I expect that Joly is going ‘by the book’, doing everything according to the legal procedure, so that if the American billionaire MAGA shithead defies the order to follow the agreement that he had signed when he purchased Stelco, the Canadian government will be legally covered for their (I hope full-strength) response.

We need to demonstrate to American billionaires that agreements should not be signed in pencil, that a signature on an agreement means that there will be severe consequences to breaking said agreements.

This actually makes sense. Northwestern Ontario is already in the Central time zone, so failing to follow Manitoba would have left northwestern Ontario a hour behind both Manitoba (in the winter months) and the rest of Ontario (all year round). Not ideal.

Permanent Daylight Saving Time is idiotic. It was tried before in the UK (1968-71), the USA (1973-74), Russia (2011-14) and Chile (2015). In each case, it was popular at first because it meant no more changing the clocks twice a year, but quickly became very unpopular because of early-morning traffic fatalities, children waiting for buses in pitch darkness, and general seasonal depression, made worse from it staying dark until late in the morning in winter.

As everyone else here has said, this is a perfect example of FAFO. Everyone knows (except Maple MAGA types who live in their own false information bubble) that Russia is grabbing every adult male inside their borders that they can, to be sent to their deaths in Ukraine. To move to Russia shows a degree of wilful stupidity and/or ideological blindness that is beyond repair. It’s basically like a person deliberately crossing and re-crossing a very busy highway because they think they are invulnerable.

No sympathy whatsoever for the idiot, but some sympathy for the children whom I assume had no choice.

I once looked into whether Danielle Smith’s known instances of collusion with Donald Trump against the territorial integrity of Canada constituted literal treason, and found that it did according to the relevant laws . But it appears that the feds are unwilling to arrest and try her for treason, for fear of the backlash among the Maple MAGA crowd.