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SamuelRJankis

@ SamuelRJankis @sh.itjust.works

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  • Trump threatens Carney at Davos: ‘Canada lives because of the US’

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  • People should understand by now that Trump is some special flavour of insane, but if he kicked the bucket tomorrow the entire mechanism that gives him power will still exist.

    If anything they might be less erratic and get their agenda pushed through quicker.

  • Carney reaches tariff-quota deal with China on EVs, canola

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  • There's been a lot of noise the last few years about there being big demand for these EV's so we'll see how true this is. I do have a inclination they'll do rather well even with the economy and low gas prices.

  • Carney reaches tariff-quota deal with China on EVs, canola

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  • Canada will allow up to 49,000 Chinese

    In case people want to know want to know what the numbers means. There was 202k battery EV's registered in 2024 and 82k through 3 reported quarters in 2025.

    Imagine this just gets the ball rolling and there will be a more substantial deal before we hit that number. As of now I don't like the lack of progress security(this extends outside of EV's or ones from China) and how we didn't leverage this into any manufacturing deals.

    StatCan Source (first time I've seen them use PoweBI):

    https://tdih-cdit.tc.canada.ca/en/search/20100024

  • CBC News further expands local journalism, bureaus

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  • This is what CBC should be doing. They should really invest more in small local communities that is very underserved these days.

    Even for international level news people would benefit from a vantage of how it impacts them on a local level.

  • 2.1M temporary residents will have expired or expiring permits this year. But will they leave Canada?

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  • This is another example what I posted last week. It's a nameless source from a official government department making a very serious but ambigous complaint with little context.

    Aside from pandering to the crowd that's looking for reasons to feel more angry I'm not sure what the article is trying to convey with that part.

  • NDP leadership candidate apologizes for using AI to respond to Reddit questions

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  • I read the responses and they were pretty generic to begin with. It was also about 14hrs after the AMA started and he answered only a handful of them.

    I imagine with a competence and morality perspective this should knock him out of contention.

  • Shopify has slashed benefits as part of a cost-cutting spree

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  • Ottawa bureau chief for the Toronto Sun regarding the Minnesota shooting

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  • He's a piece of shit.

    But also to signal that he's on a specific side. People would call these dog whistles but I think it's bit to overt for that.

  • Ottawa bureau chief for the Toronto Sun regarding the Minnesota shooting

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  • Cramped conditions questioned on recent WestJet flight

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  • I would file this under socialized things Liberals slowly ruined and Conservatives threaten to destroy the second they get in power.

  • Cramped conditions questioned on recent WestJet flight

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  • I'm 6'2" and things were already tight for me as well.

    The problem with thier shuffling method is it compounds the already bad flight delays(there's also the carry-on shuffle they caused) and most of their seats won't even fit me so at a certain point you might just get bumped off the entire flight and they don't even give you a real number to make decisions with. I actually don't even know which seat fits me because aside from padding the seat angle also changes the real leg room so the pitch measurement is almost useless.

  • Cramped conditions questioned on recent WestJet flight

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  • I think that is the crux of it aside from readers having little expectations of being informed for these reportings, it also seems that the news outlets no longer have viable revenue models that allow them to staff to the level it would take to write proper articles which is why the Toronto Star was the best out of them.

    Will point out that CBC does take a lot of revenue from us collectively and this low effort type of reporting is become very common for them. That's addition to clearly trying to pander certain crowds with titles like this

    Greenland has become the island that could break NATO

    I'll still defend them as being the best large scale news outlet in Canada but they're becoming a astonishing poor place to be informed about events.

  • Cramped conditions questioned on recent WestJet flight

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  • Since one of the top post here this week is from Fox News I wanted to take the opportunity to let people know how bad news is even from real news organizations and they should probably avoid interacting with places like Fox altogether.

    This is a pretty widely reported about Westjet cutting the legroom. Almost all these articles has little useful information and largely just convey a sentiment that people should be angry at Westjet.

    To provide examples of useful information this information took me about 25 minutes to gather:

    1. These sites show how small the seat are even on a global level.

    Has most of the airline - https://www.airlinequality.com/info/seat-pitch-guide/

    Has less airlines but different plane model - https://www.netflights.com/useful-tips/legroom-chart

    1. The Toronto Star article shows that more than half the seats is the smallest size.

    2. Pitch is a industry term that doesn't clearly represent actual leg room.

    3. Westjet does not present this information clearly when booking to allow the customer to make a informed decision.

    1. This for an airline cater to taller people, proportionally longer femurs and probably larger back sides. The global adult femur length is around 18 to 20 inches accounting for the factors above these seat barely fit most adults in Canada.

    https://www.ctvnews.ca/calgary/article/cramped-conditions-questioned-on-recent-westjet-flight/

    https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/westjet-seat-overhaul-pause-9.7014320

    https://globalnews.ca/news/11601466/westjet-shorter-legroom-flights-costs/

    This Toronto Star one actually has some useful information:

    https://archive.is/20260107185039/https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/28-inches-is-torture-viral-video-captures-lack-of-legroom-in-some-westjet-flights-what/article_4d3ec532-d038-4a8b-8a21-1129137cee42.html

  • Danielle Smith Finally Dropped Below Majority Support

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  • Even without Venezuela Trump has been very clear about wanting to drop oil prices. Whether it be lobbying OPEC, global trade instability or whatever "drill baby drill" is suppose to be.

    For the latter part of your comment. I'll point to Trump's approval ratings, while as whole it's dropped noticeably his MAGA base is still pretty positive on him after pretty shit year for Americans. Alberta has a base where they'll point to Trudeau even though he'll be years removed and they saw peak outputs/revenue during his time.

  • Former MP Charlie Angus planned a quiet retirement. Now, he'd rather 'kick at the darkness'

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  • I think you're confused about what municipal, provincial and federal governments should be advocating for their constituents. I'm from BC which is 4th by GDP and I believe we crack the top 3 in Income tax paid. For that the only recollection of federal involvement lately was them criticizing our infrastructure spending(buying ferries from China) and how we'll get to take on most of the risk from a pipeline with little of the reward and even less input.

    This isn't a criticism of Charlie or even what he's doing, it's completely fair he wants to do things on his own accord. It's about the general ideology that exists on what needs to be done to truly make changes.

    To put it another way many Liberal supporters(I'm not one) want Pierre to stay on like some hardcore Conservatives do. Pierre staying is bad for Canada but good for the Liberals, in the same light Conservatives would love for all progressives to operate outside of the actual political system. It just pushes Canada towards the American system where real progressive politics exist almost entirely outside of the system with influence.

  • Former MP Charlie Angus planned a quiet retirement. Now, he'd rather 'kick at the darkness'

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  • I've seen some takes where Charlie is allowed to be his authentic self now that he doesn't have to worry about keeping his seat.

    The honest question is he doing more for Canadians right now then he did with his seat? For anyone wondering he held his riding from 2004 to 2025 and now it's Conservative seat for the first time in history. Not saying he was guaranteed his seat by any means, but there's this odd progressive idolization of people working outside "the system" that has be extremely unproductive historically.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kapuskasing%E2%80%94Timmins%E2%80%94Mushkegowuk

  • Ottawa is still dodging the China interference threat: Alarming claims out of P.E.I. point to deep foreign interference, and the federal government keeps stalling. Why? -- [Opinion]

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  • It pretty hard to take this place seriously when this is the first thing you see from the same author.

    Along with stories like Taxes are bad, First Nation is taking your land, Goverment is after your free speech, Goverment allowing food dyes, Goverment is blocking natural resource profits.

  • Proposed Alberta separation referendum question approved | Globalnews.ca

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  • Referendums and the specific topic is a bit different. But I think looking at Trump and America should make people very wary of what having 30% of the population as fanatics can do.

  • Christian Nationalism and the Remaking of Canada’s Political Right | Perspectives Journal

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  • Another thing that a lot of Conservatives will fight you tooth and nail over, but if you say they want to move back to a society where things a dictated by Christian values they'll nod in agreement. This also discounts a bunch of the most popular Conservatives personalities literally saying it.

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    BC 2025 minimum wage increases confirmed

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    Pierre: The real problem is the potential Liberal leaders shoes

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    She has a warning for businesses that use Shopify

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    Furious Poilievre criticizes Trump tariffs for uniting Canadians

    www.thebeaverton.com /2025/02/furious-poilievre-criticizes-trump-tariffs-for-uniting-canadians/
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    How Tariffs Work

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    A bunch of losers went out and threw Nazi salutes in Alberta, Canada yesterday while holding racist signs.

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