Congrat on feddit.uk for more than 50 answer to the buy EU group. Is it me or the growth is awesome lately? More people on Lemmy is nice but more like-minded people is even better.

When i signed up it was a little buggy under safari (captcha mostly) but everything was fine when i switched to firefox. Then i waited about an hour or two for what looks like manual input from an admin and everything was fine.

Boeing can’t compete in the civilian business and is too big to fail : solution is to give them subsidies in the form of military contact.

That only happen after violences and war in which team Trump loose badly. Don’t be complacent with the illusion of rules of law if you don’t fight for your liberty you won’t keep it.

The sooner the better : the big contracts we need to sign with EU need to be signed by a PM with a clear mandate. It will give confidence to our partners.

Also, strategically within Canada, Carney will be subject to disinformation campaigns that will over time erode a bit his honeymoon relationship with Canadians. Use the peak anger around April second to his advantage and get elected before he can make mistakes : some decisions will be the right call but damaging to some Canadian because hardship is hardship.

Just yesterday i peaked to Apple news and the Canadian politics content where overwhelmingly critical with poorly constructed opinions. I quickly remembered why i focus on a very selected short list of Canadian owned medias.

I guess that me being active here on Lemmy means i can’t go to the US for the foreseeable future. Oh well…

Not only immune to global trade : big s/p 500 companies might benefit from the chaos to consolidate at the expense of smaller companies that can’t adjust production across boarder or be effective at lobbying exemptions.

Then come inflation expectations with another layer of pushing stock, especially big cap indexes higher.

This is an hum… interesting read… While i agree that asking questions on the price tag and return on our investment is always a good idea, this is not it. Also a civilian probably won’t understand the different aspect of the price tag : upgrading our infrastructure and capability to services such boat, specialized design… The last few months-years are showing us that peaceful negotiating has its limits when our neighbours have the ability to abuse our sovereignty. Don’t make it easy on them. Ask Ukraine how it feels. Do you trust Trump or his successor not to extort the ressources he need in the Canadian North if he’s not just taking it altogether? I would love a world where we don’t spend any money on the military and use those resources on social development instead but in the real world the North is our and we need to have the best (military) logistics to move around our own sea.

I won’t be the one to indulge in vandalism but i do want the company to fold… higher price of ownership is part of the decision process for prospective buyers… let’s just say i won’t judge those that do choose the dark side!

As a Canadian it warms my heart to see the “future EU members” label but most days, when i am done with my morning coffee, i like things presented under a more realistic perspective.

EU should aim for a strong core with countries of “special interest” having partial membership benefits and treatment. GB, Canada, Ukraine, Turkey, Hungary(yes i know!) should all have this special interest status with a measure of integration and a measure of autonomy. Eventually add Australia if it makes mutual sense. Currently Canada can’t lower it standards to US regulations “void” and we will benefit from increased mobility of goods and people : with EU : we should set most regulation close enough to EU rules to be welcomed there. Build further affinity from increased commercial and military integration. Keep our own monetary policy: devaluation of our currency is a needed buffer sometimes.

Defending the North is mostly about knowing what’s happening up there. Therefore, modern and improved radar and satellite imaging+communication relay are at the basis of a modern defence strategy. Realistically if Russia spend money flying planes above our Northern territory we don’t always need to “answer” within minutes because there is mostly nothing to defend there and a particularly harsh environment. 95 % of the defence of the Canadian North will be done by the weather itself. Of course we need to be able to get there eventually in a few days-week not necessary within minutes-hours. Our logistics to move in our own North need to be better than any adversaries this is the next step after information.

Good job Carney! I was expecting a French submarine purchase but this will do. And, what do I know, maybe French or English hardware will be announced after our soon to be election or need a bit more negotiations?

The licensing exam is the same Canada wide for all doctors of a same speciality. There are minor differences in the curriculum of a few disciplines but nothing big enough for the patients to worry. Then I suppose jobs will be given after an interview process and that process will remove MDs that can’t speak the language of the local population and favour those that have more thorough training.

There is a long road before we make crypto friendly for small Internet transactions for the general public. Interac is 80% there already. 5 % of the job is having Internet infrastructure accept Interac and big players like Shopify can make it work in a heartbeat. Transactions outside of Canada won’t support Interac for the foreseeable future. The last 15 % is a law, in Canada, that protect fraudulent transactions up to 75$ / the ability to reverse a charge if you don’t get what you payed for.

Any suggestions and ideas should be aimed at solving the second problem. An incomplete fix would be a dedicated account that your bank won’t connect to your main account outside of your self initiated transfers. Having the ability to reverse a transaction and some level of fraud insurance will involve higher fees. Canadian banks can make Interac as attractive as Visa if they want, but only for domestic transactions.

I don’t care for ice cream at this time of the year, but comes the warm weather Chapman can count on me.

Yet i can get behind this framework as something good for the population. It’s like a NDP program but more realistic and with economic growth with our peers as a target.

This year (most years) i will vote Liberal but i did vote NDP on and off in the past and my circumscription changes from red to orange often in the last two decades.

I like the idea of using French as a tool of resistance against the US imperialism.

I would like to see an American pissed off because a business meeting is in French! 💋

Growing up, my father told me that Quebec bashing was a frequent occurrence travelling inside Canada. Frog jokes for example. (He was military and lived everywhere for a decade in the 70) also inside Quebec before French Canadian got a better access to university education it was mostly French speaking workers exploited by English speaking bosses.

Those divisions fueled resentment and the independence movement or at least that was my father’s thesis. I, myself, never felt a division along those line.

Now that Trump gives us a reason to fight together for a society where healthcare, education and human dignity having value independent of one’s ability to hold a job, I expect a united Canada for a while.

You don’t need to be fluent in French but showing that you care to learn a bit shows enough respect to open the door for more collaboration.

A challenge is an opportunity to grow and get better

There isn’t much appetite for Quebec’s independence now that the Millennials are huge in the voting demographics and Baby Boomers are slowly disappearing.

Now if you add a sliver of curiosity toward learning rudimentary French from the ROC, just to be better than the American or proud to be Canadian. Then Quebec will be happy to be part of Canada and fight fiercely to defend Canada. There will be differences of opinion and politics between rural Alberta and urban Montreal but this is true of every country.

Let my add one more then!