This is one of the most condescending articles I’ve ever seen. Fuck off and clean your own house, US; Canada has a lot of our own work to do vis a vis racism, and this gesture is just one part of it. And Desmond wasn’t “the Canadian ___”, she was herself. And her activism predated Parks by decades.

I know Americans think they’re the centre of the universe. Wait, check that - they think they are the universe, but I think it would behoove an author of such an article to do some research, and not be so flip about something:

Because we’ve always been a good couple of decades ahead of the US socially. Same reason we had gay marriage 10 years before you and it was pushed out by the government instead of struck down by the supreme court (I mean it would have been, but once a provincial court in ontario struck it down, Chretien ran with it.)

She’s not the Canadian Rosa Parks. She’s Viola Desmond.

MAGA = making attorneys get attorneys.

Counterpoint: You know what this isn’t? Abortion. This is not abortion. Hillary Clinton Hillary Clinton Hillary Clinton

There’s a pretty easy way to cut the trade deficit with China: roll back tax cuts for the rich, which have almost no economically stimulative effect but increase federal budget deficits and thus require more borrowing, which increases interest rates, which makes US assets more attractive to foreign buyers, which…

Even nostalgia isn’t what it used to be.

Both of these cases were weakly presented by the Crown. Colton Boushie was part of a group who had been drinking for several days and had just come from another farm where they attempted to steal a car. They came onto Gerald Stanley’s farm and immediately tried to steal an ATV and vehicle. Things escalated and Boushie…

Are you kidding? If they haven’t by now, why would they? American civil rights, the environment, peoples’ lives... it’s all at stake, but weapons are to be used on each other, at schools and concerts, and to kill wildlife for kicks. To use arms for “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free…

“As everyday Americans endure the ongoing nightmare of being alive during a Trump presidency”

“top 10 (5?) in human rights”

So why didn’t the US defend Ukraine? Ukraine is in Europe is it not?

We have the same freedoms that you do as prescribed by our Constitution and the Charter of Human Rights, in fact I’d say our freedoms are better protected and therefor better exercised. However our freedoms come with responsibility and I think that’s the part most American’s misunderstand. There is a more utilitarian…

Canada is, in my opinion, a better country than the U.S. for most of the lower and middle class individuals in this country. Not because they don’t have problems, but because their rights aren’t being eroded in an irrevocable way. People have access to healthcare. Several industries, especially tech companies are…

We are a commonwealth country, we gained independence from Britain peacefully but since we didn’t revolt we still have ceremonial positions in gov’t to represent the Queen. It’s why we follow the common law and have parliament. We’ve benefited mostly from Britain and then through immigration. The US has done very…

What the ever-living fuck are you talking about?

I think he was pointing to the fact that the American military had protected every other NATO country from the threat of foreign invasion since WWII, freeing up their tax dollars for social spending.

At one time we may have been the greatest country in the world, depending upon the metrics you use to measure such a thing. Considering the way we treat our citizens and our mind-numbingly MASSIVE deficit and debt, I really don’t think you can just point at things like productivity and GDP and say we’re the greatest.…

Spoken like Republican president and retired five-star general Dwight Eisenhower, who thought the military-industrial complex was a major threat to democracy, you patronizing prat.