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Forum: Canadian Politics Topic: First day, first scandal, is this the change you wanted? |
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Posted: Tue Feb 07, 2006 4:58 pm
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| Does anyone else think its disgusting that when Belinda Stronach crossed the floor she was said to be "whoring herself out for power", but when Emerson does the same thing, he's totally left off the hook. I understand that they are different situations, but both of them violated the trust of the vot... |
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Forum: First Nations Topic: Indian Reserves are Third World Deathcamps |
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Posted: Thu Feb 02, 2006 2:00 pm
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| Rabblewatch, I never thought I'd say this, but I actually agree with much of you say. Conditions on the reserves are terrible. However, I do disagree with some of your views.<br /> <br /> Firstly, many reservations are run democratically with an elected band council and cheif. Cheifdoms ... |
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Forum: Canada Kicks Ass & Canadian Culture Topic: Américains |
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Posted: Thu Feb 02, 2006 12:52 pm
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| Although I appreciate the creativity, Unistatian sounds like someone from a country with just one state. Perhaps we could go back to the early days of American exploration and call them all Virginians or Floridians (which both originally refered to the entire east coast of what would become the US).... |
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Forum: Canada Kicks Ass & Canadian Culture Topic: Américains |
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Posted: Sun Jan 29, 2006 3:40 pm
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| There are many words that refer two more than one groups of people, for instance:<br /> <br /> -Indians: could refer to an Ojibwe person or a Tamil<br /> -West Indians: could refer to a Trinidadian or a Gujarati<br /> -European: could refer to a person from the continent of E... |
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Forum: Canadian Politics Topic: Let's have a civilized thread |
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Posted: Sun Jan 29, 2006 2:01 pm
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| [QUOTE BY= Brother Jonathan]lesouris, do you expect that something will happen to alter FPTP in this term?<br /> [/QUOTE]<br /> <br /> The Conservatives, NDP, and BQ have all backed reforms to our voting system before, and I expect them to maintain that support now that they actual... |
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Forum: Canadian Politics Topic: Let's have a civilized thread |
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Posted: Fri Jan 27, 2006 7:15 pm
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| 1. The left is already united in the New Democratic Party. The Liberal Party is centrist; it is centre-left and centre-right without being either. If the NDP and Liberals merge, NDP supporters would probably just start a new leftist party (i.e. the parties would merge, but their supporters would not... |
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Forum: Canadian Politics Topic: Harper Minority: See you in 6-9 months. |
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Posted: Thu Jan 26, 2006 1:32 pm
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| [QUOTE BY= Rabblewatch]What I don't like is how fascist Gay/Lesbian/Trasngendered/Bisexual/Hermaphrodie/Asexual/Trisexual/Polysexual/Megasexual these groups are.<br /> <br /> If someone doesn't dig faggots, then that's their right not to dig sodomy. Personally, some of the most intoleran... |
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Forum: Canadian Politics Topic: Harper Minority: See you in 6-9 months. |
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Posted: Tue Jan 24, 2006 9:00 pm
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| Okay, I think it's time for a reality check.<br /> <br /> I don't think you can call anyone in mainstream Canadian politics a "tyrant" or "Nazi" - or for that matter a "whore".<br /> <br /> That being said, I think it's important for everyone - including Steven Harper - to re... |
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Forum: Canadian Politics Topic: Faith & Politics |
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Posted: Sun Nov 06, 2005 2:42 pm
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| [QUOTE BY= CamTheCat] <br /> Are there any other politicians or ppl of faith here who have some thoughts on this subject?[/QUOTE]<br /> <br /> Who qualifies as a person of faith? I have faith in my own ideals. They are not Christian ideals, Muslim ideals, Hindu ideals, or any other... |
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Forum: Rural Issues and Agriculture Topic: Gun registry |
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Posted: Wed Nov 02, 2005 4:21 pm
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| I don't think it's fair to say that any gun registry program would cost us way too much, just that the program we now have has been horribly mismanaged. A gun registry can work, but we need more government transparency and accountability first.<br /> <br /> Besides, trying to repeal the ... |
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Forum: Francophonie hors Quebec Topic: Le Manifeste du Canard Réincarné |
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Posted: Sun Sep 25, 2005 8:25 pm
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| You misunderstand me gaulois, I did not mean to suggest that I didn't support recognition of our French nations as nations. I do, however, have some problems with calling them "Second Nations" especially in areas where the French did not settle until after the English or other groups.<br /> &l... |
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Forum: Francophonie hors Quebec Topic: Le Manifeste du Canard Réincarné |
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Posted: Sun Sep 25, 2005 12:16 pm
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| Okay, I had to say something about what I'm reading here. Let me first start by saying that while I can read French, I am horrible at writing it. Yes, I am from Onatrio - Toronto actually, and I am not fluent in French. Does that make me a bad person? No. Is a monolingual francophone a bad person? N... |
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Forum: Canada Kicks Ass & Canadian Culture Topic: The decline of uniquely Canadian languages and dialects |
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Posted: Tue Sep 06, 2005 7:54 pm
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| [QUOTE BY= Brother Jonathan] If a similar requirement existed in Canada, I’d imagine that populous cities like Toronto and Montréal would become “language hothouses”, with the potential of protected areas every few blocks …[/QUOTE]<br /> <br /> Have you been to Toronto lately? Ever... |
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Forum: Canada Kicks Ass & Canadian Culture Topic: The decline of uniquely Canadian languages and dialects |
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Posted: Sun Sep 04, 2005 10:33 pm
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| [QUOTE BY= Brother Jonathan] Curiously enough, France has signed the <a href="http://conventions.coe.int/Treaty/EN/Treaties/Html/148.htm">European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages</a>, but will not ratify it because its Constitutional Council declared that implementing it would... |
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Forum: U.S. Politics Topic: Canada is Irrelevant |
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Posted: Sun Aug 28, 2005 12:15 pm
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| What's so bad about socialism? I'm not saying that what we have in Canada is socialism, but if socialism is defined as the pursuit of equality for all citizens, what's so bad about that?<br /> <br /> I think it is a sign of a mature and developed nation that Canada would appear irrelevan... |
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