#canadian border politics

[fatfemmefreaquency]

i hate it here. fuck

[allthecanadianpolitics]

Quebec Premier François Legault wants Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to appease Donald Trump by tightening border security and clamping down on the illegal drug trade in response to the president-elect's threat of imposing 25 per cent tariffs on Canadian and Mexican imports. Legault held a news conference in Quebec City Tuesday afternoon, telling reporters tariffs of 10 per cent, as Trump had previously threatened during his campaign, or 25 per cent, as he threatened Monday, would have disastrous effects on Quebec's economy. "Twenty-five per cent tariffs would mean tens of thousands of lost jobs for Quebec and for Canada so we have to take it very, very seriously," Legault said.

Continue reading

Tagging: @newsfromstolenland

[griancraft]

Question for Americans who genuinely will not be voting or are choosing to vote third party, what do you think will happen to you if the Republicans win? You cannot realistically fight for others if you yourself are in a bad situation. Genuinely, what do you think will happen when protections for marginalized people are rolled back?

Do you think you will actually be able to protest anything, let alone stuff not happening on US soil like the war in Gaza? We already see heavily armed police at protests and it's just been getting worse. I'm struggling to find the logic in not voting for the only viable option that won't kill you. I'm aware it's maintaining a shitty status quo but that's better than the alternative, isn't it?

[anghraine]

Very serious post:

The bff and I were thinking of alternate names for our country (the USA) but are currently favoring "Under-Canada."

We are in no way biased by growing up on the international border, where basically anything you could get on the US side you could also get on the Canadian side, but it would be better and less expensive and more fun to get to.

[head-post]

Canada vows to strengthen border and immigration restrictions to appease Trump

The Canadian government on Tuesday announced a new plan to strengthen border security and the immigration system. Such a plan comes in response to US President-elect Donald Trump’s threat to impose 25 per cent tariffs on all Canadian imports unless Canada stops the flow of illegal immigration and fentanyl smuggling into the US.

As part of a new C$1.3 billion (US$908 million) plan to address US President-elect Donald Trump’s concerns about migrants and fentanyl coming across the northern border, Canada is deploying what it calls an “aerial reconnaissance task force.”

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police will operate the task force, which consists of helicopters, drones and mobile observation towers. It’s one of many measures unveiled by the Canadian government on Tuesday in an attempt to stave off Trump’s threat to impose 25 per cent tariffs on all goods from the country unless it strengthens border security.

The announcement came a day after the country’s Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland abruptly resigned, accusing Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of failing to seriously prepare for a Trump presidency. She was replaced by Dominic LeBlanc, the minister of public safety, who unveiled a border management plan on Tuesday.

The funding was first announced in the government’s budget update on Monday. Trudeau has promised to strengthen measures at the border after Trump threatened Mexico and Canada with tariffs if they don’t – though problems at the northern crossing pale in comparison to those at the southern crossing.

The plan would also expand the intelligence-gathering capabilities of the RCMP and the Communications Security Establishment’s cybersecurity agency. The Government plans to increase fines and criminal penalties for money-laundering and to establish a task force on the issue involving law enforcement and the financial sector.

In addition, the government intends to increase information sharing between Canadian and US officials, as well as between the federal government and the provinces. The Trudeau government said it will propose that the US create a new “North American Joint Strike Force” to combat transnational organised crime.

RCMP Commissioner Mike Duhem explained that the “strike team” would work with the US to train officers and law enforcement partners who specialise in fentanyl. They will work both domestically and in source countries of the deadly drug to disrupt its illegal trade, he said.

Immigration Minister Marc Miller announced changes to end a practice known as “flagging,” where a temporary resident leaves Canada and immediately returns to the point of entry to receive immigration services. He also said the government plans to expand its ability to cancel, amend or suspend immigration documents and stop accepting new applications.

In addition, the government will use artificial intelligence and visualisation tools and train new canine teams to help detect illegal drugs before they enter Canada. In addition, the government plans to create a new unit within the country’s health department to crack down on the importation of precursor chemicals, and will speed up the process of banning these materials to six months from three years.

Read more HERE

[nokingsonlyfooles]

My eyes hurt and now my brain hurts

...but screaming with laughter helps, so I had to share. (And after this I'll stop reading and take a break.)

It's Vivek, rhymes with "there's a LAKE!" Several, I believe. I haven't been in Canada that long, I'm not positive, but I believe there would be more than one lake. Aren't they having enough trouble building that wall over the river? And wildlife habitats? And SAND?

Build a wall over a lake to stop an amount of fentanyl that would fit in my purse? It's not the dumbest thing my country or origin has attempted, so let's see how it shakes out.

I would, if anyone is interested, appreciate a wall that keeps US dollars out of Canadian politics. It seems like that would be much easier to build, legislatively. But you do you, US.

Get safe out there, America. Get as safe as you can. This fever isn't going to break without doing a lot more damage.

[cooking-with-hailstones]

Americans "having a single iota of sympathy for the literal thousands of Canadians who have had their homes and communities destroyed by fire instead of yelling at us for making their sky orange" Challenge (impossible)

[news-buzz]

Poilievre requires asylum seeker cap, border plan as U.S. tariff menace looms - Nationwide Information Buzz

Conservative Chief Pierre Poilievre has demanded the federal authorities current a plan earlier than Parliament to beef up border safety as U.S. president-elect Donald Trump threatens to impose stiff tariffs on Canada. The plan ought to embrace measures to extend patrols and expertise to crack down on unlawful drug trafficking, in addition to tightening visa guidelines and dealing with provincial…

[tacobellebandit]

Harris: we need to increase penalties for illegal immigration

Because that definitely stops human trafficking. Steep penalties as a threat definitely doesn't just lead to them being exploited more heavily because they can't go to the police for help

[awesomecooperlove]

🇨🇦🙏🏻🇺🇸

[hurgablurg]

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/deal-roxham-road-migrants-biden-trudeau-1.6788358

So the liberals have decided that Canada is no longer a safe haven for immigrants and people fleeing violence. The one thing we can actually be proud of with certainty in our 300+ shitty years of monarchy-masturbating history, stamped out to make a dementia-ridden freak-puppet who buries dogs feel better about his standing with the american troglodytes.

I’m SOOOOO sure this will totally keep people from coming to Canada, rather than say, force people to enter illegally through dangerous and unscrupulous methods, the same ones that saw the corpses of children wash up on the shores of the Mediterranean not long ago.

But no! PLEASE tell me more about how the liberal party is actually A Very Good All Time and has human rights and social liberties at the heart of all their policy decisions.

I’m sure this won’t be any kind of slippery slope into rightoid-ism or anything for the spoiled frenchie rich kid who loves putting on blackface. I can take a guess at who the “15,000 immigrants from the western hemisphere” he’s allowing are going to be - wealthy americans looking for new tax loopholes to take advantage of and who’ll tickle Trudeau's ballsack with a loonie whenever he needs money for his reelection campaign.

@liberalsarecool Should probably change their url.

[allthecanadianpolitics]

A majority of Canadians would be hesitant to buy U.S. goods in response to the proposed American tariff on products from Canada, according to a new survey. The findings of a recently released Nanos Research survey suggest a tariff on Canadian exports into the U.S. would, for two-thirds of Canadians, negatively impact the likelihood they'd purchase U.S.-made goods.

On Nov. 25, U.S. president-elect Donald Trump said he would impose a 25 per cent tariff on imports from Canada and Mexico until the two countries clamped down on drugs, particularly fentanyl, and migrants crossing the border.

Continue reading

Tagging: @newsfromstolenland

[drizzledrawings]

It’s weird watching American politics as a Canadian

I was 15 when he was first elected, I remember walking into school the next day and it was silent

Now I’m 23 and he’s president again, and it feels surreal, cause for the past 8 years I’ve watched Canada follow America’s footsteps, copying their bills, and watching my peers and neighbours slowly get radicalized by the propaganda from a country that isn’t their own

Canada sucks in its own right, we have awful policies and a long awful history of racism of our own, but I remember in my youth I thought things were better, I thought they would continue to get better. But half of the Conservative Party wants to ban abortion and contraceptives, and most of them hate trans people too.

The liberal party is just a done up version of them, just less forward about their bigotry. Saying the right words but with no actual action. Why do a lot of reservations still not have clean water Trudeau?

But what gets me is that so much of our politics are based on what happens on the other side of the border, it feels like we’re constantly comparing ourselves and trying to be better (liberals) or trying to be like them (conservatives)

I’ll be 27 by the time trumps second term is done, and I’m unsure if he’ll let it be over, I’m worried about how much this win will affect not only Canada but the rest of the world

I know it won’t be the end but damn it’s hard not to catastrophize

[batboyblog]

Canadian-Israeli peace activist Vivian Silver, originally thought to be among the hostages in Gaza was identified as dead today. Vivian helped found and was active in a number of peace organizations, such as the The Alliance for Middle East Peace, The Arab-Jewish Center for Equality, and Women Wage Peace an organize of Israeli and Palestinian women dedicated to bridging the gaps left by normal politics. For over 10 years Vivian met patients from Gaza at the border and drove them to treatment in Israel acting as a translator and helping with Israeli security forces.

may her memory be a blessing

[gaelic-symphony]

Even if every country in the diaspora were safe for Jews, the land of Israel would still be our people's homeland. It would still be the site of our ethnogenesis as a nation. It would still be the land where our ancestors lived and died and prayed and worked and built a thriving Jewish civilization, the Kingdoms of Israel and Judah. It would still be the land where both of our people's temples once stood, and the land where the remains of the Second Temple still exist today. Our laws, holidays, traditions, and liturgy would all still revolve heavily around that particular piece of land. We would still say our prayers in Hebrew, a language which is indigenous to that land.

Even if every country in the diaspora were safe for Jews, the modern-day state of Israel would still be the only country in the world that is specifically structured around our people, our culture, our traditions, our way of life. It would still be the only country that is specifically our country, a Jewish country in the same way that France is a French country and Finland is a Finnish country and Thailand is a Thai country and South Korea is a Korean country. It would still be the only country where official business is conducted in the Hebrew language, where our holidays are national holidays, where the work week and the weekend are structured around our day of rest and holiness instead of the Christian or Muslim days of rest and holiness. It would still be the only country where our Jewishness doesn't make us somehow other, somehow different from the dominant culture of the place where we live, forever straddling two worlds with our hyphenate identities, unsure whether we're Jewish-American (or Canadian, British, French, Russian, Argentinian, etc.) or American Jews, or Just American (or Canadian, British, French, Russian, Argentinian, etc.), or Just Jews.

Antizionists (with the exception of antizionist Orthodox Jews), even at their best and least antisemitic, seem to think that they can eliminate the need for Israel if they simply fight hard enough to eliminate antisemitism in the diaspora and strengthen diaspora Jewish communities. And as a diaspora Jew, I am all in favor of fighting antisemitism in the diaspora and strengthening our communities wherever we choose to live. But you can never eliminate the Jewish longing for our homeland, the deeply Jewish history of the land of Israel, or the right of the Jewish people to be recognized as a nation deserving of the same rights, dignity, and respect as all the other nations of the world. You can feel however you want to feel about the modern-day state of Israel, the way it came into existence, and the actions the government has taken over the years for the ostensible purpose of protecting the country's borders and people and national security interests, but you cannot change the fact that Zionism is, at its core, a decolonial Land Back movement for indigenous sovereignty and self-determination, or that while the political ideology and terminology of modern Zionism may have been developed by Jews living in 19th century Europe, the ideals that Zionism is built upon have been a core part of the Jewish practice and Jewish identity of all Jews, regardless of where we live, for thousands of years.

[sleepymccoy]

Please choose your favourite of my (imo) niche star trek headcanons

Now that I'm writing these, I wonder if any of them are straight up canon that I've forgotten lol

I'm gonna further defend my headcanons under a readmore, but it's up to you if you want to read that or just vote on the summary 😘

Scotty's actor is Canadian. Also he's so Scottish? Like, he's called Scotty, he drinks scotch, he is Scottish, so on. Too much. I think he has Scottish heritage, maybe his mum is Scottish, so he knows the phrases and his accent work is comedic but solid. But he himself was born in like Quebec

I have a whole post on McCoy's ex wife being Vulcan, it rules, give it a read here

The way America crumbles in trek history I think opens them up to invasion. I don't think Russia is still in charge, I think they've moved on from that and country borders are less political more cultural in TOS times. But I think briefly Russia had everything and Chekhov is joking about that when he says shit like that saying is Russian. We know, Chekhov, everything was Russian once, get over it. His joke is less about things being Russian and more like someone making the same joke about how everything was Roman once

TOS writers had a little cheat sheet of characterisation rules I saw here once and one said that Sulu has many varying interests, so if you need an info dump that's not one of the other main guys things, use him. So I've taken that and gone with he isn't actually into plants, it was just a six month project to better learn how to take care of them. He spent a lot of time complaining about them to Chekhov. Basically a hyper fixation and once he figured it out he lost interest, but retained all the knowledge

Cos Rand has that trick of heating up the coffee with a phaser on low. That's resourceful with ship technology that uses batteries, not mainframe power. I think she knows what matters when a ship breaks, and food and comfort need prioritising cos she grew up on a ship that was always broken. Broken ships are easier to tolerate if the coffee is served hot

I think Chapel's fiance kinda sucks in that ep, even if it was just a robot copy, and I think she loves being in space. I think she feels both relieved and guilty about it all, it's bad