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streetfestival@lemmy.caOPto Canada@lemmy.ca•2025 Living wages for Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island: Too many workers struggle to make ends meetEnglish1·12 minutes agoI’m really sorry to hear about your living situation. I think it’s time to kick that person out, unfortunately, as they seem to show no concern for your welfare. Explaining the situation to the landlord might make sense. There might be common interest in kicking the ‘friend’ out and signing a new lease with just you. I hope things get easier for you
streetfestival@lemmy.caOPto Canada@lemmy.ca•Canada is leading the U.K. and France in boycotting American goods due to Trump’s tariffsEnglish6·2 hours agohe was going to use fentanyl as a manufactured crisis
He has already used that as a so-called ‘emergency’ to add tariffs to Canadian imports and strong-arm Carney into increasing border security
streetfestival@lemmy.caOPto Canada@lemmy.ca•Canada is leading the U.K. and France in boycotting American goods due to Trump’s tariffsEnglish7·2 hours agoDid we not start the movement after Trump came in?
I’d say we did. This article is based on a survey of data collected June and July 2025
streetfestival@lemmy.cato Canada@lemmy.ca•Saskatchewan Premier Moe says Canada should remove tariff on Chinese EVsEnglish7·5 hours agoYes but other than government handouts to industry, the EV industry in Canada has no momentum. Moreover, between Assolini’s eagerness to destroy the world, Smith’s anti-EV lobbying, and Carney’s corporate profits-first agenda, I don’t see EV manufacturing getting off the ground in Canada any time soon. I bet Carney will soon strike down (or ‘postpone’) the EV quota mandate for Canadian car manufacturers, to go into effect in 2026, I think, further eroding momentum. Other parts of the world are passing North America by when it comes to renewables while we’re asleep at the wheel because the oligarchs in this country obstinately refuse to reduce fossil fuel dependence and our political and media classes keep bowing to them
streetfestival@lemmy.cato Alberta@lemmy.ca•Alberta Education pays 70% of funding for Private Schools (2023 article)English9·1 day agoThat is so @#$%ed up
streetfestival@lemmy.cato Canada@lemmy.ca•Position: Data Analyst / Travel Consultant / Data Entry / English21·2 days agoGet the @#$% off our instance and preferably off Lemmy and the Fediverse 👆. Reported.
streetfestival@lemmy.caOPto Canada@lemmy.ca•Protected bike lane with artworks by local artists!English4·4 days agoThankfully, Toronto’s won so far in the courts versus Ford, and we still have rule of law in Canada. Props to locals who restored the Orlando memorial crosswalk
streetfestival@lemmy.cato Canada@lemmy.ca•Gaza: Are passengers on flights from Montreal sitting above bullets for Israel’s war?English14·5 days agoIsrael’s
wargenocide
streetfestival@lemmy.cato Canada@lemmy.ca•Province to charge majority of Albertans $100 for COVID-19 vaccine this flu seasonEnglish12·5 days agoIn 5.5 years we’ve done so much: create new vaccines, end a pandemic, and reduce access to those same vaccines
streetfestival@lemmy.cato Canada@lemmy.ca•2018: Metro Responds to BDS Stickers: ‘This Does Not Reflect Our Opinions’English7·5 days agoBB is a zionist organization and this happened in 2018
streetfestival@lemmy.caOPto Canada@lemmy.ca•Carney Government’s Decision to Intervene in Air Canada Flight Attendants’ Strike Backfired With Public, New Polling SuggestsEnglish21·6 days agoThe normalization of the government siding with employers within hours of locking their employees out has far greater implications for this country and its ongoing affordability and inequality crises than a week of logistics associated with one company - that the corporation deliberately chose not to do anything to prevent (!). And if AC is so important, it should be nationalized.
streetfestival@lemmy.caOPto Canada@lemmy.ca•Carney Government’s Decision to Intervene in Air Canada Flight Attendants’ Strike Backfired With Public, New Polling SuggestsEnglish52·6 days agoShocker, head of state isn’t an easy position. And yes, the Liberal government breaking something like the 7th strike in the last few years was a bad decision. You seem to be naively pro-capital and not have Canadians’ interests on your radar at all. I could get similar perspectives, if I wanted them, from corporate-controlled mainstream infotainment
streetfestival@lemmy.caOPto Canada@lemmy.ca•Canada to remove many retaliatory tariffs on U.S. goods: reportsEnglish61·6 days agohttps://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamilton/cleveland-cliffs-ceo-1.7613737
Earlier this week, the U.S. government announced it is hiking steel and aluminum tariffs on more than 400 products, including wind turbines, mobile cranes, appliances and heavy equipment.
So US is increasing its tariffs and we’re reducing ours?
streetfestival@lemmy.caOPto Canada@lemmy.ca•Carney Government’s Decision to Intervene in Air Canada Flight Attendants’ Strike Backfired With Public, New Polling SuggestsEnglish83·6 days agoAir Canada has been federally bailed out 3 times in the last 25 years. The purchased a $500 million stock buyback for themselves in June 2025. They deliberately let their CBA with the union lapse, because they were confident the federal government would prop them up again, even while they notoriously underpay their employees. Sure enough, the federal government did so within hours.
If you feel bad for Carney over this, you feel bad for him not being able to be nakedly corrupt without impunity. There are people far more deserving of your sympathy. Like the millions he’s complicit with Israel of starving to death in Israel
streetfestival@lemmy.caOPto Canada@lemmy.ca•Meta banned the Epoch Times from advertising. Then it accepted $300k in new ads targeting CanadiansEnglish19·6 days agoUS big tech: We’re not here to respect creators’ IP, pay taxes in your country, or moderate our platforms. We’re just here to usurp your advertising, media, and news industries, and ensnare your population with foreign misinformation
streetfestival@lemmy.cato Canada@lemmy.ca•Stephen Marche: Canada finally faces a basic question: how do we defend ourselves?English12·6 days agoI’m sick of hearing about increased defence spending that doesn’t reduce dependence on the fascist country south of us. If we’re not pivoting away from American shit, there’s no reason other than corruption to increase spending. Pivoting away from US should be priority #1
streetfestival@lemmy.cato Canada@lemmy.ca•Microsoft says U.S. law takes precedence over Canadian data sovereigntyEnglish46·7 days agoIt appears that it does not matter if the target is an individual, organization, or government. As long as the legal request is considered valid in the United States, the target or location of the data does not matter.
As an example, the Department of National Defence and Canadian Armed Forces make significant use of Microsoft 365. They have their own defence-tailored instance called Defence 365, which serves as a common cloud infrastructure for collaboration across DND/CAF, with stakeholders and other government departments.
In theory, any data on or using Microsoft or a U.S.-based organization’s products and infrastructure which is not isolated from the Internet could be subpoenaed by the United States government.
streetfestival@lemmy.cato Canada@lemmy.ca•Canadian Journalists for Justice in Palestine: A Call to Name the Killer, Not Just the CrimeEnglish3·7 days agoIn the face of Israel’s continued targeting of journalists in Gaza, Canadian Journalists for Justice in Palestine (CJJP) has issued a powerful statement condemning the August 10th killing of an entire Al Jazeera news crew in an Israeli airstrike. CJJP, a national coalition formed in April 2025 by concerned Canadian media professionals, includes reporters, editors, broadcasters, photojournalists, and media scholars united by a commitment to press freedom and journalistic accountability.
The organisation, with active branches in Toronto, Vancouver, and Montreal, was established in response to growing alarm over the lack of accuracy, balance, and ethical depth in Canadian coverage of Palestine. Since its founding, thirteen more journalists have been killed in Gaza.
CJJP’s latest statement demands that the Canadian government uphold its moral and legal responsibilities by naming Israel as the perpetrator, ending its diplomatic hedging, and pursuing international accountability for the systemic killing of Palestinian journalists—killings that constitute war crimes under international law.
This is their urgent call to action.
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The systemic killing of journalists cannot be dismissed as collateral damage. These are war crimes that must never be normalised, excused, or forgotten.
streetfestival@lemmy.cato Canada@lemmy.ca•Canadians Support Policy Ideas Set Out by Business Council of AlbertaEnglish13·7 days agoI thought Ipsos did polling. This is marketing. It’s also bullshit.
How does one meaningfully answer a question about whether or not they support creating “pragmatic environmental policy?” There’s only one good answer: “Tell me more what you mean by that?”
Notably, Ipsos doesn’t tell participants who is paying for their study. However, in this publication of results, they’re happy to unmask that: “Canadians Support Policy Ideas Set Out by Business Council of Alberta”.
If you were to tell me that “Pragmatic environmental policy” was defined according to the Business Council of Alberta, that would clarify to me that you mean “no environmental policy.”
This is less polling and more propaganda. Personally, I don’t think ipsos.com publications like this are worth posting again
It cites a Bloomberg report that it doesn’t link to. Every sentence supporting the title is “US pressuring Mexico to” not “Mexico has suggested.” Feels like US propaganda tbh.
Of note, Mexico is building a national EV (source), so they could theoretically have non US-related motives to consider tariffs on Chinese EVs