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I'm speaking strictly about your "there's nothing wrong with using the law to protect your 'rights'" comment above. It's a ridiculous argument. For what it's worth, the problem with your suggestion in post #47 (which is reasonable on the surface) is that you can end up with the taxpayer hosting...

When your privileges trample on the legitimate rights of others (like equality before the law, or freedom of religion), it is a shame. I'm curious, do you use the same argument to defend Jim Crow laws? Slavery? Apartheid?

Hey blackrock13, do you think it would be immoral if Ontario were to go back to government by the Family Compact? Or the dominance of the Orange Institution in provincial (and municipal) politics? If so, how are those meaningfully different from the status quo in funding schools for Catholics to...

There's also the disparity in "intensity" among the majority of the populace, who are only mildly opposed to funding Catholic schools but are rabidly opposed to extending that funding to hijab-wearing Muslims. Just ask John Tory about that...

I think you'll find that most Canadians would consider religious discrimination by the state to be inherently immoral and entirely contrary to the putative values of Canadian society... at least at a cursory level.

This isn't accurate. Quebec went from a model where publically-funded schools were either Catholic or Protestant (and most Protestant schools were indeed Anglophone), to a model where publicly-funded schools are officially nonreligious and either Anglophone or Francophone. It's a total change...

How so? And please address the system I mentioned (STV), since I already acknowledged that PR is a non-starter. I'm pretty sure no democracy in history has ever actually stated this as a goal. You're projecting here, Fuji. The US has FPTP and both parties increasingly disregard the middle in...

PR is a non-starter, but preferential voting in the form of a single transferable ballot would be a huge improvement over the status quo. Fuji, I'd disagree with your third point insofar as magnifying voter intention isn't democratic when there are disparities between voter intention and...

The only "childish" thing here is your reading comprehension. Alas, this means the choice for you is clear. Yes, I know that. That's the "necessary federal assistance" and the "mechanism" I referred to in my post. I'm sorry I was too subtle for you, next time I'll spell it out in flashing...

1) Yes, those elements of the BNA Act (including Section 93) not specifically repealed by the Constitution Act, 1982 are still in effect, and are in fact subsumed within the latter. 2) Catholic and Protestant education in Quebec, and the denominational school system in Newfoundland, were...

This conveniently ignores the fact that Henry wanted to divorce Catharine because she could not provide him with a male heir that would secure the Tudor dynasty. Henry and Catherine had been ineligible to marry because Catherine was Henry's elder brother's widow (that's a no-no... look it up)...

I do think girls need to be more careful with their personal information. I know of one Toronto SP who registered her escort domain name using her real-life personal name and worse, her real-life address; the info is accessible to anyone smart enough to do a WHOIS lookup (not exactly a high...

Perhaps he realizes that you're "efficient in everything you do," (i.e. what the rest of us call "cheap as fuck") and that you won't actually spend the money to make it worth his while to help you no matter how "nice" he is. This is pretty obvious from a quick glance at your posting history, and...

Thanks for posting this, ducttape. Those were the days! I clearly remember watching this game and the crushing disappointment I felt when the ball bounced through Manny Lee's legs. It was the lowest I ever felt as a sports fan, lower than when the Jays lost game 7 to the Royals in '85, much...

Not that it matters, of course... like you said, watching on TV is nowhere near being there!

"Figurehead" is not quite right, but he'd have roughly the same influence on the on-field product for Rugby Canada that Larry Tanenbaum has on the Leafs.

It should be a good game, hopefully the US shows up to play. Some solid athletes (that Samoan lock is a monster!) but they looked pretty disorganized in Charleston last week.

Ethnic yes, ghetto not so much. Unless you're trying to suggest that the two are coterminous...

Looking at the neighbourhoods ranked, I can only imagine that there's an inverse relationship between diversity and ranking. I suppose I shouldn't be surprised, if weight is determined in part by a poll of Douchebag Life's readership, but still.

Are you WTFing my mention of Mimico, or the fact that it's the #9 best neighbourhood to live in Toronto according to Douchebag Life? EDIT: I actually like Mimico, but I don't get ranking it so high and then ranking Mount Dennis (which is Mimico with less water and more forest) dead last.