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If the situation were reversed and Canadian Palestinians (in Canada) were being attacked on the street for the events of 7 Oct, liberals would have no problem condemning any and all violence / hatred directed at them. Anyone who failed to support that position, or who suggested it should be broadened to be more inclusive would be ridiculed and vilified in the same manner as those who suggested that "all lives matter" at the height of BLM buffoonery. Here we see people who are literally half a world away from the issue, some who have never even set foot in the region, being attacked by fools who hold them accountable for something they had nothing to do with. Look at world news on any given day, extrapolate that level of buffoonery across the board and you will quickly see that few would be safe from world events in other countries if the only reason for violence was the ethnicity of people who had no role in the events they are being attacked for. This would seem to be a pretty easy thing to condemn IMO.

A 3800% increase in 8 years. Do you not see a trend there?

I could definitely see that scenario happening. And then they will be telling us what a brilliant move it is.

https://x.com/MattBinder/status/1965146521772720139 He's drawn the outline of a child. Effin Pedophile!

Earth's Energy Imbalance More Than Doubled in Recent Decades says peer reviewed journal RESEARCH Trump is defunding climate research as a SHORT TERM service to the fossil fuel industry. The rest of us and our children WILL PAY THAT PRICE.

Major US Brands Sound Alarm Over Rising Anti-American Sentiment A number of companies, including many of the country's most quintessentially American brands, have warned that growing anti-Americanism as a result of President Donald Trump's tariffs could end up hurting their success overseas. Experts believe that the trend, if it translates into a broad-based shift in consumer behavior, could prove to be a significant headwind for the companies while taking a significant toll on the broader U.S. economy. Why It Matters Anti-Americanism has been on the rise globally, driven largely by the trade policies of the current administration that impacted countries' views as a critical threat to their exports and international trade more generally. Calls to boycott the American economy have gained traction in Canada since early this year—also sparked by Trump's "51st state" remarks—and have already impacted tourism to the U.S. and the sale of American products. These have recently spread to India as a result of the 50 percent duties placed on its goods, with lawmakers and activists urging less dependence on American multinationals and a greater emphasis on economic self-sufficiency. What To Know According to business intelligence firm Morning Consult, Trump's tariff announcements in early April coincided with a "staggering upswing" in global anti-American sentiment, which it said had already resulted in "steep drops in purchasing consideration" for some U.S. companies overseas, "suggesting that worsening views of America are rapidly taking a toll on some brands' health." In July, ahead of the reimposition of Trump's "reciprocal" tariffs, it said that "anti-Americanism" could pose a significant risk to brands given the combination of potential price impacts and "sharply negative sentiment toward the United States" on consumer shopping habits. A number of companies have noted this trend. David Gibbs, CEO of KFC and Taco Bell parent Yum Brands, told analysts in late April that the company was closely monitoring the issue and its impact on consumer behavior, but added that there had not been an observable impact on its sales. However, California-based Beyond Meat, known for its plant-based meat substitutes, said in March that it had concerns over a shift in global consumer behavior as a result of growing opposition to the U.S. In an annual report filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the company listed this as one of the "risk factors" it would be monitoring going forward. "There is no assurance that we would be able to pass on any cost increases, in full or at all, to our customers, and/or we could lose customers in countries such as Canada due to anti-American sentiment, any of which could materially affect our revenue, gross margin and results of operations," the filing read. In May, McDonald's similarly noted an increase in "anti-American sentiment" but said that there had been no change in global perceptions of the company's brand or its sales as a result. "What we have seen in our survey work is that there has been an increase in people in various markets saying that they are going to be cutting back their purchase of American brands," CEO Chris Kempczinski said. "And we've seen an uptick in anti-American sentiment—call it 8- to 10-point increase in anti-American sentiment—most pronounced in Northern Europe and Canada." This week, Kempczinski again warned that global consumers appear to be increasingly avoiding American brands as a result of negative perceptions of the country. "The aura around America has dimmed a bit," he told CNBC, adding that the company would be leaning more into its local appeal—"our locality"—rather than its "Americanness." Brown-Forman, the parent company of Jack Daniel's, recently reported a 62 percent year-over-year decline in Canadian sales in its first quarter. During a subsequent earnings call, executives blamed it on the trade dispute between Canada and the U.S., as well as the ongoing moratorium on American spirit sales across several Canadian provinces. In a regulatory filing last week, denim brand Levi's listed "rising anti-Americanism as a consequence of the Trump tariffs and governmental policies" among the risks it was facing this year. The company added that this could result in consumers "possibly shifting away from U.S. products and brands." Jill Klein, a professor of marketing at Melbourne Business School, told Newsweek that her research into "international animosity" and its effects on consumer behavior suggests that the growing tide of anti-American sentiment is "likely to have a substantial impact on U.S. companies." Usha Haley, W. Frank Barton distinguished chair in international business at Wichita State University, said that the risk was highest in "identity categories." "Brands that signal Americanness such as jeans, whiskey and tech are most exposed to substitution toward local and European options when anti-U.S. sentiment spikes," she said. What People Are Saying Alan Bradshaw, professor of marketing at Royal Holloway, University of London, told Newsweek: "Perhaps one thing that we can expect is that those brands who have heavily leveraged their American identity—think Hershey's, Coca-Cola, Levi's, Hummer, Budweiser, Nike—are now particularly exposed and we may start to see these brands move towards a different type of imagery. However, these are huge brands with well established 'Customer Based Brand Equity.' This means that they have invested huge amounts in building brand iconicity based on Americana over the decades and changing course would be very costly and not necessarily a good idea." Usha Haley of Wichita State University told Newsweek: "Consumers' backlash tends to harden into non-market barriers—such as retaliatory tariffs, local-content rules, public-procurement preferences, labeling, standards friction, data-localization and targeted inspections. "Heavily regulated, tariff-sensitive products are especially vulnerable when sentiment and policy move together." Steve H. Hanke, professor of applied economics at Johns Hopkins University and former senior economist on President Ronald Reagan's Council of Economic Advisers, told Newsweek: "It is very hard to make a sweeping statement about the bottom-line impact of rising anti-Americanism on American brands. What we do know is that for some specific American brands, the impact will be nontrivial." Takeshi Niinami, chairman and CEO of Suntory Holdings, whose brands include Jim Beam and Maker's Mark, told Bloomberg TV in April that the current tariff situation had reduced countries' "appetite" to invest in the U.S. "If this continues, I don't think [the U.S. economy will be] very attractive. So we have to find other places, other countries like India, Indonesia. So we have to have a bigger portfolio of investment." https://www.newsweek.com/us-bands-warn-anti-american-sentiment-hurting-sales-2125050?utm_source=Flipboard&utm_medium=App&utm_campaign=Partnerships

Aren't they? He says they pay above market rates. What does that mean? The market, if it's free, sets its rate as 'whatever it takes to hire someone adequate to the job'. So if they can't hire anyone, they are, by definition, not paying market rates. That's on top of the fact all these foreign workers depress market rates. Like what kind of jobs? Because the jobs he was talking about were restaurant, retail, and hotel housekeeping jobs. Are you saying they're paying that much? I doubt that. Of course, immigrants are happier to work there. They haven't got any ties to anywhere else in the country, so it's easy for them to go wherever they want. If the stores and restaurants in that area are wanted by the local people, then they will pay sufficient prices that those stores and restuarants can hire workers. Regardless of what they have to offer or how hard it is to find them. If the locals don't really feel they need such outlets, then they won't. That's how the market works.

Why do you hate women, herbie? Never been able to get a girlfriend?

So you didn't listen to a word he said. Fùck off until you do and have a clue what the discussion is about.

Clearly the things they have in common are the "wonderful secrets" 🤮

The united states benefits from warming temperature. More of the Artic will be accessible for economic development.

Figures you MAGA CULT and Trump prefer IGNORANCE to serve your fossil fuel industry MASTERS. That is until the BILL COMES DUE. Then you'll whine about whoever is in power THEN.

And a Mexican person who couldn’t afford private medical care would have to wait in line. I’m not sure why that’s being touted as a good thing. If you can afford the USA system, then by all means, go use it.

But it does. You're literally just doing it right now. And as i recall you were the same about the cbc. And just like the CBC there have been criticizms of this program for many years now. especially post covid. And SUDDENLY.... you're thinking maybe we should look at fixing it. And we all know what 'fixing it' means to the liberal govt, cosmetic changes that are reversed next week. Just as they're way over their "fixed" immigration targets. As to John, the answer is simple. Your businesses CANNOT RELY ON CHEAP FOREIGN LABOUR TO SURVIVE. You are GOING to have to make changes to make your town more attractive to live at, your employers are GOING to have to make changes to attract staff OR invest money to make the staff they have more efficient. OR attract labour from the cities up there for a time. When I was a kid I spent a summer working at the 108 lodge because they needed staff and offered me a reasonably decent deal and I thought it would be fun. They become dependent on these programs, that's not the same as saying they need them. They need them the same way that drug addicts need their drugs, but once you break that dependency it turns that they can live without them And if they can't then maybe they have to face the reality that nobody wants to live there. Creating a false economy is not the answer However I suspect that when they are forced to do so they will find solutions along with the government to make it worthwhile for people to work there. This program has created a cheap and easy solution that's kind of like a cheat code for businesses and governments. We need to do away with that and get real about canadians doing Canadian work and creating Canadian Solutions.

Overall I don't think this is too complicated, or maybe it is and I'm not smart enough to figure it out but it certainly has NOTHING to do with racism. Herb, ya listening? You need TFWs in agriculture and (no doubt) other industries I'm not familiar enough to comment on. Jobs that Canadians simply won't work at perhaps but you certainly don't need them to take jobs away from Canadian helicopter pilots. The difference between those things isn't some narrow creek that runs dry in June either...there's a large gulf between them and after years of sending individual (bogus) job ads and a copy of my resume to the Minister of Labour I've come to think the government has a hard time saying no to companies who want TFWs for reasons of their own. Which is (In most cases IMO) to save money. I'd like to see a documentary or investigative report take a deep dive into this stuff, something like W5 or some such and I'd start with the trucking industry. I have no direct evidence to suggest there are job brokers and cash kickbacks behind the scenes but it would sure answer some WTF questions I have if there were. The US has recently started asking a few of those questions after some high profile accidents... like how did you get a CDL when you're in the country illegally and can't speak english? Ya... I've been wondering that too. Incredibly though we haven't asked any questions and when someone actually does.... Herb-like critters scream racist at them. It isn't a matter of shutting it down completely or going full throttle bat shi% crazy with it either. What happened to common sense and testing outcomes against solutions and solutions against problems?

1. Yes. 2. Also yes. 3. Yes again. 4. 5. Yes 6. Yes, and I wouldn't want to do that. 7. Yes. What Nationalist and I agree on is that editorials should not be published AS scientific papers. The evidence provided above in the thread, has the publisher specifically stating that their paper is a distortion (my word) of what science papers usually do. It would be like me posting a science paper that says "Cake tastes good". But all the points I highlighted I also agree with.

No, because wokejobs aren't required to provide anything but the bullshit they spew from their overlords.

Mexican hospitals come in all varieties, very basic to high end. The high end ones charge like US hospitals.

I get the resistance to mandates and incentives, I never liked them myself. I don't get the hatred for the vehicles themselves, it's almost pathological.

Like so many others, @Gaétan invokes "God" as a tool. Its a rather transparent and lifeless effort. But hey...when ya got nothing but hatred in your soul...bullshitting about The Almighty is typical.

Exactly. Stupid is as stupid does.

You claimed science doesn't use terms like crisis. They most certainly do. No. I do not think scientific papers should include opinions. I also do not think people like that fat, failed politician Gore, should warping scientific findings. We already have the technology in place to use fossil fuels in a much "cleaner" way. Plus we have nuclear. Thus most of any "damage" that's been done over the last century and a half, is being reduced. This war on fossil fuels is a fool's errand.

Dude you're from rural alberta. If you want to be american just start walking south and when you get to the border tell them you heard Ice was recruiting.

We should put you in charge. Bubba Joe from the local watering hole can be in charge of the CDC. Could bring back bloodletting in our hospitals too.

I once heard it said that while indiana jones was a great movie, the truth is Indiana had no impact on the story at all. If he wasn't there, the germans would still have found the medalian, would have still found the ark, would still have opened it and would still have all died. Nothing he did changed anything despite all the action. Environmentalist's are the same way. Nothing they do makes anything better, technology still advaces without them and we still get cleaner energy over time, and at the end of the day we're still going to have to cope with exactly the same climate change. Nothing has changed in the slighest. IF they really cared they'd push for more breaks for research and development of new tech and make sure nobody was stupid enough to slow our economy down by trying to 'tax' climate change out of existence.

Jesus Christ condemns criminals and illegal aliens are criminals. You support criminal aliens, therefore you are opposed to Jesus and you follow Satan.

So Obama was not responsible for operational errors but Trump is? The thing is, Obama authorized the killing of an American abroad. The NK thing was a grave error by a seal team while they were behind enemy lines. It wasn't ordered. It was classified and hidden. It wasn't our proudest moment for sure. But it wasn't comparable in responsibility to what Obama did.

Trump has ended how many wars? How many did Biden let start? Your declaration of incompetence is misplaced. Biden allowed mentally ill people to run the Department of Defence. Trump allows war fighters to run the DOD. You may not like it. I don't care. This is what it takes to make the world safe. You have to give the enemy real, material consequences for their actions. Especially when what they are doing is killing Americans. It isn't pretty. But it is effective and necessary. Some of it doesn't fit neatly into ideals either. If we could have killed Hitler the day he took the office, we can all agree that would have been greatly beneficial to the world but it would have also been wildly outside of our values. Every rule has an exception. I personally trust that the Trump admin would not kill civilians and then brag about it in a press conference on TV. They are confident that this was the right move. They wouldn't be that confident without very strong proof. Maybe that proof will come to light when the intelligence resources are tapped out. For now, you can try to make your wild ass, conspiracy theory claims for political points but no one is on your side. This is a ninety/ten issue and you are on the ten side.

What gets under my skin is people like you and your attitude that BC is a problem when your end of the country get its services subsidized to a degree that we don't and doesn't done shit to get any energy to tidewater.

With the federal financed cut in Atlantic ferry fares, 1/300th the funding Atlantic ferries gets. It's a loan dumbass, not a grant. Of course it will be paid back. Maybe BC should withhold the difference between what it sends to Ottawa in taxes and what it receives in federal spending. The difference that is spent in other provinces like yours. The 50% cut to Atlantic ferry fares amounts to another $100 million subsidy from the Feds.

Nor All Gore, nor Greta Thunberg...

If the feds want changes in the ferry thing they need to put their money where their mouth is. BC taxpayers are paying for the damn things, not the RoC. You keep going on about BC ferries being a provincial responsibility to justify not subsidizing them like east coast ferries so STFUP about penalizing BC.

I found this article at the NP, TRIGGER WARNING for those that support terrorist or Palestine....It is an "opinion piece" and how these recognized inter national organizations have changed the definitions of words like famine, Genocide, to the benefit of Hamas...to support their mega propaganda machine..it also changed to benefit the lefts talking points.... Opinion: International legal standards are being watered down to demonize Israel Opinion: International legal standards are being watered down to demonize Israel

Criticizing Israel isn't a hate crime. Stabbing people and shooting at schools are. The letter doesn't say criticism is a hate crime or antisemitism

How many posters on this issue are more than 200 km from a town of 50,000 or more? I can understand someone living beside Vancouver etc being unhappy with the results of the TFW program but that’s not the reality out here. Axing it entirely is too drastic a response.

People talk about all the Indians working in fast food restaurants and retail outlets. But there's a shitload working in more skilled jobs that wind up taking jobs from and depressing the wages of Canadians. Like Canadian IT grads can't find work because all the jobs are taken by Indian temps. Like an Egyptian I saw quoted in an article earlier today, who said 93% of their country is unlivable. Everyone - a hundred million people - lives in a line along the Nile.

How in the name of thundering Jaysus can any right-thinking person say that? Russian invaded Ukraine. Ukraine is merely trying to defend itself. The bad guy here could not be clearer.

It is a peer-reviewed article. The problem is, you don't know how to find embedded links, so you missed it.

I agree. And we just had one of those. Remind me again who lost? Big time! Are you really so stupid? You don't understand the difference between denotation and connotation ? Why do you think Canadians rejected him? He sounds Trumpian. But you guys keep him on. He can blow another election for you.

The jewish community in Canada doesn't need to say shit. Anyone else in canada needs to leave their bullshit behind when they come here or get the hell out.

I dunno, it's like pulling teeth to get you support the condemnation of it. My brother, it doesn't mention anything about protests because it's not about protests. You may want to read the letter again. It only mentions acts of racism and hatred and doesn't infer protests as such, it specifically points out schools being shot at, synagogues vandalized, and the stabbing of the old Jewish lady in the grocery store as examples. I have no idea where you're getting this "legitimate protest" stuff from. If you don't think acts of real antisemitism have increased since Oct 7 you must be huffing some wild BC bud. I've never said anti-genocide or pro-Palestine protests are antisemitism are anything of the sort. I really hope you're knee deep in the bottle this weekend because you're not making much sense sometimes. I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt here.

If you went through the trouble of looking that up, why didn't you just look for facts instead of the sarcasm? There were approximately 203,028 electric vehicles (EVs) in British Columbia as of July 2025, with about 80% of these being in the Lower Mainland/Metro Vancouver region, translating to roughly 160,000-163,000 EVs in the area, though a specific, up-to-date figure for Metro Vancouver was not readily available. The number of EVs is rapidly growing; for example, the province had over 150,000 EVs as of January 2024, and the Metro Vancouver region saw EVs account for 23% of new vehicle sales in 2024.

When certain university groups failed to condemn the attack on Oct 7 in their statements and called those attacks a legitimate form of resistance then those ones are the Nazis. Not all are though. Don't underestimate how psychopathic some of these students and other pro-Palestine supporters are. Some absolutely support Hamas. I've known several progressives, even non-Muslims, who believe Oct 7 and the slaughter of innocents that day was a legit form of resistance.

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He’s said that about every world leader he meets including Xi and Putin. And Carney is a likeable guy who is known and liked by leaders around the world. But Trump certainly never said he “loved” him as you claimed. And would you prefer it if he hated him? I mean you didn’t like that he hated Trudeau. Dropping all our counter-tariffs, Dropping Supply Management, Changing Softwood lumber practices, they even reportedly complained about GST and something about “opening” our banking system but not sure there was an actual demand there. As I keep reminding you, the “strategic sector” tariffs on steel, aluminium, etc with more apparently to come are against the entire world, not Canada specifically and the other countries aren’t retaliating We are matching the tariffs levied specifically at Canada Well these are rarely made public so who knows. carney also has Harper advising him and Poillievre playing the part of Jaghmeet Singh and propping up the Liberal government in parliament so it’s strange times. Like what are you trying to claim that Carney is a far right extremist after all? That would be a pretty absurd statement. Who knows why he is not attending but in reference to your statement don’t think it’s bad when an extremist doesn’t want to associate with people he considers his political enemies.

Ontario is the real economic player in Canada, with the population, tech, industry, minerals, and even energy. Ontario is 40% of Canada’s economy. Quebec has a more diverse economy than Alberta and is hydro power rich. BC and Alberta are also resource rich. Alberta is an oil powerhouse but it’s expensive to extract tar oil, so Alberta’s fortunes rise and fall with the price of oil. Saskatchewan is a breadbasket and potash powerhouse. The territories are full of resource wealth. The Maritimes have oil and fisheries. Canada is all potential and full of wealth, but the people are coming and everyone wants a piece. Canada is getting to a size where it will have the economy of scale to do just about everything affordably in-house. It’s interesting to see Canada striking resource/trade deals right now. A sense of urgency on internal trade, infrastructure and finding new markets.

Depends on the reason they're inviting them. Nobody but a fool thinks Carney is trying to make his party a bunch of far-right fascists.