Hopefully, this will influence the suit against Maclean's magazine and Mark Steyn.

nobody cares about Canada.....nobody...

Canadian law finally caught up to where U.S. defamation law was in the 1960s?

What a stupid concept!! You don't get ANY rights from your government, You were born with them. The gooberment is charged with protecting them, they can't grant anything except privileges. And then you have to pay for those.

plmyfngr:nobody cares about Canada.....nobody...

You're not my buddy, guy!
/I love Canada

I was jealous of Canada until I found out they get their milk in bags. That's just weird.

EsteeFlwrPot:I was jealous of Canada until I found out they get their milk in bags. That's just weird.

When you are older, you just might appreciate milk bags.

You all laughed when we put maple syrup on our round bacon, didn't you America? Now you're pleading for a taste, but you can't have one. It tastes like ... freedom.



Not yours.

40below:You all laughed when we put maple syrup on our round bacon, didn't you America? Now you're pleading for a taste, but you can't have one. It tastes like ... freedom.

I lol'd

/I kind of miss ham with my french toast

EsteeFlwrPot:I was jealous of Canada until I found out they get their milk in bags. That's just weird.

Even as a Canadian I find it the stupidest thing ever.

Canadian Canuck:Even as a Canadian I find it the stupidest thing ever.

Really? I think it's great. The resulting garbage is significantly less and it can be much more easily frozen if you don't go through it all that fast.

Snarfangel:EsteeFlwrPot:I was jealous of Canada until I found out they get their milk in bags. That's just weird.

When you are older, you just might appreciate milk bags.

hehehehe

40below:You all laughed when we put maple syrup on our round bacon, didn't you America? Now you're pleading for a taste, but you can't have one. It tastes like ... freedom.



Not yours.

Ok. Thats silly. I can buy that here.

Now damnit if you Canadians don't have the best beer and whiskey. How about bringing down the good stuff once and a while?

spqr_ca:Canadian Canuck:Even as a Canadian I find it the stupidest thing ever.

Really? I think it's great. The resulting garbage is significantly less and it can be much more easily frozen if you don't go through it all that fast.

Frozen? WTF

It was bound to happen sooner or later.

EsteeFlwrPot:I was jealous of Canada until I found out they get their milk in bags. That's just weird.

only in eastern Canada.

Canadian Canuck:EsteeFlwrPot:I was jealous of Canada until I found out they get their milk in bags. That's just weird.

Even as a Canadian I find it the stupidest thing ever.

That is pretty stupid, I agree.

Milk is delivered in bags in some places in the US - I only know this because many years ago I worked for a place that had to feed a few hundred people 3 meals a day and the milk came in bags - not that anyone would have known it since we put the milk bags into a stainless steel cabinet that dispensed it neatly into glasses.

The government doesn't "award" or "grant" rights: by the very nature of government certain freedoms are restricted, not awarded. So, before we congratulate the bureaucrats let us recall this supposed achievement is simply them "allowing" their citizens what was inherently their right to begin with. What a joke.

plmyfngr
nobody cares about Canada.....nobody...

Take it easy Bad Boy.

\Mel says "hi"

lludgerg:What a stupid concept!! You don't get ANY rights from your government, You were born with them. The gooberment is charged with protecting them, they can't grant anything except privileges. And then you have to pay for those.

All they can do is take away rights. Many of these are justified, in the name of stability and public good. You don't have the freedom to go picking fights, blowing places up you don't like, raping women you find attractive, etc.

Those are accepted by any decent person of any culture. Its the gray ones that we will forever be at ends with.

I think Canada is looking more and more appealing nowadays.

plmyfngr nobody cares about you!! bwuahahaha!!



America. Canada's pants.

Astidcrisse:plmyfngr nobody cares about you!! bwuahahaha!!



America. Canada's pants.

You're looking a little wide in the ass these days, Canada.

Omorda:EsteeFlwrPot:I was jealous of Canada until I found out they get their milk in bags. That's just weird.

only in eastern Canada.

Evewn then it isn't like cartons aren't available. I've never bought milk in bags (nor has my family) and we've lived in Atlantic Canada all our lives. I lived in Ontario briefly, same thing. Milk is available in bags, but also in cartons.

Rights are part of the tyranny of gov't; there are no such thing as "natural" rights.

Why does Canada love the turrists? Don't they know they need to clamp down on free speech to stay safe?

Duke Phillips' Singing Bears:Astidcrisse:plmyfngr nobody cares about you!! bwuahahaha!!



America. Canada's pants.

You're looking a little wide in the ass these days, Canada.

THREAD OVER!
A winner is you, my friend

Does this mean Mexico is America's groin?

Astidcrisse:plmyfngr nobody cares about you!! bwuahahaha!!



America. Canada's pants.

I'd say America's jockstrap, what with Florida and all, but that's good too.

Also, the milk-in-bags thing is just us? I learned something from Fark today...

aagrajag:Also, the milk-in-bags thing is just us? I learned something from Fark today...

Well, you and East Germany.

I can get my milk in cartons, bags or jugs.

THAT's Canadian, baby.

Ace Attorney:It was bound to happen sooner or later.

i would like to point out that if this was the case, america's hat would be bigger than america.

mrEdude:I can get my milk in cartons, bags or jugs.

THAT's Canadian, baby.

Canada leads the world in milk-related freedom!

Ted Kennedy's Brain Tumor:The government doesn't "award" or "grant" rights: by the very nature of government certain freedoms are restricted, not awarded. So, before we congratulate the bureaucrats let us recall this supposed achievement is simply them "allowing" their citizens what was inherently their right to begin with. What a joke.

"Electing conservatives is like hiring a carpenter who thinks hammers are evil." I know I'll probably get hammered for this (excuse the pun), but government is capable of doing good. Perhaps you just don't see examples of it in your vicinity. Would you prefer this right not to be enshrined in the highest court of the land?

I just hope that intelligent design vultures don't come swooping down onto Canada like they are starting to do in Europe. Oh yes, in godless Europe.

Omorda:Ace Attorney:It was bound to happen sooner or later.

i would like to point out that if this was the case, america's hat would be bigger than america.

Have you seen teenagers today? The pants bagging everywhere, shirts that hang below the knees.

Your just jealous because you are Greenland's Mexico

Let me know when they get something equivalent to our 2nd Amendment.

/Never going to happen.
//America remains the most free country in the world.

evoke://America remains the most free country in the world

Except for the 1 in 37 American adults who have been forced to serve time in prison by their gummint, the highest rate in the whole world, even when you lump in states like North Korea, Iraq and Albania. Link (new window)

Most free country in the world? I don't think that word means what y'all think it means.

give me doughnuts:Hopefully, this will influence the suit against Maclean's magazine and Mark Steyn.

Oh, and that was dismissed a week ago.

40below:Except for the 1 in 37 American adults who have been forced to serve time in prison by their gummint

/facepalm

Doesn't Queen Elizabeth still have to sign off on this?

Omorda:EsteeFlwrPot:I was jealous of Canada until I found out they get their milk in bags. That's just weird.

only in eastern Canada.

Maybe now, but milk was available in bags for years in BC and Alberta. The four litre jug just took over the market.

Malbar:The biggest threat to speech in Canada comes from the Human Rights Commission, who operate tribunals outside the bounds of constitutional law and will not be affected by this ruling.

The HRC does not operate outside the bounds of constitutional law because the Constitution Act and the Charter of Rights are the highest laws in the land. Rather, certain legal elements of the human rights commissions have been tested in court, while others have not. For example, the question of procedural fairness and the rights of the accused have not been tested in court. I would not be surprised if the SCC narrowed the the scope of human rights tribunals in future rulings. There are a few cases working their way through the courts now that will likely make it to the Supreme Court.

xChutchx:Doesn't Queen Elizabeth still have to sign off on this?

Because without her, and the French, Canadians are just Americans. And us Americans, we only love them one for thing, their bodies. We don't love them like she loves them.

xChutchx:Doesn't Queen Elizabeth still have to sign off on this?

yeah Trudeau took care of that thank you very much.

I know it wasn't as flashy as rioting over tea prices(yeah i know taxation) but i think it suited us just fine.


/honestly you stay in your country and i'll stay in mine.
//high gas prices and all.

"the Supreme Court of Canada delivered a landmark 9-0 ruling that will have wide implications on free speech in Canada "

See, our Supreme Court isn't normally made out of politically affiliated douchebags. Most of our Supreme Court decisions are decided by a large margin.

coco ebert:"Electing conservatives is like hiring a carpenter who thinks hammers are evil."

"Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master." -George Washington

xChutchx:Doesn't Queen Elizabeth still have to sign off on this?

She's only the Queen of Canada when she's physically in Canada. We're not ruled by the BNA any more. Constitutional monarchy. You could look it up and stuff. But I know you won't.

40below 2008-07-04 08:35:37 PM
give me doughnuts:Hopefully, this will influence the suit against Maclean's magazine and Mark Steyn.

Oh, and that was dismissed a week ago.

Which is dandy for Steyn and Macleans, but does nothing to help the poor schmucks who don't have their resources. The Canadian Human Rights Commission is free to keep hauling people in who "offend" some pressure group. Incidentally, this is the first time a defendant has "won" one of these things. The HRC conviction rate in the past has been 100%, and I daresay that it will be in the future. Also, complaints against Steyn were brought to three HRCs: Ontario's which declared that it lacked jurisdiction, Canada's, which was just dismissed, and British Columbia's which is still in process. So Steyn still isn't off the hook.

Nurglitch:there are no such thing as "natural" rights.




The Founding Fathers frown upon your shenanigans.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

Hopefully the DRM law, which makes it illegal to play DVDs in linux among other things, won't pass. If it does, at least I can keep hope the court will see logic if a case ever makes it before them.