Retailers get paid a product placement fee for this. This is how the big players keep smaller brands out of stores.

No way they will turn down money. Just don’t purchase it and advocate for clearer labelling for food products.

If anyone actually read the article, they’re asking everyone, including Canadians, who’s receiving research grants from them.

The fix is easy, stop accepting funding from these clowns. Otherwise you need to play by their rules. I don’t agree with the nonsense in south Canada but it’s prerogative.

Considering how pissed off and united we are over some off the cuff comments about 51st state and the fact it’s personal for trump, he really hates Trudeau, I don’t think they would be ready for the absolute carnage some of us would unleash on them. IRA showed everyone the way forward.

Didn’t he apologize for that and said had he known what was unleashed he would have shut it down?

Easy fix. Cut a hole in the wall on the Canadian side or better yet tear our half down. Fuck these idiots.

Clearly some countries didn’t get the memo. Guess it’s time to update the list of limp-wrist cunts for future reference. UK and Australia are really showing their true colours in all this.

It’s cause they all do it and normalize it, so they think everyone else is fucked like they are. Such a weird, insular world view.

Canada’s total exports are about 35% of total GDP. So that puts US exports at somewhere around 24% of GDP. Pretty high but then if we exclude oil and gas and potash exports it’s a much, much smaller number. So small in fact that we would probably replace those exports within 12 months.

I wonder if anyone else other than the US wants some oil, natural gas, or potash? And yes I know we currently lack pipeline capacity but at this point I’d be willing to let the government finance it all to move oil and gas to the east coast.

I really think Americans over played their hand.

It’s an interesting proposition but the current areas everyone wants to settle to can’t sustain it anymore. Government needs to start spreading their dollars, and by association people, to other parts of the country which the room for growth. I don’t it will happen.

Can we not just send her to cunt island with all the other cunts. And then maybe Alberta can elect an adult.

We do but it’s all high end custom ordered stuff for military, space or auto applications. Consumer stuff disappeared around the sitcom boom when JDS, Norte, and others folded or were bought out. Only blackberry is left and it’s mostly from China?

Lots of good suggestions already. For me the next step pushing governments to start spending money here for military gear, pharmaceuticals, infrastructure and such. I’m not saying we just throw money at the problem cause that leads to corruption and abuse but why is it only Irving can build boats? Why do we have so many aerospace companies building for other countries. The time for a homegrown solutions is now. We’re 40 million strong and need to start acting like it.

Almost, we’re getting there soon.

Except the local versions of those companies make zero profit and have no taxable income. This why everyone agreed on a basic business tax rate until the orange monkey pulled out.

While your question is not off base you completely discredit it with the manipulation claim. Hence the downvotes.

Every single social platform has tried to do this and failed. Once a platform reaches critical mass the bits, scammers, etc… move in and start exploiting any “honour” mechanism that might exist.

Probably the best I’ve come across is ycombinator news but that’s pretty niche.

Good luck getting the Weston’s to not be total dicks. Personally I’m lucky that we have an independent grocery store and they carry mostly local produce and meats, honey, and then lots of stuff comes from Europe which is great for cheeses, and such.

Why is military procurement such a bloody mess in this country. Truly don’t understand. Get something that’s good enough to meet the baseline requirements and then apply a local spending/manufacturing lens. Done.

This need to always purchase the absolute best and not build local manufacturing is a real buzzkill.

Tech guy here. There’s no way in hell a new system would be mainframe-based. A distributed queue with delivery receipt and many nodes to process messages along with many distributed read-only DBs is the way to scale this thing. And you can be isolated form local power and connectivity issues. Tech isn’t the problem in this situation, market penetration is.

Generally agree but funds are not unlimited and right now there’s more downside than upside. Don’t catch a falling knife.