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Booing your neighbour's anthem because of stuff mostly being done by one chickenshit guy is as chickenshit as that guy.

"They". Aren't some of the costs of Trump's Versailles being paid by donation?

Riiiiiiight. No-one in Canada uses "MAGA" as a pejorative.

Oh my, how I hope those are released. As I've explained a couple of times, if there was anything in there that could really burn Trump, it would already have made it to open air. So that just leaves other people being protected, and obviously a lot of people need to learn the lesson I just...

Trump produces bewildering policies on a daily basis. Congress can't match the WH decision cycle even with one party holding both chambers and a Senate supermajority. Instead of just wish-casting, does anyone have even a short list of 3 things Congress ought to be doing - preferably 3 things...

Many years ago a bunch of "99 year" (very long term) leases on Musqueam land near UBC came up for renewal. The band took the opportunity to bring leases up to market value and there was a lot of whining from the residents. (That part of SW Vancouver has always been highly desired residential...

Think about all the people tearing their hair out because the US doesn't have pure democracy and does have structures that pit ambition against ambition. We don't have pure democracy, but we don't have many effective oppositional structures, either (see PMO, power of). Plebiscites would...

There is not much correlation between outside expertise (lawyer, doctor, ex-general, businessman, financier, etc) and either electoral politics or statecraft. And since the former is the gateway to the latter, ending up with people good at statecraft is rare. Mostly what tells is character and...

Stipulated that it's impractical to balance the budget immediately this year. Note, however, that the LPC (and NDP) response to trying to make a significant change towards that goal is inevitably some variation of "Oh no, not this year; we have too many important things to do".

Not enough people know what life was like for most of the history of humanity. It's easy to focus on QoL when basic needs are easily come by.

Not if their needs are being met with gifts.

"Correct perception". Sounds like what goes on in many institutions.

The provinces are each resisting any changes on their own turf in hopes that the changes (and costs) will be borne elsewhere. Quel surprise. Any one of them is capable of continuing to remove any and all trade barriers unilaterally, and to pare down their own self-imposed business-inhibiting...

Ah, reminds me of the heady days when the US was going to invade Iraq and pump all its oil for US benefit. Neo-cons must be giddy with excitement. If regime change is in the wind, Bolton must be chagrined that he's outside the playroom right now.

Too many countries are over-using "terrorist" designations. Canada just did it with the Bishnoi gang. We might consider sucking back and treating all gangs - including the misfits plotting revolution in the mountains - as plain ordinary criminal gangs. There ought to be a very prominent...

Chinese balloon parachutists.

Which the Res F already is, so definitely a job for Res F...

Bad idea. The only possible good would be to settle a couple of legal questions: whether the executive has the power to suspend it at all, and what exactly "invasion" means as a pretext. The arrow of time is replete with decision points at which "playing fast and loose with X can have...

None of it is really "islamic terrorism", though. The result is just a foreseeable and foreseen consequence of mass immigration without political and social assimilation. We have reasonably known for decades that "democracy" can't easily be exported to and taken up by people who are not really...

Yes, he's going to do everything he wants and no-one can stop him. Reap it, suckers.