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Forum: Canadian Politics Topic: Reflections On Canada Day: What Does It Mean To Be Canadian? |
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Posted: Tue Jul 04, 2017 2:33 pm
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| That's why Scheer's comment last week that the Conservatives will do nothing to further Senate reform cuts so deep. The last vestiges of the "We Want Back In" cry from the Reform Party officially died. I was being somewhat facetious, as I don't believe Justin shares his father's and Marc ... |
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Forum: Canadian Politics Topic: Reflections On Canada Day: What Does It Mean To Be Canadian? |
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Posted: Tue Jul 04, 2017 2:01 pm
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| Judging by the Prime Minister's Canada Day speech, a big part of what it apparently means to be Canadian is "to not be Albertan." |
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Forum: Canadian Politics Topic: The defining act of the Downtown Consensus |
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Posted: Thu May 04, 2017 4:53 am
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| Of course the Downtown Consensus isn't as deserving of the name as it's predecessor, because one of the major parties isn't on board. What made the Laurentian Consensus so pernicious was that even the Progressive Conservatives of the era (e.g. Clark and Stanfield) bought in. The main argument within... |
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Forum: Canadian Politics Topic: The defining act of the Downtown Consensus |
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Posted: Wed May 03, 2017 5:13 pm
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| Of course, if you want to see the real (though unacknowledged) bible of the urbanist movement, you can find it here. Hint: it wasn't written by Jane Jacobs. http://www.americandeception.com/index.php?action=downloadpdf&photo=PDFsml_AD3/The_Ideal_Communist_City-Gutnov-Baburov-Djumenton-Kharitonov... |
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Forum: Canadian Politics Topic: The defining act of the Downtown Consensus |
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Posted: Wed May 03, 2017 4:49 pm
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| I understand what you're saying, Individualist. As I said, we might disagree on background, but I'm on board with you for the label, even if you are just having fun with it. Well, I'll admit that I don't find it hard to imagine Jennifer Keesmaat and Brent Toderian as being UN flunkies. What are the... |
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Forum: Canadian Politics Topic: The defining act of the Downtown Consensus |
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Posted: Wed May 03, 2017 1:24 pm
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| I think we're reading a little more into my pet name for this phenomenon than was my goal. I coined "Downtown Consensus" (or at least think I did, now I'm not so sure) as a play on the Laurentian Consensus (which I had previously called by another name before Ibbitson's stuck). My point at... |
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Forum: Canadian Politics Topic: The defining act of the Downtown Consensus |
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Posted: Wed May 03, 2017 4:50 am
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| Further evidence of the shift from the Laurentian Consensus to the Downtown Consensus - it's become okay to bash Bombardier. Bombardier was the ultimate Laurentian sacred cow, protected and privileged by Central Canadian politicians of both the red and blue persuasions. Only "Western cranks&quo... |
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Forum: Canadian Politics Topic: What's so great about diversity? |
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Posted: Tue Feb 21, 2017 6:37 am
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| That sounds like the typical conservative logic-bending whine "I demand you tolerate my intolerance otherwise I'll complain that you're being intolerant!" And you're responding with the typical left-whine, "They're only defending free speech because they want freedom to be bigots.&qu... |
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Forum: Editorial Discussions Topic: We Must Listen To Concerns About Shared Values |
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Posted: Fri Feb 10, 2017 6:24 am
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| I think people confuse the container with the contents, and some knowingly conflate the two because it serves their agenda. Canada is a multicultural country, but one built on a legal, ethical and institutional framework that is unambiguously Western European in origin (with some aboriginal influenc... |
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Forum: Canadian Politics Topic: What's so great about diversity? |
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Posted: Sun Feb 05, 2017 4:40 pm
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| So the only downside of diversity is the people who oppose it or are uncomfortable with it? Really? Then I suppose the only problem with the binary gender model are those outliers who insist on asserting non-binary identities What? I don'[t understand what argument your trying to make with that exa... |
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Forum: Canadian Politics Topic: What's so great about diversity? |
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Posted: Sun Feb 05, 2017 10:50 am
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| Not bad, I could elaborate on the above but I think everyone gets the general idea. The downsides are manageable and only exist because people choose to make them exist. For example when anglos or francophones stir up controversies over signs in the other language. The signs aren't the problem, the... |
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Forum: Canadian Politics Topic: What's so great about diversity? |
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Posted: Sat Feb 04, 2017 9:18 am
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| I know this title is provocative, but bear with me. If you have reacted strongly to it, then it is to you I am directing this post. I was going to start off with the standard disclaimer about my thinking diversity is a good thing. But no, not this time. This time I am going to start from a neutral p... |
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Forum: Editorial Discussions Topic: St. Albert Healing Garden Is Necessary |
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Posted: Thu Dec 29, 2016 2:11 pm
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| Looks like 2016 can claim another death - Vive (ironic as that is). |
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Forum: Editorial Discussions Topic: Trump And Ford Appeal To The Disenfranchised |
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Posted: Sun Nov 27, 2016 4:09 pm
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| Gee, we haven't heard from the gasbag in a while. He must be upset about the last of the Soviet dictators shuffling off his mortal coil. And I'm sure any vindication he must feel about Trump's victory showing just how awful those Americans are is offset by the dread of another wave of Americans cros... |
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Forum: Canadian Politics Topic: Canada in the Age of Donald Trump |
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Posted: Sun Nov 27, 2016 10:52 am
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| I would say it's the right -specifically the US right- obsessed with identity politics. Whitte nationalism is identity politics. Anti--gay, anti-immigrant,anti-Muslim etc. and trying to portray those people as some evil "other" and passing laws against them is all identity politics. Diffe... |
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