this post was submitted on 06 Mar 2025
687 points (99.6% liked)

World News

41960 readers
3802 users here now

A community for discussing events around the World

Rules:

Similarly, if you see posts along these lines, do not engage. Report them, block them, and live a happier life than they do. We see too many slapfights that boil down to "Mom! He's bugging me!" and "I'm not touching you!" Going forward, slapfights will result in removed comments and temp bans to cool off.

We ask that the users report any comment or post that violate the rules, to use critical thinking when reading, posting or commenting. Users that post off-topic spam, advocate violence, have multiple comments or posts removed, weaponize reports or violate the code of conduct will be banned.

All posts and comments will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis. This means that some content that violates the rules may be allowed, while other content that does not violate the rules may be removed. The moderators retain the right to remove any content and ban users.


Lemmy World Partners

News !news@lemmy.world

Politics !politics@lemmy.world

World Politics !globalpolitics@lemmy.world


Recommendations

For Firefox users, there is media bias / propaganda / fact check plugin.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/media-bias-fact-check/

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
 

Summary

Ontario Premier Doug Ford says the province will permanently cancel its $100 million contract with Elon Musk’s Starlink, even if U.S. tariffs are lifted.

The decision follows Trump’s 25% tariffs on Canadian imports, which prompted Ontario to ban U.S. firms from contracts.

Ford cited Musk’s ties to Trump as a factor and said he is willing to fight potential legal fallout.

Musk previously responded to cancellation threats with a dismissive “Oh well.”

(page 2) 23 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] wasay@lemmy.world 9 points 9 hours ago (13 children)

EU citizen here, I see that Premier Doug Ford is doing good stuff, it is a good political figure in general?

[–] Banana@sh.itjust.works 8 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Hahahahaha no, this is one of the very few odd times that I agree with him.

That being said, I come from one of the orangest (NDP), most union-ey provinces, Manitoba, so I'm a bit biased.

[–] wasay@lemmy.world 1 points 9 hours ago (3 children)

I'll try to stay up to date with what this guy says, he seems interesting.

[–] Banana@sh.itjust.works 8 points 9 hours ago

His brother was addicted to crack when he was the mayor of Toronto and then died from cancer, so that's pretty interesting.

What's also kind of interesting is that the current mayor of Toronto is Olivia Chow, whose husband also died of cancer and was the late, great Jack Layton, who is very worth reading about.

[–] HikingVet@lemmy.ca 3 points 8 hours ago

That’s one way to put it.

[–] spechter@lemmy.ml 6 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

From what I've understood he's a conservative populist. So interpret that however you want.

[–] wasay@lemmy.world 1 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

Well, somehow he is doing his part about being "conservative".

[–] psmgx@lemmy.world 8 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Arguably not, since his platform before the tariff threat was basically to privatize the shit out of everything and screw the average Ontario taxpayer out of healthcare.

He was all about the oligarchy until they burned him. Nothing conservative about being spurned and pushing back.

load more comments (1 replies)
load more comments (1 replies)
load more comments (11 replies)
[–] frunch@lemmy.world -2 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Hope Ford has some good lawyers on retainer... this is probably gonna get ugly, lol

[–] IrateAnteater@sh.itjust.works 6 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Might not. I assume there's some sort of penalty clause built into the contract, so there shouldn't be much to sue about unless Ford tries to find a way to not pay that penalty.

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 2 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Doesn't matter, Musk will sue anyway.

[–] IrateAnteater@sh.itjust.works 3 points 7 hours ago

That's fine. The courts will just toss it.

load more comments
view more: ‹ prev next ›