niryuu/sni-each-converted huggingface dataset:
Comment: Yep we already have been trough a year with a clueless PM , at least O'Leary has some business sense. He isn't a previous drama teacher or snow board instructor. Hope he wins it, it would be fun to hear/see him duke it out with Jr.
Output: Disagree
Comment: I am starting to think my Canadian generosity is being taken advantage of.
Output: Agree
Comment: Sustainability?
What is sustainable about deforestation?
The amount of useful soil on Canadian land is quite thin, compared to more southern climes. When you take a tree and ship it fifteen hundred miles south, you have also taken the nutrients that built that tree with it.

By sustainable, are you suggesting that Canadian foresters take a tree and leave an equivalent amount of fertilizer? No? Then explain further this "sustainable" thing...
Output: Disagree
Comment: Ironic, D8o, because Mr. Wilders represents the Dutch who are intolerant.
Output: Disagree
Comment: I personally admire Bill Morneau.  He seems like he is genuinely trying.  It is just that he, like many others who have never had to start a business or find a job or save for retirement, has no practical experience at what it is to be middle class.  I know many people who make over $100k/year but without pensions.  None are "rich" and all are going to be working a long time because they are still paying off mortgages in their late 40's/early 50's.  Now that they are finally in a place where they are making good money, they are being told they are the problem in the country - they are rich and aren't paying enough taxes.
Meanwhile, the government paid $200k for artwork on the cover of the 2017 budget, which is the federal tax paid by someone who makes $700k/year.  Get rid of wasteful practices instead of more revenue to continue wasteful practices.
Output: Agree
Comment: I suggest you say that to the media also, he answered her question, she kept pushing, I would of just walked also.  At least he answers questions unlike the full of bull PM.
Output: Disagree
Comment: Canada has fake journalists interviewing a fake Prime Minister.  Can't get any lower than that.
Output: Disagree
Comment: We're not in denial. Telling a woman what not to wear is just as much as a micro-aggression as forcing a woman to wear something she doesn't want to. We hate the niqab and burqa too but realise that they will not disappear with a ban. The only thing Europe has succeeded in doing with their bans is to further ghettoise and isolate the Muslim communities, which makes it easier for radicalisation. Things change by having subsequent generations integrate more into mainstream and secular society, something that Canada does fairly well. It's slow (a matter of generations) but effective, particularly since we do not have nowhere near the same level of influx Europe has.
Output: Disagree
Comment: Cultural appropriation is a scam.  Nobody owns a culture, and all cultures are continuously changing over time from absorbing bits from other cultures or simply from internally preferences.
The whole point of the cultural appropriation dogma and rhetoric is to wallow in victimhood and to control what others can say and do.
Output: Agree
Comment: that blatant liar is John Horgan.  He has promised to spend so much money on unbelievably economy-destroying ideas like $10 childcare, massive expansion of the social service and teachers, buying renter voters with $400 handouts, eliminating new bridge tolls, cancelling clean hydro project site C.  He is either lying because he won't deliver those items, or he is lying about the amount of massive tax increases and deficits he will have to impose on the hard working taxpayers.  He is also lying saying he will end the kinder morgan expansion - he cannot legally do anything about it.  A vote for NDP will mean we will see our debt-to-GDP and unemployment skyrocket like it did in every province where the NDP has had power!
Output: Disagree
Comment: The reason why Flynn had to go was because he lost the confidence of Donald Trump, not because of his communication with the Russians (as Obama did the same thing), but because he didn't tell the truth when asked about it. I agree with his removal. But the real damage of this incident is the fact that someone in the intelligence community is leaking classified top secret information to the media. This is unacceptable and Donald Trump needs to initiate an investigation as to who these people are and their motives for committing these treasonous actions.
Output: Disagree
Comment: There seems a bit of a rush by media and their sycophants in the activist community to be apologists for this chap. A little too much enthusiasm for the heart wrenching drama but little objective examination of the story. It's borderline galling that their release was doubtless enabled by US interests yet he harbours  vitriol for America. 

Perhaps he has something to hide?
Output: Agree
Comment: Boy was that ever a mean and poorly- informed thing to say.
Allow me to retort. The people making money from oil are the ones who do nothing at all, apart from trashing the planet  making their living from an obsolete energy source.
Output: Disagree
Comment: If you're incapable of offering anything beyond pointless sarcasm, why bother posting?
Output: Disagree
Comment: Hey Roachdale, It's your grand kids you have no thought about isn't it...?
Output: Disagree
Comment: Just in case you missed it...

“there should be no preferential access, or appearance of preferential access” in exchange for political donations"

Trudeau and his Liberals cannot be trusted.   He must resign.
Output: Agree
Comment: Don't you think that the argument that ON, or Canada, or any jurisdiction for that matter, is too small to make a difference is a cop out?  If every jurisdiction thought that way, there would be no reason for any to act.  It's a classic Tragedy of the Commons situation.  The problem is a worldwide one, and everybody must be prepared to do their part.

My question to you would be: Do you believe that anthropogenic global climate change is a problem that needs to be addressed?  If so, how would you do it differently than this cap-and-trade system?
Output: Disagree
Comment: A cash for access event.  A donation to Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation.  He must be getting advise from the Clintons and Premier Wynne.  This is corruption at every possible level.  Justin has just become the new Duffy.
Output: Agree
Comment: "One can understand the outrage. Christians' Christmas and the Lord's prayer are banished from schools."

Rubbish. 100% certifiable drek. No religion is banished from Canadian classrooms. Instead, ALL religions are treated equally.
Output: Disagree
Comment: None of what you wrote is reality and its easily disproven

You russian agents need to try harder - you're too obvious
Output: Disagree
Comment: Are you kidding me ?  That's wishful thinking run amok .  Who told you that ? FNN , The Washington Post or New York Times ?   Murkowski is stabbing her fellow republican's in the back.  You think they are going to tolerate that ?  Look what happens in the Alaska legislature when people aren't loyal . And that's child play compared to the U.S. Senate .  She is clearly digging her and Alaska's grave by her disloyalty . Only Dan Sullivan can save us from being punished because of her.
Output: Disagree
Comment: It's not surprising that the man behind the curtain, Gerald Butts, is doing to Canada what he did to Ontario....influencing a series of poor/corrupt decisions that drove the Province into the ground. For those familiar with the story, our PM is the Scarecrow. Canadians are finally starting to get it.
Output: Agree
Comment: There was an interview played this morning on CTV with Caitlin Coleman's father. The man was visibly angered that Joshua Boyle took Coleman, pregnant of all things, to this hell hole in the first place. He made strong note of how errant it was of Joshua Boyle to refuse a US flight through a US airbase on the way home.

Catlin Coleman's father is finally the refreshing counterpoint to Canadian media's spin that Joshua Boyle is some kind of hero. In fact, Boyle, previous husband of Omar Khadr's sister, was a behaving like a reckless ideologue.
Output: Agree
Comment: I just hate the idea of a referendum. The cost would not be worth it. Getting even 30% turnout for an issue most Canadians don't understand and don't care about would be a minor miracle. Below a threshold of at least a 50%  turnout the results would be suspect. Voting would be split along party lines. Would this be fair to the people who are neutral or don't come out to vote? From one who campaigned for the "No" side in the Charlottetown Accord Referendum, please avoid a divisive referendum.
Output: Disagree
Comment: Propaganda? What about your fear mongering?
Alex Nowrasteh, an immigration expert at the right-wing libertarian Cato Institute, found that nationals of the seven countries singled out by Trump have killed zero people in terrorist attacks on U.S. soil between 1975 and 2015.
Over the last four decades, 20 out of 3.25 million refugees welcomed to the United States have been convicted of attempting or committing terrorism on U.S. soil, and only three Americans have been killed in attacks committed by refugees—all by Cuban refugees in the 1970s.
Between 1975 and 2015, the “annual chance of being murdered by somebody other than a foreign-born terrorist was 252.9 times greater than the chance of dying in a terrorist attack committed by a foreign-born terrorist."
So what is the fear of refugees based on??
Output: Disagree
Comment: Apparently Trump bashing has gotten so bizarre that even freedom and independence must take a back seat to it. How totally bizarre!
Output: Disagree
Comment: You wish to continue to indulge in your hatred caused by irrational fears of Muslims without ever being called out for it.  Well, you still have every freedom to spew Islamaphobia (and that's exactly what you're defending here) but others have every right to continue to call it for what it is.  You and others continue to whine that you're not Islamaphobic and yet you never seem to be able to raise any non-bigoted, intelligent arguments about Islam.  In fact, you almost certainly haven't read the Qoran either so please, tell us, what fact-based, reason-based arguments do you have then????????  M103 is a motion.  Your hysterical response to it just highlights your irrationality even more.
Output: Disagree
Comment: I agree - start  a new Coffee company. If Bobby Orr got involved, it would put these greedy little men from New York out of business. I worked in the Calgary oil patch and watched the 'American style of capitalism and business' wreck so many companies.
The model: Constant costs savings through hiring cheaper employees, screw service providers, cheap quality parts (as this article stresses). Why. Try to get the share price up for 2-3 years, where the options vest and bonuses to the executives and senior folks/ board (500 people) are huge and they move on without caring a bit about the company.
Sounds harsh, but basically how it works. A horrible model that so many companies now follow. I 'm conservative, but now understand why Bernie Sanders did so well in the USA. Corporate America is out of control and their greed will cause a social economic revolution. Think I am out to lunch - just watch!!! We need good, honest business people to take back control of our corporate world in Canada!
Output: Agree
Comment: Not a chance in hell Michael.  Joe Miller is not even remotely a Libertarian. He's a right-wing neo conservative religious authoritarian nut-job.  Who the hell am I supposed to vote for now?
Output: Agree
Comment: i am married to a beautiful, educated, driven woman who plans and plans and plans. the first words out of her mouth, on any given morning,  are what I have to do...or what i should do ...or that some event is coming up  seventeen weeks from now and why haven't i decided what to wear? I am going to buy her a big box of raisins, tape this article to it and run...
Output: Agree
Comment: "When you start running out of ideas to change the present, you start messing with the past, history, past figures and Canadian traditions."
Unbelievable!!!
Did you even read the article? The author has ideas to change the present. The whole premise of this piece is about dealing with "present" issues.
You, and others, as he suggests, are just not listening, or do not want to listen.
He lists a few legitimate "present" concerns: 
"slow implementation of recommendations made by the inquiry investigating the death of seven First Nations youth in Thunder Bay; and we’ve seen the grieving family of Barbara Kentner, the First Nations victim in a racially motivated killing, forced to flee their homes because of threats made against their children at school."
Your complete inability, or desire, to understand what he is saying suggests you come to the discussion with a mind already made up.
That is the problem.
Output: Disagree
Comment: Yes, utilities are a provincial matter and your point is??? Maybe ask Manitoba's provincial Tory con job of a Premier how he 'runs' the province while hiding south of the border, two months a year, down in Costa Rica! lol
Output: Disagree
Comment: PERS/TERS was gutted several years ago so quit scapegoating. You're only paying for those who were already in the system and no amount of layoffs is going to do much about that. Current  new employees have little more than a 401(K).
Output: Agree
Comment: No one is asking that Cornwallis be erased from any book.  It would be great if the scope of Cornwallis' crimes were studied and published in detail.  Public monuments like statutes are generally intended to honour individuals.  We shouldn't be honouring Cornwallis.
Output: Disagree
Comment: Cultural appropriation isn't about originality. It's about exploitation. It's dishonest in that it seeks to control, sanitize, and marginalize the appropriated culture.

The "Write what you know" dictum is akin to the Oracle at Delphi's statement on Socrates. Was he the smartest Greek? He thought he didn't know anything and set about to find out how little he did know.

Picasso said Art is a lie that tells the truth. Writers need to know they're lying and to be wary about whether their finished story tells the truth or just perpetuates a lie.

No one is worried about the appropriation of English culture or French culture. It's the appropriation of oppressed cultures that matters. Indigenous cultures, cultures of people of colour, marginalized peoples, and those discriminated against have all been victimized a second time by having their stories colonized by their oppressors. 

It does not do a disservice to note the culture of the author. What it does do is note authority.
Output: Disagree
Comment: "Fewer than five are crooks and fraudsters for following the Commissioner's advice"

Small business owners and the 1 percenters all follow rules set out by the government, and according to the Liberals,  they are are crooks and fraudsters for following rules.
Output: Agree
Comment: So let me understand this correctly. Not a Canadian citizen or permanent resident but failed refugee claimant who left Canada; proceeded to areas of the world that are known to be zones associated with extremist activities; was captured by and detained by American forces; recently read about the Khadr settlement; and now wants a piece of our tax dollars in the sum of $50 million?

Even if the Canadian government told them everything about this guy, it doesn’t matter. He is conferred no rights under our constitution or our laws. He is a failed refugee claimants who engaged in activities against the US armed forces and was detained by the US government. 

Sue the Americans and stay out of Canada. You can’t mooch off our government. We already told you that you were not welcome here.
Output: Agree
Comment: Eliminating tax credits means raising taxes. Revenue tools are taxes. No one is better at spending other people's money than smug leftwing idealists in the Federal Liberals.  Trudeau is a naive idealist who grew up with a silver spoon completely disconnected from the economic realities facing most Canadian families. The Federal Liberals ignorantly believe they are better at spending taxpayer money than the people who actually earn it, they support big government, waste, and leftwing social experiments that waste money and yield nothing in return. Sunny ways, because it's 2016, #whatwouldJustindo, good for you Canada! And the government will run exclusively on "green" energy by 2025, because wind and solar have done wonders for Ontario... good for you Toronto, you deserve each other.
Output: Agree
Comment: How will we ever survive without this sort of leadership from Sen. Lesil McGuire (R-Baden Baden)?
Output: Agree
Comment: only an idiot votes for a party that will destroy the economy, raise taxes and indoctrinate society with all the bs crap like out of control immigration thus holding your nose and voting conservative in the last fed election was better, now we are stuck with the worst
Output: Disagree
Comment: The number of  pipsqueak  reporters and newsreaders  criticizing the man who will be President Donald Trump on January 20 is  noteworthy only for the shallow, herd mentality  it exposes. This  piece of cheap satire  will fit in neatly with the earlier hysterical pieces written prior to the new President's election by the American people.
Output: Disagree
Comment: I don't smoke marijuana. Never have. Never wanted to. However I voted to legalize 2 years ago just like a majority of Alaskan voters. 
I'm constantly appalled at how slow the legislative machine has made this process. Part of the reason people like me voted for legalization was to stop the unnecessary prosecution of these petty crimes AND to reap the benefits of tax revenue. 
All I have seen in 2 years is more ridiculous charges against people and a lot of money spent to keep pot shops closed and make sure we don't see any of that tax revenue. 
Enough already.
Output: Agree
Comment: You are completely wrong. Just because something is "legal" does not compel anyone or any particular institution to provide it. Faith based organizations provide important services to our society and they are to be commended for doing so. It simply does not follow that just because a faith based institution refuses to provide something that is contrary to that faith that in turn it should be forced out of business entirely and in the process punish those who receive the much needed other services provided by the institution. That would be perverse.
Output: Disagree
Comment: This is oh so tiresome. First, no one cares about what Trudeau said about Castro, outside of a few rabid conservatives and the various leadership candidates of the CPC who think they can appeal to that rabid base. The really interesting question here is why these people are so lost in the past that they are fighting and evoking tropes from the Cold War. Don't they know that is over? Second, discussing Castro outside of the historical context is ludicrous. Castro is controversial precisely because he did  a lot of good along with the bad. As far as Latin American dictators go, Castro was one of the better ones  - a man who really did improve life for the great majority of his country's citizens, even as he resisted brutal American oppression. Through the 1960-1980s, Cuba was one of the best places in the region to live - much better than the American-backed vicious right wing dictatorships that slaughtered  their own people. That is what the rest of the world -and Trudeau -remembers.
Output: Disagree
Comment: "NAFTA must include gender equality protection, Trudeau says".

And if it doesn't, what's he gonna do about it? Withdraw from NAFTA? We'll only trade with the US if they adjust all their laws to suit Justin? This silliness knows no bounds. This one ranks right up there with changing "right to work" laws in the states.
Output: Agree
Comment: That is a disgraceful statement.
Output: Disagree
Comment: If the founding fathers of the United States could see what is happening now, they would probably be disgusted.
Output: Agree
Comment: Apparently our PM forgot that the city and region he was visiting has many English schools, an English College, an English university, an English newspaper...and a pretty decent number of people who speak English at home, work and school. Not only is it disrespectful, it does show an surprising ignorance of the region and its demographics.
Output: Agree
Comment: You would be unable to cite sources for the"illegality" of the settlements, as there are none. The settlements are built on disputed lands no doubt, but lands that no "Palestinian" country or sovereign political entity has ever had title to. 

Israel has every right to construct settlements on "disputed" lands, until such time as title can be proved to be held by another sovereign entity. The court of public opinion, led by 180 countries that have routinely demonstrated an overwhelming anti-Israel bias, has no standing in this matter, except to those that share that bias.
Output: Disagree
Comment: The US is not the richest country in the world as they are 20T in debt as a result of the despicable democrats
Output: Disagree
Comment: Rep. Munoz's side of the story, Gegonos, is in the two letters that she wrote to a judge(s) advocating for two child rapists.  Munoz's two letters are now public record in the state's court system and now they're indefensible.  Whoever is running against Munoz in November better use this self-baptized blunder to unseat Munoz.  Juneau's has a strong liberal base and I'll watch and see what the CONservative bases does with this politically incorrect issue.  And don't forget it was Jack's wife that contacted OCS and made the formal report that her husband was having an inappropriate relationship with their foster daughter.
Output: Agree
Comment: guess you would prefer people with no experience in business in government?  guess you would then criticize their lack of experience.  No wonder competent people avoid public service like the plague.
Output: Disagree
Comment: There is no way Biden should be coming here to Canada this close to Trump taking over the Presidency.

This meeting serves no purpose.  None.  But then, when has Trudeau ever turned down a chance for a fancy taxpayer paid state dinner for family and friends.
Output: Disagree
Comment: What moral right do we have to burden future generations with this debt because we refuse to take cuts in services or pay for them.  Canadians should be ashamed of themselves.
Output: Agree
Comment: Interesting, Winnipeg Warrior. Your impression is that media treats Muslim violence as individual acts and white violence as a societal problem. My impression is the reverse, that the media are more likely to treat Muslim violence as a product of Islam, and white violence as the result of mental imbalance. And many expect Muslim clerics to apologize for Muslim violence, but we don't expect the same of Christian clerics. We seem to believe what we want to believe. How do we resolve this?
Output: Disagree
Comment: A tremendous and dedicated servant to the public, his district and Alaska overall.  You never had to question where Johnny was coming from. I remember in the 1980's when Johnny was running and there was a very dirty whisper campaign about him being gay being run by an unscrupulous campaign consultant who is still in the business.  My parents, long time residents of Fairview, both stood up for Johnny and let him run their picture in his campaign literature along with a personal statement of support.  My dad died when he was 90 but my mom, Helen is still alive at 96 and often mentions Johnny when I see her.  I was always very proud of them for that.
Output: Agree
Comment: Heinbecker, well-known for his anti-Israel screeds, loves to demonize the Jewish State and its supporters, both Jews and Christians.  A UN devotee to the useless organization, he deliberately left out the most important part of UN resolution 242, sympathizes with Hamas, and supports the creation of a new non-democratic Arab terror state.  

He also 'forgot' to mention that Kerry said the new terror state should be non-militarized.  If we want to return to the infamous immoral Liberal 1990s UN stances, Heinbecker's your man.
Output: Disagree
Comment: Simple solution.. Vote the bums out. From a former born and raised Ontarian now living in a fiscally responsible western province.
Output: Agree
Comment: Free speech can come with a cost to those who choose to speak freely and without thought of the possible consequences of such speech. We are asked here to ensure our speech is CIVIL. When it is not considered CIVIL it is removed. Using ones Facebook page for a platform to make racist comments can lead to consequences far greater than just having such comments removed. This young girl has lost the trust of many and has positioned herself undesirably to many of us regardless of the official outcome of all of this. She is now just a reminder of what Canada might become in the future. I suspect that is not what many of us want.
Output: Agree
Comment: For those of us who were questioning how exactly was beholden to foreign interests, 1 million dollars to the Foundation looks like a pretty good answer.

Trudeau should resign.
Output: Agree
Comment: Trust me on this Ambrose. Anyone trudging across a field and jumping a ditch to enter Canada is not entering the country legally.
Output: Agree
Comment: Wrong again.  This chant is great, and it should be celebrated by everybody who cares about democracy and who loves Canada. It's the voice of the people, letting the elites know that things are changing.

The political elites think they are special snowflakes who can do what they want. They have forgotten that they have duties, obligations and responsibilities to the people, not to the special interests and lobbyists.

If you want someone to blame for this chant blame Notley for breaking her promises to the voters. Blame Notley for catering to special interests instead of the people.  You can condemn it all you want, like you condemned Trump, but you can't stop what's coming.  The only way to stop it is to start governing for the benefit of the people instead of the special interests.
Output: Disagree
Comment: Dear Margaret,

As long as Justin wins elections, he doesn't need advice from you. Just like Trump didn't. You made wrong electoral predictions about both of them.

How about advising Trump not to act like a 5 year old with a Twitter account?

Who knows, he might actually grow up?
Output: Disagree
Comment: Would you hire someone with anti capitalism views to run an investment firm? The PM did not label her a bigot, etc. It is simply a matter of being fit for a job which she is clearly not.
Output: Disagree
Comment: I guesstimated it would take three years for the current gov't to start to go off the rails.  Too many dumb promises that sounded good but were more complicated than suggested during the election.

Looks like they were over achievers in that regard.
Output: Agree
Comment: Ahhh low effort cons always voting against their best interests.  So yes, a person making $205k/yr will see $5k of that taxed at 35%.  Really feel sorry for them.  There has been a massive diversion of wealth into the hands of fewer and fewer people and you conbots think it is about people making $200k a year.     Talk about being duped by your own anger and short sightedness.

As for the Vancouver scenario, let's see, someone making say $210k (one income btw) buys a $1.2 million dollar house in Vancouver proper, he/she would only be paying a 5-6x ratio.   Still doable considering most of our family incomes (2 incomes) come in around $75k nationally; so that family would have to pay 15x ratio.    And of course we are talking about the most expensive area of Canada.    Why you guys need to be dishonest is beyond me.
Output: Disagree
Comment: No evidence that she has a chip on her shoulder other than your deeply held conviction that "those people" always do.
Output: Disagree
Comment: This is really hard. You bargaining with a bully that wants the right to slap on tariffs at any time which would know from experience in softwood lumber would be applied for political reasons rather than reasons of fairness. At the same time, the bully teases you with potential access to a market vital to the present configuration of our economy. It isn't about friendship or partnership - it is avowedly "me first and only me". I don't envy our negotiators and I can only say it heightens my enthusiasm for seeking greater partnership with Europe. There are so many great Americans and great American companies that I really mourn for the loss of friendship the Trump administration implicitly (in our case) represents. With the Mexicans it is explicit.
Output: Agree
Comment: No, Mr. Prime Minister, there is a glaring loophole in the system. It's not an obscure nuance that requires an experienced lawyer to exploit. A person simply has to walk across the longest undefended border in the world anywhere other than at an official crossing. Are we promptly returning them to the US? To Haiti? I doubt it. 

All over the world we are seeing people on the move from poor countries to wealthier countries. This is only the start. Our geography has been the biggest factor in preventing Canada from experiencing the same overwhelming flood of migration as in Europe. 

Anyone who raises an objection is quickly labelled a racist, but this really is something we should have a National conversation about.
Output: Agree
Comment: There is of course legitimate concern for US border authorities regarding official travel documentation. Given the diversity of members in the Girl Guides its hardly unexpected that not all of the participants are going to have that documentation in order. Certainly the Girl Guides had members unable to go due to travel restrictions in years before Trump was elected and it seems like political grandstanding to make this decision now.
Output: Disagree
Comment: They are not coming to Canada illegally but are being processed at the border.
Output: Disagree
Comment: Leslie McGuire's claiming of "reimbursement" for lodging and meals at the federal per diem rate while on vacation in Germany is outrageous. Immoral. Unethical.

Question:  How many Alaskans think that your Permanent Fund Dividends should be reduced to pay for lavish perks and personal vacations for Lesil McGuire nd other legislators.

Answer:  None.

Question:  How many Alaskans think legislators should get thousands of dollars in "reimbursement" for lodging and expenses in excess of actual expenses.

Answer: None.

You gotta love some of the statements from legislators that "the accountants made us do it," or the $247/day $247 doesn't cover more than living costs.

If the latter is true, why in 2015 when Rep. Reinbold paid $850 in rent plus $100 in utilities, a total of $950/month, and Rep. Vasquez paid $650 in rent, plus $100 in utilities, a total of $750, both legislators received about $235 per day, or $7,000 per month.

Insist on reform, and hold onto your wallets.
Output: Agree
Comment: I'm shocked!  Shocked, I tell you!  Don Young embroiled in yet another ethics problem.  Who could have seen this coming?
Output: Agree
Comment: You need to have followed this disaster from the beginning to see that this current government was not the culprit.  Scheers defence of his former government's actions are indeed very weak. Under Canadian law Harper should have repatriated him much sooner and the financial damages would have been mitigated. 
Finally, Trudeau is correct a Canadian is a Canadian. There is also serious doubt that Khadr was the one who threw that grenade based on the forced confession the Americans imposed on him through torture. They have been discredited for that.
Output: Disagree
Comment: And yet he still managed to accomplish more.
Says more about Obama then Trump.
Output: Disagree
Comment: '
Might I suggest targeting the advertisers on the radio that gives her a platform.

Ask the advertising businesses if they want their business associated with what Amy sells.

If the advertisers feel pressure, they'll pull support, taking her off the air.

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Output: Agree
Comment: upanddown2, school boards have an obligation to accommodate any religious group whose members have religious obligations during school hours where it's reasonable to do so.  One thing that's clear is that the religious observation will not be forced on non-adherents.

It's up to each school board to decide such matters.  Disputes would be decided by the Human Rights Tribunal, and ultimately the courts.
Output: Disagree
Comment: Picard is fighting a desperate rearguard action against the assumptive privatization of public space. In recent decades, planners eliminated public phones and clocks on the assumption that everyone carries a cell phone, omitted drinking fountains on the assumption that visitors bring their water in plastic bottles, and ignored shaded seating on the assumption that people are always only a few steps away from their air-conditioned vehicle. The logical final step is to forget public washrooms, leaving it to some entrepreneur to invent a portable plastic potty with a suitable modesty cape to wrap around the waist. 
A pedestrian trip into our public spaces is like a trek into the wilderness. Anything you need you must bring with you or chance purchasing from traders you may encounter there. The public is not at home in its public spaces.
I'm with Picard. Let's build public washrooms as part of a re-civilization of our cities. Build for people, not cars.
Output: Agree
Comment: The headline reads "destroy jobs, save the planet".  Does Wente support the opposite ?
Output: Disagree
Comment: Money well spent, and certainly beats the former steaming pile of muffins that used to salute the U.S. State Department 24/7 squandering Canadians lives and tens of billions in a bogus proxy CIA conflict!
Output: Disagree
Comment: and only a political chirp at this time from the cheap seats,,,no condolences, nothing but trying to sell your  your political point..simply sad.
Output: Disagree
Comment: I agree wholeheartedly, but just wait now for all the trolls who have fallen in love with Trump! Thanks for your article.
Output: Disagree
Comment: Trump is loyal to no one.  He is the epitome of  selfish.  If you think that he will help you...help the poor...help the weak...help the sick... you are completely wrong.   There is no evidence to think otherwise.  He has hurt and diminished America.
Output: Agree
Comment: Khadr did not kill your father and as far as I know, your father's human rights were not abused by the Canadian federal government. I therefore fail to see the relevance of your comment.
Output: Disagree
Comment: A human being was killed. Is that really something to celebrate?
Output: Disagree
Comment: The legislature can do their part to cut state spending, and lead by example for a change, by cutting their own bloated budgets.  To you legislators who have multiple staff members with bloated salaries, be real leaders and show us how it's done.  We're watching.
Output: Agree
Comment: I have known Cathy's family all my life, and watched her grow up.  She has been clueless since she started high school, and I was astonished that she was elected first to the CBJ Assembly, and then was able to defeat a far more able and intelligent incumbent for the House (I live in Juneau but not in her district).  She is totally unable to perceive how most people who were not raised in the protective cocoon of a rich Old Juneau family (fish processing and brokering, then commercial and rental real estate) live.  The Republican establishment loved her, as did ALEC, because she can't think for herself and instead believes people simply because they are friends, family, or Republicans.

And yes, she should resign.  Since she won't, suburban Juneau voters should elect Justin Parrish, her opponent.
Output: Agree
Comment: And what about Mr. Nelson. Well, he's still in the hospital. Since September 16th. What does that tell you? That he was hurt very badly. And this piece of dirt gets $20,000 bail. Please add attempted murder to those charges. You hit someone in the head three times with a hammer, you're trying to kill them.
Output: Agree
Comment: People must see the hypocrisy in all this. Morneau goes around touting "tax fairness." Meanwhile his millions of capital gains are taxed at half, made even more lucrative if people start consulting his company for individual pension plans. He has a company in Alberta to lower his taxes. He has a company in France, which he "forgot" about, to avoid taxes. None of these are mentioned in his proposed tax changes. He ignores the lack of pensions or other benefits for the self-employed. He ignores the time and effort it takes to start a business while earnings early on can be minimal.
Output: Agree
Comment: News flash Margaret, the parents at Timmies for the most part do in fact care that the warming climate is a serious threat to their children's future! Who appointed you to speak on our behalf?

Cue the trolls.
Output: Disagree
Comment: Let us see now, hmmm... mortgage payment, heating the house or idling in a Tim Horton's drive thru wasting part of a tank of gas and then purchasing a double, double with a cream pie chaser.
It is all about the choices we make.  I am going to suggest that maybe it is the average Joe who is out of touch with reality and how the world really works.
Output: Disagree
Comment: Harper was the self declared Emporer of Canada and he hated being in the same room with average Canadians.  By the end, he didn't even hide his disdain of having to deal with the proletariat.  Good riddance!
Output: Disagree
Comment: The Canadian tourists in affected areas had plenty of warning that a hurricane was imminent.  They could have left on their own before the hurricane's arrival.
Output: Agree
Comment: You know, Nigel Southway, what you quote as facts are not facts at all, but irrational fear.

Elsewhere I posted that it did not make sense to me to condemn phobias which are, over all, a kind of fear. But I have been thinking that that post was wrong. The fear that disguises itself as fact must be dealt with, and it is worth condemning for the terrible things that it does

You are right that people are "concerned" (your first line). They are afraid that our situation is the same as Europe's, but it is not. The only place from where it is easy to cross into Canada is the U.S. It is very difficult to get to Canada and the U.S. because of geography.

There are no facts that say Islam is the world's most violent religion. Who, after all, has most of the world's largest, most powerful militaries? Christians.

The rest of what you say is just simply wrong. I doubt that you are lying. You are just imagining something inaccurately, and it is frightening you. And that has to stop.
Output: Disagree
Comment: Yes, yay for Australia!  Meanwhile, the Great Barrier Reef, which directly provides billions and billions of dollars every year to the economy of Australia is being destroyed by bleaching due to global warming.  Way to go Australia!!
Output: Disagree
Comment: So let me get this straight. The Lord's Prayer was removed from our schools a while back. Schools are not allowed to put on a Christmas concert in December - it is now called a winter concert. However, one particular group of people, new to this country, are allowed to practice their religion within the walls of our supposedly secular school system? I don't know whether to laugh or cry.
Output: Agree
Comment: The majority of Alaskans support you Gov. Walker and your plan to finance this budget and for years to come. I wouldn't make a plan to pay my bills primarily from savings. We need a plan, your plan, that addresses necessary cuts, responsible use of the reserve, and NEW REVENUE sources. Stick to your guns and hold the legislature accountable for their dismal performance and lack of leadership. Face it our great state is going to tank if they don't wake up and support a real plan to finance this state now and in the future.
Output: Agree
Comment: You forgot to mention many of the other tasks/events our Prime Minister has been involved with - travelling to participate with leaders at various international meetings, travelling to provinces across the country to speak with citizens, promoting Canadian efforts regarding NAFTA when speaking with US Governors...to name a few.  Press in the United States doesn't hurt us right now when we are in the midst of needing to increase our profile as the NAFTA negotiations begin.  The sad story is that there wasn't much interest in Harper internationally or frankly at home....he was boring and didn't accomplish nearly as much on behalf of regular Canadians as you would like to believe.
Output: Disagree
Comment: Let me get this correct, family visits Afganistan. Family comprised at the time of aCanadian man and his pregnant US wife.   Backpacking into one of the most dangerous counties in the world and get kipnapped.  Perhaps they thought the Afgan medical system was superior to ours so they ventured over there for the delivery of their child.
Why do people never cease to amaze me.  I wonder how much they are going to sue the Canadian government for them not responding in a more aggresive nature to get them out......bloody hell.
Output: Agree
Comment: The Conservatives are sure doing their best to upset the apple cart.
Their political agenda counts more for them than their countries welfare.
Andrew Scheer has revealed his true colours..
Output: Disagree
Comment: The Orange One needs to read up on the separation of church and state.

Oh wait ... maybe an audio book ...
Output: Agree
Comment: Good points, why did the Globe ignore the latest example of Liberal excess, $212 K paid to an advertising firm for artwork on a budget cover. Trudeau is wasting $30 billion a year on higher government expenses and he's attacking small businesses in a cynical political ploy that would bring in $250 million. Trudeau's original tax the rich/cut middle class taxes resulted in a $1.8 billion hole in the treasury so similar results could be expected from the new plan. Meanwhile Trudeau dithers while Canada's oil and gas sectors are under assault by foreign-backed career activist parasites all the while Quebec's CO2 emitters get government subsidies (Bombardier and Quebec's new concrete plant with direct ties to Bombardier family). There are 40,000 illegal migrants in Canada that wait an average 16 months for a hearing - the welfare alone costs taxpayers $300 million/year and Trudeau does nothing, just like the Liberals do nothing about the growing industry of birth tourism for passports...
Output: Agree
Comment: It's dramatic fluff bob.  The triumph of evil requires much more than for good men to do nothing.
Output: Disagree
Comment: Sgt. Speer was a combat soldier who was killed in battle. This happens to soldiers, and does not justify prosecuting anyone.
Output: Disagree
Comment: Sandra...  here is a fact.  

You make time for the things you want.     If he really wanted to read to the kids he would turn off his pager.
Output: Disagree
Comment: "Trump names China hawk to head new trade team".

And north of the border, Canada elects China shill to head country...
Output: Disagree
Comment: The precise words Doucet used were certainly indelicate and ill-advised, but the sentiment is totally understandable: Snowden's leaks were extremely damaging to Canada and the US' security and have only aided criminals, terrorists and hostile nations in evading detection so that they can do more bad things with a freer hand. 

Most Canadians support having their government carry out robust surveillance against hostile actors. How do I know? Voters had the option of elevating the NDP, which is the anti-security, anti-surveillance, and anti-counterterrorism choice, to power in October 2015, but instead gave it resoundingly to one of Canada's two centrist parties, which despite their ideological differences basically do agree that the country needs to be at the cutting edge when it comes to national security.
Output: Disagree
Comment: That is very good advice from a practical guy from Alberta. Bravo! Totally agree. So I'll say it again, get rid of wasteful practices instead of more revenue to continue wasteful practices (another example - the spectacular failure of the federal payroll system and IBM blundering on, without penalty).
Output: Agree
Comment: Is this what we expect from the PRIME MINISTER OF CANADA on a daily basis, a  SELFIE WITH  someone who has  agreed with what he says... Over INTERNET .. Is this what the CANADIAN people are going to put up with for the next while?
Output: Disagree
Comment: The USA certainly is allowed to make their own decisions regarding their own borders.... just like the rest of the world is free to decide how to spend their tourist dollars.

It is time for a world-wide ban of tourism to the USA until Trump is impeached.  This insanity needs to be nipped in the bud.  ENOUGH.

BOYCOTT THE USA!
Output: Disagree
Comment: It is rare that a Canadian politician is so tone-deaf to the habits of the surrounding population.

Trump's message must come to Canada?

Hello?

Trump says he wants to obstruct access to abortion by overturning Roe versus Wade, he says he wants to make sure that restrictions are avoided that would inhibit the owning of handguns and assault rifles by city dwellers, and he says he wants to ensure people do not get access to single payer health care.

Um, sure, go ahead and run on that message in a Canadian election. Hope you enjoy being in the wilderness...
Output: Agree
Comment: Yes, but not in this case. 
Khadr deserves compensation.
Output: Disagree
Comment: Or that friend who is tired of seeing his buddy relapse into alcohol and drugs after being warned and prodded over and over putting him through rehab three times.  After awhile, you get fed up people who won't get it together.
Output: Disagree
Comment: I agree. YOU PROTEST ON YOUR OWN TIME. WHEN YOUR IN THAT CHAMBER, YOU REPRESENT YOUR CONSTITUENTS, NOT YOUR PERSONAL AGENDA. YOUR KNEELING DOESN'T DO ANYTHING BUT GETS YOUR NAME IN THE NEWSPAPER. If you want to make a statement and change something, "adopt a homeless person" and change their life for the better. Our Anchorage Assembly must be pre-testing the local cannabis.
Output: Agree
Comment: But where was Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and the entire liberal "progressive" Establishment during Obama's eight years in the White House? Busy waging wars in various Islamic countries and quietly sending killer drones to kill Muslims in countries all over the Middle East and North Africa.
  Not only did they do nothing to decrease racism, Obama's soaring anti-racism rhetoric ended the day he became president and devoted all his power to bailing out Wall Street while abandoning Main Street.
Output: Disagree
Comment: The most common socio/religious 'phobia' in Canada is anti-semitism. If this were addressed in these articles regarding islamophobia I would be able to take them more seriously. Although in general, I am a supporter of multiculturalism I do not think that it is the role of our government to single out one community in general for special protection when we have laws adequately protecting all citizens. Especially when that one community is known for all kinds of 'phobias' such as homophobia.
Output: Agree
Comment: He represents me, and 35 million other Canadians.. If you do not want to be part of the majority,  pack it up and head South.. Donnie will welcome you with open arms.
Output: Disagree
Comment: Thank You to the officers that responded to this call.  Because of your bravery that evening, you have ensured there isn't any additional victims from this weapon. Based on the information provided, it is likely you neutralized the criminal responsible as well. If there are additional accomplices, I hope you catch them too.

Officer Salao, I wish you a full speedy recovery.
Output: Agree
Comment: It's a rape song, pure and simple, made more disgusting by the fact the girl is worn down by the predator male.

But filth like that lies very close to the surface of our so-called Christian society.

In the 1940s when it was more overtly Christian, it did not even need any cover.
Output: Disagree