Remember Canada was formed in response to the American Civil war. The Fathers of Confederation well saw the problems with arms being taken up in a democracy. The Queen of the UK who I think you meant can't intervene after we repatriated our Constitution back in '82. We're left with the Queen of Canada who is currently the same person but doesn't have to be. Legally if George has a girl then a boy we'll have a King while the UK will have a Queen, unless the Constitution is amended.
This government got 37% of the votes (much less when you consider the people who didn't vote) so no, it is not what the people voted for. This government has also squandered the surplus and ran a deficit the whole time they've been in power. Billions spent on advertising how we have the best science and billions given to the bitumen industry. Its got to the point where the oil companies don't really want any more tax credits as they know it looks a lot better if they pay a little tax.
Spend their own money? No, this government spends more on advertizing then all the previous governments put together. If you ever see ads about the keystone pipeline, remember that it is the taxpayers of Canada paying for those ads.
They digitized a few pages as that was all there was funding for. It's the usual bullshit, increase spending while slightly lowering taxes until the government has spent its surplus and gone into debt (we had 8 years of surplus before these guys got in) then scream and panic about cutting spending and cut whatever is against their ideology. Their ideology in this case is that government exists to serve the oil industry.
You're thinking of the closures of the fisheries libraries over the holidays. This is the closure of the health libraries. The other year it was the closure of a bunch of research stations. It's the typical right wing agenda, cut taxes slightly so business doesn't have to give cost of living wages, increase spending so the government is running in the red (they came into power with a pretty good surplus) then cut those parts of government that don't agree with their ideology and give lots of money to their favourite industry, oil. Bonus with all the government re-purposed to supporting the tar business they can claim that they're spending more on science then ever.
Some zoo keeper once said something like, "give a chimp a screwdriver and it will use it for everything but its intended purpose. Give a Gorilla a screwdriver and first he'll show fear, then try to eat it. An Orangutan will show disinterest, hide the screwdriver and later when no one is looking, disassemble his cage"
Plants don't necessarily have to die in order for animals, including humans, to eat from them. For example, I can pick an apple without killing the apple tree.
I personally do not eat or use any animal products. In my view it would be immoral to do so.
There are (or were) tribes in Africa who lived off of cow blood and milk, both of which can be extracted without killing the cow.
Most countries ban things like advertising arsenic as a cold cure as well. National Security is another reason to suppress speech including jail time for someones speech.
If you go logging or deep sea fishing, you can always re-asses the risks and quit. Back in the high lead logging days people often did quit the first day. Society has also pressured the logging industry into getting much safer over the years. Once a kidney is removed, or an eye, it is hard to go back.
The automobile industry also had a lot to do with the current situation by buying up the public (which actually was private) transportation and shutting it down. As Westlake says, the cities were spreading out before the automobile, just in a more sane manner, eg following the tram lines and railroads. For better or worse, the market has a heavy influence on development and their aim is not to improve the average persons life, but to sell something.
Shit is plant food and people as well as animals excrete it. Once you start on that path, the usual consequences are death, famine and misery. There was also a lot of denialism about whether shitting in the drinking water and not washing your hands before operating or examining a pregnant woman could cause disease. Many a prominent scientist called the idea unscientific and they sure weren't going to spend time scrubbing.
In Canada the the threshold is whether the phone is locked. Unlocked they can look, just like they can look in your wallet. Any kind of lock they require a warrant. Not too bad of a compromise. Unluckily our government is trying it's hardest to change the Supreme Court into a partisan court like the States with latest appointee having only one qualification, seems he was the only judge in Canada who thought that a Canadian citizen locked up at Guatonomo Bay (sp?) didn't have any rights. This guy doesn't even meet the Constitutional requirements to sit on the Supreme Court yet the government appointed him. To give him credit, he has recused himself from all cases until the Constitutional part is ruled on by the court.
I live in a country where occasionally parties get decimated or worse and replaced by third parties. All that happens is the people from the decimated party move to the third party and pretty quick things are back to where they were if we're lucky. Sometimes it's even worse as while the parties are doing their dance one gets in with just over a third of the vote and are even worse and do irreparable damage. Democracy is liked by the establishment as it is the easiest to manipulate.
Just how old are you? America started spying on its citizens during the civil war by intercepting the telegraph, ramped it up during WWI when national security started to be used to justify removable of what were apparent rights such as free speech and not much later the rule of J. Edgar Hoover, based on having dirt on everyone, started.
In 1688 Parliament asserted its power and declared the King to have abdicated and invited William of Orange and his wife the Kings daughter to take the crown. This included a new oath of coronation amongst other things and basically cemented the sovereignty of Parliament. Every sovereign since has been well aware of who actually holds the power since and even in 1708 Anne only declined giving Royal Assent on the advice of her Government. As recently as 1936 Parliament pushed out the King and there is a possibility that Charles could also be pushed out if he gets too political and is still alive when the Queen dies though he'll be old enough they'll probably just wait for him to die. I'd guess if Parliament tried to pass a really unconstitutional law such as there will no longer be elections and all members of the opposition shall be summarily shot, the Queen would refuse assent so she is sorta the last defence against full out tyranny.
As I understand it, with membership in the EU, Parliament is no longer sovereign and is subservient to the EU courts and Parliament. BTW, the last revolution was the Glorious Revolution of 1688 which even included the first Bill of Rights and finished neutering the Monarchs power. Personally I wish the Monarch had a bit more power, perhaps occasionally not giving Royal Assent but instead dissolving Parliament (and giving assent after the election). This is a power that couldn't be used too often though as the electorate doesn't like frequent elections.
Court cases where the accused is a juvenile are automatically closed in the States? Here they usually have a publication ban on things like the juveniles name but the court is usually open. The press reports on cases involving juveniles all the time, they just call the accused X or whatever and say how they can not report any identifying information due to publication ban or the juvenile being a juvenile.
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That's sad but not surprising.
Cheap food for prisons?
Be nice to stop the Chinese from interfering in the Provincial and Federal elections but I doubt that it'll happen.
Remember Canada was formed in response to the American Civil war. The Fathers of Confederation well saw the problems with arms being taken up in a democracy.
The Queen of the UK who I think you meant can't intervene after we repatriated our Constitution back in '82. We're left with the Queen of Canada who is currently the same person but doesn't have to be. Legally if George has a girl then a boy we'll have a King while the UK will have a Queen, unless the Constitution is amended.
This government got 37% of the votes (much less when you consider the people who didn't vote) so no, it is not what the people voted for. This government has also squandered the surplus and ran a deficit the whole time they've been in power. Billions spent on advertising how we have the best science and billions given to the bitumen industry. Its got to the point where the oil companies don't really want any more tax credits as they know it looks a lot better if they pay a little tax.
Here in Canada we're actually suffering from the tyranny of the minority. The Conservatives got 38% of the voters who bothered to vote.
Spend their own money? No, this government spends more on advertizing then all the previous governments put together. If you ever see ads about the keystone pipeline, remember that it is the taxpayers of Canada paying for those ads.
They digitized a few pages as that was all there was funding for. It's the usual bullshit, increase spending while slightly lowering taxes until the government has spent its surplus and gone into debt (we had 8 years of surplus before these guys got in) then scream and panic about cutting spending and cut whatever is against their ideology. Their ideology in this case is that government exists to serve the oil industry.
You're thinking of the closures of the fisheries libraries over the holidays. This is the closure of the health libraries. The other year it was the closure of a bunch of research stations. It's the typical right wing agenda, cut taxes slightly so business doesn't have to give cost of living wages, increase spending so the government is running in the red (they came into power with a pretty good surplus) then cut those parts of government that don't agree with their ideology and give lots of money to their favourite industry, oil. Bonus with all the government re-purposed to supporting the tar business they can claim that they're spending more on science then ever.
Some zoo keeper once said something like, "give a chimp a screwdriver and it will use it for everything but its intended purpose. Give a Gorilla a screwdriver and first he'll show fear, then try to eat it. An Orangutan will show disinterest, hide the screwdriver and later when no one is looking, disassemble his cage"
You could consider getting a goat.
Plants don't necessarily have to die in order for animals, including humans, to eat from them. For example, I can pick an apple without killing the apple tree.
I personally do not eat or use any animal products. In my view it would be immoral to do so.
There are (or were) tribes in Africa who lived off of cow blood and milk, both of which can be extracted without killing the cow.
Google Orangutan escapes for some interesting stories of human like intelligence. The intelligence of Ravens is quite high as well
Finally, an example of a law that will be repealed therefore proving those people who claim laws never get repealed wrong.
Most countries ban things like advertising arsenic as a cold cure as well.
National Security is another reason to suppress speech including jail time for someones speech.
If you go logging or deep sea fishing, you can always re-asses the risks and quit. Back in the high lead logging days people often did quit the first day. Society has also pressured the logging industry into getting much safer over the years.
Once a kidney is removed, or an eye, it is hard to go back.
The automobile industry also had a lot to do with the current situation by buying up the public (which actually was private) transportation and shutting it down. As Westlake says, the cities were spreading out before the automobile, just in a more sane manner, eg following the tram lines and railroads.
For better or worse, the market has a heavy influence on development and their aim is not to improve the average persons life, but to sell something.
Shit is plant food and people as well as animals excrete it. Once you start on that path, the usual consequences are death, famine and misery.
There was also a lot of denialism about whether shitting in the drinking water and not washing your hands before operating or examining a pregnant woman could cause disease. Many a prominent scientist called the idea unscientific and they sure weren't going to spend time scrubbing.
In Canada the the threshold is whether the phone is locked. Unlocked they can look, just like they can look in your wallet. Any kind of lock they require a warrant. Not too bad of a compromise.
Unluckily our government is trying it's hardest to change the Supreme Court into a partisan court like the States with latest appointee having only one qualification, seems he was the only judge in Canada who thought that a Canadian citizen locked up at Guatonomo Bay (sp?) didn't have any rights. This guy doesn't even meet the Constitutional requirements to sit on the Supreme Court yet the government appointed him. To give him credit, he has recused himself from all cases until the Constitutional part is ruled on by the court.
I live in a country where occasionally parties get decimated or worse and replaced by third parties. All that happens is the people from the decimated party move to the third party and pretty quick things are back to where they were if we're lucky. Sometimes it's even worse as while the parties are doing their dance one gets in with just over a third of the vote and are even worse and do irreparable damage.
Democracy is liked by the establishment as it is the easiest to manipulate.
Just how old are you? America started spying on its citizens during the civil war by intercepting the telegraph, ramped it up during WWI when national security started to be used to justify removable of what were apparent rights such as free speech and not much later the rule of J. Edgar Hoover, based on having dirt on everyone, started.
In 1688 Parliament asserted its power and declared the King to have abdicated and invited William of Orange and his wife the Kings daughter to take the crown. This included a new oath of coronation amongst other things and basically cemented the sovereignty of Parliament. Every sovereign since has been well aware of who actually holds the power since and even in 1708 Anne only declined giving Royal Assent on the advice of her Government. As recently as 1936 Parliament pushed out the King and there is a possibility that Charles could also be pushed out if he gets too political and is still alive when the Queen dies though he'll be old enough they'll probably just wait for him to die.
I'd guess if Parliament tried to pass a really unconstitutional law such as there will no longer be elections and all members of the opposition shall be summarily shot, the Queen would refuse assent so she is sorta the last defence against full out tyranny.
As I understand it, with membership in the EU, Parliament is no longer sovereign and is subservient to the EU courts and Parliament.
BTW, the last revolution was the Glorious Revolution of 1688 which even included the first Bill of Rights and finished neutering the Monarchs power. Personally I wish the Monarch had a bit more power, perhaps occasionally not giving Royal Assent but instead dissolving Parliament (and giving assent after the election). This is a power that couldn't be used too often though as the electorate doesn't like frequent elections.
Court cases where the accused is a juvenile are automatically closed in the States? Here they usually have a publication ban on things like the juveniles name but the court is usually open. The press reports on cases involving juveniles all the time, they just call the accused X or whatever and say how they can not report any identifying information due to publication ban or the juvenile being a juvenile.