RaskolnikovsAxe

Moose are no joke... and they are a serious threat even when driving. OP, if you plan to drive through remote areas, drive carefully. If you hit a moose with your car it will seriously fuck your shit up and likely walk away from it. I'm being serious.

As for maple syrup, it's worth the risk. Every time.

Edit - Also moose cam be territorial, ornery and unpredictable assholes. DO NOT APPROACH. In fact don't approach or feed any of the wildlife, but I'm sure that's a fairly common sense rule.

I hear this all the time. What does friendly mean in this context? When you're meeting complete strangers for a very brief time (like in an elevator or a coffee shop) do you want them to be close and intimate like a friend? I would think the best you can and should be is polite.

Hey, what did Canada do? Or eTA isn't even as invasive as the EU's proposed ETIAS, and certainly nothing approaching the anal-probe-level personal violations of the ESTA. And we need tourism. The US is fucking our economy in a massive way.

Canada is threatened by the US, the UK PM says nothing, and he cannot stop licking Trump's nutsack every chance he gets. It's an embarrassing betrayal.

Implementing and enforcing a rule like that would punish the constituents of the riding. If the principle is that an MP should first and foremost do what's best for his or her riding, then joining a party is far superior to sitting as an independent. It gives them a seat in caucus where decisions are made, input into policy positions, a chance to chair committees and potential cabinet or secretary roles. A party MP can walk into ministers offices and lobby internally for local projects. Independents don't get these benefits. This ignores all the other benefits like campaign funding, etc. For a riding as influential as Markham/Unionville this is a substantial gain for the Liberals and they will no doubt be willing to support and listen to the constituents, and treat them quite favourably.

The Canadian body politic should have learned and should recognize that we vote for MPs, not specifically for parties. The parties are political associations, not constitutional actors. If you want the best results for your riding, you probably don't want an independent. Sitting with a party maximizes impact, sitting as an independent maximizes moral autonomy.

Churchill was on the right track with Operation Unthinkable. And as much as a think Patton was a vainglorious blowhard, he was right about the Russians.

Should have done something in 45.

We shouldn't dismiss or ignore the fact that floor crossing is an essential element of a healthy parliamentary democracy, as much as it's maligned as often as it is praised. It's based on the principle that MPs represent constituents, not just parties, that they have a free mandate vs imperative mandate (eg conscience votes, dissent, etc.) and that responsible government is based on confidence not party purity.

We may not live up to the ideals of the system, but we should at least try.

I've seen where the modern right wing takes us. It's orange, it's bloviating, it's anti-intellectual, it's corrupt to the core. The slovenly worship of the least deserving person on the planet, the self-owns, all so they can cause pain to people they don't like. The destruction of the global order and denial of reality.

I prefer the liberal version. There just isn't a 'both sides' to this.

I say they dump it and we'll find out who the US really is.

You're answering as if this current tension was not caused entirely by the US deciding to upend the global order and morph into a bully pirate nation that threatens allies chasing the new Monroe Doctrine.

If they choose the military option, rather than return to a sane global political and economic order - the insanity of which is entirely their fault - then we will have the measure of the nation, and they will surely usher in a rapid descent.

If Dems want to win, they need more than 'not Republicans... but essentially the same'. They need to be active and they need to be seen. Loud and visibly against this regime and everything that enabled it. They need small dollar donations, ditch the corporate donors. They need to get themselves arrested protesting ICE or, ideally, actively resisting them.

Show some fucking spine.

I don't drink soda drinks - which, unlike my questions, is irrelevant.

Unless you can assert a link between soda and child safety and well-being, or between soda and social conservative beliefs.

Edit to add we should leave this discussion, it's dead at this point. I wish you the best of luck with your kids, sorry to hear you feel like you need to protect them to the point of sacrificing your privacy. I suggested there are other ways to do this that don't affect your privacy but it seems your attitudes towards pornography are sufficiently negative that you won't consider them.

I suggest you worry about your own kids and stop worrying about mine.

This is not going anywhere. I've made it clear that I don't think of anyone as second class, I never diminished FN claims, and I think I was abundantly clear about what I was asserting, so any implying that you see is entirely of your own making.

You don't trust me and you are obviously not willing to understand me. There's nothing here to discuss. I gave my honest and forthright concerns and you see it as an attack.

I've got enough stresses in my life. I don't need to create more online. Best of luck to you.