You don't want to be complimented on it? That's very odd, Marilyn.
And given the American honouring of free speech, are you going to stop someone from stating their opinion, whatever it is? THAT would be dis-honouring your own Constitution.
Are you actually saying that people can't have knowledge of, and talk about, things and issues outside of their own country? You're saying far more about yourself than you are about anyone else if this is what you really believe.
Thank you, for the compliment Chilblain it gives me the Chilblains,
It is supposed to snow tonight and the equinox was almost three weeks ago I think let me count. I wish I could count to two but there is a universe of numbers between zero and one.
I turned 77 and I am still Asperger's Syndrome and in the disordered part of the human autism spectrum. At Autisme Quebec we say disordered is what I am . I am who I am. It is not easy being an almost blind portrait photographer. But I am a happy old bugger and great grandma is still beside me.
In Quebec everyone is a me not an us. In Quebec race is Homo Sapiens. It a boast or oxymoron if you have that in your limited vocabulary. In Quebec gender is analog not binary. Sex is for recreation, procreation or remuneration. In Quebec religion is confined to the home, the church or the closet so we can live in an empirical reality instead of America's Never Neverland with Peter Pan and his pirates, damsels and Tinkerbells.
Moe, I have lived in Quebec, I have lived in the rest of Canada, and I have lived in the States (as we call it). While I can see the Quebecois point of wanting to keep their culture, they do have a bit of a totalitarian slant to the way they do it.
Everyone my age was born at the North Country Hospital in Newport Vermont and speaks English and has dual citizenship. The tongue police has done its job and Quebec is 100% Canadian. We fly Zelenkyy's flag with the Maple Leaf and Bourbon flag and taken down the Red White and Blue of Putin and Trump.
No shit. I know French history how long did the first Republic last? How long did they have democracy in the 19th century"? Marx credits Franklin and Voltaire with communism but Britain's parliament was in charge from 1689-2025.
Thanks like from Richard the Chicken Hearted till Prime Minister Rishi Sunak. Remember the Irish Starvation and the booming export economy of food and potato eaters.
As I said, they have likely been involved for a very long time. And that includes Elizabeth. It does not skip generations.
I suspect that Canada and the Commonwealth countries were only ever investments for them, which they expected to pay-off in big returns. Had to have a population living in such places to hold them for the Crown.
Which makes me ask -- if Canada or individual provinces ever get to the point of joining the U.S., what happens to the ownership of all that Crown land? Charles will just have to suck it up?
I've been writing since 6:30 and my brain is melting but thank you again,
The Provinces and territories are sovereign and subject to the Canadian charter of Rights and Freedom as outlined by Chrystia Freeland's uncle.
The Monarch serves and but does not rule and the people are sovereign.I would suggest you watch Rosalie Silberman Abela Canadian Supreme Court Justice ret. examine American Supreme Court Justice Lena Kagan on her honorary Doctor of Law Degree at Toronto.
Justice Abela is now teaching at Harvard. Canada is a nation of justice not law. If a law is not just the law is not legal. The land belongs to its citizens Charles has no claim on crown land other than the mandate to serve its inhabitants.
Ah, but as we all learned this past decade or so, we may think things operate one way -- under certain structures -- but then SURPRISE!....turns out the institutions we believed in so fervently cannot be believed in at all.
Interesting. Do Californians or Texans or Floridians or whatever they call them in Michigan get bent if you call them an American? (well, maybe the Texans).
Quebec always has its many demands on Canada, but Canada has been primed over the years not to say anything in return. There are many Canadians who have felt for a long time now that if Quebec wants so badly to spit on us and leave....then GO already!
I guess technically it should be Michiganians, but Michiganders (originally coined by Abraham Lincoln as a mild insult) has been adopted by Michiganders as the preferred demonym.
A distinct society? You have swallowed the propaganda word for word. Why is Quebec more "distinct" than other provinces? Or American states, for that matter?
And Chantal...if you are so concerned about being Quebecois....why are you on an English-American Substack proclaiming this stuff?
I think many Canadians have noticed that large numbers of Quebecois were only too happy to leave their culture and language behind when it meant getting jobs in the New England mill towns over two centuries.
Moe and I get along. We don't take each other too seriously. And we can both discuss the unusual Quebec politics. Or John Ralston Saul -- the fellow no one else ever heard of.
Except every other Canadian (like me). He is an unsufferable pompous boob. Lived in my neighbour-- NEVER came out of the house without English green high wellies and his hand clasped behind his back like Prince Charles (yuck King).
Anyone under 40 has never heard of him. And those over 40 have long since forgotten him. He was one of the arrogant entitled elite....for no particular reason. He was a philosopher in his own mind only.
I share your opinion of Charles too. The WEF-man Globalist.
He is married to Adrienne Clarkson nee Poy Canada's heart throb and former Vice Regent. Sir John is not a pompous boob he is an Army Brat and Adrienne is still CANADA's Vice Regent. Time magazine called him a prophet and he writes for a select audience that lives in a world I know well. My wife wrote her Doctorate on Bay Island in Great Slave Lake and they didn't speak English or French. I am reminded of a comedy skit written by the Great Bard. John Ralston was COO of PetroCanada under Maurice Strong before Mulroney sold us out to the Yankees.
My great maternal grandparents escaped the Cossacks in Romania and spoke Yiddish in Montreal and I remember meeting them.
God bless the czar and keep him alive and well in Moscow.
Our family is from Beijing , Jerusalem, Montreal, Chicago,Toronto and Kellogg/Post Michigan and Sao Paulo. My wife grew up in Michigan and our grandchildren and great grandchild are Americans. I know of what I speak.
I know of what I speak too, Moe. I'm a smart girl.
My first ancestor to North America was a young Scottish soldier brought in captivity by the British army to the Massachusetts Colony in 1650. By the war of 1776 his family line had prospered, but they left it all behind to join the exodus of United Empire Loyalists moving north.
I met my wife at a Stampede Party in Calgary where she was doing her Doctoral studies in Educational Administration. She finished her Doctorate on Community based education on Bay Island in Bechok
That is the view I woke up to when the lake wasn't frozen over so my wife didn't need to go to the highway to drive to school in what was Edzo before it burned to ground.
Robert Carney flew in from Edinburgh to hear her defense in Calgary he was her external. I met Justin when he was in his diapers and Joe Clark in Stoney Plain. I saw Harry Chapin in Regina and crossed Newfoundland in a Blizzard. I bummed cigarettes with Ralph Klein because my wife is allergic to tobacco. We considered ourselves hugged in Chicago by Kim Campbell and my wife hosted the Mulroneys in Fort Vermilion, Alberta and I grew up five blocks from where Kamala Harris grew up.
&0 years ago my father said Christopher Columbus was a Basque, a Celt and a Jew and in 2024 sure enough Christopher Columbus' DNA said he was all three.
You would probably know that the Sephardic Iberian Jews had a presence in the Basque Country once upon a time.
And that Basques arrived in fishing fleets in what is now east coast Canada, beginning in the 1500s. In fact, their DNA is now intertwined with the Acadian French and the Mi'kmaq tribes who were living in the same region.
I am not leftwing, Moe. I was not a fan of Kamala Harris. Good that you got around though, and made some memories out of it.
Like evolution we revise Wikipedia every second based on the exponential increase of knowledge in our memory banks. It is empirical evidence not Carol Jones beliefs and superstitions. Thank you for your input I am sure my friends the computers are listening in on our cabal. In 1776 a Cabal meant the same thing as in 2025. The secret science of Hebrew Rabbins
I am having a bird. As the Weavers once said "Life gets interestinger and interestinger. We are living in interesting times. The American revolution was not about King George he spent his days in court with courtiers and courtesans. Lord North the Prime Minister was the power behind the throne. The throne gave up all power in 1689 and the House of Lords owned all the shares of the East India Company. The East India Company's tea was untariffed and its ships flew the East India Company flag on Boston Harbour which was owned by guess who the company that owned Boston.
The American revolution was fought over the Quebec Act that gave full citizenship to Roman Catholics and Opus Dei Inquisitor Scalia was a constitutional scholar?
This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel. The best philosophy is to do one's duties, take the world as it comes, submit respectfully to one's lot; bless the goodness that has given us so much happiness with it. Horace Walpole.
Thomas Jefferson was a evolutionary botanist. In 1805 after the cotton gin President Jefferson called the constitution an abomination and in 1820 he put together the Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth.
I wake up before dawn and read the Guardian, The Times of London and Haaretz and listen to MSNBC and laugh hysterically all day long. Life is good on Sesame Street especially with some fresh pita and hummus or passover matzah with fresh local horseradish..
I have no idea what your intention is with this list of links to definitions, but I thank you for making me aware of this online version of Johnson's dictionary.
Thank God our Founders, in all their wisdom, devised a constitutional republic to protect us from the Taylor Lorenz's of the world.
You know Ryan...I am envious of your Constitution. Hope it always holds.
Nothing always holds. Just a degree of time, I might add
I am going to be positive about the American Constitution having some staying power yet.
My point: тАЬalwaysтАЭ is a long time
The
No...."your". Because Ryan is American and I am not.
Why are you commenting on OUR constitution?
You don't want to be complimented on it? That's very odd, Marilyn.
And given the American honouring of free speech, are you going to stop someone from stating their opinion, whatever it is? THAT would be dis-honouring your own Constitution.
You're a funny duck.
Are you actually saying that people can't have knowledge of, and talk about, things and issues outside of their own country? You're saying far more about yourself than you are about anyone else if this is what you really believe.
Marilyn F is cretaceous and detained.
Damn them! I was looking forward to Jello-wrestling her
You are a victim of Propaganda. I use the Dictionary to understand the constitution not the book of sophists and inquisitors.
https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=religion
https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=liberal
https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=democracy
https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=republic
https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=cabal
https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=colony
https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=invasion
https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=justice
https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=felony
https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=law
https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=conservative
The meaning of is
https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=is
The meaning of truth
https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=truth
тмЖя╕ПThis is one weird ЁЯдЦ here folks!
Thank you, for the compliment Chilblain it gives me the Chilblains,
It is supposed to snow tonight and the equinox was almost three weeks ago I think let me count. I wish I could count to two but there is a universe of numbers between zero and one.
I turned 77 and I am still Asperger's Syndrome and in the disordered part of the human autism spectrum. At Autisme Quebec we say disordered is what I am . I am who I am. It is not easy being an almost blind portrait photographer. But I am a happy old bugger and great grandma is still beside me.
https://autismequebec.org/
In Quebec everyone is a me not an us. In Quebec race is Homo Sapiens. It a boast or oxymoron if you have that in your limited vocabulary. In Quebec gender is analog not binary. Sex is for recreation, procreation or remuneration. In Quebec religion is confined to the home, the church or the closet so we can live in an empirical reality instead of America's Never Neverland with Peter Pan and his pirates, damsels and Tinkerbells.
Moe, I have lived in Quebec, I have lived in the rest of Canada, and I have lived in the States (as we call it). While I can see the Quebecois point of wanting to keep their culture, they do have a bit of a totalitarian slant to the way they do it.
The sign & language police! ЁЯЪУ
Thank yoy North Country,
Everyone my age was born at the North Country Hospital in Newport Vermont and speaks English and has dual citizenship. The tongue police has done its job and Quebec is 100% Canadian. We fly Zelenkyy's flag with the Maple Leaf and Bourbon flag and taken down the Red White and Blue of Putin and Trump.
https://www.latribune.ca/actualites/politique/2025/04/14/beau-temps-pour-carney-selon-le-barometre-de-la-perception-politique-SXHPEJ2QEZDRTEKB33SQYX3GDM/
No shit. I know French history how long did the first Republic last? How long did they have democracy in the 19th century"? Marx credits Franklin and Voltaire with communism but Britain's parliament was in charge from 1689-2025.
I know the Psychology and Evolutionary Science of Totalitarianism.
It is not all Marxism. There are several flavours. And the British elites for a long time were likely involved with it too.
Thanks like from Richard the Chicken Hearted till Prime Minister Rishi Sunak. Remember the Irish Starvation and the booming export economy of food and potato eaters.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Famine_(Ireland)
https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/education/resources/jews-in-england-1290/
https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/places/cliffords-tower-york/history-and-stories/massacre-of-the-jews/
As I said, they have likely been involved for a very long time. And that includes Elizabeth. It does not skip generations.
I suspect that Canada and the Commonwealth countries were only ever investments for them, which they expected to pay-off in big returns. Had to have a population living in such places to hold them for the Crown.
Which makes me ask -- if Canada or individual provinces ever get to the point of joining the U.S., what happens to the ownership of all that Crown land? Charles will just have to suck it up?
I've been writing since 6:30 and my brain is melting but thank you again,
The Provinces and territories are sovereign and subject to the Canadian charter of Rights and Freedom as outlined by Chrystia Freeland's uncle.
The Monarch serves and but does not rule and the people are sovereign.I would suggest you watch Rosalie Silberman Abela Canadian Supreme Court Justice ret. examine American Supreme Court Justice Lena Kagan on her honorary Doctor of Law Degree at Toronto.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxfTA3XzA4Q
https://www.canada.ca/content/dam/pch/documents/services/download-order-charter-bill/canadian-charter-rights-freedoms-eng.pdf
Justice Abela is now teaching at Harvard. Canada is a nation of justice not law. If a law is not just the law is not legal. The land belongs to its citizens Charles has no claim on crown land other than the mandate to serve its inhabitants.
https://www.britannica.com/event/Toleration-Act-Great-Britain-1689
Ah, but as we all learned this past decade or so, we may think things operate one way -- under certain structures -- but then SURPRISE!....turns out the institutions we believed in so fervently cannot be believed in at all.
Potemkin village of Canada?
Lolol. Coming from a Canadian
Quebecois, it's not the same.
For sure
Interesting. Do Californians or Texans or Floridians or whatever they call them in Michigan get bent if you call them an American? (well, maybe the Texans).
Quebec always has its many demands on Canada, but Canada has been primed over the years not to say anything in return. There are many Canadians who have felt for a long time now that if Quebec wants so badly to spit on us and leave....then GO already!
Michiganders.
Thanks. I was going to go with Michiganers.
I guess technically it should be Michiganians, but Michiganders (originally coined by Abraham Lincoln as a mild insult) has been adopted by Michiganders as the preferred demonym.
C'mon, Chantal. Have some loyalty to Canada.
Have you lived there? They are a distinct society, and ROC has recognized that.
The rest of Canada is simply fed up with being blackmailed by Quebec for 50 years.
Enough!
Ya enough with this off topic nest
You are the one who started this topic. And you wanted to pursue it....as long as it all went your way.
You have no answers for me now that I have stood up to you.
Yes, I have lived there.
A distinct society? You have swallowed the propaganda word for word. Why is Quebec more "distinct" than other provinces? Or American states, for that matter?
And Chantal...if you are so concerned about being Quebecois....why are you on an English-American Substack proclaiming this stuff?
I think many Canadians have noticed that large numbers of Quebecois were only too happy to leave their culture and language behind when it meant getting jobs in the New England mill towns over two centuries.
Moe! You lovable dingbat! How are you, buddy?
Moe and I get along. We don't take each other too seriously. And we can both discuss the unusual Quebec politics. Or John Ralston Saul -- the fellow no one else ever heard of.
Except every other Canadian (like me). He is an unsufferable pompous boob. Lived in my neighbour-- NEVER came out of the house without English green high wellies and his hand clasped behind his back like Prince Charles (yuck King).
John Who?
Anyone under 40 has never heard of him. And those over 40 have long since forgotten him. He was one of the arrogant entitled elite....for no particular reason. He was a philosopher in his own mind only.
I share your opinion of Charles too. The WEF-man Globalist.
Thank you Carol,
He is married to Adrienne Clarkson nee Poy Canada's heart throb and former Vice Regent. Sir John is not a pompous boob he is an Army Brat and Adrienne is still CANADA's Vice Regent. Time magazine called him a prophet and he writes for a select audience that lives in a world I know well. My wife wrote her Doctorate on Bay Island in Great Slave Lake and they didn't speak English or French. I am reminded of a comedy skit written by the Great Bard. John Ralston was COO of PetroCanada under Maurice Strong before Mulroney sold us out to the Yankees.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petro-Canada
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Strong
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrienne_Clarkson
https://archive.org/details/belongingparadox0000clar
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DsC-Aumx4dkЁЯдг
You prefer to be sold out to the Communist Chinese?
The Poy family of Hong Kong (they also managed to get a senator's position here) had their fingers in many pies.
Moe...this is an American Substack. You know that, right? Should not insult the host and readers. Ahem.
Thanks EH
My great maternal grandparents escaped the Cossacks in Romania and spoke Yiddish in Montreal and I remember meeting them.
God bless the czar and keep him alive and well in Moscow.
Our family is from Beijing , Jerusalem, Montreal, Chicago,Toronto and Kellogg/Post Michigan and Sao Paulo. My wife grew up in Michigan and our grandchildren and great grandchild are Americans. I know of what I speak.
Proverbs 16:18
https://dailyverse.knowing-jesus.com/proverbs-16-18
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/mishlei-proverbs-chapter-16
I know of what I speak too, Moe. I'm a smart girl.
My first ancestor to North America was a young Scottish soldier brought in captivity by the British army to the Massachusetts Colony in 1650. By the war of 1776 his family line had prospered, but they left it all behind to join the exodus of United Empire Loyalists moving north.
So I have a foot in both camps.
Thanks Eh Eh
I met my wife at a Stampede Party in Calgary where she was doing her Doctoral studies in Educational Administration. She finished her Doctorate on Community based education on Bay Island in Bechok
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behchok%C7%AB%CC%80
That is the view I woke up to when the lake wasn't frozen over so my wife didn't need to go to the highway to drive to school in what was Edzo before it burned to ground.
https://tlicho.ca/community/behchoko
My wife was the only person in Calgary who like to listen to the songs of Robbie Burns and I had a Jean Redpath collection.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBS4XP9Xmk8
Robert Carney flew in from Edinburgh to hear her defense in Calgary he was her external. I met Justin when he was in his diapers and Joe Clark in Stoney Plain. I saw Harry Chapin in Regina and crossed Newfoundland in a Blizzard. I bummed cigarettes with Ralph Klein because my wife is allergic to tobacco. We considered ourselves hugged in Chicago by Kim Campbell and my wife hosted the Mulroneys in Fort Vermilion, Alberta and I grew up five blocks from where Kamala Harris grew up.
&0 years ago my father said Christopher Columbus was a Basque, a Celt and a Jew and in 2024 sure enough Christopher Columbus' DNA said he was all three.
You would probably know that the Sephardic Iberian Jews had a presence in the Basque Country once upon a time.
And that Basques arrived in fishing fleets in what is now east coast Canada, beginning in the 1500s. In fact, their DNA is now intertwined with the Acadian French and the Mi'kmaq tribes who were living in the same region.
I am not leftwing, Moe. I was not a fan of Kamala Harris. Good that you got around though, and made some memories out of it.
Wikipedia? Seriously ?
Yes Carol, Thank you so much for your response.
Like evolution we revise Wikipedia every second based on the exponential increase of knowledge in our memory banks. It is empirical evidence not Carol Jones beliefs and superstitions. Thank you for your input I am sure my friends the computers are listening in on our cabal. In 1776 a Cabal meant the same thing as in 2025. The secret science of Hebrew Rabbins
https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=cabal
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Dictionary_of_the_English_Language
https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=empirical
Thanks Pacificus,
I am having a bird. As the Weavers once said "Life gets interestinger and interestinger. We are living in interesting times. The American revolution was not about King George he spent his days in court with courtiers and courtesans. Lord North the Prime Minister was the power behind the throne. The throne gave up all power in 1689 and the House of Lords owned all the shares of the East India Company. The East India Company's tea was untariffed and its ships flew the East India Company flag on Boston Harbour which was owned by guess who the company that owned Boston.
The American revolution was fought over the Quebec Act that gave full citizenship to Roman Catholics and Opus Dei Inquisitor Scalia was a constitutional scholar?
This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel. The best philosophy is to do one's duties, take the world as it comes, submit respectfully to one's lot; bless the goodness that has given us so much happiness with it. Horace Walpole.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horace_Walpole
Thomas Jefferson was a evolutionary botanist. In 1805 after the cotton gin President Jefferson called the constitution an abomination and in 1820 he put together the Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth.
https://ia801801.us.archive.org/12/items/jeffersonbibleli0000unse/jeffersonbibleli0000unse.pdf
I wake up before dawn and read the Guardian, The Times of London and Haaretz and listen to MSNBC and laugh hysterically all day long. Life is good on Sesame Street especially with some fresh pita and hummus or passover matzah with fresh local horseradish..
I don't read the Guardian. Too WOKE for me.
I have no idea what your intention is with this list of links to definitions, but I thank you for making me aware of this online version of Johnson's dictionary.