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Forum: Editorial Discussions Topic: Mel Hurtig's Latest Book: |
| RickW |
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Posted: Thu Sep 03, 2015 4:33 pm
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| [quote="Individualist] If one were to compare Robin Mathews' ideal form of government to Stephen Harper's, which do you think would rank higher on the authoritarianism scale? I know where my money would be.[/quote] The form of government under Harper would be something approaching life in the b... |
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Forum: Editorial Discussions Topic: Brent Rathgeber, MP. His Book |
| RickW |
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Posted: Thu Sep 03, 2015 4:30 pm
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Replies: 2
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| There is no honour in politics. |
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Forum: Editorial Discussions Topic: Is Thomas Mulcair Intending A |
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Posted: Tue Sep 01, 2015 4:16 pm
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| But none of it has, apparently, been picked up by Thomas Mulcair, leader of the National New Democratic Party . What more needs be said: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/news-video/ndp-goes-on-the-offensive-with-new-attack-ads-aimed-at-conservatives/article25503750/ If this does not exude corrup... |
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Forum: Editorial Discussions Topic: The government�s increasing interference in people�s lives. |
| RickW |
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Posted: Mon Jul 06, 2015 5:34 pm
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Replies: 12
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| Because I mentioned a fact easy enough to look up, I am an advocate of repression? A pox on you, sir! You seem to confuse fact with fantasy (something I have long suspected - but didn't think you'd actually hand it to me on the proverbial plate). |
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Forum: Editorial Discussions Topic: The government�s increasing interference in people�s lives. |
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Posted: Sat Jul 04, 2015 8:15 am
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| Dr, C: "Since you didn't post all of your information for all to read, I'm guessing that you don't wish to be subject to this arbitrary monitoring, you just want everyone else to be." I am not sure how you made this leap - but it should be quite plain throughout my history with Vive that I would pre... |
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Forum: Editorial Discussions Topic: Mel Hurtig's Latest Book: |
| RickW |
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Posted: Fri Jun 19, 2015 10:47 am
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Replies: 7
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| One would be based on the greatest good for the great number, whereas, the other would be the greatest good for the elitist few. I leave the which is which up to you....... |
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Forum: Editorial Discussions Topic: Mel Hurtig's Latest Book: |
| RickW |
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Posted: Thu Jun 18, 2015 4:26 pm
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| When the shoe fits........but I s'pose that the appropriate terminology would be "Nazi-like" or Hitler-esque", or "in the manner of Germany in the 1930's........ |
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Forum: Editorial Discussions Topic: The government�s increasing interference in people�s lives. |
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Posted: Thu Jun 18, 2015 4:22 pm
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| With some 600,000 laws on the books, it's kinda difficult "to do nothing wrong". I doubt (with the exception of yourself?) that there is any Canuck who hasn't broken the law. But then again, one only breaks the law when one gets caught at it, and metadata brings us one step closer to the getting cau... |
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Forum: Editorial Discussions Topic: The government�s increasing interference in people�s lives. |
| RickW |
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Posted: Tue Jun 16, 2015 7:52 am
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| Do you then notify the appropriate government agency when you are doing nothing wrong, so that they might shift their resources to those who are? BTW, I haven't yet met anyone on "the left" who wanted to be a mountain man...... |
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Forum: Editorial Discussions Topic: A Fascist Canadian Federal Government |
| RickW |
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Posted: Sun Jun 14, 2015 2:08 pm
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Replies: 2
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| I wonder why the Harper Cons still "enjoy" a (roughly) 30% popularity in the polls........ |
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Forum: Editorial Discussions Topic: The government�s increasing interference in people�s lives. |
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Posted: Sun Jun 14, 2015 10:17 am
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| Sounds like those "some people" want us all to be "mountain men", whose loathing of civilization leads them to seek solace in the "emptiness" of far-flung places. Yet at the same time, these selfsame "mountain men" must remain among the trappings they so loathe so they may conduct business that thes... |
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Forum: Editorial Discussions Topic: Norway's Oil Riches. Canada's Poverty. Guess Why? |
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Posted: Tue Jun 02, 2015 1:45 pm
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| First it was beaver pelts and fishing, and now it's forestry, oil, mining - and soon to be revealed, water. Very little of this wealth ever stayed at home, as various leaders over the decades chanted over their prayer beads the necessity of foreign investment. One of the first declarations by Boy Tr... |
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Forum: Editorial Discussions Topic: Getting The Right Message Out |
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Posted: Tue May 05, 2015 9:12 am
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Replies: 3
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| Religion seems to have devolved into a game of schadenfreude. |
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Forum: Editorial Discussions Topic: Rebels And Elites Aren't Always What They Seem |
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Posted: Tue Apr 28, 2015 4:44 pm
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| Funny. The very article you posted the link to seemed to suggest (and quite convincingly too) that Harper is more of the hoi polloi than the various lawyers, Bay Street insiders and academics who preceded him, and that he has as little need for the company of the rich as for that of anyone else. So... |
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Forum: Editorial Discussions Topic: Who Are The People Of Canada, Anyway? Reflections And Commen |
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Posted: Sun Apr 19, 2015 5:23 pm
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| And let me add another last-minute submission to my list - Heather Mallick. http://www.thestar.com/opinion/commentary/2015/04/07/the-growing-childishness-of-american-adults-mallick.html This woman is truly the Ezra Levant of the Canadian left. From Wikipedia: Ezra Isaac Levant (born 1972) is a Cana... |
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