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Forum: Editorial Discussions Topic: One Canadian's Reflection On Sir John A. Macdonald's Legacy |
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Posted: Mon Jan 26, 2015 4:00 pm
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| So the question might well be - was Sir John A. a "mover and shaker" or did it happen that he was at the "right place at the right time"? Could someone else have done what he did? Or more to the point, does it matter nearly 150 years later? |
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Forum: Editorial Discussions Topic: False Flags, Terrorism, The Conservative Party of Canada |
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Posted: Sun Jan 25, 2015 3:32 pm
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| Throughout the course of history, it's been demonstrated times after time that some people will do literally anything to attain and enhance their power. In most cases, this comes to the fore well after the proverbial "dust has settled". If Mr. Harper is the henchman of the devil (as Mr. Matthews ass... |
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Forum: Editorial Discussions Topic: Fighting The Fascists. Canadians at home. |
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Posted: Mon Dec 15, 2014 6:41 pm
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| From where Robin sits on the spectrum, I'm sure Svend Robinson looks a little right-wing. Whatever the technical definition is, fascism is an authoritarian ideology. Two things a fascist government would never do. - Eliminate a long gun registry - Eliminate a mandatory long-form census While the lo... |
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Forum: Editorial Discussions Topic: The World Wars: Perspectives On The Reasons For War |
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Posted: Thu Dec 11, 2014 8:01 pm
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Replies: 5
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| Remove the money factor and war would be swept into the dustbin of history. |
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Forum: Editorial Discussions Topic: The World Wars: Perspectives On The Reasons For War |
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Posted: Sat Nov 15, 2014 11:55 am
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$1: With the Marshall Plan, the victorious allies showed that they had learned the lessons of the previous war.
Had the "allies" duplicated the Marshall Plan in Iraq, it's quite probable that ISIL(S) wouldn't exist today.
However, Arabs are not European........ |
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Forum: Editorial Discussions Topic: The Importance Of The Red Tory Tradition In Politics, By Ron |
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Posted: Wed Nov 05, 2014 4:30 pm
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| The recent fiasco in Ottawa indicates that we'd prefer "Big Brother". The trouble with Dave's use of the term "libertarian" to describe me is that it can be interpreted as meaning I support some kind of free-for-all society in which the strong take what they want from the weak wi... |
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Forum: Editorial Discussions Topic: The Importance Of The Red Tory Tradition In Politics, By Ron |
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Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2014 9:20 pm
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| AKA: The Tragedy of The Commons? Is it at all possible for individuals (such as the Individualist in this forum) to determine personal maximum consumption without the threat of Big Brother (however benign)? I'm not quite sure that the "equality of outcomes" types on the left fully appreci... |
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Forum: Editorial Discussions Topic: Income Inequality: A Concern For Both The Left And The Right |
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Posted: Sun Oct 26, 2014 2:47 pm
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| Nearly 60 years of lassitude by a succession governments, in preparing for a future in which traditional work is an anachronism, is coming home to bite us. What was touted as the "leisure society" has materialized as what is fast-becoming the "unemployment/underemployment society"... |
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Forum: Editorial Discussions Topic: The Importance Of The Red Tory Tradition In Politics, By Ron |
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Posted: Sun Oct 26, 2014 2:22 pm
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| I don't think that's what Professor Dart is concerned about so much as it is the drive to make as much money and consume as much material goods for personal gain, without thinking about the larger purpose... AKA: The Tragedy of The Commons? Is it at all possible for individuals (such as the Individ... |
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Forum: Editorial Discussions Topic: Accusations And Perceptions Of Elitism: The Danger To Progre |
| RickW |
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Posted: Mon Oct 06, 2014 4:08 pm
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| Isn't this just a variation of the "Joe-Lunchbucket-watching-the-antics-of-Canadian-artists-in-all-their-finery-congratulating-one-another-for-all-the-subsidies-they-scored"? |
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Forum: Editorial Discussions Topic: Northern Gateway Shows New Approach Needed |
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Posted: Mon Oct 06, 2014 4:03 pm
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We're heading into post-oil - and the first sources to fall will be the most costly.
Harper & Co. are very much like the dinosaurs who didn't know they were dead - but one had to watch out for the death throes, 'cause they will still kill ya. |
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Forum: Editorial Discussions Topic: Northern Gateway Shows New Approach Needed |
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Posted: Thu Sep 18, 2014 5:07 pm
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| Problem Solved? Hardly think so. The already-leaking tailing ponds have contaminated water systems beyond salvage. And putting a few grassy mounds where bogs once thrived is hardly a "problem solved". However, for those so inclined to see boxes instead of the whole, I will concede that nor... |
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Forum: Editorial Discussions Topic: Northern Gateway Shows New Approach Needed |
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Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2014 8:58 pm
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| I suppose, in order to "relate" to the pipeline, the tailing pond would have to be strictly and only the ones in the tarsands? Tailing ponds are tailing ponds. What they contain or originate from are just semantics. Nope. You are comparing apples to a Victorian Lamp. It doesn't matter how... |
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Forum: Editorial Discussions Topic: Northern Gateway Shows New Approach Needed |
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Posted: Wed Sep 10, 2014 2:42 pm
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| Witness the Mt. Polley spill, apparently the largest spill of it's kind in the world: Nope. Martin county Coal Slurry in 2000 was worse, with 1.1b litres of sludge, and the TVA Kingston Fossil Plant ash flow in 2008 was 1.1 billion gallons of some of the worst crap you can imagine. http://uploa... |
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Forum: Editorial Discussions Topic: Northern Gateway Shows New Approach Needed |
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Posted: Thu Aug 28, 2014 9:30 pm
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Replies: 10
Views: 249
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