Nick Dubuc

The war against weeds 🌱🌿

The amount of money, labour, and resources used to manage and control (not eradicate) weeds is mind blowing when you think about it.

You Have No Idea How Furious the Canadians Are There’s nothing like a common enemy to make a country come together.

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Aerial view westward over the Blatten deposit and the newly formed lake upstream! 🧊🌊

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Seems like all we've managed to export to the US recently is useless idiots. Specifically Kevin O'Leary and Danielle Smith.

Oh shit. Here comes another airing of grievances session on live TV soon.
She didn't steal just a page from the great book of conservative victimhood, she stole the whole darn book.

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Yay! Happy with (most of) my rye. Broadcasted into beans in early September. One small field with water damage, most of it looking good. Hoping to put N tomorrow

Meaningless value really. Probably just fishing in territorial waters 🤔

My favourite tariff:
10% on the Australian external territory of Heard & McDonald Islands, 4000 km SW of Perth.
Population: 0
GDP: $0
Last known export: elephant seal oil, exported until the entire seal population was wiped off in the 1880s.

US officials object to European push to buy weapons locally U.S. officials have told European allies they want them to keep buying American-made arms, amid recent moves by the European Union to limit U.S. manufacturers' participation in weapons tenders, five sources familiar with the matter told Reuters.

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Newsmax: Trump-endorsed news outlet sees 2,200% share surge Conservative US cable TV channel Newsmax started trading on the New York Stock Exchange on Monday.

There's an infinite supply of greater fools.
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U.S. lists Quebec’s Bill 96 as trade barrier ahead of Trump tariff announcement The inclusion of Quebec’s language law on a list of trade barriers comes as U.S. President Donald Trump is set to announce new tariffs this week.

We should respond with "not speaking metric is a trade barrier too"

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Trade Freedom and The Myth of Tariff Reciprocity Genuine trade reciprocity would entail the United States lowering our current tariff rates and remove non-tariff barriers.

"It is not clear how these massive tax hikes, reaching as high as $600 billion according to the White House’s own estimates, will “liberate” anything other than money from the wallets of American consumers."
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The world keeps running out of helium. There is now a race to prepare for the next shortage Our lives are surprisingly dependent upon this extremely light and unreactive gas, yet supplies of it are remarkably fragile.

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Eastern Canada though. Daily flights to Morocco from YUL, easy and relatively cheap to import I would guess.

Shock Marine Le Pen verdict rocks French far right The far-right figurehead has been barred from running for public office for five years, throwing her plans into disarray.

"The law had recently been toughened – by the very politicians who were now complaining about its application – to make the penalty for misuse of public funds very severe. Well, said the judge in so many words, now let politicians suck up their own medicine"
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Someone needs serious help with outdoor clothing @dieworkwear.bsky.social

Thanks to automation and globalization, China has lost more than 7 million manufacturing jobs since 2011;
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Corporate America’s Euphoria Over Trump’s ‘Golden Age’ Is Giving Way to Distress CEOs and investors are fretting over what they see as whipsaw policy changes and complacency about the risks of recession.

“He needs to put his hand to the hot stove and leave it there until he can’t bear it. The question is how long will that take?”
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Meme facts #memefacts

This is great. They're gonna be a busy family for the next 4 years 😅

This is the content I'm here for.

Greenland condemns planned visits by Usha Vance and Trump adviser The pair will make separate trips this week, after threats from the US president to take over the island.

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'We use them every day': In some parts of the US, the clack of typewriter keys can still be heard Computers and smartphones might be where most writing is done these days, but typewriters still have work to do in the US.

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Should Canada ease its 100% tariff on electric vehicles from China amid trade war with U.S.? | CBC News Canada's trade war with the United States has some economists questioning whether the federal government should ease or lift its 100 per cent tariff on Chinese electric vehicles, a move some say could...

"Let's just be a sovereign nation, pursue our own best interests. Because even when we do everything for them, it may not have any kind of reward at all."
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Elbows up, Canada.

ANALYSIS | How Trump uses disinformation in his trade war with Canada | CBC News The Trump administration has spread disinformation about the true terms of trade between the U.S. and Canada. While tariff rate quotas are rarely used, disinformation about them complicates negotiatio...

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The Furrow: Tray-Grown Strawberries Quebec strawberry producer pioneers new method

Tray grown strawberries reduce pressure and speeds up harvest www.deere.com/en/publicati...

Spaghetti science: What pasta reveals about the universe When you see pasta, your brain probably doesn't jump to the secrets of the universe. But for almost a century, physicists have puzzled over spaghetti's counterintuitive properties.

Spaghetti physics, mozzarella phase, and the origins of life 🍝
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