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#onpoli

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JustG

In Canadian dollars Tern (Taiwanese brand) #bikes start over $4,000 and top out without taxes around $14,500. They’re one of the top e-bike brands in the world. But they’re “bikes.” The #usa arm expects a tariff bill of $1 million fucking dollars on the shipments currently in transit. The #bike industry there is fucked #ottawa #cdnpoli #onpoli bicycleretailer.com/industry-n

Bicycle Retailer and Industry NewsBike maker takes steps to avert an unexpected million-dollar tariff chargeIf Tern’s shipments don’t arrive from Vietnam before Wednesday, or get diverted, the cargo bike brand will be on the hook for about $1 million — cash — in tariff fees. Until this week, the company had planned on zero.
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Mat Wright

Eby said BC will go after companies taking advantage of the killed carbon tax, to firm prices at a higher level, gouge consumers

The day it was done our local gas station dropped from $1.74 to $1.54 - the day after, right back up to $1.74

O&G will always gouge, always overprice - do something or get the fuck out of politics

#BCpoli#CDNpoli#ABpoli
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JustG

Oh you want to figure out how to bike or walk to get a weeks worth of groceries? $400 seems like a lot until you’re not paying $200 a month on car insurance and this will last you for 10 yrs. We bought a Thule Chariot pre-COVID for like $800 and put thousands of kms on it for transit, fun, groceries, going to the museum, living life and sold it after 5 years with one replaced front wheel. People need to see the options #ottawa #onpoli #ottbike #ontario

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Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸

Just came across this interview yesterday between CNN and Mélanie Joly where she mentions there have been talks between the Prime Minister of Canada and President of Mexico.

Good to see that that discussion is finally happening at the highest levels.

At the end, she is asked whether Canada and the USA are in a Trade War now. She answers yes, of course we are.

youtu.be/Z_TK1jQqBd0?si=TQ_dNr

YouTubeHear what a top Canadian official said about Trump’s impending tariffsBy CNN
#CanPoli#CdnPoli#CNBC
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JustG

It’s not lost on me that it takes more than a message, especially with the way the current mayor has run things. But I don’t think “balanced approaches” have much life left in them given the world. Promising the world and saying all the low taxes and wide roads and blah blah blah can’t have much staying power especially if cars are about to get 25% more expensive #cdnpoli #ottawa #onpoli #ontario

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JustG

Here’s some #cdnpoli hot takes given its an election and why not - if Pierre loses, its a toss for Ford or Smith as leaders of the federal #conservatives And given the data and polling from #ottawa centre, Joel could mount a decent run for mayor in 2026 if he could get his ground game extended into the suburbs. I dont hold much hope for Ottawa but there’s gotta be someone who can galvanize the burbs with the right message #ontario #onpoli #canada

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CedarTea

Based Unifor 💪

“Some are afraid to say no to their customers. Then we’ll have no problem saying ‘no’ and preventing the moving of machinery.” - Emile Nabbout, Unifor Local 195

The only tool I want to see on the other side of that border is scab Shawn Fain.

windsorstar.com/news/local-new

windsorstarWorkers blockade Windsor factory trying to ship machinery to U.S.The blockade only ended after the Windsor company agreed to unload a truckload of tools and dies it was attempting to ship to Michigan.
#labour#onpoli#cdnpoli
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Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸

11 minute interview between CNBC and Doug Ford and there is ALOT to unpack. The stupidity of the US commentators here talking to Doug Ford is just... 🤦‍♂️

Joe Kernen (sp) called Mark Carney, a former central banker, a “zealot”. A ZEALOT!? 😅 Because he believes in climate change apparently, or 'climate justice’ as he put it?

Obviously these fools still believe we can just burn down the planet and their investment portfolios will be just fine.

This was after there was sudden mass confusion on the American talking head side when Ford said Canada would get rid of all tariffs if the USA got rid of theres... obviously meaning the reciprocal tariffs Canada has put on, but apparently the talking heads thought he meant the tariffs Trump complains about (which by all accounts have never been applied)... which we should all know is just another smokescreen to Trump's actual intention, which is authoritarian, centralized control and manipulation of the market and thus economy of the United States and, in his hope, the world.

These are the same people who a year ago would have been cheerleading NAFTA/CUSMA... whose very purpose is tariff free trade.🤦‍♂️

Oh and "Joe" also tries to bait Ford into giving an opinion on Carney winning the election, Ford smartly avoids (as is Canadian political practice) much to Joe's chagrin.

Ford does an OK job overall here but I am saddened at the shot he takes at Mexico on "cheap parts" and talking about a "CUSA” deal without Mexico.

I don't understand Canada and Mexico's reluctance to work together through all this. There is obviously some sort of tension there that is not being communicated with the public of Canada, not sure about Mexico.

Also, if he thinks China is a bigger 'enemy' than the USA, he's fooling himself, but I suspect this is just the message he wants to portray to the Americans to try to get them to see reason.

cnbc.com/2025/04/02/trump-tari

Ford and CNBC host on left in their own video boxes with the market numbers, mostly negative on the right.
#CanPoli#CdnPoli#CNBC
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JustG

Well this is fun. Buried in here is a note that both #Gatineau and #Ottawa mayors want voting positions on the NCC board because quality of life is predicated on travel times for people driving a car about all else and you know what will be first on the chopping block. OSEG will be getting a vote basically on all things related to the QED #onpoli #cdnpoli cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/otta

CBCOttawa, Gatineau mayors pressure federal parties on struggling downtown, public service | CBC NewsFrom housing and transit to the struggling downtown core and potential public service cuts, the mayors of Ottawa and Gatineau, Que., are joining forces to call on federal parties to pledge help for the National Capital Region. 
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Deborah Hartmann Preuss, pcc

👀 😥 In Toronto Library contract negotiations "Key bargaining points were 'safety & security', 'harassment' & 'workplace violence.' … public libraries have been pressed into service as de facto homeless shelters & support service locations. They’ve become hotbeds of people in crisis.

It's #homelessness all the way down."

Trump is about to make the Toronto homelessness crisis worse:
#giftArticle #cdnPoli #cdnPolitics #onPoli
#housingCrisis #librarians #tariffWar
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