so, they end up eating in food banks and competing with canada's existing poor for already stretched resources. this just downloads costs to municipalities, it doesn't eliminate or reduce them.

the feds should be paying these costs. it's their program and their responsibility.

https://www.cp24.com/news/canada/2026/02/25/almost-half-of-toronto-area-immigrant-settlement-services-expect-program-closures/

america can make it's shitty gas guzzling pickups and suvs.

let's try to get contracts for bmw and mercedes to build their newer ev cars here.

let them hike the price on the whiskey.

those homeless drunks over there can drink their cheap american whiskey. but, high grade, expensive canadian whiskey will be the whiskey of choice for america's more sophisticated gentlemen.

you get the point.

take lumber, for instance.

market it is canadian premium lumber. let them tariff it. sell it to people that want higher grade wood, whatever that means.

american dairy products would be unable to pass health and safety tests in canada. it's unclear why the americans don't understand this; american dairy products are full of poisonous hormones that canadian regulators will not allow to be sold and that canadian consumers don't want to consume because they're cancerous.

you can take your carcinogenic milk and go fuck yourselves. we don't want it. we won't buy it. we won't drink it. 

you can put it on the shelves, and it will rot. 

if the united states wants to sell milk in canada, it's going to have to change it's regulatory practices first. 

this issue is not on the table.

canadians don't want to buy poisoned american milk. it's a fucking garbage, piece of shit product.

canada should consequently happily embrace the tariffs and market canadian milk in the united states as healthier than american milk, with a mark-up. smart consumers will pay more for a superior product.

this is ready to go when it comes to milk because there's a clear difference: clean, hormone-free canadian milk is clearly superior to poisoned, shit american milk. but this is the template that canada should follow.

let the americans mark our goods up. fine. canadian exporters should focus on making superior products aimed at more discerning consumers, and import more from mexico to offset it. further, we should be implementing export taxes on goods that the americans require as our retaliatory measure. we should not enforce retaliatory tariffs.

if the americans want to cut themselves out, that's their choice. it will be up to us to make them pay for it.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/trump-tariffs-canada-trade-deal-jamieson-greer-interview-9.7104990

the greeks and romans were aware of black africans, so this idea that early pre-modern europeans thought they were monkeys or gorillas is silly. rather, there are quotes from leading intellectuals of the period suggesting the opposite - that they found it intuitively obvious that the other great apes are in fact people, too.

this idea tying black people to dirty monkeys is really post-evolutionary and largely post-slavery, reconstruction period deep south bible belt ignorance.

the greeks called the blacks ethiopians, often with the homeric epithet snub-nosed ethiopians, because they thought they were so badly sunburned that they turned black, like a chicken in the fire. it's clear from the mythology that the greeks explored africa and decided it wasn't worth it, but kept their colonies on the coasts of southern europe, west asia and north africa. the romans fought wars down the nile and lost but managed to convert them to christianity, like they converted the germans. there is evidence of them sailing down both sides of the coast of africa. on the west, there are colonies well down the atlantic coast and they knew there was a bend around west africa. on the east, they made it to the south african coast but don't seem to have circumnavigated it. roman maps from antiquity have the island of madagascar on it. there were expeditions to find the source of the nile and the written records indicate they got to the great lakes but turned back due to the climate. there is evidence of roman settlement around lake tchad. they describe wildlife in the niger river delta. african traders brought goods into the empire from the desert and beyond and there's no indication they were seen differently than arabs, indians or any other non-european traders.

by the time the spaniards were driving the muslims out of spain, the arabs had been enslaving west africa for 1000 years. they don't teach you about the other part of the reconquista, the part that failed until the french did it, which was the reconquest of northern africa. standing in southern europe in the year 1450, you didn't see this natural geographic barrier across the pillars of hercules separating europe from africa and christian from muslim, you saw the carthaginian part of rome half reconquered and half still held by barbarians and usurpers. the entirety of north africa, from egypt to the atlantic, was roman. the spanish fully intended to finish the job by conquering morocco, algeria, tunisia and libya and rechristianizing and reromanizing it but they just failed to. had they not discovered america instead, they probably would have. this is where tying blacks to slavery develops, when the spanish began to participate in the islamic slave trade and expanded it to america, but it was really about religion, and not about race.

this is an interesting post:

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/2p8w31/how_long_have_black_african_people_been/

hey, look at this.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10258415/

by the way

i think representative green could use a shave.

he's looking a little chimpish, with all that shit on his chin.

all people are apes.

the democrats are just never going to accept that primate evolution is a fact, are they?

william jennings bryan would truly be proud.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/24/al-green-sign-protest-state-of-union

i did my taxes electronically yesterday morning. first day.

what's my income going to be for 2026? more than 2025, by quite a bit.

odsp: $1408/month until aug 1, 2025. the cpi is a little higher for 2025 than 2024. it's probably going to be 3.4%. if so, that would increase rates to $1456/month.

cohb: currently $401/month. this will change as follows in july or august: 1000*1.021 - 599*1.034 is...$401. no change.

cdb: $200/month to june, set to increase to $204 in july.

otb: $75 to june, set to increase  to $85 in july because i paid extra rent last year.

gst: $110 quarterly in april, set to increase to $138 due to the amount of rent i paid last year and again to $172 due to the legislated 25% increase in july. they should also send me a lump sum payment of $220 some time soon.

total: 

1408+401+200+75+110/4 = 2111/month. 

                                            - $1000 (rent)

                                            - $30 (internet)

===================================

                                              $1081

in july:

1456+401+204+85+172/4 = 2189/month

                                            - 1021 (rent)

                                            - 30 (internet)

==================================

                                             $1138, roughly

2189*12 = $26268

does that mean i'll have to pay taxes?

the cdb, otb and gst are not taxable. taxable social assistance amounts are:

(1456+401)*12 = 22284.

i might have to pay a "healthcare premium" on that of something like $50, which is goofy, but whatever.

however, the $50,000 of education credits i have should offset that. if it comes up as a taxable amount, it will convert itself into a refund.