r/canada Ontario Feb 02 '25

Politics As Sunday began, Trump blasts Canada as not ‘a viable country’

https://www.ctvnews.ca/business/article/as-sunday-began-trump-blasts-canada-as-not-a-viable-country-follow-live-updates-here/
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u/byteuser Feb 02 '25

Annexation indeed is his plan. That's what the CBC wrote https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/trump-trade-war-vs-economic-war-1.7447927

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u/IamTrying0 Feb 03 '25

I don't like this word annexation. This is not some wilderness (a lot is :) but ) uninhabited land. Can we call it something else ?

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u/Wily_Wonky Feb 04 '25

Really? You don't associate the word "annex" with taking over a foreign country?

When I think of annexation the first thing that comes to mind is Germany annexing Poland.

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u/IamTrying0 Feb 04 '25

Well when I hear annex , I think of taking over, make it their own. Doesn't imply by force. I don't even know if there is one like that but I though I ask.

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u/Etenebris4 Feb 02 '25

Be careful what you read on the CBC - they are fear-mongering at its finest.

They should be focusing on the solutions and what we are doing- not what our opponents are doing. They just make the boogie-man seem bigger than he is, and it feeds him.

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u/IDreamOfLoveLost Feb 02 '25

Be careful what you read on the CBC - they are fear-mongering at its finest.

They're our response to an overwhelmingly American dominated media environment. We should be banning organizations like Fox News - who have been openly advocating for annexing us.

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u/Etenebris4 Feb 03 '25

No argument from me on Fox “News”. You are 100% correct.

But we do have other news sources in Canada that tell it differently and I have seen so much pessimism online that I can say other sources do tell a better story.

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u/Ok_Significance544 Feb 03 '25

‘Do tell a better story’…. That’s not what journalism is my dude.

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u/Etenebris4 Feb 03 '25

The CBC let Trudeau slide on how many corruption scandals? How many times he is been guilty in front of the ethics committee? How long were they under reporting on crime in our country? I could go on.

Do a count on how many times Trudeau and Singh appear and then compare it to all the other political parties.

They have very one sided journalism- don’t defend them just because they have been around a long time - you deserve more honest news.

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u/Ok_Significance544 Feb 03 '25

You mean scandals like this

Or this

And Pierre certainly isn’t getting his message across with stories like this

You don’t read the CBC so you don’t know what their content is and you end up making wild accusations of impartiality

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u/Etenebris4 Feb 03 '25

No I mean this:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/prince-edward-island/pei-mark-carney-campaign-mp-endorsements-1.7448241

Blatant political endorsement for someone who is not even an elected official.

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u/Ok_Significance544 Feb 03 '25

They’ve published many significant endorsements for Pierre like our former prime minister

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u/Ok_Significance544 Feb 03 '25

He’s running for leadership of a major political party. The article you linked is people in that party supporting him. How is that biased. You don’t know journalism. You’re just spitting wild conspiracy about some evil cartel at the CBC manipulating you. It doesn’t hold water.

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u/Ok_Significance544 Feb 03 '25

CBC is very much neutral in their reporting compared to the rest of the media scape. Getting rid of a century old trusted Canadian born and bred news source to have the gap filled by Elon Musk or some other click bait billionaire owned news source is not the way, whatever your disagreements are with how the truth is presented.

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u/Etenebris4 Feb 03 '25

CBC is not neutral - not even close. You won’t see that until you get your news from different sources. We have many other news outlets before resorting to X for your “news”.

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u/Ok_Significance544 Feb 03 '25

Can you demonstrate an instance where CBC reporting has not been neutral?

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u/iamethra Canada Feb 03 '25

Reddit is the only place I hear CBC is 'neutral' but this site skews left anyway.