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@AlexMurphysLaw @ThomasHall17 I was mostly referring to the how you were raised part.

@GJCMDP @ThomasHall17 You're confusing a failure to understand the benefits of bilingualism with a disagreement regarding its representation of education.

As an immigrant to Canada, I cannot understand how any Canadians who call themselves educated cannot speak a bit of French. Not fluently, but able to exchange a few words and able to read and understand more. It's a mark of an educated person, quite frankly. Part of the problem

@AlexMurphysLaw @ThomasHall17 As does those who can’t understand the benefits of speaking both languages

@ThomasHall17 Your narrow and shallow view of who is considered educated speaks volumes about your own education, or more importantly how you were raised.

@robert12jones @Skeleman71 Are you incapable of two thoughts at the same time?

@Skeleman71 It would be the exact same crowd of hysterical liberals who would complain. The rest of us have real issues to worry about, such as the death of the two young pilots.

Imagine the outrage if the CEO of a Calgary based company failed to offer condolences in English for the death of their anglo employee because they, despite having lived and worked in Alberta for 2 decades, didn’t know the language.

@KeithM190525 @Skeleman71 Nonsense

@Skeleman71 This a straw man argument, of course they would offer condolences in English. English is the language of North America.

@Shadow_ofaDoubt @Skeleman71 Keep proving Quebecers right 🙄

It wouldn't make a footnote on the bottom page of the local newspaper. Same is true if someone in working in Nunavut failed to offer condolences in inuktitut. There is no reason to pretend that anyone else acts like the petulant spoiled children in Quebec when it comes to languages.

@PeterHRatcliffe Funny how everyone in Quebec, English and French, understands the importance, but so many Canadians continue to dismiss it and think it’s perfectly fine to not bother addressing 25% of their citizens in their language. I’m sure you’d have been fine with subtitles. 🙄

It a shame, in my opinion, that the public condolences for two dead heroic pilots became politicized around languages. Grief isn’t political and doesn’t care what language a caring message arrived in.

@femidanny957 @AR_Salimii @kazeemolubunmi @MarkJCarney I don’t agree. He recognized Palestine and called out against some of the attacks. Then his Davos speech. Something changed, perhaps he ‘learned’ to toe the line. Why?

@AR_Salimii @kazeemolubunmi @MarkJCarney I don’t want to be that guy, but how was this not obvious? It’s literally why people said they won’t vote for Kamala. She would have been no different and honestly this is why people say the won’t be doing lesser of two evil. Because who does it benefit?

I deeply regret my vote. You offered no condolences for the 168 Iranian schoolchildren slaughtered by U.S. and Israeli missiles, yet you were quick to mourn 2 people killed in the UAE. You reward child-killers and sanction the victims of aggression. @MarkJCarney, you are not the leader this peace-loving, humanitarian country deserves.

@_____JM________ @AR_Salimii @MarkJCarney You do realize most countries, including Canada and the US, have schools on their military bases?

@AR_Salimii @MarkJCarney Maybe the Iranians shouldn't use 168 Iranian schoolchildren as human shields? Did it ever occur to the Iranians not to put children's schools next to military bases? Who do you think decided to do that and why?

@haniefhaider @AR_Salimii @MarkJCarney 😢Seems you are right.

@AR_Salimii @MarkJCarney That Davos speech. It was just too good to be true from an ex-Goldman Sachs executive and Bank of England Governor.

@AR_Salimii @ColleenPolitics @MarkJCarney I agree. I had so much hope, for the first time in decades. I won’t be voting until/unless we get a leader courageous enough to stand up to this evil. The only thing worse than absolute indifference is saying you care, recognizing the problem and choosing to ignore it. I’m done.

The Carney government’s response to U.S.-Israeli military aggression against Iran is both shocking and a deep disappointment. Bowing to Netanyahu and Trump won't buy Canada safety in the long run. This is NOT the foreign policy Canadians voted for. @MarkJCarney, you have betrayed the trust of your voters.

@MeganMcNagem @NBCNews You seem so nice. 🙄

@NBCNews Oh no a crying child! Whelp I guess illegal immigrants get to keep breaking laws, killing innocent civilians and committing fraud on a massive level. All while American taxpayers foot the bill for schools, housing and healthcare. Great fucking argument.

A 9-year-old boy who made a plea to be released from an immigration detention center during a call with Ms. Rachel so he could attend his state spelling bee has been freed with his family, their lawyer says. nbcnews.com/news/us-news/n…

@AnneTow84880951 @Tamer_Alnoaizy @baubo60 What an insane take on reality.

You bought this on yourselves. If you had lived in peace with your neighbours, not acted like poodles for the Iraq regime, built on the economic legacy left to you by Israel and used the millions in Aid poured in by other countries for good rather than evil you would now not be in this position.

I don’t know if anyone will care about what I’m saying, but you must read this tweet to understand what is happening in Gaza. Before the war, Gaza’s area was 336 square kilometers, with over two million people, one of the most densely populated places on Earth. We lived under a suffocating siege by land, sea, and air. Electricity reached us only six hours a day, water barely two days a week. Unemployment was high, despite many being university graduates. Then the war came… and the reality became harsher than anyone could imagine. Today, we live in a small part of Gaza, barely enough space, with unbearable population density. People have been forced to set up tents next to garbage dumps, on streets, inside hospital courtyards, and in any space they can find. Military sites are being established along new borders, and entire areas seized, including my home, which no longer exists. Our homes have turned into dilapidated tents unfit for living. For years, we have had no electricity, and water is extremely hard to get. Famine strikes repeatedly, no education for children, no hospitals capable of treating patients, diseases and viruses are spreading, unemployment is suffocating, displacement never stops. Arrests, continuous bombings, blockade on aid, travel restrictions, even reconstruction materials are blocked, as if the destruction must remain. Every day, we witness unbearable scenes we document them with cameras and broadcast live, yet nothing changes. People collapse in the streets from hunger, die from diseases, homes collapse on those inside. All this pain… moves no one. I have realized that, in the eyes of this world, we are merely numbers nothing more. And I do not understand why we are treated with such cruelty.

Very good to see this. Very. We can do this. We can be principled and demand respect for human life without sacrificing either at the altar of “pragmatism” or “realism”. Canada calls for an independent investigation into the killing of 168 school kids in Iran 👇

@dtobias28 @CharlesTingler I have no clue what you are talking about. I still have my parents Bible from 1952.

@CharlesTingler Again, The catechism of St Pius X was specifically addressing priests. Yes, the Bible is good and useful, but only if Catholic translations with approved footnotes are used. It was not absolutely necessary for salvation as Catholics would hear scripture readings at mass.

Yesterday my sponsor and I talked about Scripture, and something he said really bothered me. He said, “In the old days we didn’t read the Bible. The Church didn’t want people reading it and figuring everything out for themselves.” I understand the Church’s reasoning, but as a former Protestant I still struggle with that claim, especially since popes encouraged laypeople to read Scripture even before Vatican II, including in the Catechism of Pope Pius X. Catholics need to strengthen their approach to exegesis. Protestants have been ahead in that area for far too long.

@goldengembe @RezaNasri1 Claiming all Israel wants is to live in peace, but do their neighbours live in peace, as much as they do? Is the border as it was 80 years ago? Are Palestinians as free as Israelis? Lebanese as free? Are their borders respected? Any responsibility for the never ending unrest?

@GJCMDP @RezaNasri1 Every country has issues. The difference is whether kids are taught to build or to hate. That’s the real question. But it seems like you expect more from Israel than you do from Hamas. That says a lot.

The idea that every sovereign country near Israel must cap its conventional weapons, limit its defensive capabilities, restrict missile and fighter jet ranges, and even dismantle its own military industries—just so Israel can "feel safe"—is completely absurd. Which other nation on Earth demands and receives this kind of privilege? This exceptionalism is especially ridiculous coming from a regime with such an inherently aggressive posture and track record in the region.

@goldengembe @RezaNasri1 Are the children taught to respect their neighbours? No indoctrination going on in Israel? Read any thread, including this one……🙄

@GJCMDP @RezaNasri1 And Israelis what ?

@FranklinSm10235 @RezaNasri1 Hummmm, One group supposedly wants to wipe the other group off the face of the earth, yet it’s the ‘threatened’ group that wipes out their neighbours. 🙄

Yer a fukn idiot ! Which other nation is surrounded by Terrorist Jihadis that want to wipe them off the face of the earth, and is already attacked on a regular basis by Proxy Iran Terrorists that are allowed to create armies and install weapons systems in surrounding countries ! Answer that you Dumb Mother Fukr !

@goldengembe @RezaNasri1 And Israelis?

No one is asking for disarmament. Imagine your neighbors raising their kids to see your destruction as a goal. Kids are taught — from a young age that “People of the Book” are enemies to be fought. This is about escalation and instability, not “feeling safe.” That’s not belief. That’s indoctrination ! #Israel Will Defend Itself. The $Book Stands and No one will destroy it ! Keep trying Pursue your agenda so blindly that your own people starving and pay the price 🍌🫣

@MoeH4snf @RezaNasri1 Yet Israel continues to commit genocide, but do tell the world it’s all your neighbours that are ‘savages’

@RezaNasri1 Maybe if they acted like humans people will treat them like that, but these are savage Arab Islamists that wanna conquer everything in there way. Giving them any sorts of weapons like a nuke etc is world suicide. Fuk you and them.

@gregknight88 @Chesstu @redroomrantings Really?

@Chesstu @redroomrantings Quebec doesn’t require English signs btw but the rest of Canada has to have French

It's crazy the cultural divide between Quebec and the ROC. I don't see how it is controversial that the CEO should at least say a few french words of condolences for a French speaking pilot who died. It's strange that some people don't see why this might be upsetting.