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If you were in need of a slightly cracked purple iPhone, a Cuban sandwich grill or a green camo PS4 controller that “works great,” there was a time when Hamilton’s buy-and-sell Facebook group was the place to be — to be specific, any time before the evening of Jan. 10, 2023.

That’s the moment when the group made an abrupt — and decisive — break with used blenders and baby clothes. In the last gasp of normalcy, someone posted pictures of a life jacket for a small dog for sale that was swiftly overshadowed, two minutes later, by a post with a photo featuring Donald Trump in a garish yellow outfit.

The General Motors CAMI Assembly Plant in Ingersoll, Ont., will shut down next month with plans to re-open in the fall at half capacity.

The company said in a statement Friday that production is coming to halt as a direct result of the market, and available inventory to build the BrightDrop electric delivery vehicles manufactured at the plant.

“CAMI is making operational and employment adjustments to balance inventory and align production schedules with current demand,” GM said in a statement.

A mix of electric vehicle viability and tariffs are responsible I suspect.

h/t DS

When political science professor Arash Abizadeh heard last month about foreign travellers being detained at the U.S. border, he cancelled plans to speak at an upcoming academic conference in Durham, N.C.

He believes heightened scrutiny at the U.S. border makes travel to the country too uncertain.

“Why would we subject ourselves to this?” asked Abizadeh, who teaches at McGill University in Montreal.

Leave it to the CBC to gin up the fear by featuring a Muslim as victim.

Canadian PM quickly pledges to negotiate ‘new economic and security relationship’ with US after Trump pauses tariffs on other nations

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney pledged Wednesday to negotiate a “new economic and security relationship” with the US – an announcement that comes on the same day President Trump paused tariffs for dozens of nations, but not Canada.

“The pause on reciprocal tariffs announced by President Trump is a welcome reprieve for the global economy,” Carney wrote on X, referring to the commander in chief’s 90-day pause on sweeping trade fees.

h/t PA Cat

Let’s face it, Canada’s not going to win a trade war with the US. Time to make a deal with Trump.’

Various news outlets have reported that Prime Minister Carney was thumping his chest, claiming that Canada is willing to lead if the US is not. This raises two questions.

First, lead based on what?

Second, lead in what?

Of the G7, Canada is ranked dead last in economic standing ― a ranking it has long held.