The general WHAT IN THE WORLD is going on in Canada?

Meanwhile ... in the Great White North, as a counter-balance to the Trumpiness of our neighbours to the south. Canada's NDP party (socialists!) has just elected a Sikh as its new leader.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/jagmeet-singh-profile-biography-win-1.4315780

He's sort of a "typical Canadian":

"A criminal defence lawyer who speaks fluent French and Punjabi, Singh was born in Scarborough, Ont., in 1979.

Singh was raised in Newfoundland and Labrador while his father, who trained as a psychiatrist in India, attended medical school there and worked as a security guard before he could practise in Canada.

His family moved to Windsor, Ont., when he was seven years old.

Singh says he was bullied as a youngster and took up martial arts to defend himself, going on to captain his high school wrestling team and winning the Toronto championships in Brazilian jiu-jitsu.

He got a law degree from Osgoode Hall in Toronto and practised as a criminal defence lawyer. His brother, Gurratan Singh, now runs their firm.

Singh's passion for fashion caught the attention of GQ magazineearlier this year, which described him as "the incredibly well-dressed rising star in Canadian politics." In the magazine's profile of him, Singh said his personal style is an extension of his political platform."
 
PM Trudeau getting questioned in a town hall style meeting on being the only PM ever to be guilty of a federal crime. For those of you that don't know, Trudeau accepted a free vacation on the Aga Khan's island in 2016 and claimed the Khan was a "family friend", even though he hadn't seen him since he was a child. A review by the Conflicts of Interest Commissioner concluded that Trudeau broke "multiple laws" in accepting a trip to the island. The "family friend" lie was Trudeau's way of attempting to avoid public scrutiny over the trip. The Khan's Foundation is a registered government lobbiest in Canada, including the PM's office and over the last 35 years the government has support foundation projects to the tune of $330 million. A rookie politician in Snowbound, Ontario could have seen this one coming.
 
Man, nearly 6 years this thread has been around and its not even at 10 pages... compare that to the US thread... America should be so lucky that the wrose political news is that our president took a trip on someone elses dime. I think you guys are hitting the old adage right on the head. No news is good news. I guess its to be expected from a country that is made fun of for being so nice...
I wish the US was more like Canada. Maybe that's why I've always lived so close to the border.
 
So this happened in my town yesterday

https://www.castanet.net/edition/news-story-217897-1-.htm#217897

Full police response, guns and all, for 4 kids playing with toy guns. Thank god no one feared for their lives and got trigger happy.

The article itself seems to contradict itself, first saying police pulled a car over...then say the kids were in the front yard.

Furthermore....the kids got a "stern talking to", and the family was "embarrassed"....but no one from Toys'R'Us, or Mattel, is saying anything. Sell toy guns to kids, that's ok. Kids play with toy guns, get arrested.
 
PM Trudeau has informed us that we like to say "peoplekind", not "mankind".



In response, the province of Manitoba has been renamed.


#peoplekind is full of some gems right now :lol:
 
I always thought "humankind" would be a better word. Still, it's not something that would trigger me the same way it seems to have done for our PM.
 
twitcher
PM Trudeau has informed us that we like to say "peoplekind", not "mankind".



In response, the province of Manitoba has been renamed.


#peoplekind is full of some gems right now :lol:
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I'm at a loss for words...that are acceptable on GTP:sly:. I never imagined I'd see a day where I'd be embarassed by our Prime Minister.
 
twitcher
Human is just as problematic as mankind.

Peoplekind
Hupeople
Wopeople

Even "person" is an issue, since it contains the word son, and that's exclusionary.
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Is this an actual argument made? How would this hold up? Human and person are no go words? Becausr they redpectively contain the words 'man' and 'son'?

But why? The word is human not man anf person not son...

Honnest question, these arguments are (not yet) made.

The regressive left puts us lefties in just as bad a spotlight as the neonazis do for the right damn...
 
twitcher
Human is just as problematic as mankind.

Peoplekind
Hupeople
Wopeople

Even "person" is an issue, since it contains the word son, and that's exclusionary.
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People won’t work either considering if you remove the first e and the l you get “pope” which is offensive to non-Catholics.

Of course “kind” is also offensive to those that identify as assholes such as myself.

The choice is rather obvious. We are simply nothings floating through space on a large oblong sphere.
 
twitcher
Human is just as problematic as mankind.

Peoplekind
Hupeople
Wopeople

Even "person" is an issue, since it contains the word son, and that's exclusionary.
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Earthlings
Self-aware primates
Sapiens sapiens
Hupeeps
Hudroids
Corrupticons
proto-zombies
 
Johnnypenso
What I want to know is, can I still call my son, my son? I can't follow all this pc/sjw nonsense so just give me the basics!:sly:
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I think...I think calling your son, "son", is still ok.

I think where the issue lies is with the word Sun. I can never tell if people are talking about a young man, or a ball of fire in the sky...and the word is exclusionary, so it may have to be changed. Not sure what we change it to though.


In other news, Jamaica will be renaming Monday to Peopleday...ya mon!!
 
Northstar
Are you talking here or just in general? Because I’m fairly certain none of us here are serious about this.
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I believe he's saying he's making a mountain out of a molehill but I could be wrong.
 
DK
The words "mountain" and "molehill" come to mind. But hey, don't let me spoil your outrage.
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Whether or not the woman asking the question agrees with to term "peoplekind" or not is irrelevant.

The Primeminister of Canada informed everyone's watching that townhall meeting that, "WE like to say peoplekind," as though he's speaking for anyone other than himself. Furthermore, peoplekind isn't even a word, a quick Google search can tell you that So, he's saying WE have decided that WE like to use a word that doesn't exist.

It's not a serious issue, it's something funny to laugh about, but it's also just interesting to observe.
 
twitcher
Whether or not the woman asking the question agrees with to term "peoplekind" or not is irrelevant.

The Primeminister of Canada informed everyone's watching that townhall meeting that, "WE like to say peoplekind," as though he's speaking for anyone other than himself. Furthermore, peoplekind isn't even a word, a quick Google search can tell you that So, he's saying WE have decided that WE like to use a word that doesn't exist.

It's not a serious issue, it's something funny to laugh about, but it's also just interesting to observe.
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Isn't that the point of electing a PM? to pick the one person that speaks for everyone?
 
twitcher
Whether or not the woman asking the question agrees with to term "peoplekind" or not is irrelevant.

The Primeminister of Canada informed everyone's watching that townhall meeting that, "WE like to say peoplekind," as though he's speaking for anyone other than himself. Furthermore, peoplekind isn't even a word, a quick Google search can tell you that So, he's saying WE have decided that WE like to use a word that doesn't exist.

It's not a serious issue, it's something funny to laugh about, but it's also just interesting to observe.
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And it just so happens that Trudeau was having a laugh about it too...not that you could tell from that 21-second clip that hoped to reach Cathy Newman-vs-Jordan Peterson-esque levels of reductio ad absurdum.
 
DK
And it just so happens that Trudeau was having a laugh about it too...not that you could tell from that 21-second clip that hoped to reach Cathy Newman-vs-Jordan Peterson-esque levels of reductio ad absurdum.
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Ok...so Trudeau had a laugh, and now I'm having a laugh....what's the issue? I don't know, to me, if you can't laugh at Manitoba being called Peopletoba, then we have very different senses of humour.
 
DK
I just figured that clip was missing a bit of context, that's all.
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Agree, I won't ever deny context is important.

Just, sort of for fun though, how far do you expand the context? Expand the window to show the context you showed, that's one step. Or you could expand it even further, make all of Trudeau's recent Town Hall style meetings the context - meetings where he has said some, at the very least wishy-washy, things. For example, equating "returning" ISIS fighters to Italians and Germans moving to Canada after WWII.

So, in the context of the convo between Trudeau and the woman, he was joking. But in the broader context of the progressive message he has been sending in many of these townhall meetings, was he really joking?
 

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