August1991
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21 hours ago, Army Guy said:
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"nobody" gets along thats the point, every since cavemen picked up a club Humans have been solving their problems with violence....
Strongly disagree.
For centuries, we Canadians get along.
And Europeans got along between 1815 - 1914.
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At present, Canada is not in debt. We have potential.
But we are like Argentina in the 1920s.
-We favour local production
-We vote for nationalists to protect ourselves against foreigners
-We choose a leader who opposes America
-We restrict trade on milk, eggs to protect our local production
-We restrict foreign banks
-We restrict foreign airlines
-We allow our government bureaucrats to choose "winners"
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Many older Canadians think that the State pensions and State health care system will protect them and their children.
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On 6/11/2025 at 6:11 AM, Barquentine said:
Before I reply...... since I don't know you - are you serious?
A tattoo is a personal choice. Skin colour is not.
In a civilised state, I see a difference.
If McDonalds refuses to serve someone with tattoos or I choose to marry a dwarf, it is a private choice.
In Canada, we have a bilingual federal State.
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10 minutes ago, herbie said:
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Forget the vet unless they're in pain.
...Agreed. A single visit to an urban vet is 500$.
He's deaf - makes alot of noise. He can smell and he can see things far away. But he can't see things close.
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On 6/23/2025 at 2:31 PM, blackbird said:
That was the Air India bombing over the Atlantic that killed 329 people onboard of which 268 were Canadian citizens.
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Strongly disagree, for many reasons.
In a single day, on a beach in Dieppe in Aug 1942, some 900 Canadians were killed.
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23 hours ago, paxamericana said:
Don’t worry about Greenland, it’s already ours. You should worry about Canada. Enjoy your last few pointless years before annexation to the American empire.
Trump/Americans have no desire to take over, uh, Canada.
But I can understand Trump's desire to take over Greenland. This is a dispute with Denmark. WTF?
Faced with China and Russia and whoever, this is a no-brainer: You bought Alaska. Buy Greenland.
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On 6/23/2025 at 6:25 PM, Barquentine said:
So he's gonna win his safe seat in Con country - too cowardly to run in Ont. But what if he wins by a smaller margin than they got in the general election?
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Run again? I think Mackenzie-King lost and then was elected in a Saskatchewan riding.
Mulroney famously sat in the House because of a Nova Scotia seat.
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3 hours ago, Army Guy said:
Actually 159 and 7 civilians died , along with an additional 360 deaths do to suicide attributed to that conflict....it goes to show that even though our government and military was unprepared for ANY conflict of that time, and is worse off right now, they were sent anyways....
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So, in this war in Afghanistan, Canada lost some 500 people?
We lost many, many more in the so-called "Great War". (You know, Vimy Ridge. Our green $20 money.)
For what?
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Let's avoid all this. Let's get along.
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On 6/23/2025 at 1:32 PM, herbie said:
I just drove 10 hours to my grandkid's Grad. I drive 10 hours in another direction to see my sister. Both live in BC and I live in the very middle of the Province.
I "suspect" you are correct.
Driving 10 hours? 800 kms/500 miles in a day? And then again?
My first understanding of Canada - the world - is that only we Canadians, Americans and Australians drive like that.
My second understanding is that Russians also drive like that.
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My father was a Newfoundlander. When there were too many kittens, they put them in a bag and threw them in the ocean.
My mother was a farm person. She spoke about barn cats, house cats and mousers.
My wife's brother lived beside a road. He named all the cats Grisou. I once asked whether it was Grisou XVIII or Grisou XIV.
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My cat is a ginger. And male. (About 70% of orange/ginger cats are male. Did you know that some species identify sex/gender by colour?)
Did you know that we judge the age of animals by their teeth?
The SPCA of Montreal removed my cat's incisors before I adopted him.
So I basically don't know how how old he is. The SPCA told me that he was 10 years old when I got him.
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All US citizens, regardless of residency wherever in the world, must file an annual statement to the IRS.
I reckon all Canadian citizens should do the same to the CRA, or Revenu Quebec.
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At present, the Quebec government calculates, collects the federal GST - sending the money to Ottawa. It has precise rules on state pensions CPP/RRQ. It determines who can access the state health scheme.
The Quebec government has its own bureaucracy to calculate/collect income tax.
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On 6/13/2025 at 6:09 PM, Army Guy said:
Just to clarify, we sent all we could to Afghanistan, at the peak it was 2 battle groups, for those of you who don't know what a battle group is...it is 2000 to 3000 personal...or half a brigade group....and we could not sustain that for long...so for the most part it was one small battle group....and we struggled to meet those commitments...and that came at a cost , with some soldiers doing 8 tours out of the 13 years we were there with the average soldier doing at least 3 to 4...and todays army is what is the result of those deployments...
So yes we did show up, we contributed the very minimum we could,and Canadian soldiers paid the price while our government and citizens conveniently forgot about us....
What a thread.
AG, some 100 soldiers died in Afghanistan. For what?
Chretien kept us out of Iraq. Pearson kept us out of Vietnam. St-Laurent sent us to Korea. Diefenbaker maintained our embassy in Havana.
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If the question is whether Canadians will show up when it matters, as an Australian PM said, we show up when it matters.
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People in Alberta and Saskatchewan cannot sell their oil abroad.
And they cannot buy milk/cheese from abroad.
This regime is not sustainable.
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On 6/21/2025 at 10:50 AM, CdnFox said:
Well it's not a test of whether or not the institution is corrupt or not so facto. I mean I'm sure they would all agree to keep the military too that doesn't mean the military is corrupt. It probably is but that's not an indication of it.
It does however mean that the industry plays a strong role in their writings and they don't want to go against them. One does not easily oppose the milk mafia.
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I kinda disagree.
If every sitting member votes for something, I reckon the fix is in - certainly on a money, trade vote.
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On 6/2/2025 at 7:30 PM, I am Groot said:
What has logic got to do with an insane, self-serving proposal? The human brain isn't fully developed until the early twenties.
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Logically, the age of voting should be pushed back to 23, when people's brains are fully developed. That is logical thought.
Not the issue, IMHO.
At present, about 35% of Canadian tax filers pay no income tax whatsoever.
At 16, they don't even contribute to the CPP.
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Trudeau and Levesque did not have poker faces. But they always said something unexpected, enlightening.
Levesque spoke this clear way in French.
Putin speaks this way in Russian.
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This first link reminds me of Trudeau, Levesque. It is not being bilingual. Watch to the end.
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With a boss like Trump, imagine doing this. Toward the end, he's more free-wheeling. "Third grade notes... "
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On 6/16/2025 at 6:29 AM, Michael Hardner said:
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The fact that Wikipedia works at all gives hope.
Robert Conquest famously said, I paraquote, every bureaucracy will eventually become leftist.
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On 6/16/2025 at 6:29 AM, Michael Hardner said:
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Flash was garbage.
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In its time, it was remarkable. But the Adobe model is wrong. Jobs got it right. Sad that Apple no longer posts this.
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On 6/16/2025 at 6:29 AM, Michael Hardner said:
Any news source has bias. CBC is as bad as The Star but not The Sun. Where do you draw the line?
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Years ago, newspapers relied on classified ads.
Nowadays, they rely on older people doing crosswords in pen.
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On 5/22/2025 at 3:31 PM, Scott75 said:
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When it comes to AI, I'm more interested in a certain substacker's custom ChatGPT AI called Ptolemy. I really liked these articles:
https://treeofwoe.substack.com/p/ptolemy-a-socratic-dialogue
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For those curious, google: create chatbot
(At present, Microsoft offers free software to do this.)
In effect, you can train a LLM on the text you provide.
In effect, you can provide your own training data so your chatbot responds based on the texts that you submit.
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I suspect this chatbot is known as Ptolemy because that is how it named itself - based on the various texts provided.
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On 6/17/2025 at 9:17 PM, Michael Hardner said:
And yet, here you are... A Francophone, whose people were tolerated by the British.
To win, Carney (and Trudeau Jnr) played the nationalist card.
Trump is playing this card too, surprised?
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Trudeau Snr played the nationalist card wisely, with care.
Mulroney?
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In these 2020s, Ann Coulter and Bill O'Reilly seem to think that America must confront/oppose Russia, China, Putin, Islam.
I disagree.
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I fear that we are closer to the 1910s.
As then, we understand everything. Technology will solve our problems. The Titanic will not sink. The war will be short.
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In 1979, it happened.
In Iraq and Libya, it also happened. It recently happened in Syria.
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I am a Canadian.
If you Americans tried to change my complicated Protestant/Catholic/French/English/Alberta/Quebec Canadian regime, you would make a mess of it.
Please don't.
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Identity Theft & Taxes
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I recently received a reported credit change. Huh? I went online to verify.
I discovered that TransUnion has a personal, walk-in office in Hamilton, Ontario - but nowhere else in Canada.
In Montreal, I pay my property tax in person. (The city sends me a paper bill/invoice to my address and I go to a municipal office where I pay.)
For banking? My caisse has branches - I can talk to a real person.
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Send me a bill/invoice.
I reckon that we should pay all taxes the same way.