Friday, January 31, 2025

Doxa_News

 From the morning news:

The catastrophic mistakes that led to the doomed DC plane crash

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Not waving the Black Flag, but did vent to myself last night about 

the looming tariffs issue:


 This is sheer madness: adding tariffs on American goods sold in

Canafa, on top of enduring that the US is putting tariffs on our goods

sold in the US and thus hampering sales. A DOUBLE whammy to our 

finances. Leave bad enough alone. No retaliatory tariffs from Canada!


As for strengthening our borders against illegal entries to the US. It is not illegal

IN CANADA to enter the US illegally. If the US expects help on this from us, it is a

friendly gesture on our part. And we seem headed for those 25% Ts anyway. 

What...


There is an agreement about refugees, that the country in which these land should

document them. That's it!!


As for the US Trade deficit from Canada, things got this way during the pandemic because

Canadians stopped visiting the US, and going South in the winter. And given the sad

state of our dollar, alledgedly because of political instability since our leadership is now in

something of a panic, how can that improve allowing us to resume our short sanity forays 

toward sunny climes. Bad news all around; for both countries...


And let us not romantisize history; the 19th Century and its tariffs are

well gone. President McKinley, who used them with some success, died

at the hands of an Anarchist. Government had gotten too overbearing!

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The CBC has taken to covering the Mark Carney campaign for the Liberal leadership.

Less nerve-wracking than retaliatory tariffs...

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/carney-to-scrap-carbon-tax-1.7446908


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