It’s a common topic of conversation in the grocery store aisles and in the coffee shops.

Nobody is happy about how Trump’s America is trying to fick over our country.

Presumably they don’t realize that Christians, Jews and Muslims all pray to the same God that Moses prayed to, just in different ways.

but it gets you into a place where you CAN start to fix those.

True, but unfortunately too often that first step doesn’t get followed up on.

Homeless Canadians DO have to take it. How?

Generally with the help of the various social service agencies who normally have contact with them.

It ain’t gonna get better by lying down or bending over.

By providing no-strings housing first, you make all the other issues easier to deal with.

First, absolutely, but not in isolation.

If that person doesn’t also get some help dealing with the issues that led to their homelessness, they’re likely to end up back on the street in the future.

Ending homelessness is easy, but people also want to end hunger, and sickness, and poverty, and…

The thing that complicates solutions is that those issues often overlap and one can be the cause of some of the others.

If (as one example)someone’s addiction has led to mental health issues and then homelessness, then dealing with one of those issues in isolation isn’t going to be a long term solution for that person.

People who want to control others have been using “think of the children” as an excuse for as long as there have been people trying to control others.

raised Jewish but she is now a Quaker

Trading one religious tradition for another.

That’s a lateral move at best.

not trying to be an asshole

For someone not trying you have succeeded spectacularly well at being an asshole

If you found out the person you were dating was a criminal (according to the authorities), would you stick around?

Golly gee, it’s almost like they never really wanted to make a proper deal at all…

The brand is Loblaws, but the contents of the package could be from anywhere.

And a loophole in the labeling laws allows identifiers like “made for loblaws inc” or “imported by loblaws” without actually identifying where it was made.

They are still labeling stuff, but even then it’s not always perfectly clear. Some things are “made in canada from domestic and imported ingredients”, some are “processed in Canada”, and others are full-on “product of Canada”.

But even with that, it’s still impossible to know who owns those factories.

I just go with Peter Gzowski’s saying: “as Canadian as possible, under the circumstances”.

“Product of Canada” means the manufacturing happened in Canada and the majority of ingredients are of Canadian origin. It does not have any relevance to who owns the company.

For me , purchasing decisions happen on a sliding scale with “product of Canada, Canadian owned company” at the top of the scale, and “made in USA” at the bottom.

But between those extremes there are things like: “made in Canada by foreign owned company”, “made using Canadian ingredients”, and “made in any country that isn’t the USA” which can be acceptable choices if a better category isn’t available.

Ethical shopping sure is exhausting.

Doing the right thing is seldom the easiest path, but it is the right thing to do.

A saying I heard a while ago: taking the path of least resistance is what makes rivers run crooked.

Trump cannot force Canada to follow his preferred naming convention, however.

Trump cannot force anyone outside of the USA to respect his childish renaming bullshit.

He can’t even force Americans to play his stupid game, though I’m sure a bunch if them will happily play along.

Who is going to stop his third term?

Based on current evidence, it won’t be the American people.

If you are a citizen, they can not deny you entry.

But they can detain you at the border

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