1. As always downplay Palestinian experiences by making it clear they are just "opinions".

  2. The weird thing is the installations have nothing to do with Israel or the occupation. They're just about Palestinian Muslim funeral and mourning practices.

  3. Sometimes, if we're especially depressed, we let it grow so much mould we can't bear to clean it and then throw the whole Tupperware away.

  4. I don’t know much about this so someone please correct me if I’m wrong, I’d like to better understand. As I understood it, they tried to instate electoral reform, but each of the parties wanted a voting system that benefitted themselves the most, and so none of the reforms had enough support to pass.

  5. It's not entirely clear what happened. They had public consultations and, if you believe the NDP, the consultations seemed to favour some form of proportional representation. Trudeau openly favoured a ranked-ballot system (which is an advantage for a centrist party. Trudeau made it clear that proportional representation was unacceptable to him because it would enable "extremist voices" in Parliament, and he decided against ramming through ranked ballot because he was aware of the perception that it favoured the Liberals and he didn't want to be perceived as rigging the system.

  6. Extremist voices deserve votes in Parliament if the electorate is voting for them. It's your job to present better alternatives to the issues they raise and trust the system to keep out bad ideas.

  7. That's sort of an arguable point tbh. A lot of people would argue that parties that are inherently anti-liberal-democracy (think fascist or Marxist-Leninist parties) should be precluded from participating in democratic institutions.

  8. Really hope they do something about the defence missions which just suck balls because it will get old really fast if we have to do that for a month

  9. The tedium of defence missions is honestly Super Earth's biggest strategic weakness

  10. Quebec is the only province in Canada with a cultural identity. The rest of Canada is just "not the United States".

  11. You right. Quebec's identity is "not the rest of Canada" instead.

  12. European here. Is that blue strip on the west side California?

  13. 320.‍1001 (1) Everyone who commits an offence under this Act or any other Act of Parliament, if the commission of the offence is motivated by hatred based on race, national or ethnic origin, language, colour, religion, sex, age, mental or physical disability, sexual orientation, or gender identity or expression, is guilty of an indictable offence and liable to imprisonment for life.

  14. 319(8): For greater certainty, the communication of a statement does not incite or promote hatred, for the purposes of this section, solely because it discredits, humiliates, hurts or offends.

  15. The irony is calling religious people snowflakes can be interpreted as hate speech and the original commenter can be imprisoned for writing the same words in a few month from now.

  16. Did you not read my post? That section is specifically designed to avoid that kind of situation.

  17. Just gotta break both your arms

  18. Ngl the idea of a flag with a semicolon on it fucks hard

  19. NTA your monopoly your rules

  20. South Africa used to do this too. Take foreign policymakers on these astroturfed vacations to show them it's 'not that bad.'

  21. The new Canadian passport looks kinda dull ngl looks like a year 1 pupil came up with it

  22. Don't you worry, I'm sure the Trudeau government paid some friend of theirs plenty of money for the design.

  23. For what it's worth, Wikipedia is probably oversimplifying things in saying the blue ensign was in "unofficial use". The idea of a blue ensign for government shipping was an official pattern throughout the empire. If BC did choose to use their arms as the badge for that ensign when they were granted in 1906 (I haven't confirmed that), then this would be an official ensign in that context, used, like many similar ensigns, also in other contexts without any formal adoption.

  24. I have no idea tbh. The only thing I would say is that BC had already been in Canada for 30-odd years by the time this blue ensign was brought into use (assuming the 1906 year is correct). So my assumption would be that they would likely use the Canadian red ensign rather than the BC blue ensign for international (intra-Empire?) shipping.

  25. On one hand, I think the slightly simpler classic ensign looks a little nicer (double Union Jacks notwithstanding), but on the other hand, it's less distinctive. I especially prefer the older flag's aspect ratio.

  26. So there is regular recruiting for Prosecution and Child Welfare in small commonwealth countries without their own law schools. I would imagine it would be a steep learning curve in terms of formality, customs as well as the actual law. Ask around or look on linked in.

  27. I'm probably not interested in actually pursuing this but I can feel myself heading down a google rabbit-hole about it. What sort of countries are we talking here?

  28. I mean, California seems like the obvious choice if warmth is your main concern. As far as I know, your LSO membership will let you write the California bar exam and transfer pretty easily.

  29. Canadian here, bit of a "be careful what you wish for" scenario there. The 1993 election saw the collapse of the Progressive Conservatives, leading many right-wing voters to support our own hard-right crazies instead (also called Reform). Reform overtook the PCs and leveraged that position to essentially launch a hostile takeover via the "Unite the Right" movement. This led to the election of (arguably) our furthest right-wing Prime Minister in our history (at least until Trudeau gets ousted next year).

  30. 😂😂😂😂 there is no measure of democracy. Now here is the measure of democracy that I decided it is. Good stuff. 😂😂😂

  31. Sorry, I clearly overestimated your reading comprehension with my earlier comment.

  32. You mean if I lived in South Korea and didn’t let the people of North Korea vote in my elections. They would still be a democracy even in your version. You are trying to argue two different things. The system they use and how morally terrible they are. It doesn’t surprise me based on your ability to make up your own definition of things and support for a group of people who had elections before but now have not had them in like a decade because the people in power don’t want to 😂

  33. The North Korea analogy isn't to argue how morally terrible the IDF is, but to show how totally and completely at the mercy of the Israeli state Palestinians are.

  34. So Mandatory Palestine is an area of 10,162 sq miles with a population in 1914 of 680k

  35. I'm sorry, you're using the birthplace of the industrial revolution as your benchmark for what normal population density in 1914 looked like?

  36. BC's flag is always underappreciated. It rocks.

  37. THANK YOU. Was fighting for my life in the OP's comments.

  38. It's legal as long as one party to the conversation (which may be the recorder) consents.

  39. Papa Trudeau to the RoC when he passed the Official Languages Act (colourized)

  40. If I had a dime everytime Quebec gets conflated with France. Unless we specifically seek some out at French restaurants, we don't eat snails so the joke doesn't work. You could've instead made fun of how we eat pigs' feet (ragoût de pattes de cochons).

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