You and me both. Carney is Progressive Conservative, whether that party still exists or not. And, yes, if I must, I must, although I’ve had it up to here with having to vote for a party I dislike just because the only other viable option is so much worse. There are days I shed a tear, even now, for Jack Layton: he was no more than mildly left, but, damn! I wish he’d had his chance!

I lived for some time in a Muslim culture country. It was officially secular: about 30% of women wore western clothes, with or without head coverings, others wore a sari (a proportion of the population was Hindu), still others wore the shalwar kameez, some were in hijabs, with or without abaya, some in chadors, or niqabs, some chose the burqa. I wore the hijab because it protected me from the sun. I was part of many discussions: the pious wanted us all in burqa, others had arguments for their choices, and the non-religious demanded I take off my hijab because I was encouraging oppression, yet many of the women I knew who wore hijab were not even remotely religious: it was just their take on their culture.

I don’t care, one way or the other, about religion or the French fixation on anti-clericalism/secularism, but I do care about women making their own choices in a democracy. I am not sure how the francophone fixation on banning religious symbols, whatever the religion, sits with that. I wonder, too, did the almost universally male anti-clericals of the 19th and 20th century ever bother to ask a woman for her opinion?

Nope. Snotty, expensive and barely worth shopping at when there was a major sale. It lasted twice as long as the East India Company (more or less) and will be remembered in history books, to which I am glad to see it consigned.

small44 , it’s not just GenZ. Retired Boomers living on a pension, immigrants trying to earn a basic living, working class folks of all ages, creeds, colours et alia, are all having a hard time. My lucky find is that Dollarama, a Canadian company, has a lot of in-house brands and a lot of non-American imports. and i has enabled us – creaky old boomers who worked in social good professions rather than for profits – to find almost everything we need either from Canada or at least not from the US, and still afford to eat relatively healthy and pay the cat’s vet bills.

Giant Tiger is also a good Canadian company to patronise. If I can’t get it there, I won’t wear it.

Yeah. And I will be appointed the Queen of the May – in perpetuity.

It’s the Sun, you guys. They’ve become famous for losing lawsuits over the lies they print.

What! A right to serve the public at the expense of the cryptobros? What a quaint, old-fashioned idea!

You are assuming decapitation would cause injury. I am pretty sure their brain body connection has been severed, as evidenced by their continued use of That Site. Thus any message from the nociceptors never gets past the neck anyway.

Wait! There are Canadians still using X? Off with their heads!!

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Tell you what: if you really think it matters, then by all means, make it your mission. But our problem isn’t Canadians not knowing the truth, is it – hell, astonishing as it may be, the Canadian media have done a pretty good job of refuting the egregious BS coming up on the southern wind. Our problem is that we are outnumbered and outgunned by lunatics willing to blow up the world just so they can rule the ruins, and I am no longer willing to waste my breathe on being reasonable.

While I would agree with you and Voroxpete under the old rules of US politics, they no longer apply. Seems to me the average Representative either lies through his/her teeth (assuming they have any), or votes performatively, and then does something completely different, or nothing at all. I have come to really, really dislike this kind of performative vote, seeing my fellow Canadians mislead into believing it actually means that there are folks in the House, outside of two or three, who would actually do diddly-squat to prevent their country from overrunning its neighbours to achieve hegemony. Please don’t tell me how your system works, because it stopped working somewhere around Mission Accomplished.

Last I looked, any vote in Congress was foreordained unless a few Republicans were suddenly to come down with the measles, and even then, they’d probably drag themselves through DC, infecting everyone they passed, to prove their loyalty to their God Emperor.

I think we have bigger things to worry about.

We could prove decisively in front of the world that there is much, much more fentanyl coming in to Canada from the US than the other way around (we have), we could broadcast films of guns confiscated with both Canadian and US border guards testifying to the reality (we’ve done that, too), we could counter every single lie with proof of the truth and it would not matter one bit, because those who are going to believe us already do, and those who say they don’t really mean that whatever the Emperor says he’s wearing, he is wearing, whether I can see it or not.

Mr. Trump and his rich sponsors want our resources, our water, our surrender and our country for their own. They will keep at this until either they are overthrown or we beat them in a genuine war, or climate change makes the whole point moot by killing so many of us off that the survivors are left to eat each other.

Read up on Joseph Goebbels’ principles of propaganda. You will recognise them all.