Of all the thing the people are worried about and would want legislation to get more protection from, criminals communicating in secret is pretty damn low on the priority list. Especially when their “solution” for it is so damn invasive to everyone.

How about they do something about the increasingly invasive data collection everyone is being subject to by big tech whether they want to or not? You can’t even buy a car anymore that doesn’t come with a built-in location tracker.

The only lesson Canadians are learning is to never trust the US again.

This rich spoiled shit bag has spent his entire life feeling entitled to get anything he wants, often using any means at his disposal to get it. And now he decided he is entitled to getting full control over Canada’s natural and human resources. He thinks that by inflicting pain on our people it will allow him to enslave the entire country. He doesn’t give a crap about the suffering he is causing on either side of the border.

And the dumb thing is that it will obviously never work. Trump is treating the country like it was a business or a property he wants to acquire because he’s too dumb to understand the difference. It doesn’t work the same way at all. Look at Ukraine. What Canada is going through is nothing compared to what the Ukrainians have endured for years now and they’re still not giving up. Canada will be the same. Canadians are increasingly hostile to the idea of making any concessions to the US now and they will go through any hardship that is necessary to avoid their country to be taken over because they know they’re still better off that way. All of that pain and loss of productivity will amount to nothing good.

This is an unprovoked attack. When this pedophile finally leaves the White House one way or another and someone who isn’t absolutely batshit insane takes over, I hope Canada will demand reparations for the damage that the most corrupt and incompetent person the US government has ever allowed to preside over the country has caused.

My Helldivers playing ass sees these shitbags all lined up and all I can think of is: ⬆️➡️➡️

Never trust the private sector for something that people have no choice over.

I wouldn’t. Why conduct the destructive mess that is a war in our own living room?

I’d contribute to any effort to make long range drones that strike energy and electronic infrastructure deep inside the US instead.

Keep the destruction over there. Watch American arrogance melt away as they realize that fighting a war isn’t just some thing they send troops elsewhere to die over while they get to stay comfy and safe at home anymore.

How is there a Tetris Company that owns the rights to this? Hasn’t the actual creator of the game never gotten anything for it?

Make sure that includes oil, shitbag.

Trump attacks Canada that because he’s a rich narcissist spoiled manchild who spent his entire lifetime getting what he wants and surrounded himself with people who will tend to every one of his caprices and Canada dared to say “no” when he demanded the country to be turned over to him.

He is a freak of nature of a combination of pure shamelessness, narcissism, confident incompetence, ability to lie like he breathes and megalomania. It is statistically improbable that whatever shitbag replaces him will be anywhere nearly as bad as him. I expect his replacement to do nothing less than immediately try to mend relations with Canada because they will want to fix their country’s economy.

Waiting Trump out is still the more economical option than to move production to the US. He’s just creating pain for everyone for no gain.

Projection again.

We’ve seen how Carney knows how to skate. We’ve seen how Trump can’t even walk properly.

We know he would be the one on his fat ass, probably before he even touched the ice.

Also Canada is absolutely kicking his ass in this trade war.

For North American English speakers who don’t get it: Imagine that Fox decided to replace the original Simpsons voice actors that you grew up with with British ones who sound nothing like them, have thick British accents, use British slang and make local references to things only the British know about in the show. For the sake of the example the decision would have been made by a panel of extremely ignorant non-English speakers who think that the viewers wouldn’t notice the difference because “it’s also English therefore it is the same”.

That’s essentially the effect replacing the Quebec voice actors with the French ones would have had.

Payment 👉 Use Interac instead of credit card.

Seriously that should be #1. They charge 2-3% transaction fee to the vendor, give you 1% back as a “reward” to give you the impression that you’re not being screwed over and pocket the rest. Meanwhile Interac charges only 1/10th of that and it is Canadian.

Paying with a credit card is like playing a 1-2% tax to the US. I’m sure if someone did the math they’d be horrified by his much of a drain it is on our economy while it boosts theirs.

Also Krita has become extremely capable and easier to approach coming from Photoshop than GIMP IMO. If should at least be listed along it as an alternative to Photoshop.

Hadn’t stopped the first one

From what I’ve heard, Trump didn’t give them much choice by throwing in a bunch of last minute unreasonable demands.

You can’t even buy a car that doesn’t come with the built-in equivalent of a stalker’s tracking device anymore.

It is allowed to sell a washing machine that won’t last more than 5 years before breaking without possibility of repair.

It is increasingly difficult to buy a TV that won’t spy on you and inject ads.

It is tolerated to sell a peripheral that installs malware on your computer without your authorization.

It is allowed to sell a product that must be always connected to the internet for no good reason and to remotely disable or severely reduce its functionality after it was purchased unless you pay a subscription fee that was not clearly mentioned at the time of the purchase.

It is allowed to sell products that are completely locked-in that you cannot have reasonable control over and that are specifically designed so you can’t even repair them.

It is allowed to gain control of the majority of a market and dictate higher prices and anti consumer practices.

It is allowed for a private entity to gather data on people en masse to a level of intrusiveness that only 30 years ago would have required a warrant from a judge for law enforcement to do on a case by case basis.

And THIS is what they’ve decided they should spend their time regulating? Most of those companies don’t even pay taxes in the country. I so fucking hate that our government has so blatantly turned towards serving lobbyist interests instead of the People’s.

If you think that waiting him out is expensive, I don’t think you realize the extent of the cost of giving in to someone like him who will come back month after month with new demands until we don’t have a country anymore.

The tactic is to buy time until Trump is gone.

He is an F1 fan who secretly likes NASCAR.

Idk I’m just guessing.

Getting the federal government to stop doing things like that begins with getting Big Oil’s political influence and propaganda out of Alberta.

This is the result of them promoting an astroturf separatist movement which they weaponized to force the federal government to let them pollute the planet unhindered, under threat of destroying the country.

A nice life hack to know, straight from the Canada Post website:

How to stop receiving unaddressed advertising mail

To stop receiving unaddressed advertising mail, simply put a note on your mailbox stating that you do not wish to receive it. Place the note in or on your mailbox where your delivery agent can see it, or on the inside lip of your community mailbox, group mailbox or postal box.