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Beaver, I strongly disagree. 1. Banking in Canada is weird - Canada Trust/TD. Foreigners cannot offer such services. (Mulroney liberalised.) 2. Delta can fly to Toronto/Montreal, only Porter, and uh others, can fly between the two. 3. Videotron. 4. I reckon that foreign cheese will break this.

In 1912, Europe was at peace. Yet people like you, User, said the same about Germany. Replace the word "Russia" with "Germany". ======= We are not facing Stalin or Hitler. This is not the 1930s. We are not facing evil. We are in a multi-polar world. Let's get along.

Michael, WTF! We in civilised, get-along Canada have always left education in provincial hands. For various historic reasons. I don't know about federal Germany. France? It's centralised.

Like ACDI, CIDA. The UN. They become iron rice bowls.

Disagree. Not only. Chretien did too. He said no to Bush Jnr with that nonsense invasion of Iraq. ===== Poilievre lost because he didn't stand up for Canada.

At issue is whether young men will fight. Putin knows this. Nixon knew this. Johnson didn't. ====== There's an interview with Montgomery.

IMHO, we are in times similar to the 1910s. So, I think that we can avoid the slaughter of 1914-1945.

Alternative? I live in Montreal. "These people" want you to stop driving cars, using plastic bags. These people, like the women on the CBC, want to control your life. They want you to be a "better" person.

Trump is correct. 1) Zelenskiy has no cards. 2) Putin sends a bunch of drones.

Americans bring all their dead to a single place: France, Italy. Each person has a name. You Americans identify the religion. In France and the Netherlands, there are German war cementaries. They have black stones for their dead. I have walked around various Commonwealth cementaries - even in churches. Around the world. We bury our dead near where they die. 1914-1945. Some have no name. But what strikes me in all these visits is to two things: -the age of the guy, how young they were -and the occasional remark, he died for his fellow

Sunwing was a cheap flight south. ===== I am surprised that WestJet has now identified itself with this - rather than keeping the name brand separate. And WestJet can't speak French.

Agreed. Slavic people are stubborn. Trump knows this, he has been married to several. ==== We need a new regime of peace.

Disagree. I was in Crimea in 2014. We need a new regime of peace.

Watch the movie Mighty Aphrodite. At the end, it illustrates irony very well. As a viewer, you will see and understand the situation of the character on the stage - while the character does not understand. Woody Allen made irony explicit.

Mazursky had one view: Moscow on the Hudson, Next Stop, Greenwich Village Woody Allen had another: Annie Hall, Manhatten Martin Scorcese had still another: Goodfellas, Mean Streets

Why are educated people so, uh, clueless? NYC? I quickly learned, like Montreal, there are bridge/tunnel people.

Carney? Trudeau Jnr? I wish we had a leader such as Mulroney who could say, "No, I stood up for my country!" Trudeau Snr. ==== Poilievre lost because he didn't play the nationalist card, he didn't stand up for Canada.

Trump is correct. Air Canada is not "Canada". Lufthansa is not "Germany". ==== Delta should be able to fly from YUL to YWG.

In Canada, we can't do that. ==== I pay Montreal property taxes. I pay these in person. I also pay income taxes to the province, Quebec. Finally, I pay taxes to the federal government, the CRA.

Shady, This forum is remarkable.

To clarify, "local" means state or municipal/property.

In Canada, we can't do that. In Canada, we cannot reduce our federal taxes with provincial government taxes paid - except in Quebec. ==== IMHO, Trump made the US tax system more "fair" - more accurate.

On this, I strongly agree with Rand Paul. (Otherwise, I think he misses the broader point of life: we have to get along.) In Canada, we do not have such a federal department. For many reasons, in Canada, we leave education to provinces.

Disagree. In this day and age, wars are still fought by naive young males.

US Republicans are proud of Reagan. He supposedly defeated the Soviet Union. I disagree. I frankly think that the Soviet Union could have survived for many years after Brezhnev. If Andropov had lived, the Soviet Union could have existed for many more years. ===== For better or worse, Gorbachev foolishly chose to do things differently. Like Trump.