ironstone

There seems to be a misconception in this country that wasting or stealing from the government is ok because 'it's government money' and most people can't comprehend that it's taxpayer money. When politicians are careless with our money, whether or not the media picks it up seems to depend on which party the person in question belongs to. Remember the massive amount of coverage about Bev Oda's $16 dollar glass of orange juice years ago? She ended up losing her post. There are countless worse examples from the Trudeau era but most of them barely get mentioned, if at all. I wish I knew. There are generally no consequences or oversight to prevent this kind of behavior.

Pulitzers have been rather tainted since Walter Duranty of the New York Times famously had a rather huge omission from his glowing reports on Stalin's regime.

We'll never know the true extent of government corruption in this country. I would guess we barely even see the tip of the iceberg. The waste, the sense of entitlement from our politicians is beyond belief. The millions handed over to recover the suspected children's graves didn't actually get spent on that. It went to consultants and publicists. https://torontosun.com/news/national/millions-in-federal-funds-to-recover-suspected-indian-childrens-graves-in-b-c-went-elsewhere-report The Canadian Taxpayers Federation actually put out a book on this subject, "Pigs at the Trough". You can read it for free here: https://archive.org/details/pigs-at-the-trough-2024/page/n7/mode/2up

No foreign aid comes out of a presidents pocket obviously. The goal of degrading the Russian military is risky because there is a strong possibility that this conflict will spread. Are you content to see the slaughter continue with no end in sight?

The US is still giving military aid to Ukraine is it not?

Are you saying that when the founders of BLM do things like buy multimillion dollar mansions and spend lavishly on themselves that there is 'nothing to see here'? Have you personally given money to BLM?

That man should be applauded for his bravery during this terrorist attack and nobody should deny that. But it shouldn't detract from the real issue, namely that there is an issue with violence associated with that faith. Even if one assumes that only 1% are extremist, that is still tens of millions of people out there. We should be allowed to discuss it without fear of violent retribution.

Chinese interference in Canada has been going on for a long time and it seems pretty clear that none of the major political parties have done much, if anything, to stop it. Both Juneau-Katsuya and Stanton made the point that no one government is to blame more than any other for failing to deal with interference from China. He said all federal governments over the past three decades have been warned about China's attempts to influence elections and have failed to properly respond to the threat. "CSIS has knows about [China's] foreign interference in Canada for at least the last 30 years. Every federal government from Mr. Mulroney to Mr. Trudeau today have been compromised by agents of the communist China," Juneau-Katsuya said. "Every government [was] informed at one point or another. Every government chose to ignore CSIS's warning." https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/former-csis-officials-committee-china-1.6797803

We have been warned before and most Western governments have ignored it. The UAE Foreign Minister said it himself.

You're conflating ONE incident on the Israeli side while ignoring numerous rejections of generous offers that were made to the other side. Do you think it's fair to put the responsibility for peace entirely on the side of Israel? And Jews have always had a presence in the region to varying degrees. It's a sad state of affairs but the truth is, Jews aren't really safe anywhere in the world. Not in Israel, the US, Australia, UK, Germany, France, Canada and on and on. Israel is a progressive country. Arabs comprise 20% of the total population and they can serve in the Knesset, the IDF, the justice system. They have rights. The same cannot be said for Jews in any of the neighboring Muslim countries. In fact, there are virtually no Jews in those nations. Why are there no Jews in the Muslim nations?

Maybe because back in 1947, the Jews accepted a deal they weren't entirely happy with and made the best of it while the Arabs said no? (and subsequently the Arabs ganged up and attacked Israel) Maybe the parents could explain the fact that they have continuously rejected every chance for statehood and peace that was offered to them? https://lawandsocietymagazine.com/how-palestine-rejected-offer-to-have-its-own-state-5-times-in-the-past/ York City, December 4, 2024. (Eugene Gologursky/Getty Images North America/Getty Images via AFP) Former US president Bill Clinton on Wednesday said young people in America today “can’t believe” that late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat walked away from a Palestinian state during peace negotiations with Israel under his mediation as president. Clinton added, in reference to the failed Camp David talks of 2000, that having turned down a “once in a lifetime” peace opportunity, “you can’t complain 25 years later when the doors weren’t all still open, and all the possibilities weren’t still there.” Arafat “walked away from a Palestinian state, with a capital in East Jerusalem, 96% of the West Bank, 4% of Israel to make up for the 4% [of the West Bank to be annexed for Israeli settlements],” Clinton elaborated, repeating an account of the Oslo peace negotiations, to which the ex-president has returned repeatedly in recent interviews and remarks.

To an extent. But it's impossible to ignore that they have gotten demonstrably worse since 2015. Liberal policies like carbon taxes, bail not jail, mass immigration, profligate spending, have exacerbated these problems. Promoting mass immigration while we have a housing shortage??? What are they thinking? Perhaps the Liberals feel that importing new voters is far more important than being able to buy a house or find an affordable apartment.

But in which countries are these people actually being physically thrown off rooftops?

'Palestinians' are literally the most coddled 'refugees' on the planet. They actually can pass their 'refugee' status down generation to generation. All while they continue to indoctrinate their children to hate Jews. They build nothing positive. All of their efforts go towards harming Israel and its inhabitants. Tunnels, bombs, rockets...and yet so many people in the West choose to stand with Hamas.

Perhaps more context is needed here. Were any of those things listed above part of an omnibus bill or a budget which may have included items that the Conservatives could not, in good conscience, bring themselves to vote for? It is rather common for political parties to use poison pill tactics against their opponents. For all those years that the Liberals did not have a majority, they were able to count on the NDP to win votes in the House of Commons. The bills got passed but things didn't really get better. And it is worth noting that even after ten years in office, Canada is still faced with some very serious problems that aren't getting better. Homelessness, crime, immigration, health care, and perhaps the worst problem of all, the cost of living.

Well we knew this response wouldn't be long in coming. "recent events" is how Brisbane Muslims are choosing to refer to this slaughter.

You're wrong. There are a lot of people that condone and approve of this kind of barbarity. Why the hell do you think these monsters livestreamed their Oct 7 bloodbath? If Hamas didn't attack on that day, the IDF would not have gone into Gaza.

You think more gun control is going to deter these people? (This was in Australia)

1. You don't question why Islamic countries(majority Muslim population obviously) are intolerant of other faiths? Why are there so few Christians in the Middle East? Why so few Jews in the region outside Israel? And that number keeps going down. 2. I suspect there are very few attacks against Muslims in Canada. I don't condone any attacks against Muslims in Canada. I would wager that Muslims are safer in Canada than in many Muslim countries as they are not exactly hesitant to kill each other in great numbers. Like many others, I'm not the least bit surprised by this latest terrorist attack. This man sums it up nicely.

The West is very tolerant of all religions. Islam isn't all that tolerant of other religions and the West in general. How many Islamic terrorist attacks have there been in Poland?

There is no genocide in Gaza or the West Bank. And even if there were, that is no excuse for slaughtering innocent Jews in Australia or any other part of the world.

But most terrorist attacks world-wide are linked to one religion in particular. Search Assist Terrorist attacks are often linked to various religious ideologies, with Islamist extremism being the most prevalent in recent years. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Islamist_terrorist_attacks It's a pretty long list.

Most Western governments are more concerned about 'Islamophobia' than they are about the threat of Islamic violence on their own soil. They don't care how or why Muslims get radicalized in our societies.

For anyone that's interested, this was quite a debate, 'Islam is a religion of peace'.