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> a residential area Have you ever actually been to downtown Ottawa, where those protests were held? It's not "a residential area" in any sense. The moderately-wide Ottawa River fo…

Some people seem to get immense satisfaction and pleasure out of censoring other people online. It's something I've seen time and time again, in a wide variety of discussions forum…

> Pricewise, things start favoring PCs if you need more RAM, as Mac upgrades are costly. That's the position I'm in, along with some other people I've talked to recently, too. For …

It goes well beyond fresh produce. Over that time period in Canada, I've also seen a 2 to 3 times increase in the unit price of many other basic grocery items, including dried past…

Canada doesn't have any "hard right" party of note at the federal level. Today, the Conservative Party is a centre-left party. They support big government, taxation, immigration, i…

The last time I got an ID photo taken, I got to wait and watch as the dark-skinned Indian photographer repeatedly struggled to take a suitable passport photo of the light-skinned w…

Left wing, due to the use of large and intrusive government, collectivism, government-run make-work projects, government-run infrastructure projects, central economic planning, con…

> Will we start to constantly question human advice or responses and what does that do to the human condition. I'm surprised when people don't already engage in questioning like th…

This entity you're describing clearly isn't "right wing" if it uses left-wing practices like taxation, public debt, and government-funded "cultural institutions" (whatever that act…

That isn't "my definition". Left-wing ideologies inherently promote concepts like collectivist big government, high taxation, massive government spending, and government-controlled…

You're absolutely right that some political parties wrongly use a term like "conservative" in their party name, or otherwise incorrectly portray themselves as being "right wing". U…

I don't see how any government, regardless of location, that spends large sums of taxpayer money on a construction project could ever be considered to be "right wing" in any way, l…

High costs are certainly present in socialist medical systems, they're just somewhat obscured. I'm more familiar with Canada's taxpayer-funded, "universal" provincial health care s…

The widespread need for medical insurance only exists because regulation has introduced many artificial inefficiencies within the health care sector that in turn severely distort t…

I don't particularly care who owns such outlets. What matters to me is the validity of the content being produced, regardless of who produces it. If foreign-owned outlets do a bett…

It's perfectly reasonable for current customers and potential customers to be concerned and cautious when a company shows a willingness to resort to knee-jerk reactions, especially…

I don't think it's that surprising that such items are being discarded today. They might have had value at some point in the past, but they probably haven't retained that value wel…

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Just over a decade ago, there was a job ad for a host role with the state-funded Canadian Broadcasting Corporation that explicitly required applicants to be "Any race except Caucas…

Bringing in culturally-incompatible foreigners has certainly been a significant problem in Canada. Bringing in low-skill, low-productivity, and often criminally-inclined foreigners…

I'm not sure. But I also don't consider Canada Post to be offering comparable service to FedEx and UPS these days, too. For example, based on my experience and the experiences of o…

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From what I remember of my occasional pre-acquisition visits to those chains, they certainly weren't competing on price. Their drawing power was due to offering ethnic and/or speci…

The numerous problems that Canada is facing today are ultimately caused by government interference. While we've certainly seen technology cause and enable change in the private sec…

The mainstream media and established parties have wrongly tried to portray them as "extremists" or "fringe", but the People's Party of Canada's platform is by far the most reasonab…