All Purpose Politics and News Thread

[DaveP]

Dion tweeted his displeasure #NorthKorea

http://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/canad...laim-1.2725787

[Darth Penguin]

Canada joins widespread condemnation of Korea H-bomb test

The Canadian government is condemning North Korea’s claim that it conducted its first hydrogen bomb test, calling it “reckless behaviour.”
Foreign Affairs Minister Stephane Dion and his department expressed their outrage on Twitter, saying that a North Korean nuclear test represents a “violation” of international agreements.
“Canada condemns without reservation the reckless behaviour of #NorthKorea, which today claimed to have detonated a nuclear device,” one of the tweets read.

[gryphon]

Thats why I asked. I had heard and wanted confirmation or correction

[DaveP]

Thats why I asked. I had heard and wanted confirmation or correction

Yup, the Government of Canada tweeted. We're so cool now.

[seylz_gurl]

http://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/world/...s22?li=AAggNb9

coming soon to a Canadian city near you courtesy of His Royal Highness. Women's rights gone.

[Natalka]

That situation in Germany was just absolutely horrendous!

[Natalka]

Brad Wall Premier of Saskatchewan

5 January at 20:39 ·

Today we proclaimed 2016 the "Year of Saskatchewan Ukrainians", celebrating 125 years of key contributions from Ukrainian people to our province.

Over 13% of our province has Ukrainian heritage, and they proudly represent a culture and traditions that are deeply embedded in the Saskatchewan mosaic. We thank them for the positive longstanding relationship.

[DaveP]

One day we have tarpaper roof also.

Anyone?

[MortgageQueen]

http://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/world/...s22?li=AAggNb9

coming soon to a Canadian city near you courtesy of His Royal Highness. Women's rights gone.

What a poised and intelligent young lady (that was interviewed) considering what she had been through. Just horrific situation.

[lecale]

http://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/world/...s22?li=AAggNb9

coming soon to a Canadian city near you courtesy of His Royal Highness. Women's rights gone.

This is a really interesting read, about the cultural differences in the cultures where migrants come from vs. the west, vis a vis women

Norway Offers Migrants a Lesson in How to Treat Women

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/20/wo...s&emc=rss&_r=0

[Darth Penguin]

Google translates Russia to Mordor

Google has fixed a bug in an online tool after it began translating "Russian Federation" to "Mordor".
Mordor is the name of a fictional region nicknamed "Land of Shadow" in JRR Tolkien's Lord of the Rings books.
In addition, "Russians" was translated to "occupiers" and the surname of Sergey Lavrov, the country's Foreign Minister, to "sad little horse".
The errors had been introduced to Google Translate's Ukrainian to Russian service automatically, Google said.
The terms mirror language used by some Ukrainians following Moscow's annexation of Crimea in 2014.

@Natalka

[DaveP]

We hear the horror stories from ISIS controlled areas but this is just beyond imagining.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-35260475

[DaveP]

And this from CBC, freaking wow. You folks were discussing this a few posts back.


Cologne New Year's Eve assault suspects include 18 asylum seekers

More than half of the 31 perpetrators identified so far are 'refugees'. I understand Germany is being flooded with people and has no way to screen them but I sure hope we're doing some screening of the tens of thousands we're admitting here. Slow down Justin, do this right or not at all. I want a Canada where it's still safe for my wife and daughters to leave the house.

[seylz_gurl]

Two teenage girls gang-raped by 4 Syrian refugees in national Germany.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worl...n-Germany.html

[Natalka]

We hear the horror stories from ISIS controlled areas but this is just beyond imagining.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-35260475

OMG, this is just sickening. ALL of this ISIS stuff is, gah!