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- Gnash0
- sounds like a job for these guys
https://www.youtube.…_niko - ^ lolGnash
- sounds like a job for these guys
- zarkonite0
I'm loving this story: this guy gets falsely accused of killing a cop, spends 6 days in jail before being released. What do we do? Let's apologize and give this guy a permanent residency!
https://smartcdn.prod.postmedia...
https://montrealgazette.com/news…
Camara, who is from Guinea, is a PhD student and lab supervisor at Polytechnique Montréal who was falsely accused Jan. 28 of having assaulted a police officer in Parc-Extension. He was freed and charges against him were dropped after he spent six days in jail.
Canada’s House of Commons and Quebec’s National Assembly both unanimously adopted motions on Tuesday calling for Mamadi Fara Camara to be given permanent residency.
- zarkonite2
It's currently -40 outside. Who the fuck thought it was a good idea to put a country up here?!?!?!
- i_monk0
^ Without the designation there's nobody closely monitoring them to see if they're planning the things you think monitoring will provoke them to do.
If the Toronto 18 had been left off watch lists out of fear that being on a watch list might inspire them to violence, they'd have gone ahead and blown things up and we'd wonder why they weren't on a watch list.
- er, ^ Morning_stari_monk
- There is more than enough legislation in place to allow monitoring anyone suspected of planning a crime. It’s an over-reaction and whilst the PB are irksome...Morning_star
- ...pretenders their ethos is unpopular and blatantly misguided. Keep them above ground and under the public eye and they’ll destroy themselvesMorning_star
- The core the motion was to make dealing with this sort of group a priority, making the tools available etc; designating them a terror group was only one part.i_monk
- zarkonite0
https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/…
"MPs agree to call on feds to declare Proud Boys a terrorist entity
The motion called on the government to “use all available tools to address the proliferation of white supremacists and hate groups,” starting with the immediate designation of the Proud Boys as a terrorist group."
- This a really stupid idea and is likely to turn those in the PB with more extreme tendencies in actual terrorists. Have they learned nothing from Isis...Morning_star
- ...Boko Haram, AlQueda?Morning_star
- *into actualMorning_star
- MehGnash
- They're not white supremacists, they're a christian fascist militia. I mean some of them are white supremacists but not all of them.PhanLo
- This gives law enforcement the means to investigate and monitor them, in what way is this going to push them into terrorist activites? They won't even know theyzarkonite
- are being watched. It's not like they mandated a twitter mob of bullies to make fun of them, this is good policy.zarkonite
- i_monk0
Everyone ready for the coup going on downstairs?
- grafician-4
"Mysterious monolith appears seemingly overnight along Toronto’s shoreline"
- eryx0
Snowing here today. Pretty cold too @ -16 but feels like -25 with the wind.
- CyBrainX-2
Dear Canada,
I know it's not your style, but please annex the Northeast of the United States. Please take my friends along the west coast too. You can leave Jersey behind.Thanks!
- Hmmm, the question is do we have enough maple syrup for thisprophetone
- yes! take our inner city rif raf to see if it finally collapses your healthcare system.hotroddy
- We can ask politely, but that's about it.zarkonite
- i_monk0
Microsoft Canada class action:
https://ca.topclassactions.com/l…
If you bought Microsoft products between 1998 and 2010, you're owed some of the $409 million settlement.
- So that's pretty much everybody then?shapesalad
- What if you piratednb
- i_monk1
https://www.npr.org/2020/10/19/9…
Wendell Potter spent decades scaring Americans. About Canada. He worked for the health insurance industry, and he knew that if Americans understood Canadian-style health care, they might.... like it. So he helped deploy an industry playbook for protecting the health insurance agency.
- i_monk1
Cornish hens, roasted sprouts with tahini and lemon dressing, lemongrass mashed potatoes, roasted carrots, beets, sweet potatoes and turnip in garlic and rosemary, stuffing and soft white rolls. Not bad for a pandemic year. Preserved lemons, where have you been all this time?
- i_monk1
What are you doing for Thanksgiving, Qbnada?
- Headed from Creemore/Dunedin, ON to Chatham, ON to see mom & dad. Fully controlled BUT I know it's taboo...
You @i_monk?ideaist - Gov asked us to stay homeBennn
- We can't see the family this year but we're having 3 friends over (all were in our bubble already).i_monk
- Drink a gallon of maple syrup + rhum.zarkonite
- Going to gallop in to a wooded glen and punch dance out my rage.... that, plus beer of courseStatic_Line
- https://media.giphy.…prophetone
- Make fun of Michiganders?canoe
- Headed from Creemore/Dunedin, ON to Chatham, ON to see mom & dad. Fully controlled BUT I know it's taboo...
- Gnash7
- They were great all the way through, what a series and what a career for these two_niko
- never seen a episode...
good for them tho.pango - I watched the first episode and bailed.CyBrainX
- I loved it. those sctv kids can do no wrong by meGnash
- < I had the biggest crush on her sister. I used to go to her brother’s speakeasy all the time on the off chance she’d show upGnash
- wait... emmy happened?pango
- I only watched one episode, didn’t notice any jokes or humorous bits. Was confused. And I’m a huge fan of these two!nb
- great show... worth it for the 'moira-isms' alone. real family show. even the kids' romantic storylines were done so well they didn't annoy the shit out of me.kingsteven
- i think the emmy was for most gratuitous use of monochromatic color by the wardrobe deptimbecile
- The first season is a bit of a slog, put me off for years, but worth getting through.i_monk
- The real miracle here is a show getting legs in Canada and beyond (Internationally) and for that alone, the Levy family should be VERY proud.ideaist
- I tried this show 3x, never getting past the 1st episode. Then a year later I stuck with it, about to wrap it up actually, and I can say it deserves Emmys.monospaced
- Point is, if you just watch the first episode, I don't blame you for not getting into it. It isn't enough, and it takes the first handful of episodes to catchmonospaced
- I fell asleep just looking at the photo.utopian
- I'm in the same boat as everyone else. Didn't get into it for years. Now i'm cranking through it and can't get enough. Catherine O'Hara is absolutely insane.bogue
- I love that "David" is used to punctuate so many jokes in this show. Well-deserved.garbage
- Awesome show! Great cast!Krassy
- The entire O’Hara family is pretty awesomeGnash
- bogue9
First of all Thanks to all you QBN canucks that posted nice things about our journey home on my last message.
The journey is done. We arrived yesterday after 6 days of driving through Oregon > Idaho > Montana > North Dakota > Minnesota > Wisconsin > Michigan > Ontario.
To say that was intense would be an understatement. I was driving in a 26 Haul towing a vehicle while my wife drove our two children in our other vehicle. We ate all of our meals on the side of the road, we didn't enter a single public washroom, i disinfected our hotel rooms before my wife and kids entered them. It was probably all over kill, although the amount of people not wearing masks in public spaces made me feel like it was probably worth while.
Highlights included a seeing a sweet old man with a big white beard and an SS Tattoo on side of this neck and swastika on the other. And also cooking cheeseburgers for my family at 9:30 at night in the parking lot of the mariott hotel in Duluth Minnesota.
We crossed the border yesterday and made it back to my home town and are now in quarantine until the 14th of september. Now i will just sit here and check all of our temperatures every 5 minutes until that day.
Feels good to be back in the great white north. Can't wait to go dip my toes in Georgian Bay.
- Welcome back! I was just at Killbear, my first time seeing Georgian Bay.i_monk
- Welcome back :) reach out if you need anything. Sounds like you guys can have a well deserved rest nowGnash
- Care for some LiChess?grafician
- Not overkill. This is how we stay alive!nb
- https://tenor.com/vi…prophetone
- Drop a line; we’re in Dunedin/Creemore/Col...
Perhaps a QBN meetup.ideaist - @ideast I remember spending time over your way camping and hiking the caves and bluffs near Singhampton. What a beautiful spot. Would love to get together.bogue
- I put an offer on a building in singhampton 2 years ago :) They didn’t accept my bid :(Gnash
- That's a hell of adventure, glad you made it safe.garbage
- pango1
- Amen!pango
- explain pleaseutopian
- https://www.cbc.ca/n…pango
- "no owner of a bitch shall suffer or permit such bitch to be upon the street or in any public place while the bitch is in heat."pango
- https://www.youtube.…PonyBoy
- i_monk1
By Canadian standards, Kamala Harris could run for the Conservatives
https://www.cbc.ca/news/business…
(Would Bernie even be NDP?)
- i_monk0
Anyone else worry that as the US ship sinks we're going to let ourselves get dragged down too instead of cutting the ropes?
- No worries, our fearless captain has already abandoned ship.utopian
- From what I know about Canada, it's on my top 5 countries to move to in case of emergency. The other 4 are New Zealand...grafician
- i_monk, I kind of agree. But we are so intertwined it'll be like trying to untangle a thousand lines while we're going under.ben_
- May not even be able to cut them all in time.ben_
- fuck it, just build a wall alreadygrafician
- except the Great Lakes, just throw some great whites in there, just to be safegrafician
- I think about this often, I think if a civil war breaks out again, we’ll be dragged in as well_niko
- In the event of a 2nd civil war I think we'd be a refuge not a target. Which side is going to expose their flank to the other by attacking us instead?i_monk
- Canadians have a long history of realizing you never count our US cousins out, never write them off. The US is very resilient and has had many comebacks.BustySaintClaire
- bogue14
Moving back to Ontario from Oregon at the end of this month. We're packing up a uhaul, towing a vehicle and my wife is driving our second vehicle with our two children. Our daughter is immune compromised and i'm terrified to make this journey across the US back home... but not as terrified as I am to stay in this crazy shit storm.
It will take about 6 days to drive home. We have to quarantine for 2 weeks once we get back. And i've been advised to remove the US plates from our vehicles so they aren't vandalized.
I moved away from Ontario over 20 years ago to pursue life in the mountains of BC. Somewhere along the way i got seduced by interesting design gigs at Apple and Nike. But i could not be happier to return home, help out my mom, live a simpler life, and shovel my goddamn driveway 3 times a day for 7 months of the year.
See you soon my Canadian friends.
- Welcome back home bogue!
Bienvenue à la maison!Bennn - Merci Beaucoup Benn. Ca fais tros longtemps... as you can probably tell by how terrible my french is nowbogue
- ;-) you just missed a 'p' at 'trop' and it would have been 10/10Bennn
- Tabernaclebogue
- Safe travels. Planning on making any stops on the way, or just burning through the miles / kms?garbage
- We’re gonna try and average about 500 miles a day. There’s only so much that a 4 and 7 year old can takebogue
- Nice! Will you be in Toronto, or countryside? Have a safe trip Monsieuromer
- Safe drive, and welcome back.ben_
- Oof, yeah, good luck.garbage
- have a good trip :)neverscared
- Welcome home :)Gnash
- Thanks All! We'll be a couple of hours north in Penetanguishene.bogue
- Safe trip bud. Cases are low here in Ontario.Raybandana
- Have a safe trip. I’ve been in Portland for 20 years. Worked for most the usuals in town. Have a family about your ages and we’re thinking about moving back to.fooler
- ..the Midwest. Same reasons. Simpler life. Cheaper houses. Closer to the in laws. Less riots.fooler
- I was up in midland visiting a friend last week. I like it up there :) safe tripGnash
- Hosernb
- Welcome back home bogue!