Summary
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced retaliatory tariffs after Donald Trump confirmed 25% tariffs on Canadian goods and 10% on energy, set to take effect at 12:01 a.m. Tuesday.
Trump justified the move by linking it to fentanyl smuggling concerns.
Trudeau called the tariffs “unjustified” and imposed 25% tariffs on $155 billion in U.S. goods, with $30 billion effective immediately and the rest in 21 days.
He warned of price hikes and job losses in the U.S., arguing the move violates Trump’s own trade agreement from his last term.
Heck, make it legal to pirate all American media.
A surprising amount of ‘American’ media is filmed and produced in Canada.
TorontoVancouver is like Hollywood North. This would probably be a footgunVancouver is a huge TV filming location as well.
Ugh, I feel like a dummy. I was picturing BC in my mind and typed out Toronto. You’re 100% correct about Vancouver
Toronto is used for pretty much any scenes set in NYC though
Why not film them in NYC?
Cheaper to film in Toronto. Also random fun fact: the trope of dark NYC alleyways where criminals hang out is actually because of the Toronto filming, where alleyways are common. Apparently NYC has very little in the way of alleyways
(https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/mini-stories-volume-6/)
No problem, make exceptions for anything that was made involving Canada!
Producers like to film in Toronto while pretending that it’s NYC. X-Men and What We Do In The Shadows are the first things that come to mind. I still find it hilarious that the “Westchester” Train Station in X1 is in Hamilton (I believe)
A more subtle crossover is that Ramona (Scott Pilgrim) is from NYC
Stargate SG-1, full of blatant military propaganda (I know it’s not so bad, but), was filmed there.
God, as a HUGE Stargate fan I feel like all its main cast would be completely enraged at what is happening here, it’s fucked up!
Hit where it really hurts: stop paying Microsoft.
It already basically is; Anti-piracy laws in Canada don’t have a lot of teeth. I leave my torrent computer running 24 hours a day to seed and I don’t even get emails anymore after switching to a smaller service provider.
In that case, the Candian government should set up an official service for downloading American stuff. Making it easy to find things would be worth a nominal fee for a lot of people.
VPN with multi-hop proxy, my bratha/sista.
No need. I’m seeding 24/7 raw dogging my connection and don’t hear a peep from my ISP.
Impressive!
Yeah, I’m not too concerned about that. Their courts are being attacked with so much that I’m pretty sure downloading a car isn’t going to be high on their list.