can absolutely be a super power, our landmass, resources and technical know-how can allow us to prosper and lead on the global stage

I mean, sure we “can”, just like many others can like Argentina or Norway… but this superpower thing is a bit tired. Let’s just worry about not being pushed around instead of aiming for pushing others around - because that’s what being a superpower means, really.

Those are all important things, but CBC shouldn’t be sacrificed for it

A big hearty thank you to everyone who dedicated hours of their weekend lining up for voting.

I agree and wish the same but…

Make it easier for whole companies to move and bring their employees

Any sort of incentive to facilitate immigration right now is radioactive, no matter how beneficial

She sells toxic positivity, she can’t admit that the people involved in what she went through are fucked up

Selling “healthy” water (named “holy water” lol) is evidence that she’s a grifter. That she’s MAGA you can tell by her follows

She definitely is maple MAGA, you can tell by her follows on Instagram. There’s a link in the previous post of this story

Edit: oh someone already found it and added to another comment on this post

→ proportional representation mitigates voter apathy and also greatly mitigates polarization and strategic voting

Unfortunately Canada still imports red scare, no tariffs on that one

Yes, you will be welcomed by the people. Being welcomed by the job market is a whole another story, though one that you being American isn’t really getting in your way.

There’s nothing gross about celebrating local artists

Seizing on how? This smells like alarmist bullshit to fuel defense arguments for the USA to make more demands like needing to take Greenland and more defense spending from Canada.

Russia is busy twisting the US’ arm on Ukraine negotiations and China is more interested in filling the gap left by the USA meltdown as a power broker in the global stage, their threat is more like election interference than military. Our biggest territorial threat right now is the fucking USA, the country that half the population might eat up this headline as just cause for threatening allies sovereignty.

The Russian leader has backed Mr Trump’s annexation of Greenland, implying the president’s dreams of Arctic expansion are a mirror of his own claims on Ukraine. Moscow could soon work with Washington on joint projects in the region, said his aides, raising the prospect of a great power carve-up.

This is the fucking threat, and it comes from the other border, not the Arctic. Canada might be the next Poland if that orange bastard continues this bizarre trend. Or maybe just like Ukraine…

OP already answered with the edit but the short answer is that most people are not paying that out of pocket

And I want to live in Vancouver because I love my lifestyle here :-)

I’m a productive SWE at a big tech firm and I’m looking pretty seriously at offices in Canada.

Come. We need more progressives in technology. You might feel the pay cut but it’s so worth imo

security clearance would legally prevent him from sharing privileged information If he became privy to it. It’s not a good tactic of opposition to be silenced by the people you’re opposing.

So it’s better for him to not have the information, compared to having information but not being allowed to disclose it?

Or do you mean that he is having access to privileged information and he is disclosing it even though he doesn’t have permission to it?

woah

If you’re studying fascism, wouldn’t you want to be where the fascism is?

He is. Fascism is growing on planet earth

the winters are very survivable

sounds very attractive lol selling 1/4 of the year as “survivable”

One guy in my cohort died in a firefight with ICE

what

But how is fleeing the country not “giving up before you fight”?

Trying to seriously answer… he’s a researcher that studies fascism, so his most effective means of fighting is to continue his work. He’s a more valuable fighter as a researcher than he is as a guy on picket lines. If he continues his research, it’s a net gain for everyone - specially if he continues advocating, like he is already doing by talking about this with media.

He praised other faculty at Yale for standing up against the attacks on their profession and said he wished he could stay and fight with them.

“I don’t see it as fleeing at all,” he said. “I see it as joining Canada, which is a target of Trump, just like Yale is a target of Trump.”