healthetank

Lol this is ridiculous.

To be clear, if you can't provide me sources from non-russian news, I'm not going to continue to engage.

least 10000 killed through shelling and other nazi operations Again, source. This is just saying "trust me bro, it's happening everywhere."

Odessa massacre. 2014 protests that non-american news agencies agree were escalated by pro-russian protestors?

Russia’s terms for peace are about the same as to have not started the war.

Nice of you to avoid mentioning one of the key points for disagreement - "Ukraine must ... withdraw all of its troops from the entirety of the territory of four Ukrainian regions claimed and mostly controlled by Russia.".

Ceding territory is the largest current sticking point for any peace agreement, and is in line with what I said above.

War on Russia was 100% provoked by US puppeted Ukraine

Just so that I'm clear, you're arguing that the wholesale invasion and slaughter of Ukrainians is the US's fault, not the Russian invaders?

Beyond that, I'd love to see any proof you have that of US coup/puppeting Ukraine. The only thing I've ever seen in " support" of this is that dumb ass interview with a state senator that's been edited to hell and back to make it sound like it was an official coup.

I'm no history buff, but arguing "they made me" during an invasion is always the argument of the aggressor. US vs Middle east for WMD was the same bullshit. China vs Taiwan is heading in the same direction. China used the same excuse during hong Kong protests. Israel is using the same excuse now for Palestinians.

implemented apartheid laws and ethnic cleansing against Russian population that forced secessionist/autonomy movement.

Uuuh, gonna need some kind of proof on this one boss. AFAIK there's been 0 proof of any kind of ethnic cleansing. Source

I don't disagree that the US has been meddling in international affairs for a looooong time.

But I have yet to speak to any Ukrainians who disagree with the basic core facts that the war was started by Russian aggression and a desire for USSR levels of territory, and we've got nearly a dozen families sponsored over here in my community. Canada has historically had the highest level of Ukrainians outside of Ukraine, and its bizzare that you're trying to argue that Russia is the GOOD guy here. There is ample proof of their war crimes.

Bonus points if you can give me any examples of war where the side that is the defender was the bad guy/where aggression in order to violently control the political scene was viewed as a good thing. People routinely condemn the US for the very thing you're claiming Russia is doing.

negligible or can be overcome with training

I agree on a highscool/grade school level, but not at any extreme competitive level. There's a reason most of the world records for athletics are held by men.

Testosterone doesn't make all men better than all women, but if you take two equally trained+talented people for most athletic events, the men outperform the women.

Curious what you mean by automated road building. The only 'advancement' I've heard of in that regard is the John Deere-partnership, but the actual use case for that is extremely narrow, and the costs of the equipment so severely outweigh the benefits of reduced staffing that its not economically feasible.

I, personally, have a hard time believing that producers and corporations aren't going to increase their prices to make up for this difference. Or take half of the price difference so they can say, 'look, its cheaper now!'.

AFAIK, the carbon tax was the foremost method from an economic pressure standpoint, to mitigate our carbon emissions. None of the other methods are as cheap to implement nor as economically evenhanded. Typically, higher income individuals emit more carbon, and thus are taxed more, meaning poorer individuals can actually make money off the carbon tax. That obviously doesn't account for things like inabilities to switch away from propane/gas furnaces, etc, but I don't know of another method that is as fair.

Tell me you didn't read the article without telling me...

Currently, large English-language broadcasters must contribute 30 per cent of revenues to Canadian programming, and the CRTC last year ordered streaming services to pay five per cent of their annual Canadian revenues to a fund devoted to producing Canadian content.

I agree - which is why I opposed the tax cuts.

Both con and lib proposed spending increases, so I'm not sure what your point is.

Cons wanted to increase incarceration rates, which is increased spending. Quite a bit of spending

Cons platform also relies largely on growth in order to meet their budgets, a risky bet considering that didn't play out for harper and his similar platform. They still project a 100bil deficit over the next four years too, even with their huge slashes they wanted to make.

who stole most of Pierres platform

Dumb-ass argument/complaint. If its what people want, then its not a 0 sum game. Why the hell are the libs (or any party) not allowed to agree on something that the other parties proposed and the Canadian public want? Libs have 'stolen' the NDP platform for years. As someone who prefers NDP to lib, this is a GOOD thing, because it means when theyre elected, they can actually implement it (in theory). That being said, I don't like ANY of those policies, and didn't vote lib.

If they have the same platform/policies, but Carney was still elected that tells you how little people like or believe in Pierre. Honestly, Pierre lost the election by failing to leap into defense of Canada. I watched too many clips of him wiffle-waffling or blaming Liberals for the trade war, and that's not something that inspires trust in leadership.

Yeah - as an example. FIL works white collar job in a company with plants in 3 Ontario cities and 1 in Michigan doing CNC milling for huge parts (like oilsands trucks size). His company is unionized on the Caanda factories, and ununionized on the US side. They bought new CNC equipment, and it went to the US factory BECAUSE they can push employees more there. The union forces things like breaks into the schedule regardless of project status while the workers are forced to work through breaks on the US side regularly, or stay after hours to finish.

Thus the US production is better (and they get the equipment to bolster it further), but its directly at the cost of labour rights that the unions have fought for here.

Source: https://translifeline.org/clarifying-misinformation-about-our-hotline-number/

Pesky things like labour laws and workers rights, as well as stronger unions, tend to get in the way of important metrics like GDP/hr.

Glad they look at just non-canadian numbers here. I will, once again, point out the stupidly large amount of money Canadians spend on tourism in the states -

>The U.S. Travel Association (USTA) said in February that a 10 percent reduction in tourism from Canada could put 140,000 jobs at risk and result in $2.1 billion in lost spending. Forbes said that, using that calculation, a decline of 30 percent in Canadian visitors would cost the U.S. economy $6 billion in losses.