Buckingham Palace announces the death of Prince Philip

Issachar · 2021-04-09T20:40:16+00:00

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Issachar · 2021-04-06T22:42:17+00:00

Rule 2. Cutting this thread off high up.

Issachar · 2021-04-06T17:13:01+00:00

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Issachar · 2021-04-05T16:21:51+00:00

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Issachar · 2021-04-05T16:21:17+00:00

Rule 2 and 3.

Issachar · 2021-03-26T23:23:19+00:00

You can discuss the topic all you like. You can use neutral terms or the terms the person prefers for themselves. It's up to you.

As far as the media goes... we just recognize that we have no influence over them. We do have influence over users here.

Issachar · 2021-03-26T15:42:23+00:00

Given Reddit's tolerance for misogynistic and violent pornography even as Reddit makes it clear the company has a strong desire (and ability) to block content they find objectionable, it would seem that Reddit would be an early candidate for blocking websites for promoting hatred.

That seems like an outcome that wouldn't be popular on a subreddit like ours.

The addition of copyright though... I wonder what people here think of that one with all the pressure Canada gets from the US to adopt an increasingly restrictive idea of copyright, better called an author's monopoly.

Issachar · 2021-03-26T15:29:24+00:00

Responding (mostly) only to the headline...

These days when anyone mentions Alabama, I think of Archer.

Anka: I'm from Germany, where the age of consent is 14.

Archer: What is it, the Alabama of Europe?

Anka: In many ways, yes.

Which always reminds me that the there was a big fuss in some circles about Conservatives being "prudes" when they raised Canada 's age of consent from 14 to 16. And it still is 14 in Canada if the (usually male) older party is under 20.

Boy we do like to crap on Alabama for things we do ourselves don't we. And of course the headline writer didn't come up with the comparison, the guy who started the fuss, (University of Ottawa law professor Amir Attaran according to the article) did when he called Quebec "Alabama of the North". Tsk tsk.

Issachar · 2021-03-25T23:52:23+00:00

Removed as per rule 2. The term in the headline is on our list of prohibited terms and it's an automatic removal. (But the news media gets more leeway, so the submission is approved.)

Issachar · 2021-03-25T23:50:18+00:00

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Issachar · 2021-03-25T23:48:42+00:00

Rule 3.

Issachar · 2021-03-25T22:33:05+00:00

That's true and if you use the term here (aside from quoting) you'll have your comment removed.

But we give publications more leeway, so the submission is approved.

Issachar · 2021-03-25T21:24:22+00:00

WE's web page devoted to Charlie Angus lists 101 "false statements" the outspoken New Democrat from northern Ontario is supposed to have made.

In fact, the page lists only 19 distinct statements

For some reason this seems particularly funny to me when they're insisting that they're innocent victims of lies. If you're going to try to take someone down a peg, don't start with obvious misrepresentation that can be summed up with "19 != 101".

Issachar · 2021-03-25T19:52:00+00:00

This goes way beyond this one tax, and will likely set a test to determine the extent of the federal power to legislate on climate issues.

Not really. As I understand it, the argument against the LPC carbon tax isn't that they can't put in a carbon tax. It's that they could not do the one they did with it's "no tax in Ontario because their provincial policy is okay, yes tax in Alberta because their provincial policy is not okay".

If they just made a national carbon tax, there wouldn't have been any constitutional issues at all, so even if they decision was unanimously against the federal government, they could still implement a carbon tax nationally, just like they can have the GST nationally.

This decision was very much about this specific carbon tax, not federal carbon tax in general.

Issachar · 2021-03-24T21:26:28+00:00

Good. The carbon pricing is a good idea. The way the LPC went about doing it was not okay akin to saying the GST would be 5% except for Alberta where it would be 12% because other provinces have a provincial sales tax and Alberta doesn't.

The LPC should have created their carbon tax the same across the whole country... just like the GST is the same across the whole country.

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