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Are facial veils a big problem in Canada? It's more of a cultural thing anyways, very little to do with Islam. The issue came up when the cons tried to ban it during citizenship ceremonies and it was challenged by a woman who wanted to keep it. The cons lost the suit, and the appeal, now they are taking it to the supreme court. Turns out she is the 2nd to want to wear one in like 20 years. Cons then said they would ban the public service from wearing them. There currently is no one employed in the public service who wears one. But by making it an issue they have gained huge support in Quebec, where protecting their culture is the #1 priority. By attacking immigrants though they have tumbled to 3rd place in BC, once one of their strongest regions. But they may have given up 10 seats in BC to gain 20 in Quebec, so it may have paid off.

Supposedly Harper's campaign manager is the same guy who ran the Conservative campaigns in the UK and Australia. Called the Australian Karl Rove. His trademark is taking a strong stand on pointless issues that divide people emotionally, which is happening with the niqab. He's tapped into Quebec's xenophobia to erode NDP support there.

It has its moments, but the 15 minute pitch piece managed to capture the feel of the muppets much better than the show does.The second and third episodes are better than the first. Lawrence Fishbourne was awesome.

It's apparently a tad more complex than simply "it works"/"it doesn't work". It's a phenomenon that has positive and negative aspects. Swiped from a Meshugger post in the previous iteration of the thread: The Downside of Diversity — What happens when a liberal scholar unearths an inconvenient truth? It almost sounds, by reading that article, that enforcing workplace diversity is good, but community diversity is bad.

He's losing BC now too, used to be one of the cons biggest sources of support, now he's trailing both the liberals and NDP by 10 points. Apparently the liberals and NDP are polling high in Calgary too. Losing Calgary would be a huge blow to the cons

NDP are hemorrhaging support. Liberals are taking a pretty big lead considering the numbers so far. Libs at 34%, Cons at 30, NDP at 26 according to a Nanos poll. In response, the NDP came out solidly against the TPP, which Harper is trying to get done during an election.

Witcher 3 is the big one I'm assuming will hit dirt cheap soon. I think its on for 25 bucks in the greenmangaming VIP section

80 bucks, I only see a minimum $189 pledge available. Which is still only three weeks of regular metal razors at today's shaving mafia racketeering prices. When I first looked there was still early bird ones available.

All the demos show it barely being able to cut hair. Its cool, but not something I'm gonna drop 80 bucks on.

That's why you take a kindle whitepaper. And reading to the girls can have a great impression, and gives you a really good reason to be whispering in their ear... My kindle was the single best electronics purchase I ever made

It has its moments, but the 15 minute pitch piece managed to capture the feel of the muppets much better than the show does.

Agents of SHIELD was good. Lash's makeup was super cheesy though. Trying to make it through the first ep of the Guardians of the Galaxy animated series. Its really cringe worthy. Voice work is awful and they seem like they're trying to reference the movie every 30 seconds. Marvel finally caught up to DC in the animation game with Earth's Mightiest Heroes and really threw it all away with their Avengers Assemble, Agents of SMASH, and now GotG.

The conservatives passed a bill banning face coverings during citizenship ceremonies, it was challenged on religious grounds. It was deemed not religious but still violated freedom of expression. Conservatives appealed, appellate judge threw it out so the woman who challenged it could be sworn in and vote. Conservatives are taking it to the supreme court and asking for a pause to all citizenship ceremonies until its resolved, citing a poll that 82% of canadians agree with their stance, and 94% of quebecers, where I assume is where its happening because why else would that number be relevant. Now the cons are spinning it as them being the only party standing up for Canadian values.

While I feel the niqab has no place in a modern western nation, the courts found banning it is a violation of the right of freedom of expression, and Harper is continuing to waste taxpayer dollars fighting petty battles in the courts to try to deny people rights.

Liana K's husband has some good tidbits on various topics.

I would say ninja'd except it was 2 days ago it was posted.

Local Liberal candidate came knocking today. First time a candidate has ever knocked on my door. This is the 3rd election I've been at this address and I have never seen Nina Grewal (conservative MP for my riding) knock on my door. Thats points in his favour, though I'm pretty much decided to vote Liberal anyway. Conservatives are a no, they were never an option for me. NDP have been a tad disappointing, though they have announced a national pharmacare plan which is a good thing. Liberals are in first place now with 32%, NDP at 31%, and Cons at 28%, with the Greens picking up most of the rest. So its not likely that anyone will get a majority unless the Liberals can pick it up. They started the election with 26% so they could take it. Need something like 38% for a majority. I'd like a Liberal lead coalition with the NDP ideally, but Harper had a big media campaign to poison the idea of coalition governments before proroguing parliament last time the opposition parties tried to topple the Con minority government and set up a Liberal/NDP/Bloc coalition.

Rewatched Doomstar Requiem: A Klok Opera. Damn you Adult Swim for not allowing Brendon Small to finish Metalocalypse.

There was a LOT of network meddling in Heroes. It was supposed to originally be an anthology series with a new cast each season. Sylar was supposed to die at the end of season 1. The writers strike crippled season 2, and by that point it was damaged irreparably. Season 4 was a step in the right direction, but it was too late.

I wish Blizzard would just take the art assets and such from WoW and build a single player game. I would be all over a single player open world Warcraft RPG

Really all the QFG games were good as a mage. Each class had really good side stuff.

Castle does well too. The characters in that one are great though.

Tim and crew need to do a Spiritual Successor TM of Arcanum. Or work with Activision to do a sequel through the revived Sierra

Ck2,Limbo, and A Virus Named Tom gone. Pribably need to update my list...

I hope they offer a goty edition upgrade to get all the dlc at once.