It’s wild to read these posts from people who don’t seem to realize that (ugh 🤮) Trump was right about NATO defense spending. Canada got lazy and comfortable and relied on the US waaaay too much for defense (and many other things).
If we can’t defend our own country ourselves, then we are truly fucked. We don’t live in a utopia. There are a metric fuck-ton of countries that would love our resources. Money needs to be spent to protect ourselves. Urgently.
You can lead a man to knowledge, but you can’t make him think.
Fuck Spez.
If the time differences for games wasn’t so harsh, I would absolutely watch rugby. And Aussie rules football.
Hockey is a rich white people game, at least in North America. I love it, but it is what it is. By limiting hockey to mostly rich white kids, the talent pool has dried up and the quality of the games has really suffered. And they want to expand even more because “money”.
Baseball is cheap to play. Basketball is cheap to play. Soccer (sorry rest of the world) is cheap to play. Football is even cheap to play. Hockey? Two pounds of flesh and your first born, for a stick.
Agreed. It’s walking the razor’s edge of stupidity. Makes her even more of a joke.
“A free and sovereign Alberta within a united Canada” is her favourite message.
Edit: grammar
It’s deeper than that. It’s century-old grievances bundled with anti-vaxers losing their minds during covid lockdowns (border blocking, trucker circle jerks, shutting down Ottawa, etc.). Once covid was done they needed a new cause and the seditionists locked on to that rage.
The Fifth Estate (CBC) has an excellent short doc on it.
The agreements signed with the Ukraine so we can share drone tech is promising. But based on our history, you’re correct. Very low chance.