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  1. Regime change was a matter of U.S. Public Law as of 1998.

    If the Americans want war, then there shall be war. Told you so...years ago.

    yup - classic rogue nation move! But don't stop there... don't forget the other U.S. law from 2002: the Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq Resolution of 2002

    hey, when the U.S. can't get UN sanction, the U.S. makes up its own laws to justify illegal invasions to the world - again, classic rogue nation moves!

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  2. Sorry...I'm sure the Canadian technology moguls, movers, and shakers are out there, but their names just don't seem to roll off the tongue as readily as "Gates, Buffet, Zuckerburg and Bezos". Maybe they are modest.

    :lol: are you that starved for attention and so self-doubting that you want someone to reaffirm that the U.S. has, as you say, "technology moguls, movers, and shakers'? It's kind of the nature of the yearly conference... apparently that thingee called networking is done there. Why... I read there's been some real deals cooked up there over the years - lots of investment opportunities. Hey now, isn't that the reason given for Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau's attendance - to attempt to leverage investment back into Canada?

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  3. So who is the attending Canadian technology and media mogul....Justin Trudeau ?

    shhhh! It's a... secret attendance list - apparently, the sponsor, investment bank Allen & Co likes it that way. For someone as obsessed with Canada as you, where Canada is just so important to you, surely you don't have concerns about Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau attending with an aim to solicit investment in Canada - surely, yes?

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  4. Kenney realizes his federal aspirations are dead... gone the way of Harper! So he needs a new gig. Having actively lobbied for the Wildrose Party in the past, Kenney is being supported by some of those right-wing extremists... but at some point he'll need to assure Widrose leader Brian Jean that he still has relevance! :lol:

    for some strange reason the Alberta PC Party is rather distant and not accepting to Kenney overtures - go figure. Apparently, Kenney thinks he can simply leverage his social conservative schtick and win over all those social progressives within the Alberta PC Party.

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  5. It's pretty clear that the cases are identical. The teachers refused to licence TWU teacher graduates because they said the univesity discriminated against gays and suspected its graduates would be anti-gay.

    Ontario lower courts pointedly stated that 2001 SCOC ruling had no binding attachment to the current case involving the Law Society of Upper Canada; more pointedly a lower Ontario court emphasized that, in the subsequent decade and a half period, public attitudes had shifted during that time and needed to be taken into account. In regards that 2001 case, I made a point in referring to the lower court (BC Supreme Court) ruling to highlight TWU had won their case... that it was the BC Teachers Association taking the case forward to the SCOC. In the current case involving the Law Society of Upper Canada, it is TWU taking the case forward to the SCOC (as they have now done... although the SCOC has not advised if it will accept the case).

    in the 2001 case, it was TWU seeking to take sole 'ownership and responsibility' for its teaching program - to certify, to accredit, its own program/graduates. In this current 2016 case, the 3 Ontario lower court levels have upheld the Law Society of Upper Canada's decision not to accredit TWU law school graduates... for the proposed TWU law school that does, in fact, not exist yet. This is hardly, as you say, "identical"!

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  6. "At some point you'll need to recognize that there is neither a people's will, a political will or a fiscal reality that will align with your (and others want) to get all the toys you dream over. Given those wills and fiscal reality, why not set-out the D2.0 top 5 for Canadian role/want/need... inclusive of domestic and international forays - within domestic don't forget to factor Search & Rescue, Coast Guard, Border Security, Surveillance/reconnaissance, etc.."
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    I have numerous times before, but yet again, an approach that starts with the defense of Canada (and its interests) and expands outwards, with the full understanding that defending Canada proper (and its interests) is best achieved by starting outwards into the World and reverting back to Canada proper.

    A modern day revision of how the British defended themselves and their overseas interests.......an influential blue water navy (combined with a modern air force) and a minuscule regular army, more of a cadre of a force able to train and lead a "local force overseas" and/or our own reserve army...............

    Such a defense policy, a revamp of Victorian gunboat diplomacy, ensures that no Canadian Government will be able to partake in foreign conflicts and open ended deployments sans local support in said countries and/or the expenditure of huge amounts of political capital as the Government "calls-up" the citizens army.


    thanks for the answer; however, I'll ask for a re-do... one in which you shelve your dreams/wants/aspirations for Canada's "force projection" upon..... upon... who/what? Drop that "force projection" nonsense ("influential blue-water navy", oh my!), get a grasp on fiscal realities... and try again! Focus on domestic, sure you can!
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  7. :lol: since you ignored the post challenging you to put up or STFU over your repeated accusations I have had/have multiple MLW handles... thanks for SingTFU! I trust you won't reach for this accusation again, right? You know, the same accusation you come forward with whenever your whiling dervish act runs out and the waldo has you so flummoxed! Should we also take it that you're shelved your Jason Kenney surrogate act for now?
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    BTW...I did read her latest statement and it still points towards her innate desire to prove that aboriginals were here all along even though the evidence you provided (as did others) showed that at worst, they migrated here from somewhere else. Of course, her primary concern is aboriginal land rights in Canada and how the perception of aboriginals as 'settlers' may affect these rights which she documented in this thread. As such she goes to such absurd lengths to validate these rights by using terms like 'dogma' or 'white supremacists' toward anyone who indicates these people actually settled here at one point. The ironic part is none of that matters when it comes to aboriginal rights as it matters what is in the treaties/Indian Act, so making such outrageous claims is not only absurd but really doesn't accomplish anything either. But hey...you hitch your wagon to that star waldo!


    when the member you continue to harass speaks of populating the Americas... is that you reading, "here all along"? :lol: In any case, you continue to be off topic... you continue to attempt to derail this thread. Leave or contribute something aligned with the thread OP, hey!

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  8. The Oilers just signed Milan Lucic to ride shotgun for Connor McDavid! I expect at least 25 goals and 25 beat-downs from him this season.

    if by 'beat-down' you mean 'fights', no... that's gone where it belongs - outahere! Intimidation, and down-low play is where Lucic (and Maroon... and Kassian) excels. Bigger/tougher team now, oh ya!

    ... Cracknell...

    And that's not even mentioning Adam Larsson...

    Cracknell - UFA not given qualifying offer. Larrson? A gamble - time will tell.

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  9. There is no equivalent evidence when it comes to 'climate change' and adverse weather events we see today. In fact, the statistical evidence that does exist shows that weather events are well within the historical norms (case in point: we are in the middle of longest hurricane lull in history).

    say what? Are you presuming to ignore localized regional focused impacts? Oh my! Another guy who does the ready-reach for landfall incident... for the single focus on the U.S., as a determiner of hurricane activity. That ole nugget concerning the narrow landfall focus/skew has been dispatched in prior MLW threads/posts. Here's the thing... there are many oceans across the globe... apparently more than just the North Atlantic Basin... and, surprisingly, many/most don't hit landfall. Go figure, hey!

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  10. These atolls float on the the ocean. They are constantly changing and shifting. The only reason these normal changes have become problematic is because of human habitation.

    http://geology.gsapubs.org/content/early/2015/04/27/G36555.1.abstract

    Try reading the entire abstract. The first line is simply the premise which turned out to be false (e.g. the reason why they did the study because people presume it to be true).

    The *conclusions* of the study are:

    Reef islands in Funafuti continually adjust their size, shape, and position in response to variations in boundary conditions, including storms, sediment supply, as well as sea level.

    More info here:

    http://www.earthmagazine.org/article/fate-atolls-not-necessarily-tied-sea-level-rise

    you can continue to drop linked reference to and quotations from... that same study. Per MLW search, this is at least the 3rd time you've referenced it. Each time I notice you doing so, I will provide you the same reply I initially posted; again:

    the study area was within a subset of the central Pacific involving a relatively small number of atoll islands - the study authors caution extending the findings to a broader coverage area level... in that regard, of course, sea-level rise varies considerably across the complete ocean area, notwithstanding other localized impacts related to the preponderance of tropical storms/typhoons, etc.

    even taking the study's own data, against the generalized 120mm of sea-level rise in the study area, 14% of the atolls showed a decrease in total land area. Equally, another 43% of the atolls remained 'relatively stable' in land area... which only means the respective coral reef growth managed to keep pace with that associated 120mm sea-level rise. That "keeping pace" presumes upon healthy coral growth balanced against that existing sea-level rise rate... if the rate increases, the coral growth may not be able to keep up. Equally, there are other climate change related stresses that directly affect coral growth... coral life, for that matter: a warming ocean, ocean acidification, bleaching and (possible) changes in storm frequency/intensity. All these factors weigh heavily on whether atoll island nations will "remain afloat"... will be able to potentially adapt, if even partially.

    additionally, the referenced study analysis was based entirely on area size comparisons... vertical growth/height was not measured questioning whether the study suggests any change to the vulnerability of atoll islands to sea level rise. Per the study authors:

    This study did not measure vertical growth of the island surface nor does it suggest there is any change in the height of the islands. Since land height has not changed the vulnerability of the greater part of the land area of each island to submergence due to sea level rise is also unchanged and these low-lying atolls remain immediately and extremely vulnerable to inundation or sea water flooding.

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  11. New World....settlers....oh my! Watch out waldo....jacee wont like what you're saying and will turn on you probably calling you a white supremacist for your colonial views. I'm sure you'll respond with an ignorant fit of rage and cause a shame spiral!

    to help you get over your fake/false outrage, I suggest you re-read the latest posts in this thread from the member you're hell bent in continuing to harass... after you forced the lock on the other thread, you chased that member here with your continuing tirade in your role as a Jason Kenney surrogate. Time for you to either join the thread as a productive contributor or fade away/out. Thanks in advance.

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  12. The phony asylum claims from Mexico made up 92% of Mexican asylum claims, which made up 25% of ALL asylum claims. That was not the case for any other nation, so is it your contention that this alleged increase in processing caused Mexicans and only Mexicans to flood us with fake asylum claims?

    I wasn't able to find particulars (by stat/number/circumstance) of that "phony" grouping, particularly the nature of defined "phony and circumstances" therein. Now I do recognize that parts of Mexico are rife with political/military/police corruption given the influence of drug cartels... notwithstanding the influence of drug cartels directly on the Mexican populace itself. I trust the declared "phony asylum" grouping circumstances would properly factor all considerations - yes? Thanks in advance for any further information you can provide that speaks above and beyond your very broad numbers.

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  13. It also demonstrates how little attention the courts pay to the law, as opposed to their own ideological beliefs. The law could not be more clear, wr to the last supreme court decision on this issue where the teachers tried to ban TWU graduates. The judiciary is basically saying "I don't care what the Supreme Court says." And they're counting on the Supreme Court to simply change it's mind now that they've had a decade to think about it.

    Why can it simply change its mind? Because as I've been saying for some time, the constitution says whatever the judges feel it should say. If the judges say it is now unconstitutional to cut down trees or mow your lawn then that's what the constitution says.

    if you're talking about the 2001 BC Supreme Court ruling... my interpretation is not yours! I'm shocked you give little-to-no details, yet make such broad declarative and definitive unsubstantiated claims - go figure!

    my interpretation of that 2001 case has it that TWU wanted to adjust its, "teacher training program offering baccalaureate degrees in education upon completion of a five-year course, four years of which were spent at TWU, the fifth year being under the aegis of Simon Fraser University (“SFU”)". That adjustment had TWU apply to the B.C. College of Teachers (“BCCT”) for permission to assume full responsibility for the teacher education program... in line with, "TWU’s desire to have the full program reflect its Christian world view."

    my take on the decision is one where the TWU was granted leave to take on the full responsibility for its program... removing SFU from involvement. However, this was subject to an initial 5 year review period. If in fact this is the Supreme Court/case/ruling you're speaking to, I'll leave it to you to provide an update on that initial review period... and to question/challenge my interpretation of the case/ruling. I expect you'll also be providing the correlation you see/interpret between that 2001 case and the current situation with TWU and the Law Society "administrative tribunal". Interestingly, this latest Ontario Court of Appeal ruling, itself, drew attention to a Supreme Court of Canada ruling in regards administrative tribunals... I'll leave this as a teaser for you to act upon, hey!

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  14. How does this fit into the Liberals "defense review"...........is there an itching desire by the Canadian public to return to a potentially nuclear battlefield in Europe?

    Where in the Liberal defense review did the Trudeau Liberals plan to revisit such historic Canadian military (failures) missions as Hong Kong or Dieppe?

    my you're just so impatient for that review to complete! :D At some point you'll need to recognize that there is neither a people's will, a political will or a fiscal reality that will align with your (and others want) to get all the toys you dream over. Given those wills and fiscal reality, why not set-out the D2.0 top 5 for Canadian role/want/need... inclusive of domestic and international forays - within domestic don't forget to factor Search & Rescue, Coast Guard, Border Security, Surveillance/reconnaissance, etc..

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  15. Yes it was him.

    And his strategy to derail this thread too ... is working.

    I've revised my opinion of AN based on his aggressive 'defence' of Jason Kenney: I thought he was just a lone wolf right-winger, but it appears that he is a Conservative operative.

    of course it was him... as a consequence of his getting the other thread locked, he had to bring it here! He was the guy that brought the issue of Jason Kenney's, to some, white supremacist like statements/positions here - that was him! And he's loudly squealing it wasn't him... the guy is spinning wildly - a fevered whirling-dervish! A Jason Kenney surrogate... an operative, you say! :lol: He hasn't added anything of substance to this thread; instead, preferring to continue derailing the thread... no doubt aiming to get this thread locked as well!.

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    Wow, that's interesting"

    " ancestry more closely related to indigenous Australians, New Guineans and Andaman Islanders than to any present-day Eurasians or Native Americans."

    It makes so much more sense than pretending that America sat unpopulated while the rest of the world was being populated.

    The timing of that ocean migration would explain what appears to be a much longer time frame of diversity in linguistic evolution of Indigenous languages in America.

    Later migration via the Bering land bridge would not explain why this early evidence of human occupation lies in South America

    and this relatively recent DNA analysis extended upon earlier studies of ancient skulls unearthed in Brazil and Colombia that bear stronger resemblance to those of Australasians than the skulls of other Native Americans: Early Holocene human skeletal remains from Santana do Riacho, Brazil: implications for the settlement of the New World.

    The multivariate analyses show that they exhibit strong morphological affinities with present day Australians and Africans, showing no resemblance to recent Northern Asians and Native Americans. These findings confirm our long held opinion that the settlement of the Americas was more complicated in terms of biological input than has been widely assumed. The working hypothesis is that two very distinct populations entered the New World by the end of the Pleistocene, and that the transition between the cranial morphology of the Paleoindians and the morphology of later Native Americans, which occurred around 8-9ka, was abrupt. This, in our opinion, is a more parsimonious explanation for the diversity detected than a long, local microevolutionary process mediated by selection and drift. The similarities of the first South Americans with sub-Saharan Africans may result from the fact that the non-Mongoloid Southeast Asian ancestral population came, ultimately, from Africa, with no major modification in the original cranial bau plan of the first modern humans.
  16. Voila.....http://www.mapleleafweb.com/forums/topic/25877-theories-of-indigenous-origin-in-the-americas/?p=1170162

    How did you miss it???? Because you miss everything that is even close to a valid point.

    I didn't miss anything; again, that's YOU pulling a reference back from the other thread... that's YOU quoting it here! :lol: Like I said, YOU'RE the only one that made this thread about Conservative MP Jason Kenney and his, to some, "white-supremacist like" statements. That was YOU!

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  17. Of course that's just it though....the reason you see this as about Jason Kenney is because...

    I don't see this thread as having anything to do with Jason Kenney... and stated that explicitly. It is YOU that has carried your obsession with "protecting Kenney" here from the other thread (that you had locked) - that was YOU! As I said when mocking you about your/this obsession, if you insist in making this thread about Jason Kenney and his statements/positions that some view as "white supremacist like", then I listed off a series of tweets/references that clearly call into question Jason Kenney's positions. When I now again mock you for ignoring those tweets/references you posture forward to single out the only one that had any bearing on the other thread... somehow you managed to conveniently ignore the others. What kind of Jason Kenney protector are you, hey! :lol:

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    Various statements were made regarding the 'dogma' surrounding Jason Kenny's position in this thread and it was DIRECTLY pointed back to that thread. I get it....you are a visual learner and need things presented in copyright infringed graphics. Sorry bud....can't hold your hand on that one.

    in this thread? Gee how have I missed those? Quote them... quote those "dogma type" statements in this thread that have ties/association to Jason Kenney - IN THIS THREAD! Yes, the MLW member who has you so enraged provided a link back to the other thread (that you had locked)... but the tie-back had no reference/association to Jason Kenney. That was YOU that chose to quote back from the other thread and bring your Jason Kenney protectionism into this thread. That was YOU!

    you sir, YOU... are the only one that made this thread about Jason Kenney and his questionable, to some, "white supremacist like" statements. That was YOU! :lol:

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  18. "Trinity Western University suffered a major setback on Wednesday in its quest to open a law school: Ontario’s top court upheld the Law Society of Upper Canada’s decision not to accredit its degrees, owing to its code of conduct forbidding sexual relations except among married male-female couples. And it’s awfully hard to pitch a law school in Canada if your graduates can’t practice in Ontario.

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    Rather, the court found that the LSUC’s decision was a reasonable exercise of its mandate, as the self-governing body overseeing the province’s legal profession, to act in “public interest.” On the one hand it had to consider TWU’s and co-applicant Brayden Volkenant’s constitutionally protected religious freedom; on the other it had its “statutory objectives of promoting a legal profession based on merit and excluding discriminatory classifications” — i.e., ensuring it does not exclude on the basis of of religion, colour or race."

    per your National Post quote:

    that's 3 levels of judiciary that Trinity Western University has lost its case at... next up I expect will be the Supreme Court. It is odd that you would receive a reply suggesting the respective Ontario courts have ruled against freedom of speech and freedom of thought... odd, indeed!

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  19. Issues concerning violations of Copyright Act for signal modifications and content licensing in a foreign country were ignored as not within CRTC jurisdiction. In short, the CRTC wants to have it both ways.

    no - the Commission advised it doesn't have the mandate/authority to address the Canada-US Free Trade Agreement article (as translated through to the Canadian Copyright Act)... the direction is clear for the U.S. ABC TV affiliate to pursue this 'in a different forum'. I'm particularly taken with the reference that shows the affiliate chose not to be an official intervenor... apparently, now, as you say, "it {the affiliate} wants to have it both ways"! Please ensure to update your post (this thread) as to whether the affiliate has chosen to pursue further - thanks in advance.

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