Mark H.

He is only suffering because he had more to lose than most people do. Honestly, when I started teaching at 25, I would have fully expected to lose my job, had I been exposed saying stuff like that.

Yes, we’ve seeded some veggies, but no field crops yet.

They can shoot the **** about a million other things.

I see that as part of the problem in today's society. If someone is racist, homophobic, or say, anti - semitic, that is viewed as inappropriate and is usually dealt with severely. Yet, other offensive things, such as in this case degrading women and teammates, are seen as less serious, because so many people do it and it is an ingrained part of certain cultures. Hopefully people get to a point where they are just disgusted with themselves.

Most businesses still send bills in the mail, plenty of cheques too.

Meanwhile, most of my American friends / contacts are complaining about the 'unconstitutional overreach' by their state governments. They don't get it, and many truly do see it as a conspiracy and fake news. Or they live in a state where the governor has not taken any measures at all. I honestly have no idea how some people sleep at night - they live in a world where someone is always out to get them, and reality is never reality.

Normally we would be seeding our crops by now - global warming, where art thou?

Inconclusive. The predictions are for a polar bear population decline by the middle of this century - although it is nice that the bears had a good winter. As for the Dr, she is now free to write more for the Heartland Institute.

Then they didn’t cook it beautifully.

I certainly will not defend the fast food industry, they can look after themselves quite well. Most ground meat is very tasty, but the way it looks coming out of the grinder is anything but appetizing.

Sure, sausage, weiners, et. al. have a grey colour unless you add colouring or use reddish coloured salt. Trust me on this, it’s the same with the homemade ones, it’s just the colour you get when you grind up pork or beef.

Some beef ranchers are selling meat at reduced prices. But you have to be willing to take an entire quartered beef carcass. Prime, farm grown beef for $3 a pound. DM me if this is something you'd be interested in.

Thst’s a good summary of what’s actually going on, thanks.

That is exactly what I have an issue with. I don’t own guns, never have, never will. I have an issue with a PM being able to arbitrarily decide that an issue does not require debate. I don’t care what the issue is, it should go through the mandated readings in the house and then be sent to the senate. If this wasn’t an emergency a year ago, then it’s not an emergency now.

So, when Harper ran on reducing the GST, for example, it still went through the House of Commons. I don’t agree that having something in an election platform means you can ignore established parliamentary procedures.

That you don’t seem to see the history (those bullet points) I provided as the primary reason there are so many Aboriginal people in our prisons - I find that weird. I understand your point about the assault rifle comparison.

Ok, I’m not defending the gun laws. I was responding to what you said about our First Nations people.

You said if we didn’t have Aboriginals our crime rate would be lower. All of my ‘bullet points’ are to show that the issues with Aboriginals and crime rate are a collective responsibility. You can’t just abuse a segment of your population, leading to widespread poverty, and then somehow dismiss them - we are living with the legacy of pushing them aside, of categorizing then as wards of the state and of putting them into residential schools. No, you don’t take this grade 12 teacher’s for it, I pointed you to some credible sources.

I’ll give it to you straight up. I have taught gr. 12 Law for about a dozen years, and I have several police officer friends, they come to my class as guest speakers. Yes, about 90% of the criminals they deal are repeat offenders. Yes, the correctional system has a high number of Aboriginal inmates. But to say our crime rate would be lower if we didn’t have any Aboriginals? The issues with Aboriginals are not only the fault of Aboriginals, not by a long shot. 1. The longest running human rights abuse in recorded world history is residential schools in Canada. From New France in 1600s until the last one closed in 1996. 2. If you want to learn more about residential schools for Aboriginals, go to the Canadian Encyclopedia and search residential schools. I would also recommend reading ‘Clearing the Plains’ by James Daschuck. 3. Even just a cursory glance at the current situation, shows a situation that will naturally create a higher crime rate. All of it created by government legislation, namely, The Indian Act. a) Funding per person that is below welfare levels, with local politics worsening the situation, due to unfair distribution. b) Education funded at a rate of $4300 per students, when the public education system is spending $10 000 per student. c) Teaching staff that will be snapped up by school divisions in large urban centres, as soon as they have gained experience and proven to be effective. I could go on, but considering all of the above, it is clear that the high Aboriginal crime rate is a shared responsibility. I also want to add one final point - it’s not that Australia and New Zealand don’t have Aboriginals - they actually have world renowned English as a second language education programs for their Aboriginal students.

The problem with people deciding what is best for themselves - if it doesn’t work out they need the government and the health care system just like everyone else. And if deciding what is best for themselves means ignoring science, that is a huge problem. If Sweden really was thinking that this was just another virus, perhaps they should have considered the impacts of the Spanish Flu, over 17 million deaths world wide, from a population of 1.8 billion.

But surely not overwhelming the health care system would result in fewer deaths? It’s hard to imagine that the idea is to have the same number of deaths, but to just spread them out more. That would make Heath care almost redundant.

Yes, I’m at a Hutterian school that is part of the public system, so I teach the mainstream curriculum.

Stiffer penalties will do nothing to change cultures or improve poverty and hunger. The United States already has some of the stiffest penalties in the world, they are clearly not the answer. Since you cited Australia - I am quite sure their stability does not come from tough prison sentences. The return of the death penalty? Now there would be an exercise in futility.

Your first paragraph - I can't even wrap my head around that. Your second paragraph - it's mostly about what you do as an individual highschool student. The learning opportunities are more than adequate. The biggest adjustment would be less hands on learning at University.

Yes, we will all get the virus eventually; and it really doesn't matter where we came into contact with it. School bus, classroom, grocery store, hair dresser et. al. Governments are opening up economies and schools, knowing full well that the virus is still here. They are calculating that the rate of infection will be slower than it was in late March / early April.