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    Should Canada Stay in the U.N.? (split fm Hamas invaded Israel 2023)

    Perhaps this merits a thread of its own but the U.N. is becoming increasingly corrupt and irrelevant. I once believed that, despite its flaws, the U.N was basically an organization for the betterment of mankind, especially regarding issues like health and education worldwide. But right now I’m...
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    Ed Broadbent, R.I.P.

    It was announced today that former NDP leader Ed Broadbent has died. While I must say that I’ve never voted for the NDP nor would I want to ever see them elected, I do feel that Broadbent himself had an integrity that is sadly lacking in today’s jaded political atmosphere. If only the Liberals...
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    Hugh Segal dies at 72

    https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/hugh-segal-obit-1.6932416 I had the opportunity to work with Hugh Segal in the mid-1980s on a number of projects. On those occasions I found him to be very articulate, quite likeable and extremely brilliant. Even when I disagreed with him on certain things, I...
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    Attitudes towards the Liberals

    As a somewhat avid newspaper and media junkie I must admit to being confounded by the levels of barely-suppressed violence towards the Liberal government of late. I realize that certain papers, such as the National Post and the Toronto Sun, cater to those readers who are more conservative...
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    Erin O’Toole not seeking re-election

    https://www.nationalnewswatch.com/2023/03/31/former-conservative-leader-erin-otoole-not-seeking-re-election-leaving-this-spring/#.ZCblvS9E0go Too bad we’re going to lose him as an M.P. If only the Conservative Party’s long knives hadn’t come out I think he could have stood a decent chance of...
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    How does the media view the CAF?

    I must confess to being a bit of a news junkie, reading a number of newspapers, going online and tuning into the broadcast media, usually on a daily basis. Over the years, especially recently, the focus seems to have been on some of the most negative elements of the CAF, such as sexual...
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    A paean of patriotism

    This is a personal account of another time, another era as told to me by my late father. It was when Sir Winston Churchill, recently defeated as Britain’s Prime Minister, made history in a small midwest American town. The place was Fulton, Missouri in 1946. Churchill had been invited to speak...
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    $5M Reparations to individual Blacks living in San Francisco

    https://torontosun.com/news/world/san-francisco-to-air-black-reparations-plan-5m-per-person Get this. First read this about six weeks ago, San Francisco is evidently seriously considering a proposed plan to pay $5,000,000 to each and every eligible Black citizen living there to atone for...
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    USS Donald Cook incident

    This somehow escaped my attention until I read about it just the other day, so if this is old news to most of you, then sorry. Evidently, when in the Black Sea in 2014, the Arleigh Burke destroyer USS Donald Cook had its Aegis system disabled by an unarmed Sukhoi SU-24 equipped with the latest...
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    Hospital ship for Canada

    An interesting idea I just read in Casr.ca about possibly converting a sister ship to the interim AOR (Project Resolve) into a hospital/disaster relief ship. http://www.casr.ca/mp-daly-disaster-aid-hospital-ship.htm What do you think? (Hopefully, I've linked properly to the CASR...
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    Women and conscription

    It's been many decades since Canada has resorted to the draft to supply its military "manpower" needs. And it certainly wasn't popular in Quebec and other areas of the country. But now that employment equity is being established across the broad spectrum of business, industry and, especially...
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    Foreign aid and defence budgets

    I see that India in 2015 had a defence expenditure of  $51.3 billion, making it the sixth largest in the world, just behind the UK. As a percentage of their GDP, it's 2%.  Neighbouring Pakistan's defence budget is around 3.5% GDP.  I find it rather ironic that those two countries who, just a...
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