i really don't think it's a good idea for trump to meet emaciated holocaust victims being released by hamas, who need a discrete process and medical attention, not somebody brandishing them as trump property with a hot iron on their non-existent ass.

i couldn't imagine something so self-centred and morally depraved. this man is a disgrace to humanity.

it is abundantly clear that hamas will not step down, and is instead carrying out extrajudicial killings of it's democratic opponents. there was no likelihood of a different outcome. it needs to be annihilated with force and burned to death with fire.

peace is stupid when your opponent is a barbarian.

in the long run, and medium run in 2025, there is no discernible upside in supporting clearly doomed american auto manufacturing of big, dirty vehicles supported by taxpayer subsidies and cultural brainwashing via bombardment of advertisements on tv, which is itself dying. those products cannot continue to exist and should not receive government subsidies. they will need to be replaced by more efficient, cheaper, cleaner products that have higher market demand for them.

it's actually a red herring because the chinese evs are small cars and the american-canadian auto industry ony creates pickup trucks and suvs, because they're more profitable. the chinese evs pose no discernible threat to any american made product.

what they do pose a threat to, and will be competing with, is german, korean and japanese made smaller cars, which are dominating the market because they're what people want. the chinese evs could be damaging to volkswagon or honda, but they pose no real threat to ford or gm.

the best idea is to convince the chinese to make the cars in ontario.

https://www.ctvnews.ca/video/2025/10/12/china-agrees-to-drop-canola-tariffs-if-canada-drops-its-ev-tariffs-first/

the lines outside of the official food banks in windsor were short, but the line outside of the goodfellows on friday felt like the fall of communism.

after thatcher, western society made a purposeful decision to privatize food distribution to religious organizations. this wasn't due to government mismanagement, and isn't some kind of mistake. thatcherite and randian ideology argues that it is not the role of government to distribute services to the population, and that citizens should not be taxed to distribute resources justly. rather, they argue it is up to the church to do this, and that the church should be funded by donations, rather than taxes. this is seen by conservatives as a decrease in government coercion, and increase in voluntarism, but it wouldn't feel that way to anybody reliant on the services, who are now forced to deal with religious institutions that have views they don't adhere to or agree with, rather than governments bound by bills of rights and guarantees for universal access and secularist value systems. this is fundamentally rooted in the theoretical economic mistake that markets are efficient and government are not, which was popular in ivory towers 50 years ago, but which has been proven 100% exactly wrong by thorough empirical data, which demonstrates very clearly that markets are infinitely more wasteful than governments, and that virtually every market will be expected to fail almost immediately, without deep and consistent government intervention.

increasing the cdb is one approach, although i'll point out that people don't seem to realize that it's tied to inflation. if you're going to tie it to inflation, it makes sense to come in low. the cdb will increase on a yearly basis and the increases will compound over time. if they had come in with a higher number, that might have been harder to maintain.

it is a better idea to allow governments to centralize resources, which is even easier to do now than ever due to advances in technology leading to increases in speed and efficiency in warehousing and database management. a province wide distribution system that accepts inputs from producers and suppliers would be far easier for the government to manage than it is for a free market of volunteers and religionists to hack together.

like so many of the problems facing us, the solution begins in undoing the free market ideology that western capitalism has adopted since the 1970s as ideologically backwards and empirically wrong and re-embracing centralization and government supply management, which the technology has dumped on our laps as feasible, logical and cost effective to implement. until we have this shift of mindset, we will continue to decay in the dystopia of late capitalist free market economics.

https://www.ctvnews.ca/video/2025/10/12/ctv-national-news-high-demand-putting-strain-on-food-banks-this-thanksgiving/