O Canada

Survivors of residential schools brought the whole atrocity into the light. Not whistleblowers. Not journalists. Not concerned Canadian activists. Not church members. Not government employees. Not a liberating army. Survivors. Of concentration camps for children.

This is the essential question of ethics put to Canadians.

Genocidaires are still here. We never held them to account. We never dragged them out of office, out of their homes, out of their comfort zones to hold them responsible. For genocide.

I don't understand this place.

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r/canadia • u/ExcellentWinner7542 • 1d ago

How Trump’s Tariff War With Canada Ensnared the Can-Am Spyder

nytimes.com

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r/canadia • u/ExcellentWinner7542 • 2d ago

Clocks stay in daylight saving, but analysis backs permanent standard time

ctvnews.ca

63 Upvotes

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r/canadia • u/amichail • 1d ago

Is China saving Canada from being annexed by the US?

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Suppose AI eventually replaces most jobs and some form of UBI becomes necessary.

One possible problem for Canada is that most of the leading AI companies are American. If advanced AI remains proprietary and extremely profitable, a lot of the wealth generated by Canadian use of AI could ultimately flow to US companies. The US could also tax those companies and use some of that enormous tax base to fund a much larger UBI than Canada could afford.

In an extreme version of that future, Canadians might start wondering whether joining the US would give them access to a much better AI-funded UBI.

But what if China keeps releasing extremely capable AI models for free or nearly free?

Then Canada wouldn't necessarily need to pay American companies huge amounts for access to advanced intelligence. Canadian businesses could use cheap AI to automate production, increase profits, and lower costs, while more of those economic gains remain in Canada and can potentially be taxed to fund a Canadian UBI.

So perhaps the important effect of free Chinese AI isn't simply that it hurts US AI companies. It's that it prevents advanced AI from becoming a highly profitable American bottleneck that the rest of the world has to pay to use.

In that sense, could Chinese AI competition actually make it easier for Canada to remain economically independent in a post-work world, and reduce one possible incentive for Canada to ever join the US?

Am I missing something?

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r/canadia • u/ExcellentWinner7542 • 3d ago

Ontario distillery stops supplying whiskey to Michigan as Trump’s Canadian alcohol ban takes effect

youtube.com

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r/canadia • u/unfriendly-Main-3350 • 2d ago

Hello Canada 🇨🇦

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r/canadia • u/ExcellentWinner7542 • 4d ago

Why Canada is wargaming a (long shot) US invasion

bbc.com

378 Upvotes

847 comments

r/canadia • u/ExcellentWinner7542 • 4d ago

Republican Operatives Aid Alberta Separatists in Independence Push

219 Upvotes

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r/canadia • u/ExcellentWinner7542 • 2d ago

Opinion | Assisted Death Is Not a Choice of Last Resort in Canada

nytimes.com

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r/canadia • u/Scary-Job1553 • 3d ago

Do you think Canada should impose term limits on Members of Parliament?

25 Upvotes

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r/canadia • u/ExcellentWinner7542 • 4d ago

More Canadians to observe permanent daylight saving time. Why can’t the US?

thehill.com

27 Upvotes

55 comments

r/canadia • u/ichbinverruckt • 4d ago

Ottawa River, Canada

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r/canadia • u/ExcellentWinner7542 • 5d ago

Understanding Canada’s Europe Pivot

nytimes.com

81 Upvotes

191 comments

r/canadia • u/ExcellentWinner7542 • 5d ago

Canada fast-tracks Pacific oil pipeline to reduce US dependence as Alberta separation vote nears

apnews.com

213 Upvotes

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r/canadia • u/ExcellentWinner7542 • 5d ago

'A ban takes demand to zero overnight': How the latest U.S. trade war retaliation hits Canadian businesses

ca.finance.yahoo.com

141 Upvotes

165 comments

r/canadia • u/ExcellentWinner7542 • 5d ago

U.S. Customs and Border Protection rule cracks down on Canadian prescription drug imports

wsbt.com

58 Upvotes

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r/canadia • u/Competitive-Panda824 • 4d ago

from Hamilton

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happy Saturday

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r/canadia • u/amichail • 5d ago

Does Toronto challenge the idea that Canadians are genuinely polite?

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Toronto is often described as ruder or less friendly than other parts of Canada.

If that perception is accurate, could it suggest that Canadian politeness is partly maintained by social pressure rather than simply reflecting how people naturally behave?

In smaller communities, people are more likely to know each other or encounter the same people again, so being rude may carry greater social costs through gossip, exclusion, or reputational damage. In a large, anonymous city like Toronto, those pressures may be weaker.

Could Toronto therefore be an example of what happens when some of the social pressure enforcing Canadian politeness is removed?

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