This is truly screwed up.
While Canada, like the United States of America, has a long Judeo-Christian tradition, if you try to accommodate these traditions, even at Christmas time, both public school systems will reject it because they pretend to adhere to secularism.
Unless we're talking Islam.
In Mississauga, a large Indian, Sikh and Muslim town near Toronto, Ontario, Islamic sermons are not only permitted, but the Peel school board there is refusing to monitor the content of the sermons, known as Jumm'ah prayer, in spite of the real risk of spreading jihad doctrine as experienced in many US mosques and madrassas.
The Toronto Star reported that "Islamic schools [madrassas], mosques in Canada are filled with extremist literature, according to a study." But the more frightening part of the study was that "the authors of the study say what worried them was not the presence of extremist literature, but that they found nothing but such writings in several mosque libraries and Islamic schools."
Nothing but jihad-oriented literature.
This past November, the Peel District School Board heard the complaints from Muslims who claim "that Muslim students feel stigmatized and targeted" because their Friday prayers were restricted to pre-approved sermons, whereas in the past, they were free to use any sermon they chose that was approved by the administrator (whose knowledge about Islamic sermons wasn't disclosed).
What this says is that Muslims get preferential treatment over Christians, Jews and other religions in Canada, as they apparently do in the USA too. And that Muslims don't want to go public with what is said behind closed doors.
That is truly screwed up.
Canada will become the first G7 nation to fully legalize the use of marijuana (aka: pot, weed, hashish, hemp, ganja, bhang, tea, bomb weed, bud, dab, diesel, fire, green, K.G.B. [Killer Green Bud], kind, kush, laughing grass, loud, Mary Jane, medical, mota, pakalolo, reefer, sticky icky, sungrown and wacky tabacky).
The stock prices of sticky icky reveal that investors believe there will be millions of users and thus, a multi-billion dollar market.
As to how it's regulated in Canada, the question is whether the nation will get it right. A task force recently made 80 recommendations to the government, among them, setting the age limit to 18.
Increased highway accidents are likely to be a problem facing Canadians and it would not be a surprise to see pakalolo border crossings into the United States by Canadians in search of profit.
Stay tuned.
College applications by U.S. snowflakes afraid of a Trump presidency has soared by 70 percent over last year to the University of Toronto. McMaster University's American applications have increased by 34 percent, according to the Associated Press.
"I think everybody in international education is a little uneasy, in part because some of the rhetoric in the campaign frightened people overseas,"Stephen Dunnet, Vice Provost at the University of Buffalo for international education (GO CHIPS!).
"It's going to be perhaps a bit rocky for a couple of years," he said, referring to the fears that potential college students have about differing opinions based upon success.
Canadian schools are recruiting in the U.S. more aggressively now that Trump has beaten a rich white woman who violated the Espionage Act and got away with it.
The University of Toronto held a panel in Washington, D.C. in December about the election in an effort to recruit prospective scared liberals.
And while none of the Hollywood leftists who swore they would move to Canada told the truth, at least we still have kids who are willing to run away, crying from the humiliation that Hillary Clinton couldn't even beat a reality TV guy with a 500 word vocabulary.
That's yoooooge.
Not one promise was kept. They all lied to the American people and now Canada can breathe a sigh of relief.
Before the US presidential election, boat-loads of Hollywood celebrities promised that if Donald Trump ever won the election, they would relocate in Canada.
Well, he won; they lied.
Not one of them kept to their promise--which doesn't surprise many conservatives--we know that many of them lie even when they say "good morning," so why is this any different?
But some liberals did leave the US and relocated to Canada. Hopefully, Canada will be able to accommodate the ex-patriots who now will make the cold north their "safe zone."
Canada's immigration services has been inundated with as many as 28 requests for Trump-related refugee status. Not a single one came from Hollywood despite all the promises.
Canadian officials say there was a "bump" in requests for refugee status following Trump's dramatic win over the US former Worst Lady, Hillary Clinton, or at least they say there seemed to be a bump (of as the French Canadians call it, a "boomp") in November, which immigration lawyers say is due from political change.
"The rhetoric coming from (U.S. political) discussion . . . was filled with a lot of concerning language, including hate, exclusion, deportation," one Canadian lawyer said to Canadian state news. "I could see why people would be concerned for their own safety, their own lives, and evaluate whether they could live (there)."
Yes, come January 20th, the United States of America is expected to become the Untied States of America. People will die. A wall will keep out undocumented people coming to the US illegally from Mexico and Muslims will be extremely vetted.
Of the 28 leftist snowflakes who have applied for refugee status, it's possible none will be approved because Canada is generally thought to be slow at taking in seriously mentally ill people who will evidently complain about anything that doesn't go their way.
The CBC found only two successful claims for asylum out of hundreds of cases filed from the U.S. since 2010.
If you are not fleeing an unjust war, or fleeing actual threat of death, Canada will probably decline your stupid request.
Fleeing what you consider an unjust election because your screaming shrew didn't win, doesn't count.
And did it ever occur to you that maybe Canada doesn't want you? Canada has enough snowflakes.
In Canada, salesmen, saleswomen, sales rep and just plane salespeople are generally viewed as the enemy.
Yes, even the word 'sales' can be an expletive for Canadians that brings images to mind of an oily-hair used car salesman rubbing his hands together and tweaking his mustache as you approach the lot, ready to get you to spend more than you want on a clunker that he was told to "push."
It has been so difficult for reputable companies to attract good sales staff that they don't even advertise using that word. For example, they might put an ad out for a "business development representative" or "account manager."
Any company that wants to survive needs to understand that sales is its lifeblood and the sales staff is the heart. There would be no income, no business and no profit without sales, hence, there would be no jobs.
Sadly enough, in spite of what Canadian companies know about the importance of sales, the art of sales is rarely taught in a formal educational environment. Look at any MBA program of major business schools and you will see that sales, per se, is generally relegated to a single course in sales management or it's embedded with marketing . . . which is not sales.
A good salesperson is like a psychotherapist. That is, good listening is crucial along with the ability to understand, sense and react to the customer's concerns and needs. It requires empathy and emotional intelligence, and knowing your customer intimately regarding their specific needs.
Selling is connecting the value a company can deliver to their customer's needs and desires and being aware that buying something is not a simple factual decision; it's an emotional one. It is driven by two main motivators: pain and gain.
Solve the customer's problem (pain) or give them the benefit they are looking for (gain).
Selling requires you develop a level of trust with your customer so they know you're looking out for their best interest. If you only care about your commission, you might sell to them--once.
Canadians need to change their negative mindset regarding sales. Skills you use to sell something are critical life skills and should be taught in schools, in spite of the fact that some people are just natural salespeople . . . such as my wife.
What my wife has, in addition to everything mentioned above, is total honesty, and her customers know that of at least can sense it.
If a price goes down after the purchase is made, there is a 30-day price guarantee, and she will call the customer to have them come back in for a refund. She loses a little money for that sale but gains a customer for life along with referrals.
Obviously, another very important aspect of being a great salesperson is totally knowing and honestly liking your product.
A good sales team can change the way people view sales and in time it will help support Canadian companies to find new business and secure access to new markets.
There is frustration among small to mid-size businesses with their endless search for good salespeople and it's a recurring problem in our economic landscape even in spite of our low Canadian dollar.
We need to better understand cultural subtleties and navigate between cultures, such as Asia, Africa and Latin America--all countries where relationships must precede business deals.
We also need to be more assertive because we constantly face aggressive competition from the US, China and Germany, as well as other nations. We only have 5% of local businesses exporting.
Sales is not a low-grade profession; it can be a rewarding, enriching career and put people at the top of the economic rung on the ladder. We need to have salespeople who sell like Canadians play hockey--hard into the corner, elbows flying and coming out with the puck.
Then afterward, we can be polite Canadians.
Another insensitive, tasteless and low-class liberal, Lisa Edelstein, is being slammed for tweeting about the death of star Alan Thicke. It seems that liberals have to make everything political because they can't carry on a normal conversation.
Alan died too young, only 69-year-old, while playing hockey with his son. Hockey was Alan Thicke's national game because he was a Canadian.
But Edelstein had to do her best at being witty and she came off as unfunny and disgusting.
"RIP Alan Thicke. Seems like everyone is checking out before the Trumpacolypse," the mental midget tweeted.
Normal people did not react the way she hoped they would.
One of her followers called her post "soulless" and another wrote "@LisaEdelstein wow very classy. You should be ashamed of yourself."
Let's hope Edelstein goes away, out of the public eye, off of Twitter. People like her are bad karma.
Sadly, however, I suspect plenty of liberals will cheer her message.
The Toronto Star reported that "Islamic schools [madrassas], mosques in Canada are filled with extremist literature, according to a study." But the more frightening part of the study was that "the authors of the study say what worried them was not the presence of extremist literature, but that they found nothing but such writings in several mosque libraries and Islamic schools."
