Islam, which according to a 2006 Statistics Canada poll is the fastest growing religion in the country, is associated, quite often by our youth, with oppression, terrorism and barbarism.
I would imagine an eighteen year old saying that an Islamic coun…
Author: Gabriel Dzsurdzsa
Women are no better than men when it comes to politics
I have read at least two Huffington Post articles, on the newspaper’s Canadian website, about the need for more women to get involved in Canadian politics. One was more focused on the proper means by which women should enter po…
Continue readingCanada is still a British colony after all, judging by our reverence for the Royals
Prince William and Kate Middleton
If I was a King or a Queen in this age of democracy, I would have to work really hard on staying relevant and maintaining my hereditary power.
What would I do? How would I rejuvenate my subjects’ reve…
Continue readingWith two years to rebuild federaly, Ontario liberals should focus attention on the upcoming provincial election on October 6th
According to a recent Forum Research survey, Tim Hudak’s conservatives were getting a 41% approval rating from Ontarians, while the Liberals were somewhere around 26%, the NDP at 22% and the Greens at 8%.
Almost immediately after the s…
Continue readingThere’s hope for the U.S. yet, gay marriage bill passes in New York
On Friday, New York Governor Andrew M. Cuomo signed the Marriage Equality Act into law. This made New York the sixth and largest out of a union of states which have already legalized same sex marriage. This union includes: Iowa, Connecticut, Massa…
Continue readingU.S. slow to catch up with the rest of civilization, New York may become the 6th state to legalize gay marriage in the country
Looks like its going to happen with New York. Check this website out http://www.freedomtomarry.org/
Continue readingConservatives make a grave mistake by associating liberalism with moral relativism
I understand that most conservatives, with their strong sense of national pride and social responsibility, tend to group most of us liberals into the, “they believe in what is expedient but not in what is right” category.
In other words, they sometim…
Continue readingFacebook essay, The right to choice supersedes the right to life for society to achieve justice, freedom and equality for the fairer sex
Recently, I have been engaging in some heated debates on the blogosphere about the question of abortion and women’s rights. And I have had the fortune of talking to people with various moral attitudes, from pro-choice to moderate, to pro-life. The…
Continue readingFacebook essay, Freedom given is no freedom at all
This short essay is going to address the assertion that free will can be given or assigned to an individual, and that after, it can still be considered free will. The proposition can be evaluated by asking and then answering the following three questio…
Continue readingFacebook essay, "Dubito ergo cogito; cogito ergo sum." A reflection on the nature of existence through Descartes’ Principia Philosophiae
Many people recognize these famous lines: “I doubt therefore I think; I think therefore I am”, yet few know who spoke them and what they mean. Unfortunately, written reflections on existence since the time of Descartes have been scant, except of course…
Continue readingFacebook essay, Sex, Prose and Glenrothes: Three things that make life worth living
There are only a select number of activities worth pursuing in any one lifetime. Of course, these activities, pleasures, interests, vices etc. are different for each individual, age group, sex and epoch. Therefore, I decided to list the three…
Continue readingThe NDP will stay socialist, for now
After their Sunday convention, the NDP exposed, perhaps unwillingly, some deep identity rifts within the party over the use of the word socialism. For now, the party will keep the word in their constitution.
And why shouldn’t it?
In a previous ar…
Continue readingConversation I had with a die hard, far-right, religious conservative on the subject of abortion
Myself and a religious blogger were discussing abortion over the past few days, as I responded to one of his blog posts. Here is the conversation in its entirety:
My response to the blog post:
I would submit that it is extremely rare for a twelve yea…
Continue readingClassic Anderson Cooper Ridiculist, the outrageous amounts of money people pay Snooki to do absolutely nothing
Wow, I can’t believe this shit. This airhead gets paid one hundred thousand dollars per episode for the ridiculous show, Jersey Shore. Meanwhile, one in ten Americans is jobless.
Anderson Cooper is awesome thought, the way he rips the executives an…
Continue readingI don’t have much time for hockey hooligans and violent rioters
I was previously ignoring the news on the Vancouver riots, after the Canucks lost the Stanley cup, thinking the disturbances to be caused by nothing more than boozed up young adults running wild.
Little did I know that these individuals wer…
Pot virgins, yes the Conservatives, talk tough on Cannabis cultivation
A grow-op of this size would bring a minimum six-month prison sentence under the Conservative government’s proposed bill. A conviction of cultivating more than 200 marijuana plants would result in a mandatory one-year jail term.&…
Continue readingTwo political extremes battle it out in Parliament during Question Period
Job loss, poverty and strikes were at the top of the agenda as the N.D.P. and the Conservatives broke out in debate during Question Period yesterday.
Continue readingQui est pour un référendum sur la réforme du Sénat?
Qui aurait bien de retour en mai, après que les conservateurs du Canada baigné dans leur glorieuse victoire sur les libéraux autant haï dans l’élection fédérale, que l’un des plus grands thèmes de confusion et de désaccord interne au parti ser…
Continue readingHarper calls Liberals unprincipled
There are certain principles that an individual cannot break, no matter what the situation is. Principles like, I can never kill anyone unless its in self-defense or I will never violently hit a child or a woman no matter what …
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