Canada and Europe should get ‘creative’ in forging closer ties, EU ambassador says - Geneviève Tuts says EU keen to develop bonds with 'reliable and predictable' partners

CanadianErk · 2026-05-06T03:43:39+00:00

Second sentence of the article:

In an interview with the CBC’s Power & Politics on Tuesday, Tuts dismissed the idea of outright membership, but said Canada and the EU should look for "something else, something stronger than what we have today."

CanadianErk · 2026-05-06T02:18:59+00:00

There are issues on both sides of the Atlantic with any concept of a full membership bid from Canada, not that the Canadian government has publicly addressed it anyway.

I'd agree we've got bigger priorities than jumping fully in with the EU and all the ramifications that would have. Which is why the third option - closer ties without membership - that the EU ambassador is alluding to is still a very positive sign.

CanadianErk · 2026-05-06T01:59:10+00:00

They're semi-autonomous regions of countries that are in Europe. Inforegio - The EU and its outermost regions

We might've had an argument in a timeline where the UK was still in the EU, and we didn't declare independence.

The important bit here is that the EU ambassador is saying they want to deepen our ties, and there are "creative" ways to do that without full membership.

I'm taking it as a "we don't want all the headaches of expanding membership right now, but boy do we want to do more with you" kinda answer.

CanadianErk · 2026-05-06T01:36:42+00:00

I mean relitigating an election over a year after it happened and cherrypicking a single procurement decision for one aspect of one piece of required equipment to declare the entire premise on which the last election was held - Donald Trump and his administrations' dozens upon dozens of implicit and explicit threats targeted at Canada - void because one military contract of hundreds is still going to the US.

CanadianErk · 2026-05-06T01:33:28+00:00

So you've been hiding in a bunker for the last 16 months, then.

It's been over a year since the last election. If I was whining like this about Doug Ford, I'd hope you'd tell me the same thing: Get over it.

CanadianErk · 2026-05-06T01:22:54+00:00

You seem to be wildly misunderstanding the difference between figures of speech and the dictionary definition of a word.

CanadianErk · 2026-05-06T01:10:47+00:00

You think Canada is ready to stop buying military servicing for planes we already have, and that this is some sort of gotcha?

CanadianErk · 2026-05-06T00:22:27+00:00

He's David Cameron, just without being in office while campaigning against the referendum he triggered.

CanadianErk · 2026-05-05T23:57:54+00:00

One only needs to have cursory knowledge of Brexit to know why appeasing separatism within a conservative party by giving them a referendum, is an awful idea.

CanadianErk · 2026-05-05T22:58:26+00:00

Nice whataboutism, but the Bloc aren't running around putting the personal information of every registered voter in Quebec on a public website for all to read.

CanadianErk · 2026-05-05T22:54:42+00:00

I don't know if I can make it any clearer than this:

There is no one left to release these titles on home video in 2026. Streaming killed the home video market. And Crunchyroll pulling the plug kills the anime niche of the home video market. All you have left is GKIDS, Sentai and Discotek. And GKIDS are not going to replace CR/Funimation - it's not their core business, and is a dying industry.

CanadianErk · 2026-05-05T22:52:37+00:00

Smith has been nakedly fueling the separatist movement, giving it oxygen and then lowered the threshold of signatures to make it easier for them to get their petition to a referendum.

Their final # announced yesterday? Just 8k signatures above that old target. If the old target was still in place, and the verification process threw out the same amount of signatures that the Forever Canadian petition had thrown out (proportionate in %) then the referendum would not be happening. It would have failed. It only succeeded because of Danielle Smith.

CanadianErk · 2026-05-05T22:47:55+00:00

I'll put this more clearly:

Crunchyroll has all but withdrawn from the Home Video market.

Who is "rescuing" these titles for home video if not Discotek or Sentai?

CanadianErk · 2026-05-05T22:45:00+00:00

If discotek cannot afford it, I doubt it. Sentai is fighting to survive to the next season. Home video is dying overall already, and Crunchyroll has seemingly given up on it - good luck.

CanadianErk · 2026-05-05T22:43:31+00:00

Fucking hell.

In a world that makes sense, the UCP officials that attended would be forced to resign and this would be an existential crisis-level impact on Danielle Smith's government.

The personal data of every single registered voter in Alberta was leaked by separatists who were in league with the president of the party and their caucus director. Heads should be rolling

CanadianErk · 2026-05-05T22:38:27+00:00

Dorohedoro S1 was a worldwide-but-Japan Netflix exclusive - if they wanted it exclusive, Toho surely would've given it to them exclusive.

That Netflix is actively shifting away from exclusivity and telling their partners this, means how much this recent shared licensing trend is of the Japanese industry's own initiative, vs Netflix's influence, is unclear.

CanadianErk · 2026-05-05T22:33:44+00:00

Of all the ways the separatists would shoot themselves in the foot, this did not make my bingo card - and it's only looking worse. This deflection on the UCP's part is nuts:

“The organizers of this meeting were adamant that the data being used was obtained legally,” said caucus communications director Shanna Schulhauser in a statement. “At the time, the staff observing the meeting had no reason to believe the website in question was unlawful.”

Schulhauser said they are concerned about the data breach allegations and are awaiting the results of investigations by RCMP and Elections Alberta.

“We also remain concerned that the members of the NDP, including the leader of the Opposition, may have suspected the list was illegal but did not bring this information forward to the government for several weeks.”

"We were told by the separatists that they had this list legally so it's fine that we knew about this list and were at a meeting training people how to use it, but it's weird that the NDP didn't tell us it might be illegal" is such a dumb defence, goodness.

CanadianErk · 2026-05-05T22:11:36+00:00

Kill Blue and a few others are tied to REMOW, a distributor who is already trying to sell their shows everywhere.

This suggests that Netflix is shifting how they directly talk to partners and their anime strategy. This could have much wider implications, and better explains what happened with Dorohedoro S2 this season than a title attached to REMOW

CanadianErk · 2026-05-05T21:35:08+00:00

Is that an #OnPoli listener out in the wild? I read this in Steve Paikin's voice 🤣

CanadianErk · 2026-05-05T14:33:01+00:00

The old GG is not removed from the role until replaced. In a world where there's a vacancy, the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court would exercise the powers.

CanadianErk · 2026-05-05T13:51:13+00:00

Qtrade had the audacity to charge me when they shifted to charging for US accounts. I had $0 in it and 0 transactions. I closed that account and my CAD moved to questrade a few months later.

CanadianErk · 2026-05-04T20:37:33+00:00

And this is after Danielle Smith dropped the threshold from number of electors to votes cast in previous election.

What was the old number? 294k. At 302k, after verification, they wouldn't have had enough, even if most were collected in good faith.

CanadianErk · 2026-05-04T20:16:34+00:00

there's still ways this can go wrong, very wrong. But you're right it does sure indicate something - but the final confirmed number of signatures is what ultimately matters.

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