Small group of extremists? One third of Americans voted for this, and another third didn’t hate the idea of this enough to vote against it.

Since I wasn’t clear at all in my first comment: I’m referring to the fact that people can also get away with murder, as long as they’re driving a car at the time. Very rarely is it much more than a slap on the wrist, but it’s always significantly less than any other form of negligent homicide.

“Corporations are people driving cars”

These contributions are so small. I wouldn’t mind if my own country increased their contributions to WHO by 20% to make up for this shortfall.

The biggest problem is that the WHO is a worldwide health organization. Without cooperation from the States, there could be huge health impacts elsewhere that could have been otherwise averted. Will other countries also pull out?

Don’t copy that floppy!

I think the generational shift was mostly that the previous generation just didn’t have or use computers at home, and suddenly they were everywhere. Most households just didn’t have a computer until the late 90s or early 00s. By then, floppies were on their way out, and burning CDs was all the rage.

Are there any non-founding-member countries that kept their own currency?

I believe it’s mandatory for all new members.

There were exceptions when the EU was formed for things like currency, but I don’t think they’re allowing that anymore. If the UK wanted to rejoin, they’d have to switch to the Euro - they had a lot of favourable exceptions made for them to be in the EU in the first place, and they just gave them up.

While it’s great to support all these Canadian chains, chances are there’s a locally owned restaurant near you that is much better than any of these. Support Canada of course, but supporting local independent businesses is even better.

This article doesn’t talk about small brewers though. It’s talking about the two largest beer companies in Canada. Yes, interprovincial trade will kill Labatt and Molson production in Newfoundland, as they move production inland to gain benefits from economies of scale. But small brewers will be fine. They might even see a growth as they gain access to bigger markets.

It’s just two different markets. Craft/local beer is one market, and really doesn’t compete at all with the likes of Molson and Labatt.

Wouldn’t that mean that getting things onto the island is also expensive?

Also notice that this article only mentions the giant multi-national brewers Labatt and Molson. Small craft brewers will be fine, they’re already more expensive (and better) than the mass-produced stuff.

This certainly sucks for the 110 or so workers that work for Labatt and Molson. I guess it’s possible that the interprovincial trade rules could be modified so that only small companies are allowed free trade, preventing Molson and Labatt from pulling out, but still allowing people to buy craft beers from across the country. Not sure how easy it would be to define “small” though.

It’s also not a war crime if you’re not enlisted.

His stated goal is to replace it with something similar but with better branding.

Consider that this effectively kills 90% of PP’s campaign rhetoric, and that if PP were to be elected, you’d lose the tax anyway without a replacement.

Per your edit: Does joining the EU require retroactive compliance? Or is it just “follow these standards going forward”?

As far as I know, he’s only planning on cutting the carbon tax (“taxes that divide us”). The carbon tax doesn’t fund health care.

British citizenship only passes down one generation to those born outside the UK (same as Canadian).

Is there any reason to not join the EU if we want to align standards, regulations, and allow free movement?

The only thing I can think of that would be a hard change would be our dollar. We could possibly negotiate to keep that though - I don’t know if the EU is still making exceptions like that or if that was just at the beginning.

The problem is that wotc really didn’t want to raise prices past $3.99. Pack prices hit $3.99 in 2006, and stayed there for nearly 20 years. They raised distributor prices in 2015 without changing MSRP, and then got rid of MSRP (and raised prices again) in 2019.

A pack of Alpha, a pack of Urza’s Saga, and a pack of Khans of Tarkir all have roughly the same inflation adjusted retail price: ~$5.50 in 2025 dollars, which is conveniently the current MSRP for Magic IP sets.

For whatever reason, they’ve found all sorts of excuses for the price increases (all of which they actually control) but never blamed inflation, even though that’s actually a reasonable explanation.

As long as your vote wasn’t going to the conservatives, it mostly doesn’t matter what those numbers look like as long as OPC is less than 50%.

Upsetting, but not surprising.

This may not be you specifically, but more than two-thirds of Americans directly or indirectly chose this clown as your president.

The fight you want to join? It’s already started. The people best positioned to stop this are being fired. The checks and balances are being removed or taken over.