The UN has expressed concerns about Canada designating the US a safe country and asked our government to stop this. I’d be surprised though, if either major party listens to them about it. :/

There are grassroots support movements and even legal assistance. You just won’t likely hear about them in establishment media (probably because they don’t expect their intended audience to be in a financial position where they might need it). Even with smaller news sources that focus on talking primarily to activists and/or the actual people affected by the issues (like Status Coup News), folks only briefly touch on it. This is where local news has an opportunity to shine (even if it usually doesn’t).

It’s up to us, since it seems more and more every day that Carney really can’t be trusted. Either outright avoid US online services or do NO financial transactions and block all ads.

*edit - Also, I wonder how long it will take Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” to properly bankrupt the US? I hope the US people can do something about him for their own sake, and ours.

Unfortunately, he would probably do well for them at this point, so I wouldn’t even cheer for him to be federal party leader.

What ad hominem argument? I directly responded to the substance of your comment (specifically the premise that we start with immigration even though your comment contained an acknowledgement that was not the cause of Canada’s economic troubles). I said nothing about you directly or your motivations. If you’re going to ignore relevant criticism, there’s no point continuing this conversation.

So you realize the problem didn’t start with immigration, yet that’s where you put your focus? The outcry should be against policies that promote exploitation of workers, regardless of where they are from. That by itself would stop any excess immigration equitably, without dehumanizing anyone by going back on our word and treating them like garbage.

This country is literally made up of immigrants, along with the indigenous peoples of the land. That is reality.

It’s definitely speculation on my part (and I almost made a joke about that conspiracy theories in my comment), but it didn’t occur to me anyone might try to invite hostilities. I was especially surprised they couldn’t even get a response when contacting Canadian officials. It would be easy for them to just communicate some kind of simple response.

“The [Canadians] have been contacting the Canadian embassy in Cairo with no answer whatsoever. Our government is completely ignoring us.”

Passports confiscated, protesters told to board buses

Canadian demonstrators at the checkpoint were told by authorities to board buses in order to retrieve their passports, without any other details, according to Harker.

What difference is it to the Egyptian government if 80-odd Canadians are there? Can’t help suspecting this is a favour to our government (or elements within it).

I think in this case it’s more likely because most are profiting from being landlords (or their spouses are).

Well you see, she’s really talking about millionaire and billionaire comforts in Canada as compared to rich people in other parts of the world. They have it so, so much worse here, it’s downright barbaric! Hopefully that clears things up.
/s

Too many good points here to decide what to even quote. The ultimate result of not coming to terms with missing pillars in our health care and social services.

Well, I suppose there’s also the small hope that even if we lose the NDP, the Green Party could find itself and welcome everyone that’s getting disenfranchised into their ranks, finally achieving Official Party status. I realize it’s an out-there suggestion, but it’s seeming more and more like anything is possible in the next few years (and whatever happens in that time will probably decide a lot about our future).

Yup, Mark Carney marketed himself in the traditional Liberal way, by copying others’ most popular policies like a larger retailer proactively lowering prices to neutralize upstart competition. Now that they’ve essentially validated that viewpoint, if they even seem to consider reversing the policy later, they give the CPC ammunition. Both Carney and Freeland campaigned on this even though they must know damn well taxing the rich is the only certain way to ensure the long term health of society and the economy.

But the LPC is what the CPC used to be now. The CPC is much closer to the MAGA-esque PPC than they are to their traditional role. The NDP is apparently in a battle between LPC-ish establishment types at the top and more traditional NDP members at the grassroots. If the NDP gets absorbed into the LPC in future, that’ll be it. Those grassroots voices will be silenced, and the left will be just as gone from Canadian politics as it is in the United States.

if any country is going to upstage the event, it will likely be Japan, whose preferred assassination method is wacky game shows.

Maybe it’s slightly obscure, but first thing that came to mind was that this is an

reference. I never got into Japanese game shows though, so I guess there’s a more generic reference I’m missing.

Last I heard, at the time he was fired, he was still trying to use DOGE to extort aid-dependent countries into signing up for Starlink. Seems to me he had a lot more damage he was planning to do.

It’s worse than a simple joke to make fun of though, unfortunately. Their leaders just go ahead and announce themselves as literal “apostles.” And they mean it, that’s not in a figurative sense. They’re like the answer to a question no one asked about what it would be like if instead of one charismatic cult leader, you had a collection of megalomaniacs who want to take over the world. It should be a designated terrorist group.

And immediately this worst case scenario comes to mind: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGjj7wDYaiI
*edit to add:
vid title: “I Live 400 Yards From Mark Zuckerberg’s Massive Data Center”
length: 13:33

It works for politicians who do the usual sleight-of-hand around “fiscal responsibility,” and for the eventual shareholders.

Comfy, smooth, and fast like the shinkansen. 🤩