Canada

I didn’t include an excerpt for this article. It is a well written piece, and any extracted portion felt awkward without the surrounding context.

what the actual fuck, this shouldn’t be legal

More than 1,000 homes in a planned community near Winnipeg’s University of Manitoba campus will heat and cool their homes with geothermal energy after the Province announced $4 million in funding yesterday.

Roman Slepcsik’s plight shows how people become embedded in families, communities and workplaces in ways immigration categories alone cannot capture.

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It’s time for Canadians to start referring to California’s governor as the President of California, and refer to California itself as the country of California. Even Californians are now doing that.

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American farmers need it. Let’s use that dependence to fight back

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A Canadian wildfire-detection startup is buying a US competitor’s business amid disastrous wildfires on both sides of the border.

This part was striking, about a 100% fee (*cough* tariff *cough*):

Less than nine months after Parliament allowed those with Canadian ancestors to be recognized as Canadian citizens, the backlog of applications has soared to a new high.

The University of British Columbia (UBC) and a Prince George-based solar company are receiving support from the federal government to expand their tech amid ongoing trade pressures.

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European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen is expected to announce the plans in the European Parliament in Strasbourg on September 16. Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney is scheduled to attend and give a speech the following day.

Canada’s fleet is aging and isn’t being replaced fast enough

We’ve had some discussion around Canadian content, and potentially scheduling out discussion posts in this community for popular Canadian shows.

From stand-alone policies to disincentivizing investment, here’s a guide from coast to coast.

The fourth cohort’s arrival marks a defining moment for the first-in-Canada program. For the first time since its 2023 launch, learners are represented across every year of the four-year undergraduate program, while the inaugural class begins its final year and looks ahead to anticipated graduation in May 2027 and moving on to postgraduate medical training.

Trump says he’s taking action to bar Canadian-made products from eligibility for certain U.S. government purchasing contracts.

Today, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Iceland, Ireland, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Sweden and the UK confirm their intention to introduce national and/or support European restrictions on trade in goods with settlements which are illegal under international law, or that they are actively considering these and other measures, in accordance with their national procedures. In this regard, the UK, France and Canada welcome the important action already taken by Ireland, Spain, the Netherlands, Norway and Belgium and will bring forward national measures to ban trade in settlement goods.

Counter-measures covering several sectors come after Trump announced 50% tariffs on Canadian goods

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Canada recognizes foreign interference as a national security threat. But the people targeted by it often receive little practical support.

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The Parti Québécois, which has maintained its lead in the polls despite growing support for the governing Coalition Avenir Québec, is facing criticism after Paul St-Pierre Plamondon stirred up controversy with comments about immigrants in schools.

The linked article is their write-up about this process and what they did.