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Scotty

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  • Starting from February 17, 2026, ordinary passport holders from Canada will be exempted from visa to enter China and stay for up to 30 days for business, tourism, family/friends visit.

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  • Don't forget to bring a burner phone and do not criticize the government or something.

    There are around 100 Canadians wrongfully imprisoned in China, and thousands of other foreign nationals.

  • 🇨🇦 At Davos, Prime Minister

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  • Netanyahu is a war criminal, and so is Putin.

    But Dimitri Lascaris has a different view apparently. He has been conveying each single piece of pro-Russian propaganda bs since the invasion of Ukraine and supports the Kremlin. This person is a disgrace.

  • Declassified data obtained through an FOI and published by Declassified UK reveals that as of March 2025, there were about 1,524 Canadians with Israeli citizenship actively serving in the IDF

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  • And 5,169 Russians are also serving in the IDF. And from many other countries. Just in case you want to post this also in the other country-specific communities (there is also a 'Russia' comm here, just fyi).

    As an addition, here is a very good story of Canadians fighting in Ukraine:

    One operates a Leopard battle tank in the eastern region of Sumy. Another guides drones over the Dnipro river in Ukraine’s southern Kherson province. A third — a mother from B.C. — tends to wounded recruits in a Donetsk-stationed penal unit ...

    “I always told my family and friends I’m one that will go and do something, not just talk about it,” said Cowboy, the Canadian tanker whose real name Canadian Affairs agreed to withhold for security reasons ... “You can talk about it all day and pray about it all day,” he said. “But at the end of the day, if you don’t go and try to make change, there won’t be no change" ...

    Reliable estimates of the number of Canadians in Ukraine are hard to pin down. Ottawa does not track how many citizens have enlisted. But early in the war, former Liberal MP Borys Wrzesnewskyj, who helped Ukrainian diplomats organize volunteers, estimated roughly 1,500 Canadians had applied to join the International Legion in 2022 ...

  • EU clears path for common defense fund for its member states and Canada

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  • This.

    The so-called 'de-risking' was invented particularly for China, now we can apply it also to the US.

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    EU clears path for common defense fund for its member states and Canada

    www.consilium.europa.eu /en/press/press-releases/2026/02/11/safe-council-clears-path-for-financial-assistance-to-eight-member-states-and-concluding-the-canada-agreement/
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    Opinion

    The F-35 Debate Is Really about How We Killed the Avro Arrow -

    thewalrus.ca /avro-arrow/
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    Opinion

    Canada-China trade: For Beijing, increased trade is not a destination. It is leverage — banked for the next dispute -

    www.thespec.com /opinion/contributors/opinion-canada-china-trade/article_baf63340-4ef9-56cb-ad5d-24867aeff189.html
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    Opinion

    Canada-China trade: For Beijing, increased trade is not a destination. It is leverage — banked for the next dispute -

    www.thespec.com /opinion/contributors/opinion-canada-china-trade/article_baf63340-4ef9-56cb-ad5d-24867aeff189.html
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    Opinion

    Canada-China trade: For Beijing, increased trade is not a destination. It is leverage — banked for the next dispute -

    www.thespec.com /opinion/contributors/opinion-canada-china-trade/article_baf63340-4ef9-56cb-ad5d-24867aeff189.html

  • Carney’s ‘art of the deal’: Canada leverages subs contract for auto investment

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  • ...and not the Chinese economy.

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    Greenland tensions sharpen focus on Arctic infrastructure gaps in Canada

    ici.radio-canada.ca /rci/en/news/2225694/greenland-tensions-sharpen-focus-on-arctic-infrastructure-gaps-in-canada
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    A Homegrown Cloud: Bell and SAP Double Down on Canada’s Digital Sovereignty

    www.telecomreviewcanada.com /articles/cloud-and-enterprise-business/28079-a-homegrown-cloud-bell-and-sap-double-down-on-canadas-digital-sovereignty/
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    Canada to focus foreign aid on building ‘mutual prosperity’ with trading partners: MP

    www.ctvnews.ca /canada/article/canada-to-focus-foreign-aid-on-building-mutual-prosperity-with-trading-partners-mp/
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    Jimmy Lai's niece in Niagara Region says it's 'a sad day for Hong Kong' after he gets 20-year prison term

    www.cbc.ca /news/canada/hamilton/jimmy-lai-reaction-niagara-9.7080664

  • Trump and Xi Agree on One Thing: Canada Shouldn’t Be Building Cars -- [Opinion]

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  • Canada built more than 3 million cars in 1999, now it builds 1.3 million. As many other Western countries, it must and will 're-industrialize' as geopolitical tensions can't be expected to ease, not with the US nor with long-standing dictatorships like China and Russia.

  • Japan and Canada Sign $700M Grant Deal with Ukraine Backed by Frozen Russian Assets

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  • I am not a legal expert, but whataboutism is certainly irrelevant.

    Russia started an illegal invasion of Ukraine, and it has been deliberately attacking and destroyed civilian infrastructure in Ukraine worth of hundreds of billions. Russia is responsible for this and it will have to pay.

  • Japan and Canada Sign $700M Grant Deal with Ukraine Backed by Frozen Russian Assets

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  • It was Russia that started this war and it must be clear that it will have to pay for the destruction it has caused. That's justice.

  • Japan and Canada Sign $700M Grant Deal with Ukraine Backed by Frozen Russian Assets

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  • Proceeds refers to the interest rates the Russian assets earned by those assets (such as government bonds and other fixed income investments), while seizure of the assets would mean the assets (such as government bonds) would be transferred to Ukraine.

    For now, Russian assets are frozen, meaning Russia can't access them, and only the proceeds are used for Ukraine's reconstruction and defence. But the assets are still Russia's, they just can't access it.

  • Japan and Canada Sign $700M Grant Deal with Ukraine Backed by Frozen Russian Assets

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  • it's not legal

    This is not true. Most legal experts say it is perfectly possible to seize Russian assets.

    It was Russia that started this war and it must be clear that it will have to pay for the destruction it has caused.

  • Japan and Canada Sign $700M Grant Deal with Ukraine Backed by Frozen Russian Assets

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  • What the EU decided against it for now was to seizure Russian assets as far as I understand. Here - as well as many other funding processes for Ukraine - the grant for Ukraine is funded by the proceeds of Russian assets.

    There are many Western officials and experts, however, who have been calling for the seizure. I hope this will be done soon. I must be clear that Russia will have to pay to the destruction it has caused.

  • Canadian leaders mentioned in passing in latest Epstein files

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  • Yeah, but OP's only interest is a 'Canada bad' post. A misleading but bold headline is perfect for their propaganda despite the content being a nothing burger.

  • South Korean firms eye Canadian auto, battery, hydrogen and marine investments amid submarine bid

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  • From this comment, one can easily infer that you didn't even read the headline.

  • South Korean firms eye Canadian auto, battery, hydrogen and marine investments amid submarine bid

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  • South Korean firms eye Canadian auto, battery, hydrogen and marine investments amid submarine bid

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  • As an addition a report by the Korean newspaper Koran JoonAng Daliy:

    Helping Canada's car sector would be 'good place to start' in submarine bid: Ottawa's defense procurement chief - [Archived link]

    Canada's top point man on defense procurement has proposed that Korea offer measures to support Ottawa's faltering auto industry as part of a package deal to clinch Canada's landmark naval submarine project, stressing that auto will be a "good place to start."

    Stephen Fuhr, Canada's secretary of state for defense procurement, made the remarks as he recently visited Korea just weeks ahead of the deadline early next month to submit the proposal for the Canadian Patrol Submarine Project, valued at around 60 trillion won ($41 billion).

  • China overturns death sentence of Canadian in sign of diplomatic thaw

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  • The latest information I could find about it is from October 2024. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs wrote back then,

    Approximately 100 Canadians are detained in China at any given time on a broad range of offences, ranging from basic infractions (e.g. immigration violations) to more serious charges such as drug trafficking and fraud.

    No country except the US has more of its citizens detained in China than Canada.

    As an addition: There is an interesting comment by Michael Kovrig from July 2025 when China Secretly Executed Four Canadians.

    How Beijing uses the death penalty as diplomatic leverage.

  • Canada Eyes Joint Venture to Build Chinese EVs for Global Export

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  • there can be local supply chains in Canada that are created out of these investments

    I don't think so.

    Chinese companies bring their own migrant workers - who then work under slave-like conditions as we have seen in Brazil's BYD plant last year, to name a recent example.

    And they also have fully integrated supply chains, meaning they purchase their parts from Chinese suppliers.

    The only thing it does is to create hurdles for Canada to rebuild its own car industry.

    If Canada want to really create supply chains, it must create ventures with European, Japanese, South Korean producers.

  • Canadian leaders mentioned in passing in latest Epstein files

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  • Trump and Xi Agree on One Thing: Canada Shouldn’t Be Building Cars -- [Opinion]

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  • This rage bait would have a much larger impact if it was not in fact 2 stories above another story about Canada building Chinese EV's to export to the rest of the world.

    This is a false assumption.

    If if Chinese subsidiaries in Canada would built cars (for export or the domestic markets), Canada and Canadians wouldn't benefit much. Chinese companies bring their own migrant workers - who then work under slave-like conditions as we have seen in Brazil's BYD plant last year, to name a recent example.

    And they also have fully integrated supply chains, meaning they purchase their parts from Chinese suppliers.

    The only thing it does is to create hurdles for Canada to rebuild its own car industry.