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Cake day: October 4th, 2023

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  • Pressed on how Canada will actually respond next week if U.S. tariffs come into effect, the prime minister wouldn’t give details.

    “This is a negotiation,” he said, adding that the government will know “a lot more” in a week. “In a negotiation, it doesn’t make sense to tip your hand.”

    Noting that the threatened tariffs apply to all countries, not just Canada and Mexico, Carney said, “We have the best deal of a bad deal, is the way I would put it.”

    More reciprocal tariffs are coming on April 2, including tariffs on sectors like forestry, lumber, pharmaceuticals and semi-conductors.

    “We have a number of measures that we can take in response to those initiatives.”

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  • Carney addressed Canadians, saying, “We won’t back down. We will respond forcefully. Nothing is off the table to defend our workers and our country.”

    “I don’t want to set unreasonable expectations,” he added, saying there’s no silver bullet or quick fix, and that Canadians are understandably anxious.

    “I have every confidence in our country because I understand what President Trump does not: that we love Canada with every fibre of our being.”

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  • I think it’s more about this moment than people giving up on the NDP long term. It’s probably more ABC than anti-NDP. Many see PP as a threat to the country, or least much less able to address the current crisis, so they’re aligning with the best chance to defeat him.


  • I’ve read them all but I’m still bummed that the show got cancelled. Although, a lot of the stuff that happens in 7-9 feels kind of unfilmable to me. But, hey, they’re adapting 3 Body Problem which is insanely unfilmable so who knows.

    I actually think the show complements the books really well – probably because the authors were so involved in the production. In a few cases, I think they were able to fix some mistakes in the books on a second go around and also added to the world in brilliant ways too. Belter Creole as a spoken language, for example, doesn’t really exist in the books and was created for the show. It’s also interesting replacing the subjective view of the point of view characters with the objective view of the camera. In the first book, it just bounces back and forth between Miller and Holden. You don’t really know what’s going on system-wide because they don’t. Having that perspective shift is really cool and it’s done in a way that feels cohesive and consistent with the world of the books.