And the people up there are deprived as it is, its a national disgrace even without their home melting around them.
But, they are a relatively small group of the population, and you don't get more marginalized in Canada than being First Nations. So Ottawa might not take action until its too late, they've only just started to try and mitigate the violence, poverty, addiction, and suicide crisis among First Nations. After blowing it off for decades.
edited 18th Jun '17 2:02:35 PM by Rationalinsanity
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Oh, bother.
So Canada apparently released a glow in the dark 150th anniversary coin.
On another note, I did not know a two-dollar coin was called a "toonie" in Canada until now.
Disgusted, but not surprised
Those things are damn useful for paying for cheap snacks and stuff like bus fare.
And they reserve your Loonies for laundry.
edited 20th Jun '17 3:25:23 AM by Rationalinsanity
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...That sounds like some sort of weird Gangster terminology, like a 'cement suit'. Them again, as Marvel has proved, Canada is evil, so it makes perfect sense.
Visiting from the Hoag Galaxy
The Royal Canadian Mint has a lot of fun with the commemorative coins. There was one a while back that had a dinosaur on it (something to do with an anniversary of the Royal Tyrell Museum in Alberta I think. The place is awesome, if you get a chance, go there) but when you had it in the dark, only the skeleton glowed in the dark.
There was also that million dollar coin, which was solid gold the size of a large pizza, and it was sold for charity.
edited 20th Jun '17 5:39:37 AM by Zendervai
Not Three Laws compliant.
Perpetually Confused
There was also the Memorial coins with the painted poppy flower in the middle. And the one with an aurora borealis painted on the coin, among others.
We Canadians do love our funny money.
Planeswalker
There were also commemorative Star Trek coins last year for the 50th anniversary. Presumably the town of Vulcan petitioned for them alongside William Shatner.
edited 20th Jun '17 8:19:15 AM by PhiSat
Oissu!
Perpetually Confused
The supreme court backed an order to google to remove a site from its search results world wide. The site in question belonged to a company who was re-labelling a Canadian company's products and passing it as its own. There were concerns that this might impact freedom of expression (ie: in cases involving copyright), though the court specified that in this particular case, the unlawful sale of goods, Freedom of Expression doesn't apply.
Yeah, looks like they used wording that won't cause a wider issue. Don't try and sell copyrighted material, and you don't get removed from Google. Simple.
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The Wanderer
Crossposting from the Military Thread:
'Way past time': Black soldiers who helped build Alaska Highway honoured, 75 years later
In harsh conditions and tough terrain, it took the soldiers working from the north just over eight months to meet up with white soldiers coming from the south to connect the two segments on Oct. 25, 1942. The 2,400-kilometre route set the foundation for the only land link to Alaska.
The project to build a supply route between Alaska and Canada used 11,000 troops from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers divided by race, working under a backdrop of segregation and discrimination. The soldiers connected the road in Canada's Yukon Territory east of the border of what was then the U.S. territory of Alaska. A photo of a smiling black soldier shaking hands with a cigarette-dangling white soldier became emblematic of their effort.
State lawmakers voted this year to set aside each Oct. 25 to honour black soldiers who worked on the Alcan Highway, now called the Alaska Highway. They note the soldiers' work became a factor in the integration of the Army in 1948.
With the anniversary of the highway's completion approaching, its history is gaining attention with multiple events in Alaska this summer.
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And here we go: BC Liberal government loses non-confidence vote.
A motion by NDP Leader John Horgan, which said "the present government does not have the confidence of this House," passed 44-42, with all NDP and Green members of the legislature voting in favour, and all Liberals voting against.
In her speech right before the vote, Premier Christy Clark defended the legacy of her government and said the throne speech showed the Liberals were committed to leading a minority government.
"I've heard a lot of people say we've changed. But I know leaders don't lead by refusing to adapt," she said.
The dramatic vote, coming less than two months after a provincial election that ended with no party having a majority of seats, marks the first time in B.C. history that a government has lost a confidence vote.
It means Clark will head to Government House and meet with Lt.-Gov. Judith Guichon and tell her she can no longer command the confidence of the house.
Following that meeting — which is expected a short time after 6 p.m. PT, Guichon will announce one of two things: that she is inviting Horgan and the NDP to form a government or that she is dissolving the house, sparking another election.
The timeline for her announcement, along with how long Clark will meet with Guichon, is unknown.
Clark argued once again in her speech that an NDP government, supported by the Greens, would not be stable enough to function.
"They know the math doesn't work. They know this house can't function without a working majority," she said.
Since 2011, Clark has served as B.C.'s 35th premier.
edited 29th Jun '17 6:04:36 PM by Blueeyedrat
Looks like the NDP have formed a coalition with the Greens.
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Perpetually Confused
Well, good 150th Canada. May the next Century and a half be even better than the last.
Pity that half the events in Halifax got rained out, but getting screwed over by the weather is a quintessential Canadian experience. 
It was a rainy morning in Ottawa, too (and we had a real downpour and thunderstorm in the early evening), but loads of people showed up anyway.
CBC is reporting that Peter Julian, former NDP house leader, is out of the leadership race.
Update: He says his reasoning is that his fundraising numbers were too low.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/peter-julian-quit-ndp-leadership-1.4192731
edited 6th Jul '17 1:19:07 PM by Rationalinsanity
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The Wanderer
Seeking U.S. ties apart from Trump, Trudeau will be first PM to address governors’ meeting
Trudeau will give the keynote address at the National Governors Association meeting in Providence, Rhode Island next Friday, just over a month before the expected opening of North American Free Trade Agreement renegotiation talks.
Trudeau’s address will focus on trade, his government said in a news release, and he “will also emphasize the importance of the Canada-U.S. partnership in cross-border security and the potential for common solutions on climate change.”
The address is part of Trudeau’s effort to build relationships with U.S. officials at the state and local levels. On the whole, state governors are far more pro-NAFTA than Trump, who calls the deal a “catastrophe.”
But the appearance will also give Trudeau another chance to make his trade case to Trump’s administration, with which his aides have been in frequent contact on trade. Vice-President Mike Pence is thought to be planning to attend, and economic officials may also be present.
Trudeau’s government described the attempt to build ties with governors as a complement to, rather than a replacement for, its healthy ties with the president’s team.
“Our government has worked hard to establish a constructive working relationship with all orders of the U.S. government, especially with the administration, and the president and his team directly,” said Trudeau press secretary Cameron Ahmad. He added: “The prime minister’s attendance at the National Governors Association summer meeting next week is part of that effort, and only builds upon our direct engagement with the administration.”
http://dailycaller.com/2017/07/09/veteran-blinded-by-omar-khadr-says-trudeau-guilty-of-treason/
Not sure this was reported anywhere else.
Only a matter of time before this issue came up I guess. But could you not have gotten a better source than the Caller of all things?
My thoughts on this are pretty simple.
1) The courts had already found in his favor, so this just saves time and probably reduces the reward.
2) Regardless of what he did, the Americans did torture him and the previous government left him to rot, which is the issue at hand. When your rights are violated, you can seek remedy.
3) None of this would have happened had the US kept to international norms and treated him as a child soldier in need of rehabilitation (he was taken to a training camp at 9 and captured at 15, what else is he?).
Trudeau simply wanted to bury this ugly thing and move on, and probably saved the country a few million bucks in the process.
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Yes, and it was the right thing to do.
If the Conservatives wanted him tried as an adult, they should have had him brought back to Canada and put on trial from the start, when he was fifteen, and a prosecutor could have made the case for trying him as an adult. Which would probably have been rejected, because he was 15 and his father had taken him to a terrorist training camp and he had little choice, but they could have made the attempt if they wanted.
Instead, they chose to let the Americans hold him without charges, deny him his rights, and torture him. This is one of the consequences of that decision.
edited 10th Jul '17 10:52:07 AM by Galadriel
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He should have been returned and tried as an adult, probably been found not guilty by reason of mental illness/defect, and gone to a psychiatric facility for deprogramming.
But the fact that a terrorist gets to come back and now live life in luxury at the expense of the government... Feels really wrong. I don't blame that veteran for being angry.
Oissu!
This has been mismanaged from the very start sadly, I just hope that his deradicalization is genuine.
I totally get why a lot of people are irked about this, but in the end the law is the law...
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Trying minors as adults is seriously wrong. And the relevant age is when the crimes were committed, not when the trial takes place.
No-longer-US-nuclear devices that is. I am sure that if you so like you can make your own, but it's always easier to live on other people's work.
Mind you, too much global warming would be bad there as well. I am currently reading a paper (doi:10.13679/j.advps.2014.4.0023) about the effects of a worst case scenario (a sudden four-fold increase in atmospheric CO2) and it closes off with It is clear that conditions in the Arctic under quadrupled CO2 bear little or no relation to present climate. The results would be not short of catastrophic for the ecology and human way of life in the region. Yet this is the level anticipated for greenhouse gases by the year 2100 under business as usual economic scenarios.
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