this post was submitted on 07 Feb 2025
352 points (99.7% liked)

Canada

7562 readers
894 users here now

What's going on Canada?



Related Communities


🍁 Meta


🗺️ Provinces / Territories


🏙️ Cities / Local Communities

Sorted alphabetically by city name.


🏒 SportsHockey

Football (NFL): incomplete

Football (CFL): incomplete

Baseball

Basketball

Soccer


💻 Schools / Universities

Sorted by province, then by total full-time enrolment.


💵 Finance, Shopping, Sales


🗣️ Politics


🍁 Social / Culture


Rules

  1. Keep the original title when submitting an article. You can put your own commentary in the body of the post or in the comment section.

Reminder that the rules for lemmy.ca also apply here. See the sidebar on the homepage: lemmy.ca


founded 4 years ago
MODERATORS
top 23 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] [email protected] 2 points 18 minutes ago* (last edited 7 minutes ago)

Who wants to bet that Amazon will create a shell company to sell to Montreal?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Good call. The odds of Bezos of being part of Vichy America's cabal is high. A man who prefers their deliveryfolk to piss in bottles and break their bodies in warehouses, is pretty likely to support a war machine that assaults Canada.

It will be important for Canada to divorce itself from as many Vichy services and goods as possible.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 hour ago

I was about to cave use Amazon because how much cheaper things were compared to eBay.

That story about pissing in bottles came out right when I made my account and I’ve never once used it. Don’t even remember the password.

[–] Rentlar 30 points 8 hours ago

Amazon l'ont bien mérité après ils ont fermé les entrepôts syndiqués.

Amazon deserves it after they closed unionized warehouses.

[–] [email protected] 68 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Legends. Please more of exactly this. Fuck Amazon so hard.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Hard caveat: As long as the local provider is not just drop shipping Amazon.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 25 minutes ago

If that's the only option and the local provider is the same final price as Amazon, that still would mean more money stays in Canada and less goes to bozo. Not perfect, but better.

[–] Arghblarg 54 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

Yes! Every Canadian municipality and provincial department should do this.

[–] ThePrivacyPolicy 10 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

IMO all government at every level should be mandated to support local and/or Canadian first when possible. I don't why an entity that serves the people can't also be directly supporting those they serve instead of putting that money into other countries - just seems backasswards to me.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 children)

I agree completely.

Man I miss the days when my neighbors owned the local businesses. These soulless corporations have totally destroyed the small town “American dream”.

I miss walking into our old hardware store and picking a Super Nintendo game every now and then because my mom talked the owner into stocking them. He had them hanging overhead behind the counter.

He only got the big titles, stuff he knew the kids would want. He’d ask me and my brother when we came in, “What game are they talking about on the playground now, big guy?”

That world is gone. Going to town is pointless unless you have to go to court for something.

[–] AFallingAnvil 4 points 1 hour ago

That feels like such a cool and special relationship to have. Tangentially when I worked at a mall I got to know the owner of a local store not far from where I worked that sold all kinds of novelties (pop culture, games, TCGs, etc). I bought a few things to support him and we built a rapport to the point he offered me the employee discount. Felt like being welcomed to the family.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

@Arghblarg

Not just municipalities, not just Amazon and not just Canada:

Every person must stop giving their money to businesses owned by fascists.

@Sunshine

[–] Arghblarg 8 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (1 children)

Hell yeah. I would also hope as many engineers as possible resign from SpaceX, Tesla and the Boring Company, but sadly too many of them probably a) have no problem with their boss's ethics or b) are financially stressed and are afraid to do so, or c) are addicted to the lifestyle enabled by their pay grade.

The biggest trick capitalism pulled on all of us is keeping wages 'not too low, not too high' so we are all not starving, yet afraid to walk away from our jobs.

[–] bayesianbandit 7 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (1 children)

H1-B visas. They keep working there because they don’t want to leave the US. Often they have entire lives and family in the US and have not simply been there for a few short years.

[–] Arghblarg 5 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

Ah, yes I forgot that angle -- that period of indentured servitude (slavery) for the hope of being allowed to participate in the illusion of "The American Dream" ...

[–] [email protected] 21 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

I believe I read that Amazon recently closed its warehouses in Quebec because one unionized.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 hours ago

Correct, 7 warehouses got closed

[–] [email protected] 18 points 9 hours ago

Unfathomably based. Good work Canada, I look forward to being annexed soon

[–] Grant_M 12 points 9 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Sunshine 9 points 9 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Grant_M 2 points 48 minutes ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 hours ago

Thats how you do it !

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 hours ago

French vibes... No ice