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In Canada the Draft is called conscription. The poster kind of speaks for itself. We have a major right wing Canadian University here in Kingston called Queen’s (the Harvard of the north they like to call it). Many of the asshole students there come from money and tended to support the war (as did lots of folks, young and old, in the city). The poster was a bit of a wake up call that fighting a war means dying. And if you don’t care about some Iraqi’s death then also be aware that your sons and daughters may well get called to serve. It was pretty hard for the assholes to go on supportiong the war once they’d been seen by their friends to be preparing to dodge or at least whine about conscription. The line ups at the recruiting office supposedly did happen (because of the poster). I didn’t see them. As in the previoous cases the police investigated but could find no law to have been broken. The phone number this time was for the local newspaper. There was an article in Profane Existence about this poster that led to a few American versions along the same lines. Unfortunately this “hoax” was upstaged in the media by a flagburning at a demo that we did. Believe it or not the burning of the Canadian and American flags was denounced on national tv during a hockey game (!) by none other than Kingston native, Don Cherry. This was big news in the land of ice.
ex Kingston cop Gord Boulton just hopes it won’t be near his rural community. “If you’re going to put a train somewhere, put it where the train system already is and don’t put it through the middle of Mother Nature and destroy it. We’ve destroyed Mother Nature enough.”
King Charles yields to the legal process even though his brother may end up in jail due to it
“I have learned with the deepest concern the news about Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor and suspicion of misconduct in public office. What now follows is the full, fair and proper process by which this issue is investigated in the appropriate manner and by the appropriate authorities. In this, as I have said before, they have our full and wholehearted support and cooperation,” Charles said in a statement issued by Buckingham Palace on Thursday.
As the mayor, I'll be standing up for Jewish New Yorkers and I'll be meeting them wherever they are across the five boroughs, whether that's in their synagogues and temples or at their homes or at the subway platform. Because ultimately we need to focus on delivering on their concerns.