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3 players to score in the first period
6of1_halfdozenofother replied to NucksinNorway's topic in General Hockey Discussion
I'm guessing it's not advised to select Loui Eriksson, Thatcher Demko, and Alex Edler? Uh... asking for a friend. Yeah. -
Montreal has 3 more games postponed
6of1_halfdozenofother replied to Bad_BOI_pete's topic in General Hockey Discussion
Maybe the Habs should just bow out of the race and call it a season... (yeah, wishful thinking, I know) -
Who are the Rivals?
6of1_halfdozenofother replied to sportprof101's topic in General Hockey Discussion
What I want to know is... ...is this research approved by the Ethics Board of Canucks.Dot.Com? -
Enough to rattle the windows that got knocked around a bit by the hailstorm that came through.
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Even if KOS isn't going to rejoice publicly about this, I will definitely say, "it's about &^@#ing time the &^@#ing health authorities got their &^@#ing heads out of their &^@#ing asses!" - too many months too late, I should add
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I guess to a certain degree, those that are born here but are sycophants or fanboys of the ccp regime - they aren't burdened by the oath their parents or other forebearers made. They probably feel their citizenship can't be stripped from them because they have it by virtue of birth in the country. As for that last question, my wife will proudly say that she is a HKer (and refuses to be called Chinese), and for the next census, she'd probably insist on being referred to as such. I can't refer to myself as a HKer, because my ties to there are very peripheral and indirect. I'd probably refer to myself as Cantonese Canadian on the census, because Cantonese is my heritage and Canada is my home.
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https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/auditor-general-pandemic-covid-phac-1.5963895 Just to re-iterate the headline and sub-headline: No &^@#ing $&!#, Sherlock &^@#ing Holmes! Understatement of the century. PHAC leadership really should be held accountable for this - heads should roll, with those at the top to go first, including the Minister of Health's.
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Easier said then done. Plus, don't expect that all Canadians of Chinese heritage to shun the actions of the ccp. I know of a few people who are chest-thumping blind ccp-supporting nationalists who are also 2nd+ generation Canadians, who don't carry a Chinese passport. The proposed actions you suggested don't address the core issue, which is to force the ccp to change its behaviour of blatant human rights abuses and authoritarian bullying. Going after a population (that is neither homogenous in its belief system nor its political stance) based on their extraction or heritage is misguided at best, and genocidal at worst. We're supposed to be better than that.
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Oh, the horror... the poor shattered hearts of the glass-hearted ones... [/sarcasm] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-xinjiang-cotton-retailers-idUSKBN2BH0Q3 No idea if the embedded slideshows will appear properly, but there was an embedded video link that I had to remove near the top because it was not rendering properly. The link to the video URL is https://www.reuters.com/video/?videoId=OVE5L5WGB&jwsource=em
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Montreal has 3 more games postponed
6of1_halfdozenofother replied to Bad_BOI_pete's topic in General Hockey Discussion
About why the Canucks only sat out the two players at the beginning of the season, and proceeded to play the first games of the season (as opposed to postponing the games). -
Montreal has 3 more games postponed
6of1_halfdozenofother replied to Bad_BOI_pete's topic in General Hockey Discussion
They explained it in last night's broadcast (I think it was the 2nd intermission) - there apparently was sufficient time for the league to do the contact tracing necessary to ensure that the exposure had been minimal. Whether or not that's an acceptable approach is up to individual opinion, but it was good enough for the PHOs in the provinces affected. -
If you really want to curdle their yoghurt, tell them that you're going to recognize Taiwan as a separate entity and start petitioning to bring them into the UN; declare the "one china" policy null and void. Bringing back the Exclusion Act will only serve to benefit the ccp. After all not everyone who has chosen to leave the regime has done so to promote the ccp's interests; some are legitimately leaving to escape that regime. And then there are also issues surrounding how you define "Chinese citizens", when most Canadians (including Asian-Canadians) can't visually figure out one culture from another (be it HK'er, Taiwanese, mainlander, Singaporean, Malay, Japanese, Korean - and that's just the yellow skin/black haired ones... most caucasians can't tell Pacific Islanders such as Filipino, Indonesians, Maori, and other Pacific indigenous peoples from the yellow skin/black haired Asians). Plus don't forget those of us 2nd+ generation Canadians who have for years borne the brunt of racist remarks and actions. There are better ways of dealing with the actions of the ccp than to bring back the 1920s.
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For something a little more closer to home... https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/ubc-china-forum-vancouver-uyghur-association-1.5954445 Sad to know that our government (facing the issue of the two Michaels) and our local university (who has lots of dealings with that company) have overtly supported this event. Shows a complete lack of tact with these sort of sensitive matters. (As the Cantonese saying goes, they're being so "7".)
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It's called spying on you/surveilance"Smart UHD TV" now.
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I'd advise caution about letting the ccp's telecommunications "companies" into our market.
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Had me worried for a moment there. This appears to be for their cellular/mobile interests, not their cable TV or internet stuff. I remember when Rogers Cable was the dominant player here for the longest time, until they did a business swap with Shaw to give up their cable TV and internet interests here in the 604 in favour of Shaw's cable TV and internet interests in the 416, which were supposedly comparable in subscribership. I wonder how that'll work for those people who signed onto Shaw's fibre internet to get bundled onto Shaw Mobile?
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My wife and I are doing our part - no plans to have kids, no interest in having kids. Saving the environment, reducing the impact of consumption and consumerism, minimizing the strain on the health care system, saving our unborn kids from having to deal with this $&!# world for their whole life, including all of the stupidity home and abroad. Woohoo!!
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Goodbye Hong Kong. Nice knowing you....
6of1_halfdozenofother replied to Lancaster's topic in Off-Topic General
But then you have the issue of interfering with another country's "internal matters", which has always been frowned upon on the international scene. If the west accepts "one china" as the official foreign policy, then annexing Taiwan becomes an internal matter (difference in scale, but no difference in nature than the Oka Crisis, or the October Crisis). We'd have to make it clear - before the ccp moves on Taiwan - that "one china" is not practiceable and not the de jure policy being accepted. By the way, I like your choice of words. "Action" is very broad. You could say the west has been "taking action" all along, from anywhere such as the hot air spewed in government halls of supporting democratically elected governments, to things such as our neighbours south of the 49th selling arms to Taiwan. Are any of these actions meaningful or sufficiently deterring the ccp from achieving their own "manifest destiny"? I hardly think so. I also don't think that the west has much appetite for military conflict - there's not much of their skin in the game, so to speak, to sacrifice their "good men and women" to engage inconflict in terms of ensuring a free Taiwan; they certainly didn't do much for HK, despite their view of it as a key port of transit for their trade and a jusridiction through which legal agreements would be judged. As long as the big fat slab of pork called "1.4 billion people's buying power" is dangled in their face, I think the west would prefer to ensure the $$bucks$$ keep rollin' in and settle with less biting and more barking when it comes to human rights and supporting free and open governance models. -
Goodbye Hong Kong. Nice knowing you....
6of1_halfdozenofother replied to Lancaster's topic in Off-Topic General
Question is: what would be considered as "annexation"? They've always viewed Taiwan as their own internal matter, which is why any pretense of accepting the "one china" policy needs to go before the west can take the moral high ground of "protecting democracy in Taiwan". Besides, the way they've been loan sharking countries, they might not need to militarily "conquer" them, just point out the fact that most of the newly-built infrastucture in those countries belongs to them, or strip them bare of natural resources via the companies that have infiltrated those countries' key indusries.