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What would be your thoughts on world citizenship? Good thing? Bad thing? Why? Pros and cons? Personally, I'd be in favour of it mainly for the following reasons: 1. It would expand the freedoms we already have to allowing us to move, travel, study, seek work, etc. anywhere in the world. 2...

With all the anti-Americanism lately, I'd decided to create this thread to look at what the US has given Canada. What would you say is the US' greatest gift to Canada? Personally, I'd say, at least on the legal front, the US Bill of Rights along with President Franklin Roosevelt's 'Four...

I've been working on a particular projec for awhile now, and would like some of your ideas on it if you'd like. Part of the project most of you could not help me with at all since it involves teaching French-language literature to non-native speakers of French. The other part of the project...

Seeing that the Bill of Rights 1689 is among the most important legal documents affecting Canadians today, should it be compulsoy reading as a prerequisite to high school graduation? For those who haven't read it, here it is: Bill of Rights (c.2) - Statute Law Database Of course I could...

Seeing that the satellite technology needed to maintain the internet isn't free, should some kind of internet tax be introduced to fund it?

In another thread, there is talk of Canada spending more on space exploration. While I'm not against space exploraiton per se, I do believe that its objectives would need to be clearly defined so as to ensure the bigest bang for the buck. Among some objectives that I could see as legitimate...

At least some voters consider it to be at least somewhat misleading for a politician to run on a first-past-the post system with a party name appearing on the ballot so as to give the false impression that we are in fact voting for a party and not a candidate. One solution that is commonly...

I just got a letter in the mail today with a Christmas card from my Ottawa Orleans MP, Royal Galipeau. And sure enough, it's stamped with the government seal on the back, so clearly I paid for his Christmas gift to me. And worse yet, he's using it as an opportunity to promote his family at my...

Seeing that a few threads had come up in the politics sections discussing the kind of world order we want, I'd decided to start a less political thread focusing not so much on debating world unity from a political standpoint, but rather presenting quotes from world literature on the subject of...

Now and then a thread will start, based on the premise that the local culture of the poster represents the whole of Canadian culture, unaware of just how diverse this country really is. Granted we can't blame them entirely seeing that our country is geographically huge after all. To me, this...