Boycott US

That is a shocking difference in attitude. I’m not as familiar with Canadian laws but I believe that in the US, lack of media accountability and politicization/money play a large role in the problem. When the media is allowed to lie about facts and events, then lies proliferate with no consequential legal recourse to remedy the problem. The news should be backed by verifiable facts provable in court. Departures from that should be prosecuted and loose their news license. We won a big case against Fox News even in the slanted capitalist courts and it changed nothing because the sanction was a slap on the wrist compared to profits from fear mongering. I saw my grandparents fall down the Fox News hole and it was heartbreaking. In addition the current media consolidation trend should be prohibited because of monopolization principles. Billionaires should not own the press, it belongs to the people. With that framework in mind, the US public is being wildly manipulated to hate each other when we have more in common than anything. It’s actually working class vs. billionaires/trillionaire.

Our media has been pitting us against each other for decades. Conservatives think leftists are evil because of all the gay sex; leftists think conservatives are evil because of book banning. And they all think the ones who say they “aren’t political” are uninformed and ignorant. Obviously more examples than that but you get the gist. It’s become extremely tribal, so it’s not shocking to me at all.