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"To make a big issue out of these 'gay' mounties would be futile
and only give them more of the attention they seem to crave."

You are probably right and clearly the people closest to the situation understand the situation better. But, part of my training and interest has to do with the power of symbols. Mounties are an incredibly powerful symbol of the Canadian people (honest, strong, fair). In theory you want to believe the Mountie symbolizes the best of what Canada is and be. So, when people hype the gay Mountie story they may also be altering (symbolically) the image of Canada are undermining the emerging image of a Canadian conservative agenda. Do you think the hyping of this story by the media is an accident? Or, is it possible, the story is a clearly intended strategy by various interests to entrench Canada's liberal pedigree.
Was it your intention in using the donkey cartoon to portray me as stubborn? I would not dare show that post to Mrs. Spatso.

As you never commented on same specifically, I'm wondering if this point really sunk in:
".... which likely skews your perceptions as to Canada is that, with under 1/10 of America's overall population, local matters/reactions become national ones much more easily & frequently up here." ~ GMMAC

Ergo, there's likely a considerable amount of outrageous gay - as well as all sorts of other leftist - activism as well as shocking & appalling incidents occurring Stateside but not receiving 'national' coverage.

As an example of the latter, here's a recent story which you may well not have heard about - unless you happened to live in upper New York State - but which doubtless would have made 'national' headlines had it happened in Canada:
Missing nun found dead
Buffalo nun who worked with ex-convicts found murdered

Note: this isn't to imply right or wrong or even differing biases when it comes to our respective msm's but only to demonstrate that, with over ten times our population & that much more 'news', logically many more 'local' items are going to be effectively buried 'nationally' Stateside.