Many news agencies that operate in Canada (and claim to be Canadian) are owned by Americans, including several mentioned in this article. Post Media needs to be kicked out of the country.

Triple O’s (local chain) is my favourite.

McD’s for 2nd least favourite due to giving me the runs every time. Burger King for 1st least favourite for being disgusting.

As you’ve pointed out, Vivaldi is based on Chromium so you are still indirectly supporting Google’s browser monopoly.

Qwant is a decent search engine but they share certain information, including IP’s, with uptream search providers such as Microslop and Google. I do believe they have a partnership with Ecosia to develop their own joint search engine/crawler but until then they both rely on Bing and Google and have to share information as per agreement terms. As always, check privacy and ToS agreements for full details.

Search engines are kind of in shit place right now with so many being either A: American, or B: relying on Bing or Google (secret third option: both A and B). As for browsers, Firefox is also in a shit place right now but there are numerous excellent forks that strip out all of Mozilla’s stupid stuff. Waterfox, Librewolf, just to name a couple.

Don’t worry, I’m sure they will get a hefty $10,000 fine.

In an ideal world Canada would not need to choose between such nations for economic stability but we got caught with our pants down and need to scramble for solutions fast.

China has been greatly expanding their projection of soft power while the US surrendered theirs almost entirely to focus on hard power. Surprising literally nobody, making threats of invasion and abducting leaders of other nations is a great way to drive away your (ex) allies and trade partners.

I’m so fuckin tired of Israel.

They’re done. I hope their devs can find better employment elsewhere.

Voting overwhelmingly in favour of a tough-on-crime policy with one hand and literally stealing from their own party with the exact same hand.

You can’t even make this shit up. This is conservative politics in a shellnut.

WeatherCAN which is made and run by Environment Canada (government run). Many weather services and apps get their data from them anyway so might as well get it right from the source.

Some good news at least. Pattison has pulled out of the sale of their warehouse to ICE.

I don’t know, fear mongering is a very traditional and expected conservative policy. It’s the ultimate nothing-burger they use to distract from the real issues that they’re not going to fix.

I’m guessing the vote required members to travel to Alberta in the middle of winter and vote in-person in order to count. There as no way this was going to swing any other way.

This is called extortion.

These are welcomed measures, sure, but a lot more could be done if the government held the our grocery monopoly responsible for their (criminal, imo) actions. If Carney’s government went to battle against Loblaw, Pattison, etc it would instantly make him one of the most popular PM’s in Canadian history. Words cannot express how badly Canadians, coast to coast, want to see Galen and Loblaw get shafted with a rusty rake.

So basically just the deepest fascist base supporters.

saying that European leaders “won’t push back too much.”

Defensive forces are already being deployed to Greenland as I type this and EU leaders have made it clear they will open fire on hostile US soldiers.

Not our problem. We’re not the ones that elected a fascist government. Twice.

Thankfully decent CPU air coolers are already quite cheap, so this won’t sting as bad.

I’d imagine it’s because the beef and diary industry in the US is huge and heavily subsidised. It’d be like the US saying every meal needs to include a generous amount of corn products.

Good moves. Breaking free of US dependence is now a matter of critical national security.