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

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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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"The world has lost patience with us, even if we didn't vote for Donald Trump."
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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

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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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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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I was contacted by BC Interior Health a couple of weeks ago, unprompted. They obviously didnt offer a job, site unseen, but were clear that 1. Get your license, you’ll get a job, 2. I wasn’t going to be limited to undesirable areas. The US brain drain in healthcare and heath research will be unprecedented - jaw dropping, in fact. If this shit [looks around at everything] isn’t halted fast (it won’t), US life expectancy and QoL metrics will tumble within 5 years.
 
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I think most Western democracies/representative republics pay election workers.
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I agree. I have been a poll "observer" for about ten years. I sit in a chair with my cell phone in my pocket ready to arise and help someone who has been turned away, ONCE WE BOTH WALK OUT OF THE POLLING PLACE. The folks actually manning the polling place are paid by the county. The help I can offer has overwhelmingly fallen into one of three categories: (a) tell the voter to request a provisional ballot (which the paid poll workers have usually already offered), (b) if during early voting, look at my watch and ask the voter if they think they have time to drive home and get their approved photo ID, or (c) if on election day, look at my watch and ask the voter if they think they have time to drive to the correct voting location, which would be where they are registered to vote. Side note: During early voting, the paid poll workers are very good about "same-day registration" for folks who have moved or are not properly registered. Problems during early voting are much easier to solve than problems on election day. People who show up ten minutes before the polls close on election day at the wrong voting location (a) make me mad and (b) make me think they are some sort of provocateur.
 
Interesting move in my riding, not that I can vote here, to ensure a seat flips from Conservative to Liberal.




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OTTAWA — Liberal Leader Mark Carney released his election platform on Saturday, touting an emphasis on new military spending and bolstering Canada against Donald Trump’s expansionist vision.

“In this crisis we have to prepare for America’s threats to our very sovereignty. They want our land, our resources, they want our water, they want our country,” Carney said Saturday morning in a suburb east of Toronto.

“President Trump is trying to break us so that America can own us, and that will never happen. Canada is not America, and it never will be, but we need to do more to just recognize that. We need a plan to deal with this new reality.”


If the Liberals win a fourth mandate, Carney says his government would spend C$30.9 billion on defense over the next four years and meet Canada’s NATO defense spending target of 2 percent of GDP by 2030 — two years ahead of its current pledge.

In 2024, Canada spent 1.37 per cent of GDP on defense, well below the target.

Much of the new spending will be used to bolster Canada’s North, to deter the influence of China, which has been attempting to make inroads with Indigenous communities in the Arctic.

“The North faces existential threats as countries try to take advantage of new shipping routes opened by climate change, exploit our critical minerals, and encroach on our borders,” the plan says. “We will keep Canada strong, free, and sovereign.”

Half of the spending will go to new military equipment and weapons for the Canadian Armed Forces, such as submarines and icebreakers to monitor and protect coastlines, including in the Arctic, against Russian and Chinese aggression. This includes new drones for its seas and skies.
 
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