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SamuelRJankis@sh.itjust.worksto
Canada@lemmy.ca•‘It’s surreal’: US sanctions lock International Criminal Court judge out of daily lifeEnglish
11·2 days agoThis is pretty wild. The judge made judgement not friendly to America so she got sanctioned which even outside of America means she can’t use a lot of services.
For example even in Canada if you couldn’t use proper IOS and Google Android it would make it very difficult to use mobile bank apps given how current app security works.
This summer Kimberly Prost, a Canadian judge at the International Criminal Court (ICC), arrived at her home in The Hague and, as was her habit, called out “Alexa”.
There was silence. The voice-activated assistant did not respond. “Alexa was dead. She wouldn’t talk to me,” Prost recalled in an interview with The Irish Times.
For those wondering about the numbered of sanctions people.
According to OFAC, there are approximately
12,000 names on the Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons List (SDN) list, [17] which is the most restrictive category of targeted U.S. sanctions, targeting U.S.-designated terrorists, officials and beneficiaries of certain authoritarian regimes, and international criminals (e.g. drug traffickers) by blocking their U.S. assets and restricting U.S. persons from engaging in any transactions with them
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_government_sanctions
SamuelRJankis@sh.itjust.worksto
Canada@lemmy.ca•Former CBC News host Travis Dhanraj says he was 'pulled off the air' for fighting against biasEnglish
1·2 days agoYes it’s pretty in line with the what they do these days. He loses they rage over the institutional people out to get them, he wins they’ll rage over institutional people out to get them.
SamuelRJankis@sh.itjust.worksto
Canada@lemmy.ca•Former CBC News host Travis Dhanraj says he was 'pulled off the air' for fighting against biasEnglish
16·2 days agoThe guy is a idiot. The CBC should broadcast news with substance and accuracy neither are ever present from Conservative dialogue these days.
I also don’t know how CBC could lose this one since they probably have hundreds of articles in the last few years showing they go out of their way to find a Conservative to provide their idiotic opinion.
He said he felt shows like Power & Politics would just have Liberal talking points on all the time, and that as a network, the CBC needed balance.
“There were repeated episodes of Conservatives being blocked. I mean, I have the G-chats right here. I said in terms of getting folks on, that we need to have balance,” Dhanraj said.
SamuelRJankis@sh.itjust.worksto
Canada@lemmy.ca•Up to 16 Liberals considering support for NDP's arms-control legislationEnglish
7·3 days agoThe article doesn’t really mention how they’d keep the redirection of the arms once received the the initial nations. Seems like some sort of honor system unless they want to cut off the future sales.
The Bloc Québécois expressed reservations as well. Bloc MP Alexis Brunelle-Duceppe said the bill is well intentioned but too broad…
He also said the U.S. may simply choose not to play ball.
“The idea that the United States would start asking for Canada’s approval to ship small arms and light weapons is wishful thinking,” he said.
SamuelRJankis@sh.itjust.worksto
Technology@lemmy.world•New York Bill Would Force Age ID Checks at the Device LevelEnglish
29·5 days agoJust to point out I’m Canadian and regardless of who started it. Saying they’ll vote Republican to avoid this stuff comes from substantial ignorance.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_media_age_verification_laws_in_the_United_States
The only spin I can see from the right side is they want to be so ass deep into your tech stack that they don’t even have to ask to verify who you are.
SamuelRJankis@sh.itjust.worksto
Canada@lemmy.ca•Canadians are drinking less, driving the biggest drop in alcohol sales in 20 years: StatsCanEnglish
6·7 days agoSince there’s someone spamming the immigration thing. I do want to point out one of the most popular post this week on the same topic from The Hub also managed to shim in a immigration angle into the article.
The right wing is pretty relentless on bringing up immigration.
https://sh.itjust.works/post/56373660
“Undoubtedly, the arrival of immigrants from non-drinking populations reduces the volume of alcohol consumed per capita in Canada…,” explained Phillips, although admitting the effect is marginal. “Many immigrants to Canada come from Asian countries, India and China especially, where alcohol consumption is low.”
SamuelRJankis@sh.itjust.worksto
Canada@lemmy.ca•Canada's auto market is officially open to Chinese EVs, but you won't see cheaper models right awayEnglish
15·7 days ago“On that basis, it is plausible that most of the 24,500 EV imports scheduled for the March to August period will consist of existing models from Tesla, Volvo, and Polestar, while newer Chinese brands may become more visible from the summer onward.”
It’s going to take substantial incompetence on China part if they allow Tesla to take any significant part of that allotment.
SamuelRJankis@sh.itjust.worksto
Canada@lemmy.ca•Social media ban for kids under consideration in online harms bill: CarneyEnglish
9·8 days agoYou’d think the government would go after the low hanging fruit like people threatening to kill and rape others on the internet.
Aside from the crap you see in Rachel Gilmore’s comment section. There’s comments like this under Carney’s to, but that dude seems to have some really selective vision.
SamuelRJankis@sh.itjust.worksto
Canada@lemmy.ca•Alberta regulator rejects Canada’s largest data centreEnglish
7·8 days agoPretty sure this just builds up to Danielle Smith either passing a bill to cut the red tape/deregulate or use the Notwithstanding Clause again.
SamuelRJankis@sh.itjust.worksto
Canada@lemmy.ca•NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte just spills the beans live on air: "NATO is a platform for the United States to project power on the world stage."English
9·9 days agoHere’s a screen shot of the video and transcript for anyone else questioning what was said.

The title does omit part of what was said although it doesn’t really change the intent. General best practice would have been to include ellipsis to indicate it
SamuelRJankis@sh.itjust.worksto
Canada@lemmy.ca•Canada PM Carney says unable to rule out military role in Iran warEnglish
7·9 days ago57 second clip of the with the question and full reply.
I’ll let people be the judge whether the response was appropriate.
This part is really where Carney fucked up.
its nuclear program must be managed through the United Nations and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
I’ve seen a lot of people defend Carney by saying the regime is bad and the problematic nuclear program. In a world of law and order no country should be allowed to singularly make decisions on how these things are handled or just bomb countries whenever they want.
Carney specifically naming America and applauding their actions shows his hypocrisy. Law and order is only a thing when they’re used to benefit him.
SamuelRJankis@sh.itjust.worksto
Canada@lemmy.ca•Some Grocery Items Have Increased Dramatically In Price Since Last Year. 'This is Unprecedented Inflation,' Experts Say.English
4·17 days agoA lot of no name chocolate doesn’t even contain that much actual cocao anymore.
I was mostly just keeping it to the list in the article. But it’s really it’s most things by the second or third degree.
SamuelRJankis@sh.itjust.worksto
Canada@lemmy.ca•Some Grocery Items Have Increased Dramatically In Price Since Last Year. 'This is Unprecedented Inflation,' Experts Say.English
13·17 days agoThe article and a lot of discussion these days about food prices has been focused on corporate profits. While true there is a substantially undeniable issue of Climate change really causing a negative impact on yields.
People can criticize the Carbon tax especially after Trudeau tried to squeeze more votes from manipulating it. But saying climate change isn’t here and noticeably effecting people lives is a insanity from the right wing politicians.
Orange - Drought and disease
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citrus_greening_disease
Beef - Drought
Coffee - Drought
SamuelRJankis@sh.itjust.worksto
Canada@lemmy.ca•Pre-construction condo buyers face steep losses as Toronto prices slideEnglish
2·18 days agoIt’s strange the article even has a regulatory section. The two plausible regulations would be preventing developers from selling till completion and more stregent mortgage requirements.
In both cases the buyer in the article and the developers would have screamed bloody murder a few years ago. People would probably against it today.
SamuelRJankis@sh.itjust.worksto
Canada@lemmy.ca•Edmonton woman frustrated by 18-month battle with Equifax and TransUnion to fix credit ratingEnglish
15·19 days agoRemember when Trudeau wanted rent to be part of people’s credit scores. It is amazingly bizarre people considered him to be a progressive economically.
As if these 2 private corporations didn’t already control people financial well-being enough.
SamuelRJankis@sh.itjust.worksto
Canada@lemmy.ca•Should Canada Help Build Trump’s Golden Dome? | The WalrusEnglish
5·19 days agoHas anyone ever brought up the fact that most of the Canadian population centers is pretty close to America and if they didn’t want their northern cities have substantial collateral damage they’d have to at least protect those portions.
SamuelRJankis@sh.itjust.worksto
News@lemmy.world•Student who punched another student holding pro-ICE sign at Lake Zurich High School received 2-day suspensionEnglish
94·20 days agoI was wondering what the other guys parents thought of their kid. Then I saw the guy is 18 and clearly trying to do the shit stirring influencer grift.
Went ahead a blocked him on all the platforms I had accounts for.
SamuelRJankis@sh.itjust.worksto
News@lemmy.world•‘Flattered. Thanks, JD!’: Eileen Gu claps back at Vance after criticism for representing ChinaEnglish
48·21 days agoFor a country whom just had their Attorney General justify the president being a pedophile because the Dow is up slightly you’d think they’d be appluading Eileen for getting paid.






The reason I’m posting this here and overall context:
Tldr: Macron is a moron. He should have withdrawn his soldier from a active war zone.