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Forum: Current Events Topic: As many as 100 kids in Fraser Valley, B.C. may have measles |
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Posted: Mon Mar 17, 2014 6:57 pm
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| Public universities too. No kid can get into a public university if they aren't vaccinated. Make these parent's options and tax code extremely difficult and money will change their tune. |
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Forum: Current Events Topic: As many as 100 kids in Fraser Valley, B.C. may have measles |
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Posted: Mon Mar 17, 2014 6:56 pm
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| So idiotic. Yes, at the end of the day its a parents choice. But the government and society can sure as hell make their lives difficult for their backwards choice. Any publicly funded school or daycare should not be allowed to enrol any child who isn't up to date on their vaccinations (unless there'... |
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Forum: Canadian Politics Topic: Reflections On Quebec Separatism And Related Issues |
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Posted: Mon Mar 17, 2014 11:23 am
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| Also, Quebec's strategy is clear. The Charter of Secular Values, the language police, the anti-immigrant tones, etc. Its to cause a mass emigration of Anglophones and Allophones to the ROC before the referendum so old stock 40+ Francophones can siphon out their razor thin majority. |
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Forum: Canadian Politics Topic: Reflections On Quebec Separatism And Related Issues |
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Posted: Mon Mar 17, 2014 11:21 am
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| It can't happen and it won't happen. The ROC (Rest of Canada) is fed up with Quebec, and rightly so. The prevailing attitude among Anglophones is "let them go if they want to leave so badly; and take your share of the national debt too!". Additionally, a whole new generation of allophones ... |
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Forum: Current Events Topic: Ukraine violence grows - Merged |
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Posted: Mon Mar 17, 2014 9:46 am
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| Russians never got over the emasculation after the collapse of the Soviet Union. They very much view the former Eastern European Soviet states as part of their "sphere of influence". Its naive to assert this is a desire to reinstitute the USSR. The Russian federation is post-partisan. Its ... |
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Forum: Current Events Topic: Belgium bans sexist insults | Mail Online |
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Posted: Sun Mar 16, 2014 8:19 pm
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| This is BS. Such a double standard too. Ever bin on BuzzFeed lately where they list "24 reasons <insert male celebrity> is hot" and they have like dozens of pictures of bulges or just utterly sexually objectify the guy. I don't mind it at all, but I always think, take that kind of ar... |
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Forum: Current Events Topic: From Uganda to the U.S. Bible Belt, the proliferation of gay |
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Posted: Sun Mar 16, 2014 1:05 pm
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| haha, I don't see India going anywhere soon on that matter. Their Supreme Court upheld the British colonial era anti-sodomy laws. That, their caste system legacy, rape culture and other stuff make that society decades away from evolving to Western norms. As far as China, my understanding from talkin... |
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Forum: Current Events Topic: From Uganda to the U.S. Bible Belt, the proliferation of gay |
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Posted: Sat Mar 15, 2014 4:47 pm
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| Sorry for the necro. Just read an interesting article (only one month old) in The Telegraph. Just for the Bart's of the forum who insinuate homosexuality as a "choice". Also the research is pretty damn fascinating: Last year Canadian scientists found that the more older male siblings a man... |
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Forum: General Jibber Jabber Topic: How is your weather today???? |
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Posted: Sun Mar 02, 2014 1:34 pm
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Light snow and 4C in Vancouver.
Seeing the temperatures out of my hometown in Manitoba just make me giddy to be on the West Coast. How brutal... |
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Forum: General Jibber Jabber Topic: How is your weather today???? |
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Posted: Sat Mar 01, 2014 8:16 pm
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| 2C, light wind, possibility of 5-10cm in Metro Vancouver for overnight. Feel its part of the wider continental polar vortex. Big snow wallop last weekend. All melted now. Don't get the vibe it will be as bad as that. But its definitely spring on the South Coast of BC....looks like temps getting into... |
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Forum: General Jibber Jabber Topic: Russian invasion |
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Posted: Sat Mar 01, 2014 7:58 pm
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| I just wish the West could grow some balls. Not in the sense that I'm war hungry or want another military intervention. But we need to have our values and the lines that should not be crossed. Should some demented regime cross our red line we should respond accordingly. I am no Ukrainian. I know not... |
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Forum: International Politics Topic: Is Putin this easy a read |
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Posted: Sat Mar 01, 2014 7:49 pm
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| Putin backed a Syrian mad man, he has his people savagely beating up people because they are gay. And ultimately he is trying to build some imperialistic russian society with him at the head. Count, Assad was one of the better leaders in the ME, kept everything very secular, quiet and tolerant unti... |
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Forum: General Jibber Jabber Topic: Russian invasion |
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Posted: Sat Mar 01, 2014 11:30 am
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| With the natural gas issue, is the EU in any position to roll into Ukraine militarily? |
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Forum: International Politics Topic: Is Putin this easy a read |
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Posted: Sat Mar 01, 2014 11:29 am
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| I feel that the divisions among Ukrainians are being exaggerated? A quick check on Wikipedia shows that, demographically speaking, 77% of Ukrainians are Ethnic-Ukrainian, 17% are Ethnic-Russian and 12% are Crimean-Tatars (an ethnic group prosecuted by Stalin who returned to Crimea after the collapse... |
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Forum: Current Events Topic: From Uganda to the U.S. Bible Belt, the proliferation of gay |
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Posted: Fri Feb 28, 2014 2:25 pm
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| Some days, I get tired of reading about my sexual orientation being in the top stories, every, damn, day. But I get it. Its the struggle to achieve equality and its increasingly good news. I just dream of the day in 10 years or so this is a bloody non-issue, and a NFL (hopeful) player like Michael S... |
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