the 2006 Lebanon War was not an issue of dual-citizenship? Some of the issues i've brought up are not exclusive to dual-citizenship, I never said they were. And I'm sorry, a person who was born and raised and has family in another country and emigrates into Canada is much more likely to be more loyal to their former country than would their children/grandchlldren etc. who were born in Canada. That's human nature.

BTW, I may very well be wrong in how I'm approaching the issues I have problems with in regarding citizenship. Wilber and yourself have brought up good points where citizenship reform may work instead of banning dual-citizenship outright. Dual-citizenship may not have to be banned, maybe there are certain scenarios where it shouldn't be allowed or not, or maybe reform of citizenship laws/rules can be changed that will fix the problems I see that creep into issues of immigration/emigration , multiple citizenship etc. My point is that certain issues do exist with dual-citizenship, and they should be rectified in a manner that doesn't create different classes of citizenship or arbitrary stripping of citizenship by the government of the day (or the judges/officers they appoint). It is just disconcerting when there are immigrants (and even the Canada-born children/grandchildren of these immigrants) who become Canadian citizens but, when push comes to shove, are more loyal to another country than to Canada.

But my argument is that wrestling (greco-roman style, or something like it) was one of the original sports from the Ancient Olympic Games in Greece. It has such a long history of being linked to the Olympic games, so it's odd to have it removed. I think MMA might be too young of a sport, it might need to grow a bit more worldwide. Also, there's problems where in the Olympics fighters would needs to fight several times in a very short period of time. Tournaments like that have been done before in MMA, but injuries in MMA are very frequent (cuts and concussions of course) unlike most sports. Maybe headgear would be needed & fights would be more geared to winning points over knockouts, but that changes the sport dramatically. Not sure the IOC would want broken arms in the Olympics either.

Yes, one option is to make citizenship requirements stricter. The current residency requirement of 3 years is a bit of a joke. Some of the concerns I've raised can be addressed, at least partially, by changing the rules surrounding citizenship and other laws.

Do you just want to live there & work there in a way convenient for you, or do you actually want to be a proud flag-waving red, white, and blue American?

I was under the assmption they had an obligation, maybe I'm wrong too.

That's really weird. It's such an old sport. MMA would be interesting to add, but the ancient Greeks wrestled for sport a well so I can't imagine it not being in the Olympics

Woops I guess you did somewhat respond to one of my claims. Why would I be jealous? Where else would I want to have any other citizenship? I suppose the US would be handy, I could vote in elections and work/live/travel there easier If i ever wanted, but that would be opportunistic citizenship, not true allegiance to that country, which is one of the circumstances I'm arguing against. My hypotheticals are based in reality. The 2006 Lebenon War did happen, and Canada has been at war with other states in recent times (Afghanistan, Libya etc.). Your solution would be to change the rights of citizenship itself, which I'm open to discussing also, given you want things handled on a case-by-case basis, like you agreed with: I don't have dual-citizenship, nor have I ever sought the need for it for whatever reason, so maybe I don't fully understand how it benefits Canada? One benefit for Canada I could see is that dual-citizenship would mean faster population growth for the country, which is good for the economy if quality/productive immigrants are allowed citizenship.

Geez man you're sounding like one of those Republican nutjobs now: Playing the "freedom" card (a completely subjective word), and comparing me to a tyrant. I'm simply stating my opinion, not saying if I were Prime Minister I'd push it through as law without debate or a democratic vote. If you disagree with my opinions, refute them with reasons, which I don't think you've done once in this thread. Given that you're a Canadian expatriate in the US (to my knowledge), I wouldn't find it suprising if you had thought about the possibility of US citizenship, so you have probably have stakes in this debate that are different than most on this forum, therefore your opinions would be interesting.

no. one citizenship, no exceptions.