Just came across this video. I've never heard of him before, but he seems to focus on facts, which I always appreciate. May showed some promising results in the import/export front for Canada. Hopefully the trends continue.

The mods here on this "Canada" forum are pretty intolerant of Canadian Nationalism. You'll be pleased to know that I am one more person who who will no longer be posting here. If you wanted a Bluesky echo chamber with fewer users, you're on the right path.

I suggest you reevaluate what it means to be "moderate" You won't learn that in a sociology class.

Long live the free state of Palestine...for some reason... God you people are pathetic. Hurry up and start your nonsense revolution already. You don't want to discuss so I guess we'll just fight. Let's go!

publication croisée depuis : https://jlai.lu/post/23584189

Les Canadiens et les Canadiennes seront nos meilleurs clients et contribueront à créer davantage d’emplois bien rémunérés au pays à mesure que nous renforcerons et diversifierons nos partenariats commerciaux dans le monde entier.

Author: Gabriela Perdomo | Assistant Professor, Mount Royal University

From the newsletter:

A few weeks ago, in an overheated and packed room at the Centre for Social Innovation in Toronto, several journalists took the mic to speak about their work in a powerful new book — When Genocide Wasn’t News — about how Canada’s legacy media has been responding to Israel’s intensive military campaign in Gaza.

The book features contributions from journalists — some writing under pseudonyms — who describe newsrooms gripped by fear and a misguided commitment to a notion of “objectivity” that fails to serve the public.

Today, in The Conversation Canada, an article by journalism professor Gabriela Perdoma of Mount Royal University, points out that while Palestinians in Gaza have endured over 640 days of relentless military assault by Israeli Defense Forces, including attacks on children, hospitals and aid workers, Canadian mainstream media has too often remained silent or misleading in its coverage. She says one of the issues is that “journalists who support peace efforts can easily be accused of being ‘biased’ in favour of those promoting peace.” And such accusations, she says, “can have an outsized impact on reporting and be used to silence journalists.”

Perdoma’s article challenges mainstream news narratives and calls for newsrooms to urgently reflect on how journalism in Canada must evolve, especially in times of war.

President Donald Trump has said that Canada's support for a Palestinian state will make any trade deal between Washington and Ottawa "very hard."

In a post on Truth Social, Trump referred to comments made by Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney that Canada was planning to recognize a Palestinian state at the United Nations in September.

Trump wrote: "Wow! Canada has just announced that it is backing statehood for Palestine. That will make it very hard for us to make a Trade Deal with them. Oh' Canada!!!"

'The main issue is that people do buy the stuff that's announced there,' doctor says

Former Paramedic here. CUPE needs to pull all its medics off the job for this. That's what unions should be doing right now. Fuck these Zionists.

Those councillors and council need to be reprimanded as well for openly supporting genocide.

Canadians' electronic health records need more protections to prevent foreign entities from accessing patient data, according to commentary in the Canadian Medical Association Journal.

"Canadian privacy law is badly outdated," said Michael Geist, law professor and Canada Research Chair in internet and e-commerce law at the University of Ottawa and co-author of the commentary. "We're now talking about decades since the last major change."

Geist says electronic medical records systems from clinics and hospitals — containing patients' personal health information — are often controlled by U.S. companies. The data is encrypted and primarily stored on cloud servers in Canada, but because those are owned by American companies, they are subject to American laws.

For example, Geist points out, the U.S. passed the Clarifying Lawful Overseas Use of Data (CLOUD) Act in 2018, which can compel companies to disclose customer information for criminal investigations, even if it's stored outside the United States. The law allows for bilateral agreements with the U.S. and other countries. Canada and the U.S. began negotiations in 2022.

The companies have "Canadian laws that may say they've got to provide appropriate protections for that data," Geist said. "But they may have U.S. law that could compel them to disclose that information."

Canada's laws, Geist says, have not yet found a way to respond to that.

"Canada has failed to co-operate in curbing the ongoing flood of fentanyl and other illicit drugs, and it has retaliated against the United States for the president's actions to address this unusual and extraordinary threat," says the statement. 

If I remember correctly most of the fentanyl found was heading north to Canada not south to the US.

The article also discusses new prevention methods and the need for a national tick surveillance system

Rachael Gilmore - Canada intends to recognize the state of Palestine. But what does that mean?

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Steve Boots - Canada's Plan For Palestinian Statehood

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CBC - Cautious optimism, pointed criticism over Canada's decision to recognize Palestinian statehood