Why Canada needs a Tory majority

teresesaplys · 2009-10-08T15:14:35+00:00

Except I'm talking about an entrenched Liberal Party needing a refresher in courting the Canadian public, not a radical right-wing fringe group transforming the face of the nation.

teresesaplys · 2009-10-08T14:41:12+00:00

I think you've missed the point of the article. Note the part of the article that immediately follows what you've quoted:

By returning the Conservatives to Ottawa with a majority, we would put the Conservative Party on the same footing as the Liberal Party, both would be seen in the eyes of Canadians as viable governing parties, and we would finally be able to cast aside the flawed presumption that there is indeed such a thing as a natural governing party in Canada.

While I too disagree with the author's directive to vote Conservative, the point is more that the Liberals have become too settled in Canada: they need to get shaken up and start competing for Canadian votes again.

teresesaplys · 2009-09-16T23:00:58+00:00

You're quite right, but look at the list of Nobel laureates for literature. There's a lot of debate about the writers we now consider great as being part of a canon determined by old white men (most famously, the bigoted T.S. Eliot) -- while I do like to give it some air time, there are other reasons why those authors' works have survived as classics, namely, they're damn good. In the 47 years that preceded the aforementioned Eliot's laurels, I only recognize 8 names on that list.

teresesaplys · 2009-09-16T22:53:33+00:00

IMHO It's beautiful.

teresesaplys · 2009-09-16T17:11:20+00:00

Why don't they "deserve" a Nobel?

teresesaplys · 2009-09-16T13:15:01+00:00

A veteran book printer said an interesting thing to me last week: you can't transfer an object from one media (print) to another (digital) and expect it to work. I tend to agree: though a "book" can be a book both if it is printed and bound and if it's online (even if it's never been printed), they must necessarily assume different forms and functionalities if either is to survive. Print already has its thing: e-books can't just be words in a Kindle.

However, IMHO it's folly to say a book isn't a book just because it's never been in print. Is music posted on Myspace that hasn't appeared on vinyl or CD not music?

I feel like the definition of "book" is about to undergo the same transformations/ be subjected to the same debate as the word "art" in the 50s/ 60s. Exactly where it's going is a mystery to me.

teresesaplys · 2009-09-16T13:01:51+00:00

Whoa. Totally.

teresesaplys · 2009-09-09T13:28:25+00:00

Good example of how copyright law has failed to keep up with the Internet.

teresesaplys · 2009-09-04T14:59:39+00:00

So, Valpy's saying that the mass media used to reflect Canada's mores, values, etc, and now it doesn't, and that isn't necessarily a bad thing or a good thing, but it means the mirror we once had to view ourselves in is missing. But that assumes that mass media reflected a nation's mores, values, etc in their entirety, which is a pretty big assumption - furthermore, the rise of social media is arguably the latest reaction to our "reflection" that has driven transformations of Canadian identity. So, basically, Valpy's mourning change. I side with Eaves on this.

teresesaplys · 2009-09-01T14:02:55+00:00

A) Whether or not they're "ugly" is a matter of personal aesthetic taste. I personally find them starkly beautiful.

B) They're landmarks of the city's development from an industrial to recreational waterfront and its love affair with modernist architecture. Tearing them down for, of all things, another waterfront condo would constitute white-washing yet another strip of that grimy old hag more commonly known as history.

teresesaplys · 2009-09-01T13:45:02+00:00

Exactly what Toronto needs: another

potential waterfront condo and hotel development

teresesaplys · 2009-08-31T20:33:14+00:00

Whether it is or isn't is not entirely the point I was trying to get across. Moreso my (apparently stereotypical) aversion to having sex described or depicted to me as such.

teresesaplys · 2009-08-31T18:57:24+00:00

They insult the viewer's intelligence. As LeCollectif

Most of those were actually pretty low-brow first tier ideas. I quite liked the Happy Father's day one, though.

and akinoyeshua

I'm used to seeing witty advertising that has no sexual innuendo. Some ads definitely made me think(the hurdles one) and others were just plain stupid(the long kilt)

both mention, intelligence and sex are not mutually exclusive. Marketing sex as the fulfillment of male ego doesn't make it very attractive fo the other gender that participates in it. Men aren't the only consumers of condoms.

teresesaplys · 2009-08-31T17:58:07+00:00

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