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My first bike build and post on Lemmy
That's beautiful! A really classy bike while still looking sporty and fun.
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My first bike build and post on Lemmy
That's beautiful! A really classy bike while still looking sporty and fun.
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No sign of late BC NDP surge as Conservatives lead by five points: poll | Globalnews.ca
So many people blaming Eby, but voters decide the election. If BC goes with the Conservatives, it's because of people who vote for them. I wish Eby hadn't called it, but I wish far more that we didn't have so many people choosing to vote for a bunch of nutjobs, bigots, and cynical untrustworthy incompetents. That's where blame belongs if the province flips.
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Referendum defeat fuels calls for Danielle Smith’s resignation
I'm no fan of Danielle Smith, but was this really a defeat for her? She hedged her position on separatism all the way along until eventually settling on the winning side before the vote. Meanwhile, although the separation question got all the media attention, she has won on most of the other questions she asked in the referendum.
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Referendum defeat fuels calls for Danielle Smith’s resignation
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Albertans said "yes" to her on 7 of the 10 questions she asked them.
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B.C. begins voting without Conservatives' costed platform, Doerkson calls it imminent
A costed platform? They don't even have a permanent leader selected yet. They are barely a party. They're a loose collection of nut jobs and opportunists gathering together under the same flag because they like the colour blue. It is absolutely nuts the people in BC are potentially going to turn the government over to them.
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Books written by AI are ineligible for ISBN numbers in Canada
So, what's the plan for books written with AI?
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Trump says he's terminating trade negotiations with Canada over Ontario anti-tariff ad
The advert is literally just Reagan's voice from an address he gave against tariffs along with stock video of people and places. That's it.
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Carney pledges $150M boost to 'underfunded' CBC
Totally support that, and it's a great time for it as Canada's under threat and many Canadians are boycotting US media products.
Personally, since cutting off US media and switching to CBC, I've really enjoyed a lot of Canadian content and I've found myself more appreciative and interested in Canadian cultural products overall.
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Carney’s Message to the World: The Rules No Longer Protect You | The Walrus
This was a profound speech. There was a lot to it. Declaring the death of the liberal international order with less than shining obit being one example. That was a very powerful statement. More than that though, he has been gradually laying down pieces of a framework for working back towards a world order we might want to see. Can we do it without the US smashing it all up first? Very uncertain. Still, can't fault Carney for taking the position he has. He's supposed to be a leader, it's a time when leadership is desperately needed, and he is stepping up as a leader.
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[Video] Jewish Zionist in Montreal yells at a brown man that he is going to kill a lot of brown people. "I f**king killed a lot of motherf**kers like you... I'm going back to do more."
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Hate speech is the least of his crimes if his words are true. He should be on trial for what he claims to have done.
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American soldiers rolling out the red carpet for internationally wanted war criminal Vladimir Putin
Have people forgotten another wanted criminal getting 50+ standing ovations in Congress not long ago? On a scale of how America honours war criminals, a red carpet in Alaska seems relatively minor in comparison.
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Queensland surgeon fined for sharing photo of patient’s swastika-tattooed penis
What the surgeon did was obviously wrong, but a Nazi making homemade pipe bombs is still by far the bigger concern in this story.
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Kirk Party
My favourite one so far
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The white nationalists I recently exposed showed up to try to intimidate me -- in person
I don't always agree with Gilmore, but I really respect and see value in the work she does on exposing white nationalist networks in Canada and raising awareness about the risks they pose, and she's especially brave doing it as an independent journalist.
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'Rogue state behaviour': Israel carrying out covert influence operations in Canada, report says
Nobody should be shocked by that at all, and yet we won't even criticize them. They can be targeting and killing UN peacekeepers, engaging in ethnic cleansing, seizing territory that doesn't belong to them, and participating in starting a war of aggression that now threatens the world economy, and we won't even name them as doing anything wrong. It is truly pathetic and despicable from our government. The entire world can see what Israel's doing, but apparently not our government.
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Trump threatens 100% tariffs on all Canadian goods if Canada 'makes a deal with China'
Appeasement is not going to work with this guy. It's time for some allies, like Europe, to finally show some backbone and align against the US in a unified front to push back against this. If he can keep picking on one nation at a time while their allies all capitulate to avoid being targeted, everyone will suffer much worse in the end.
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Valedictorian told to stay home after making pro-Palestinian remarks in grad speech
So, the valedictorian was a good student and learned the lessons of history and the values that we would hope for her to learn. Good for her.
I would have been very disappointed to have a principal under me make a choice like that during my career.
The student should receive a public apology from the principal and be allowed to finish her school year with dignity alongside her classmates.
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Carney government eyes privatizing airports to attract investment, cut travel costs
What Canadian is asking for this? Anybody? Wow... Gross.
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Mexico is solving its housing crisis. Why aren’t we?
Most Canadians basically have their net worth in their homes and many treat their homes as their retirement plan. An economy with a solved housing crisis is an economy with a much lower competitive demand for housing, which naturally means lower housing prices, which means most voters in the country seeing their net worth go down and their retirement expectations negatively affected. So, there's a petty strong incentive to pay lip service to solving the crisis, but a very strong disincentive for actually solving it.
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No "condemnations" for the murders of 165 Iranian schoolchildren by the US though
The responses of Western leaders broadly have just been trash, not including Sanchez. Anyone can just look at what's coming out of the US and see how dangerous it is. They're literally calling it a holy war against Islam in their military, with Secretary of War who has a crusader's cross tattoo and who has said they don't care about any laws of war and will take no quarter. The president has said it's his great honor to kill Iranians, he's talking about Somalians in his own country as genetically deficient and low-IQ, he's saying he can just take Cuba and do what he wants with it, and so much more. Then there's Israel, with everything that's happened in Gaza and the West Bank and now members of government talking about taking not just Southern Lebanon, but all of Lebanon and even threatening Turkey next.
It's screamingly obvious what we're dealing with, but Western leaders provide access to their bases to support the war, provide diplomatic support, keep arms supplies flowing, and won't speak out against the obvious and obscene statements and actions.
What tf did our grandparents fight for in WW2?