Andrew Cunningham

Philosophe en tweetant

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@PAHoyeck yes, that one is certainly valid

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@DrGeneCallahan Reminds me of H.L. Mencken on the controversy over the dedication to Beethoven's Eroica: "Who cares? That is, who with ears?"

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@SunKerry @HumblePetition Is there anything about how you know that someone is bilingual? Will there be a certification of some sort, on appointment, that would preclude subsequent court challenges of an LG's actions on the basis that he/she isn't *really* bilingual? Is it speaking, reading and writing?

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@PAHoyeck Yes, but mine is correct* ... I've been out of philosophy for decades but I imagine the asterisk gambit still works?

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@PAHoyeck I buzzer your buzzer.

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@reschultzed @aaaronson "NU" for Nunavut, when Nunavut was established in 1999 and needed a postal abbreviation, was controversial. It's natural enough (first two letters) but it also means "nude" in French. Canada Post eventually went with it anyway.

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@HyperViolet11 @aaaronson @reschultzed Formerly PQ, until it was changed about 30 years ago.

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@aaaronson @reschultzed In Manitoba, we got stuck with Letter 1 and Letter 6 (MB), which was hard to get used to at first. Did any other single-word state or province have 5 others ahead of it? (Massachusetts, Minnesota, Michigan, Montana, Missouri in our case).

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@theiaincameron Alaska seems like a more dramatic example. Or you could do Point Roberts if you want to go really small.

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@charlescwcooke @globeandmail Well, Musk is Canadian so I guess so, in a way.

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@paulvieira @Ben_oharabyrne Before that a call-in show host on Winnipeg's CKRC who got his TV break on CBWT's evening news show, co-hosting with Sandra Lewis. CBC Manitoba had decided they needed to get more youthful and edgy.

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@WakeUpRef @CraigBaird It’s definitely an odd criterion to use when creating a list of all-time greats, but if you’re going to base such a list on how exceptional the player’s best season was, I don’t think Gordie makes the cut.

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@zackbeauchamp The effort to give greater recognition to the “French fact” across Canada - and not only in Quebec and a few other French-speaking areas - was called “biculturalism” - it came before multiculturalism and culminated in the Official Languages Act.

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@zackbeauchamp Multiculturalism was a response to western Canadians (Ukrainians, Germans, Scandinavians, etc.) who felt excluded by eastern Canadian politicians’ exclusive focus on British and French Canadians, who were then the vast majority in the east but much less so in the west.

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@SkinnerLyle Yikes.

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@PAHoyeck @Joe_ICHTHUS “Philosophy is the search for wisdom, son. It’s not wisdom.”

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@Paul_Kasinski @dimenpsyonal The problem in Canada began when MPs began changing the names mid-term, almost always tacking more localities on to the name in order to score points with local voters.

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@Paul_Kasinski @dimenpsyonal Well, there are the ones concocted by the local tourism authority, like West Vancouver—Sunshine Coast—Sea to Sky Country