canada issues

Canada has announced a new gun ban Canada set to ban 11 categories of assault rifles, other weapons I'm okay with this because I personally have no interest in killing any of my fellow Canadians.

The vast majority of Canadians would tell you the Queen has no real power. The Royal Family is just a holdover from earlier times and its role is primarily ceremonial. However, the Constitution, the fundamental Law of the Land makes crystal clear that the Queen has power over and above our...

Welp.... it's official folks. As of midnight tonight, Oct 17th, marijuana is now legal to buy, grow, carry, and consume all across Canada. With the exception of Manitoba and Quebec still not allowing it to be grown (but I'm sure that won't last, someone will take it to court and...

However is this possible??? :boggled: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/montreal-hospital-instrument-left-inside-patient-sylvie-dube-1.4181278 Canadian hospitals need to step up :what:

Federal Government (in Canada) announces marijuana will be legal by July 1, 2018 More news on April 20 2017 http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/liberal-legal-marijuana-pot-1.4041902

Stay positive, eh? Canadians much more polite than Americans on Twitter http://www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/stay-positive-eh-canadians-much-more-polite-than-americans-on-twitter-1.2729304 Check the url for the Word Clouds! :w2:

It's a start: Nosode homeopathic labels must read 'not vaccines or alternatives to vaccines:' Health Canada http://www.cbc.ca/news/health/nosode-homeopathic-labels-must-read-not-vaccines-or-alternatives-to-vaccines-health-canada-1.3176008 :wave1

Busy few days here in the Great White North. On Monday, a recent convert to Islam carried out a hit and run with his car against two members of the Canadian Forces in a shopping mall parking lot, killing one and injuring the other. The killer had gotten onto the RCMP watch list for his online...

...of Canada, that is. I was completely surprised by this news. Somehow I missed any brewing controversy in Canadian current affairs. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/12/20/canada-anti-prostitution-law_n_4480105.html ETA: Better link from BBC. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-25468587

....decide they want to block online porn in Canada. Because the UKian notion is going to work so well. Link. The MP also claims to have received a letter from a ten year old boy describing his internet porn addiction. :rolleyes:

http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/07/04/new-poll-shows-most-canadians-support-abortion-with-some-restrictions/ Comparable (more or less) US figures here: http://www.pollingreport.com/abortion.htm Canada really is a different country. :w2:

What's your opinion. I think they are kind of stupid. Here is the background. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_Quebec_student_protests Most people on here are at least left leaning. These people are fairly leftist. But I'm thinking most on here wouldn't even support them. Try and convince...

Can some of the Canadians here inform me if Canada has the equivalent to the Americans with Disabilities Act? I went riding Montreal's Metro last weekend, and noticed all the escalators down into the bowels of the earth, all ending in a flight of stairs, with no elevator in sight. (I admit to a...

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Apparently bawdy houses are not, strictly speaking, illegal in Ontario; but certain activities related to prostitution are illegal. Pimping, street soliciting, warping the fragile minds of minors, those are all illegal. Most Canadians recognize that making all prostitution illegal is a futile...

Has Candada Changed since the 1980's? I have noticed chatting with Canadians lately that they are not like the people I once knew. It is a small sample set so it just might be the luck of the draw. So, any Canadians can attest to, in fact, yes, Canada is a very different country with different...

A story getting a fair amount of airplay up here in Canuckistan, is the plight of two women seeking a divorce. They are both non-resident, and had travelled to Canada in 2005 to obtain a marriage. Apparently things didn't work out, and they want to call it quits. However neither of them lives...

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-12-02/canada-may-escape-6-7-billion-bill-by-exiting-kyoto-protocol.html "Canada, the country furthest from meeting its commitment to cut carbon emissions under the Kyoto Protocol, may save as much as $6.7 billion by exiting the global climate change agreement...

And other Conservative NDP lunacy: http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2011/09/26/canadas-submarines-high-_n_980865.html Now I am, generally speaking and relative to other military capital, a fan of submarines for Canada, but this is really ridiculous. Submarines to deter pollution. Jeezum crowe guys.

Canadian Prime Minister, Stephen Harper gave a stirring address on Monday wherein he honored Canadas proud heritage of standing up for freedom and reaffirmed our countries support for the only modern democracy in the middle east. More national leaders around the world need to follow Prime...

is the canadian government responsible to protect canadian workers? should canadians be the managers of canadian resources and production? here is an article that states that the answer to both questions is 'yes. what say you? http://cpcml.ca/Tmld2010/D40174.htm#1 from the article: By banking...

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/100928/national/bawdy_law_challenge

http://vancouver.ca/parks/info/smokefreeparks_faq.htm This seems completely arbitrary and pointless to me. I don't smoke, never have smoked (well, tobacco anyway), and find it displeasing when someone around me is smoking. But seriously, wtf? The smoke passes in seconds and nobody is harmed...

I work as a lawyer in Canada and my area of practice is basically what you call poverty law. So helping people out who are getting evicted, wrongful dismissal, human rights stuff, debts and collections, criminal stuff, government benefits, wills and estates, etc. Bascially I deal with any sort...

http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2010/07/15/bad-science-global-warming-deniers-are-a-liability-to-the-conservative-cause/ I think that is about the end of Denialism from a political point of view. If this idea takes root, and I think it shall, nobody is going to pay them to manufacture...

Tony Clement (lmhr) has decided to cut the long-form census questionnaire in Canada. For those of you who don't know, the Canadian census has/had two components, the 'short form' and the 'long form'. Everyone gets the short form, and filling it out is compulsory. Around 25% of households...

I recently ran across the JREF forum and saw a "Non-USA politics" session and so I've decided to talk about an issue that is affecting me on a personal level. I live in the Montreal area and live with my parents. I'm currently having a hard time finding a job due to my lack of French and this...

:mad: My local MLA has said that the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms is no longer needed. :mad: Thankfully it is just this one idiot who believes that the Charter should be scrapped. I mean it is not like the Charter really defines the type of country Canada really is or anything...

The CHRC (Canadian Human Rights Commission) is back in the news. I have posted a few things in the past on what appeared to be a dangerous trend for the CHRC being used as a weapon to silence opinions. There were a number of controversial prosecutions for opinion pieces which raised a lot of...

I had a conversation recently about the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation with a person who holds conservative opinions. He was quite opposed to the idea of the CBC as a whole. Part of this was his belief that the CBC is liberal media; for sure it's not Fox, which probably causes anyone with...