@RichardKnack@ryanjespersen@Ripley65042099 No one's going to be rushing to buy your house if alberta manages to separate. Best you could do is sell to a neighbor for way under value, for a currency no other country is obligated to accept.
Should probably just try to fix things instead.
@RepThomasMassie Exporting your culture globally, americanizing discourse and building international understanding of yourselves *obviously* has no benefit to a nation who salivates at involving themselves in every corner of global affairs....
@Reil76 There's a small but quietly resolved number of Canadians unwilling to accept a break in territorial sovereignty and being forced to offer less of a country to their children than they received.
The EU issued nearly half a million tourist visas to Russians in 2025.
Not to dissidents. Not to refugees. Tourist visas. For holidays. The highest number since Putin sent his army into Ukraine, up 10% on the year. France, proud, principled, morally unimpeachable France, raised its Russian approvals by 23% in a single year.
When the numbers got awkward, the EU did what the EU does. It deleted them. Russian visa statistics quietly vanished from the official Schengen tracker in early 2026. Eight countries had to formally demand they be put back.
They hid the data. Not the policy. The data.
Ten countries, the Nordics, the Baltics, and the Netherlands among them, had to write an actual letter to get this onto a ministers’ meeting agenda. The remaining seventeen apparently saw nothing strange about any of this.
No law is coming before summer. Because before any law can exist, there must first be a proposal. Before the proposal, a consultation. Before the consultation, a scoping exercise. Before the scoping exercise, a working group must be convened to determine whether a scoping exercise is appropriate. The working group requires terms of reference. The terms of reference must be approved by a subcommittee. The subcommittee reports to a committee. The committee feeds into a framework. The framework informs a roadmap. The roadmap gets amended seventeen times and renamed a “strategic pathway.” The strategic pathway is then circulated to member states for comment. France requests more time. The whole thing goes back to the working group.
Any legislation won’t pass before 2027. Possibly 2031, if Italy has a strong summer season.
Ukraine is entering year five. Russians are entering Italy.
Four years of sanctions packages, candlelit solidarity vigils, and solemn declarations about European values, and Paris increased its Russian tourist approvals by nearly a quarter.
The EU didn’t fail to stop the missiles. It didn’t even try to stop the sunbathing.
Don’t let Canada’s continued 33 year @StanleyCup drought distract you from the fact that the @MapleLeafs have not won the Cup since the league only had six teams in 1967.
#LeafsForever
@Melanie54333723@OccupyDemocrats The only war america has ever won on its own was against itself... Actually, both sides had foreign help then, too.
They can't even win fights they pick with concepts, (hunger, drugs, terror.)
Who wants that kind of incompetent help?
@FWOOD000@OccupyDemocrats ...assembled from even smaller constituent parts from Taiwan, South Korea, Germany, China, and probably a dozen others.
Basically an american capital firm gets some profits by being part of the middle of the supply chain, creating about 8 jobs.
Home run for the blue collars.
@IainMacBets I dunno... as a Habs fan, I half-assed kind of cheer for the Leafs purely for the sake of the rivalry - I want them to be a perennial threat for the drama.
Heroes need villains.
@RoarReport With the CFL shrinking the fields by 20 yards after Hamilton, Winnipeg, and Regina recently built football-purposed stadiums around the old dimensions, no one is going to put a single unnecessary dime into their facilities again for a looonnng time.
@anotheralb2148@LukaszukAB ah, the industrial arts all-star's confidence they understand economics.
"Because taxes, then inflation, we should be our own country - no other country on earth ever has inflation!"
naive children.
@stelzner_n1150 Trump is owned by ambition and lack of shame, nothing more.
He wants to *be* an oligarch; The wealth, power, circles of influential people, glamour and cachet;
Every. Single. Thing. he's ever done his whole life has been to acquire that goal.
He's simple to decode.
@DannySki7@Gray_Mackenzie ...you don't *have* to sell at a discount. That's your choice.
Y'all *could* form a crown corp, build a proper heavy crude refinery, sell refined oil at market price, and be wealthier than ever.
Complain instead. The alberta way.
@bchereandnow@alleria_eh Sure, just cram unrelated grievances on in. Why stick to one issue when you can rage-dump and pretend its all the same?
"I'm louder and angrier so I'm obviously smarter and right!"