Even if the tariffs are paused for a month, he’ll constantly use this as a threat now. If not saying again that we should be the 51st state.
I was already avoiding travelling to the U.S., now I’ll make sure I also avoid their products.
Even if there’s no tariffs, the U.S. has proven to be an unreliable “friend” and we should continue to diversify away from them. With friends like that, you don’t need enemies.
The US government already didn’t care what the public supports or not. They were already financing an unpopular genocide. That orange dictator is replacing key people with idiots loyal to him and his cause. So it won’t get better.
Times and times again people have defended that orange turd, saying we were misinterpreting, or he was joking, or that he couldn’t do that, only for him to do it, and get away without any consequences.
If you think this is not a serious possibility, you have not been paying attention.
If enough people voted, the Democrats would have given people free health care, stopped financing wars, torture and genocide, close Guantanamo, improve public transit, boost public education, and lowered the cost of groceries. If only enough people voted for the Democrats, they could be in power and bring change. Of course!
Huh. I’m a native French speaker and bugs like this are called ‘punaises’. And I just learned that this specific one is apparently diabolical, with the name ‘punaise diabolique’.
I tried AliExpress a few times but I live in a tower and about half of the things I order from them are marked delivered, but I can’t find them.
Sometimes the courrier even calls my apartment, I open the door downstairs, the package is marked delivered, but I can’t find it.
We even have secure lockers but they don’t use them.
I’d really like to order more from them but it’s a gamble every time.
I didn’t vote at the last federal election. I wouldn’t have voted for a Conservative, but I was extremely disappointed by both my Liberal and NDP candidates.
Right now my MP is the Greenpeace militant that is now a spokesperson for the oil companies, also supposedly the environment minister.
Even if they protest and don’t want it, natives are gonna have a pipeline through their land. But no clean water.
Also, rail worker? Get back to work. Postal worker? Get back to work! Natives protesting? Get back in your reservation!
That’s all very inspiring to vote for the Liberals. (/s)
I know the Conservatives would have done the same, and then some. I know it’s still preferable to have Liberals in power, even with their despicable hypocrisy. Quite frankly I would prefer NDP policies but they are pretty marginalized on the federal level.
It’s just very difficult to find the motivation to vote for any of the candidates in my riding.
Depending on the polls for my riding I may go vote ABC. But since I’m on the Plateau (Laurier Ste-Marie) in Montréal, if anything, Steven Guilbault is going to be replaced by a Bloc or NDP candidate. There’s never been a Conservative elected in my riding since its been created in 1988. It’s the riding of Gilles Duceppe after all. I don’t know. It’s really hard to go past my apathy and cynicism since the last couple of elections.
Agreed.
However Quebec has seen an exception to that with the REM because it’s taking from the public to finance an investment fund. So the government gave a whole public train line and is choking the rest of the public train network.
In essence, Philippe Couillard and Denis Coderre started the slow privatization of the public transit network in Montreal by giving public assets and carte blanche to an investment entity that’s gonna charge the public transit entity fees for every passenger using its new network. And the public transit entity cannot compete against the investment one, by law.
So obviously, being for profit and for ‘friends’, the project went ahead at record speed.
Am I too cynical to think they don’t really want to build transit infra and just make empty promises.
If any party would really want any rail project to be realized, they would announce it right after the election, not a few months before the next one.
So whatever the system we have, I am under the impression that they will find a way to just promise and never do anything about it.
I like tech, old and new, so: https://www.youtube.com/@CathodeRayDude
https://www.youtube.com/@TechTangents
https://www.youtube.com/@ConnectionsMuseum
https://www.youtube.com/@VeronicaExplains
https://www.youtube.com/@UsagiElectric
https://www.youtube.com/@PlatimaTinkers
https://www.youtube.com/@RetroBytesUK
https://www.youtube.com/@harkeofficial
I"d also suggest Jeff Geerling but he’s close to a million subscribers.
About trains, cycling, transit, and urbanism:
https://www.youtube.com/@OhTheUrbanity
https://www.youtube.com/@BenDurham
https://www.youtube.com/@MilesinTransit
https://www.youtube.com/@JagoHazzard
https://www.youtube.com/@TFTSB
And about hiking, camping, outdoors stuff:
https://www.youtube.com/@StephenJReid
Oh and on languages and etymology:
https://www.youtube.com/@WordsUnravelled
https://www.youtube.com/@RobWords
https://www.youtube.com/@Xidnaf
https://www.youtube.com/@kklein
https://www.youtube.com/@Linguisticae (in French)
https://www.youtube.com/@Linguriosa (in Spanish)
Sure, Quebec could do like other provinces and have screening more accessible. However I hope it doesn’t involve seeing a doctor first because it might be difficult to do so if the person doesn’t have a family doctor.
At least a screening is not something that should be pressing so the person has time to call 811 every day for weeks before being able to see a doctor.
Oh, I’m so surprised that any type of rail project in Canada doesn’t go according to the political announcement of the project. /s
I would love not to be cynical about this but whatever they announce is probably going to be delayed, new study needed, delayed, new study, cancelled, announced again… Then a new government and everything stalls, then another government that waits till before an election to announce a new project… rince, repeat.
I just read about the other rail project, the supposedly high speed train between Toronto and Quebec City. Well, obviously this will also be delayed if not cancelled.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kh69IfHPrnU
I don’t know how people get to believe any of this will happen one day.
EDIT: I pasted a link that was also about the high frequency project instead of the high speed one. Or is the news confused about the projects? One or another, it’s unfortunately never going to be realized.
Capitalism is a wonderful system. It leaves no one behind. And if so, they deserve it.
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I was kind of expecting it. The question is “What car do you drive?” and not “If you have a car, what’s the one you’re driving?” because it’s to be expected that everyone has or wants a car. So those without cars are not being asked, and saying you don’t have one is “not the question”. Worse if you don’t like them. I’d bet that saying I don’t have one but wish I had a specific one would have gained more sympathy.
As a North American that doesn’t like cars, I’m just used to that type of reaction. A car is status and prestige. A car defines who you are. If you don’t have a car, you’re not normal.
No, the bank will not give me a mortgage because I have no car nor anything of value, don’t have enough cash, and they don’t want to take a risk. So I’m stuck renting apartments the price of a house. Capitalism is a wonderful system!
None. I don’t have one and do not want one. They are a blight. I want them gone.
Sadly this reminds me of conversations I have when I visit my family in their little town.
“-They rebuilt the drive thru and it even worse than it was! They did a shit job! They should make a longer queuing area! It’s too close from the intersection!”
I’ll show them studies, images, explain how drive thrus naturally cause congestion but nope, it’s because those drive thrus are built by idiots, apparently. I try to explain induced demand and how cars are super inefficient space wise, but they can only see how if the town only bought the land next door it could expand the drive thru there and thus fix congestion issues once and for all!
It’s honestly disconcerting how they can’t see it’s the cars that are taking space.
And while being at it, it also reminds me about the e-scooters that were banned in my city because they were “taking too much space”, and were a danger to pedestrians. Yet, I also know about a big metal box that takes much more space and is much more deadly to pedestrians, but we don’t talk about this one.
I’ve always liked the Genii Cowen played by Colm Meaney. He’s an important Genii but more importantly, also the most important man in Starfleet.
Others include Armin Shimerman as a Nox, and Quark. Robert Picardo as Woolsey and the Doctor. Connor Trinner as Michael and Tripp. Jolene Blalock as Ishta and T’Pol. Marina Sirtis as Dr Markova and Troi. Ronny Cox as Kinsey and Jellico. And more.
Aside from Babylon 5, the amount of actors that have played in both Star Trek and Stargate nearly makes them related.
My only issue with Stargate is that at some point I realized they were gun shots and guns being fired in nearly every episode, if not multiple times by episode, and now I can’t ignore it. To me the soundtrack of Stargate is now composed mainly of guns being fired.
I don’t really have a choice as heat is provided by my building, and they just keep it on at all times. So in winter it’s pretty much always around 26/27C except when it gets really cold outside and it “drops” a bit. I do like the heat but it’s a bit too much. Sometimes I have to open a window. 24C would suffice.
They even keep the heat on in summer so it can rise up to 35C during sunny days, but I have a portable AC to fight the building’s system and bring it back down to a “cool” 24/25C.
I was 15 during the 1998 ice storm.
It’s obviously not as dangerous as a tornado or an earthquake or a flood, but it’s still a natural disaster, and disrupted society in the region for weeks and months.
At first it was difficult to realize the size of the catastrophe but then millions went without power, the infrastructure crumbled under the ice and roads became impracticable. The magnitude of the disaster became apparent when the army had to come and help.
Luckily I lived in a rural area at the time and we relied on a wood furnace for heat and hot water. We also shared a generator with other family members so I had power a few hours a day. Compared to people without heat water, food or electricity, it went ok for my family.
It took about 10 days for my region to have power back, while others had to wait for up to 30 days.
This left its mark on me and now I try to be prepared, have batteries charged, solar panels, water reserves, food for a few days, a camping stove, ways to keep warm, etc., just in case.
I recently became aware of this city and the eruption. There’s a few documentaries on it but I found this one interesting: Life on the Carribean’s Most Dangerous Volcano
Last year I was looking for a vacation in a Carribean country, where I could hike and found Guadeloupe to be interesting, only to discover there’s a volcano there. Eventually I visited Martinique instead, and also learned there is a volcano there too. This one erupted in 1902 and destroyed the town of Saint-Pierre.
So I looked for all the other volcanoes of the Carribean and found the story of Plymouth and Montserrat.
Fun fact, the volcano in Montserrat is called Soufrière Hills, but there’s three other volcanoes in the Antilles called Soufrière. The other ones are in Guadeloupe, Saint Vincent, and Saint Lucia.