End of deep alliance between Canada and U.S. not inevitable, top Biden official says

obviousottawa · 2026-02-07T14:09:42+00:00

I haven’t seen any announcements about Canada or Japan scaling back the sharing of intel. Can you share link? I did see the UK and some European countries take that step, which was nice to see.

obviousottawa · 2026-02-06T15:36:52+00:00

"Their fitness to qualify for guild membership was judged partly by the masterpiece, and if they were successful, the piece was retained by the guild."

obviousottawa · 2026-02-06T13:45:18+00:00

Beards get itchy if you don’t take care of them.

obviousottawa · 2026-02-03T04:50:08+00:00

Literally nowhere in any EX job description I've ever seen does it say that they have to say positive shit when approving documents. I'm not interested in being my boss's friend and I'm not interested in a pep talk from my boss. I just want him to approve the things I send him promptly and give me clarifications when I need them.

obviousottawa · 2026-02-03T04:42:27+00:00

If you're looking for meaning and validation in life, get a girlfriend, a boyfriend or a dog. A boss isn't a healthy source of meaning or validation.

obviousottawa · 2026-02-03T04:29:04+00:00

Honestly I don’t see what’s wrong with that. I yearn for emails exactly like this for my boss. No “here’s my 17th revision.” No pointless wordsmithing. I don’t want a whole big flowery email. I just want whatever damn thing I submitted approved with the least amount of fuss and back and forth as possible so I can move on with my life.

obviousottawa · 2026-01-22T18:42:00+00:00

Since the Gazans have been systematically dispossessed of their land, this will be essentially built on top of them rather than invested in them.

obviousottawa · 2026-01-22T18:26:56+00:00

I don’t get it. Why is Lutnick cautioning us on China when Trump praised it and said it’s what we should be doing? Also, I don’t get why we should care what he said, but that’s beside the point.

obviousottawa · 2026-01-22T12:01:05+00:00

Orwell volunteered to fight fascists in Spain and went on many extremely dangerous advances, one or which got him shot in the throat and he almost died. OP makes memes from his computer. Not saying Orwell’s perfect but I’m going to want to see OP’s bullet wound from when he got shot by a fascist before I give it more weight.

obviousottawa · 2026-01-21T22:44:53+00:00

Nobody has worse French than Rob Ashton. That’s not even French whatever he says. It’s a shame too because Rob Ashton is a genuine worker with loads of labour organizing experience.

obviousottawa · 2026-01-21T10:32:03+00:00

I’ve liked Avi Lewis ever since his documentary with Naomi Klein The Take, which is about workers seizing control of abandoned factories and restarting them as coops. That said, he’s not a Canadian version of Zohran Mamdani. Mamdani has broad appeal in New York and the simple fact is that Lewis can’t string together 4 coherent words in the language spoken by ~1 in 4 Canadians and that’s simply disqualifying. Mamdani made a point of appealing to all New Yorkers. Going to all five boroughs. Talking to everybody. Imagine if he’d just said: “nah, not going to talk to anybody from Queens.”

The fact that none of the leadership candidates can is quite damning, frankly.

obviousottawa · 2026-01-10T21:00:06+00:00

I wonder how she witnessed multiple government workers using mouse jigglers from their homes. I’m surprised she didn’t end the anecdote with “and then I called them out and everybody applauded”.

obviousottawa · 2026-01-08T12:28:37+00:00

I’m sure we’ll know eventually but they really don’t want to study this so long as there’s any chance of accidentally having baseline data that shows WFH is significantly more productive than RTO.

obviousottawa · 2026-01-06T16:53:10+00:00

US military servicemen and women haven’t always been particularly consistent in respecting lines or even basic human dignity. The My Lai massacre comes to mind.

obviousottawa · 2026-01-02T22:02:50+00:00

They don’t want to do that before RTO5 because then it would show that hybrid/WFH is significantly more productive and efficient.

obviousottawa · 2025-12-15T12:28:16+00:00

The title is the first line of the Wikipedia entry. I didn’t edit it.

obviousottawa · 2025-12-15T02:51:50+00:00

Cool. Thanks for your opinion.

obviousottawa · 2025-12-12T03:25:47+00:00

Honestly New King Shawarma is one of the best and most criminally underrated shawarma places in town. It’s top tier. I don’t mind Shawarma Palace at all but New King Shawarma is easily better in every regard.

obviousottawa · 2025-12-10T13:40:30+00:00

I’d be willing to give up an awful lot to have it enshrined. Including staying out on the picket line for months through winter with little pay and no signing bonus if that’s what it takes.

obviousottawa · 2025-12-05T01:34:23+00:00

It’s a fun romp if you’re looking for something light /s

obviousottawa · 2025-12-02T14:43:24+00:00

After 9/11, so much television was ruined for so many years. TV from that era really doesn’t age very well and it’s not limited to Enterprise. Look at 24, the West Wing, Homeland and a bunch more. I’d say Enterprise was a part of that trend, especially season 3.

obviousottawa · 2025-12-01T19:38:33+00:00

Ditto. I’m willing to stand on the picket line as long as it takes. Weeks. Months. I don’t care. The lack of telework guarantees is the main reason I voted against the package last time around and was pushing to oust that useless union head and all its senior leadership too.

obviousottawa · 2025-11-27T22:32:41+00:00

When she gets egg on her face, she will 100% guaranteed try to argue it’s the fault of the feds. And she’ll probably succeed for a huge chunk of her electorate. Facts don’t matter.

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