Because, Canada

[Colin]

On 2/25/2022 at 5:42 AM, glenn239 said:

I've heard nothing of a bank run up here....

Most people don't have money to put into the bank, recently a poll in BC found that 1/2 are $200 away from insolvency.

https://www.vancouverisawesome.com/highlights/nearly-half-of-british-columbians-say-theyre-200-away-from-insolvency-poll-4963970#:~:text=Nearly half of British Columbians,%24200 away from insolvency%3A poll&text=The report%2C conducted by Ipsos,place to rent in Canada.

 

[glenn239]

15 hours ago, MiloMorai said:

BC has always been a "nutters" place.

More like rich hippies, IMO.  

[sunday]

https://redstate.com/bonchie/2022/03/05/justin-trudeau-delivers-a-bizarre-and-revealing-rant-on-democracy-n531997

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On the ground, the Freedom Convoy is no more, and the use of the Emergencies Act was finally revoked by Justin Trudeau. The Canadian PM only did so after facing intense scrutiny for seeking its renewal despite the protests being over.

But even though things have calmed down, Trudeau continues to push for his dystopian dream. In a recent speech, he gave a bizarre and revealing rant on “democracy” in which he suggested that it is anti-democratic for a government to not censor free speech.

[sunday]

It was photoshopped, sorry.

 

Edited March 24, 2022 by sunday

[Mikel2]

A discussion with one of the surviving authors of the Canadian charter of rights.

 

[Ivanhoe]

[rmgill]

Given how icebergs can suddenly roll due to instability as parts melt, I'd hate to land on one and have it suddenly decide to invert due to a little nudge from the helo. 

[MiloMorai]

[Ivanhoe]

3 hours ago, rmgill said:

Given how icebergs can suddenly roll due to instability as parts melt, I'd hate to land on one and have it suddenly decide to invert due to a little nudge from the helo. 

Icebergs are pretty stable. Unlike, say, Guam.

 

[rmgill]

As a resident of Georgia's 4th Congressional district, don't I know it. 

[Mikel2]

46 minutes ago, rmgill said:

As a resident of Georgia's 4th Congressional district, don't I know it. 

It could be worse.  At least he didn't spell "potato" with an "e" at the end.

[Tim Sielbeck]

Really?  That's what you consider worse?

[NickM]

45 minutes ago, Tim Sielbeck said:

Really?  That's what you consider worse?

Snarcasm- the libs derided  Dan Quayle as a dummy for this spelling gaffe.  Of course Quayle's REAL crime was having a R in front of his name 

[Tim Sielbeck]

Ahh!  Well, that went over my head.

[NickM]

4 hours ago, Tim Sielbeck said:

Ahh!  Well, that went over my head.

Y'all don't remember Dan Quayle?

[Ssnake]

Wasn't he shot by the Secret Service when the president had a heart attack?

[Tim Sielbeck]

9 hours ago, NickM said:

Y'all don't remember Dan Quayle?

I remember him.  It was the "Snarcasm" that went over my head.  When it comes to humor my target identification is very poor.

[NickM]

1 hour ago, Tim Sielbeck said:

I remember him.  It was the "Snarcasm" that went over my head.  When it comes to humor my target identification is very poor.

That's ok my gay-dar is non existent: I used to hit on rather obviously gay wymmyn for a while 

[MiloMorai]

As another school takes down Sir John's A's name, Canadians don't support 'rewriting' history (msn.com)

Excerpts from the link.

As yet another school removes the name of founding Canadian Prime Minister Sir John A. Macdonald, polls show that Canadians are not on board with these types of name changes.

Nevertheless, the love for Macdonald was decidedly lukewarm when he was ranked against some of his fellow travellers in Canadian history books.

...

ouis Riel — who was executed by Macdonald’s government for leading a Metis insurrection against Canada — got a 76 per cent favourability ranking. Agnes MacPhail, the first woman elected to the House of Commons, got a 75 per cent rating. “Father of Medicare” Tommy Douglas emerged with 85 per cent.

But all three, of course, have their own historical skeletons in the closet.

Riel saw himself as a religious prophet ordained to bring polygamy to Canada in order to “teach women once again that the only way for them to be pleasing to God and their husbands … is to sincerely practice the virtues of modesty, thriftiness and kindness.” MacPhail and Douglas publicly shared the view of many progressives at the time that society should be uplifted via state-controlled limits on human breeding.

All skeletons need to be to be exposed.

 

[Colin]

Crappy, biased history courses in schools are to blame, replacing somewhat slanted European descendant viewpoints with Lefist, wokish trash. All these hereditary Chiefs the progressive fawn over got that way by their ancestors owning slaves. 

[R011]

I remember once giving a lecture on regimental history to a recruit calass and seeing the shocked looks on their faces when I gave a less than flattering description of Riel (while acknowledging the Metis were being screwed over by Ottawa).

[Colin]

1 hour ago, R011 said:

I remember once giving a lecture on regimental history to a recruit calass and seeing the shocked looks on their faces when I gave a less than flattering description of Riel (while acknowledging the Metis were being screwed over by Ottawa).

Kids find history boring as they taken out the interesting bits so people don't offended or have traumatic experiences reading things.

[Ssnake]

FFS, "traumatic reading experience"?

Sure, some literature is really sub par in quality, but if you can't stand a text, put the book down or skip a section, and the ordeal is over. This constant walking on eggshells is crazy.

[R011]

8 hours ago, Ssnake said:

FFS, "traumatic reading experience"?

Sure, some literature is really sub par in quality, but if you can't stand a text, put the book down or skip a section, and the ordeal is over. This constant walking on eggshells is crazy.

Putting the text down doesn't work well in a high school class.

[Colin]

10 hours ago, Ssnake said:

FFS, "traumatic reading experience"?

Sure, some literature is really sub par in quality, but if you can't stand a text, put the book down or skip a section, and the ordeal is over. This constant walking on eggshells is crazy.

Not to mention almost no geography taught