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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...

Please notice that in the thread title I said 'initiate'. Clearly if the North Koreans attack first, the South Korean Army probably already has the authority to take defensive action without even the approval of the South Korean government, as that approval, within clearly defined constraints...

... YouTube - Former Ku Klux Klan leader Johnny Lee Clary Amazing story here: YouTube - CHOICES----Leaving The Ku Klux Klan

I was thinking, one common issue that comes up when we're discussing war against a tyranous regime is how to fight the government without harming the people, or at least causing the minimum harm to the people. Another issue is how to make it clear to the people that the war is in fact against...

In response to another thread about socialism, I decided to create this one as an opportunity not necessarily to criticise socialism, but rather to ask some questions for socialists in the forum to answer. Clearly, as long as we talk in generalities, we'll forever talk in circles, and that...

Here's what one former CIA operative has to say about the relationship between the East and West if Islam had never existed: Yahoo!

WHat to do about MP pension pans, whereby they can work for a fea years and then live a cuŝy life for the rest of their lives? Now to be fair to MP's, without a doubt, becoming an MP is somewhat of a risky proposision seeing that you have no more job security than until the next election. Fair...

We often talk of war, but always seem to ignore the financial cost of it, not only during the war, but also afterwards in caring for veterans and their families It would seem to me that any responsible citizen in favour of war, and most certainly any responsible politician, ought to have a clear...

CBC News - Ottawa - Ottawa-area Muslims worry about lamb sacrifice Any thoughts on this? Personally, though I'm vegan myself, I actually admire people who can kill their own meat rather than get others to kill it on their behalf. Before I had become vegan (yeah I know some of you will laugh...

For example, let's suppose your lawyer managed to prove in court that a particular provincial, territorial, federal or local law or bylaw was contributing either directly or indirectly to your poverty, should you be allowed to sue the government, not necessarily for money, but rather to force it...

YouTube - Afghan Heroin part 1 Seeing that the Afghan war has unleashed an opium epidemic, and seeing that Iran is now the front-line in the the war against the export of opium to Iran and from there the world, will we soon need Iran as a new ally in a new war on drugs? As it turns out, Opium...