Trump administration claims Ottawa's jet procurement plan is unfair to F-35, says report

The Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II. The Trump administration is arguing the Canadian government's jet procurement policy discriminates against the F-35. (Mike Hillman/CBC)

According to a report, the Trump administration claims that Ottawa’s aircraft acquisition plan is unfair to the F-35. In fact, according to a Pentagon official, the procurement process is “fundamentally and structurally detrimental to any F-35 offer.”

Likewise, the Trump administration fired two warning shots last year over the Liberal government’s plan, which had been delayed for a long time to replace Canadian fighters CF-18, saying the acquisition process discriminates against the plane furtive F-35 built by Lockheed-Martin.

Similarly, the study conducted by a researcher at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute (MLI) cites leaked Pentagon letters written last summer and late fall to Public Utilities and Acquisitions officials in Canada.

Revealing report

Both Sides Of The EdTech Debate Are Wrong - Here's Why

It is necessary to say that both sides of the EdTech debate are wrong. And is that as technology advances in education, the visions of “robots in the classroom” and children who look at the screens of computers throughout the day have provoked a heated debate.

In this way, it is important to identify both sides of this debate. Thus, on the one hand, there are opponents who fear dehumanizing education due to the concern that technology could replace teachers. On the other hand, there are those who want to implement technology everywhere, as if EdTech could solve all the problems.

Still, there are those who believe that both parties are wrong. Being that technology can certainly be a tool to optimize student learning, including time spent with teachers. But when EdTech claims to be the solution to every problem, or to the problems it does not really solve, it will fail. When that happens, there is a breeding ground for misunderstanding that groups all the technology and qualifies it as “bad”.

Optimal option or not?

Warren Kinsella: Liberals jumping ship as S.S. Trudeau cruises towards proverbial iceberg

Justin Trudeau speaks with Liberal MP Andrew Leslie prior to a ceremony marking the one year anniversary of the attack on Parliament hill Thursday, Oct. 22, 2015, at the National War Memorial in Ottawa. (THE CANADIAN PRESS/Fred Chartrand)

It is necessary to remember Andrew Leslie was a star candidate of the Liberal Party. The convicted former commander of the Armed Forces of Canada, Leslie was hailed by Justin Trudeau as proof that the Liberals were pro-military. In 2013, when Trudeau appointed the 35-year veteran to an advisory committee on international affairs, he said so. Having Leslie nearby showed “a tremendous amount of support and pride for our Canadian forces”, Trudeau said.

Of course, that was back then, this is now.

There is no doubt that many people thought that Leslie was a candidate for a senior position in the cabinet. But it was not going to be. Trudeau had Leslie whipped, which is the parliamentary equivalent of a ward monitor. But he never gave Leslie a high position as a minister in the cabinet.

Unexpected changes

What’s the Matter With Europe?

Today there is a question that everyone asks themselves and is that what happens with Europe? In this way, it is worth noting that despite all of President Trump’s distaste for insufficient deference to the US allies, Americans should be aware of the regrettable condition of Europe.

It is necessary to mention that for a long time it was considered as half of the western alliance with the United States and Canada. In addition, we must remember the days when it was usual to hear someone announce the next supremacy of a united Europe. This was a fantasy embedded between the imminent economic overcoming of the United States by Japan and then by China. The United States has potential rivals, some less cordial than others, and complacency is always reckless. But the decline of Europe, not its rise, is now the threat that should worry foreign policy specialists.

Disappointment and failures

Are Immigration Levels In Canada Too High? Apparently, They Are.

When the question arises, are the levels of immigration in Canada too high? there is a clear answer and apparently, it is. It should be noted that on May 3, Maxime Bernier, founder, and leader of the Popular Party of Canada, conducted a survey on Twitter.

Also, in that survey, Bernier asked respondents how many immigrants they think they should enter Canada each year. At the time of publication, 72 percent of the approximately 12,800 respondents voted for the “100k or less” option. In this way, it is established as a surprising response. Above all, because Bernier has suggested that his party would reduce the number of immigrants per year to 250,000, which represents 150,000 more people than most respondents wanted. This general dissatisfaction with Canada’s immigration levels is also not happening in a PPC vacuum.

Undoubted dissatisfaction

A high school student speaks out on feminism

Feminism is a heterogeneous set of political, cultural, economic and social movements whose objective is the search for equality of rights between men and women, and to eliminate the domination and violence of men over women and 6 of social roles according to the gender, in addition to social and political theory.

The influence of feminism has achieved changes in areas such as the right to education, the vote of women, the right to work, equality before the law or reproductive rights, among many others. In its intellectual aspect, feminist theory has also influenced critical theory, giving rise to gender studies, as well as for subdisciplines of social science studies.

Now, feminism today has lost its way. At the end of the 19th century, the feminism of the “first wave” legitimately began as a movement to establish, above all, the suffrage of women. From then on, it quickly became a movement that focused on achieving equal opportunities for women in the workplace and equality before the law. Throughout the 1960s, the “second wave” feminism sought an end to sexual harassment and fought against discrimination.

Desperate attempt to remain relevant

Listen to Immigrants Who've Actually Lived Under Socialism

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Socialism is a social and economic system characterized by control by society, organized with all its members, both the means of production and the different forces of work applied in them. Modern socialism is, in the first place, because of its content, the result of reflection in intelligence, on the one hand, of the class antagonisms that prevail in the modern society between possessors and dispossessed, capitalists and salaried workers, and, on the other hand, of the anarchy that reigns in production. Socialism implies, therefore, planning and collective organization aware of social and economic life.

It is necessary to declare that the growing acceptability of socialism should concern all of us who wish to preserve a free society. Thus, the ultimate goal of socialism is to abolish private property, free markets, exchange, prices, and profits, and substitute collective property and decision making to determine the allocation of resources.

Worrying acceptance