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Is Canada an adversary of America? Or Iceland? What position should Canadians or Icelandic people take with regards to the people in the US military who are currently working to an…

Yes but that means different things in different contexts. In some contexts a healthy weight is stocky with extra body fat that can carry a person through a cold winter or a famine…

People have been talking about these issues for decades: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Jacobs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Social_Life_of_Small_Urban... https://en.wikipe…

I think you're sort of missing my point. After decades of ignored negative externalities from unchecked suburban growth and car-culture are coming to an end. As populations decline…

What if the public transport solution involved policies like taxing the existing suburbs in a way that ensures a break-even on infrastructure upkeep and operating costs so that the…

Preventing a nuclear Middle East is no longer possible. Israel has ~80 nukes, and it was recently announced that the US will be aiding a Saudi Arabian civilian nuclear program. You…

I whole heartedly endorse nations with differing goals and motivations to arrest the oligarchs of competing nations. As some random schmuck this is as far as I can tell the only wa…

Unfortunately you're not going to see any sort of legal redress against American oligarchs in any sort of American legal venue. A country like France has shown that they're willing…

Amazon recently kiboshed a new Stargate television series. The fan community was quite heartbroken because the Amazon had involved some of the writers from the original television …

It’s a multiparty system that was recently in a minority configuration but through a fairly interesting series of floor crossings and by elections to fill open seats the Liberal pa…

As a Canadian user of HN it's really frustrating to see a rare post about a Canadian subject be immediately dominated by a thread about American politics. Twenty words into your po…

That’s a needlessly antagonistic and insulting thing to say. This person that you’ve never met and probably never will doesn’t owe any of us anything. They’re out there doing what …

Nah, the genre died because of the rise of 3D graphics and Microsoft’s push into the console market with Xbox and Halo. The whole industry changed when the Xbox came to town. Micro…