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@twiternair @David_Mulroney Well, my dream didn’t come true. The French got a reprieve.

@twiternair @David_Mulroney Ah, the porcine former ambassador for Communist China. Good riddance to bad rubbish. I pity the French.

@dwnews Here’s some advice. Don’t create laws that define special classes of “race” offences and affronts. However, prosecute those who contravene existing, general laws as vigorously and publicly as possible. Elevating the place of identity just plays into the hands of extremists.

@ChanLPfa Well, look at it this way: what happened in Cambodia when the Khmer Rouge found people wearing glasses?

What do you think would happen if all at once 1000+ Ontario teachers came out of the closet and said “no more woke, we want equality for all and good education, not indoctrination”?

@SusieGale12 @CBCNews I won’t have to dig too deeply to find a member of a pre-literate culture.

American soldiers stationed in South Korea say they are ready to fight any time against the North. And if it comes to that, Canada could also be in the thick of it, say Canadian Forces officers also based there. cbc.ca/news/world/nor…

@eva_kurilova They like you, too, because you are cool!

I like my friends

@JimMcMurtry01 As usual, Jim, you are the only voice of reason in an otherwise woke cacophony passed off as public discussion.

Civilizations inevitably bump into each other, whether in the Americas or Abbey Road. The idea that there is something wrong with cultural appropriation is daft. The Colombian Exchange saw plants and animals and ideas flow across the Atlantic in both directions, enriching us all.

@InequalityMedia @RBReich A little bit disingenuous. An increase in worker productivity almost always is due to new machinery or software. That’s one reason why wages don’t go up with productivity. It isn’t the worker that is any better; it the tool set.

Want to actually measure economic success in America? Don't look at job growth or GDP — look to kitchen tables.

@TorontoStar @StarThisMatters @wendygillis It would be interesting to hear how many working people of any colour who live in neighbourhoods where violence and crime occurs want to “defund” the police. I suspect we shall hear silence on this matter.

Today on @StarThisMatters, reporter @wendygillis explains what’s happened to policing since George Floyd’s murder and what we can learn from Minneapolis, a city that’s become a case study in the frustratingly slow pace of systemic change. trib.al/FXz18Kz

@SusieGale12 @CBCNews The Chinese communists were too busy starving and jailing their own citizens to be engaged in international affairs much between 1949 and 1976. When the great murderer, Mao Zedong, died things began improving but they still pulled off an attack on Vietnam. Real peace-lovers!

@SusieGale12 @CBCNews As far as know, Russia hasn’t stopped any killing, especially of its own, inept soldiers. The warmongering Chinese communists, of course, don’t share your deep compassion for the victims of conflict. They’re not “taking sides” and have a “limitless” friendship with war criminals.

@SusieGale12 @CBCNews Ah, therefore the Japanese invasion of China was justified! OK, I got it now.

@SusieGale12 @CBCNews Why don’t you stomp your feet a little harder?