cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/56424420

A recent report, co-authored by the Palestinian Youth Movement, Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East, Arms Embargo Now and World Beyond War, identified hundreds of shipments of Canadian-made F-35 fighter jet components, other aircraft parts, and explosives and flammable materials to U.S. facilities that supply the Israeli military. The report also highlighted 433 shipments of Polish-made TNT routed through the Port Saguenay, Quebec to U.S. army ammunition plants that make bombs used by Israel in Gaza.

The report stated that “by deliberately exempting U.S.-bound arms from export regulation and allowing Canadian infrastructure to transport weapons, Canada is circumventing its obligations under international law.”

Archive: https://archive.is/GldMU

For anyone who hasn't seen it, this is the video that caused Trump to break off negotiations with Canada.

cross-posted from: https://scribe.disroot.org/post/5003261

Here is an Invidious link for a video (34min) and the original YT link.

Beijing is seeking to court Canadians with trade deals. But it is simultaneously punishing Canada for adopting anti-Chinese trade laws, which – as the Chinese are quick to point out – were implemented by Canada in response to American pressure to crack down on unfair Chinese trade practices.

Now, we’re seeing growing numbers of Canadians twisting the logic of “the enemy of my enemy is my friend.” They’re taking this to mean that the enemy of Canada is the United States, and by that logic, the People’s Republic of China must be Canada's friend.

To offer his perspective on how Canadians should view these developments, Dr. Stephen Nagy joins Inside Policy Talks. Nagy is a professor at Tokyo’s International Christian University, and a senior fellow at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute. He’s studied and written extensively about China and its influence operations in the West.

On the podcast, he tells Jamie Tronnes, executive director of the Center for North American Prosperity and Security (CNAPS), that the Chinese government has "invested very heavily" in a strategy of "elite capture" focused on political and business leaders, "giving them preferred access to the Chinese market."

"This is to lock them into a kind of dependent relationship," says Nagy. "And I think that this has made Canada have tremendous challenges in terms of confronting a country that really wants to change the global order in a way that is contrary to Canadian interests."

Among Dr. Nagy's analyses is, As US-Canada ties unravel, Beijing pulls the threads:

While current Canada-US tensions create immediate policy challenges, the documented pattern of Chinese influence operations reveals a systematic effort to exploit these frictions for long-term strategic advantage.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/49941845

Canada’s recent progressive record stands in stark contrast to other countries of the Americas. While Canadians ask “Why doesn’t Canada already have a stronger relationship with Mexico?” what they may not realize is how several years of progressive governance in Mexico has left Canada behind. Mexico’s Minister of Women Citlalli Hernandez Mora pointed to 2025 being the “Year of the Indigenous Woman” with the Sheinbaum government coordinating states and municipalities to implement water and sanitation programs in Indigenous communities. Meanwhile in Canada, Minister of Women and Gender Equality Rechie Valdez looks to make cuts of over 80 per cent to her department and First Nations raise alarms over the Carney government’s lack of consultation on infrastructure projects.

The strategy of President Sheinbaum’s daily Mañanera del Pueblo livestreams on YouTube reaches more than 1.3 million subscribers daily was also discussed as a powerful tool to reach the country’s working-class. On fighting misinformation in the media, President Lula da Silva’s government in Brazil is taking on US big tech—in Canada, we put our elbows down on the Digital Services Tax without a fight.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/37094102

Canadian Conservatives are discussing how to emulate Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency north of the border should they win the upcoming federal election — and they think they can make cuts even more quickly than the Trump administration has.

cross-posted from: https://aussie.zone/post/19771757

With a federal election looming, reps from Amazon and TC Energy discuss how a new Pierre Poilievre government could slash bureaucracy ‘more quickly’ than Trump.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/41500238

Invasion of Canada would spark decades-long insurgency

N. American cars are garbage. Our garbage car economy is garbage.

What about all the other industries?

Ridings in Ontario were historically about 5000 people, with very large ridings hitting 8,000, and nothing in the double digits. Today ridings are 100,000 people.

Look at the difference between 1908 and 2022 Ontario general election, in Toronto.

1908 Ontario general election Toronto South - Conservative win with 5,202 votes of 6,965 cast (75% of the vote). 74.69

2022 Ontario general election Toronto Centre - NDP won with 15,285 votes of 34,921 cast (43.77% of the vote).

According to the article; Donald Trump now wants us to agree to building another pipeline to send Alberta’s oil to the US. After threatening tariffs and threatening our sovereignty, he now wants us to worry about building another pipeline through which we can sell America our oil at discounted prices in sole benefit of the US.

Any pipelines we build from here on our should focus on A:) getting our oil to the coast so we have reliable access to global markets now that the US has proven themselves unreliable trading partners, or partners of any kind for that matter. And B:) get our oil from Alberta to the East without it having to pass through the United States.

We need LESS dependency on the United States and more pipelines to the benefit of Chuckle Head Trump is not the way to achieve it.

Quick vid summarizing it all for those who do not have time to read through

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0M-e9GEn_A