The Butcher posted:

Lol the top rated one contained the line "Harper was right."

That's got a real nice ring to it...

The CBC posted:

Although the decals have been on London Police Service cruisers for at least nine years, a recent Facebook post about Arabic writing on patrol car has resulted in many angry phone calls from Americans upset over the apparent "Islamization of Canada." The post was picked up by a conservative American blog site that also published the phone number for London police.

"Headquarters has been getting calls like crazy," Const. Sandasha Bough said. "Some of them are being patched up to me and people are just screaming at me."


_{Using figures from Statistics Canada, officials selected the most
frequently used languages for the stickers, including Vietnamese,
Chinese, Persian and Polish. (London Police Service)}

Bough couldn't provide specifics on how many calls have come in, but said they've remained steady throughout the day Friday.

On May 30, a Facebook user from Quebec posted a photo showing Arabic writing on a London patrol car. The post included the statement: "So it starts. The little toes in the door already." The poster also asks the question: "Why is this acceptable?"

The writer also questioned why "police" is not spelled out in French, even though both French and English spell the word exactly the same.

The Dark One posted:

PT6A posted:

Why do people get so whiny over languages, of all the stupid things? And on a police car, something that it's very important for everyone to be able to identify?

PT6A posted:

And on a police car, something that it's very important for everyone to be able to identify?

The Dark One posted:

ghosthorse posted:

As someone who lives in London I'm just shocked the calls aren't coming from inside the city

ghosthorse posted:

As someone who lives in London I'm just shocked the calls aren't coming from inside the city

Dr. Stab posted:

I find it really weird that people are afraid of other cultures to such a degree.

Oh, no, other people speak different languages, this is an assault against my way of life.

ghosthorse posted:

As someone who lives in London I'm just shocked the calls aren't coming from inside the city

quote:

Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne thinks Hillary Clinton would make a great U.S. president, and she hopes that over the course of the election campaign, gender-based attacks will diminish.

In an interview with The Canadian Press, Wynne says she has met Clinton and thinks she is a smart and capable woman.

Ikantski posted:

Good stuff

cowofwar posted:

What's stopping people from resorting to violent unrest is a drastic decrease in lead exposure and also an increased exposure to candy crush.

quote:

Bitiro Moseki, one of the firefighters based at a camp north of Fort McMurray, said they are being paid $15 a day.

"It's 15 not even per hour, it's 15 per day," said Moseki.

While that may seem hard to believe, given that Alberta expects to move to a $15-an-hour minimum wage by 2018, a contract thought to be between the firefighters and their employer seems to back up the claim.

The Alberta government says it made a deal with the South African government for the firefighters' services.

It shows the firefighters signed a contract that stated they would be paid a total of $50 a day, split into two payments.

The contract agrees to pay them $15 a day now, with the balance of $35 a day paid out within six months of their return to South Africa.

Fire crews upset about media reports

Moseki agreed firefighters did sign the contract, but said they have since been unsettled by media reports claiming they're making much more money.

He said news articles quoted the South African government program that employs the crews claiming the workers are making between $15 and $21 an hour.

"We are not here for money, we are here to assist you," said Moseki, adding the firefighters have turned to the South African commissioner in Canada for help to resolve the issue.

The contract does make it clear the money the firefighters are being paid is over and above their home wages, which were not disclosed.

Brannock posted:

Why is Alberta flying in South Africans from half the planet away when there's plenty of people in Canada who need work? Wouldn't the cost of flying them across the equator and the Atlantic far exceed the "savings" by paying them peanuts?

Brannock posted:

Why is Alberta flying in South Africans from half the planet away when there's plenty of people in Canada who need work? Wouldn't the cost of flying them across the equator and the Atlantic far exceed the "savings" by paying them peanuts?

Falstaff posted:

Haven't seen this here yet, apparently the South African firefighters who were flown in to fight the Alberta fires are being paid a pittance for it.

http://www.cbc.ca/beta/news/canada/edmonton/south-africa-alberta-firefighters-wages-1.3623422

Falstaff posted:

Haven't seen this here yet, apparently the South African firefighters who were flown in to fight the Alberta fires are being paid a pittance for it.

http://www.cbc.ca/beta/news/canada/edmonton/south-africa-alberta-firefighters-wages-1.3623422

MonsieurChoc posted:

In my experience, people who want to get rid of regulation are usually complete morons or conmen. Sometimes both.

Furnaceface posted:

When it comes to telecom, anyone not in favor of nationalizing the infrastructure is wrong and bad.

jm20 posted:

Nationalize the telecoms

Pixelante posted:

Sooo... we imported slave labour from Africa.

Pixelante posted:

Sooo... we imported slave labour from Africa.

quote:

Bestiality is legal in Canada as long as no penetration is involved, according to a shocking Supreme Court of Canada ruling Thursday.

While bestiality is a criminal offence in Canada, the top court ruled the legal definition is much more limited than how it has been interpreted for decades. It all goes back to the 1800s Church of England trying to ban any sex acts that were seen as unnatural.

The crime of bestiality in Canada stems from the old crime of “buggery.” The original definition of buggery meant anal sex with either another human or an animal. Both were forbidden in England, where Canada’s earliest laws came from.

Over the years the Criminal Code of Canada changed but the definition of bestiality was never explicitly expanded. The court found in a 7-1 ruling Thursday that there needs to be penetration involved for an act with an animal to be a criminal offence.

“There is no hint in any of the parliamentary record that any substantive change to the elements of the offence of bestiality was intended,” the Supreme Court ruled.

The case before the Supreme Court involved a man who sexually abused his teenaged stepdaughters. On multiple occasions he forced them to put peanut butter over their genitals so the family dog would lick it off.

The man was convicted of 14 charges, including two counts of bestiality, and sentenced to 18 years imprisonment. The two bestiality charges have now been overturned.

There happens to be a bill before the House of Commons right now from Liberal MP Nathaniel Erskine-Smith that would define bestiality as “sexual activity between a person and an animal.”

However, the government has so far opposed Bill C-246, which would also ban shark finning, ban the selling of cat and dog fur, and make it illegal to “brutally or viciously” kill an animal.

Conservative MP Robert Sopuck called it “a Trojan horse that would advance a pure animal rights agenda.”

A government representative said he worries the bill would unintentionally criminalize hunting and fishing.

Erskine-Smith insists his bill is specifically worded to do no such thing. He said the government could amend the bill for even further assurance.

Supreme Court Justice Rosalie Abella was the lone dissenter of Thursday’s decision. She argued that since penetration is physically impossible with many animals, it defies common sense for penetration to be a requirement of the crime.

“Acts with animals that have a sexual purpose are inherently exploitative whether or not penetration occurs,” she wrote.

jsoh posted:

the big question is, does the law distinguish between the animal or the person doing the penetration? and it must only apply to penile penetration right because theres lots of legit veterinary practices that require shoving a hand up in there

Pinterest Mom posted:

lol
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWb7BkA6Edg

e: oh and he wants to "phase out" the CRTC and let the market deal with the airwaves cool great