Violet_Sky posted:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/aug/23/justin-trudeau-rules-out-burkini-ban-in-canada


Trudeau does Good Things.

Violet_Sky posted:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/aug/23/justin-trudeau-rules-out-burkini-ban-in-canada


Trudeau does Good Things.

Baronjutter posted:

I'm so inspired by our leader who wants to maintain the status quo. He's been so brave pushing for incredibly popular and well supported social issues, and reminding canadians that he absolutely stands for things that were slightly controversial maybe 10 years ago and had to be fought for by other people but is now enshrined in law.

I heard Justin supports women's suffrage too, he's such a feminist icon. Is there no popular already won social battle he won't stand on top of? So dreamy, so progressive.

MA-Horus posted:

Can I just say gently caress Quebec for wanting to follow the lead of French cities? Guess what, you're not loving French. You're CanadianQuebecois.

MA-Horus posted:

Can I just say gently caress Quebec for wanting to follow the lead of French cities? Guess what, you're not loving French. You're Canadian.

Fried Watermelon posted:

How lovely is your life that you get all riled up because someone is wearing a birkini

PT6A posted:

I think France is doing it out of spite

Frosted Flake posted:

So if you get your passport stamped, get a work visa, and pay Canadian taxes, you're fine, generally speaking?

PT6A posted:

God only knows why Quebec is doing it.

Agnosticnixie posted:

itt, a caq backbencher = Quebec

Agnosticnixie posted:

in all of english canada, a caq backbencher = Quebec

dicks assassin posted:

I can sleep easy tonight knowing that Canadians' right to wear hosed up swimwear will not be infringed.

*canadian tanks roll over jaywalkers in Saudi Arabia while im sleeping*

quote:

Saudis bomb Sanaa during “Million-Person march”
By Juan Cole | Aug. 21, 2016 |

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – –

The Houthi Ansarullah Movement that controls most of north and west Yemen staged what was by all accounts an enormous demonstration in the capital of Sanaa on Saturday. It may have been the single largest demonstration in the country’s history. While it was unlikely actually to have involved a million people, it did probably tens of thousands, and it showed how strong grassroots support for the Houthis is in the north.

The massive demonstration in Sab`in Park in downtown Sanaa was intended to send a signal to Saudi Arabia and its coalition that the Houthis are enormously popular in the north and that the General People’s Congress, the parliament of Yemen in its present form, shares in that popularity.

If so, Saudi Arabia did not get that message. Its fighter-bombers targeted downtown Sanaa in the midst of the demonstration, which arguably was a war crime (you aren’t allowed to endanger large numbers of civilians in war if you don’t have to). The Saudis are at war with rebel supporters of the Houthis, whom Saudi Arabian inaccurately depicts as a cat’s paw of Iran.

The Houthis are a fundamentalist movement growing out of the moderate Zaidi branch of Shiite Islam in north Yemen. They were one of the groups that supported the Yemeni revolution of 2011-2012, which deposed ‘president for life’ Ali Abdullah Saleh. But during the transition to elected governments, the Houthis derailed the country’s move to democracy by making a coup and gradually dismissing civilian high governing officials.

About a third of Yemenis are Zaidis, but the proportion is much more enormous if we look only at their power base in the northwest of the country. Sunni Aden and some other regions were liberated from Houthi control by Saudi Arabia and its allies in the Gulf Cooperation Council (plus Morocco and Jordan).

The Saudi-led group has bombarded Yemen intensely for the past year, knocking out key infrastructure and killing or endangering the civilian population.
One Houthi spokesman said that the crowds in the square had sent a message to Saudi Arabia and its allies, that the Houthis are here to stay and retain a great deal of popularity.

The indiscriminate Saudi bombing of Yemen and the destruction of civilian infrastructure such as bridges and ports has caused the Obama administration to begin distancing itself from this war. But too late– most Yemenis see the US as behind the GCC effort.

Helsing posted:

Agnosticnixie posted:

itt, a caq backbencher = Quebec

Fried Watermelon posted:

How lovely is your life that you get all riled up because someone is wearing a birkini

RBC posted:

Can we just get out of the military industrial game altogether its the biggest loving scam ever

namaste faggots posted:

Sure and all the white trash in Kitchener can cook meth instead

Fried Watermelon posted:

How lovely is your life that you get all riled up because someone is wearing a birkini

Nine of Eight posted:

For those of you who aren't up to speed on Quebec politics, the CAQ are a right wing party formed from the turd smelling ashes of the ADQ, a right wing party well known for their leader flip flopping between so often that Prime Minister Charest was banned from uttering at least fifty different adjectives for "windmill" while speaking about Mario Dumont, their ex-leader turned radio host. Their most notable achievements include kicking off the original shitstorm about unreasonable accomodations (e.g. Flipping out because Muslims asked if they could bring halal food to be served at a sugar shack and other such moronities) and kicking out the PQ as official opposition only to accomplish gently caress-all.
The CAQ, meanwhile, has lost most of it's high profile MPs and Candidates and now mostly serves as a third party trying to state "me too" whenever someone else has a good policy idea (but mostly castigates the Liberal party for not being hardcore enough with their austerity) and occasionally comes up with dumb policy proposals catered to the type of Muslim/Anglo/Gay hating Quebec citizen the rest of us would like to pretend doesn't exist.

Ikantski posted:

You can make fun of conservatives for getting angry about $500 but the whole Mike Duffy scandal was about even less, it only really started after the money had been repaid. People on the left and right of the spectrum can get fussed about what things our MPs and senators spend money on, no matter how small the amount.

Whiskey Sours posted:

Actually the big issue with the Mike Duffy scandal was when Nigel Wright tried to bribe Duffy to stay quiet.

A Typical Goon posted:

I think it's cool and good to tell women that they have to undress to a degree that makes them uncomfortable in order to enjoy certain public spaces, nothing problematic there at all

M.McFly posted:

What does this even mean? The point is the government isn't telling women either way.

Ikantski posted:

Yeah it was so huge that they didn't bring it up once during his trial.

Whiskey Sours posted:

Nigel Wright was a witness at Mike Duffy's trial and testified under oath about the payment.

Ikantski posted:

Yeah it was so huge that they didn't bring it up once during his trial.

The Dark One posted:

I propose that we replace all cancon with this bot: http://www.canlitgenerator.com/

quote:

A family and their dog meet a BC woman who never takes off her MEC hiking gear which results in the death of half of Nickelback.

M.McFly posted:

What does this even mean? The point is the government isn't telling women either way.

Ikantski posted:

Whiskey Sours posted:

Nigel Wright was a witness at Mike Duffy's trial and testified under oath about the payment.

quote:

The Mike Duffy trial ended on Day 60, with the Crown relinquishing the chance to grill the senator on the $90,000 cheque at the heart of an explosive bribery charge and the defence announcing it did not have any other witnesses.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/at-duffy-trial-wright-recounts-how-senate-scandal-engulfed-harpers-office/article25938894/