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Frankly, I'm fine that he's thinking this way. Things are too far gone and everybody has lost trust in the US at this point. Whether that was his intention from the beginning or if it's the idea he got after realizing that the backlash to his antics were magnitudes greater than what he expected no longer matters.

It will be years, if not decades, of hard work and consistancy before any major country trusts the US again for anything more than high-fructose corn syrup.

Trump can try to "put them back together" however he wants, but he'll be doing that without the rest of the world.

I agree with the lack of logic, as Trump yesterday announced wartime powers, using the pretense of being at war with gangs to justify the order.

That said, I don't see any invasion being based upon any real need, even from an economic level. In fact, such an act will be extremely counterproductive and will harm not only their general economy, but the bottom line of many of their top businesses. Not to mention that any project to extract Canadian resources that aren't already abundant in the US will take at least a half decade to even start producing, with profits only emerging two decades after any annexation at best.

And that presumes that any extraction is done quickly and smoothly. Frankly speaking, the issue is that to extract most things at scale, everything needs to be built up from the ground level, including roads.

That doesn't even start with the liklihood of constant protests and vandalism, including some crazies that try to shoot out tires and critical equipment.

I took a quick glance at previous numbers, and really it feels like the anti-vaxxers are the reason this is happening. Measles were completely under control even ten years ago, with only the occasional bad outbreak, yet we're getting half of the worst national yearly numbers all at once in a single province this year.

And to make it worse, this isn't a single isolated outbreak, but is happening every year. We've got a proven vaccine that's worked for generations and saved countless lives, yet anti-vaxxers are burdening our already overstretched healthcare system by being ideological idiots.

He's also threatened those same extra tariffs to Canada's overall response as well, but the federal government didn't budge and in the end it was Trump that didn't put his money where his mouth is.

He backed off on the promise of talks, yet Trump's tariffs came into effect as promised and while the federal government went through on their side of retaliation, Ontario caved like a hollowed out cake.

From a provincial perspective, Trump's doing everything he threatened, yet we basically folded on all of our provincial threats for the sake of having a talk. I wouldn't be surprised if the Starlink deal still hasn't been cancelled despite Ford saying he would on the tariff threats. From what I can tell, he's still saying he "will" cancel the deal, not that he has.

The US is pounding us raw, and Ontario is just taking it without complaint. WTF man.

At least the federal government went through with their retaliations.

That is definitely not what I'm hearing. More recent news specifically states that Trump's tariffs have come into effect, and only Ford's pathetic backtracking has happened.

Our federal government went forward with massive reciprocal tariffs, yet our provincial government backed off his surcharge with the promise of having "talks" about it.

I'm ashamed to be an Ontarian.

This looks like a good report, but I don't think drivers really care much about collisions, and basing a report on them isn't helpful, since most people think that collisions are the exception and have nothing to do with them.

Instead, concentrating on how much more it delays the average commute is far better since that affects everybody on a daily basis. Even if the Ford government is willing to ignore reports like this, publicizing them and using them as ammo against Ford's policies is helpful since he's got such a weak spine, public backlash when you have public proof of him doing something objectively wrong that'll affect everybody negatively is effective against him.

This isn't much better than capitulation. Going back on your counter-move just to a promise to have a "talk", that's the same stuff that Putin's been trying with Ukraine: Pull back your troops from Russian occupied territory, and Russia will promise to talk.

Ford's given them exactly what they want just for the sake of having a face-to-face. What he should've done would be to say that he was willing to put withdrawing the surcharge on the table as an initial proposal on his side of the talks.

I don't care that we can just put up the surcharge again, Ford just showed the US that he's got a weak spine and can be bullied into withdrawing all measures at the slightest sign of agreement. Not even a promise of an agreement.

If the RCMP paid for it, or it was done during work hours, then it belongs to the RCMP. It's like someone at Intel developing a new chip at work as a side project, then complaining that he doesn't own the IP for it since it wasn't his main project.

Stepping down can sometimes be the real power move in politics, and for a politician that had quite few power moves for such a long tenure, this was one of Trudeau's.

And between the potential leaders, Carney is the only one that has a clear vision for the future on top of a plan to make it happen. While I don't agree with half of the stuff he's about, that's a million times better than a man more interested in causing division amongst Canadians when faced with an external threat, spineless coward that flip flops depending on what he things gets him political points, or people who have zero chance of gaining enough seats to make a serious change.

The government has already admitted that there's been evidence of tampering for over a decade now by China, though how significant of a swing that has isn't known. I'd like to think it was quite minor, but who really knows.

On the other hand, Russia is pretty famous for its botnet attacks on the US elections for a while now, basically early AI based attacks. Their fingerprints are all over twitter during the last several elections, not to mention the biggest driver of quite a few conspiracy theories.

This isn't a case of "very likely", but rather practically guaranteed. The question is whether the countermeasures will be effective enough or not.

Frankly, alcohol is expensive and a hassle to bother with, and that's before the fact that my body doesn't handle it very well lately.

Sure, it tastes alright, but that's just alright compared to a nice cup of coffee, tea, or juice, which is all easier and faster to get, you can drink it anywhere and as much as you want, and generally tastes better. Why wouldn't it taste better when most recent alcoholic beverages are trying to copy the flavour of normally non-alcoholic drinks?

Modern society is generations away from being under the pressures of hard, painful, and dreary work where you need a depressant to forget how difficult your work day has been, and the current youth's not only forgotten why people needed such drinks in the past, but are even detached from the customs to drink such even from a traditional standpoint.

Not to mention that they have weed and vapes if they want to feel like some "badass deviants" as well.

The average person no longer feels the pressure to rely on alcohol they did in the past, not personal or peer in variety, so it's no wonder that sobriety is becoming the norm.