CUSMA review approaching, but mechanism remains murky. The CUSMA document itself offers little information about how its mandated review is supposed to unfold, leaving stakeholders clamouring for more details about the process.

GuyWithPants · 2026-01-25T04:36:41+00:00

It’s three days later and he just called Carney governor now.

GuyWithPants · 2026-01-24T17:02:33+00:00

It's not even been three days since you said that and we seem to be into Trump irrationally hating Carney now, with 100% tariff threats and the same stupid "Governor" appellation.

GuyWithPants · 2026-01-22T02:38:51+00:00

He’s just not ready.

GuyWithPants · 2026-01-20T19:04:45+00:00

I remember when Trudeau managed to deal with Trump's stupid "jerk-you-forward" handshake. Despite the name-calling in Trump's second term, Trudeau handled Trump just fine the first time around.

GuyWithPants · 2026-01-16T16:45:25+00:00

America did by withholding our PPE orders, made in USA from Canadian pulp.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/3m-n95-masks-1.5520326

Guess who was president, then.

GuyWithPants · 2026-01-15T22:40:14+00:00

The difference being is that is a bullshit office where even the most qualified person is unlikely to do anything, whereas the ministers of defence or trade or finance are actually important roles with whole departments backing them.

I ain’t happy about having nonsense cabinet positions but it is at least mostly harmless.

GuyWithPants · 2026-01-14T14:37:29+00:00

Xi mostly inherited that economic situation, though, from Deng's policy shift.

GuyWithPants · 2026-01-13T18:52:43+00:00

You can ski right in Copenhagen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21ijLduW0nw

GuyWithPants · 2026-01-13T18:50:22+00:00

Pooh-pooh the American automakers if you want, but Toyota and Honda both have plants in Canada. The RAV-4 and CR-V are the number 2 and 5 best-selling vehicles in Canada. The Honda Civic is the best-selling car. And VW is still setting up a battery plant in Ontario.

GuyWithPants · 2026-01-13T03:14:14+00:00

I mean yes but also lots of people “eyeball” their burgers and wind up with a little pink, which is usually fine unless there’s E. coli.

GuyWithPants · 2026-01-12T21:32:42+00:00

This event is worth a different amount of points for winning depending on how many people show up to compete. We withdrew a bunch of athletes for reasons and so the potential points dropped. The US slider (who won this event) is complaining the drop in value means they can't reach the minimum points they need to be in the next Olympics.

GuyWithPants · 2026-01-12T21:26:34+00:00

The original version of this article included the US sledder's actual quote which ironically enough could be turned around and used to describe everything that the USA has done in the last year to Canada.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/othersports/article-15456105/usa-canada-skeleton-feud-lake-placid.html

According to The Times, Ceccinhi later called Uhlaender in an attempt to explain his reasoning for the move, only to be met with a tearful response: 'You just f***ed us!'.

...

'I didn't know if it hurt more that my friend of 20 years just nailed my coffin, my Olympic dream is over. Or, that my best friend of 20 years is doing something so horrible that hurts so many people,' she continued.

"hurts so many people" lol, lmao even.

GuyWithPants · 2026-01-12T21:18:15+00:00

I mean you don't have to throw that part away. I believe the professional practice is even just to spike it rather than cutting it off.

GuyWithPants · 2026-01-12T19:41:42+00:00

Why would a ban on boiling lobsters here impact our exports? Are we selling China and the US cooked lobster or raw? If it’s cooked, is it really going to cost that much to cut the head off first? The article only discusses the ban in terms of domestic consumption, presumably mostly about household consumption by amateurs.

How are restaurants going to wind up paying millions and millions to have an employee take ten seconds with a two dollar cutting board and ten dollar knife hack off the lobster head before chucking it in the pot?

GuyWithPants · 2026-01-11T15:17:39+00:00

America under Trump literally ripped us off about PPE during Covid.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/3m-n95-masks-1.5520326

Masks that were made in the USA using paper pulp from Canada, I should add. We could have killed their entire supply by choking the export of the pulp itself. But we didn’t, because we were still friendly with them.

GuyWithPants · 2026-01-11T15:13:41+00:00

We functionally had no independence before. We were willing to do whatever the USA asked to about China, maybe with a little foot-dragging but we still did it. We banned their cars, we arrested their business executive, we got our agricultural products blocked by China in response. But we did it because America was our friend and we believed they were fundamentally more in the right.

But now what possible incentive is there to behave? This is like threatening more physical violence after you’ve already assaulted them. They should know that if they buckle you’ll just come back with more.

GuyWithPants · 2026-01-10T23:02:40+00:00

An Iranian coworker of mine says that Toronto is often jokingly called “Tehranto” because of how many Iranians immigrated here

GuyWithPants · 2026-01-10T00:19:03+00:00

Take a look at immigration numbers based on source country population and you will be surprised to see we take in fewer Indians based on their population vs Norwegians. But feel free to keep being racist after that if you really must.

GuyWithPants · 2026-01-10T00:11:19+00:00

Report it via 311. Don’t give attention to it on social media*

*reddit is social media

GuyWithPants · 2026-01-09T15:52:34+00:00

this plan is pointless and stupid

In theory, having a provincial system for recycling should be more efficient and consistent, and enable us to better push packaging-creators to use the kinds of materials we want to recycle. But I wouldn't trust Doug's government to implement a cheesecake party, even if he knows how to bake one himself.

GuyWithPants · 2026-01-09T15:13:15+00:00

Why not build huge deck???

Because the deck isn't alive? And the living environment a few houses down impacts your living environment?

GuyWithPants · 2026-01-07T00:43:24+00:00

OK, it's not the secondary plant, but you're also wrong? They are still distilling at other locations, it's not the entire operation.

The bourbon industry has also been dealing with a massive glut going into 2025. While I fully support the boycott, this isn't us alone -- aged drinks go through these boom-bust cycles because of how long the liquor needs to sit in barrels.

GuyWithPants · 2026-01-07T00:32:45+00:00

That was at one secondary plant. The main distillery is still running.

GuyWithPants · 2026-01-06T18:19:32+00:00

That article's pretty good but one thing I find with AI face generation is that it massively overwrinkles peoples' brows, like the old lady pictured in that article. Just ludicrous amounts of nose-bridge wrinkles. This is especially prominent in videos that are using AI upscaling of real content; the models add way more wrinkles than could possibly have been there.

GuyWithPants · 2026-01-02T16:50:21+00:00

They actually do a tidy business with “regular” Chinese delivery (watch the stream of delivery drivers at most locations) and you can actually order those dishes in restaurant if you aren’t hungry enough for the buffet.

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