You've dragged us into more wars than you've defended us in. This idea that there are hordes of hostile countries just salivating at invading us across three oceans is a joke.
In fact, the most significant threat to our safety is your trainwreck of a country deciding it likes fascism actually and doing a Sudetanland to us.
It's not that he thought Vance was better. It's that he thought Biden was running such a weak campaign that it didn't matter who he picked as VP and he wanted the Thiel connection (and money) that Vance brings.
Pearson Vue GED Testing Service, the company behind the test, is ending service in Canada after this month.
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When the end of the program was announced last year, provinces were left to find their own solutions.
Isn't privatization grand?
Great post. It seems like a lot of people aren't used to using the product of community efforts over commercial efforts and their expectations and feeling of entitlement match that experience. Like they've bought a product and want to complain to the manager when they experience a problem.
You elected Justin Trudeau, and he seized the bank accounts. You’re just fucking pathetic. And the fact that you have no fucking backbone, and have him shut down your country and seize fucking bank accounts
This is the distilled propaganda line US right wing media is pushing about Canada since the convoy, by the way. To the extent that we get mentioned, this is the image that's being crafted about us for about 35-45% of the US.
I don't know about any clients but if you block the lemmit.online bot and the zerobytes.monster bot the reposts will drop by like 90%.
However, there is already a crowded field of Republicans running to replace Buck,
The most important sentence of the article. She can switch districts if she wants. Can she win a primary?
Like it or not a lot of people's knowledge about the system they exist in comes essentially via osmosis from the media they consume. And most of the media we consume is American. We laugh at Canadians who defend themselves referencing American laws but I suspect a poll of people who mistakenly believe that some American legal concept applies to them would be disturbingly high.
This is why CanCon laws and more recently the Online News Act are so important. We have the average person in school for 12-16 years and then a lifetime where you'd hope people would be somewhat self-driven in keeping informed about this stuff, but we've got the humanity we've got and not the one we'd wish we'd got so we'd better ensure the media Canadians are consuming informs us about our own system.
The Canadian law in question has specific provisions in it that would pass any lemmy instance by.
— Companies impacted by the Online News Act must have global annual revenue of $1 billion or more, “operate in a search engine or social-media market distributing and providing access to news content in Canada,” and have 20 million or more Canadian average monthly unique visitors or average monthly active users.
That's literally half the country, by the way.
There was never any chance this law was going to impact any lemmy instances.
They're getting off light, if anything.
Canada wants to eat it's cake while also having it. Something like 60% of Canadians own their home or live in a home their parents own. 40% of a country is more than sufficient to tear the country apart if they lose faith in the society they live in. Allowing housing to become investments has been a mistake that needs to be corrected for the long term stability of the nation.
People have been treating a Conservative majority as basically foretold for the last while, but the election is still over a year out. Personally, I've been much more reserved with my feelings about our current political trajectory. Recent events from south of the border should make it very clear that even a few months is forever in politics. We're not in what I would consider an ideal position, but it's much too early to assume the sky is going to fall.