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Have you ever considered that the Prime Directive is not only not ethical, but also illogical, and perhaps morally indefensible?

  • Alberta separatists claim independence means holding onto a Canadian passport. We asked legal experts

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  • Maybe settle on Seal Island or in one of the other disputed border areas, just to see what happens!

  • Alberta separatists claim independence means holding onto a Canadian passport. We asked legal experts

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  • Citizenship is granted to everyone born in Canada, as well as children born to Canadian parents who are born abroad. There is no real legal mechanism for revocation.

    Canadian passports are issued to Canadian citizens.

    This seems like a pretty valid legal question?

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  • Legally I don’t know that we can revoke citizenship

    I don't think so - the only time citizenship can be revoked is if it was fraudulently acquired, as far as I know.

    The article does a pretty good job of outlining the ways Canada could (and should, to be frank) make things difficult for a province that has declared independence, though.

  • Manitoba won't approve massive AI data centre proposed for south of Winnipeg: Kinew

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  • The Doctor Who Gossip No One Is Talking About - Because No One Knows About It

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  • I'm not a big fan of Johnston overall - his reputation in the comics world is pretty bad, and he has a tendency to set up online sockpuppets to promote his own work - but that doesn't mean he isn't onto something.

    In lieu of any other information...this information is as good as any. 😂

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  • For this to be possible, you'd think it would have to be shot entirely within the studios, with no location shoots at all. And even then, it would mean no one has seen (presumably) Billie Piper at a restaurant in Cardiff or something.

    Colour me skeptical, but I guess it's not impossible.

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  • I thought it was pretty clear that I do, for the reasons already stated.

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  • we shouldn’t be doubling or tripling our military budget to satisfy Trump’s demands

    I simply don't think many people would agree that that's the reason we're doing it.

  • Canada hits pause on Netflix fee that would’ve cost streaming giants billions

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  • It's disappointing, but at the same time I don't have a big problem with the government stepping up subsidies for the industry.

    I just wish it was a "why don't we have both" situation.

  • What are some of the biggest continuity errors in Star Trek?

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  • Gabrielle basically used the church as an experiment in altering history.

    Time's motion depends on the observer, on the action. The people I was able to move from Earth to Terralysium, as they call my planet, are thriving. Their survival means that time is fluid. The future can be changed. Maybe the past, as well.

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  • It's technically not canon anyway, and I don't really like it as an explanation, since we don't see variable-geometry nacelles on other ships of the era.

    Best to assume they solved the subspace damage problem through some other means, IMO.

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  • Trump demanded increased NATO spending and the countries did it. This isn’t rocket science.

    No, it's not rocket science. Trump continually threatens to abandon NATO and its allies, so everyone else has to pick up the slack. Not because he wants it, but because it's an absolute necessity. I really don't see a credible argument that Canada shouldn't be investing in defence.

    MAGA is a white supremacist phrase through and through. There is no excuse for repeating it.

    A defensible position to take, but I think Carney's intent in using it is fairly clear, whether you agree with it or not.

    And Carney did cancel the DST

    That's why I used it as an example. The article should have, but didn't. There are a number of things that could legitmately be held up as examples of "appeasement," but I don't think the article did so.

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  • That belief stems back to the publication of the Star Trek Chronology (2nd edition), and it might be true, but I've never actually seen direct confirmation from any of the writers involved.

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  • Even TNG is weird about that, since their method of attacking colonies is called out as being identical to the attacks along the Neutral Zone at the end of season one, so the Borg had been operating in the Federation and Romulans' back yards for a while.

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  • I think the article's "appeasement" angle is pretty bullshit.

    No one in NATO is boosting military spending to appease Donald Trump - it's the inevitable response to the realization that the largest NATO contributor is unreliable.

    The recent "MAGA" line was an appeal to American investors to spend money here. It appropriated Trump's language, but that's the opposite of what he wants.

    Carney campaigned in decreased reliance on the US, not on severing all ties.

    Actual examples of appeasement would be things like ending the digital services tax, and I'm sure we'll see more like it when the CUSMA talks get started.

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  • It's all in past tense until he shows up in the flesh.

    "Emissary": How about letting me cook dinner for you tonight? My father was a gourmet chef. I will make for you his famous aubergine stew.

    "A Man Alone": Every night in my house, my dad insisted that we have supper together as a family. He would try out his new recipes on us. He used to call us his test tasters.

    "The Alternate": When my father became ill, I can remember how small and weak he looked lying there in the bed. He'd been so strong, so independent. It always seemed to me there was nothing that he couldn't do. But in the end, I realised that there was nothing that he could do, and nothing I could do to help him.

    "Paradise": Well, my father was a chef. He grew all his own vegetables. My brothers and I were sent out to the gardens every day.

  • The new Stargate series has been axed. RIP.

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  • And sci-fi is the first against the wall.

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  • Obviously you're going to keep the facility where you keep their most hardened criminals in plain sight.

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  • I enjoyed a couple of seasons of Ben Sisko's heavily-implied-to-be-dead dad.