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I go ding when there's stuff: Work with Make Use Of and UOIT, Freelance writer on STEM, politics, music, film+tv. ex PBS & CBC, fan of science & reason, but also folklore, mythology, and stories, Neurospicy US+CDN dual citizen, & dad.
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youtu.be/nC2pgcagyRk?...
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If you walk into a Canadian grocery store now, all the American stuff is still on the shelves, fully stocked. Non-US stuff is gone, the shelves are low or empty. Guess what happens to US orders? And there is nothing the Prime Minister or Trump can do about it. People are beyond mad. #ElbowsUp
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Freeland 5/1, Bayliss 35/1, Carney 1/50
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I mean, we're not 100% against redrawing the border but he won't say which US states he's trying to get rid of. It kinda matters.
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The last poll I saw was a few weeks ago, but he was way ahead then - 56% or something like that (for the leadership race).
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I have one that visits the yard sometimes (in Ontario, Canada) but we have to pretend we don't see each other so I can never get a photo. If I stop and look at her she'll vanish in a heartbeat, but as long as I go about my business and pretend she's not there, she'll so the same.
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People can, like President Musk and Donald Trump, do whatever they can get away with, and if they get punished it will only be because they were unlucky or the victim was - smarter/faster.
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We should also fund public *service* broadcasters exclusively dedicated to news, current affairs and education (not sports, entertainment etc) & immune from political interference. The CBC is not that, and was never really intended to be. It was supposed to compete with US networks but with can con.
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I'm ok with one person owning A newspaper, as long as they don't own two - and have no other businesses or government ties which might create a conflict of interest.
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I don’t watch any tv news at all. TV news works like all tv, you get the best ratings with beautiful people, sex, car chases and explosions ( literal or figurative) and the temptation is always to go there. If there’s an event that I really need to witness, I’ll watch a YouTube clip.
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The safe third country agreement says that people have to file their claim in the first safe country they arrive in, it doesn’t prevent us from offering an invitation to whoever we want.
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I’m not opposed to simply ending it I’m just opposed to sending children into an active combat zone. If we have to break agreements to prevent that then so be it, but I don’t think we do.
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I support changing it too but we can ask that they be sent here instead of Ukraine or even let them get to Ukraine and then work with the Europeans to bring them back out.
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They are Ukrainian refugees already in the US. Trump is threatening to deport them.
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I heard an interesting point today regarding the UK, which also applies to Canada (in my opinion).
'America is more foreign to the UK than continental European neighbours not in terms of *distance* but in ideas, values, ideology'
Canada - if you want to race the UK to EU membership, let's go!
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Possibly irreparably. At least, it would take hard work by several consecutive administrations to get back to where we were when Barack Obama said "The world needs more Canada" in front of Parliament. And really it's been in decline since the invasion of Iraq.