Canada is a failed state

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Lobster Cult High Priest said:
Once again it's always literal E-Whores on the casting couch who become Conservative Influencers (paid for by Mr. Shekelberg)

Also Jeff Rath looks like Tim Walz. An utterly ineffective Cuck
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That is what I figured. Alberta breaking away from Canada has always been a bit of meme, and it seems its being pushed for clickbait.
 
mindlessobserver said:
That is what I figured. Alberta breaking away from Canada has always been a bit of meme, and it seems its being pushed for clickbait.
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Only because everyone with half a brain saw that being sandwiched between two countries that fully control your borders would be suicide. But becoming part of America solves that.
 
mindlessobserver said:
That is what I figured. Alberta breaking away from Canada has always been a bit of meme, and it seems its being pushed for clickbait.
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It'll take a major political upheaval for the concept to gain mainstream traction and stop being the domain of no-name "conservative" grifters. Something along the lines of the Trans-Mountain Pipeline crisis or potential federal export taxes on O&G, and even then it would require a Liberal government willing to triple down on openly screwing over national unity for the sake of progressive brownie points.

In short it ain't happening anytime soon, at least peacefully.
 
Scale Smerch said:
It'll take a major political upheaval for the concept to gain mainstream traction and stop being the domain of no-name "conservative" grifters. Something along the lines of the Trans-Mountain Pipeline crisis or potential federal export taxes on O&G, and even then it would require a Liberal government willing to triple down on openly screwing over national unity for the sake of progressive brownie points.

In short it ain't happening anytime soon, at least peacefully.
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I'm not sure. From what I've seen it's mostly that it doesn't seem realistic, with national pride being an afterthought. If Albertans were provided with an offer that was well thought out and covered how their concerns would be handled, they may consider it. Though at this point they may be more neutral and wouldn't go out of their way to vote for becoming part of America without a push.
 
OutInTheRain said:
Tim's was always used for money laundering. That's why they fought debit for ages, and suddenly sold once it basically became law of the land.

As for HBC closing, I used to only see it in Pearson and it's been replaced by a chocolate store. HBC tried to be Target, but Canadians don't have Target money anymore. We have Walmart money, and even then we need to scrimp and save for that.
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Target made a huge error with Target Canada and was operationally run by Canadian female middle-aged middle managers from the HBC family tree.

They Canadianly arranged all their old cronies and pals under them and then long time store employees under that. Bad attitudes, bad habits from the dwindling uncompetitive empire and employees used to doing very little work or stealing. Smug, bad attitudes with negative store experience as an overall retail strategy. The Canadian boomer Karens managed to turn a highly desirable worldwide famous US brand retailer that many Canadians recognized and wanted to shop at into a multi-billion dollar loss. Cut short by US Target like the fastest of fast moving cancer.

US Target gave them latitude and they turned it into a distinctly Canadian disaster. Now a woke-washed story in business textbooks. I believe they officially blamed the reconciliation and purchasing systems and its incompatibility with the metric system, French language and the bad exchange rates of the time because strong dollar PM Harper was a bad man. Not the real story of course, even the fucking Starbucks employees inside these new Target Canada stores had the attitudes of an apparatchik. Where else would you get the Starbucks from, comrade?
 
YautjaWeeb said:
Target made a huge error with Target Canada and was operationally run by Canadian female middle-aged middle managers from the HBC family tree.

They Canadianly arranged all their old cronies and pals under them and then long time store employees under that. Bad attitudes, bad habits from the dwindling uncompetitive empire and employees used to doing very little work or stealing. Smug, bad attitudes with negative store experience as an overall retail strategy. The Canadian boomer Karens managed to turn a highly desirable worldwide famous US brand retailer that many Canadians recognized and wanted to shop at into a multi-billion dollar loss. Cut short by US Target like the fastest of fast moving cancer.

US Target gave them latitude and they turned it into a distinctly Canadian disaster. Now a woke-washed story in business textbooks. I believe they officially blamed the reconciliation and purchasing systems and its incompatibility with the metric system, French language and the bad exchange rates of the time because strong dollar PM Harper was a bad man. Not the real story of course, even the fucking Starbucks employees inside these new Target Canada stores had the attitudes of an apparatchik. Where else would you get the Starbucks from, comrade?
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They also placed the Targets where the Zellers used to be, i.e. : low income areas.
Great idea to place middle class stores in lower class places. I'm sure the clientele will just suddenly sprout more money from their bank accounts
 
biggacracka said:
They also placed the Targets where the Zellers used to be, i.e. : low income areas.
Great idea to place middle class stores in lower class places. I'm sure the clientele will just suddenly sprout more money from their bank accounts
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SQ. footage was a problem and not a great deal of good enough space in Canada was up for grabs because well, Canada and "land, land, land". Surely people would just commute to be treated poorly and see the shelves full of stuff that is 99% not from US Target anyway?
 
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Canadian trucker kills family.
 
Betonhaus said:
I'm not sure. From what I've seen it's mostly that it doesn't seem realistic, with national pride being an afterthought. If Albertans were provided with an offer that was well thought out and covered how their concerns would be handled, they may consider it. Though at this point they may be more neutral and wouldn't go out of their way to vote for becoming part of America without a push.
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Even for Alberta this is wildly optimistic. It's not just getting an offer, it's convincing the increasingly left-leaning Calgary and prog central Edmonton to also go along with it. Even then you'd need ~65% or more of the province to vote in favour of it during the necessary plebiscite since Ottawa will do its damnedest to read the Clarity Act in its favour as much as possible.

It's why external factors are necessary here. The stars can align on Alberta secession, but the current political climate isn't going to catalyze it.
 
mindlessobserver said:
Some guy named Jeffrey Rath in Alberta is organizing a delegation to Washington DC in order to pitch the idea of Alberta becoming the 51st State.
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mindlessobserver said:
That is what I figured. Alberta breaking away from Canada has always been a bit of meme, and it seems its being pushed for clickbait.
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The host in the video, Rachel Parker (nee Emmanuel) was apparently laid off from True North, Candace Malcolm's independent news outlet who merged with Keean Bexte to form Juno News last month but didn't take her employees with her.

This is the first time I've seen Parker since. She only set up her personal YT channel Feb 28th, 2025.

Parker during COVID was a young reporter working in the legacy press for iPolitics.ca. She wrote a story about Chrystia Freeland, where Freeland's office immediately called her editor demanding edits and her editor made her bend the knee.

So Parker quit and joined The Western Standard as their reporter covering the Alberta legislature, moving West from Ontario. The independent outlet made a big deal of it at the time, announcing they were expanding and poaching talent (hired at the same time as Matt Horwood, who did some good jab harms reporting).

Something happened though because she only lasted a few months there before quietly changing her masthead colours and her bio, leaving WS to join Malcolm over at TN. Her contemporary hire Horwood, covering the Parliament Hill Ottawa beat, similarly didn't last long, leaving after a year or so to join The Epoch Times.

YautjaWeeb said:
US Target gave them latitude and they turned it into a distinctly Canadian disaster. Now a woke-washed story in business textbooks. I believe they officially blamed the reconciliation and purchasing systems and its incompatibility with the metric system, French language and the bad exchange rates of the time because strong dollar PM Harper was a bad man.
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All the YT videos I ever watched about Target Canada's failure usually attributed it to a lack of a functioning distribution network to keep products on the shelves and keeping prices low.

I believe there were also some clauses in their Zellers' leases they inherited forcing them to rapidly and simultaneously open hundreds of locations before they were actually ready instead of a strategic roll-out.
 
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#FF0000 said:
Hoping they pick Carney. I heard that if they pick him he immediately has to call an election because he doesn't have a seat in parliament.
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Some bitch just resigned in Toronto riding. I am guessing this is the "transition" period.

I don't think Liberals can afford to hold back election because they are as high as they can get in the polls.

Jagshit Shit is delivering the worst electoral performance since pre Layton era.

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Average Russian Spy said:
Didn't Carney say that Canada needed to double down on going woke?
If that guy somehow gets in, we're fucked.
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He absolutely did. He also said he'd use the emergency powers to achieve a "green economy".


Watch the Liberal Leadership cringefest here
 
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