The American government has already shown they're happy to round up people who look like "foreign enemies"whether they are or not. If your enemy has almost the exact same demographics, all of a sudden there's probable cause to detain anyone (I know, it's not like they care about any due process but everything else feels like we're in make believe land anyways).

I'm curious what they mean about this "12 month restriction". Currently it takes 24 months of a class 7 (N) to be eligible for a full class 5. Is this lowering the bar further, or is it extending it to 36 months?

This would've been the (school)year before the movie came out, 2005/6. I suppose it's possible it was publicly available at the time. It doesn't really matter, it was just a cool memory from decades ago. I hope it didn't come across as a classic "my uncle works at Nintendo" kind of comment.

Night at the Museum (all of them) was a big one that very few people realize was shot in Canada.

That just brought back a memory for me. I remember a career day or something like that at school and one of my classmates brought his aunt who worked on that movie. She showed us some early pre-sfx footage she had of the t-rex chase where it was just a tennis ball on a stick. Definitely not something that could happen today, but that was before every kid had a camera on them at all times.

the lack of tourists.

It's a big country, that's definitely not the case coast to coast.

The annexation threats and tariffs just caused people to stop booking, the massively increased chance of being detained is what's causing the cancellations.

The third that didn't vote essentially said "I'm happy either way". I don't think that's much better.

The sad thing is on this current trajectory there will be a day when it actually looks like a hopeful, optimistic view of the future.

I guess I didn't make my point clear enough. At this point it's about as neutral as an empty space, the only way to make it worse is for it to make the mall worse, like having an entrance closed (or if we want to get silly, like having the employees squirt you with water guns while you're walking past to get to the food court).

Growth is doing a lot of work in that sentence. I'm not debating the actual numbers of each of these countries, but if 50% of your population is obese it's practically impossible to double while if it's 10% doubling isn't that crazy.

How can you enshittify the Bay? I guess closing them will technically enshittify most malls as it'll remove at least one entrance/exit to the parking lot.

Probably because a photo of broccoli doesn't really look any different if it's Canadian or American.

I'm in Canada and recently our food banks (at least in my area) have been getting huge donations of all the unsold American produce.

I'm cautiously optimistic. I'm just hoping these housing projects will be targeted towards high cost of living areas and not just where it's easy. We don't just want a new megacity in northern Manitoba that would sit empty while technically fulfilling the promise.

Interesting. Without all the actual data I'd have to hypothesize the big cities finally hit a tipping point, and these drops haven't hit the smaller towns that the people priced out by the cities have been moving to.

Where's that? Definitely not a nationwide trend.

I'm hoping that the 20% includes mostly people who are just opposed (but not strongly). Still idiots, but not likely traitors.

And when the only eggs causing issues at the border were Kinder.

"It's not a war it's a special military operation"

That makes us look kinda shitty though, maybe instead y'all could pull a major redemption move and remind us why the second amendment is held so near and dear to y'all's hearts.