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I guess Kim Campbell's vote for a contestant gets them booted from the competition.

Attribution heuristic. He needs to beleive something like that because "s%$t happened" is almost never a good enough explanation.

Another reason why one shouldn't govern by polls.

Geo, I don't think my post was "hateful", but merely a pointed criticism of Quebec separatism and the alteration of historical memory. If memory serves me correctly (and this is after being taught as a child Quebec history in my French Immersion classes by Quebecois teachers), the extreme...

Don't villagers who get detained and then released get 100USD for their time?

Don't many separatists believe WWII was an Imperialist war, hoisted on them by the UK and Canada's Anglo population? After all, the Nazis didn't pose a threat to Quebec now did they?

I don't recall there being a right for citizens under Geneva Convention IV to fight an occupier, unless they either spontaneously take up arms on the initial approach or do the whole uniform/respect non-combatants thing. To date, the major Palestinian terror groups have not gone out and...

Bo, Do you think the Palestinian Authority has the political will to enforce a ceasefire against Israel, or does the current administration have a vested interest (to maintain legitimacy) to continue an armed struggle against it? If the PA doesn't want to/can't stop its citizens from attacking...

Colin P, I recently came back from 25 days in Egypt, travelling the Nile Valley and Western Sahara. The only ads I saw on television were for aid to Lebanon and the Palestinian Territories. Oddly enough, the humanitarian disaster right next door (Darfur) wasn't mentioned. Only the BBC had...

Let's think for a second. Let's say for the sake of argument that the Palestinian question is solved (if indeed it can be, as great numbers of them won't be satisfied until Israel is completely destroyed). Does this overcome Islamists beef with "western civilization"? Having read many...

Wow, yet another interest group trying to co-opt Remembrance Day...this time organized labour. Yeah, I feel sorry for those poor Teamsters...they got hell compared to the boys in the trenches.... I wouldn't worry about it. This is so pathetic it's not even worth ridiculing.

I just read over your post again Brad, and suspect your theory as to why many humanities students can't reason is correct - it's simply not a requirement in universities anymore. I don't remember having to take a course in it...So, mainly agree with you!

Sorry Brad, but I respectfully disagree, to a degree, on your point Creating an argument not only involves finding evidence supporting your viewpoint, but self-testing it against contrary evidence that may/will disprove it. I've found very few philosophy grads actually do this in their...

Ah white..the colour of surrender. Glad to see values are now held so high they're above the practicality of struggle to implement them. Remember, war didn't solve anything. Except the holocaust. Oh, and the genocide in Kosowo. Oh, and slavery (in the US and the threat of war in the Ottoman...

A few points: 1) Debating Taliban Jack. He made his choice not to support the mission as a political marketing ploy, nothing else. It's therefore unwise to try and debate him on the topic, as all you'll have thrown at you are George Bush strawman arguments and other crap that plays well to his...

Um...what did he expect? I heard stories of deserters living in Canada going back to the US to face the music, and being sent to their old unit from the 70s to clear out/face a quick summary trial! I guess he can't stand the stares and whispers of his former comrades. Too bad - he should suck it...

Aren't the three D's as articulated in the Defence Policy Statement DEFENCE, diplomacy, and development? Oh well. It's not really productive to debate Jack - the facts get in the way of his reality and just make him look more like Lenin.

Those of you watching the protests please provide a follow-up. If the media reports on it, it would be interesting to see if the stories match up with the reality. Also, I love conspiracy theories. George W. Bush oil and the Nazis at the South Pole using flying saucers are my favorites.

Hmm. Where does Senlis get its funding? What are the academic qualifications of its members? Are any involved in partisan politics? I have not been able to find any information on them online beyond comments on their work, and I need more in depth information as to their biases before I can read...

You probably shoudn't have done that. Although his case is annoying, giving him a deluge of emails starts to get into harassment.