I think they made that part up… I could see someone challenging the flag because of design, but then I would just put up an obnoxiously large official Canadian flag. Lol.

“Ontario and Canada have critical minerals in abundance and America needs them. At a time when China is winning the race to dominate these resources while also restricting the sale and shipment of critical minerals to the U.S., Canada and Ontario need to urgently get our critical minerals out of the ground, processed and shipped to the factory floors that are building for the future.” US, afaik, has tariffs on Canadian critical materials, while it makes deals with China to ensure the access it needs, and while it destroys commercial supply of new energy within US, to make sure it needs as little as possible. Banning “CCP” energy is a basis for lies for banning Chinese solar that don’t have CCP ties, and even if they did, it’s a fucking solar panel. If bill C5 was used as a carrot to come into effect after the US makes an acceptable trade deal, which means elimination of all tariffs imposed this year, then this would be a somewhat acceptable act of sycophancy. Without “normalized US trade relations”, it is extreme oppressive enslavement of Ontarians/Canadians. An economic future for any nation with critical minerals is to develop them. Forcing colonial slavery of a single buyer who is currently committed against the future, while excluding buyers driving the future, is pure treason, and economic/social/climate terrorism on its own people/businesses. Canada needs to cut all military ties with US. Stop seeking alliances where political capital is all in on war on Russia and China and Iran. US empire is collapsing, but it can buy a few years by exploiting its colonies harder. It is categorically unacceptable for our rulers to assist US destruction of our colony. What happened to Ontario saving its auto sector? Japan/SK/US companies that cut investments/factories should have their phone/electronics brands tariffed. Huawei 5g, and datacenters/AI should be welcome. DST definitely threatened to be reimposed. High fees for access to NORAD. If Ford, is happy to destroy Auto manufacturing, then Australian prosperity has done well with better value cars and Chinese trade as a better economic model. Fortress Can-Am has a pathethic political appeal, ONLY IF, there exists someone from the Am side that is enthusiastic about it.

Somewhat reasonable take from former Conservative leader Erin O’Toole. Mainly because I juxtapose it against the current Conservative opposition which seems to be incapable of anything but squawking “Y no budget? Oil project when?”

See, I grew up in Vancouver, and I always thought exactly the same. Then I moved to the UK and realised that it’s only cold for Canada. There’s loads of situations where I’d normally have a chat with someone, in line to buy groceries or a coffee, but try that here and people look at you like you’ve grown a third arm. Another thing that still trips me up after 5 years here is internalising the fact that when someone you see often but don’t really know isn’t actually trying to start a conversation when they say “you alright?” it’s just the same as saying hello. And good luck getting directions if you’re lost.

The problem is that the whole ruling class in Canada is as locked into the US financial system as Europe

It should be of little surprise that Ford has since fiercely pursued his dream ‘Fortress-AmCan’, at a devastating cost to Ontarians. There’s almost no realistic threat China could pose to us right now that warrants us getting closer to the US and doing more to benefit Trump. My priority right now is to get as independent from the US as possible and fast

Surprised by some of the comments here. Whether or not the solution being proposed is the best or only one is the question. Instead several users are taking any discussion as being anti-democratic. The Chief Electoral Officer of Canada raised concerns about how these long ballots were impeding the democratic process, including by presenting barriers to accessibility by voters. This has become an increasing problem, with former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s riding being targeted in 2019. There seem to be two kinds of barriers: physical barriers to finding and marking the ballot of their choice becoming informed of the positions and intents of candidates when there are so many candidates that do not actually intend to serve as MPs. The underlying issue seems to be that a small group of qualified voters in a targeted riding are nominating a very large number of candidates. That is 60+ candidates put forward by the longest ballot group were all nominated by the same small number of voters. Is this reasonable? Democratic rights are balanced with responsibility under the Charter. Is it reasonable for a single voter to sign the nomination papers for 50 candidates or even 20. Only being able to sign the papers for one candidate in one election period may be too limiting as not all candidates obtain enough signatures to be minor drop out later for other reasons. Would limiting the right to sign nomination papers to 2 or 5 candidates be a reasonable balance under the Charter? While this specific solution being proposed by this CPC member may be too restrictive, it seems worth a debate. And perhaps the second issue of voters being able to reasonably obtain information about the intent and positions of candidates would be resolved if there were not so many nominated candidates. The Rhinoceros party position that their candidates would resign if elected was well known so voters could make an informed choice. The current long ballot situation doesn’t offer that choice. A proactive referral to the Supreme Court of Canada might be the best way to get an understanding of the balance of democratic rights. It would be best to have a read on what would be a reasonable limitation on both those who sign nominations and those who put themselves forward vs the responsibility to have accessible ballots with candidates who intend to serve before any changes to the the elections act is brought forward.

This may be anecdotal, but it may also be a canary in a coalmine. I have seen a civilian population tear down its president and vice-president. Peacefully, and just before an election. It took months of activism. Weeks of protest and a 1-day general strike. Look up Guatemala, 2015. Otto Perez Molina. #noletoca. This was underreported, I think. Three presidents later, therr is Bernardo Arevalo. He is a president whose legacy hearkens back to before their Civil War, after WWII, and before US intervention.

Sounds like she has buyer’s remorse and doesn’t want anyone else to have fun.

For a decade, Vancouver city managers knew an employee in the building inspection department was part owner of a private company that did work frequently checked by city inspectors. That employee and the city staff he managed often inspected the company’s work, and a conflict-of-interest investigation found the employee, “in their capacity as a city inspector, personally made decisions about the private sector business they owned in four instances.” None of those decisions were “unfavourable” to the business, the report said. The employee also said he’d been offered, but refused, a bribe from another contractor. An analysis by the city’s Office of the Auditor General, or OAG, found the contractor had appeared to receive preferential treatment from the employee.

Everyone in Ontario should remember Christian Vitela’s name and share Christian Vitela’s name across social media, so that people are aware of Christian Vitela penchant for human trafficking and mistreating people who worked for him.

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I truly hope Prime Minister Carney doesn’t drop the mandate. There are two very important parts of the enabling legislation that too many people just don’t seem to know, and it’s skewing the online discussions everywhere: PHEV’s are still going to be allowed after 2035. So if you are so enamoured with giving your hard earned money to the oil and gas companies you’ll still be able to do so for decades to come; The mandate doesn’t affect used vehicles at all; Companies that miss the legislated targets can instead get credits by building out EVSE (charging) infrastructure. So for all those online pundits who think we should drop the mandate because we don’t have enough charging infrastructure, we get that infrastructure by keeping the mandates, and it gets paid for by the companies selling too many gas powered cars (and not taxpayers). PM Carney needs to tell the automotive executives who say they can’t sell enough EVs/PHEVs to start building out infrastructure. It may be worthwhile to re-balance some of the timelines and how much the infrastructure credits are worth, but dumping them entirely is bad for Canada as a whole.

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My employer’s stock price is 400% of what it was when I was hired, my wage has gone up 20% in the same period. I can not wait for this house of cards to collapse. I have enough food, water, and locally stored media to barter my way though the first hump and get rescued by the Europeans.

What can we do to pressure the government into updating its travel advisory to the states? Germany and the UK literally have a higher degree of caution listed, which is kinda insane.

“Best I can do is buy out the competition while I nag Trump to viciously attack independent media and pull funding from VOA, NPR and PBS”

I’m just going to assume the fish in the thumbnail is “Hogan”

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Surrey doesn’t scare her!