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Northern Light said:
Perhaps India will curtail foreign students in Canada before our government does?
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Admiral Beez said:
Perhaps for the best. If it was up to me I’d require every university, college and certificate-mill to provide housing either on-campus or otherwise outside of the rental housing pool.
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Zero chance of this. I know immigrants here who regularly sprout anti-Western propaganda. Yet, they won't be going back soon. Never underestimate the depth of hypocrisy of a lot of ideologues.
 
Towered said:
I don't understand the school system offering exemptions for parents. If parents don't like what's being taught, they are free to enroll their kids in a private school of their choosing at their own cost. This kind of weak pandering makes me sick. I don't recall any such thing existing when I went through the system. The system should stick to its principles unapologetically.
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This is a choice between principles and politics unfortunately. Offering exemptions let's administrators and politicians point to those a a viable option. Take that option way and we might well end up having an election fought mostly about trans-rights in schools. It will be full with all kinds of misinformation. And you're going to be surprised where that might lead.

I get the principle. But in this day and age, I'd rather not have more elections fought on cultural issues when we have so many other bread and butter issues to deal with.
 
Richard White said:
Honest to god.

She was a political activist back home so it would not surprise me if this was true.
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If she was an activist against the government, this should please her. If she was a pro-government activist, it would be surprising she was dating a white guy (a lot of Hindu nationalists are really over the top). Either way, take it as good fortune that you likely dodged a bullet.
 
kEiThZ said:
This is a choice between principles and politics unfortunately. Offering exemptions let's administrators and politicians point to those a a viable option. Take that option way and we might well end up having an election fought mostly about trans-rights in schools. It will be full with all kinds of misinformation. And you're going to be surprised where that might lead.

I get the principle. But in this day and age, I'd rather not have more elections fought on cultural issues when we have so many other bread and butter issues to deal with.
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The zealots are going to make this an issue regardless. There is no placating them. Giving in only emboldens them since they think they are winning.
 
Towered said:
I don't understand the school system offering exemptions for parents. If parents don't like what's being taught, they are free to enroll their kids in a private school of their choosing at their own cost. This kind of weak pandering makes me sick. I don't recall any such thing existing when I went through the system. The system should stick to its principles unapologetically.
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kEiThZ said:
This is a choice between principles and politics unfortunately. Offering exemptions let's administrators and politicians point to those a a viable option. Take that option way and we might well end up having an election fought mostly about trans-rights in schools. It will be full with all kinds of misinformation. And you're going to be surprised where that might lead.

I get the principle. But in this day and age, I'd rather not have more elections fought on cultural issues when we have so many other bread and butter issues to deal with.
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Without defending exemptions, with which I'm not entirely comfortable...

And without throwing them out...............either.

I offer that, when I was young, which I swear wasn't that much further back than either of you...............

The Lord's Prayer was mandatory at the start of school every day in Ontario, paired with the national anthem (in public school).

I can remember students who were members of non-Christian faiths getting exemptions and going to stand in the hallway during the Lord's Prayer....
 
Northern Light said:
Without defending exemptions, with which I'm not entirely comfortable...

And without throwing them out...............either.

I offer that, when I was young, which I swear wasn't that much further back than either of you...............

The Lord's Prayer was mandatory at the start of school every day in Ontario, paired with the national anthem (in public school).

I can remember students who were members of non-Christian faiths getting exemptions and going to stand in the hallway during the Lord's Prayer....
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I never had the Lords Prayer but I do recall seeing my first Muslim classmates in the mid 90s.

They were middle eastern but it was so weird seeing two people leave the room to pray every day.
 
Northern Light said:
Without defending exemptions, with which I'm not entirely comfortable...

And without throwing them out...............either.

I offer that, when I was young, which I swear wasn't that much further back than either of you...............

The Lord's Prayer was mandatory at the start of school every day in Ontario, paired with the national anthem (in public school).

I can remember students who were members of non-Christian faiths getting exemptions and going to stand in the hallway during the Lord's Prayer....
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I went to Catholic grade and high schools, so daily prayers and regular masses were the norm for me (it was tough on an agnostic/atheist like me!). The morning anthem thing was annoying too.
 
This story has no direct tie to Canada; but I thought it belonged here in that it covers an issue that's been discussed in this thread.

Food price inflation, broadly, though in the context of this story, resulting shrinkflation (where a product sees its volume quietly reduced, often while maintaining package size, as way to boost the price.)

www.theguardian.com

Carrefour puts ‘shrinkflation’ price warnings on food to shame brands

French supermarket chain labels products that have shrunk in size but cost more before contract talks with suppliers
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French supermarket chain Carrefour is shaming brands engaged in this by slapping stickers on their food highlighting what's been done.

They seem to have carefully chosen brands that may have experienced real material cost increases; but whose material costs subsequently came back down, and their prices have not.
 
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Northern Light said:
It was gone by the time I was in HS (90s)

Not sure how soon before that, I know we still had it in the early 80s.
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We had the Lords Prayer in Peel Region public school when I was in kindergarten to grade 9 from 1976-1988 before moving to Toronto to finish high school. Nowadays if I go to a church service and recite from memory I’m thrown off by the modernized, presumably more inclusive version compared to the BCP prayers I’m used to.
 
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