He was a conservative dude from Alberta who basically shut up about controversial social issues and ran a badly planned conservative economic agenda. Other than tone, I frankly have a hard time differentiating him from the Liberal Party... glad to see him gone, but I don’t think he represents any crazy anomaly for…

That’s a fair enough point on the Highway of Tears... although for weeks Canadian press has been hammering Trudeau on his souring relationship with Indigenous communities.

Look I dunno... I’m an NDP voter; a really disliked Harper, but I don’t think he was Satan. Trudeau I’m still skeptical of, but I do really…

There are bottlenecks in Canadian care (i.e. joint surgeries for seniors), but in general it’s pretty responsive an wait times are short. If you get cancer, you’re getting a meeting with a specialist and surgery within the month – the same speed you’d get in the States with really good insurance. The number of people…

Steven Harper compares pretty favourably to many Democrat politicians. I wasn’t a fan of him, but he didn’t touch abortion or gay marriage, and he shut up all the right wing crazies and was pretty much a middle-right dude. I would compare him to as an Angela Merkel who didn’t get out of the house much.

You have Conservative (used to be two parties), Liberal (Justin Trudeau, centre left), NDP (left), Green (centre left, but only 1 MP so it’s kinda symbolic), PQ (Quebec only, fluctuates between huge and powerful, and small), and then after that you have tiny parties that are so far only symolic (“Wild Rose” a…

Ehhhh... I mean Canada already has the social infrastructure in place which positions it more left than the U.S., but by European standards Justin Trudeau is pretty centre. I really like the guy too, he hasn’t yet proven himself a revolutionary in terms of policy. I kinda put him in the same softly optimistic box as…

Nah, the Canadians Greens totally do get Federal funding, they passed that threshold. They also had their first MP in May being elected (and another person joining Greens, so for a time they had 2 MPs).

Sorry though, gotta disagree with you on Elizabeth May. I’m really sympathetic to the Greens platform, and would…

Canada has three national parties, and the left one (NDP) built up it’s reputation over time, almost winning the government in the last election. It takes time to built momentum; plus there are also upstart parties in Canada, like the ever-growing Green Party, and it absolutly does run in smaller elections.

It also…

Other countries though have these parties in multiple levels of government, and they absolutly do get punished for running bad candidates. Though it has a parliamentary system, you can look at Canada, where three parties still dominate nationally: Conservatives, Liberals (center-left), and NDP (left, Bernie…

There totally is a brutal history of oppression there in Irish, particularly in the UK and Ireland– but I mean, people were literally trying to wipe indigenous peoples out into the second half the 20th century (in Canada at least there are tons of people still alive who were forced into government residential…

Oh shoot... I never did this in English countries... but have done it in Europe!

Drunk tourist: “Do you speak English?”

Me: “Sorry, no.... bye!”

This is the argument that the university has made... and to an extent it makes sense, I mean the guy worked there his whole life, he maybe knew how the system worked? He only reserved the 100K, and deliberately left the rest open to how the school sees fit. On the other hand... they probably still could have not…

To be fair though, alot of people (like myself) bike because it’s also economical. I have a job, but I’m a student, and I can’t afford a car, and public transportation is still a hundred bucks a month that I could spend on food.

Obviously situations matter... in alot of the U.S./outside European cities you need a car,…

Asshole bikers need to be ticketed... and I say this as someone who commutes by bike. I’ve almost been hit so many times by bike who run lights, or go the wrong way on bike lanes, or ride without lights at night.

That said, I think from either perspective, you notice/feel disrespected. For sure when I’ve driven my car…

Canadian media zeroed in on this as well; apparently there is both a shortage of judges, and also large inequalities in judge training funding. The result is that you’re getting people who might be great lawyers, but don’t have criminal experience and get thrown into courts where 80% of their dealings are criminal…

The time for 3rd party support is between elections... because they need time to build actual infrastructure, or else they totally are just flash in the pan.

None of the 3rd party candidates have a snowballs chance in hell at winning by any polling metric; they lack any wide appeal outside of white voting blocks, and…

Yeah, it’s bad, but I think it’s pretty par for the course (as horrible as that is), and I don’t see how that targets minorities.

Things are bad for minorities, but remember too that 20 years the public at large were still not overwhelmingly in favour of interracial marriage. Things aren’t great, and Trump is absolutly…

I mean in Germany though you had murderous purges, and progressive political disenfranchisement of minority groups before things came to a head. The parliament burned down in an false-flag attack, and Jewish had their business license and professional licenses withdrawn. This did happen quickly, and it should be…

I’m sure there’s some variance in schools... but still, even at the undergrad level, I would hope that after the first year it would start to focus on critical theory and the study of communications, rather than just “101 public speaking.”

I would agree with you though – my feeling is probably that it’s a bad bachelors…

Web design is usually a professional training or arts program, and computer science is not a humanities discipline. “Communications theory” is like the branch of philosophy focused on communications technology... it has a more narrow focus than a philosophy department would, but its more interdisciplinary than a…