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Rentlar
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The leaf has been on McDonald's Canada for as long as I can remember... but I haven't eaten at a Canadian McDonalds this year at all.
Trump loves making everything about himself, so I'll do him a favour: assume every redacted name is Trump.
Putting "Shocked" in a title is the journalism equivalent of putting a shocked expression in a Youtube clickbait video thumbnail.
Goddamn NYT, the answer is right in front of you. Israel's US-backed Genocide. Stop humming and whistling around pretending you don't know.
You sound like a troll but I'll help you anyway, in case you or anyone are using Lynx browser for your internet needs:
I nominate this fellow from Ottawa and this particular speech as our trade representative to the US: (Obvious strong language warning)
The “world’s leading Trump whisperer” strikes again.
Trump's no match for La Presidenta con la cabeza fría.
I see garbage trucks on residential streets several times weekly. They should be able to handle delivery traffic for your neighbourhood corner store, cafe, arcade or restaurant. (And in Scarborough and Etobicoke the residential roads are full of potholes even without heavy truck traffic). Small stores probably won't be getting tractors with 50ft trailers either.
Well, I guess the prerogative is on the rest of us non-Americans to break unjust American IP laws to counteract the lack of enforcement of anti-trust laws, or make laws in other countries that better enforce competition laws on American companies.
I have a glimmer of hope that Europe is getting in gear somewhat for that.
I do like Cory's overall point about needing to think more of solidarity than individual choices, but I disagree on discounting them completely, those choices do carry a certain degree of importance as well in effecting systemic change. Saying, "well, society isn't changing, enshittification isn't going anywhere so I shouldn't bother changing my habits" won't get us anywhere. It has had real effects.
Things that start in the margins have the ability to get noticed by big players and then bring about change. A couple examples: Linux gaming is in a viable state that was unimaginable 8 years ago. The Canadian boycott of US products and travel has had a very measurable affect on US tourism and select industries, and has spread to other countries. Valve nor the Canadian government started either of those efforts, but they helped signal-boost and take concrete supportive actions when they see that even a small group of people independently have supported that change already.
I'm glad we have at least one Premier and Housing Minister that understand the issue of housing correctly.
Edit: you should look at Eby's reaction to the question about the letter from the Vancouver Sun journalist, and listen to Eby's full answer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wemiX8ammXk&t=23m10s
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Statistics Canada says Canadian-resident return trips from U.S. down again in April
(www.thecanadianpressnews.ca)
That's pretty RAD-eon.