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Re:Trudeau government bans TikTok from operating in Canada by forgotoldacc on Wednesday November 06, 2024 @10:24PM (#42073044)
Which gives us a cyclical problem. Do they share those views because American media has so much influence in Canada? Or does American media have influence in Canada because they Americans and Canadians have shared views?

Neighbors in Asia and Europe often have completely unaligned political politics due to a language and media barrier. Even the US and everything south of Texas don't align as much as the US and Canada.

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Re:Trudeau government bans TikTok from operating in Canada by lowdest on Thursday November 07, 2024 @12:52AM (#42073810)
No. US and Canada share a language and have historically intermingled their populations significantly. We're the same because we have largely similar daily lives as individuals, we have similar problems, and we're populated by people of similar origins. If, for example, conditions caused our paths to diverge, an extreme example would be the split between East and West Germany, then you would expect differing views. Even prior to modern media we were very similar peoples.
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Re:Trudeau government bans TikTok from operating in Canada by Loic on Thursday November 07, 2024 @01:32AM (#42074032)
Une partie du Canada ne parle pas Anglais.
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Re:Trudeau government bans TikTok from operating in Canada by infecto on Thursday November 07, 2024 @07:24AM (#42076015)
Yes ~9% of the Canadian population is unable to hold a conversation in English. We are talking about the other 90%.
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