That’s the plan with all the deal making with other countries.

Makes trying to get a deal with the Americans much less important. And makes the Canadian poison much stronger in those potential negotiations.

For made an EV pickup. No one bought them.

Have you seen the prices the were asking?

Make them less of a "luxury " vehicle (both in terms of “options” and price) and more people will want to buy.

And another with France.

The American president has invited Canada to become his country’s “51st state,”

Not invited.

He threatened to annex Canada.

It’s bad for the country to lose all manufacturing capability.

Blame 50+ years of companies outsourcing everything and closing on-shore production with the single goal of increasing short-term shareholder value at the exclusion of every other consideration (even ignoring harm to the long term survival of the business itself).

It’s not exactly “the country” that did this, it’s wall street specifically and the people who kowtow to its demands.

And the system fixed so all this can’t happen again.

How did Sears

That one baffles me. They were doing catalog based mail order since the start of their business.

They should have been in the perfect position to compete with what Amazon has become. They already had all the infrastructure in place. All they needed was a decent website version of their existing catalog with a simple ordering method, and they utterly failed at that.

Nintendo was a card manufacturing company but is now a videogame titan. Fujifilm went from photo and film to biotechnology. Sony just recently eked out to finance and investing

Hitachi makes consumer electronics and heavy industrial construction machinery.

But somehow Ford can only make F150s and Mustangs any more…

Well, yeah, cash is king - at least for in person.

Though there are some places local to me that have gone 100% cashless. Which is annoying.

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It’s always a roll of the dice what Trump might freak out about next.

Ultimately I think people are taking a bit of time to substantially shift their investment portfolios/strategies.

I have a meeting with my investment guy this afternoon.

The instructions I gave when scheduling the meeting were to get my investments out of the American economy as much as is possible (acknowledging that they’ve got their dirty little fingers in everything globally).

Last year I reduced my exposure to the US by about half, as he advised that the funds were already doing some amount of adjustment for risk avoidance so I shouldn’t make any “hasty decisions”.

Now I just want out. Even if it costs me a few points of growth in the short term.

Edit: meeting finished, the investment guy said I was far from his only client making the same request.

Every election in the future is going to see AI generated deepfake bullshit.

Hell, there are already fake AI commercials with “Carney” saying things he never said, and making claims that are the opposite of what his actual actions are.

But to that chart - if oil and gas take a hit, real estate isn’t a productive industry

Neither is professional management, professional services (both largely related to the oil&gas industry).

Also manufacturing, transportation, retail and pretty much every other category that sells stuff to the o&g industry and their staff and suppliers.

Alan a lot of brands that are thought of as traditionally European have American ownership.

They’ve spread their tentacles far and wide.

And they pay with mastercard visa or PayPal

What credit card companies are not owned and/or controlled by the Americans?

Obviously we need better options, but until those exist what “better way” do you suggest?

Epstein’s “day job” was being a socialite.

…

because he was the guy who knew everybody in a position of power, his network shows who has the power.

Exactly. He was actively seeking out wealthy and influential people to add to his circle of influence.

people say the PC party is an Alberta-Manitoba party

What?

Have you seen who the Manitoba provincial government is?

Manitoba has never been part of the “western sepratism” bullshit either.

Exactly

I don’t think most voters want yet another federal election so soon after the last one. And will punish the party who causes a too soon general election.

There will be by-election to fill the empty seats, but that’s it.