Werther's Herzog🇨🇦 @rallymodeller.bsky.social · 9hcausing the closing of some of the Canadian loopholes that had allowed the importation of cars that, while lukewarm in the US, would have been hot stuff here. This cooling of trade might be perfect for a reset. The opening of our market to Chinese EVs may be just the thing. 000
Werther's Herzog🇨🇦 @rallymodeller.bsky.social · 9hIn the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, GM killed off the Pontiac brand despite desperate pleas from the vast Canadian dealer network and buying public. It just wasn't that big of a deal in the US, after all. The Canadian government was pressured in adopting US vehicle regulation standards, 100
Werther's Herzog🇨🇦 @rallymodeller.bsky.social · 9hNAFTA killed that outright. US manufacturers were no longer beholden to the Canadian consumer. Canadians would buy what Americans wanted (or were told to want) whether we liked it or not. The small hatchback, a staple of Canadian roads, disappeared in less than a model cycle. 100
Werther's Herzog🇨🇦 @rallymodeller.bsky.social · 9hUnder Autopact these preferences could still survive. Canada retained our own vehicle standards apart from the American FVSS, which meant that companies like Lada and Hyundai could export here and do well -- very well on Hyundai's part, the Pony was a breakaway success. Bargains could still be had! 100
Werther's Herzog🇨🇦 @rallymodeller.bsky.social · 9hTraditionally, Canadians liked smaller and/or more fuel-efficient offerings, and were less interested in highly-contented luxury vehicles. For decades the Honda Civic was the best selling car here. Even when it came to trucks, Canadians generally preferred more Spartan, purpose-oriented choices. 100
Werther's Herzog🇨🇦 @rallymodeller.bsky.social · 9hEven apart from how our manufacturing has been affected, the Autopact and its successors demonstrated the failings of that kind of free-trade agreement to consumers. Canadians had (and still have!) very specific automobile buying habits, and they've been absolutely overwhelmed by the US market. 100
Werther's Herzog🇨🇦 @rallymodeller.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Paul Williams is a god among men, songwriting-wisestatic.klipy.comLibby Creates: Kermit's Rainbow Connection BanjoAlt: Libby Creates: Kermit's Rainbow Connection Banjo 011
Werther's Herzog🇨🇦 @rallymodeller.bsky.social · 05/10/2026He says the call woke him up from the dream 000
Werther's Herzog🇨🇦 @rallymodeller.bsky.social · 05/10/2026My read has always been that Susan is an ex who is trying to remain friends 110
Werther's Herzog🇨🇦 @rallymodeller.bsky.social · 05/10/2026I have a very hard time ranking Hip songs. What's best depends on what mood I'm in; Nautical Disaster is right up there when I'm feeling vindictive. "Anyway, Susan" is one of the most vitriol-laced two-word song lyrics ever. 130
Werther's Herzog🇨🇦 @rallymodeller.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Threats of Taiwanese invasion are overblown. China simply does not have the logistical capability to launch an invasion. They can siege the island, but invasion is out of the question. 000
Werther's Herzog🇨🇦 @rallymodeller.bsky.social · 29/09/2026That's a nice plant you got there in Hamilton, Cleveland-Cliffs. Lotta history at Stelco. Lotta history. Jeez, it'd be a damned shame if someone... *cracks knuckles* NATIONALIZED IT. 000
Werther's Herzog🇨🇦 @rallymodeller.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Now you have to go to the next level: multiple carb synch. My son calls it rainbow-chasing. 021
Werther's Herzog🇨🇦 @rallymodeller.bsky.social · 26/09/2026and Sloan and The Tragically Hip and Spoons and Loverboy and Platinum Blonde and Tegan and Sara and Caribou and Rush and Godspeed You! Black Emperor and Constantines and Our Lady Peace and Camera Obscura and and and I'm a BIG fan of Can Con. 000
Werther's Herzog🇨🇦 @rallymodeller.bsky.social · 26/09/2026There's a video on the Webs of a guy on a Zoom call drinking a White Claw and when his boss calls him out on it he holds up a can of Celsius. He then goes back to the White Claw. Hilarity ensues. 000
Werther's Herzog🇨🇦 @rallymodeller.bsky.social · 26/09/2026"The GOP isn't passing His Majesty's plan. Also, that plan sucks." 0100
Werther's Herzog🇨🇦 @rallymodeller.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Why would anyone go to Wendy's when Harvey's exists? The mind boggles. 110
Werther's Herzog🇨🇦 @rallymodeller.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Might be. Got a timing light to throw on it? 010
Werther's Herzog🇨🇦 @rallymodeller.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Worst part: it's not even an original idea. Roko's Basilisk is just Pascal's Wager with extra steps. 0162
Werther's Herzog🇨🇦 @rallymodeller.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Only owned one. BUT I SHALL HAVE ANOTHER 000
Werther's Herzog🇨🇦 @rallymodeller.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Same. I want my time in my car to be fun. Gridlocked cities and traffic jams are not fun. 040
Werther's Herzog🇨🇦 @rallymodeller.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Mark Carney, PC, OC, MP, Fourth Internationalist 020
Werther's Herzog🇨🇦 @rallymodeller.bsky.social · 13/09/2026He's pissy because Zelenskyy is up here being treated like a rock star 021
Werther's Herzog🇨🇦 @rallymodeller.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Name a non-LOTR character who could resist the One Ring. 010
Werther's Herzog🇨🇦 @rallymodeller.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Because they invaded the South and were beaten back by UN forces until Chinese "volunteers" overwhelmed them with superior numbers? Don't ever simp for the totalitarian state. It's not a good look. 110
Werther's Herzog🇨🇦 @rallymodeller.bsky.social · 10/09/2026The St. Clair, and for some of my formative years the Mattagami, the Ottawa and the Bow 020
Werther's Herzog🇨🇦 @rallymodeller.bsky.social · 08/09/2026...because the announcement showed up in a Croatian-language newspaper and they shared the same not-uncommon Croatian last name. Deda went to Montreal, bailed her out of jail, they got married, and moved back to Timmins, ON where he was a hard-rock miner. 000
Werther's Herzog🇨🇦 @rallymodeller.bsky.social · 08/09/2026It wasn't until after they had both died that my father revealed that my paternal grandmother was an ethnic Croatian mail-order bride from what is now Bosnia, who was on the verge of being sent back (because the original "buyer" refused her) when my grandfather found her in a Montreal jail... 101
Werther's Herzog🇨🇦 @rallymodeller.bsky.social · 08/09/2026He can get his flunky at the FAA to pull Bombardier's airworthiness certificates, or refuse to certify new aircraft. Of course since Bombardier's customers right now are the US military and VERY RICH PEOPLE that won't go over well. 020
Werther's Herzog🇨🇦 @rallymodeller.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Songs I am banned from playing while highway driving 1. La Grange -- ZZ Top 2. Canned Heat -- Jamiroquai 3. Rez/Cowgirl -- Underworld (Live, Brussels 1998) 4. Atom Bomb -- Fluke 5. Lick Shot -- Gorgon City 031
Werther's Herzog🇨🇦 @rallymodeller.bsky.social · 05/09/2026As I have often said, I have only a vague idea who my Supreme Court of Canada justices are, and I like it that way. 000
Werther's Herzog🇨🇦 @rallymodeller.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Which was the title of the manga the story was derived from 160
Werther's Herzog🇨🇦 @rallymodeller.bsky.social · 04/09/2026I always joke that my local accent is basically Letterkenny, but we say "Howya doin'?" instead of "Harya now?" I have seen some dialect creep, though. "Soda" is starting to make inroads. 110
Werther's Herzog🇨🇦 @rallymodeller.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Eastern Canadians seem to be getting roughly the same heat map more or less. Interesting. 110
Werther's Herzog🇨🇦 @rallymodeller.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Chapman's drumsticks are absolutely superior 010
Werther's Herzog🇨🇦 @rallymodeller.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Please stop opining on topics you don't understand, in this case, the entity called "Canada" and the people called "Canadians". We're not Americans, and our entire history has been about *not becoming a vassal state to the US*. 0300
Werther's Herzog🇨🇦 @rallymodeller.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Do you understand how elections work? If "did not vote" was a party, it would have won the 2024 election in the most massive landslide in American history. It doesn't matter how many voted Elon flipped. The actual majority of your country is too brain dead to give a shit. That's the problem. 000
Werther's Herzog🇨🇦 @rallymodeller.bsky.social · 25/08/2026You, for example, are whining online and getting mad at people who are being bullied by a bigger country. 000
Werther's Herzog🇨🇦 @rallymodeller.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Just unable, eh? Amazing. Americans: not beating the stereotypes for 250 years. 000
Werther's Herzog🇨🇦 @rallymodeller.bsky.social · 24/08/2026I have found that the best indicator of a personality is how they treat angry victims. HINT: you're attacking a victim right now because they're not appreciative enough of your apology. Guess the sorrow you showed earlier was pretty hollow, eh? Reflect on that. 111
Werther's Herzog🇨🇦 @rallymodeller.bsky.social · 24/08/2026Gee, I'm really sorry you're upset. Do you want a fucking tissue? Stop apologizing, for fucks' sake. Whether or not you voted for this DOES NOT MATTER. 110
Werther's Herzog🇨🇦 @rallymodeller.bsky.social · 24/08/2026I fail to see how this is any less the US' problem. Did you want *us* to fix it? I mean, whining is also "doing something" in the loosest sense. 102
Werther's Herzog🇨🇦 @rallymodeller.bsky.social · 24/08/2026No, the majority of Americans either voted for this or couldn't be bothered to get off their asses to prevent it. This is *your* mess, whether you like it or not. We in Canada are bystanders to the US's continual fucking up. 140
Werther's Herzog🇨🇦 @rallymodeller.bsky.social · 17/08/2026Do you at least get to eat the crumbs? I mean, as a courtesy 000
Werther's Herzog🇨🇦 @rallymodeller.bsky.social · 15/08/2026Short version: I was doing ground crew work for my Air Cadet squadron's glider day back in the '80s. I had to tell the pilot something, and jogging up to the pilot's door I tripped and fell towards the running prop. I was less than a foot away from it. Had to go have a rest after that. 010