They have the ability to hit targets inside the United States, unlike Iraq.

extremely doubtful. at best they might get lucky and hit US military assets sitting off the coast

Curious name for the ukrainka airbase in the far east of Russia, it must be the borderlands root

They’re good. Derek has an encyclopediac knowledge of issues all over the globe. Their guests are a mixed bag, sometimes it’s academics, others new media, and the odd openly liberal debate nerd. I thought their crusades series was fun too.

quebec collective “national” identity has put them in a good position to have more social safety net than the rest of Canada, but it sure is wedded to this kind of catholic/racist bullshit. it’s so fucking stupid, just chauvinism.

yeah while the settler colonial aspect of the Canadian nation is fairly old, the modern Canadian nation under the current constitution is young and in many ways not very federalized. related, so much of the “nation building” projects under discussion recently are things that support intra-province trade and more east-west integration.

The notwithstanding clause does not apply to the whole Charter, it can only apply to section 2 and sections 7-15: (source)

so yes generally the notwithstanding clause is used for reactionary nonsense but maybe exemption from S.8 could apply to seizure of assets

yeah, it was a sop to the provinces when the canadian constitution was updated in 1982. a lot of provincial interests were concerned about federal overreach by having a federally imposed constitution that was always in effect, so the notwithstanding clause was a way to get them on board.

In news:

Provincial Antitrans law passes in Alberta following invocation of the notwithstanding clause

The set of three laws will police names and pronouns in school, ban transgender girls from participating in amateur female sports, and restrict gender-affirming health care for youth under 16.

The latter prohibits doctors from prescribing puberty blockers and hormone therapy for those under 16.

The notwithstanding clause is basically a mechanism that provincial and federal governments can use in Canada to pass temporary laws that are likely to violate the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms and can’t be struck down by the courts for 5 years. It has been frequently used by Ontario, Quebec and Alberta governments in recent times. It’s almost always to do some explicitly reactionary shit.

It is the fourth time Smith’s UCP has invoked it this fall sitting. In late October, they used the clause to legally backstop a bill that overrode teachers’ rights and ordered them back to work to end a three-week-long provincewide strike.

The bill also imposed on 51,000 teachers a collective bargaining agreement they previously rejected.

Rubio probably likes it because it has Roman in the name

the “democratic uprising of the people” people never have an answer for why crimea was annexed by russia with barely a shot fired, with widespread defection of military personnel, and with no subsequent protracted people’s war against the tyranny of the russian state. while I appreciate that crimea isn’t the same as the donbass, the practically bloodless annexation of crimea demonstrated that at least some fraction of ukrainians were approximately as happy to be part of russia instead.

Be respectful of the people who’s lives are affected by this. It may just be the news for you but for some people it is real life with real impacts.

no one is getting banned for posting wrong unless it goes against the code of conduct. if you really want to talk about this video or response to it then please revise this post to remove the personal attack against XHS and the struggle session bait. without those changes I will remove this post in a few hours. I encourage you and other zohran posters to keep in mind that this is comm is not for electoralism, so don’t turn this into another ‘what are the limits of socdems in america’ thread

Definitely do it and ping me when you’ve posted it. I’ve read this before and I’d like to hear your critique

The tide is going out on Europe but I don’t think the US will fight a war against China. Even a proxy war would be an absolute joke without the actual US military. Japan/Philippines and even RoK do not have the domestic forces to be a credible fight against China.

taking a minor yet important step towards ending the ongoing genocide against Indigenous people, with a bill to repeal a key blood quantum provision of the Indian Act passing the senate

per CBC:

The Senate voted unanimously Thursday to advance Bill S-2 with an amendment calling for the removal of the second-generation cut-off from the Indian Act. Subsection 6(2) or the second-generation cut-off refers to a rule in the Indian Act where children are not eligible for Indian status after two generations of one non-status parent. It was added to the act in 1985. Bill S-2 was originally designed as the latest in a series of amendments to Indian Act to address remaining sex-based discrimination in registration, often tied to historical enfranchisement, the surrendering of status to become a “full citizen.”

“It was an assurance that we would be eventually assimilated into Canadian society, as the lawmakers of the day knew that we could not survive if we were relegated to only marrying among ourselves to preserve status,” Paul Prosper, a Mi’kmaw senator representing Nova Scotia, told the Senate in an address ahead of the vote. Prosper told the Senate the impact of the amendments could affect approximately 300,000 people over the next 40 years.

more inside baseball from APTN from a couple days ago

now the bill goes to parliament. this actually is a big deal for Indigenous people in Canada. Canada’s relationship with Indigenous nations is very legalistic, so legal recognition of status for a lot of living and future people is important. 300k people is about 1/6th of the current Indigenous population of Canada

canada’s czar of slava ukraini, chrystia freeland in the news (archive)

Freeland calls Ukraine a ‘fantastic investment’ as Ottawa pledges $235 million

“It is a country that will be a fantastic partner for us all, a fantastic investment for the businesses that have the courage to invest now,” she told the conference. Freeland said while Ukraine missed out on an economic boom when it secured independence in 1991, it can unleash its potential once the war Russia launched ends, through innovation and “the entrepreneurial approach that Ukrainians are taking to fighting this war.” Freeland also said that the ongoing corruption scandal in Ukraine is proof of a healthy democracy doing the hard work of investigating possible wrongdoing and seeking accountability.

definitely not the way you talk about a failed state. her overall tone in this is grim. she knows the war is lost even though she is zealous enough to never admit it. she must just be seething, getting the boot by Carney and left a backbencher to stew in her defeat. she was talked about as the architect of the first sanctions package against Russia in 2022.

Ottawa’s $235 million package for Ukraine includes $200 million for what it calls the “prioritized Ukraine requirements list,” which will be used to purchase a half billion U.S. dollars worth of goods from American suppliers. The remaining $35 million will go to NATO’s comprehensive assistance package for Ukraine.

literally just graft for contractors in the US. $200m directly to the US, and then how much of the NATO package is ultimately purchased from US weapons manufacturers? Half? this is what trump means when he talks about getting allies to invest in America. it’s simply a tithe

hard to say, but @xiaohongshu@hexbear.net has posted a lot about the financial end of the american empire gaining access to/control over chinese constructed infrastructure. even with US hard power relatively waning, the dollar as reserve currency gives the fed and the US gov’t a huge amount of power to shape affairs. the US is far more financially powerful relative to adversaries than they are militarily powerful.

thanks, those are quite the images

on foreign navvies in the strait, taiwan media has this to say:

Tsai said that military vessels from eight countries have made 12 transits of the Taiwan Strait so far this year, per Liberty Times. These countries include the US, UK, France, Canada, Japan, Australia, and New Zealand. Vietnam, which maintains friendly ties with China, was also among them.

Su Tzu-yun (蘇紫雲), a division director at the Institute for National Defense and Security Research, said Vietnam’s transit signals alignment with other partners and political coordination with the US. He noted that US Navy transits declined from 15 in 2020 to five in 2024. Meanwhile, allied transits have increased, including those by the Netherlands, Turkey, and Germany.

Examples of Canada and Australia doing this in September as well as the UK/US shortly after and even the kiwis a week ago

I guess the west can count on China not to escalate based on this kind of dick waving so they have a freer hand. It’s notable that the dogs are barking more than the master though.