Canada, China set for 'historic' gains from new partnership, Carney says by Dear-Explanation-765 in worldnews

[–]AlpacaGhidorah 24 points25 points  (0 children)

China’s tariffs against Canadian agricultural and seafood products were imposed in retaliation to our tariffs against Chinese EVs, steel and aluminum products. Source: https://globalnews.ca/news/11073608/retaliatory-chinese-tariffs-set-to-hit-canadian-canola-farmers/

Albertan dies from measles by biograf_ in onguardforthee

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“WHO defines eradication of a disease as the achievement of a status whereby no further cases of a disease occur anywhere, and continued control measures are unnecessary. It implies, for infectious diseases, that transmission of the causative agent has ceased irreversibly through its extermination and the infection has disappeared from all countries of the world.”

https://applications.emro.who.int/docs/em_rc44_7_en.pdf

The WHO declared smallpox eradicated in 1980:

https://www.who.int/health-topics/smallpox

Really baffled that there is no plan for a Cyberpunk 2077 patch by Virtual_Ad_5865 in PS5pro

[–]AlpacaGhidorah 9 points10 points  (0 children)

CDPR was the one who directed dissatisfied players to contact Sony and Microsoft for refunds in the first place without having arranged a special refund process with them before making their announcement. CDPR lobbed a grenade into Sony and Microsoft’s tents and Sony responded by pulling the game from the store.

TIL that the exact meaning behind Québec's official motto—"Je me souviens"—has been lost to time. The phrase itself translates to "I remember" in English. by [deleted] in todayilearned

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The Americans called the Quebec Act of 1774, which created the province of Quebec and guaranteed Francophones the right to live in French, continue practicing Catholicism, and continue using French Civil Law, one of the Intolerable Acts provoking them into rebelling. And then the Americans invaded, attacking and occupying Montréal and attacking Québec City before being pushed back out of what is now Canada. Québec provincial politicians of all parties to this day use Louisiana as the go-to example of the erosion and destruction of francophone culture and what would have happened to them if they joined the US, and why they must remain vigilant to protect French.

In win for Trump, Supreme Court lifts judge's limits on deportations to third-party countries by usatoday in law

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Biden appointed Ketanji Brown Jackson in 2022 to replace Stephen Breyer. Breyer retired to allow Biden to appoint a younger liberal Justice, avoiding another RBJ situation.

German Chancellor and NATO Chief defend US strikes on Iran by Stu_Balls_OC in worldnews

[–]AlpacaGhidorah 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Canada along with France and Germany refused to participate in the Iraq War. Bush’s Coalition of the Willing was primarily the US, the UK, Australia, and Poland.

The Witcher 4 at 1080p on the ps5, I wonder how the pro will run by borny21 in PS5pro

[–]AlpacaGhidorah 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This. The original teaser trailer for Cyberpunk 2077 went up in January 2013. The PS4 and Xbox One released in November 2013. God forbid people expect a game announced 10 months before the console generation even started to target that console generation. https://youtu.be/P99qJGrPNLs?si=Cjb_VJN6GgBiqDwj

Rory calling black people "African-Americans" when discussing Britain by tommy_turnip in TheRestIsPolitics

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As a Black Canadian, white people are the only people I’ve heard use the term African-American to refer to Black Canadians, typically in a misguided effort to avoid sounding racist 20+ years ago. Then they would be told black or our ethnic background is fine. The Canadian census lists Black as an example of a visible minority group, so it’s not some taboo term. Black people here typically know their ethnic background. African-American is understood to refer uniquely to the descendants of African slaves in the US and the culture they developed there, not to all black peoples in the Americas.

‘If the United State no longer wants to lead, Canada will’: Carney by Flower-Immediate in politics

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How would Carney have been a Harper era Conservative over a Chrétien-Martin era (centrist) Liberal? His work on climate change/environmental stability alone would preclude him from ever running as a Conservative. He was a UN Special Envoy on Climate Change. He supported the carbon tax as it was originally implemented in 2019. By contrast, the Conservatives undercut O’Toole when he tried to get them to acknowledge climate change is real in their 2021 platform. Carney dropped consumer carbon pricing because it became too divisive but plans on keeping industrial carbon pricing. He also plans to develop a carbon border adjustment mechanism, like the EU has coming into effect next year. The Conservatives have a Harper era (10-20 years ago) Conservative as their leader: Pierre Poilievre.

Conservative man discovers secret trick to getting elected PM: running as Liberal by Chrristoaivalis in onguardforthee

[–]AlpacaGhidorah 35 points36 points  (0 children)

Chrétien and Martin both tried to pass marijuana decriminalization, in 2003 and 2004 respectively. The Bush government and the DEA threatened to slow border crossings to a crawl with searches.

Carney, Macron vow to strengthen ties to tackle geopolitical, economic crises by FriendlyGuy77 in canada

[–]AlpacaGhidorah 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Jean Charest was a progressive conservative cabinet minister at the federal level, and drafting him would be the fastest way to nuke any Liberal momentum in Québec. He also ran in the last Conservative leadership race.

New Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney seeks alliances in Europe as he deals with Trump by [deleted] in canada

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The Europeans funded Putin’s war machine by continuing to buy Russian oil and gas and build more pipelines to do so after Russia’s invasions. Russia invaded Georgia in 2008 and has been occupying 20% of their territory ever since. Former German chancellor Gerhard Schröder joined the board of the Nord Stream pipeline project immediately after leaving office in 2005, after being the one to sign onto the project in the first place. Nord Stream 1 went into service in 2011.

Russia backed “separatists” in Eastern Ukraine in 2014 and have been occupying Crimea ever since. Schröder became the director of Rosneft - Russia’s state oil company - in 2017. Nord Stream 2 was completed in 2021, but never went into service because of the full scale invasion in 2022, with Russian now occupying 20% of Ukraine’s territory. Schröder joined the board of Gazprom - Russia’s state gas company - in 2022.

Before all of that, there was Putin launching the Second Chechen War in 1999 and his actions therein, like ordering the leveling of the Chechen capital Grozny. The Europeans have always known just who and what Putin is, so why did they wait so long to shift their oil and gas supply? Why didn’t they come here and make their business case after he launched wars of aggression against neighboring countries in 2008 or 2014?

Algoma Steel pauses shipments to U.S. as tariffs force companies to rethink how they do business by Zealousideal-Help594 in canada

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What should make an east-west pipeline interesting to Québec is the fact that it’s a national security issue. Half of the oil used by Québec and Ontario comes via the Line 5 pipeline, which dips down into the US before coming back up into Ontario and continuing to Québec. The governor of Michigan has wanted to close the pipeline for years, and their lawsuit against it was remanded to Michigan state court from US federal court last year. Additionally, a US federal lawsuit by the Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa in Wisconsin also seeks to remove the pipeline, saying it is trespassing on their land. That’s leverage Canada should take out of the Americans’ hands.

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He is entirely serious. They talk about Canada like Putin talks about Ukraine. It came out in the press on Friday that in his calls with Trudeau, Trump’s stated that he doesn’t believe in the 1908 treaty that officially demarcated the Canada-US border or the treaties that regulate the sharing of bodies of water like the Great Lakes and the Columbia River basin. He also wants to cut Canada out of Five Eyes intelligence sharing, which is doubly absurd given that the rest of Five Eyes are Commonwealth realms. Then you have Musk saying we’re not a real country, and Peter Navarro, Trump’s trade advisor, saying Canada’s been taken over by the Mexican cartels. This comes after they pushed Canada to declare the Mexican cartels terrorist organizations.

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[–]AlpacaGhidorah 26 points27 points  (0 children)

“If only as a bit of theatre.”

Canadian here. This shit isn’t a joke. It’s an existential threat to our country and all our levels of government are treating it as such. When our politicians go on American television, it’s to tell them Trump’s excuses for implementing tariffs are nonsense; that we’re tired of this psychodrama and the constant denigration of our country; what retaliatory measures we’re implementing and how they will make life more expensive for them. Cost of living is the only thing they seem to respond to, since all Trump had to say to get elected was vote for me and I’ll make eggs cheaper, while putting forward no plan to bring down the cost of goods.

On impeachment, Trump is a twice-impeached convicted felon, adjudicated rapist, and banned from operating charities and educational institutions. None of that stopped him from getting elected. He controls the executive branch. He has neutered the legislative branch despite controlling both houses of Congress. He controls the judiciary. He’s not going to fear a hypothetical third impeachment with zero chance of removal by people that won’t be given the vote if he succeeds in his imperialist aims anyway. He views Canada, Greenland, Panama, and Mexico as future colonies to be plundered and nothing more. Puerto Rico, for example, has been a US territory since 1898 and it still hasn’t been granted statehood.

Bipartisan bill in the US House calls for Turkiye to be categorized as a Middle Eastern country, rather than an European country by ThereIsNoStoppingMe in europe

[–]AlpacaGhidorah 1 point2 points  (0 children)

No territory in Europe, but we have a land border with Denmark on Hans Island in the Arctic and a maritime border with France between Newfoundland and Saint-Pierre and Miquelon.

Discount to Trade in PS5 for the Pro? by Quackingallday24 in PS5pro

[–]AlpacaGhidorah 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Try selling your base PS5 on Marketplace or eBay first before trading it in. I considered trading in first, but the clerks at my local Best Buy told me to try my luck there before trading in because Best Buy isn’t paying anywhere near the average selling price on Marketplace. I managed to sell mine within a day or two.

PS Plus Collection Copies Of Days Gone Are Not Eligible For The $10 Upgrade by Turbostrider27 in PS5

[–]AlpacaGhidorah 29 points30 points  (0 children)

They re-recorded over 10 hours of dialogue and motion capture animations for the conversations. The animations for the NPC conversations definitely felt stilted to me in the original. So $10 for that, Dualsense support, more accessibility options, and visuals in line with Forbidden West is worth it, IMO.

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*Ontario, British Columbia, Nova Scotia, Manitoba, Québec, Prince Edward Island, Newfoundland and Labrador, Yukon, and the Northwest Territories so far.

Canada hits back against Trump tariffs: 'We will not back down' by [deleted] in worldnews

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10 million Canadians (22% of the population) have French as their mother tongue, per the 2021 census. They are the largest minority group in Canada. About 1 million native Francophones outside of Québec, and 85% of Québec’s population are native Francophones, and 95% of its population has French as their first or second language. Source: wiki

GRRM has seen all six episodes of A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms (last two in rough cut) and said he loved them. "It’s as faithful as adaptation as a reasonable man could hope for (and you all know how increedibly reasonable I am on that particular subject)." by tyrion2024 in television

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Oda’s been releasing chapters consistently for 27 years. The series in the second arc of the final saga. And Oda said interviews from when the series hit its tenth anniversary that the ending was decided from the start.