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What a shitty thing to do on the USA's birthday, as if it will do any help to the USA's already ravaged tourism industry. It's sad since compared to the rest of the functioning world, the National Park System is the ONLY good thing going for the USA. And yet Trump wants to jeopardize that!

Dear rest of the world, please visit North America but definitely consider changing your US itineraries to Canada so you won't directly give any money to Trump's USA or fear being jailed if something is wrong with your paperwork.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/47348376

link cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/32662355

Here are the contractors who helped build Alligator Alcatraz

The other state contractors include Deployed Resources LLC, the port-a-potty company Doodie Calls, GardaWorld, Garner Environmental Services, Gothams LLC, Granny’s Alliance, Longview International Technological Solutions and SLS-WSP JV.

GardaWorld Cash, one of several companies affiliated with GardaWorld — one of the world’s largest security services companies, according to its website — gave $5,000 to DeSantis’ Empower Parents political action committee in 2018. The political organization, which went by Friends of Ron DeSantis at the time, was created to support DeSantis’ first bid for governor.

GardaWorld has also been eyed for Florida’s immigration agenda before — it was one of the vendors picked by the state to fly migrants out of Florida. A representative from GardaWorld did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Wednesday evening.

It wasn't clear to me where Canada comes in or what the ownership is, but clicking over to About GardaWorld it is clarified.

After identifying an opportunity to consolidate the fragmented private security industry, Stephan Crétier founded GardaWorld (then Trans-Quebec Security Inc.) in 1995 with a $25,000 investment derived from a second mortgage on his home. Only a few years later, the company was making $40 million annually in revenue. Over the past 30 years, he has built one of the world’s largest security services companies organically and through strategic M&A.

Mr. Crétier remains a highly-driven and engaged entrepreneur leading a strong bench of exceptionally talented and empowered managers. GardaWorld differentiates itself through a unique performance-based culture with strict accountability for operational performance. The company adheres to a deep ownership mentality with Mr. Crétier and management holding a majority equity ownership stake in the business, which is now valued at C$14 billion.

Scroll down to read their "timeline". Each item has the feeling of being immense crimes.

I had been using Dawn dishwash spray. Is there Canadian choices, or at least non-US brands?

Thanks

edit: I'm referring to https://www.costco.ca/dawn-platinum-powerwash-dish-spray-with-refills.product.100572751.html

Like tasty ones with clean ingredients to go with my salads.

"That’s why we manufacture all of our products here in Canada, collaborating with local partners who share our values, from R&D to the printing of our labels."

I wax my chains, so I don't use their lube, but their bike cleaning products are fantastic!

Avoid Paywall

I've seen mentions of this site before, but haven't explored it till now. It's neat, I imagine other provinces have similar resources?

Also, games made by Canadian game devs https://store.steampowered.com/curator/45548675-Canadian-Games-Devs

“Wine firms here in the U.S. thought that a tariff on (imported) goods, including wine from Canada, would be a boon, but it has turned out the other way around,” Gotta love it 😊

I like them because they’re vegan and use clean ingredients. However they’re unfortunately American 👎

I know of Mr.noodles but they use sketchy additives to make them. It’s nice they’re cheap and you can buy them in bulk.