Unfortunately haven't, I don't rely on any of my personal domains for email.
I did just re-check to see if the email forwarding was working correctly, and it is -- but if it was failing sporadically I'm not sure I would even notice because my usage of it is so minimal.
For what it's worth, I did need to use their email support once and they were very pleasant and easy to work with.
Canadians had become accustomed to expect special treatment, which in this context means the barest shred of humanity coming through.
I don’t get a vote if Canada gets special treatment by their country or not. If it was up to me, I’d rather that Canadians not get hauled off in chains for making a mistake, but that’s up to Americans and that’s what they chose.
But what I will do is remind Canadians that they aren’t getting special treatment anymore.
Obligatory reminder that “no special treatment” means you get treated like a Haitian or Mexican or Muslim trying to enter the US. Yes, even a white Canadian.
In no way am i blaming the victim here, but we can learn a lesson from her experience: Don’t go.
I moved my domains over to EasyDNS.ca because they are supported by both letsencrypt and acme.sh — happy with their service so far and zero complaints.
We have been lazy, and worried more about not offending America than doing what's best for us. If nothing else the current situation has started to wake us up to that fact.
I don’t feel like you were accusing me specifically, but the shoe fits.
Subconsciously I think I thought we were safe in Canada. Too white, too much cultural and shared history. Sure we knew we had to separate ourselves but we could do that tomorrow and we had other problems today.
And like you said it’s been a wake-up. For me certainly.
The time to wonder how they’d respond has passed. They already have responded; they are working to destroy us.
I don’t know what they’ll do. They’ve lost every time they’ve tried to occupy a country and they will have the same experience here. But that hasn’t stopped them from repeatedly trying.
It would bring ruination upon both countries but we cannot control them. I hope they realize that before they try.
And at the risk of being a jerk — you should feel scared. I’m scared. It’s scary stuff! But I can find some comfort in standing up what’s right for our people.
This sucks and is it the specific reason why some of the business-oriented interests have been pushing for the trade war.
There’s no way to avoid this; it’s just going to be a painful and sizeable adjustment period.
But as we restructure our economy away from relying on America, we will build new jobs and businesses.
They need our minerals, water, trees, and our energy. We don’t need them for anything. So it will suck in the short term but it will get better. It’s the start of something new, and that’s scary and uncertain but let’s do it.
I feel you on that. I’ve been on a bit of a tear myself, spilling thousands of words on this site and Reddit and Bluesky in various posts and comments.
Many of us are not informed well enough to really understand if the negativity surrounding the F35 is accurate. There’s a lot of technicality and conflicting information and biases that a layperson kinda gets lost in it.
To be honest you paint a compelling picture and I’m inclined to believe it, especially as this has been described as a wasteful failure for quite some time by many sources.
But the neat thing is that now it doesn’t even matter because even if the damn thing was fantastic we don’t want it anyhow. You don’t let your biggest national security threat supply you arms. That’s just stupid.
So yeah you’re probably right. But either way we decline.
This is super cool. And you’ve inspired this Canadian to start moving more payments to Interac. Love the message and I’m on board.
My suggestion to accompany this with policy is not an alternative to taking personal action, but complementary.
One piece of constructive feedback on the artwork— it might be helpful to stress the positive aspect front and centre. For example lead with Interac with a maple leaf, and the American systems in lower prominence by having them 2/3 sized and positioned below.
Please don’t misconstrue my feedback in your mind as an attempt to distract or demoralize you through bike-shedding or anything like that. You’re doing great stuff and it’s inspiring.
You’re correct that it’s a monopoly, but the point I’m trying to make is that because of the network effect the monopoly will be difficult to unseat without accompanying policy.
I have a Hyundai EV and I love it. It’s a fantastic vehicle.
But also, the Chinese EVs are extremely cheap relative to these. If they are trustworthy or safe or good is open to interpretation but they have been extremely popular in Australia for example.
My concern is that we’re antagonizing a potential trade ally to protect a domestic industry which feels to me like it cannot thrive in the medium and long-term. It relies too much on the Americans and they have been unreliable and chaotic which is bad for an integrated production system.
I’m on board for this but this proposal is up against a familiar devil: the network effect.
Shops support Visa and Mastercard because customers use them, customers use them because shops support them. This creates a powerful network that is extremely difficult for an upstart to unseat.
So while it’s a good idea to encourage people to take individual action on this — and you’re doing a great job doing so, and I’m taking it to heart for my own actions — we also need to accompany this with a policy solution to help overcome the network effect.
They will choose the cheapest option which should generally be Interac.
I expect the authoritarian posturing and nationalism will be successful inside America as the world unites against them. And that any further hopes they have of opposition will be strangled by increasing anti-democratic measures as time goes on. That’s the playbook that has been successful elsewhere and I see no basis for believing in American exceptionalism here.
Will be extremely happy to be wrong on this, but I can’t see a world where waiting until 2028 works out for Democrats.
That’s super cool. I’d absolutely spend extra for Montreal bananas.
My home province of BC has been doing pretty good at growing stuff in hothouses, I’ve even routinely buying local lettuce and peppers and mushrooms from big stores like Costco even before the boycott started.
So we can do this. It will take some time to ramp up and getting imports from allies will help with us this transition period and beyond.
This is an extremely good point. Perhaps I should have addressed this in my rant opinion piece, because it's absolutely true. I've been confused by the Green Party's whiplash and underwhelmed by the federal NDP's muted approach.
I will admit that I have enjoyed seeing Singh getting sharper in his criticism in recent months, and wish we could have seen more of that for the past years. He is saying things that need to be said, and I commend him for that. But I imagine a world where Charlie Angus won in 2017 and that feels like a better world than this one.
I hope out of the ashes of all this we can get someone on the left we deserve too. Call me naive but I have this intangible gut feeling that we will? That if Singh resigns, the current mood is such that we have a chance of getting someone really inspiring to take charge of the left going forward? I sincerely hope we do.
I'm hopeful that he will be! It will be a difficult time and we really do need the best right now.
I know it sounds like hyperbole but the thought really does make me want to cry, especially as he's ramped up so effectively in recent months.
Exactly.
And what pisses me off is the calculation that you implicitly state, that by not reacting now the Democrats know they are "safe" because the ire is pointed somewhere else. It pisses me off because I recognize the same impulses in myself. I didn't think Canada was in danger when the ire was on Mexicans and Haitians and Muslims. Just like they don't see the danger now.
But when the barrel is pointed at you, you see more clearly. We are today, and the cowering Democrats are next. The longer they wait, the harder it will get -- but that's how divide and conquer works. The groups all accept the evils being done to the current group to buy their own safety, and they get picked off one by one.
And as you say -- in Canada we have a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to break this cycle here. We see what's coming now, and we won't break.