It’s a shame too... because other figures like (pre-Palin) John McCain seemed actually like they could contribute alot, maybe you don’t want him doing your economic policy, but on defence policy he actually understands the subject matter; others like Condoleezza Rice one might vehemently disagree with the positions…

Somehow there’s resistance to this in America... but abroad it’s much more common; heck alot of student aid schemes in general operate on the basis of estimating parental contributions and you don’t have to be a millionaire to be disqualified from financial aid for that reason.

The CBC was reporting on it recently, and the team owner had such a bullshit response of like:

The University of Ottawa has had long-standing problems with their crackpot student union; they’re very well funded by mandatory student contributions, and repeat attempts to dissolve them have failed, despite them being a representative body with something like an 11% voter turnout. Around 2010 I remember some of the…

They have a separate native advertising-type thing, where they are ‘articles’ in the new stream but they’re marked “sponsored content” and the ‘author’ is listed as “commerce team” or something buzzword-y.

I mean I think this muddied the story somewhat... in terms of news it’s basically just that at a large German…

Well there’s two directions... one hand yes, last year Karl Lagerfeld did a collection which he presented with a fake “protest,” and that was definitely a trend that other designers used in their shows around the same time... *barf.* On the other hand, it’s quite common for small political groups to print or reproduce…

Stephane Dion is a fucking smart guy... like I get why the previous two Liberal candidates lost (no charisma, inability to connect), but they were both pretty well respected international professors; Ignatieff was “just visiting” (so the slur went) because he was teaching at bloody Harvard, Oxford, and Cambridge...

The…

Former Chief of Defence Rick Hillier wrote a letter outlining a plan like this, saying Canada could take a leadership role and absorb 50 000 refugees if they screened them properly.

It’s a shame they pushed out Adam Weinstein... they dumped him over Arkin, realized Arkin was crazy and then dropped him too. Foxtrotalpha is still really nice to see though.

Conceptual art.

Wonder if Canada is considering this given that their new government promised to cancel their F-35 orders.

To be fair, I think alot of the world that’s not former colonial (Canada/US/Australia), understands hyphenated identity more that way. Italians and Irish people in particular are not thrilled at meeting “Italians” from New York, haha. I guess like all immigration things its complicated and grey – language fluency, how…

He was in the Canadian news this last year for pissing off his neighbours; guy applied to built a 2500 foot dock on the waterfront. Environmental and also boating concerns meant alot of angry people.

I have to say I disagree... I mean copyright laws in the US pertaining to artistic appropriation at least are very fluid and “fair use” as it is decided by case law (so far) seems to really only favour massive alternation of the piece and take into account the role and intent of the parties: the Cariou vs Richard…

You have a mat just inside the doorway, and you keep a shelf there for shoes just beside the door.

Like I know people in the US wear shoes indoors... but in Canada and Germany they don’t. I’m sure someone has made a map of which countries do and don’t wear shoes inside.

The British government also uses “ISIL.” There’s nothing conspiratorial, its all just different versions of translation. “Daesh” is the name used by the French government, and throughout the Middle East (which ISIS/ISIL disproves of). In German they’re often just called the “IS” with terror-group sometimes attached.

“Daesh” is just the acronym in Arabic (translated to English). Incidentally ISIS rejects the name “Daesh” in their territories.

It’s nothing to do with “PC,” but rather “Levant” is the designation ISIL uses, which refers to a geographic region encompassing Syria and some areas around it. Normally you wouldn’t find it used outside an archeological context, but well, they’re invoking historical geographies beyond the modern state boundaries of…

Apparently they might expand the block to Poland and the Czech Republic depending on how the situation unfold..... There’s gonna be an EU meeting in Brussels tomorrow, and Germany is talking about pushing through legislation on refugee-sharing and threatening to defund Eastern countries that don’t participate... it’s…