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- robotron3k-7
USA as a country is doing great, but what's going on with our little sister country up North!?!
Looks like ya'll want to tangle with a shit ton of hardline Saudis.
How is your leader, the part-time drama teacher/ski instructor gonna handle this??
First the plane pic, now this...
Saudi Arabia's diplomatic spat with Canada looks set to escalate following a report that the Middle Eastern country has instructed its brokers to sell Canadian assets.
Anger between the two countries erupted last week when Canadian officials urged Riyadh to "immediately release" women's rights activists Samar Badawi and Nassima al-Sadah.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www…
Saudi Arabia halts all medical treatment for citizens in Canada
Riyadh's move comes after Ottawa denounced a crackdown on human rights activists in the kingdom.
Saudi Arabia barred all citizens from receiving medical treatment in Canada as a diplomatic dispute over criticism of its human rights record intensifies.
Riyadh also announced it is coordinating the transfer of all Saudi patients from Canadian hospitals to other medical facilities outside Canada, the Saudi press agency SPA reported on Wednesday.
- Sell it. Sell it hard.BonSeff
- Canadians denied treatment is no match to what's going on in Yemin, care to weigh in?BonSeff
- Their retaliation is so brutal! They're going to stop mooching off of our free healthcare, how fucking tragic.zarkonite
- What's their next genius move going to be? cut us off their oil!? LOLzarkonite
- It's better to cuddle up to them and play wither giant space balls.PhanLo
- The prime minister is handling it fine, thanks. It'll be handled with diplomacy and help from the international community.T-Dawg
- The repressive Saudi regime, where women wear burqas VS. The feminist Canadian government where women wear burqas.robotron3k
- vs robo's lack of understanding of the world.zarkonite
- Canadian government isn't feminist and doesn't wear burqasmonospaced
- Saudis are doubling down on this one. such an odd reaction.
in the end, we don't need their oil. and shouldn't be selling them military, anyway equipmentGnash - It will hurt some universities, though - saudis send a lot of foreign students hereGnash
- * shouldn't be selling them military equipment, anyway" damn, my dyslexia is bad todayGnash
- @mono. the Trudeau/feminist meme is pretty ubiquitous hereGnash
- lol, as if treating women with respect was a bad thingmonospaced
- Gnash, can women wear the burqas everywhere there, including entering banks??robotron3k
- ^ indeed they can. only quebec has some laws around face coverings in very specific instancesGnash
- no one said treating women with respect is a bad thing. just pointing out the meme-ification of that particular trope, monoGnash
- imo, burkas are an ugly, woman-hating expression of religion. and as an expression of religion, they shouldn't be banned.Gnash
- but we should be free to condemn the practiseGnash
- https://i.imgur.com/…
Yawn.garbage - when my mom first came to canada she wore a headscarf, as was the custom back home. as soon as she figured out that she wouldn't be stoned to deat without it...Gnash
- ... she gratefully stopped wearing it. that may boring to you, garbage, but it sure meant a lot to my mom. dickwad.Gnash
- Sorry Gnash, that was a misunderstanding The yawn was for robo. All of his arguments stem from him being an old racist prick. Didn't even see your comments.garbage
- my apologies.Gnash
- what's Rob's obsession with woman wearing burqas in banks?inteliboy
- I guess he's our insight into the alt-rights talking point of the day.inteliboy
- He believes that men will wear burqas to hide identity while robbing banks and being terrorists.monospaced
- Intel, I thought it was hysterical that UK politico said what people think. They look like bank robbers. Would be scary society if men wore balaclavas too, no?robotron3k
- @robo https://www.reuters.…garbage