Lincoln pool temporarily renamed orange man lake on Google maps.
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Dude broke the first rule about indigenous people bestowing local names on the colonizers: You don’t tell them what the name really means!
Except Americans don’t pay any attention to what goes on in Canada (or anywhere else) as a rule, unfortunately. And if they did, they still wouldn’t understand the significance.
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US polling on tariffs and lake-renaming, among other things.
The pivot away from the US continues.
“The federal government will spend $4.7-billion to build and maintain more than 300 Via Rail passenger rail cars in Canada, using facilities in Quebec and Thunder Bay, Prime Minister Mark Carneyannounced Thursday.
At a news conference in the northwestern Ontario city, Mr. Carney said the move represents a shift away from importing trains from south of the border.
“For too long, we bought from abroad what we were more than capable of building right here at home. We’re bringing that work back, and we’re turbocharging it,” Mr. Carney said.”
For full context, I think this is a decision to buy rail cars from a French company that will manufacture them in Canada, rather than a German company that would have manufactured them in the US.
Potential differences in the answer to the question, “where are things assembled” and “where do the profits flow” is a dimension I think some folks sometimes forget when discussing international trade from our armchairs.
Promoting Canadian jobs over American jobs is extremely understandable in the current context, and it helps other Canadian metrics over American…but the ultimate profit is going to Europe either way.
But Canada still considers these European countries to be our friends so no problem if they benefit.
I bought cereal from the UK this morning as there was no Canadian equivalent. I spurned its US equivalent.
I had been thinking of saying “they could have tapped Bombardier and kept it all in Canada”…and then I realized that Bombardier sold off its rail division to Alstom during the pandemic…and that’s who got the contract.
We’re inviting you only because we have to.
I can’t see the bulk of the article due to a paywall, but the headline and opening seem sufficient.
A US-linked network of fake websites is promoting Alberta separatism to AI chatbots
Alberta is the only part of Canada that MAGA wants.
Nah; while Alberta might be the most obvious, there are oil and natural gas resource in Canada beyond Alberta’s borders.
But Alberta would elect mostly Republicans in state and national elections. That was my selection basis along with oil and gas.
Fair enough, but you have to admit that a common theme in US, particularly GOP, foreign policy has been extending the US sphere of influence over places with energy resources…and then defending that sphere once established.
Yes, this would be reasonably accurate.
In the age of AI, its also fairly easy (and cheap) to target places like Alberta via mass media and social media (in order to increase the visibility of the separatist faction (whom are actually a tiny slice of the population)).
At this stage, I would not consider the US to be a friendly when it comes to combatting disinformation.
A recent poll has separatist support at 22% I would not characterize that as tiny.
Link?
The 22% came from an AI query. Here is a link with a poll at 18% although it is three months old:
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A vote for Alberta separation is almost a vote to become the US’ 51st state. Probably not much support for separation beyond Alberta MAGA types.
I just hope the October vote soundly rejects a 2027 separation vote so this distraction can be laid to rest.
“Amid a sell-off, Canadian bonds are ‘well-behaved’
The U.S. 30-year Treasury yield stood at 5.24 per cent on Friday, up 37 basis points – or 0.37 percentage points – since the beginning of the year. Canada’s 30-year government bond yield was at 4.16 per cent, up 24 basis points since the start of January.
Canada’s done a much better job managing their fiscal side,” said Derek Brown, managing director and head of fixed income at Toronto-based investment manager Beutel, Goodman & Co. Ltd.
He said that in recent years, the U.S. has averaged federal deficits of around 6 per cent of gross domestic product. In Canada, even under the federal government’s “Canada Strong” budget, the combined federal and provincial deficit is only around 3.5 per cent of GDP, Mr. Brown said.
While governments in the U.S. and Canada were both using stimulus strategies to boost their economies, he said the U.S. approach is more akin to a “sugar rush,” with tax cuts and immediate expensing that allows AI hyperscalers to claim significant tax deductions.
“Canada is focusing much more on infrastructure and ports and pipelines and trains. That’s a much more healthy type of stimulus that takes a long time to burn through.”