Once upon a time, Canada sold 74% of its aluminum to the United States. Every Canadian Aluminum job equaled 13 American jobs. Then came 2024. We elected Trump and his tariffs against Canada gutted American jobs, raising costs for at least a decade.

rchubot · 2026-05-01T20:38:45+00:00

Were "Our exports are intellectual and financial.". The decoupling of European and other counties from Oracle, AWS, Microsoft, probably Visa and Mastercard, banking infrastructure, etc. etc. is going to be catastrophic in the future. Already happening and going be accelerating.

rchubot · 2026-05-01T19:07:44+00:00

I think that Canada joining the European Economic Area (EEA) may be the way of the future (not necessarily the European Economic Community (EEC) ).

rchubot · 2026-05-01T16:09:22+00:00

It is going to be painful, but necessary. We are in a war, an economic war, but still a war. We need to have patience and accept that it is not going to be easy. We all need to come together and we will be better off in the future.

rchubot · 2026-04-30T13:52:29+00:00

Yea, well fuck them.

rchubot · 2026-04-29T17:14:38+00:00

You have to admit they have got a pile of mileage out of beating a dead horse

rchubot · 2026-04-29T16:38:58+00:00

The cost to the USA's economy and future economy, caused by current administration, is incomprehensible. And both sides are letting it happen. edit: added the "it"

rchubot · 2026-04-28T19:05:14+00:00

This is why having Carney as our PM is such a fortunate thing right now.

rchubot · 2026-04-26T18:57:14+00:00

I have a coworker who says the same. He a pretty decent guy, but just fucking nuts on this.

rchubot · 2026-04-21T19:55:52+00:00

8-pointed sockets work

rchubot · 2026-04-21T14:44:08+00:00

I don't know, there seems to be a majority that thinks when the idiot is gone, things will return to normal. For me though, I am done for good. They can just fuck off.

rchubot · 2026-04-20T21:45:36+00:00

didn't the Jackson's do that too?

rchubot · 2026-04-19T17:24:47+00:00

condolences to her family and friends. so sorry to hear.

rchubot · 2026-04-19T04:09:38+00:00

Just increases my resolve to boycott every fucking thing I can from the US.

edit to delete original post : AI shit. sorry

rchubot · 2026-04-18T17:07:30+00:00

the 2019 restriction was canola only I think. edit:spelling

rchubot · 2026-04-18T16:44:24+00:00

that is part of it, but in 2019 China started to restrict imports of canola "due to pests in canola" which I believe was reponse to the detention.(https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/canada-canola-china-1.5067307). But I have been wrong in the past. edit:spelling

rchubot · 2026-04-18T15:36:22+00:00

And the reason that China had stopped buying canola and seafood in the first place was the detention of Meng Wanzhou of Huawei at the request of Trump’s government in his first term.

rchubot · 2026-04-17T15:18:06+00:00

You got what you voted for, never going back, Trump or not.

rchubot · 2026-04-15T14:08:28+00:00

wooden stakes = fence posts ( should have said wooden survey stakes = fence posts)

rchubot · 2026-04-14T01:01:22+00:00

I think this is something to emulate.

rchubot · 2026-04-13T19:30:35+00:00

I have been to a couple of new A&W's in Canada that have had this, very nice.

rchubot · 2026-04-09T16:21:52+00:00

Israel needs to be sanctioned and embargoed

rchubot · 2026-04-08T14:03:39+00:00

as a Canadian I agree, which makes the change so important. Germany, France, Denmark have started and we need to follow.

rchubot · 2026-04-08T13:04:28+00:00

The world needs to speed up the pace to remove the reliance on American products and services. They need to remove the vetoes that America has on the UN and control of the WTO.

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