Canada Catch-All | Trump 51st State “plan”

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Tarheeljoe said:
I will just put this here as it sort of ties in. No words.

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Perfectly normal and rational behavior from our current presidential administration. And as usual our resident bosiders and Trumpers are nowhere to be seen. It's insanity like this that has led me to disregard anything else they say - anyone who supports this is beyond help or reason.
 
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Menaced by Trump, Canada Prepares to Join E.U. Military Industry Buildup

Canada’s draft deal to participate in Europe’s defense industry will bring contracts to Canadian manufacturers and help lessen dependence on the United States.
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Canada is in advanced talks with the European Union to join the bloc’s new project to expand its military industry, a move that would allow Canada to be part of building European fighter jets and other military equipment at its own industrial facilities.

The budding defense cooperation between Canada and the European Union, which is racing to shore up its industry to lower reliance on the United States, would boost Canada’s military manufacturers and offer the country a new market at a time when its relationship with the United States has become frayed.

Shaken by a crisis in the two nations’ longstanding alliance since President Trump’s election, Canada has started moving closer to Europe. The military industry collaboration with the European Union highlights how traditional U.S. allies are deepening their ties without U.S. participation to insulate themselves from Mr. Trump’s unpredictable moves.

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That program is meant to prioritize European-made products, with 65 percent of component costs coming either from within the bloc or from partners that have signed a specific type of deal with it. Under the current talks, Canada would help supply the additional 35 percent and could go further if it brokered an additional agreement to participate even more closely.

Canada, according to the terms of the discussion, would also be given preferential access to the E.U. market for military equipment, an alternative to buying equipment from the United States.
 
Three anti-fascism experts leave Yale for University of Toronto. When the experts on the subject pull up stakes, others should heed the warning. Think back to 1930s Germany when the Einsteins, Max Borns, and the Brechts etc read the writing on the wall and left, before the other intellectuals were put up against it.

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Stanley from Yale to Toronto - Daily Nous

Jason Stanley, currently professor of philosophy at Yale University, will be moving to the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy at the University of Toronto (with a partial appointment in Toronto's Department of Philosophy). Professor Stanley is well known for his work in philosophy...
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Professor Stanley is well known for his work in philosophy of language as well as his more recent work in political philosophy, particularly on topics such as propaganda and fascism. You can learn more about his writings here.

In an email, he writes that “the decision was entirely because of the political climate in the United States.” He had had an offer from Toronto, and decided to accept it last Friday night after Columbia’s capitulation to the Trump administration’s demands.

He notes that he will be joining others who left Yale for the Munk School, such historians Timothy Snyder and Marci Shore.

Stanley writes that he has been “very happy at Yale, with the department and the university,” but that he wants “to raise my kids in a country that is not tilting towards a fascist dictatorship.”



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“… In just three months, the number of Canadians who disapprove of the federal government’s performance has fallen by 40 percentage points. It explains why the Liberals have undergone a historic polling resurgence as the federal election campaign kicks off this week, with voters appearing to have granted the party a clean slate with new leader Mark Carney….

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… One consistent and unsurprising finding in the poll is that Trump is deeply unpopular with Canadians. His disapproval rating now sits at 78 per cent, up 20 percentage points from December. His approval rating among Canadians is at 12 per cent.…”
 
A few weeks ago France just parked a nuclear submarine off the coast of Halifax. I’d say that’s a pretty clear signal to trump to go fuck himself in regards to any force being exerted on Canada or Greenland.
Greenland is Danish territory and Denmark is part of NATO. Macron has taken the leadership role in the EU and in NATO. If trump fucks with Greenland, he’s fucking with NATO.

The EU, Canada and the UK are strengthening alliances without the US.
 
I can't emphasize enough how hated the US is right now. It's not nearly as bad in the UK as it was in Canada, but Trump is right - the US is no longer a laughing stock; it's reaching Russia levels of distrust and hatred. I have never seen isolationism develop results so quickly. It is only going to get worse as democracy slips away and China replaces the US as both soft and hard power dominant force all over the planet.

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I Just Lost My Job Because I'm An American

"The world has lost patience with us, even if we didn't vote for Donald Trump."
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altmin said:
I can't emphasize enough how hated the US is right now. It's not nearly as bad in the UK as it was in Canada, but Trump is right - the US is no longer a laughing stock; it's reaching Russia levels of distrust and hatred. I have never seen isolationism develop results so quickly. It is only going to get worse as democracy slips away and China replaces the US as both soft and hard power dominant force all over the planet.

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I Just Lost My Job Because I'm An American

"The world has lost patience with us, even if we didn't vote for Donald Trump."
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Actually, a new or perhaps a reinvigorated alliance of free, democratic nations who don’t like countries being led by facsist authoritarian oligarchs, are banding together to form a new coalition to fight the Cold War against Russia and China. Trump wanted EU and NATO countries to pony up more for defense - and he gets his wish. Except only they’re moving on without the isolationist US assholes.
 

Nova Scotia's health authority says it has hired one doctor eager to leave the United States because of President Donald Trump, and is in talks with more than two dozen more.

The authority launched a digital recruiting campaign in the U.S. in November, targeting physicians feeling uneasy about the election results.

"We saw it as an opportunity with the election to remind folks and the leads that we have in the U.S. that we are here, ready and waiting for them should they wish to choose Nova Scotia to come practise here," said Katrina Philopoulos, the director of physician recruiting.


Nova Scotia Health has been actively recruiting south of the border for years, but the new campaign led to 150 responses.

"We have seen some in certain specialties that have decided that they're worried about how the changes in the U.S. will change their practice," Philopoulos said.
 
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