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It's remarkable that you don't factor in the significance of politics upon the world of humans. Your obsessive tangle of nonsensical political spew is not worth factoring into much of anything. Really, you are underrating Walker. He was clearly being ironic in his postings in this thread. I asked A...

What a riveting tale of untimely bureaucratic paperwork subjected to quite short delays. I too am shocked that it wasn't front page news. But I am relieved that the world found itself able to breathe again in the end. Yeah, I'm thinking of writing it up as a children's bedtime book, to sell to pare...

I have started using a search engine called mojeek.com as it makes a big thing about not tracking users, which hopefully means that the search results it serves up are NOT customised according to my prior searches or website use. Having said which, using Google has become such an ingrained habit ove...

I was insufficiently clear in expressing myself. I didn't mean that there had been no coverage of CPTPP. Clearly, there has been lots. And before there was CPTPP, there was its predecessor, TPP, which would have included the USA except that Trump pulled the US out of the plan during his first term o...

It doesn't matter whether rich or poor, male or female, black or white; a person who is comfortable in the position they're in is a privileged person. A few times long ago I came across a saying (or aphorism? not sure what to call it) in print from a conservative columnist: "Everyone in their ...

Piece of Canada-UK-related news I stumbled across on Wikipedia. For some reason it appears to have had zero press coverage here in the UK, and Google isn't giving me any results for coverage in Canada either. I suppose trade agreements aren't sexy, but... In 2024 the UK joined the free trade agreeme...

I think you are having a little joke with us, IC? I heard that Quebec separatism came within a hair's breadth of ending Canada, in their second independence referendum? That's what I recall, anyway. Yes, Carney was well known over here from his extended term as Governor of the Bank of England. (Oh, ...

What's noteworthy is that they were, again, using "Trump" to tar all conservatives -- in this case, even the rather left-of-center-leaning Pierre Poilievre, who still believes in things like general welfare, pensions, socialized medicine, and unions, among other things. In truth, you'll f...

There's only one Canadian here though, and he is a massive simp for the American alt-right. So what was your expected outcome? I have the impression from his comments in this thread that Mike Novack may also be Canadian, or at least has strong family connections with Canada. I wasn't ever expecting...

So out of boredom with the ubiquitous barren discussions of US politics, I start a thread on another topic altogether - Canadian politics. Great. And within three pages the thread has been sucked down into the Charybdis-like whirlpool created by Trump, by his genuine talent for creating division and...

Forgive me for saying so, but "The Left always behaves like this. .... And they think you won't notice that all they're doing is trying to slander some politician by association, and pay no attention to their real politics." But isn't that you doing pretty much exactly the same thing?

Pierre Poilievre finally has a platform... it's Donald Trump's! | This Hour Has 22 Minutes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrH3XZvWM3E Thanks. That's quite helpful in terms of filling out a little my understanding of Poilievre's policies (or lack thereof). However, I'm not quite convinced by the de...

So it depends on what you call "inhabited." Statistically, 90% of Canadians live within 100 miles of that US border. There are people further north, but their habitations are almost (for a European) unbelievably small and sparse. Canada has real influence from the jet stream, you see...an...

So, are you Canadian? Is Poilievre a Trump clone? If he is, then do you think you ought to root for him? Is Trump your kind of guy, or were you being facetious when you asked if you should be rooting for Poilievre? Or is Poilievre not a Trump clone? I am not Canadian - I am British. Trump is not my...

Just beside Klotz Lake now. Overtaking a guy towing a U-Haul trailer.