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[–] Septapus@lemmy.ca 1 points 11 minutes ago

The world needs to tariff ALL elon companies and move away from American products/offerings in general. We need something to replace AWS in the worst way. The world needs to remember the corporations foreign and domestic that helped faciliate this and freeze them out because if they do it here in the US they WILL do it in your countries too. Toyota helped fund 1/6 for example. I will never buy a toyota because of it and elons companies will never get any patronage from me either.

[–] NightCrawlerProMax@lemmy.world 3 points 30 minutes ago (1 children)

That would be like replacing evil with another evil. CCP are not angels.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 1 points 13 minutes ago* (last edited 8 minutes ago)

But they sell cheap EVs, aren't threatening to invade, and Musk's Swasticars can't compete. It's just economic pragmatism.

Use the Chinese EVs while building up local infrastructure. If Canada wants native production it won't happen overnight, but if it doesn't make a deliberate and significant push for it it's simply never going to happen at all and you'll always be importing from, and therefore dependent on, someone.

[–] zeepintor@lemmy.world 7 points 54 minutes ago (1 children)

How about japanese ones? :P Better invest on our own infrastructure, we need Canadian EVs!

[–] beejboytyson@lemmy.world 1 points 43 minutes ago (1 children)

This. Economic nationalism is the only way

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 1 points 17 minutes ago

The fascists unironically agree, which is what caused this mess. It's kind of their main thing?

It will also be what they use to justify the invasion of Canada.

[–] hopesdead@startrek.website 9 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Good, the tariffs that is.

[–] Prandom_returns@lemm.ee 18 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

Yes, more Chinese infrastructure, that phones home and can be turned off remotely, with a switch, is definitely what the West need.

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 14 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

and thats any worse than US tech because?

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[–] Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee 15 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Why just a tariff? Just ban all Tesla vehicle imports and all sales of new Tesla vehicles. For owners of existing vehicles they should be offered a generous buyback and equally generous loan terms for a new or used car. That would encourage most Tesla owners to trade-in their vehicles.

[–] Thanos@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago

And what would the government do with the buyback vehicles?

[–] AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip 27 points 6 hours ago (3 children)

Or just fix public transit for fucks sake. Evs are a distraction from the problemm

[–] But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

I’ve been hearing this my whole life and I’m old now, none of the parties seem to have any interest in building transit. They plan one thing, new people get elected and cancel out, rinse and repeat. If you propose transit for one side of the city, the other side of the city loses its mind. So it’s like a political football just being tossed back and forth

[–] DTguess@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 hour ago

They all come out of the same mold. Why would you expect anything different

[–] MadPsyentist@lemmy.nz 2 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)

101% this. Driving my mates and I yesterday on a completely packed 4 lane highway. 90% of cars were a single driver, no pasangers.

Even if we exclude tradie vans and utes who ill assume are at least transporting tools and gear, if every one of those vehicles carried 1 other person or chose to bike instead ( Christchurch, New Zealeand, we have good biking infrastructure also a bike path that follows the length of the highway) or even take the bus (public transport is pretty good) we would see an instant 50% reduction in traffic over night.

[–] AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Did traffic get worse in nz in the past few years? When i was there there was absolutely no traffic but to be fair i mainly went to the rural parts so maybe i just missed it. Even so the larger cities could be connected by public transit, especially when theres a 10 hour drive from one city to another one, a train there would be much more comfortable. Its basically a straight line as well so the train could go pretty fast withoutnany big sacrifices. Idk tho i only spent 3 weeks there, not an expert by any means.

[–] Scurouno@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 hours ago

Traffic can be absolutely awful in NZ. Largely because there are a lot of natural choke points which don't allow for wide roadways, and the investment in large road infrastructure has not kept up with the need. Auckland traffic is abysmal, as it is essentially one large north-south column with a few trunks.

Christchurch isn't bad, but the highways through the city have a lot of lights and with the traffic load it can take a long time to get places. It's a lot like Winnipeg, it doesn't have freeways to get you around quick without stopping constantly.

[–] gutsnsuch@lemm.ee -3 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

You must be that depressed looking man at the back of the bus when I drive by one in my Tesla.

[–] AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 hour ago

Lol i take the train and it takes half the time as the car. I also have a smaller chance of dying in a car accident and i can watch youtube without hitting a pedestrian. Dont get me wrong, im a car guy but i respect the safety of other people and the environment so i enjoy them in a responsible way.

[–] jerkface@lemmy.ca 11 points 6 hours ago

The benefit of a tarrif on Tesla vs opening the market to China is that we can easily undo it if there is a US coup, Trump gets medicated, gets burned, whatever. There's still the potential that this is a temporary situation, not the new reality. If we open up to a third party, we can't put the genie back in the bottle.

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