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  1. I grew up in a small town where most boys my age played hockey. Many of them were like the characters in that movie, though I don’t recall anyone being like the Hansons.

  10. Pollspotting! (scroll down, right hand side of the web page)
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    Do you agree that transgender Canadians need human rights protections under the Criminal Code?
    http://ottawa.ctvnews.ca/

  11. Socialism: the religion of the stomach.
    “As for the needs of the individual, Collectivism scarcely regards anything else than his alimentary necessities,…”
    “Unless you stay overnight, praying the bachaqueros don’t cut the line with violent threats, you can’t find deodorant, shampoo, soap, flour, rice, pasta, margarine, milk, formulas for babies, diapers, oil, beans, sanitary pads, toilet paper, you name it. Conversation always circles around food; what people didn’t find and what they need. The only way to buy them is on the black market.”
    …-
    “Venezuelans on the food and economic crisis blighting their daily lives
    Food shortages and soaring black market prices are making life a misery for people across the country”
    http://www.theguardian.com/global/2016/may/18/venezuelans-on-food-shortages-economic-crisis-blighting-daily-lives-maduro
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    “As a Marxist has maintained, Socialism is in effect nothing but the religion of the stomach.”
    “The Psychology of Socialism
    Book I: The Socialistic Theories and Their Disciples:
    Chapter 3: Theories of Socialism”
    “As for the needs of the individual, Collectivism scarcely regards anything else than his alimentary necessities, and only occupies itself with satisfying them. M. Rouanet, cited by M. Boilley, writes as follows :-
    “According to the Marxist explanation the necessities of nutrition are at the summit as well as at the base of human development. Humanity would be at the end, as at the beginning, a stomach. Nothing but an enormous stomach, whose physical necessities would constitute the sole motive of all mental activities. The stomach would be the prime cause and the end of humanity. As a Marxist has maintained, Socialism is in effect nothing but the religion of the stomach.”
    It is evident that such a regime implies the absolute dictatorship of the State, or, what comes to exactly the same thing, of the community, with regard to the distribution of wealth, and a no less absolute servitude on the part of the workers. But the latter are not affected by this argument. They are not at all eager for liberty, as is proved by the enthusiasm with which they have acclaimed all the Caesars when a Caesar has arisen ; and they care as little for all that goes to make the greatness of a civilisation : for arts, sciences, literature, and so forth, which would disappear at once in such a society; so that the Collectivist doctrine has nothing in it that could seem antipathetic to them.”
    https://brocku.ca/MeadProject/Lebon/LeBon_1899/LeBon_1899_03.html

  12. The way thing are going federally we may as well forget about voting. It’s as close to we’ll ever get to Communistic rule when the Liberal Cabal change our voting system…and they will because they are arrogant shysters with a majority government.
    The province of Ontario is another example of arrogance in a majority government. Majority Liberal governments are the worst, they’re attitude being they have a God given right to govern.

  13. oops, I really should read my comments over before submitting! It should read “….”THEIR” attitude being…”

  15. Another President OBGYNamas bathroom crotch checker.
    Michael Jordan former UNC Basketball star and Championship player for the Chicago Bulls is promising to take his Charlotte Hornets Basketball team out of NC within 30 days, if North Carolina doesn’t change Transgender Bathroom Law.
    “Hey Michael” “Charlotte Hornets Suck”-
    “Good Riddance, you frigging loser.”

  17. Of course. Didn’t Craig Oliver say that the Liberals were the “natural governing party” of Canada?

  18. Mrs Brown’s Boy is PC leader because PC members voted for him. They must have seen something in him that he’s not able to deliver. It’s futile to discuss anything with the arrogant Wynne Liberals and expect them to change their minds on anything, but, Mr Brown should at least make a big noise here and there, let us know he’s around. In fact, the opposition parties should walk out of the Legislature and refuse to sit with Wynne and her Wrecking Ball crew.

  19. Kate ! You really ARE a GENIUS !! I see what you did here during the Stanley Cup playoffs … you constructed a beautiful metaphor for our American political playoff (which we hold every 4 years – like the World Cup). Yes, the American voters are telling the Hansen Bro’s. (Donald Trump) … “OK, show em what you got”. Yes, the American voters have unleashed the Hansen Bro’s. to get all Medieval on the Bush’s and Clintons ! And Mr Trump is smashing heads into the boards, throwing elbows, hooking and slashing his way across the slippery ice of American politics … and the PEOPLE (fans) LOVE IT !! Yeah, Trump is awkward looking, and doesn’t possess the political (hockey) skills like his fellow skaters (candidates). But he is giving back to the entrenched politicos what they have dished-out. We are smashing the heads that have told us how great they are … all the while they were causing our team to lose. Time to even the score!

  20. Only in Canada you say! A pity…
    When I watch Slapshot and the infamous Hanson Bros it reminds of a time when Canadians did not take a back seat to anyone. A country that came out of WW II second to no country as far as pulling its weight. That confidence and even bravado was slowly chipped away over the decades by progressives who saw that ability as a threat to their ultimate desire for political power. I add the conservative movement to this process because of its incapacity to develop a philosophy that was defensible to the people of Canada. To this day the CPC does not have that problem licked.
    OK, Slapshot was not filmed in the ’50’s but their style of hockey ala Gordie Howe certainly was.

  22. Indeed.
    My parents and I came to Canada in the mid-1950s. That was a time when this country did big things. It was building the St. Lawrence Seaway, the Trans-Canada pipeline, and the Trans-Canada highway. It was the time of the Avro Arrow and much of the country was getting proper telephone service due to a system of microwave towers. The Space Age was about to begin.
    Why was it possible? My parents’ generation went through the Depression and WW II. People came to this country because not only was there a labour shortage because of the post-war boom, they saw opportunities that weren’t readily available in their homelands.
    After going through that, people felt they could do *anything*. My generation inherited that can-do attitude.
    Then came Daddy Trudeau and all that went out the window. After all, the universe had to unfold as it should, right?
    We never recovered from that.

  23. Watching an exchange between Jason Kenney and Madam Monsef, Minister of Democratic Institutions or something, is an example of supreme arrogance on the part of the Minister. It’s cringe worthy, and enough to make you want to weep for Canada.

  24. If FPTP is “less democratic” because it doesn’t reflect the popular vote, how can a system that skews that even further be considered “more democratic.” Given there is no end to their petulant arrogance borne of ignorance and naiveté, of course they will try, with political Richter scale consequences.
    OTOH, maybe they can study this and that, retaining their training wheels for a while longer. That’s better than the truly harmful policies they contemplate, like shutting down dissent in the HofC, apparently their majority insufficient to end the inconvenient need for debate before closure.
    Maybe they want to starve us into submission as Wynne their ideological mentor is doing to the ON people with her central planning, forcing homeowners to pay for energy audits when selling and, in their incorrigibly stupid way, costing the economy horrendously with an ill-conceived “transformation” from natural gas to electricity, the latter skyrocketing of late in cost, or having to opt for fake technologies. Lenin would love her treatment of the little people.
    Kick them when they’re down that’s the statist way. The same treatment that caused economic decline will cure it, if not let the coercive state begin.
    Sticking their noses in others’ business, that’s the Canadian, I mean Liberal way. How long are we prepared to take this nonsense? Will Torontonians continue to subject us to their economic nonsense? Will we let them or force a political reality check?

  25. If air pudding was a language, Maryam Monsef would speak it fluently.
    Then again, I shouldn’t be surprised. There doesn’t seem to be any ministers in the current federal cabinet who use plain language to explain things, let alone know what they’re doing or what they’re talking about.

  26. Truly unbelievable. The Ontario Liberals have been funneling 80+ million to Ontario Teacher’s unions in the last ten+ years or so. This is appalling. How much longer will Ontario taxpayers put up with this garbage. Presumably Ontario pays unions to cover the costs of their negotiation — WHY WOULD THEY DO THAT??? Is it any wonder that the Unions went after Hudak when he talked about trying to reign in expenses. A dismal business for sure: http://news.nationalpost.com/news/canada/canadian-politics/ontario-is-an-outlier-auditor-general-finds-little-precedent-for-3-8-million-payouts-to-teachers-unions

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