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In the spirit of rapprochement with Europe and reorientation away from the United States, it's time to complete the Metrication process in Canada that was stopped prematurely by the Mulroney government.

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[–] SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The linked article is from the CBC...

[–] AlolanVulpix@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The post title is: "Time to double down on the metric system".

At the same time, I also think it's a good idea to:

double down on getting information only from Canadian Owned and Operated media

[–] SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I agree we should be refraining from using US owned media, but it's a little confusing to comment about it on discussions about something else.

[–] AlolanVulpix@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The post body:

In the spirit of ...reorientation away from the United States

My comments are exactly in line with the discussion, to move away from US media.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 6 days ago

No, it still felt pretty non sequitur.