Canada did sign and ratify a Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) with the EU like eight years ago. Still waiting for some EU members to ratify it :(
If by "funny business" you mean raise prices on products that don't actually have tariffs on them, then it's a safe bet that yeah, there's going to be some funny business.
I think it would be kinda hard for Musk to buy the NY Times. I think like 90% of it's shares are owned by the family that's owned it for over a century.
California's economy is about double the size of Canada's. You probably should be considering just being your own country rather than being part of Canada. An EU style partnership between Canada and the parts of the US that secede would make a lot of of sense in that scenario.
I'm wondering how an CPC minority government would even work. Especially if a CPC non-confidence vote against the Liberals succeeds and pushes us into a spring election.
On the little graphs they have CPC+NDP and CPC+BQ coalition, but those don't seem likely. Pollievre would be in an extremely tenuous position.
Yup. And we aren't going to be 100% and mistakes will be made. The important this is we just keep putting effort into it the boycott will get stronger and stronger as we learn more about where products are made. And really most of the effort is going to be in the beginning, once you've figured out what your new preferred brands are, it starts getting easier.
A little tip I find useful.... look at the products in your cupboards and take note of which products are US and which are not. It's a lot more chill to do this at home than in the grocery store. Makes grocery shopping go a little faster when you don't have to look at the labels of everything while in the store.
Yeah it doesn't even make sense. Nitroglycerin was used in mining before dynamite was invented. Usually they'd just have some minority (Chinese most commonly I think) just carry it in. One little bump and boom, that person is dead. So the Invention of dynamite saved a lot of lives.
Also it's not like he invented gunpowder. A story about Mr. Gatling having deep regrets over his invention I could believe. But a guy inventing something that saved a lot of lives in the mining industry? And remember the invention of dynamite was after the US civil war, so warfare was already extremely bloody at that time without any dynamite involved. And how often is dynamite actually used in warfare as opposed to other kinds of explosives?
I've never won the lotto, but I feel like there's probably more than a week of paperwork to deal with before you get your money. And they don't do a draw every day.
I think Biff Tannen's idea of sports betting would be the way to go. There's always games happening somewhere to bet on and you could do a lot of bets on which player gets the next point and stuff like that on those online sports betting apps they're constantly advertising.
The problem with the US is that American exceptionalism has made Americans unable to distinguish between global politics and domestic politics.
In short, other countries generally don't concern themselves with US domestic politics, because the concept of sovereignty means countries don't interfere in each other's domestic problems.
You should read up on the policy of strategic ambiguity with regards to China.
Generally speaking it's a "speak softly but carry a big stick" approach. "One China" policy is speaking softly. Sailing warships through the Taiwan Strait is brandishing the big stick. That tells China the reality of the situation... One China means Taiwan is de jure part of China, but is de facto an independent country. Why would China invade Taiwan if it's already part of China? Such a thing wouldn't make sense!
But if China were to invade Taiwan they would be an explicit action that indicates Taiwan is not already part of it. There would be no more One China policy because China ended it through their actions.
When Biden was President he made a typical Biden gaff when he was saying things that didn't conform to the One China policy. Whoopsie! Didn't mean that... seriously, the One China policy is still going strong wink. Was that just a typical Biden gaff, or was that him saying the real policy on Taiwan? We can't know for sure, but China got the message. That's strategic ambiguity.
Needless to say Donald Trump has no understanding of the nuance of strategic ambiguity. In fact he's more worried about not upsetting his good friend Xi.
He was kinda shit to India and probably some other things. But that's just internet contrarian nitpicking stuff. When someone mentions Churchill everyone knows it means a leader that held strong against what seemed an impossible enemy to defeat.
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I'd say he's a criminal that belongs in prison.