kelownabomberfan

Praising evil dictators on behalf of all Canadians - not my Forte!!

As much as Tim Kaine wanted the Ohio State killings today to be gun violence, sadly, it was gun violence that ended the actual violence....

This is pretty nuanced all right. I wonder how complicated this guy thought Castro's legacy would be, right before the bullet from Fidel's gun crashed through his head and he was executed.

I agree with you, but at least we weren't a world laughing-stock when Harper did his eulogy, like we are now thanks to Justin.

A friend of mine worked for a Canadian company in Cuba for five years. He actually was one of these guys who believed all of the nonsense about Cuba being a "socialist paradise" and how Castro was a social justice hero who had brought health care and education to the people. It didn't take him long after starting work in Cuba to realize that was all PR bunk. He also as a Canadian had some more freedoms and saw some of the large estates that Fidel and Raul live on, while the majority of the country languishes in poverty, with no hope. He said that the people have been lied to and indoctrinated for so long that there will be no counter-revolution. The only hope is for the Castros to relinquish power and bring in elections. And that's not going to happen, as there are what, 8 Castro sons that already run almost everything? The most disheartening sight for him was seeing fields full of food just rotting, because the state-controlled agriculture department was so inept that they couldn't or wouldn't give the order to harvest the crops on time, and no one is allowed to harvest anything until told to do so, on pain of arrest and probably torture/death. He couldn't understand that. So needless to say, he was partying on Saturday night.

Just like when Kim Jong Il died.

Reminds me of 2001. Only this time Calgary lost. So glad.

Another hash-tag has started on Twitter, this time making fun of Jeremy Corbyn, the leader of the British Labour Party, who put out a similar glowing statement about Castro, completely glossing over Castro's mass-murdering past by just saying "for all of his flaws". Now #forallhisflaws is trending on Twitter as the British get into the act of using the same mocking comments about Corbyn's horrific comment as many were doing with #trudeaueulogies.

Pierre actually stated "Viva Castro" at one point on a visit to Cuba while PM, and I believe he also allowed plane-loads of Cuban terrorists to land and refuel in Gander on their way to Angola. Not Canada's finest moment. At least it wasn't, until Justin's statement came out yesterday. I actually saw Justin on the news the other day when he was in Cuba and he was praising Raul Castro and saying that their families had been friends for generations. I thought I was going to be ill, but since that story only got coverage in Canada no one cared. This statement by Trudeau is being pilloried world wide. And rightly so.

We're #1! We're #1! http://reason.com/blog/2016/11/26/five-worst-responses-fidel-castro-death http://foreignpolicy.com/2014/07/03/cuba-wants-you-to-think-its-a-gay-paradise-its-not/

Check out #trudeaueulogy on Twitter. Canada is a laughingstock of the world right now thanks to Trudeau's Castro statement, and I am killing myself laughing at some of the stuff people are writing...

http://cnews.canoe.com/CNEWS/Canada/2016/11/26/22685978.html

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/nov/26/the-old-man-is-dead-fidel-castros-death-sparks-celebrations-on-streets-of-miami

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/nov/21/anti-trump-californians-launch-campaign-secede/

http://blog.dilbert.com/post/153559105081/a-lesson-in-cognitive-dissonance

This reminds me of the 1981 Grey Cup, same kind of David vs. Goliath situation.

oh, ok.

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yeah Calgary-Edmonton playing in Toronto would be a tough sell, especially to the losers in Toronto who are too dense to watch football in the first place, even if the Argos were playing.

Good to see Edmonton making a game of it!

if it was a few years ago, could you blame him?

http://www.cbc.ca/news/thenational/rex-murphy-media-failures-1.3856599

I hope the Jets avenge the loss to the Bruins earlier this year. I was at that game and it was kind of a stinker.