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Women want one thing and it's quite obvious, A large affordable interconnected North American Rail Network

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Assuming we actually wanted to, can Canada actually join the states? Does our constitution even allow for it? What would be the process here. I assume the king would have to sign off on it at the minimum.

It would likely require opening up the constitution to replace the head of state provisions, which would require the consent of the majority of Premiers and the Prime Minister. Which would never happen.

If Trump is going to annex Canada, its not going to be done peacefully.

But Trump is an idiot, so who knows if he's actually serious or this is just one of his deranged ideas he gets fixated on them forgets months later.

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IDK how many people have gotten it, but that one Ford campaign ad where he talks about making sure there are no safe injection sites near playgrounds makes my blood boil. Even putting aside the blatant dehumanization of users and the most pathetic "think of the children!!!" grasp ever...... Tell me you don't know anything about safe injection sites without telling me you know anything about safe injection sites.

Signed, one of the healthcare workers he screwed over

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if i have any canadian moots who are jumping on the bandwagon of switching to buying canadian products/anything but american products, here’s a couple of useful websites!

www.isthiscanadian.ca

this one lets you take a pic of the product and it will tell you if it’s a product of canada or not

www.madeinca.ca

this one is a database of canadian brands/products! it’s been really helpful in planning my grocery trips because i can find the category i need and have a list of brands to choose from :)

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The Quebec government wants to enshrine into law that hockey is the province’s “national” sport. Culture Minister Mathieu Lacombe’s bill, tabled Thursday, also names the first Saturday in February as national ice hockey day. The bill recognizes that the 150-year-old sport has a special place in Quebec culture — the first official hockey game was played in Montreal on March 3, 1875. Lacombe, meanwhile, defended his choice to table a bill on hockey while the country faces the threat of crippling economic tariffs of 25 per cent by United States President Donald Trump.

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This is a bit of a rant but something that really breaks my heart is the fact that Trump has ALREADY greatly influenced Canadian politics.

Just look at Mark Carney's rising popularity. He does seem genuinely qualified, however, most of the polling being done suggests that the reason he's gaining so much traction is because he's the only one of our leaders people trust to both stand up to and be able to negotiate with Trump (as if that buffoon negotiates at all). No one really seems to be paying attention to the actual policies he's putting forward, which admittedly are not the worse things I've heard from the Liberal Party, but are definitely worth poking some holes into (like, excuse me Mr. Carney, we understand that at this time the Canadian economy would greatly benefit from ramping up our mineral extraction, but how do you intend to address the damage that this could/would cause to our indigenous communities?)

And the thing is, anyone who is ignoring these things or defaulting to voting for Carney/the Liberals no matter what can't necessarily be blamed for doing so... and I'm saying that as someone who is an NDP voter at heart and gets genuinely disgusted with myself at the idea of casting a vote for someone like Mark Carney, as plain toast as he might be. Poilievre would hand our country to Trump on a silver platter, Trump has already said some atrocious things about Chrystia Freeland (which seem to have been born entirely out of misogyny - no surprise there) so we know she wouldn't get anywhere in terms of negotiating or maintaining any semblance of peace - if anything it might just make him perceive us to be an easier target because that's how little respect he clearly has for women - and don't get me started on the kind of horrifying and dehumanizing treatment that animated turd of an excuse for a President would unleash on someone who looks like Jasmeet Singh, purely for being who he is, which would also prevent him from getting anywhere and I genuinely fear it might actually spur Trump on to justify attacking us faster.

And look, of course there are many other reasons why Freeland or Singh might lose their respective races against a Mark Carney type (including the racism and misogyny that can be found in our own populace which obviously still exists in large numbers), but the identity politics being as heavily at play as it is right now - in a way it hasn't been for years - is a direct impact of the Trump presidency and that is a heartbreaking back peddle on whatever meagre progress towards inclusionary politics we've made in the last 20 years. We're back to a place where we can't deny that the only realistic choice that stands a chance in responding to the most pressing and threatening issue facing the nation is a white man, not because of his qualifications (of which I do know he legitimately has many, but so do others), but because he is a white man. Whether we like it or not, Trump has succeeded in setting us back. And we didn't have anything to do with voting the asshole in.

I don't have a good resolution for this rant. Its not even really about Carney - he's just generic centrist politician to me. I'm just upset and tired and hoping to God that this doesn't end in war the way it's looking like it will, and that we use this as a wake up call and cut ties with America in a big big way. Which also hurts to say because let's face it, most if not all Canadians have family and friendships that reach across the border and the last thing we want on personal levels is to create more divide between us.

Anyway, vote Liberal/Carney, I guess. Now's apparently no time to have a genuine political opinion about our own country - we just have to focus on remaining a country at all. 🙄

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Oh hey, would you look at that, those assholes have been doing it in Canada, too.

@allthecanadianpolitics

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25 ways to be a little more punk in 2025

Cut fast fashion - buy used, learn to mend and/or make your own clothes, buy fewer clothes less often so you can save up for ethically made quality

Cancel subscriptions - relearn how to pirate media, spend $10/month buying a digital album from a small artist instead of on Spotify, stream on free services since the paid ones make you watch ads anyway

Green your community - there's lots of ways to do this, like seedbombing or joining a community garden or organizing neighborhood trash pickups

Be kind - stop to give directions, check on stopped cars, smile at kids, let people cut you in line, offer to get stuff off the high shelf, hold the door, ask people if they're okay

Intervene - learn bystander intervention techniques and be prepared to use them, even if it feels awkward

Get closer to your food - grow it yourself, can and preserve it, buy from a farmstand, learn where it's from, go fishing, make it from scratch, learn a new ingredient

Use opensource software - try LibreOffice, try Reaper, learn Linux, use a free Photoshop clone. The next time an app tries to force you to pay, look to see if there's an opensource alternative

Make less trash - start a compost, be mindful of packaging, find another use for that plastic, make it a challenge for yourself!

Get involved in local politics - show up at meetings for city council, the zoning commission, the park district, school boards; fight the NIMBYs that always show up and force them to focus on the things impacting the most vulnerable folks in your community

DIY > fashion - shake off the obsession with pristine presentation that you've been taught! Cut your own hair, use homemade cosmetics, exchange mani/pedis with friends, make your own jewelry, duct tape those broken headphones!

Ditch Google - Chromium browsers (which is almost all of them) are now bloated spyware, and Google search sucks now, so why not finally make the jump to Firefox and another search like DuckDuckGo? Or put the Wikipedia app on your phone and look things up there?

Forage - learn about local edible plants and how to safely and sustainably harvest them or go find fruit trees and such accessible to the public.

Volunteer - every week tutoring at the library or once a month at the humane society or twice a year serving food at the soup kitchen, you can find something that matches your availability

Help your neighbors - which means you have to meet them first and find out how you can help (including your unhoused neighbors), like elderly or disabled folks that might need help with yardwork or who that escape artist dog belongs to or whether the police have been hassling people sleeping rough

Fix stuff - the next time something breaks (a small appliance, an electronic, a piece of furniture, etc.), see if you can figure out what's wrong with it, if there are tutorials on fixing it, or if you can order a replacement part from the manufacturer instead of trashing the whole thing

Mix up your transit - find out what's walkable, try biking instead of driving, try public transit and complain to the city if it sucks, take a train instead of a plane, start a carpool at work

Engage in the arts - go see a local play, check out an art gallery or a small museum, buy art from the farmer's market

Go to the library - to check out a book or a movie or a CD, to use the computers or the printer, to find out if they have other weird rentals like a seed library or luggage, to use meeting space, to file your taxes, to take a class, to ask question

Listen local - see what's happening at local music venues or other events where local musicians will be performing, stop for buskers, find a favorite artist, and support them

Buy local - it's less convenient than online shopping or going to a big box store that sells everything, but try buying what you can from small local shops in your area

Become unmarketable - there are a lot of ways you can disrupt your online marketing surveillance, including buying less, using decoy emails, deleting or removing permissions from apps that spy on you, checking your privacy settings, not clicking advertising links, and...

Use cash - go to the bank and take out cash instead of using your credit card or e-payment for everything! It's better on small businesses and it's untraceable

Give what you can - as capitalism churns on, normal shmucks have less and less, so think about what you can give (time, money, skills, space, stuff) and how it will make the most impact

Talk about wages - with your coworkers, with your friends, while unionizing! Stop thinking about wages as a measure of your worth and talk about whether or not the bosses are paying fairly for the labor they receive

Think about wealthflow - there are a thousand little mechanisms that corporations and billionaires use to capture wealth from the lower class: fees for transactions, interest, vendor platforms, subscriptions, and more. Start thinking about where your money goes, how and where it's getting captured and removed from our class, and where you have the ability to cut off the flow and pass cash directly to your fellow working class people

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I’m feeling incredibly sad that people are voting for Doug Ford

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Hey Ontario residents,

Doug Ford (your premier) is going to call a snap election for February 27th. The election campaign in Ontario is very short (36-51 days and this one will be as short as possible). Please register to vote NOW and vote in person if you can. If you cannot vote in person, order your mail in ballot as soon as possible because it is likely not to get there in time to be counted.

Ford wants to strengthen his majority government (he got 80% popular vote last time and has a very strong majority right now — 79/124 seats). Ontario is unfortunately one of our best defences as Canadians from Trump, especially now that Poilievre is going to win the next federal election.

As one single example, almost all of Ontario outside the Greater Toronto Area lost access to gender affirming care on 1st December 2022 because of Ford. This man does not care who he kills.

So, to any Ontarian who’s been feeling hopeless since the US presidential inauguration, you can take some very real action and get ready to GO VOTE.

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credit to @/reliable.raven

Ford Tracker

smartvoting.ca

votewell.ca

388canada.com

Elections Ontario (register to vote before February 17th to get your voter card in the mail)

Find your Electoral District

please reblog for reach, even if you don’t live in ontario or canada, you might have a follower who does.

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I'm just going to leave this here.

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I just don’t understand the American “Not all Americans are to blame I didn’t vote for him!” response to Canadians posting about the trade war like yeah fine but enough did and enough stayed home and it’s now impacting an entire country that had nothing to do with it maybe spare a thought for them before asking us to absolve you first

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U.S. President Donald Trump dropped his plan to levy tariffs on Canada for at least 30 days after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau made a series of commitments on Monday to improve border security. That means there's a ceasefire in a trade war that had the potential to inflict major economic pain on workers and businesses on both sides of the border. The country can let out a collective sigh of relief — at least for now. Trump signalled he's not yet done with Canada, saying today he's still looking for some sort of "final economic deal" with the country down the line.

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