For over a century, a U.S.-Canada cross-border library used a single entrance. Now, the U.S. says Canadians must build their own.
Summary
The U.S. government has ordered the Haskell Free Library and Opera House, which straddles the U.S.-Canada border, to end Canadian access through its Vermont entrance due to drug trafficking concerns.
Starting Oct. 1, Canadians must use a new entrance on the Canadian side, costing the library over 100,000 CAD to build.
Locals on both sides express frustration at ending the century-old tradition.
The library, a nonprofit since 1901, launched a fundraising campaign, raising more than half the needed funds through small community donations.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/haskell-free-library-and-opera-house-canada-u-s-cross-border-separate-entrances/Open linkView original on lemmy.world301
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How pathetically petty
You just described the current US administration pretty accurately. It's appalling, and terrifying, to have thin-skinned toddlers with this much power.
It's truly sad what has become of the USA. Being Canadian and residing in Hamilton for my first 40 years: I've crossed the border over 1000 times. Had season tickets for the Sabres. Concerts, sports (Ernie De Gregorio!), shopping. Pete's Market and Honey's in NF!
We didn't even have to show ID until 9/11 !!
As of 2016, I've crossed once (for a gig in Buffalo in 2018) and that's been it.
As of now, never again.
I genuinely find it hard to comprehend that it is adults making these decisions.
Hey demented sociopathy is fully capable of being adult and orange.
We should be just as petty. Most books are on Canadian side build a wall.
Why would a separate entrance stop drug trafficking? I’ve never been to that library but from the photo, it seems like you could just walk like 500m away, be in a forest, and hand someone a whole bucket of that sweet Canadian fent we all know and love.
It wouldn’t. This just a BS excuse to bully a trade partner.
And Vermonters. It's also a fuck you to the state that hates Trump the most.
look, Canada, if you wanna, y'know, take care of things, y'know, we'd really appreciate it. This demented rapsit is nothing but human sewage washing over everything.
I mean - who knew?!
How could anyone know that a guy that was convicted of 34 counts of fraud was lying to people?
The dumbest timeline ever
It's remarkable that they are trying to blame Canadians for drug smuggling. I still can't wrap my head around this.
Because it's not about drugs, it's about control.
And dismantling anything resembling a government, so private equity can run everything.
Declaring a national emergency on Fentanyl allowed him to impose tariffs without needing congresses approval.
Americans blame Canadians for drug smuggling, Canadians blame Americans for firearm smuggling. It’s a tit-for-tat that’s been going on for decades.
Only one of those has any basis in reality though.
So you guys are trading guns for drugs? I kinda respect that
Relax guys. The other entrance should be equivalent to the other. Separate but equal if you will. That can't possibly go wrong.
That's one approach. Personally, I think Canada should allocate a few hundred thousand for some ridiculously gilt covered grand entrance as a fuck you to America.
I believe this is what you are describing
Just about - but slap Trudeau on the fucker.
A separate entrance is more then just a door:
Looks like their GoFundMe has a good response so far, already receiving over the expected $100k needed.
GoFundMe
Built with a $50k hammer.
I'm surprised they didn't just defund the library for lending out "banned" books. I guess that's the next step after they build the entrance just to own the Canucks.
Little did I know that the Venn diagram between drug traffickers and Library patrons is a near perfect circle.
You've never seen the deleted episodes of Reading Rainbow? Way more hardcore than The Wire. Levar's comming, yo!
https://www.ctvnews.ca/montreal/article/us-authorities-closing-canadian-access-to-library-that-straddles-quebec-vermont-border/
I'm sorry the President of my country is an asshole.
I'm genuinely ashamed to be American now.
Just send a Cybertruck through a wall or something 🤷🏻♂️
So they reached their goal, but yeah, I donated some cash anyway:
https://www.gofundme.com/f/haskell-infrastructure-overhaul
Let's help out in honour/honor of Felon Drink Bleach, Couch Guyliner, Space Karen, Whale Carcass Anti-vaxxer, and the rest of their incompetent Nazi crew.
no more drugs or nudie pics from libraries by God!
GTFOH
Use the money to build our own library.
Just over the Canadian line and bigger and better
This whole thing is beyond stupid
The library has been there for over 100 years and is a US and Canadian heritage site, and is supposed to be representative of cooperation and community between the US and Canada.
It’s the Quebec/Vermont equivalent to the BC/Washington Peace Arch, but also happens to be a cross-border library.
And now it's representative of that cooperation and community being hammered by a senile psychopath in the Oval Office.
Yes and no… Kristi Noem already put in an appearance to repeatedly step across the “border” in the library shouting “USA Number 1! 51st State!”
I understand. It's just that this is so petty.