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Ontario to introduce bill exempting Premier, cabinet from FOI requests in c/canada@lemmy.ca
[–] BuoyantCitrus@lemmy.ca 10 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

The proposed changes follow the government’s loss of a court battle, initially launched by Global News, over the call logs for Premier Doug Ford’s personal cellphone, which he uses for government business.

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Ontario to introduce bill exempting Premier, cabinet from FOI requests (www.theglobeandmail.com)
 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/61737959

The utter audacity of this.

The exemptions would be retroactive, meaning all existing, outstanding requests for information from these offices would be scrapped, including Mr. Ford’s phone logs.

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[–] BuoyantCitrus@lemmy.ca 12 points 5 months ago

Don't pilots need to keep up their skills by getting in flight hours? So perhaps this expense is somewhat offset by fewer practice flights?

Cost of living drives 3 in 4 Canadians to skip eating out, report shows in c/canada@lemmy.ca
[–] BuoyantCitrus@lemmy.ca 7 points 5 months ago

Why can't both be true? Inequality is increasing and one tech/finance/etc. person expensing delivery near daily offsets quite a few people who might have put in an order every month or two and can no longer afford the luxury.

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I suspect US tariffs have more of an effect on Canadians than we realise (lemmy.ca)
 

While perusing some coffee to buy from my favourite roaster that also is extremely transparent about pricing, this caught my eye:

$7.35 USD per lb including $0.65 USD per lb "reciprocal" tariff placed on Ethiopian imports. * This coffee entered the US before being imported into Canada.

Hm. Seems the niche importer they worked with to access these particular beans was American. Since we're a small market, I suspect this kind of thing is going to be happening a lot.

I got an initial take from an LLM and apparently the company importing from Ethiopia and re-exporting to Subtext is eligible for a refund on the duty (a "drawback") but a big, um, drawback of that is that it's fairly onerous:

  • Many importers use a drawback specialist or broker because the paperwork is complex; fees are usually contingency-based (e.g. 20–30% of the recovered duty).
  • For small, irregular shipments, filing costs often outweigh the refund, so many small importers simply don’t bother.
  • For large distributors or commodities with steady re-export flows, drawback is routine and worthwhile.

Curious if anyone has similar anecdotes or run across an attempt to quantify this sort of trade flow and effect of US tariffs? I wonder if the impact of this across every little thing adds up to a meaningful amount of inflation?

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The Republican-controlled US government has decided to impose a 25% tax on American imports of goods from Canada (lemmy.ca)
 

Language matters.

The President is empowered by a Congress controlled by a narrow majority. Rather than the individual they have chosen, I am pissed at the Republican party. And disappointed in the American people. The guy? He was always that way and would have continued to be so at a safe distance from the levers of power without his enablers.

It is the American and especially Republican relationship with Canada that is important in this situation. Those are what endure, that person is only momentarily significant. So, where we can choose the narrative, I think that's important to focus on.

Plus I suspect he likes the sound of his own name.

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[–] BuoyantCitrus@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 years ago

I've enjoyed runbox.com for years but don't think they offer catch-all, at least not when I last checked. You might look at mxroute.com, I heard about it later and might have gone with them first and they somehow seem more likely to support that