The United States should not be complaining. I live in Boston and have seen the changed skyline and heard about the poor air quality. The United States should be sending multiple teams of firefighters to help the Canadians fight these wildfires
We have in the past, just as Canada has sent their firefighters to help us, like they did with the LA fire. Trump is pissed at Canada, because they weren't willing to roll over and become the 51st state, or give us all the tolls from the new bridge THEY PAID FOR, or many other reasons Canada has pissed him off, that's why he hasn't offered them any help. Maybe he thinks they'll just come begging. Elbows up, Canada!
I'd love to see California, Oregon, and/or Washington sending firefighters up there. Or any other state for that metter. I don't think the feds would have to authorize that.
Thank you because that's what Canada does when the wild fires are on the other side of the border. This is what friends do.
We just lost a 56 year old Canadian pilot in Colorado fighting a fire there. When Canadians die to help Americans, the US Confederacy just feels they are entitled and then their phychophants start threatening our sovereignty more! We, both Canadians and Blue Americans must maintain our friendship in spite of the GOP!
And US citizens, IMO, need to start considering a Second American Revolution. It's looking, to me at least, like that's the only way they're going to be able to evict Trump & his thralls from power (if DJT dies in office, Vance The Foul steps in, according to their Constitution....)
And THEN they have to start working on their education programs, which have been systematically gutted and poisoned by Trumpists.
Trump is actively stripping environmental regulations that weaken our own abilities here to not only plan for mitigating Industrial stresses to our own forested lands but sabotage those protections we did have that had proven their effectiveness .
With Canada burning I wonder how able and willing they will be to assist us when our forest ignite as they almost are assured of doing given the forestry and water policies of the Trump Administration . The ever generous Canadians have always in the past sent us much help ( men and Supplies ) .Tump ever the pouting unthankful ,crude and gaslighting piece of festering jealousy and complainer of "ill -usage " will of course be nauseatingly vindictive if they are unable to send help to us . They are busy with their own tragic losses .
Preaching to the choir here, Sister! As it were, lol...
The only people who think he's doing the right thing are the ones profiting from what he does... The ones who aren't sure either way are the ones who only pay attention to their own little piece of the world and haven't been greatly affected by much from their perspective...
Sadly, we, the US, placed the least qualified, least knowledgeable, and least mentally stable person we could have found as POTUS... And now everyone's paying the price...
Whether or not we voted for him... The first time was a fluke as much as anything; the 2nd time was just plain dumbassery...
I see the MAGA political fools threatening us don't understand their wagon wheels are coming off, eh! Canadians know the US' climate denials and practices are a large part of the cause. We have very good and long memories! They won't have the last word.
We still have to be on guard against them. Long ago I read a fiction book about how a small town in Germany, mixed population, slowly & gradually descended into the anti-Semitism & evil that Htiler et al promulgated. Stones From? In? the River.
It removed the naive scales from my eyes about Germany. Now, reflection on that learning is teaching me the same lessons about the USA.
I think this book should be mandatory reading--and discussion topic--in every secondary school class in Canada (and elsewhere).
Exactly!! Thank you! I hope Canadians don't hold the average US citizen responsible for the shit that is the Trump regime. We want to work with you to solve these problems. But all we can do right now is protest -- and vote in November. How the 2024 voters could have voted for that con man for President is beyond me. Kamala might not have been perfect, but she would have been so much better than what we've got now.
We understand most Americans are our allies. These are challenging times for both countries. We'll be back for coffee and good convos when the earth's wobble has been collectively shifted back into balance.
As for myself, I stopped visiting the USA when the ERA failed to pass, decades ago. If various states don't want to treat me like a full human being, why would I go there?
And yes, countries can and should be helping each other. Previous US Presidents had a strong moral component to their character. tRump has none. It will be left to individual states. If they dare cross tRump.
However the issue goes beyond tRump. I live in the US. Tragically none of the US leaders have taken the sort of persistent responsibility necessary to help reduce or reverse climate change. tRump is the the worst on climate, (and any other topic).
But scientists the world over are designing, developing solutions. Implementing those will require citizens the world over taking steps, marches, protests to insist their leaders work vigorously on fixing climate, and providing mitigation for areas that are already forever changed.
IMO, from this distance, this is a logical outcome of the degradation of your educational system. For all classes--the ones who think the planet & its occupants were "created" in six days, and the privileged ones who think that the working wage for an average citizen is about five times what it actually is.
Thank you Becky. I actually think Kamala did win. Have been following This Will Hold. Also trump and company always, always accuse others of what they themselves are doing. I think that holds true for their/trump’s constant claims of vote rigging/election rigging. 🇨🇦 Yup - we love you back! 🫶
I was recently hors de combat for six weeks. I read four (dear god) knowledgeable books on DJT. He came from rotten stock, was raised to value money above all, dirty tricks evidence of intelligence--and what he didn't get at the root of his years, he sought out in his chosen mentor. He's never going to change, except to grow even worse, and he only values the same characteristics in other people.
There is no good explanation for the idiots in charge.
We're sorry that our Minnesota wild fires are currently adding more smoke to your air. And we appreciate your country's quick response in rescuing folks from the boundary waters as the fires spread. Unlike the numbskulls in Washington DC we love our Canadian neighbors.
Wow! Ya know, I grew up as a Canadian but living in the US for 25 years...to the UK and then to Canada, and I've been a Canuck again since '80, and I used to wonder when I was young why Americans had kind of a bad reputation. Then I saw them whiile I worked in the UK for awhile...them behaving rudely, obnoxious and fatheaded...and then I got it. I'm soooo glad to be a Canadian.
Like I said, I grew up there and was happy. It's only when I moved away and saw it from the outside. Even now...I think the US needs a major shake up, do over. It's particularly obvious to those of us on the outside dumbfounded by the direction the US is going. You ALL have to wake up and work to rid the country of your terrible leadership...ALL OF YOU. VOTE VOTE VOTE and MAKE IT HAPPEN!!
The one abiding flaw I see in many Americans is a chosen, blinding ignorance of other cultures, other countries, other ways of doing things, other ways of thinking.
And as far as I can tell from this distance, that contempt is fostered, silently or otherwise, by most of your educational and political structures.
I have good, kind, family members and friends who support Trump. I don't understand. They help neighbors and animals, they volunteer in emergency rescue and definitely know how to give CPR with much experience. My Uncle was particularly thrilled to use the 'jaws of life' to extract folks from cars in road-side accidents. I don't understand.
Not trying to be snotty here--this is an honest question: have you seen them help anyone not like themselves? (other countries, other faiths, other political opinions, etc.--anything that might challenge their own beliefs?
Under previous administrations The U. S. has sent Medical aid in the multi-billions of dollars all over the world , thereby almost completely eradicating some diseases and knocking others off the certain death list . Also , food aid and extensive manufacturing supplies in the multibillions of dollars , single handedly helped Europe and Japan plus other countries rebuild from the ashes after WWII . There is a massive list of notable contributions that the U. S . made at one time .
You will note that Great Britain had a world wide Empire covering the globe before us as did Spain and the Netherlands before them .
Like the corruption inherent in empire building itself the US like the others before let the Corporations eventually become our voice in the world as they became the face of American power.
We are just the newest iteration of an inherently human problem . Fear of those that are different and a willingness to suppress or kill a perceived threat . Add a fear of resource loss and humans are unpredictable at best .
Try not to ignore the very complicated history of all nations .
Even simple countries have visited genocide on their own people .
What is different is technology has made the scope and stakes massively consequential . Localized rudimentary education gave way to a more informed broader in depth educational system which has since been vandalized and broken down into a backwards superstitious religious educational cult.
Trump is just a U.S. karma that many other peoples of the world have had to face through out their own history. Be vigilant Canada . It could happen to you. Maybe hundreds of years but the weakness of humans has no borders .
I think that is a very important consideration - they live in a rural area where everyone is pretty much like themselves and goes to the same church or a similar church. I wonder how prevalent that narrowness is within the Trump support paradigm?
True -but on balance the term 'Ugly American " did have its finger on the truth that (sadly ) a large proportion of Americans were becoming over decades highly abusive to the local populations internationally and in some of its own more exotic locations .
From a dismissive disrespect to a full blown entitlement meltdown - I've seen far too many in Hawaii
This accusation against Canada is richly ironic coming from the Climate Denial party, headed by the Denier-in-Chief. Thanks for the visual explanation!
Excellent comment on Trump's dismantling of climate policies and encouragement of coal-burning.
In addition, Canada's fossil-fuel subsidies mostly benefit companies that are majority US-owned, and who then use some of their profits to encourage separatists in Alberta and the US politicians who support them. A vicious cycle indeed.
I'd say 'cry me a river'. but thanks to human caused climate change, some are dry - as in France and other parts of Europe, and some are flooding, as in Texas and China.
And MY stellar provincial premier just stepped briskly up to the plate, as a Northeastern First Nations community IN HIS JURISDICTION had to escape fast-track from a near-by fire, leaving EVERYTHING (homes, possessions, animals) behind to be consumed by the fires.
Did our estimable POC premier evidence any sympathy? Any support? Any resources to this community? It is to laugh.
Because this unspeakable quasi-human being didn't put enough money into forest fire fighting this year. And sent this community ABSOLUTELY NO SUPPORT OR HELP in this dire emergency AT ALL. He is, and always has been, a Trump wannabe. And he keeps getting re-elected, because of the money backers behind him.
I have much much more to say about him, but, it's now even later than I'd thought...
NEVER AGAIN VOTE CONSERVATIVE, in any jurisdiction in Canada.
Mostly, we'll all die off. I'm aging more & more with every year (funny how THAT happens eh?), and what mostly bothers me about that is (a) my grandchildren, and (b) all other non-human life, as we continue to poison & kill it
The United States should not be complaining. I live in Boston and have seen the changed skyline and heard about the poor air quality. The United States should be sending multiple teams of firefighters to help the Canadians fight these wildfires
We have in the past, just as Canada has sent their firefighters to help us, like they did with the LA fire. Trump is pissed at Canada, because they weren't willing to roll over and become the 51st state, or give us all the tolls from the new bridge THEY PAID FOR, or many other reasons Canada has pissed him off, that's why he hasn't offered them any help. Maybe he thinks they'll just come begging. Elbows up, Canada!
I'd love to see California, Oregon, and/or Washington sending firefighters up there. Or any other state for that metter. I don't think the feds would have to authorize that.
And it's not just Canada that's on fire, is it? It's the WORLD...WE ALL LIVE ON THIS GLOBE. We share the air!
Thank you because that's what Canada does when the wild fires are on the other side of the border. This is what friends do.
We just lost a 56 year old Canadian pilot in Colorado fighting a fire there. When Canadians die to help Americans, the US Confederacy just feels they are entitled and then their phychophants start threatening our sovereignty more! We, both Canadians and Blue Americans must maintain our friendship in spite of the GOP!
And US citizens, IMO, need to start considering a Second American Revolution. It's looking, to me at least, like that's the only way they're going to be able to evict Trump & his thralls from power (if DJT dies in office, Vance The Foul steps in, according to their Constitution....)
And THEN they have to start working on their education programs, which have been systematically gutted and poisoned by Trumpists.
Thanks for your insightful comment. Yes, elbows up
The worst part is that the climate deniers will expect the rest of us to foot the bill...
Forrest fires are generally accidental (an act of god if you're predisposed to think that),
Pollution is caused by humans for profit...
But as long as we (US) have this current administration, nothing that needs to be done will get done...
tragically true
Trump is actively stripping environmental regulations that weaken our own abilities here to not only plan for mitigating Industrial stresses to our own forested lands but sabotage those protections we did have that had proven their effectiveness .
With Canada burning I wonder how able and willing they will be to assist us when our forest ignite as they almost are assured of doing given the forestry and water policies of the Trump Administration . The ever generous Canadians have always in the past sent us much help ( men and Supplies ) .Tump ever the pouting unthankful ,crude and gaslighting piece of festering jealousy and complainer of "ill -usage " will of course be nauseatingly vindictive if they are unable to send help to us . They are busy with their own tragic losses .
Preaching to the choir here, Sister! As it were, lol...
The only people who think he's doing the right thing are the ones profiting from what he does... The ones who aren't sure either way are the ones who only pay attention to their own little piece of the world and haven't been greatly affected by much from their perspective...
Sadly, we, the US, placed the least qualified, least knowledgeable, and least mentally stable person we could have found as POTUS... And now everyone's paying the price...
Whether or not we voted for him... The first time was a fluke as much as anything; the 2nd time was just plain dumbassery...
I have a new word " dumbassery" wonderful !
Thank you to a fellow choir member
I don't recall where I heard it before, but I cannot claim to have invented it...
But I am happy others appreciate it as I do...
Perfect word: dumbassery
I see the MAGA political fools threatening us don't understand their wagon wheels are coming off, eh! Canadians know the US' climate denials and practices are a large part of the cause. We have very good and long memories! They won't have the last word.
We still have to be on guard against them. Long ago I read a fiction book about how a small town in Germany, mixed population, slowly & gradually descended into the anti-Semitism & evil that Htiler et al promulgated. Stones From? In? the River.
It removed the naive scales from my eyes about Germany. Now, reflection on that learning is teaching me the same lessons about the USA.
I think this book should be mandatory reading--and discussion topic--in every secondary school class in Canada (and elsewhere).
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Exactly!! Thank you! I hope Canadians don't hold the average US citizen responsible for the shit that is the Trump regime. We want to work with you to solve these problems. But all we can do right now is protest -- and vote in November. How the 2024 voters could have voted for that con man for President is beyond me. Kamala might not have been perfect, but she would have been so much better than what we've got now.
We understand most Americans are our allies. These are challenging times for both countries. We'll be back for coffee and good convos when the earth's wobble has been collectively shifted back into balance.
See you then!
You betcha!
Yes, but.
As for myself, I stopped visiting the USA when the ERA failed to pass, decades ago. If various states don't want to treat me like a full human being, why would I go there?
Mr. deAdder nailed it!
And yes, countries can and should be helping each other. Previous US Presidents had a strong moral component to their character. tRump has none. It will be left to individual states. If they dare cross tRump.
However the issue goes beyond tRump. I live in the US. Tragically none of the US leaders have taken the sort of persistent responsibility necessary to help reduce or reverse climate change. tRump is the the worst on climate, (and any other topic).
But scientists the world over are designing, developing solutions. Implementing those will require citizens the world over taking steps, marches, protests to insist their leaders work vigorously on fixing climate, and providing mitigation for areas that are already forever changed.
IMO, from this distance, this is a logical outcome of the degradation of your educational system. For all classes--the ones who think the planet & its occupants were "created" in six days, and the privileged ones who think that the working wage for an average citizen is about five times what it actually is.
Thank you Becky. I actually think Kamala did win. Have been following This Will Hold. Also trump and company always, always accuse others of what they themselves are doing. I think that holds true for their/trump’s constant claims of vote rigging/election rigging. 🇨🇦 Yup - we love you back! 🫶
I was recently hors de combat for six weeks. I read four (dear god) knowledgeable books on DJT. He came from rotten stock, was raised to value money above all, dirty tricks evidence of intelligence--and what he didn't get at the root of his years, he sought out in his chosen mentor. He's never going to change, except to grow even worse, and he only values the same characteristics in other people.
There is no good explanation for the idiots in charge.
We're sorry that our Minnesota wild fires are currently adding more smoke to your air. And we appreciate your country's quick response in rescuing folks from the boundary waters as the fires spread. Unlike the numbskulls in Washington DC we love our Canadian neighbors.
Despite our anger with your regime, we love our American neighbours too.
per moi....mostly.
Except most of the current crop of politicians..............
Wow! Ya know, I grew up as a Canadian but living in the US for 25 years...to the UK and then to Canada, and I've been a Canuck again since '80, and I used to wonder when I was young why Americans had kind of a bad reputation. Then I saw them whiile I worked in the UK for awhile...them behaving rudely, obnoxious and fatheaded...and then I got it. I'm soooo glad to be a Canadian.
Don't paint us all with the same brush. There are so many good, kind people here.
Like I said, I grew up there and was happy. It's only when I moved away and saw it from the outside. Even now...I think the US needs a major shake up, do over. It's particularly obvious to those of us on the outside dumbfounded by the direction the US is going. You ALL have to wake up and work to rid the country of your terrible leadership...ALL OF YOU. VOTE VOTE VOTE and MAKE IT HAPPEN!!
The one abiding flaw I see in many Americans is a chosen, blinding ignorance of other cultures, other countries, other ways of doing things, other ways of thinking.
And as far as I can tell from this distance, that contempt is fostered, silently or otherwise, by most of your educational and political structures.
I have good, kind, family members and friends who support Trump. I don't understand. They help neighbors and animals, they volunteer in emergency rescue and definitely know how to give CPR with much experience. My Uncle was particularly thrilled to use the 'jaws of life' to extract folks from cars in road-side accidents. I don't understand.
Not trying to be snotty here--this is an honest question: have you seen them help anyone not like themselves? (other countries, other faiths, other political opinions, etc.--anything that might challenge their own beliefs?
Under previous administrations The U. S. has sent Medical aid in the multi-billions of dollars all over the world , thereby almost completely eradicating some diseases and knocking others off the certain death list . Also , food aid and extensive manufacturing supplies in the multibillions of dollars , single handedly helped Europe and Japan plus other countries rebuild from the ashes after WWII . There is a massive list of notable contributions that the U. S . made at one time .
You will note that Great Britain had a world wide Empire covering the globe before us as did Spain and the Netherlands before them .
Like the corruption inherent in empire building itself the US like the others before let the Corporations eventually become our voice in the world as they became the face of American power.
We are just the newest iteration of an inherently human problem . Fear of those that are different and a willingness to suppress or kill a perceived threat . Add a fear of resource loss and humans are unpredictable at best .
Try not to ignore the very complicated history of all nations .
Even simple countries have visited genocide on their own people .
What is different is technology has made the scope and stakes massively consequential . Localized rudimentary education gave way to a more informed broader in depth educational system which has since been vandalized and broken down into a backwards superstitious religious educational cult.
Trump is just a U.S. karma that many other peoples of the world have had to face through out their own history. Be vigilant Canada . It could happen to you. Maybe hundreds of years but the weakness of humans has no borders .
I think that is a very important consideration - they live in a rural area where everyone is pretty much like themselves and goes to the same church or a similar church. I wonder how prevalent that narrowness is within the Trump support paradigm?
True -but on balance the term 'Ugly American " did have its finger on the truth that (sadly ) a large proportion of Americans were becoming over decades highly abusive to the local populations internationally and in some of its own more exotic locations .
From a dismissive disrespect to a full blown entitlement meltdown - I've seen far too many in Hawaii
This accusation against Canada is richly ironic coming from the Climate Denial party, headed by the Denier-in-Chief. Thanks for the visual explanation!
We gave up on owning air, when trumps tariffs hit, got to blame the orange fruit color man, without a brain in the Wizard of OZ
Genius.
And brave.
Excellent comment on Trump's dismantling of climate policies and encouragement of coal-burning.
In addition, Canada's fossil-fuel subsidies mostly benefit companies that are majority US-owned, and who then use some of their profits to encourage separatists in Alberta and the US politicians who support them. A vicious cycle indeed.
🤬🤬🤬
Spot on.
I shudder to think this is becoming the norm.
Air here (Pennsylvania) is oppressive, unbreathable.
Red alert yesterday and today in northern Michigan. Fires burning in Minnesota and Canada.
😥
I'd say 'cry me a river'. but thanks to human caused climate change, some are dry - as in France and other parts of Europe, and some are flooding, as in Texas and China.
So sorry to hear. Red alert here, too.
And MY stellar provincial premier just stepped briskly up to the plate, as a Northeastern First Nations community IN HIS JURISDICTION had to escape fast-track from a near-by fire, leaving EVERYTHING (homes, possessions, animals) behind to be consumed by the fires.
Did our estimable POC premier evidence any sympathy? Any support? Any resources to this community? It is to laugh.
Because this unspeakable quasi-human being didn't put enough money into forest fire fighting this year. And sent this community ABSOLUTELY NO SUPPORT OR HELP in this dire emergency AT ALL. He is, and always has been, a Trump wannabe. And he keeps getting re-elected, because of the money backers behind him.
I have much much more to say about him, but, it's now even later than I'd thought...
NEVER AGAIN VOTE CONSERVATIVE, in any jurisdiction in Canada.
Is there still coal mining going on there? & coal burning? I know the Orange Cancer tried to advance that.....
Forest fires are more America’s fault than Canada’s. They also seem to have forgotten about Hawaii and California.
We'll all be wearing space suits if we don't get our shit together.
Mostly, we'll all die off. I'm aging more & more with every year (funny how THAT happens eh?), and what mostly bothers me about that is (a) my grandchildren, and (b) all other non-human life, as we continue to poison & kill it
You can have mine.
If we can afford them.
"The answer is blowin' in the wind..." but no one is asking the question "Who is responsible?" It's us... only us...
Well, I agree, re voting at any rate...
Spot on