🇨🇦 BC
Don’t be so quick to trust anything Tump says is truthful. Snippet from this CBC news article about it:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/trump-gordie-howe-bridge-9.7081924
Windsor Mayor Drew Dilkens says parts of Trump’s post are factually incorrect, as U.S. steel was used in the construction from the Michigan side of the river.
“It’s just insane,” Dilkens told CBC Power & Politics host David Cochrane on Monday evening.
You can read the post in question without having to go to truthsocial.com at:
https://trumpstruth.org/statuses/36617
This is an insane word salad:
As everyone knows, the Country of Canada has treated the United States very unfairly for decades. Now, things are turning around for the U.S.A., and FAST! But imagine, Canada is building a massive bridge between Ontario and Michigan. They own both the Canada and the United States side and, of course, built it with virtually no U.S. content. President Barack Hussein Obama stupidly gave them a waiver so they could get around the BUY AMERICAN Act, and not use any American products, including our Steel. Now, the Canadian Government expects me, as President of the United States, to PERMIT them to just “take advantage of America!” What does the United States of America get — Absolutely NOTHING! Ontario won’t even put U.S. spirits, beverages, and other alcoholic products, on their shelves, they are absolutely prohibited from doing so and now, on top of everything else, Prime Minister Carney wants to make a deal with China — which will eat Canada alive. We’ll just get the leftovers! I don’t think so. The first thing China will do is terminate ALL Ice Hockey being played in Canada, and permanently eliminate The Stanley Cup. The Tariffs Canada charges us for our Dairy products have, for many years, been unacceptable, putting our Farmers at great financial risk. I will not allow this bridge to open until the United States is fully compensated for everything we have given them, and also, importantly, Canada treats the United States with the Fairness and Respect that we deserve. We will start negotiations, IMMEDIATELY. With all that we have given them, we should own, perhaps, at least one half of this asset. The revenues generated because of the U.S. Market will be astronomical. Thank you for your attention to this matter!
PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP
The CBC is sane-washing this word salad post:
https://trumpstruth.org/statuses/36617
As everyone knows, the Country of Canada has treated the United States very unfairly for decades. Now, things are turning around for the U.S.A., and FAST! But imagine, Canada is building a massive bridge between Ontario and Michigan. They own both the Canada and the United States side and, of course, built it with virtually no U.S. content. President Barack Hussein Obama stupidly gave them a waiver so they could get around the BUY AMERICAN Act, and not use any American products, including our Steel. Now, the Canadian Government expects me, as President of the United States, to PERMIT them to just “take advantage of America!” What does the United States of America get — Absolutely NOTHING! Ontario won’t even put U.S. spirits, beverages, and other alcoholic products, on their shelves, they are absolutely prohibited from doing so and now, on top of everything else, Prime Minister Carney wants to make a deal with China — which will eat Canada alive. We’ll just get the leftovers! I don’t think so. The first thing China will do is terminate ALL Ice Hockey being played in Canada, and permanently eliminate The Stanley Cup. The Tariffs Canada charges us for our Dairy products have, for many years, been unacceptable, putting our Farmers at great financial risk. I will not allow this bridge to open until the United States is fully compensated for everything we have given them, and also, importantly, Canada treats the United States with the Fairness and Respect that we deserve. We will start negotiations, IMMEDIATELY. With all that we have given them, we should own, perhaps, at least one half of this asset. The revenues generated because of the U.S. Market will be astronomical. Thank you for your attention to this matter!
PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP
He thinks Canadians are so concerned about the threat that China has for “ICE Hockey” that we must surrender to his demands!?
Ah yes, the Davos Elite, the usual conspiracy scapegoats.
The same group that is organizing the “You will Own Nothing” plot and force you to eat bugs and be locked up in your 15 minute prison.
Lots of topics are brought up at the WEF. Even Trump’s word salad of a “speech” got polite applause from those who stayed to the end but I doubt the Davos Elite agreed with his message that the USA needs full ownership of Greenland and Europe can’t function without the USA.
Can someone define the differences/commonalities between the Davos Elite and the Laurentian Elite? Is Trudeau the common factor? It’s hard for me to keep up with the conspiracy villains.
Freshly re-approved CPC leader Pierre Poilievre will protect Canada from the globalist WEF elites:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/poilievre-world-economic-forum-rhetoric-1.6935294
There was a recent study done by the University of Cambridge which analyzed the black market for fake accounts across various platforms in multiple countries. They found there was a correlation with the price of these accounts and ease/difficulty in setting up a SIM farm for that country.
Snippets from https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/price-bot-army-global-index
“One SIM card can be used for hundreds of different platforms,” said Dek. “Vendors recoup SIM costs by selling high-demand verifications for apps like Facebook and Telegram, then profit from the long tail of other platforms.”
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A new analysis using twelve months of COTSI data, published in the journal Science, shows that verifying fake accounts for use in the US and UK is almost as cheap as in Russia, while Japan and Australia have high prices due to SIM costs and photo ID rules.
So the likely outcome of this Korean effort will be to increase the costs for fake accounts but not to entirely eliminate them. With the extra risk of another place for sensitive data to be leaked.
The name prometheus is already in use by an open source monitoring project:
They are both in the computer field so there is some chance for confusion. Especially if the Prometheus monitoring project has some AI capabilities then that would strengthen the case for a trademark naming conflict.
Apple Inc, the computer company, had to settle and pay Apple Corps (the Beatles record label) money to settle trademark rights for the Apple name when Apple got into music business:
Time will tell. The ad campaign and Trump’s reaction to it may play a role in the start of a shift on Republican unity in the States.
From https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/29/politics/canada-tariffs-senate-vote-trump where some Republican Senators voted with Democrats to end tariffs on Canada:
Sen. Tim Kaine, one of the Democratic co-sponsors of the Canada tariff resolution, said Tuesday that the president’s use of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act was not appropriate. The administration initially argued that fentanyl flowing from Canada into the US was the inciting emergency, and the tariffs were increased last week after the Ontario Premier ran an anti-tariff advertisement invoking quotes from former President Ronald Reagan.
“It is ridiculous to say that fentanyl is an emergency with respect to Canada, and it’s a pretext that’s just used being used to pour more and more tariffs onto Canada,” said Kaine. “And why don’t we pour gasoline on the fire? If they run an ad we don’t like, we’ll increase the tariffs by 10%.”
The ad campaign had an effect so it’s reasonable to pause it for now depending how negotiations go.
Doug Ford and Ontario are not alone. BC and Manitoba’s Premiers are publicly supporting this ad campaign. Here’s a funny video from Manitoba’s Premier Wab Kinew about it:
https://xcancel.com/WabKinew/status/1981753253055361219
There is also an upcoming digital ad campaign soon to be launched by BC focused on lumber tariffs:
https://vancouver.citynews.ca/2025/10/24/bc-digital-campaign-american-audience/
This article is well written and provides detailed connections between “Freedom Convoy” protesters, Alberta Separatists and other disgruntled people/organizations. A few highlights from the article:
Bruce Pardy, the executive director for an organization called Rights Probe
“In order to really turn the page here to become not just an independent country, but a new and free country, Alberta has to ditch the things that are Canadian that exist in Alberta right now,” Pardy said. “Let’s just list some. A Westminster system of government. A Crown. Single-payer public health-care system, a managerial state and Aboriginal rights, you have to get rid of all of these things. And of all those things, perhaps the elephant in the room is Aboriginal rights.”
Pardy is the executive director of Rights Probe, and the sole staffer listed with the organization, which warns of “the end of Western liberal civilization” on its website. Pardy is also a senior fellow at the Fraser Institute, a conservative think tank.
He has created a video paired with California Governor Gavin Newsome making a friendly wager on the Dodgers/Blue Jays series with both together taking shots against Tariffs:
https://xcancel.com/fordnation/status/1981843665669750995
Cross posted to https://lemmy.ca/c/fuckcars
Doug Ford and his supporters talk about “the war on cars”. So on one side of this war we have cars. Who’s on the other side of this war? I think it’s a war between cars and people and unfortunately Doug is fighting on the cars side against people.
BC Premier David Eby is preparing a digital ad campaign stating exactly that. Canadian lumber has higher tarrifs than Russian lumber imported into the USA:
https://vancouver.citynews.ca/2025/10/24/bc-digital-campaign-american-audience/
A lot has happened today after Trump’s tirade. Ontario’s Premier Doug Ford announced he would be suspending this Ad Campaign after consulting with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney:
Manitoba’s Premier Wab Kinew has a short video in the same style as the ad where he supports this Ontario Ad Campaign. It’s a well done quick response:
https://xcancel.com/WabKinew/status/1981753253055361219
I think the Ontario Ad is very well done and I’m glad to see a NDP Premier supporting a Conservative Premier on this and a Conservative Premier publicly supporting a Liberal Prime Minister. Canada is uniting and Trump is unhappy.
A term for that is underemployment
Statistics Canada collects data about this under the category of “Supplementary unemployment rate”: https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1/en/tv.action?pid=1410007801
Their categories of underemployment include:
I had a company I was doing business with reject a valid email address of mine because it contained a “.” character in it. I got an error message about this being invalid email address to use. My “first.last@emailprovider.com” address had no problems sending/receiving emails with anyone else.
There should be some simplified standard way to identify what combination of email configuration is/isn’t supported by companies and email providers. This can also future proof against future changes in email configuration changing over time due to the ongoing fight against spam.