I found this from Asia Times and it was actually quoted by a German scholar.

I used the translator on the link you provided but still don’t understand the concept.

There is history and philosophy and probably some religion involved.

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I think the VPD is doing a good job here of preventive measures by providing sources where students can contact in case of their being victimized.

I know quite a number of students from China and the CBC is distorting the true picture by presenting as if allthe students from China are out of touch and weak and vulnerable; this is not the case, most students are quite in touch and they are very much capable of knowing what to do if harassed.

I was totally impressed when a group of business students from China started to explain to me about the intricacies of the Income Tax act and gave me a few good pointers on not paying so much tax; many are just in Canada for less than 2 years.

And they have their own networks of communication in which I am quite sure they will approach if they feel threatened.

Of course, there are some students who are here to pass a few years of parent paid vacation – they don’t even take this opportunity to learn English. I think those are the ones in trouble. They have only a fixed number of friends and they don’t have a clue of the happenings outside that sphere; they are sitting ducks if someone decides to rip them off.

What the CBC did was to present the story from the angle that Chinese students are afraid of the cops because of the police state that they have in China.

It has more to do with politics than truly trying to understand the situation.

One thing you will notice about the CBC is that it will put a negative spin on things Chinese no matter what.

The CBC in particular and the Western press in general initially branded the Chinese swimmer as a doper until the IOC and FINA backed her; Badminton players are cheaters yet British cyclist is not even though both played the rules to gain winning advantage.

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Mike, I am an arden advocate of freedom of expression so I am not going to ask you to refrain from insulting people since you should be able to say whatever and however you want.

But at the same time you shouldn’t try to silence someone either.

Judge Dredd should be allowed to say whatever he wants and whatever which way he wants also.

I happen to agree with what Judge Dredd wrote.

It is a well researched and well documented piece, you might disagree with his findings and conclusions, and that is your prerogative, and you are welcome to put forward your arguments.

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Facebook page calls for American-only hours at U.S. Costco
CBC News
08/12/2012, 4:23PM

Many Canadians are taking advantage of the high Canadian dollar by shopping across the border – with cheap milk and gas being two of the big draws – but some Americans are fed up with the cross-border crowd.

Some Bellingham, Wa., residents started a Facebook page calling for American-only hours at the local Costco.

On the Facebook page “Bellingham Costco needs a special time just for Americans,” residents write that they have seen flats of milk stripped away in seconds.

Some write that they have to wait in long lines at the Costco gas station as Canadians fill up first their cars, and then their gas cans.

Others have posted photos of cars with British Columbia licence plates that take up more than one parking space.

Some just complain about Canadians being rude.

Ken Oplinger, president of the Bellingham/Whatcom Chamber of Commerce, is urging locals to have patience for their Canadians visitors. He said that without them, the living situation in the city and county would be quite different.

“In the last two years, our sales tax generation has doubled or tripled the pace in the rest of the state, and its almost entirely because of the Canadians coming south,” he said.

*is this racism? Or they hate Canadians because?

The administrator of the Facebook page, which had over 2,000 “Likes” as of Sunday, posted a message earlier this week telling Canadians that they are not being blamed.

“To our Canadian friends on here that think we hate you: You have to look at the root of the problem. Bellingham has laws that keep big box companys from expanding. The overcrowding in this small, slow paced town has agitated people,” the note said.

A spokesperson for Costco said the Bellingham store is bursting at the seams, and that the company would love to expand the Bellingham store.

It would also like to install more lines and pumps at its gas station, but there’s no room to do so on the current property.

While the Bellingham Facebook community page implores Costco to set aside special opening hours for Americans, just as it used to do for preferred customers, some commenters want the Canadians just to go away.

A senior VP told CBC News that the store isn’t looking to change its policy on shoppers, which is that anyone with a Costco membership can shop at any Costco store in the world.

According to a report by Seattle’s KIRO TV, Bellingham police said that Costco is now paying for an off-duty officer to handle the parking lot crowd two days a week.

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Vancouver police officer filmed kicking arrested man
CBC News
08/16/2012, 8:48PM

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/story/2012/08/16/bc-vancouver-violent-arrest.html

Things never change here …

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“Image of Asian-looking woman banned from new $100 bill after complaints”

I’m surprised that neither Chintalk nor the Judge have jumped on this yet ! (Maybe they’ve been playing Mah-Jongg all weekend and haven’t come up for air yet ?).

Anyway, I stand with the complainers ! The Chinese kid on the toboggan on the back of the $5 bill is enough diversity – and there’s lots more $5 bills than $100’s.

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that fuss about removing the asian womans face on the $100 bill was actually that of a south asian woman. ie. Indo-Canadian!

Now that really makes me mad. I’m Sikh and Im tired of the racist whites who think there the only ones who are Canadians!!

heres what bank of Canada say today: One of these was a photoshopped image based on an original photograph of a South Asian woman looking through a microscope.

link: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/economy/currencies/carney-apologizes-for-asian-banknote-controversy/article4489633/

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chinktalk,

Yeah, you sound a little suspicious.

Where is the closest neighbour? 20-km away or 40-km away? I met some white canadians on a computer forum who live like that because they were trying to mail-order some computer parts. They told me lots of stories.

And they don’t care about “chinese in Canada”.

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Where is the closest neighbour? 20-km away or 40-km away? I met some white canadians on a computer forum who live like that because they were trying to mail-order some computer parts. They told me lots of stories.

And they don’t care about “chinese in Canada”.

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Judge Dredd, most farms today are fairly closely connected due to Canada’s well established highway infrastructure.

It is an exception rather than the rule to have farms over 20 kms apart, what you are thinking of is like in the old days when people used to say -” son, I used to walk 2 miles in the snow bare foot to go to school,…” – when you needed a horse carriage to get around.

Canadian farmers are the backbones of this country and many great Canadians come from a farming background.

Most Canadian farmers are caring people and good Christians.

Here is a farm related question for you and Ronglimeng, do you know what a “honey wagon” is?

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Whistleblower claims RCMP targeting him
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/story/2012/08/27/bc-bondage-whistleblower-search-seizure.html

White Rock RCMP officer charged for fatal high speed pursuit
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/story/2012/08/27/bc-rcmp-white-rock-charges.html

This place doesn’t look like a 1st world country …

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Here is a poem that exmplifies the paradox in the anti- Chinese rhetoric that is prevalent today.

The Man He Killed – Thomas Hardy

“Had he and I but met
By some old ancient inn,
We should have sat us down to wet
Right many a nipperkin!

But ranged as infantry,
And staring face to face,
I shot at him as he at me,
And killed him in his place.

I shot him dead because–
Because he was my foe,
Just so: my foe of course he was;
That’s clear enough; although

He thought he’d ‘list, perhaps,
Off-hand-like — just as I–
Was out of work–had sold his traps–
No other reason why.

Yes; quaint and curious war is!
You shoot a fellow down
You’d treat, if met where any bar is,
Or help to half-a-crown. ”

This poem was written in the 1800s and amazingly how it channels what is happening today.

The Chinese are the foes, some will enlist to fight the Chinese because they are out of options – no job, no possesion; “freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose….And nothing ain’t worth nothing, but it’s free” – Janis Joplin. Free to kill. Freedom is a double edge sword.

I read somewhere that leaders of countries initiate wars to solve unenployment by getting rid of their own young who have no prospects of work, and the responding country is actually thinking of the same thing.

So if one side wants war but the other side refuses, there would be no war.

“Yes; quaint and curious war is!
You shoot a fellow down
You’d treat, if met where any bar is,
Or help to half-a-crown. ”

If someone decides to invite a Chinese for a drink then there would be no need for:

“I shot him dead because–
Because he was my foe,
Just so: my foe of course he was;
That’s clear enough; although ”

What do you think of that word “although”?

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OTTAWA – Canada’s top spy has rejected a call from a federal watchdog for more scrutiny of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service’s human rights record.

In a newly declassified memo, CSIS director Dick Fadden dismisses the Canadian Human Rights Commission’s recommendation that national security agencies do more to ensure they are not taking part in racial profiling or other objectionable practices.

“I am confident in the service’s existing human rights policies and procedures, as well as our accountability and review structures,” Fadden says in the January 2012 memo to Public Safety Minister Vic Toews.

“We have taken aggressive proactive steps to prevent discrimination and profiling in the service, and our investigation and reporting are pursued to protect Canadians and not out of any discriminatory bias.”

The memo — initially classified secret — was provided to The Canadian Press by Mike Larsen, a criminology instructor at Kwantlen Polytechnic University in British Columbia, who obtained it under the Access to Information Act.

Fadden’s memo came two months after the human rights commission tabled a special report to Parliament urging the government to bring in legislative amendments that would underline the importance of respect for human rights in the policies and operations of CSIS, the RCMP and other security agencies.

The changes would also require each organization to have a human rights accountability structure in place that would enable it to gather data, measure performance and take action to improve. In addition, the security agencies would have to report publicly and regularly on their human rights records.

“The effectiveness of these organizations depends in part on their capacity to earn and maintain the trust of the general public,” the commission’s report says. “Respect for human rights is not just a legal obligation; it is critical to earning that trust.

“Analysis of a decade of research clearly shows that there are no means to assess the human rights performance of Canada’s national security organizations.”

The report notes that concerns have been raised about the profiling of individuals in the post-9-11 era, and that specific cases have linked Canadian officials and security organizations to the abuse of Canadians’ rights at the hands of governments in other countries.

For instance, a federal inquiry concluded that Ottawa telecommunications engineer Maher Arar suffered torture in a Syrian prison likely as a result of flawed information the RCMP passed to the United States. The inquiry prompted numerous changes within federal security agencies.

In an interview, Larsen said the publication of data about the ethnicity and citizenship of people interviewed by CSIS would increase transparency.

In his memo, Fadden insists CSIS is already subject to a “rigorous accountability and review regime.”

The Public Safety Department echoed his position, saying in a statement that Canada has very strong judicial oversight of national security activities conducted by law enforcement and intelligence agencies.

“While the department has not officially responded to the report, legislation and policies enacted by the government of Canada are done so in strict accordance with the Constitution, including the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, as well as the full range of human rights and privacy legislation that exists in Canada.”

The department also noted there are review bodies that keep an eye on CSIS, the RCMP and the Communications Security Establishment, Canada’s electronic eavesdropping agency.

The human rights commission had no immediate comment on the federal statement.

However, in its report, the commission says the Security Intelligence Review Committee, which monitors CSIS, and the Commission for Public Complaints Against the RCMP deal with human rights issues only “on an ad hoc basis.”

“This approach does not provide a comprehensive look at potential human rights trends or issues.”

The Conservative government recently abolished the inspector general of CSIS, an independent watchdog that served as the “eyes and ears” of the public safety minister regarding the intelligence service’s activities.

The government says the inspector general’s former duties will be assumed by the intelligence review committee. Critics say the move will result in less scrutiny of CSIS.

CSIS accountability is becoming “less robust rather than more robust,” said Larsen.

“It’s an alarming direction.”

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XL Foods beef recall reaches Hong Kong
Number of E. coli cases linked to Alberta plant reaches 11

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/2012/10/08/xl-foods-beef-recall.html

Shame on Canada! 400 comments over there, and it is a racial discussion?

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Actually that guy in the news is a friend of mine, this problem of major stores not buying from local producers is not only affecting Chinese producers but also Canadian egg farmers.

What is happening is that Canada is making a transfusion to sustain life for the US economy by draining our own blood.

This policy of cross border shopping allowing $2,000 if stay over 48 hours are killing the Canadian retail businesses. And directly affects the Canadian egg farmers who cannot compete with $1.25 for a dozen eggs from the States.

And if you would look at Safeways, Safe-On, and even T&T, they all buy their produce from the US so local producers are dying. There is a 3 year backlog of blueberries stored in refrigeration in BC and if you would go to Safeway’s, for example, the blueberries are imported from the US. Blueberry farmers in BC are hurting and many are forced to sell now with over supply of the product and low prices.

When T&T was owned by the Chinese, it would purchase all of the produce from local farms, and now it’s been taken over by Loblaws, they buy all their stuff from the US and now things are more expensive at T&T.

I don’t mind helping out the Americans with their economy but I hope they understand that our producers are dying because of it and then they turn around and do a QE3 which only means they are printing more money to pay for things rather than work to make their economy more productive.

Our producers are sacrificed for naught.

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Conservatives commit $16 million to ‘action plan’ ads while cutting programs
Bruce Cheadle, Wednesday, October 10, 2012 5:31 PM

OTTAWA – The Conservative government has approved tens of millions of dollars in “economic action plan” ads this year even as it cites fiscal restraint to cut programs such as scientific research and environmental monitoring.

While Finance officials are refusing to disclose the budget for the current blitz, contracts listed on the department’s website suggest the saturation ad campaign is costing taxpayers about $14 million.

A Treasury Board document shows that cabinet previously approved $16 million in “economic action plan” advertising in the first quarter of this year.

That doesn’t include $5 million approved for a “better jobs” ad campaign, $8 million to sell Canadians on cuts to old age security, and $5 million to promote “responsible resource development” — the slogan given to an environmental assessment system that was cut back and restructured in the last budget. All the measures are promoted on the government’s “economic action plan” web site.

The Conservatives also approved $4.5 million for War of 1812 advertising this year.

In all, the federal cabinet has already approved more than $64 million in ad spending for 2012-13 — seemingly well on its way to matching the $83.3 million they spent in 2010-11, the last year for which complete numbers are available.

When the Conservatives came to office in 2006, they inherited a federal advertising budget of $41.3 million — a total they have doubled, and in one case more than tripled, every year they’ve been in power to date.

The ad spending comes as Treasury Board President Tony Clement oversees sweeping cuts to government programs in an across-the-board belt-tightening exercise.

World-renowned programs such as the Experimental Lakes Area are being axed for savings of $2 million annually, while the National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy was cut to save $5.5 million.

Cindy Blackstock, the executive director of the First Nations Child and Family Caring Society of Canada, called it “disturbing” that millions are being spent on government ads when First Nations children go to school in mould-ridden classrooms.

“I find these types of expenditures absolutely unacceptable to me, not only as someone who’s running an NGO and cares about the inequities that kids are experiencing, but also as a taxpayer,” Blackstock said in an interview.

“What I want to see is those taxpayer funds going into better health care, better education, helping children … not to the promotion of government agendas.”

The Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat web site states: “The Government of Canada’s approach to advertising is guided by the principles of value for money, transparency, and accountability.”

The latest ad blitz trumpets government policy as the key to economic success, while directing viewers to a government web site for more specific information.

“Canada’s economic action plan is creating jobs, growth and prosperity,” states the ad.

Mathieu Ravignat, the NDP Treasury Board critic, says that doesn’t meet the test of a public service announcement.

“When we’re announcing a supposed result as opposed to something Canadians need, we’re attempting to convince Canadians that this particular government is doing their job,” Ravignat said in an interview.

“That’s not my understanding of the point of government advertising. And that’s the problem.”

A spokesman for Jim Flaherty’s Finance department defended the current national campaign in an email to The Canadian Press.

“In an uncertain global economy, it is important that all Canadians are aware of the initiatives to support the economy and jobs in the economic action plan,” wrote spokesman Jack Aubry.

While government departments, including Finance, have routinely disclosed the cost of past ad campaigns upon request, no official number was forthcoming for the current ad’s production or media buy.

“Precise costs will only be known once all of the invoices have been received,” Aubry wrote. “Details regarding government advertising will be published by the government in the annual report on government advertising activities.”

That means Canadian taxpayers will have to wait until 2014 to get an official tally of the government’s fall 2012 media blitz.

The most recent annual government advertising report was released Aug. 31, exactly 17 months after the 2010-11 fiscal year end it detailed.

Ottawa spent $83.3 million on advertising that year, including almost $23 million on “economic action plan” ads.

The 2009-10 annual ad report wasn’t released until last December, 21 months after the end of the fiscal year.

Public Works said it could not provide a timeline for the annual ad report on fiscal 2011-12, which wrapped up more than six months ago.

By contrast, the previous Liberal government tabled its 2002-03 annual ad report in the fall of 2003, roughly six months after the fiscal year end.

For 2003-04 — at the height of the sponsorship scandal that revolved around government ad expenses — the Liberals didn’t release the annual government ad report until spring 2005, a full 12 months after the fiscal year end.

@Ron, is there a ministry of propaganda in Canada?

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This is my last post here, because replies aren’t showing up in a timely manner.

I wanted to show a Chinese newspaper article on hk parent’s Canada-born Chinese kids abandoning Canada to look for better jobs and future in hk.

it is a perfect end with a CBC story, unfortunately no English version of that article.

So long people, have a good life.

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