Ontario to rip up $100M Starlink contract ahead of U.S. tariffs, Musk says ‘Oh well’
www.cp24.com
Ontario Premier Doug Ford has announced that the province will dissolve its $100 million deal with Elon Musk’s Starlink ahead of U.S. President Donald Trump’s incoming 25 per cent tariffs.

Ford’s office made the announcement Monday and said the government is also banning other American companies from provincial contracts going forward

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  • ShadowRam@fedia.io
    15·
    14 hours ago

    It’s not sane US citizens doing this

    At some point we need to hit their pocket too.

    33% of American didn’t even bother to show up and vote. They’re complicit in this, and they deserve the pinch to wake the fuck up as to what their country is doing.

    And if that’s not enough, well… the sane ones might need to get off their ass and start doing something about the rampant assholes running around shitting on everyone.

    • floofloof@lemmy.caEnglish
      12·
      13 hours ago

      Speaking of turnout, Ontario has an election coming up. Last time, Doug Ford (Conservative) was voted back in with a turnout of 43%. So about 57% of Ontarians didn’t bother to take a few minutes to vote. And now our healthcare and education systems are being dismantled for the sake of profit. Maybe on February 27th we can get a slightly less shameful turnout and vote for someone who will actually stand up for Ontario’s public services and stand up against the USA’s bullying and threats?

    • humanspiral@lemmy.ca
      11·
      12 hours ago

      There is evidence that voter suppression + not counting/disqualifying forced provisional votes created Trump victory.

    • gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      02·
      14 hours ago

      33% of American didn’t even bother to show up and vote. They’re complicit in this

      Millions in CA, whose votes went to the Dems. So tired of people pretending they can just lump all non voters together when they can’t

      • notabot@lemm.ee
        1·
        13 hours ago

        You can lump most of them together (I’d make exceptions for those with a genuine reason they couldn’t, a medical issue or absolute lack of transport options for example). even if your state is, and was, solid blue, enough showing support to the Democrat candidate would have meant that Trump couldn’t claim a mandate as the popular vote would have gone the other way. Sure, it wouldn’t change the outcome itself, but would have given some comfort to those suffering that the majority of voters didn’t want this. As it is, he scraped the popular vote, and the record shows that, in fact, the majority of those who could be bothered to vote actually deliberately voted for this.

    • Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io
      11·
      14 hours ago

      Great, sure, and I’m in the 33% that said, and is saying “hell to the power of fuck NO”.

      Edit: By which I mean I voted against the current shitshow. Sometimes my engrish is unclear. ;-)