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Would be really nice to see recaps on TSN or Sportsnet.

True, but Paul Martin lived in a different reality than the rest of us and was a horribly inept politician. Remember the Canada Steamship Lines issues?

Which leaves him open to the possibility of swapping a newer Iphone for some slap and tickle.

Ad hominem has been Trump's go-to since forever. He better wipe his feet after that so he doesn't track it from the barn.

When you turn the clock back 50 years, drunk driving resulted in a fine. sexual harassment was tolerated, polluters were allowed to do as they pleased (Sarnia being a prime example) , reproductive rights were unknown, discrimination was rife (much moreso than today) and the residential schools tragedies were squelched. Private interests changed none of these- it was your hated and feared governments.

How the Cuban government and its people collaborated on the Family Code Image via caesarjulivs/Shutterstock. Natalia Marques and Globetrotter March 23, 2023 Revolutionary Havana youth describe the process of building legislation in dialogue with the people. On September 25, 2022, Cuba passed one of the world's most progressive codes on families. All in one go, the small island nation legalized same-sex marriage, defined and upheld the rights of children, the disabled, caregivers, and the elderly, and redefined "family" along ties of affinity rather than blood. This opens the concept of "family" to include nontraditional forms of familial relations, which exist outside the model of the heterosexual nuclear family. This article was produced in partnership by Peoples Dispatch and Globetrotter. Hailed as "revolutionary" by many in Cuba, the code will help provide protections to people who would have otherwise faced discrimination in society while ensuring that Cubans in same-sex relationships who wish to marry now have the legal right to do so. According to young Cubans and social movement leaders, whom I spoke to about the Family Code while attending a conference titled "Building Our Future" in Havana in November 2022, the code is a reflection of a dialogue between the Cuban people and their government. In the time since the code was passed, the Cuban government remains in dialogue with the people. The Ministry of Justice is still holding seminars in provinces throughout Cuba for people seeking answers to questions that have come up during the implementation process. The Family Code has been influencing everything from sports to property relations. Notably, in just the first two months of the law being passed, 112 same-sex marriages were registered. A Revolutionary Code "It's a revolutionary code that will change the thinking and the vision that Cubans have regarding… discriminations that can happen in society," said Jose Luiz, a third-year international relations student at the Higher Institute of International Relations Raul Roa García. The Family Code legalizes and broadens the definition of a "family" far beyond the traditional definition. The code "will bring new protections to people who have, in one way or another, been discriminated against," Luiz told me. Cuba ratified a new constitution in 2019. The constitution was written through "popular consultations" with the Cuban people. Through this process, Cubans participated in community discussions with government officials to both discuss and amend the constitution. Article 68, which called for defining marriage as a union between two people, thus legalizing same-sex marriage, was mentioned in 66 percent of popular consultation meetings. A majority of the Cuban people involved in these processes supported maintaining the definition of marriage as being a union between a man and a woman. This is partly due to historicprejudices against LGBTQ+ people that are prevalentacross the Americas, and partly due to Cuba's growing conservative evangelical movement, which opposes progressive social reforms such as same-sex marriage. After intense debate regarding Article 68 among the Cuban people, the constitutional commission decided not to include the proposed language in favor of same-sex marriage and instead pushed the decision of addressing the matter through a future "family code" legislation. This legislation became the 2022 Family Code. 'Popular Consultation': A Government in Dialogue With Its People In order to overcome social conservatism to pass one of the most progressive Family Codes in the world, Cuba underwent a meticulous process of popular consultation, from February 1, 2022, to April 30, 2022. The National Assembly of People's Power stressed the importance of Cubans familiarizing themselves with the code, in order to prevent feelings of uncertainty. Through this process, the Cuban people made more than 400,000 proposals, many of which were included in the finalized code. Minister of Justice Oscar Manuel Silvera Martínez said that the 25th version of the code, presented to and approved by the National Assembly, "was more solid because it was imbued with the wisdom of the people." Young people played a central role in the process leading up to the approval of the Family Code. "The Cuban youth… are involved in all tasks that are deployed by the Cuban revolution," said Luiz. "We also participated in our referendum for our constitution in 2019. We were in popular committees, discussing the constitution and we contributed to that." In 2019, Cuba held a referendum on a new constitution. The referendum passed with a majority vote of 86.85 percent, which is about 73.3 percent of the total electorate. The referendum was preceded by a popular consultation process, in which a draft constitution was discussed in 133,000 public meetings nationwide, where the people of Cuba submitted 783,000 proposals for changes. Cuban officials stated that almost 60 percent of the draft constitution was modified based on the proposals submitted by the public during the popular consultation process. "I remember at my college, we had meetings to explain the [Family Code], and for us as students to give our perspective of the code and propose something for the code," Neisser Liban Calderón García, also a Cuban international relations student, told me. "But after we did that at college, we had the same thing in our community, with a different perspective because at college we are with our friends, with [other] students; but in the community, we are with people from all ages and from different families." García, who has a boyfriend, told me that he is glad that he will now have the opportunity to marry in the future. The results of this popular process speak for themselves: With 74.01 percent of eligible voters participating, the Family Code passed in a landslide victory with 66.87 percent of votes in favor.

Sooooo.....Mitzi won't be giving you the finger soon?

You seem to be unaware that price-fixing and collusion between corporations is common to limit competition , services and raise prices.

Now Putin can be even more hysterical about The Phantom Menace encroaching their borders.

It is amazing that no one caught that. It speaks volumes for their collective intelligence and invites a linkage to Dildo. NFLD.

Private corporations have the option to use force as well, and often do. Moreover, if/when they use their leverage inappropriately and/or illegally, they do not answer to you- you need to resort to (gasp) government agencies for remediation.

And yet, the countries with the highest taxes- western European/Scandinavian consistently have the highest satisfaction of residents, lowest natal fatalities, highest longevity and lowest violence and mental health incidents.

The fear of invasion from Europe with NATO coordinating is what is being stoked and sold to Russians by their military and politicians, much as the GOP in the US and Cons here are trying to do. Conventional sociology states that in times of danger/crisis, people tend to gravitate towards "strong" leaders and are willing to sacrifice rights and freedoms for a perceived sense of security.

The size of government is not the problem- its what the government of the day does with that power- to either make the lives of ordinary people better with good schools, healthcare, environmental regulations and infrastructure, or facilitating profit and growth at all costs so as to maximize profits.

The answer to this influx of immigrants is simple, obvious but expensive. The countries that these have been fleeing for political and economic reasons have been interfered with by America, big businesses (like Dole) and Russian funded resistance groups. The farmers have been forced out of their self-sustaining fields and small communities and are now forced to work brutal hours for very small wages. The CIA has, for decades, funded and trained death squads to oppose anything like democratic or responsive governments. The majority of the residents have been forced into poverty with no hope of a better future for themselves or their children. Russia was waging proxy wars with the US to the detriment of the populations. And there are the cartels who were tolerated by the CIA and even cooperated with them to funnel drugs into American city ghettos. Nothing will change until there people have good, sustainable homes, jobs and communities back home. But that would cost money.

That is why big business funds right-wing parties and governments to weaken or eliminate regulations that might interfere with profits.

For anyone who wishes to watch a digestible explanation of quantum phenomena, Nova next Wednesday on PBS promises to be interesting.

Gentlemen, It is with great pleasure to inform you that from today, Finnish airspace is open for NATO surveillance and intelligence missions. New 1340km of border to scout.

Apparently there is new evidence being unearthed almost every day, so the Grand Jury has been paused until the new evidence can be assessed and presented. The prosecutors want to make sure that the evidence is overwhelming, not just to the jurors, but also to the public.

And Han Dong has been censured and has left the party. PC MP's can meet with German neo-Nazis and......nothing happens.

Certainly agree with the last two comments!

Russia’s Shadow Army Threatens to Dump Dead Bodies on ‘Dirtbag’ Officials -Reuters When the mayor of a small town in Russia’s Krasnodar Krai told the notorious Wagner Group over the weekend that he didn’t want the area to become the new dumping ground for dead mercenaries, he apparently thought he had a say in the matter. He didn’t. And Yevgeny Prigozhin, the cutthroat founder of the group, would soon make that frighteningly clear—with threats to dump dead bodies on his doorstep instead. Prigozhin’s fighters backed their boss up, releasing a video of themselves armed to the teeth in the Donbas and threatening to come home to kill. “You just wait, degenerates, for us to have to come and deal with you. Because you fuckers are doing more harm than the Ukrainian army, than the Nazis. Because you are the Nazis, the ******* administration of Goryachy Klyuch,” one of the masked fighters warned. In perhaps the starkest illustration yet of Prigozhin’s growing power, the burial went ahead just as he’d wanted, under the barrel of guns wielded by more masked Wagner fighters. But hundreds of local pensioners, veterans, and out-of-towners also attended the burial of eight Wagner recruits killed fighting in Ukraine. Some of them apparently heeded Prigozhin’s public call to pay their respects and defy local authorities. “The administration of Goryachy Klyuch forbid the burial of our Wagner fighters at the cemetery in Bakinskaya. Tomorrow, at 10 a.m. the funeral will be held for our fighters. Everyone wanting to say goodbye to them, I invite you to the cemetery,” Prigozhin fumed in an audio message released on the eve of the planned burial.

Chevrolet stopped making those in the 80's.