Questions tagged [canada]
for questions about claims based in Canada, or limited to Canada. Can also refer to any element of Canada's history, policy, government, or politics.
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Would Canada be one of the poorer states if inducted into the United States?
In the Youtube video "Trump Threatens Canada, Greenland TAKEOVER
" Emily Jashinsky says,
If you add Canada to the United States, as a state, or as individual states, you're adding by GDP ...
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Does Iowa have more farmland suitable for growing corn and wheat than Canada?
Stephen Haber ("professor of political science, professor of history, and professor of economics" at Stanford) claims in a 2014 podcast:
the state of Iowa has more farmland suitable for ...
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Did the Ontario College of Psychologists demand that Jordan P Peterson attend 'communication retraining'?
Jordan B Peterson tweets and is further quoted in The Post Millennial
BREAKING: the Ontario College of Psychologists
@CPOntario
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Is there an increase in sales of child-size coffins?
A number of "news sites" have been reporting an increase in child-sized coffins. (The linked is an example, there are many more). The implication being there is an increase of childrens ...
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Has the Kamloops International School "mass grave" been verified? [closed]
Throughout much of the news media over the last couple years in Canada (and internationally), it was claimed that a mass grave of 215 Native American children had been found at a mass grave site at ...
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Is Alberta ending coronavirus restrictions because of failing to provide evidence of SARS-COV2 virus existence in court?
Variations of this image circulate claiming that a man named Patrick King won a court case in which he challenged the province to provide an isolated sample of the virus, which they failed. The rumors ...
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Was a Canadian father jailed for referring to his trans son as his daughter?
A recent PostMilennial article claims:
After the hearing, Hoogland gave an interview to The Federalist saying that people cannot change sex, and that mega-doses of exogenous testosterone would damage ...
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Were Canadian politicians targeted by an Indian intelligence covert influence operation?
Global News reported that Canadian politicians were targets of Indian intelligence covert influence operation.
Indian intelligence agencies attempted to use money and disinformation to “covertly ...
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Did over half of the women who had abortions in Canada do so because they were pressured to?
I came across an Abortion Awareness clip that stated:
Studies have shown that over half of post-abortive women in Canada say that their decision was heavily pressured and in some cases bullied by ...
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Does Alberta law require homeschooling parents to not teach that homosexuality is a sin?
This 2012 Patheos article claims Section 16 of Alberta's 2012 education act it forces parents not to teach that homosexuality is a sin as part of their official schooling, but I can't confirm it.
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Does Canadian law allow the government to take children away from parents that don't accept their gender identity?
Canada to take kids from Parents that don’t recognize Gender Confusion
A Canadian province has passed a law that gives rights to the government to take away children from families that don’t accept ...
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Are Dr. Zakir Naik's speeches banned in the UK, Canada, and Malaysia?
NDTV, which is currently India's Most Trusted TV Media Brand, claims:
Mr Naik's speeches are banned in the UK, Canada and Malaysia.
This post by The Daily Star (Bangladesh's most widely circulated ...
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Were the Dene people unaware they had mined ore for the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki until the 1990s?
From a web project called The Forbidden Rock Prophecy (elsewhere it claims the atomic bombs were prophesied):
Nor did they know what the materials they carried would be used for.
So in addition to ...
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Did Canadian children sing the Islamic song "Tala'al badru" to welcome Syrian refugees?
Saw this video being shared around in the social media, ostensibly a performance by Canadian children to welcome Syrian refugees' arrival to Canada. I recognized the song as the Islamic song Tala' al ...
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In Canada, will there soon be more female doctors than male doctors?
Obviously no one can know the future with certainty. But several articles make statements regarding more women graduating with medical degrees than men and that in the near future more doctors will be ...
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Did Canada go from 2.5 million protected lakes and rivers, to just 159?
This claim, apparently originating with the Canadian New Democratic Party, states that under the Harper government, the number of protected lakes and rivers has dropped dramatically:
On Facebook this ...
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Is food in Alberta, Canada contaminated with radioactivity?
A Canadian high-school student is reported to have found that some kelp from supermarkets is radioactive beyond safe limits.
“Some of the kelp that I found was higher than what the International ...
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Has the cost of wireless services in Canada fallen nearly 20% during 2008-2013?
On Stephen Harper's Facebook page (the Prime Minister of Canada), I found many claims that I am skeptical of.
The first one is that since 2008, the cost of wireless services has fallen 20 per cent.
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Does the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms not apply to government hiring practices?
While I was reading Yahoo! News today, I came across this article which discussed British Columbia's New Democratic Party's affirmative-action rules:
According to the BC NDP's affirmative-action ...
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Does the Conservative Party of Canada have a ban on abortion in its platform?
It would either be an outright ban (outlawed) or a ban on the public funding part (health care being all public in Canada).
But I'm just asking: is there such a thing in their platform?
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