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BigFan
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JimmyJRaynor
Canada17660 Posts
"The Hilarious House of Frightenstein" When this children's show was produced Canadian TV Stations had to have a certain minimum level of "Canadian Content" as mandated by the CRTC. The Nit-picking over what was and was not "Canadian TV" got so intense that SCTV introduced the "Great White North" show. They took shots at the CRTC at the end of the show on a regular basis.  | ||
Falling
Canada11564 Posts
On July 02 2020 10:04 GreenHorizons wrote: Interesting. I just got invited to contribute to a "Cancel Canada Day" (relating it to Black liberation struggles) event for today. I let them know I didn't mind showing solidarity but wasn't really familiar with the situation. I appreciate the insight. My outside impression (I did a little reading while I was waiting ) is that the "Cancel Canada Day" thing resembles more of Columbus Day/Indigenous People's day than the 4th of July/Juneteenth dynamic. A day that's more about confronting the current/historical circumstances for Indigenous peoples and opposition to celebrating a "disneyfied" creation story than a day of significance for the Indigenous peoples themselves. Various tribes/bands in the US have varying relations with both state and federal governments and gives them different perspectives on Columbus Day/the treaties* and it appears there may be a similar thing at play there. WEN is hilarious (in as much as it's appropriate for me to laugh anyway) btw I'd say Indigenous Day is largely unknown- or at least at this point not such a large national event (yet). Our 150th celebrations is where we suddenly had a large uptick of people saying we shouldn't celebrate it because it somehow denied that people didn't live here before. To my mind, people are free to not celebrate on Canada Day (hardly needs to be said, but there it is), but the notion that it somehow erases earlier history is a non-starter for me. For one, we are very diligent about teaching as much indigenous history as we know (and believe me, there's giant gaps of information, mostly it's cultural history pre-contact) and we take a big swing at teaching the Residential Schools in BC (usually Socials 10. I think there's been a switch, but it used to be Socials 9 was pre-contact and exploration and Socials 10 was pre-Confederation to pre WWI. But there's a push to include indigenous content absolutely everywhere in every subject.) And now there is Orange Shirt day in remembrance of the Residential Schools. We've got quite a bit going on. So no Canadian ought to come out of our school system thinking 1867 is when everything began, but it's quite clear that there was a time before there was a political entity called the Dominion of Canada and a time afterwards, and so July 1st celebrates the time it came to be. To say we shouldn't or we should cancel. . .well, I suppose no country ever should celebrate their founding because every country has something dark in their past? I don't know. To me something like Canada Day is the aspirational part of what of what we represent and hope to be. For the rest of the year, my day job is to teach the good, the bad, and the ugly of Canadian history. (Well, right now Ancient and Middle Ages history- but I taught my fair share of Canadian history too.) | ||
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CorsairHero
Canada9491 Posts
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JimmyJRaynor
Canada17660 Posts
On July 02 2020 07:46 JimmiC wrote: Hello fellow Hoser's raise your glasses of Caesars i'm not sure hoser and hosehead were ever authentic derogatory terms used in Ontario or Quebec or the Maritimes. Not sure about the rest of Canada though. I'm not sure where Dave Thomas and Rick Moranis got those terms. | ||
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JimmyJRaynor
Canada17660 Posts
https://www.msn.com/en-ca/money/topstories/cerb-poses-back-to-work-dilemma-were-being-incentivized-to-make-just-under-dollar1000/ar-BB16i1Wj?li=AAggNb9&ocid=HandyCafe My dentist , who is in mississauga, is having trouble getting some of his staff to come back and work a full time work week. EDIT: just talk to him now. He is also hiring. | ||
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Zambrah
United States7393 Posts
https://ottawacitizen.com/news/national/defence-watch/graffiti-on-monument-commemorating-nazi-ss-division-being-investigated-as-a-hate-crime-by-police/wcm/957b5e7e-e26f-46f0-92a4-6e26842dbd23/ This can't be real right? A fucking NAZI MONUMENT not only existed in Canada undisturbed 'til now, but spraypainting it is being investigated as a HATE CRIME? Ukrainian Nazis or fucking not, they were Nazis and this shit is an affront. I am so tired to waking up and seeing shit like this every god damned day. | ||
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JimmiC
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JohnDelaney
Ireland73 Posts
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JimmiC
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JohnDelaney
Ireland73 Posts
I don't mean Canadians. You have a strange habit of strawmanning all my posts. | ||
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JimmiC
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JohnDelaney
Ireland73 Posts
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JimmiC
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JohnDelaney
Ireland73 Posts
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JimmiC
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JohnDelaney
Ireland73 Posts
Literally all Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland would need to do is make a short speech disavowing her grandfather's editorship in the Nazi newspaper and say that she speaks for all Ukrainian-Canadians that they oppose Nazism and disavow all past collaboration especially for those who immigrated to Canada after WWII. That would show real leadership. Not this cheap deflection that Russia is making up stuff about her grandfather. She is not owning up to her grandfather's past. | ||
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JimmyJRaynor
Canada17660 Posts
The Toronto Police Chief was Mark Saunders during the 2019 Raptors playoffs run. He is 57 years old and still the Police Chief. He announced his retirement and will be stepping down in the near future. The Toronto Police and their leadership do a great job. However, they are not perfect. The Toronto Police receive a deluge of undue harsh criticism. This puts the force in many "can't win" situations. If this contributed to Mark Saunders decision to step down... that is a sad day for the city of Toronto. I have some more evidence of Mark Saunders great leadership... "we're looking for guardians not warriors" ...what a great fucking quote. I don't know if its up there with "just watch me" .. but its a great line. https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/canada/looking-for-guardians-not-warriors-qanda-with-toronto-police-chief-mark-saunders/ar-BB17aHXy?li=AAggFp5&ocid=HandyCafe&fbclid=IwAR0esFi7hVP2TLOKb1_wltp9sN3lf1xhUbwMvQ-Z30-mxh4BYsUwf9SasJo I'd like to see Mark Saunders get into politics. This guy is a great leader. Considering that we've got a teacher who couldn't handle the worst engineering school in canada and a guy who was almost an insurance agent at the top of our political system... I'd say if Mark Saunders successfully navigated 1 year of law school he'd be more qualified than either of those two clowns to be PM. if Mark Saunders runs for any kind of political office whatsoever.... I'm volunteering to help. | ||
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JimmyJRaynor
Canada17660 Posts
Its nice to see this level of opportunity in my favourite city in the whole wide world. Congratz to John Tory, Doug Ford, and << BIG GULP>> Justin Trudeau. Our leaders deserve some credit for this. I'd say John Tory is , by far, the best of these 3 guys. | ||
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goiflin
Canada1218 Posts
On July 25 2020 23:48 JimmyJRaynor wrote: I'd like to see Mark Saunders get into politics. This guy is a great leader. Considering that we've got a teacher who couldn't handle the worst engineering school in canada and a guy who was almost an insurance agent at the top of our political system... I'd say if Mark Saunders successfully navigated 1 year of law school he'd be more qualified than either of those two clowns to be PM. if Mark Saunders runs for any kind of political office whatsoever.... I'm volunteering to help. It is interesting that we have some really unqualified candidates at the Liberal and Conservative camps right now. I'm hoping that the various parties start trying to field more qualified individuals before they lose people's faith, and kind of sabotage voter turnouts because of it. Nothing made me more apathetic towards a federal election than the last selection of candidates. Nobody seemed to really be a person I'd trust with making decisions on a national level, besides maybe Jagmeet Singh who was at least in the legal system as a defense lawyer prior to his political career. If Saunders did decide to run for MP I'd be more interested in it if he actually went to law school, which I'm sure he'd do fine in. He's done a reasonable job all things considered. There's criticism to be had certainly, as is the case with any law enforcement agency, but the viewpoint that you're not looking for people to fight citizens, and rather try to protect them, is a core idea that probably helps stop Toronto's officers from becoming totally like the ones down south. Hopefully his replacement also keeps that in mind going forward. | ||
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