If America loses its purchasing power all it'll have left is its military. Beyond being the world's consumption epicenter and selling services, there's not much else to stand on.

I have a feeling the US won't be the country that makes the next legitimate AI breakthrough, even with Trump trying to remove all guardrails and onshore hardware production.

I'm guessing trumps spike on support by Latin American folk can be explained by religious zealots like her?

Agree that it doesn't exactly cause a net gain in these markets since it can be so hard to know when to let your foot off the brake but it certainly has been a tool for protecting certain markets from Western hegemony, which would be modern day colonialism by some standards.

Understaffing is a major issue. Recently having an E. Coli outbreak from their food doesn't help either.

It used to be that the food was at least fast and hot. Now there are times where you'll wait 20 minutes, it will be cold and might make you sick.

Add to that the price going up while the food is either the same or worse since the 90s.

In short, they've gotten greedy and they assumed it wouldn't affect demand which is not how economics work but it's how the worst of capitalists want it to work.

CBC demonstrated that several Canadian subreddits (which are toxic cesspits rife with divisieness) are run by Russian bots so it's not just US influence.

Sadly I think this could be the beginning of the end for the NDP. They struggled to fill Jack Laytons shoes and though Jagmeet was a less well received leader, I feel they will struggle to fill his shoes too. The Americanization of Canada has already begun.

I'd say socially they are. Fiscally... only the NDP is consistently really left of center.

If I'm reading this correctly, the political right in Canada need the political left to split the vote under a FPTP system in order to succeed?

Tariffs are important to emerging markets as they allow for growth of domestic production. Generally they are a part of a phased liberalization strategy to promote local growth and then tariffs are eased to allow foreign corporations to enter the market so that there is adequate competition.

Not much of a precedent for the richest country on earth to use them. America lost quite a bit of manufacturing to China so some degree of protectionism directed that way could be a reasonable strategy but a global tariff instituted by a wealthy nation is essentially pants on head stupid, which is what I believe you're pointing out.

America's problems are largely internal inequality. Trying to punish the world won't fix that.

Its rich relative to the value they produce.

This guy secured a government pension by the time most people are still trying to get their footing financially. He's also never created anything of value as a career politician. At the very least Justin Trudeau was a drama teacher and snowboard instructor. Carney has had multiple 'grown up' jobs. I wouldn't feel bad for PP.

That would be hilarious but they're going to make sure it's a conservative stronghold. Sucks for whichever MP gets booted on his behalf but that's what you get for having a leader like PP.

I see where you're coming from but I think that line can be drawn by people with a moral compass, which I understand America is failing at right now.

I truly believe most people can distinguish between threatening to bomb children and any of the examples you've listed but perhaps I'm giving people too much of a benefit of the doubt.

Bomb threats to local schools were also being sent via Proton.

If they aren't going to help deal with that then I can understand why turning them off and figuring out is the next best step.

Other services likely engage with local authorities when illegal activity is pursued in their platform.

Temporary blocking doesn't seem unreasonable to me. Perhaps even a longer term one if Swiss federal authorities are going to meddle.

An MP in a conservative stronghold has to resign and then he can run there in a byelection to get back into the House of Commons. The timing of the byelection is determined by Prime Minister Carney though, so he could very well be put until 2026.

Whoever the conservatives choose as parliamentary leader can defer it to him according to CBC, so he shouldn't have to move out.

I don't know thats its too high especially of it was going to be much more than that if not for Trump's threats, Trudeau's resignation and Carney's ascension.

Too close from whose perspective?

The liberals had no business winning this election. All metrics pointed to a conservwtive land slide until Trump got involved and Carney seemingly handled him better than Trudeau.

Carney is going to have to perform above average in his first term otherwise the liberals will be absolutely decimated in 4 years.

This is borrowed time. Even an average performance now will guarantee Poilievre a win in 4 years. The Liberals are going to have to get more done in 4 years than they have in the past 10 to prevent that.

I don't know if America is the right place to take advice on that at the moment. Whatever plan is being implemented there has clearly failed profoundly.

Unless you're saying Canada should learn from America's mistakes but the countries are very different so I doubt the lessons would be meaningful.