Bryan

The mods should f-- off and let the conversation go where it goes. I've never seen another forum where mods or members have a stick up their asses about this. It's not a question of wanting to start a separate conversation. It's about participating in a conversation already in progress that naturally evolves as it progresses.

It had evolved into other sub-topics, but there was plenty of civil conversation still going on. There was no rational reason to lock it down.

Even more appropriate, the mods should stop acting like supreme assholes locking threads all over the place. People are having a conversation, let them. If it's not what YOU want to talk about, then don't.

Cold Hard Truth.

I'd say he went too far -- to the left. What we need is a leader who actually does govern at least from the centre, if not slightly to the right of it.

There are far more levels of tax than that. Most people pay more than 40% of their income to some form of tax or another.

How did it happen? Too many people voting Liberal and NDP. How to change it? Stop voting for those parties.

That's more of a left vs right split than a Canada vs USA one. Conservatives tend to lean towards the former reaction, Socialists tend to lean towards the latter.

It DOES work that way unless there is a contract explicitly stating otherwise. If the contract says you can't do any of those things, then you can't. In the absence of such a contact of that manner, some variations of those things can and do happen. I deal with these things all of the time. People publish compilations of their own works that were previously published by others. They can't lay claim to or republish the parts they did not write, but their articles and/or artwork remain their own. The creator specifically owns the copyright unless that creator contractually assigns the rights to someone else.

Canada AM was national, CP24 is local. I used to watch it... many years ago. The internet has replaced any reason to even bother turning the TV on in the morning anymore.

The publisher may have been asserting rights they did not actually have. Fully signed over work for hire has to be explicitly stated in the contract. Otherwise, the copyright for the materials you actually wrote are yours, not the publishers. Even still, the charge of "plagiarism" would only make sense if the publisher was claiming that you were lying about having written the materials in the first place. You might not have the right to republish or make new profit from old works (depending on the wording of the contract), but that doesn't meet the definition of plagiarism -- that specifically means trying to claim someone else's work as your own.

As long as "TRUE NORTH" stays in, there won't be a riot about it coming out of Manitoba at least.

I used to be opposed to changing it. I hated it when they made the previous changes when I was a kid. But I now know that the anthem has been changed MANY times, and that the original version was gender neutral. So now I no longer care either way about the lyrics. Politically though, I do find it interesting. The Conservatives proposed this same change in 2010, but when public sentiment was shown to be opposed to the change, they responded to the will of the people and dropped it.

The rules on this forum are ridiculous at the best of times. Stifling conversation seems to the prime directive.

It certainly is a stupid argument, and you are the only one in this thread making it.

Every other student does have the exact same right.

What drift? It's really broad topic.

No one is doing that.

They don't even have to dress up anymore. Now they can just walk right in.

Substantially more opportunities for such people, unquestionably yes. We are already seeing that on both sides of the border.

It is illegal to impersonate cop, for good reason. Likewise, it's a bad idea to let anyone pretend to be something that they are not in a public space.

Try to keep up. Seriously, your penchant for arguing against things that no one is actually saying is really getting tiresome.

Seriously, try to keep up. This is not a red herring, it is exactly the point.

Exactly what I'm talking about -- just playing make believe.

I understand fully that you're speaking bafflegab. You can express anything you want, that doesn't make it true. You can identify whatever way you want, that doesn't make it true. All you're doing is enabling people's delusions.