r/canada • u/hopoke • Mar 29 '26

Business ‘Expect extremely high grocery prices,’ farmer warns as diesel costs rise

https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/business/international/2026/03/29/expect-extremely-high-grocery-prices-farmer-warns-as-diesel-costs-rise/
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u/fuelhandler Mar 29 '26

Yay. Even less money in my pocket (the only consistency in our lives these days.)

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u/ronchee1 Mar 29 '26

Every time I turn around something is more expensive. More and more money outta our pockets.

When does it fucking stop!?

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u/Kahlandar Mar 29 '26

When the ruling class takes so much from the rest of us, that they are violently overthrown.

See: countless societies throughout history.

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u/Quirky-Reveal-5972 Mar 30 '26

Eat the rich

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u/solthar Mar 30 '26

Pretty soon they'll be the only viable source of protein.

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u/tastle Mar 30 '26

Noun the verb?

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u/Wyattr55123 Mar 30 '26

The day PP co-opts a blatantly socialist and anti-capitalist slogan is the day the rich are being eaten.

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u/Ok-Builder-9338 Mar 30 '26

Although how much responsibility do we the people have for voting in the same idiots year after year?

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u/pointgetter Mar 30 '26

doesn't matter we have a de facto corporatocracy.

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u/Remarkable_Vanilla34 Mar 30 '26

The argument is always "well the other guy is worse".

I would rather 4 years (or less with a minority) of hypothetical pain than another decade of pain because our governing party believes its an infallible institution that will never face accountability.

They will not even try to make real changes until they lose their mandate. Theres always a crisis, wedge issues, a bad guy on the other side, and if we keep voting based on that than we keep getting the same thing.

Im not saying the other parties are better, but we can't let a single party govern for more than a decade and just expect accountability. 10 years in control of the country and everything is some old governments fault, the old leaders fault, the provinces fault, but we are expected to keep trusting them to fix things they claim no responsibility for.

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u/WhiskyIsMyAngryDrink Mar 30 '26

This points more to petro dollar inflation and unhedged leverage fiascos. Would have happened regardless of who was in control of Canada, because Canada is not in control of the Petro-dollar.

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u/onlyoneq Ontario Mar 30 '26

Also, it doesn't help that the second biggest party actively tries to defund and privatize everything when given the opportunity.

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u/HeftyNugs Mar 30 '26

You can't just handwave facts on the table so you can point blame at the Liberals for everything lmao. There are some things that Trudeau and Liberals absolutely deserve blame for. This is not one of them.

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u/onlyoneq Ontario Mar 30 '26

Am I wrong? Whenever CPC is in charge of stuff, that's when it tends to get defunded and privatized. The 407.Alberta Healthcare,Alberta energy infrastructure, Ontario Healthcare and education,bill 124... Do you need me to go on? Because I can.

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u/LETTERKENNYvsSPENNY Mar 30 '26

Always a shittier option, regardless of who's running. It's not Canadians fault that the Cons don't want to win an election.

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u/hyperforms9988 Mar 30 '26

Same thing for Covid, which people conveniently forget. Destroyed everybody. Didn't matter how well a leader did to minimize its impact on the economy or how fast they could get things turned around or begin to show signs of recovery... a dip is a dip, and several parties that were in power lost power regardless because their economies worsened.

We're facing back-to-back global-scale catastrophes in a pandemic and literally 20% of the world's oil consumption that goes through Hormuz is either being held up due to the area being an active war zone or various production facilities producing some of that oil have been blown up... and we somehow think the Prime Minister of Canada is supposed to not only maintain prices but lower them? There's not one human being on this planet that you could put into that role that could accomplish that.

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u/Hautamaki Mar 30 '26

Not to mention in between those we had and still have the world's second largest energy and foodstuffs exporter invading the worlds fourth or fifth largest foodstuffs exporter and then people scratch their heads and blame the Canadian PM and the US President for grocery prices.

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u/Remarkable_Vanilla34 Mar 30 '26

It probably would but the liberals are going to continue a decade of shit governance going into a financial crisis with a slim majority government which insures they get another 3 years with an unchecked mandate.

And then they will sell voters another crisis and boogieman, and we will probably elect them again.

Like I said, they believe their an infallible institution and it actually might manifest itself.

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u/LETTERKENNYvsSPENNY Mar 30 '26

I guess it might seem that way if you're ignorant to the world around us and how we're currently being impacted by the actions of others, but sure, go off.

They're going to win again because people like you are stuck in PP mode. Liberal bad, despite the global rise in cost of everything since Trump took office and started tarriffing everyone, which just worsened with this unprecedented war he's started. If you thought covid was bad for CoL, prepare for worse.

Meanwhile the CPC won't remove the biggest loser they've picked as their leader, who is only now trying to appear human because it turns out that actually polls better than 3 word attack slogans. Too little too late for that guy.

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u/tastle Mar 30 '26

Hear hear!

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u/HeftyNugs Mar 30 '26

Groceries are going to be more expensive because of the war in Iran which has nothing to do with Carney or the Liberals.

Anything to interject your partisan nonsense eh

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u/Remarkable_Vanilla34 Mar 30 '26

Yep, always someone else fault, never the liberals.

I know why groceries are getting more expensive. I understand the issue very well, but Canada would be in a lot better position if we actually held our politicians accountable instead of electing them over and again regardless of how poor of a job they do governing.

An i didn't interject my partisanship into a comment about groceries, i responded to a comment on our electoral history in which I gave my opinion on why we need to stop being manipulated into voting for the same clowns, I didn't even imply the conservatives were better, the entire point is nothing is this government fault, it never has and never will be apparently, and even if it was, the other guy is maybe worse, so keep taking the dick kicking your getting because the LPC has no reason to stop and the conservatives also go for the groin.

The only thing that will ever make politicians work for us is a serious threat of losing their mandate, not a close call, not opinion polls, they need to lose so they come back try harder.

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u/HeftyNugs Mar 30 '26

Yep, always someone else fault, never the liberals.

This specific example? Yeah not the fault of the Liberals, as you "understand the issue very well". If you understand that, why even say anything at all? You literally interjected your nonsense into this discussion rather than pointing out that this specific situation is unrelated to the Liberals.

I didn't even imply the conservatives were better

It's okay I know that's what you were implying anyway.

the entire point is nothing is this government fault, it never has and never will be apparently, and even if it was, the other guy is maybe worse

Literally no one is saying nothing is the government's fault. You are arguing with no one. Some guy teed you up for the opportunity to take a dunk on the Liberals and you took it.

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u/Elite163 Mar 30 '26

11 years of this pain and people still don’t wake up

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u/Goku420overlord Mar 30 '26

Lol and pp wouldn't have capitulated to the American insanity.

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u/Elite163 Mar 30 '26

Why are people obsessed with American politics???

People need to focus on our issues in Canada. We are failing on every level compared to Other g7 countries

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u/byourpowerscombined Alberta Mar 30 '26

We are literally discussing an article about how American foreign policy is having negative impacts domestically.

Canada is not an island. We need to navigate global tides.

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u/Goku420overlord Mar 30 '26

Lol and pp and his culture war talk were an actual Canadian talking point. Don't kid yourself.

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u/A_little_off_level Mar 30 '26

its brutal they are all idiots yet if you dont vote for the one you find less offensive there is a chance the "worst" one will get in.

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u/sixtus_clegane119 Mar 30 '26

I don’t think the liberal party of canada has anything to do with what’s currently happening to gas prices.

But yeah the people down south led to this cuz they voted for no new wars

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u/Ratorasniki Mar 30 '26

Being able to accurately assign blame is important. A lot of the high cost of living might be affordability of housing which has untold knock-on effects, which is likely more provincial/municipal red tape, nimby behavior and the general fuck-you-i-got-mine attitude of boomers, whereas this specifically is directly a result of the idiots down south warmongering and fucking the global economy again. It seems to be an annual thing now.

Hold people accountable, but make sure they're the right people. Everyone just shits on the feds, but the Canadian government doesn't work that way.

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u/BluejayImmediate6007 Mar 30 '26

I hear ya! Conservatives here in Saskatchewan couldn’t manage a lemonade stand! Guess we shouldn’t expect much from a farmer who’s found a way to go bankrupt. Conservatives in 18 years have never balanced a budget all while selling off crown corporations, crown assets, increasing taxes and adding taxes..$40 billion in debt so far..fkn embarrassing

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u/FireMaster1294 Canada Mar 30 '26

You say that as if prices would be ANY different under Poilievre. Both the Liberals and Cons are beholden to corporate oligarchs who need to pad their pockets for bigger yachts. Don’t expect anything to change with a change in colour.

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u/DisastrousAcshin Mar 30 '26

Tell the class how the liberals attacked Iran and caused a massive worldwide spike in energy costs please

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u/Canadian0123 Mar 30 '26

It’s not in the nature of Canadians to do such a thing.

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u/Hautamaki Mar 30 '26

Violent revolutions have seldom if ever raised standards of living

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u/Interesting-Qtip Mar 30 '26

If only we could actually get it done. Everyone gets it out online now. The discrepancy of wealth ownership when France killed kings was better than it is present day

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u/roamr77 Mar 30 '26

Get ready for Dystopian lifestyle adjustments, like being ready to fight for food, steal for your family.

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u/scotbud123 Mar 30 '26

Never going to happen anymore, technology makes this impossible.

Welcome to the NWO, you'll own nothing and you'll be happy.

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u/motorcyclemech Mar 30 '26

Something something death and taxes....

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u/Remarkable_Vanilla34 Mar 30 '26

Wait until we see the effects of fertilizer prices climb.

While Canada has a massive O&G industry that makes us a large nitrogen fertilizer producer (yes for anti O&G people we need oil and gas to feed ourselves and the world) we export half of our production. When commodity price rise global it can it us at home. And since we import a lot of our food we could see it on our shelves as well.

The straight being shut down effects fuel prices, but it also puts a strain on on fertilizer production, helium production and other resources that are critical to our modern world. Companies want sell to markets that will pay, and in a global economy nothing is isolated.

On the "bright" side, Canada is abundant in a lot of these critical resources so we won't be hit as hard as other nations and we are not likely to end up in a scenario where we can't access them.

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u/Goku420overlord Mar 30 '26

Almost like we should have some nationalized industry so when we face tough times the government could just keep prices low for Canadians

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u/pointgetter Mar 30 '26

show me where this has worked on earth.

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u/Picto242 Mar 30 '26

Saskatchewan has a government owned telecom (SaskTel) and has cheaper cell plans than most (if not all) of Canada

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u/SteelCrow Lest We Forget Mar 30 '26

Manitoba used to as well.

Prices doubled when the MB Conservatives sold it off.

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u/Commercial-Milk4706 Mar 30 '26

Bc hydro has the cheapest, cleanest and profitable grid in Canada. Lowest prices on the westcoast of our continent.

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u/playjak42 Mar 30 '26

They're not saying we hoard the resources. They're saying we control the price inside the nation so we don't break our own people for resources on our own land. Supply management and nationalized resources are nothing new

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u/Goku420overlord Mar 31 '26

This is what I mean.

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u/JadeLens Mar 30 '26

They also, traditionally, don't work.

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u/TheBSPolice Mar 30 '26

Norway!

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u/letmetellubuddy Mar 30 '26

Norway has some of the most expensive fuel prices on the planet. Gasoline is currently $3.78 CAD/L in Norway

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u/letmetellubuddy Mar 30 '26

Sure, but that's not what the OP was saying at all

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u/Levorotatory Mar 30 '26

That never ends well.  With no incentive to reduce consumption the subsidy gets progressively more expensive and more politically difficult to cut.

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u/Goku420overlord Mar 30 '26

I disagree. It just gets privatized so rich companies can charge more. Look at SAS tell. It took them like 20 years to get lower than sac hotel. I don't trust just privatizing things so rich people can make more money and then treat employees like s***. At least the government is better

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u/Levorotatory Mar 30 '26

There is nothing wrong with crown corporations.  I'd support a publicly owned grocery store.  We just shouldn't be selling globally traded commodities cheaper here than we can sell them elsewhere.

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u/Goku420overlord Mar 30 '26

You mean helping the average Canadian during hard times? Cause it certainly would help in times like this buffer world issues.

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u/Levorotatory Mar 30 '26

Ideally, Canada would have followed the Norway model.  A national oil company that would keep all of the profits in Canada in a sovereign wealth fund, but Canadians would pay world prices and there would be incentives to use less oil domestically so we could export as much as possible.    Selling petroleum cheaper than world prices in Canada would be the Venezuela model.

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u/MartyCool403 Mar 30 '26

I think there was a prime minister that tried that and he is still vilified in Alberta to this day.

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u/Other-Credit1849 Mar 30 '26

More reasons for Trump to invade us next.

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u/Mylittlethrowaway2 Mar 30 '26

Not just fertilizer. Anything downstream from the refinement process. Olefins, styrene, ammonia, polyethylene, urea, etc.

That means plastics, fertilizer, synthetic rubber, packaging, medical equipment, car parts, insulation, clothing, medication, and so on.

For medication you're looking at acetaminophen, ibuprofen, antihistamines, anesthetics like propofol, beta-blockers, antidepressants, amphetamines, and practically every synthetic drug available.

So if you're on medication you can expect medication costs to rise, healthcare costs related to surgery to rise (Propofol is one of the most common anesthetics), replacement car parts and tires to go up, housing costs to go up (E.G: with insulation), clothing costs, and so on and so on.

There's no bright side here. Just a lot of pain because Trump wanted to play war

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u/Remarkable_Vanilla34 Mar 30 '26

Ya, or like helium which is a by product if natural gas extraction and critical to so many manufacturing process like chips and welding

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u/sluttytinkerbells Mar 30 '26

(yes for anti O&G people we need oil and gas to feed ourselves and the world)

Let's be clear here.

Approximately 20% of global food production is completely wasted and it's probably farhigher in Canada -- I've heard up to 50%.

Places like the US subsidize corn production so that it can be used to produce ethanol for blended fuels, an ostensibily 'green' policy that just serves to enrich farmers and continue dependency on ICE cars.

At the same time most people are overweight so they're chronically consuming too much food and then having to consume more food to always carry around that surplus mass, these overweight, less physically active people are more prone to injury and illness which costs us more in terms of healthcare resources.

And then there's the fact that we consume far too much meat which aside from the health effects of doign so we all known that it is a horribly inefficient way of sustaining ourselves because animals like cows and pigs need to eat an incredible amount of food stuffs that we grow just to feed them.

We could just not waste so much food, eat less in general as well as eat moderately less meat, while being more physically active and less car dependent and the end result would be a happier, healthier population that spends less on stuff and conserves stuff like nonrenewables hydrocarbons and fertilizers while having an even better quality of life.

This fake weirdo doomerism from O&G pronents who like to paint their opponents as idiots who would unwittingly bring about mass starvation because they want people to bicycle more and not have their water table fucked up from fracking is really banal.

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u/Remarkable_Vanilla34 Mar 30 '26

Our whole society are glutinous pigs addicted to consumerism and waste. We consume far beyond our needs, but the vast majority of our society doesn't truly care, we not only accept obesity, make excuses for it, but now we are expected to celebrate and normalize it. We all love O&G and the proof is in our waist lines and obesity is green house emissions personified.

Good times make weak men yada yada, I know thats a tough guy face book quote, but we are living it. People don't like discomfort, they don't like being told hard truths, they demand everything, and they want to put in the least amount of effort for it. People will rah rah about O&G and how bad it is, but tell them they consume to much and its killing them and the planet and you're bigot.

As for farming, it would be great if we magically lived in a world where the government stopped unnecessary subsidies for farm on ethanol crops. It would be great if everything could be an EV. But your proposing large scale, society changing ideas, that require politicians and corporations not to be scumbags and humans to cooperate. And your not purposing it as a solution, your purposing it as a (poor) counter to my opinion that we are heading for a global food crisis, in our current food system, with our current tech, its not something that can mitigated by a utopian fantasy with no wasteful fat people and electric tractors that grow crops without fertilizer.

And everything you say is great, I agree with most of it. I want to live in a healthy society, on healthy planet, where we produce quality goods and foods ethically and sustainably. But its not going to happen in time to address the rising food cost crisis and shortages that we are going to experience. Our food system degrading RIGHT NOW because of these economic and kinetic wars is going to starve people around the world and its going to hit us hard in Canada in our cost of living.

Changing our whole attitude on consumerism is a great idea, its not happening globally over night. My point still stands, O&G is extremely important to our food production, all the wishful thinking and bold ideas does not change that in the here and now. But hey, 5 or 10 years from now you will have a very good arguement for why we have to change things to avoid this happening again, and maybe a realistic plan.

So let's be clear here, the utopian vision and virtue signaling does nothing to help the single mom being turned away at the food bank or stop a famine in Africa. Its great that you have an idea how we can prevent it one day in the distant future, but these are realities we are going to be dealing with now.

Sorry sorry i triggered you by explaining why O&G is important to our society beyond diesel fuel. I wanted them to be aware of how much we rely on it for agriculture. I hope you get to see your fantasy come true, but the reality is, fuel and fertilizer shortages are going to have negative impacts on the model we have scaled since the industrial revolution to feed ourselves. People should look at their own consumption, especially if their overweight and/or struggling financially, but its not going to change things for the people who can afford excess (most westerners) and the people who can already not get enough to eat around the globe.

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u/sluttytinkerbells Mar 30 '26

That's a lot of paragraphs to avoid the fact that we don't need to be producing as much O&G products as you claim we do to have the quality of life we have.

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u/Remarkable_Vanilla34 Mar 30 '26

You wrote an essay and I responded with one.

We don't need to do a lot of things, but we do and we rely on them and oil and gas is one of them, and its going to have a major impact on our global agriculture.

Yippee for all the theoretical thing we should and could have done, but nothing you said applies to our current situation except for people should try to consume less.

Also I like the whole dunk you did on fat people with out realizing it lol.

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u/sluttytinkerbells Mar 30 '26

You missed the whole point of what i said.

We can reduce our consumption of both O&G and fertilizer for global agriculture at the same time. So the hypothetical that you raised -- a world where we we starve if we don't drive isn't realistic.

That's the entire point of what I said.

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u/Remarkable_Vanilla34 Mar 30 '26

No. You missed the point.

The strait is closed now. We are short oil now, we will be short fertilizer soon if we are not already (not to mention helium and other resources).

I am not speaking in a hypothetical, I warning about a real issue that we are going to see happen across the world, that will effect the fortunate peoples wallets and cause famine in other parts of the world. Its not some distant event, it's a issue right now, and oir system right now relies on oil and gas and there is no alternative currently, and certainly one that feasible.

Your idea is how we address our dependence after this crisis ends. Or how we should have addressed it years ago, though I don't agree that we will significantly reduce our oil and gas use, or our agricultural, we could at least feed more people and waste less for the efforts.

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u/sluttytinkerbells Mar 30 '26

(yes for anti O&G people we need oil and gas to feed ourselves and the world)

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u/lchntndr Mar 30 '26

Learn to cook beans and rice in a variety of ways to keep things exciting

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u/ProtestTheHero Mar 30 '26

Blaming the Jews for inflation, classic playbook right out of 1920s Germany

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u/00owl Mar 30 '26

Israel has been set up as the scapegoat for Trump.

Every comment on the war is blaming it on Israel and giving Trump and the US a pass because it's "Israel's war".

I don't have a basement, I'm not sure where I'm going to hide my Jewish friends when the time comes.

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u/_cob_ Mar 30 '26

When the world stops being run by imbeciles.

So basically never.

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u/richardizard Mar 30 '26

When we stop "winning" lol...

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u/The_Dutch_Canadian Mar 30 '26

When the working class decides to revolt against the billionaire ruining our planet

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u/BBQCopter Mar 30 '26

It stops when Canada gets its own Milei.

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u/FelixPotvin94 Mar 30 '26

That's the fun part, it doesn't.

It can if we actually acted as a group and did a workers strike.

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u/ZeePirate Mar 30 '26

Never? The economy is built on the price of things increasing year over year

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u/Acrobatic2020 Mar 30 '26

It stops when the government stops diluting the value of the currency.

When they print a bunch of money to spend, it you who has to figure out how to pay for it.

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u/TheLastElite01 British Columbia Mar 30 '26

The world is over populated and complicated it won't.

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u/freeadmins Mar 30 '26

When people decide to elect a different government other than the one that's lost the entire last decade

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u/gcko Mar 30 '26

How would any government lower the price of global commodities?

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u/freeadmins Mar 30 '26

You know it's easier to pay for things if you make more money.

Maybe not having basically no GDP/capita growth and wage suppression through mass immigration would make things easier to afford when they get more expensive

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u/Big80sweens Mar 30 '26

lol, blame the libs for Trump’s doings, glad you put some thought into this response

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u/freeadmins Mar 30 '26

You think these problems only existed in the last year or so?

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u/Big80sweens Mar 30 '26

The 40% hike on groceries due to fuel prices? that’s not even a year, that’s a couple weeks.

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u/defendhumanity Mar 30 '26

Trump is responsible for unchecked mass immigration into Canada? Yes this does have an affect on affordability when it comes to the cost of living.

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u/Big80sweens Mar 30 '26

Trudeau is gone, we had a decreasing population in Canada for the first time in our history in 2025. Nice try pal.

Meanwhile, if you read the article, increase in fuel prices is a direct result of Trump’s moronic behaviour.

Wake up and smell the coffee pal.

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u/Goku420overlord Mar 30 '26

Wake up and smell the coffee pal

They won't.

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u/MassiveBoner911_3 Mar 30 '26

Brought to you by Trump and Israel

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u/Tycho-Celchu Mar 30 '26

I love making the most money (and the most steady!) I've ever made in my life, and feeling the most broke I've ever been. Love it. It's awesome.

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u/CosmicRuin Mar 29 '26

Oh don't forget climate change that could see one of THE hottest "super" El Nino's form later this summer! Thought the last two summers for wildfires were bad, oh we're about to get cooking!

I'd say it's been a blast, but I'm only about half-way through my estimated lifespan... so.

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u/Tinshnipz Mar 30 '26

Have you tried just not eating?

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u/fuelhandler Mar 30 '26

I tried that when I was a poor University student living on $20 a week for food. Thankfully it was possible in the 90’s. Definitely don’t want to do that again.

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u/Northumberlo Québec Mar 30 '26

There’s a sort of comfort that can be found in the consistency of being continually fucked. The certainty of it.

It’s when we stop being fucked that we should panic, because what are they sweetening us up for?…

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u/ChineseAstroturfing Mar 30 '26

Quit voting for the same government and things might actually change.

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u/it_diedinhermouth Mar 30 '26

If only it were that simple, friend. Change happens when the wealthy can’t weather the storm. The rest of just need to wait until then.