I'm not talking about the overall price of coffee, that's merely what caused me to think about the tariff affecting us via intermediaries thanks to Subtext's unusual level of transparency in disclosing it. I would have assumed tariffs wouldn't apply and found it interesting that, while sorta true in theory, in reality it may not be practical for small scale shipments. This roaster buys direct much of the time also, you can try their stuff without supporting Americans.
This is from my favourite small roaster in my Canadian city. They're one of the only ones that give this kind of detail, almost all others I would have had no idea any Americans were involved in the process and might have bought these without realising as you undoubtedly buy from Canadian businesses with some US suppliers. Which is why I figured it might be an interesting topic for a post.
Sure, and this is a Canadian company roasting Ethiopian beans (as far as I know we don't grow coffee). There are many things we don't make here and even for those we do the supply chain likely intersects with the US.
Another example this had me thinking about is close to your goals: a Canadian baker making bread from Canadian wheat might use a mixer or an oven or whatever as part of that where the only way to get parts is from a US distributor because it's too niche a thing to have a Canadian presence.
I would be astonished if VPNs were allowed to continue if they actually succeed in identity-gating everything. eg. that's next. Best we can do is keep talking about it, help people understand what's happening.
Canada's version is currently hanging out in the Senate: https://www.parl.ca/legisinfo/en/bill/45-1/s-209
Here's some background and detailed analysis about it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBJe3gB2Po4
https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2025/05/herewegoagain/
And yeah C-2 is also bad. As you point out, these sorts of things are often coordinated and some of that is at least documented in the form of treaties. That was really not made clear in the case of C-2 but it very much is:
Given significant democratic, public interest, and human rights implications of Canada’s potential agreement to a data-sharing framework with foreign authorities in the United States and/or elsewhere, it is surprising that the federal government is now quietly introducing the powers necessary to ratify the 2AP, without making this intent explicit to the broader public when it introduced Bill C-2.
https://citizenlab.ca/2025/06/a-preliminary-analysis-of-bill-c-2/
they likely have the capability to trivially decrypt TLS
Whoa. Anywhere to read more about this? Had not been paying close attention, didn't realise that was so starkly the case.
Thanks for chiming in because that's exactly my situation so reassuring to know it won't be a huge compromise. Where'd you run across it? I felt compelled to post because if it wasn't for the change in T2 requirement I probably would have gone another five years without realising there's a Linux option now.
Especially because it sends money to the party you vote for, which the OPC has upheld: https://news.ontario.ca/en/release/1005286/all-parties-in-ontario-legislature-support-extending-per-vote-subsidy
All the more impactful because we have limits on campaign finance so rich people have to try a teensy bit harder to influence the process.
https://results.elections.on.ca/en/graphics-charts has a chart at the bottom for "Historical Voter Turnout". It goes back to 1866. What I see in this is that giving up so hard on our democracy that you don't engage with it in the simplest way is a pretty recent thing:
1929 set a new all-time low of 57% that didn't get beat until we hit 52% in 2007. And we've been lowering the bar since then:
2011, the next election hit a new low of 48%.
2014 at 51% wasn't much better, in 2018 we at least got 57% to tie the record low that held since 1929.
And last time in 2022 it was 44% and we talked about it a lot. Because that was depressing af. I really hope enough of them heard so we never lower the bar beyond that. And hopefully we can start getting it above 57% on the regular like we managed to do for 78 years.
neutrality/cooperation with China and Russia,
the reality of Russia’s claims of self defense
...WTF? There are way too many Canadians with ties to Ukraine, myself included, that would be offended at the very idea of anything but utter condemnation of Russia's inhumanly brutal invasion. How can an invasion ever be "self defense", that's absurd.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_crimes_in_the_Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine
How can abducting children, laying siege to residential areas, rape, torture, etc. be self defense? It's not. It's abhorrent. Russia is worse than Trump.
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And we're happy to cooperate by signing our own version of that into law since there's an underlying treaty behind this warrantless data sharing: https://citizenlab.ca/2025/06/a-preliminary-analysis-of-bill-c-2/
I hope we can find a way to fulfill our treaty obligations with something that's not as terrible as the current one: https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2025/06/lawful-access-on-steroids/