With over $30 billion in e-commerce sales in 2021, Canada has quickly become one of the most ideal regions to dropship to. That's why in this video, I'm going to show you how you can start your own dropshipping business on Canada, no matter where you live around the world. Quick intro and let's go. Welcome back, I'm Liran from AutoDS and in this video, you're going to learn how to start your own profitable dropshipping business when selling to the Canadian audience. Right before we get started, don't forget to subscribe to our YouTube channel to always learn about the next step that you need to take in your e-commerce venture to create and maintain a highly profitable dropshipping business. That being said, like and share this video if you appreciate the value. Now let's go ahead and jump right to it. How do we start dropshipping in Canada, no matter where we live around the world? For those of you who have been watching our videos and learning from our Knowledgebase at our blog page at autoDS.com slash blog, there you can learn about so many and anything and everything that you need about dropshipping and e-commerce. And one of the things that I always repeat throughout these blog articles and throughout these videos is that when you're dropshipping to multiple regions around the world, you learn about the worldwide market and Canada is one of the most lucrative markets that we can actually sell to and they proved it by their purchasing power in 2021. And each year these numbers are growing. Now let's start by getting the legal stuff out of the way. First of all, is it legal to dropship in Canada? Of course it's legal. Dropshipping is a legal business model. The only thing that you need to do is know what products you can and cannot sell and what are your tax obligations. Now you can learn about this once again in our blog channel. And I'll also leave a link to our Canada dropshipping article right below this video so you can also read about it after watching this video. But all in all, dropshipping is a legal business model that you can start today as long as you follow the basic rules of what you can and cannot sell and what your tax obligations are when you're selling to Canada. And I will just touch this briefly. You'll have a sales tax which is when you're purchasing from your supplier that's being automated for you and you're also collecting tax from your buyers but that also depends on where you're selling. If you're selling on marketplaces like eBay and Facebook Marketplace, the tax is already being taken in advance by the buyer and deducted from your payouts. But if you're dropshipping in other places like Shopify, Wix, WooCommerce and so forth, you will need to calculate the sales tax collected and paid to the Canadian government. But one more quick note regarding that. If you live in Canada, you'll also have to register a business. And if you live anywhere outside of Canada and you want a dropship to Canada, you'll also have to register a business in the state that you live in. And regarding your tax obligations, ask your local accountant that's taking care of your local business in the state where you live. They'll give you all the information that you need to know not only about your local taxes, but what you'll also have to owe the Canadian government when dropshipping to there. Now don't be startled by this. Everyone has to go through the legal stuff and it's fine. Once we get used to it, it becomes easy. It becomes practical and we can go on to earning and profiting. So how do we start a dropshipping business in Canada? What are the first steps? The first thing that you want to do before starting a dropshipping business on Canada or anywhere for that matter is product research. And this is something that you really have to get on point and put a lot of work into product research because as I always say, if you are not selling a product that people are looking to buy, you're not going to be making any sales. And then it doesn't matter how many hours, weeks and months you put into your store, no one's going to buy anything. And all of that time you spent goes to waste. So first things first, learn how to conduct fruitful product research and get the best and most trending products that your audience is looking to buy. So how are we going to go about doing that? Now there are a few main methods of conducting product research. There are many methods, but I'm going to narrow that down for you to my favorite product research methods from my five plus years of dropshipping. So the first one is starting off with the AliExpress dropshipping center. And if you haven't heard about it, it's a great place to find trending products and it's a free tool that AliExpress gives anyone who needs it. So I'm just going to click on the link right here in the blog below. And as you can see, I am in the dropshipping center. If you don't have an account, of course, you're going to have to create your own free account. And then you're going to click on find products to sell. Now here you can conduct a search or just scroll down with your mouse and see what products are trending. This will give you a good idea of what's selling, what's popular right now in the dropshipping market and in the general consumer market. And of course, you can select anything from a certain category. Now my tip to you is to go for a niche that you actually like something that you have a passion for.  So here you can choose any type of category that you want, create your search term. And of course, you have all kinds of filters here to help you out. And one of the filters that I recommend using is the ship from and ship to now when you drop shipping in Canada, you want to look for suppliers that have fast domestic shipping times, and we're going to get to suppliers soon. But for fast domestic shipping times, you want to find those that can actually ship from Canada. So in this case, I will change my ship from to Canada, but AliExpress doesn't have any warehouses in Canada. So that's not a possibility here. But we can see what can ship to Canada. So in the ship too, we're going to select Canada. And now I'll be seeing all the products that can actually ship to Canada. But in any case, play around with the AliExpress drop shipping center. This is one of the first places to find products. Sometimes it doesn't work as well, but leave that as a tool on the side, save it into your favorites and use it when you're starting to do product research. The next method of finding great and trending products to sell is using AutoDS's new product research tool. This is built into the AutoDS system. It doesn't cost any money to use it. If you want a full explanation of all of the features that you have inside AutoDS's new product research tool, and how you can use it to benefit your drop shipping store, of course, click on the link to the AutoDS product research tool in the blog below. But here's a quick glance. So on the AutoDS platform, you're going to switch over to the product research by clicking on the dots on the top left. And here is the new product research tool. It's very easy to switch to different categories, go to different suppliers, and soon you'll also have wholesale drop shipping suppliers that you will have exclusive access to. But until then, you have all the information that you need here. You can easily import the product by clicking on import product when you're hovering over, or click on the product to go inside and get more details like the customer reviews, the policies, and many more things. So use this tool to help you save a lot of time when researching for products to sell and knowing what's trending in the market today. The third is going to Amazon's Canada's best sellers. So what you want to do here is head over to Amazon Canada and you can do so once again by using the link right here. So in Amazon Canada, you have the best sellers and movers and shakers, and they're both taking you to Amazon.ca, which is Amazon Canada. So I'm going to click on best sellers. I'm going to click on movers and shakers. And here we can see all of the products that can ship to Canada from, of course, Amazon Canada's website. So first, get yourself familiar with the best categories on the left side, the best categories for drop shipping. And we have lots of explanations of that on our blog page. But basically, you want to stay away from things that you cannot resell, like apps for Android, audible books, Amazon devices and accessories, gift cards, movies, TV shows, software, video games. And that's just from a quick lens. But the rest are pretty good, like pet supplies, patio lawn and garden, office products, musical instruments, luggages, bags, electronics, clothing and accessories, beauty and personal care and many more. So there are many categories and tens of millions of products for you to drop ship from. Just go inside the right categories and look for Amazon's best sellers. So this is Amazon's best sellers page. They're showing you all of the products that are selling really well. And of course, you can drop ship them to Canada. Same thing for movers and shakers. Here you're seeing the top trending items in the last 24 hours that's refreshing constantly. So here you guys are going to get a lot of great ideas of what products you should be testing out. And with the drop shipping business model where you only pay once you get paid and you don't have to invest in any inventory, it makes testing products a whole lot easier because it's easy to replace and remove products that are not selling while adding more products that are also selling and also similar to those products that are selling to continue multiplying yourselves while always researching for more products on the side and testing the market for new products, new niches and new angles. So using Amazon's best sellers and movers and shakers is another great way to find great products to sell. Besides that, you also have Autodesk's blog page and YouTube channel at youtube.com slash Autodesk. Our blog page is of course at Autodesk.com slash blog. And they are both filled with lots and lots of product information of what products you should be selling. If I just go into it right now, you can see that we already have the top 10 products to drop ship in June while I'm recording this video. We're in the month of May. So we're always helping you guys get ready ahead of time. And the same goes for our YouTube channel. While it does have a lot of that, it also has a lot of tactics on how to run and manage a successful drop shipping business. So all of the best tips right here. And as you see our main video right now is the top 10 products to drop ship in May soon. Of course, we're going to switch that with June, but right now we're in May. The last recommendation that I have for you here is to use Autodesk's product research drop shipping spreadsheet. Once again, link in the blog below this video. So I'm going to click on that link. And what you're going to see here is a spreadsheet where you can fill in information and this will help you narrow down your products. So you're going to put in the product's name, the source link where you found it from, and then you're going to answer all these questions. Are you passionate about this product? Is it hard to find in stores? Is it hard to guess the price? Is it safe to sell? Can this product be bought without much research? Does this product solve a problem or stand out? Does it cost less than $30? Because it's easier to sell cheaper products and expensive right off the bat. And does it comply with Facebook's ad policies? Even though you're not drop shipping on Facebook or running Facebook ads on this product, they have commerce policies which will help you get a great idea of what you can and cannot sell and what you should and shouldn't do when posting items up for sale or when running ads on them. Now, once you fill in the spreadsheet and you'll have some that have the answer no, then you'll look for the products where you have the most or 100% of yeses and those are the products that you should narrow down and try selling them first, test them out with the market. Just click on file, make a copy and get to work. Okay, so those are the best product research methods. Use that. Work very, very hard when it comes to product research. And don't stop learning. Don't stop researching. This is what's going to take up the most amount of time when you're creating your drop shipping store and also when you're managing your drop shipping store because after you add a drop shipping automation, which we'll talk about soon, this will automate most of your daily tasks. And then the only thing that you'll have left to do is take care of product research and maybe a little bit of customer service. Step number two, work with Canadian drop shipping suppliers. So now that you found products that you want to sell and you're ready to start selling them, you need to see who can sell them to you at great prices with fast shipping times to your Canadian audience. Now, as I mentioned, you want to drop ship from Canada. You want to look for suppliers who have warehouses in Canada and can simply send their items one by one to your buyers every time you get orders. Now, if you're drop shipping from Canada warehouses to the Canadian audience, then of course you're drop shipping from into Canada, meaning your shipping and delivery times are going to be down to a minimum. In other words, very fast shipping, very fast delivery, very happy and satisfied customers who will return to purchase from your store. That is something that we're looking for and we are not looking to sell products that take about 30 days to reach the buyers. Our buyers today have less patience than they did a few years ago and today we're in the in demand era. Everyone wants everything here now and fast. Here are some of the best Canadian drop shipping suppliers that you can use to help skyrocket your Canadian drop shipping business, starting with Amazon Canada. Then you've got eBay Canada, Printful, Gelato, CJ drop shipping, Walmart Canada, Home Depot Canada, Etsy Canada, Best Buy Canada, Newway Canada, Hudson's Bay, Costco Canada, Canadian Tire, Wayfair Canada, Overstock Canada, Loaves Canada, and Costway Canada. How many times did I just say Canada? So those are some of the best drop shipping suppliers and it goes without saying but tens of millions of products are available for you to resell using these suppliers. Now, granted, some of these suppliers are retail suppliers and not so drop shipping friendly like Amazon and Walmart, but that does not mean that it's impossible to drop ship from them. In fact, thousands are doing it and thousands will continue to do so. But on the other hand, you also have drop shipping friendly suppliers. So if that's the route you want to take, you've got CJ drop shipping, Printful, Wayfair, and others. But once again, do not worry about these things. Look for products under these suppliers that ship from and to Canada and this will make your job a whole lot easier. Now remember that each supplier have their pros and cons, some sell certain product niches and some don't. So it's good to test them out, see what they have, see how long it takes to ship to Canada and what their return and payment policies are. The best part is that when you're using drop shipping automation with AutoDS, you can use it with all of these suppliers except for Printful, Gelato, and maybe one more that I missed out, Hudson's Bay, but the rest of them are completely supported by AutoDS for drop shipping automation, meaning you can add as many products as you want from those suppliers and you'll have full price and stock monitoring, quick product importing, automatic orders, and more. So you're done with product research and you search for those products using these suppliers. Now you know what products you want to sell and where you're going to get them from. The next step is to know what platform you're actually going to sell them on. So now you're actually going to choose a drop shipping selling channel. And here I'm going to recommend the top three drop shipping selling channels to use when drop shipping to Canada, eBay, Wix, and Shopify. Here are the differences between them. When drop shipping from eBay or eBay Canada, that is, you're actually drop shipping on a marketplace. So this means that you already have millions of buyers who enter this marketplace every day and search for products that they want to buy. When your product is one of those products, meaning your product title matches what the buyer is looking to buy, then he will see your listing. And this means that he can enter your store and purchase the product, meaning you're getting free organic traffic. You didn't have to pay any marketing source to bring traffic to your website. It was brought to you freely by eBay's loyal customers. So this is one of the biggest advantages of drop shipping on eBay. The second big advantage is that no store subscriptions are required to get started. eBay will start you off with free listings that you can list. And only after you make some sales, and you're actually making some profit, and you want to add more listings to your store, after of course, increasing your seller limits, and you can learn more about that on our blog page and on our YouTube channel. But after you're making those sales and you want to add more listings, only then will you have to subscribe for a store subscription, meaning eBay is going to give you more listings that you can sell and you won't have to pay insertion fees. But at the end of the day, starting to sell on eBay is really easy and free. Simply sign up for your store on eBay, sign up for an account on eBay, and list your first item for sale. Now, eBay today is very sensitive when creating new seller accounts, so be sure to take it step by step and read the tutorials that we have on our blog page for starting the right way on eBay. Now, on the other hand, some of the cons that eBay has is that they have relatively high selling fees. You're going to average around 15% from your transaction fee that you will have to pay to eBay, and that is just on average from every sale. So make sure that you're always profiting enough and don't sell on a very tight profit margin range. Second is that you have limited customization options since it's not your own store, you don't have your own domain name, and you're not even collecting your customer's email addresses. eBay does tend to keep that information for themselves, and that of course is for email marketing since they want to take advantage of that. And they also have initial selling limits. So as soon as you start an eBay seller account, you'll only be able to list around 10 items and $500 in total prices and total sales. And you're going to have to increase your selling limits slowly and carefully until you get to the right amount of limits where you can list thousands of items and make substantial profits. So the way up today is not as easy as it was in the past, doesn't mean it's impossible, but it's one thing that's taken into consideration. And learn, learn, learn, keep upgrading your knowledge. And that is what we're here to help you do. Once again, autoDS.com slash blog, youtube.com slash autoDS, all of the information that you need to succeed in your dropshipping business. Now let's talk about Shopify Canada, the second selling channel. And this is very similar to Wix. So all of the pros and cons are the same when it comes to Shopify and Wix. In other words, what you're going to do here is create your own website. You're going to have your own domain name, www.yourstorename.com. You don't have any selling limits, meaning not like eBay. Here, when on Shopify or on Wix, you can list even 1000 items on your store on your first day and actually sell them. And you have full customization options for your store. You can completely create your brand around it, cover image, navigation menus, the way your product pages look, the total brand design and how everything looks is completely customizable, 100% because it's your own hosted website. Now let's go over some of the cons because nothing is too good to be true, right? Here on Shopify and on Wix, you're not getting any free organic traffic, meaning as soon as you list a product on your store, it's great that it exists, but nobody knows about its existence. So what you're going to have to do here is learn how to market your products. And in most cases, you're going to use external traffic sources to bring traffic to your store, meaning you're going to have to have a budget on the side for this. You have a few methods like running Facebook ads, Google ads, YouTube ads, influencer marketing platforms, sending email promotions, and more, but those are the top five best marketing methods to use and each one requires its own budget. If you want to know how to market your online store and how to even create your own online store from A to Z, I highly suggest checking out this 100% free course at Autodesk.com slash courses. And here, click on learn more on the Shopify course. And this also goes for Wix. And once you're here, you can learn everything there is to know about how to start, run, and manage a successful dropshipping business on a Shopify. And you can also use these strategies for Wix. But what we're here to learn right now is online marketing. So here you have a full course on how to set Facebook ads for your store. And if you want to jump straight to Facebook ads, you can also check out our ebooks page.  So hover over resources and click on ebooks. Okay, so here we are on the ebooks section. And you have how to run Facebook ads for e-commerce stores in eight steps. And this goes step by step where you also see my Facebook ad campaign and everything that I did there. And I teach everything that I know, all of my strategies, everything that works for me and our experience here at ODS and our strategies and our databases, everything that you need inside these eight steps ebook. That's how you're going to put up with the con that you have to have a higher marketing budget. And if you want to know what the budget needs to be, you can even start at $5 a day for your ad sets. But that should be the minimum anything below that you won't be getting any results that you can actually analyze and learn from them. After we research what products we're going to sell, after we chose what suppliers we're going to use, and after we learned what selling channel we're going to use, and we chose a selling channel, now it's time to create our business policies on that selling channel. Business policies simply let the buyers know what your payment shipping and returns options are. And this is something that buyers want to know before they actually purchase from your store. Stores that don't have these policies are most likely to gain fewer sales than those that do have the policies. This is something that every store needs to have.  If you want to learn how to create business policies on eBay, once again, you have all of the explanation on our blog page and on our YouTube channel. But here's how to create business policies if you're doing it on Shopify in Canada. So if you see in the blog below on step number four, creating business policies, you can also click on the post content on the left side and go move straight to the business policies section. So here once again, we need the shipping return and payment guidelines, we need those policies, we need our buyers to know what those policies are. Now to help you take care of this boring but mandatory legal stuff out of the way, we have created free templates for you guys to use. And you can see them in the blog below. You'll have your shipping policy template returns and refund policy template, privacy policy and terms of service template. For each one, you simply click on it, it'll open up that template for you. And you can copy and paste that into your own page on Shopify and Wix, and of course, add it to your navigation menu so that your buyers will be able to see it. All you need to do here is change the brackets with your information, with your business's information, and it'll be unique to your business. And when it comes to eBay, you can create your business policies directly from eBay when you're listing your first item, and you can choose those templates when you're adding products through AutoDS. Full explanation in the blog below this video, I'm not going to get into it now, but it's actually very, very simple. Now let's learn how to add products to our stores, because now our stores are pretty much ready. We've got the products that we want to sell, we know where we're going to get them from, we chose our selling channel, our legal business policy pages are ready, now it's finally time to add those products to our stores and start making those sales. Now the first way to import your products is to simply do it manually. Go to that product that you found on your supplier's website, like this product right here for example, and then click on the image and start downloading the images one by one. However much time that may take, copy all of the product's information and paste it on your selling channel when you're creating a new listing, but this method right here is going to take way, way too long, especially if you want to have a few thousand listings in your store to maximize your sales and profits. The manual way to do it is a possible way to do it, but it's definitely not the best and most recommended way to do it. What is that way you ask using drop shipping automation as I've mentioned in this video? And with AutoDS you can do that very, very easily. There are a few product import methods, I'm not going to go in depth because you have all of the explanation in the blog below this video and more than enough on that on our blog page once again on our YouTube channel, but let me just show you a quick example of how easy it is. Let's say that this is the product that I want to sell in my store, what I'm going to do is copy the URL, all I'm going to do is click on add products, single product, paste that URL right here, as you can see it already knows that the region is Canada, and then I'm going to click on edit now quick. Now the system is grabbing all the information from the suppliers website and it's pasting it onto our drafts page where we can optimize this product and work on it before actually importing it to our store. And in just a few seconds the product with the title and the description and everything else got imported from the suppliers page to the draft section of our store. And here we only have this one variation, but in the settings you can tell the system to grab all the variations or just one or whatever you want. There are many settings to play around with, but as you can see in just a few seconds, I got all of the products information from the suppliers page onto the drafts page of my store. And once I'm done optimizing the product and everything else that comes with it, I'm going to import it to my store, I'm going to click on save and import, and then it will go from the drafts to the product section of my store, meaning now it's live, and anyone can go and purchase it. Another way is if for example you found a niche that's selling well for you, like let's say this filament for 3D printers are going really well, so you want to add as many of them as possible to your store. What you're going to do is download and install the AutoDS Chrome dropshipping extension. Of course it's free, you can find it on Google, just search for AutoDS Helper, or of course hover to the top of our website and find it there. And what you're going to do here is click on the circle to open up the extension, stay on that page where you have all of the products that you want to add, and then you'll click on extract. All of the products that you see here, their IDs just got extracted into the extension. We're going to click on export as CSV, as you can see a CSV file was created on my computer, and then I'm going to click on add products instead of single, I'm going to go for multiple products and click on the upload CSV column right here, you can drag and drop that CSV file or click on it to open up your file browser window, find that export file, double click on it, processing CSV, three, two, one, and file is uploaded. Now all you're going to do is click on add as a draft, and all of those products that you had, whether it's 20, 30, 100, or 1000, they will all get imported to your store in just those few clicks and in just a few seconds. So this is a great way to save an endless amount of time when importing products to your stores. You can also add URLs or IDs right here. So just paste the URL right here for every product ID, like let's say, let's say let's go inside this product, you can grab either the ID or the whole URL. So I'm going to copy the URL, paste it here, go to the next product, paste the URL, go to the next product, paste the URL, and continue moving down the line this way. So there are a few methods of adding products to your stores, and this is just one of the many features that you have when using AutoDS. So add those products to your store and see how much time you're going to save there. Once you are done adding your products to your store, the next step is to market your products. Because as I mentioned before, if you're dropshipping on Wix or Shopify or WooCommerce or any place where you have your own domain name, no one knows that your store exists. And now you have to use marketing methods to bring those buyers to your stores. So I already mentioned them before I gave you a tip already. But if you want to learn more about that, of course, read the blog below this video and go a little bit more in depth into all of these marketing methods. And of course, you'll have all the tools and links that you'll need to learn about these marketing methods even further. For example, I also mentioned Influencer Marketing Platforms. This is a way where you can use influencers hire them to make a shout out for your brand, for your product, for your niche, for your store. And of course, they will do so and bring their audiences to your store. The only thing that you want to watch out here for is that their audience are relevant to your product or niche. And we have an article as you see right here on the Best Influencer Marketing Platforms where you will be able to easily find influencers that are relevant for your niche instead of looking for them one by one. Now, after you put the marketing stuff on the side, and this is really important, you're going to have to work hard and put many hours into marketing just as you're going to do inside product research. But once you get the hang of marketing, it's very addicting, you're going to have a lot of fun doing it. Just make sure that you're putting a budget aside that you can't afford to lose in the first couple of weeks until you start to get the hang of things. So $5 a day ad sets is my way to start.  And if you drop shooting on eBay, you're getting orders without even marketing your products. But either way, now it's time to fulfill those orders, go to our suppliers websites and purchase the products and ship them directly to our end customers. Now, this is the manual way of doing it. So every time you get an order, you'll also see it on your AutoDS screen. Of course, if you're using AutoDS, if not, you'll simply see it on your selling channel. And here you will see your orders. So on the one hand, you can click on the sources website on the source link right here and add that product to your cart, purchase it, and make sure that you're shipping it to your customer's address. And it really depends on what suppliers you are using. Some suppliers have no problem with it. And you can even order 100 times per day. And other suppliers like Amazon can lock your account after getting multiple orders per day to different addresses because they don't primarily support drop shipping from their platform. But on the other hand, you can use services like fulfilled by AutoDS, which means it's not using your buyer accounts to fulfill orders. AutoDS has enough of them as it is. And this way, you can also enjoy drop shipping from places like Amazon with no problem. Easy one click returns, orders go out as soon as they come in, tracking is updated automatically, and you don't have to worry about account locks or bands. So this is a great way to go about fulfilling your orders. You can do it the manual way, you can use automatic orders, which still automates your orders, but uses your buyer accounts or the fulfilled by AutoDS service, which automates your orders without using your buyer accounts, which is my personal favorite method. Don't forget to update tracking information if you're doing it manually. If not, you don't have to worry about it because automatic orders will come with automatic tracking updates and also automatic tracking conversion. So you won't have those AMCL tracking numbers that are not trackable, they will be converted to a tracking number that you can use and win in cases if a buyer says they didn't receive the item and of course they did receive it. Now that we are fulfilling orders, we need to learn how to give outstanding customer service to our buyers. It's inevitable. Buyers are going to reach out to us. Sometimes you're going to be happy and simply give us positive feedback, but sometimes they will have a problem with one of the products. They'll want to return it, whether it's buyer remorse or whether it arrived damage or for any other reason. And here you're going to have to provide exceptional customer support. Log in to your selling channels every day, see what messages you have on AutoDS. If you're dropshipping on eBay, you also have the customer support section where you can see all of your customer's messages under one screen, no matter how many stores you have and take care of customer service from there. But if you're on Shopify, Wix or any other platform, log in to your selling channel and see what messages your buyers are selling you. You can also get them to your email if you have stores on Shopify or Wix. But in any case, answer your customer's messages, give them the support that they deserve. And if they want to return a product, don't try to argue with them, go to your supplier's website, get a return label from them if you're eligible for it. And if they're not eligible for a return, if you are not, then also the buyer is not according to the policies that you set, which should be in line with your suppliers. In a case where you're not eligible for a return, you simply explain it to the buyer and be very professional in how you talk and how you communicate with them. So respond to the buyers on time, give them what they need. This is for the long term survivability of your dropshipping business and one of the most important parts at that. So you're providing great customer service, you're getting those sales, you're happy with your store, but now it's time to scale. You're making sales, you're making profit, but now you want the bigger picture you zoomed out. You see the potential of what you built here, and now it's time to really start raking in those profits and enjoying the fruits of your labor. So how are you going to do that? There are many ways to scale your dropshipping business, and of course it also depends on where you are selling. Rule number one, you cannot scale without dropshipping automation. And sorry if it sounds too marketing, but I'm going to say it again. You cannot scale your business without dropshipping automation. Working manually is no way to scale. You want to have price monitoring, meaning every time a price changes on your supplier's website, it'll also change in your store accordingly. So you'll maintain the profit margin that you have set there, no matter how many products you have on your store, and also stock monitoring. Every time a product goes out of stock on my supplier's website, I also wanted to go out of stock on my Canada store because I don't want to sell products that I don't have in stock. And once you have thousands of products, you will not be able to see every day what's happening with your products, and every time a supplier makes a small change when it comes to price and stock. Also the fast import methods, which I showed you, you can import products in just a couple of seconds to your store. And this will save you the time that you need to work on product research, to work on marketing your store, and to work on customer support. These are the top three things that you need to put the most amount of time on. Customer support won't take that much amount. It'll take about one or two percent of your total time. This is nothing compared to what you're actually getting out of it. So dropshipping automation is the first step to scaling.  Also tracking numbers are updated so your buyers will also know what's going on with their packages, and they'll also get it really, really quick. You can wake up in the morning to see a new order, not only ordered, but also ship with tracking information. It can't really get better than that. And of course, once you reach 50 plus orders per day, you cannot spend all day just fulfilling orders because now you're not investing that time in growing your dropshipping business. Now besides that, there are many, many more automation features that you have on AutoDS. So head over to autoDS.com, check it out, try out your trial for a dollar, and I'm sure that you will stick with it and you will enjoy those sales and profits and growing slowly and steadily. To finish off, every time you make a sale, go to the product that's sold for you and add more products that are similar to that one. And also bundle it with more accessories so that you will also increase your average order value by increasing the customer's shopping cart. So every time you sell a product, add more products like that, more products that are similar to it, while always, of course, testing out the market for new products. But keep multiplying your success by adding more products that are similar to those that are selling for you because you already found something that people are willing to buy and they bought it from you. The next tip is to work with multiple dropshipping suppliers. And this is a great way to scale your business. So we already named about 16 or 17 dropshipping suppliers in this video, and there are more suppliers when it comes to it. So see what your suppliers have. You should always work with around three to four suppliers simultaneously. So if one doesn't do the job, switch it with another that you have on this list, and this way you'll always have a reach to a significant amount of products that you can resell on your stores. So dropshipping automation, multiple suppliers, and while Canada is one of the best regions to dropship to today, you should always consider catering to more regions worldwide learning the worldwide market and seeing what products are also selling in other regions around the world. You will surprise yourself by the things that you learn when selling to more regions worldwide and not sticking only to one. I hope that you enjoyed this video on how to start a successful dropshipping business on Canada. Remember to keep the shipping domestic, have fast shipping and delivery times, take care of your customer service, work hard, really hard when it comes to product research, and of course marketing your store and your business unless you're dropshipping on eBay. Even though eBay does have promotion options and you can read and learn about it on our blog page. Once again, thank you for watching. Don't forget to subscribe to our YouTube channel to always learn more about dropshipping techniques and what you need to do to scale your business to the next level, whether you're an active seller or whether you're just getting started. Like and share this video if you appreciate the value. Thank you for making it this far. It shows that you are serious about this business. Keep learning and good luck with your dropshipping business.


Talk to this girl on Tinder, we decided to go out to dinner. This girl is beautiful, we had a great time, I thought she was perfect. But the next few days when I tried to text her she was either really short with me or she didn't respond at all, so I assumed that she just wasn't feeling it.  Then a couple weeks go by and she texts me like, I miss you so much, we should hang out tonight. Then the next day, same thing happens, if I try to text her she's either short with me or she doesn't respond at all. Then a couple weeks later the same thing happened. She's pretty onto her but I was like, well, I got nothing else to do. So I go, we go out to dinner again. So we're there and we're having a great time again and while we're there we're talking about some meme. It's in my phone but I couldn't find it. She then excuses herself to use the restroom. I find the meme and send it to her phone. Her phone then lights up right next to me and I see my name there as Rex and parentheses Free Food. Which comes back, I didn't say anything. But when the waitress brought the checks I said, we need to split these up. The girl looked at me like I was on fire. I said, I guess I'm not free food anymore, huh? This is the time that I got locked out of my car at Planned Parenthood. I went in to get some birth control and I got the goods. Then realized I left my keys in the car and I locked my car and I didn't want to call my parents because I'm at Planned Parenthood. So I called the top rated locksmith on Google and they opened the car for me. One like and I'll walk like this down the graduation line. How much I owe in student loans one year after graduating from Harvard Law. For background reference last year I made a video showing you how much I owed in student loans at the time and so I wanted to make an update and show you how much I've progressed since then. Last year my law student loans totaled that much and I had various interest rates ranging from about 5.5% to 7%. Since that video I've refinanced my student loans and now pay 3.5-7% interest. Since I graduated I've also been paying more than the monthly minimum requirement but I'll show you what my normal monthly payment would be as well. Those two bigger numbers are the amount I still owe, the 60,000 and the 138,000 number for a total I will put in the text. Those numbers combined are my minimum monthly payment. Hi Dan, I just moved in next door. I'm a supermodel. I don't care who the IRS sends, I am not paying taxes. I'm about to make some voice on here really mad at me. But it really must be said. You don't get brownie points for not abusing women. Common decency is not a prerequisite for getting me to sleep with you. Good manners can only get you so far.   Cause let's face it, just because you're not a bad guy doesn't mean you're a good one. There's something that really bothers me and it's this. A number of guys have divulged to me that they feel somehow replaceable or disposable. Why do we make them feel this way? Well here are some pretty good reasons I've heard. For years we have sent men to war. That's going to make them feel pretty disposable. What about in the working world? It's hierarchical. A man might feel like his job position could be replaced at any time. In a family, if a man's role was the material provider, he may feel that any other man could come along with more money and he could be replaced. Whereas a woman is seen as the emotional provider and is inherently valued more. This is even reflected in the unfair legislations we see in family law. And then there's dating where women have a line of men waiting backstage and an attitude of one strike and you're out. So where does that leave our men? Feeling disposable and replaceable. Which is just ridiculously unfair. I decided to DM the top 10 contestants from season 16 of The Bachelorette. Here's how it went. Fat Vanity. Fat Vanity is some of the highest magic and I'm going to tell you why. I really do mean Vanity, V-A-N-I-T-Y, being vain.  Shots on. Good morning men of TikTok. I have a question. I should have a couple questions that I think most women are going to agree on. Alright, here they are. Where did all the good men go? Like seriously, where are the guys who just want one woman? Where are the guys who date towards marriage? Where are the guys who want kids? All I see in today's world are guys in their 20s and early 30s who still smoke and party and they go skateboarding and they game all day. And they prance around the beach and flip-flops which that's a personal thing. But my point is, they're still children. Don't you want more meaning in your life? Personally, I want to know where all your old-fashioned men are because we like you. So if you're an old-fashioned man or if you're looking for the right things in life, call yourself out here in the comments.  Thanks. Have a good day. I bought these spy cameras from this early release tech website.  It is almost impossible to see and I can watch the camera live from my phone. I plugged them in before I went to work and this is what I found.  Like you're literally a cheater. Jenna, if you're seeing this, I am never giving you your stuff back. Don't ever come here again. And I'm sure this baby is not mine either. I'm not paying child support. So that's a great question and I get it quite a bit. No, signing the birth certificate would not give the father parenting rights. That may be used by the child support office to show paternity to establish child support, but it would not give any custodial rights.


Here recently I've been telling you guys that we need to start sharing our dot files our config files We need to start collaborating a little bit You know sharing what we're all doing and our bash RC and our vm RC and our tiling window manager configs a few days ago I shared with you guys a website called dot share dot it that's really interesting a lot of you guys went over there and Started posting your configs. I posted some of my configs over at dot share dot IT So today I thought I would take this opportunity to share with you some of my favorite Shell aliases, so I'm gonna open up my bash RC and show you what some of my favorite bash aliases are because I don't think I Use enough bash aliases and I don't think some of you guys use enough shell aliases because when I take a look at your bash RC and your Zshrc or your fish RC or whatever shell you're using I don't see very many aliases and some of you guys configs some configs I don't see any aliases in so today I wanted to share with you my favorite bash aliases and you guys let me know in the comments below your favorite bash aliases So let me switch over to the desktop here And I'm gonna go ahead and open up my bash RC and I'm gonna open it up inside a doom emacs here And let me zoom in a little bit so you guys can see what's going on And if I go down through my bash RC to where the aliases start actually before we get to the aliases I will mention this function here now this function I think I originally got it from the Ubuntu bash RC the default Ubuntu bash RC I think comes with this there's several Linux distributions out there that come with this Extraction function it does the command EX anytime you do EX followed by a Archived file and you have this case statement that's written in bash And it basically says if the file ends in tar dot bz2 run this command You know tar with these flags if it is a tar dot gz run tar with these flags if it's a Zip you know run the unzip command if it's a seven zip file run this command if it's a dip file run this command Etc. So that is a really nifty function if you don't have this Extraction function in your bash RC. I strongly recommend you guys add this it really saves a lot of time But that really isn't a bash alias. So let's get down to the aliases So here are my aliases the very first one I have is alias do as equals do as space dash dash So do as is an alternative to the sudo command It's a less bloated form of sudo But do as does have this annoying thing with it do as has two or three flags that you can pass on to it but the problem is if you do a do as and then the name of another command and Those particular flags that you give to that command are similar flags to do as there's a conflict So the way you get rid of that conflict is you do do as space dash dash That basically says hey every flag that comes after the dash dash is not for do as it's for the program that we're running Do as on I hope that makes sense. So it's kind of a safety thing So I always add do as equals do as space dash dash then I have the navigation aliases for CD So do you spend any time in the shell at all? You spend a lot of time seeding around the directory structure and one of the most common CD commands is CD space dot dot Which gets you into the parent directory. So let me CD back into my home directory I don't want to type CD space dot dot every time I want to go to the parent directory I just want to type dot dot And so dot dot alias dot dot equals CD space dot dot And then if I want to go up to the grandparent directory, right the parent directory of the parent directory I can do three dots so I could do let me CD back into Slash home slash dt, but if I do three dots, I'm gonna be in the root directory, right? So I do a PWD for print working directory You see I went up two levels all the way to the root file system If I want to go up three levels, you see period three does Three levels up in the directory structure and then period four period five the next set of aliases are pretty Self-explanatory for VIM and emacs so for VIM I use neo VIM So I don't want to type in VIM though. I'm so used to typing VIM for the VIM command So I just alias VIM to open neo VIM. So this is really neo VIM even though I typed VIM I hope that makes sense the same thing with emacs because with emacs. I don't actually run emacs I run the emacs client So I have the emacs daemon running in the background the emacs server and all my emacs windows are actually this command here The emacs client space dash c space dash a and then in single quotes emacs for the name of the Buffer I guess that I'm creating or it's actually like the the session I'm creating there So that is very lengthy to type right and I open emacs all the time I just want to type the word emacs and it actually Handles all that so anytime I do emacs, you know like in a command line or run launcher It actually runs the emacs client dash c dash a and then within single quotes emacs Now if I want to do the terminal version of emacs I almost never opened the terminal version of emacs But if I wanted to I'm in a terminal right now I could just do em and that actually runs slash user slash bin slash emacs base dash nw so This is the terminal version of doom emacs. It looks like there's some errors here I never actually use emacs in the terminal though So I'll have to address that at some point now the next set of aliases are Probably some of the most common commands that I run at the command line and probably the most common commands you guys run at the command line is Installing software updating the system, you know anything you do with your package manager So I want to alias a lot of Pac-Man commands you guys running devian or a boom-to-base systems You probably want to alias things like apt update apt upgrade apt install apt remove things like that So what I did is I did an alias pack syu is the same as Pseudo Pac-Man dash capital s y y u. You know, it's just the standard kind of update command I did yay s u a it's actually yay space dash capital s u a dash dash no confirm I don't want to have to confirm That I want to update, you know every single package that it finds Same thing with unlock here unlock sometimes happens when the Pac-Man Database is locked So, you know, you're trying to run a Pac-Man command and it's giving you an error running this command unlock deletes the lock file cleanup is Running this very Convoluted Pac-Man command that removes all the orphaned packages on the system I don't run this command very often this command when you run it. It can be dangerous You know, you don't want to just blindly run this command and accept, you know Everything that it suggests to remove because I have ran this command before and it's wanted to remove like very important system Packages that you don't want to remove because you know, it might break the system in the next set of aliases or commands I never run I never bother, you know Getting new mirrors or look looking for the fastest mirrors But if I wanted to I do have these aliases available and the reason these are aliased is because you see how long these commands are If I had to type them out, I actually got these from the arco linux bash RC I believe this is from the default arco linux bash RC these mirror commands I didn't create them myself again I don't really use them how often do you run, you know the mirrorless command on an arch based system? Not very often now the next set of bash aliases I get asked all the time about my LS command my LS command is not actually LS You see alias LS LS is actually the command exa. There's a program called exa It's a very colorful Alternative to LS and I run it with these flags a for all files ill for long format Color equals always because I want it to be colorful and group directories first because I want to see the directories Listed before the falls. So again, let me open up a terminal if I run a LS, you know, this very colorful LS Yeah, this is really the exa command. Let me zoom in a little bit and clear the screen now I have LA as a different exa command I have ll for once again another exa command one of the most interesting ones though is L dot Now this is hey run this exa command, but I want you to grip out the files that begin with a period So basically it's a I'm running a LS, but I want the dot files in this directory So L dot is a LS But again, it's just gonna return the dot files the hidden files within the directory The next set of aliases is for the various grip commands adding the flag dash dash color equals auto This is a standard and most bash RCs even default bash RCs, you know on Distributions like a boon to and Debbie and and things like that You'll you'll usually have these as aliased anyway because very few people want grip without the colors Because adding that colorful output and again in the comments here That's good for log files if you have to read a log file then adding flags here this section here meaning I don't want the copy command the CP command to ever be run without CP dash I The dash I flag is an interactive flag It means I'm copying a file if that file already exists where I'm trying to copy it to I want you to ask me about it Right. I want you to confirm that I really want you to override the existing file before you override it It's again a safety measure of the DF command I want DF to be DF space dash H because that's a human readable format So DF for me is really DF dash H meaning, you know You get things like 32 gigs instead of you know that massively long number where it's in single bytes I that's unreadable and I have aliases for the links terminal browser Basically telling it I want you to run links with these commands these flags here go find this config file And I also have a flag in this let me close this terminal so you can see the full command here Sam running it with this flag at the end dash vi keys That means the links terminal browser uses the VM key bindings for navigating and I have an alias for my terminal file manager Vi fm because it's really not vi fm. It's running this custom script here that comes with Ubersug image previews and some other stuff, so it's not really vi fm It's a script that I wrote that does launch vi fm But it launches some other stuff too the next set of aliases are really interesting and that is the ps command So this is for looking at processes that are running on your computer Now typically if I want to check out some processes running on the computer if I'm concerned about what's eating my ram Or what's eating all of my CPU? I just open up each top, but you can use the ps command at the command line and for example if I do ps mem Well, let's let me zoom back out. That's hard to read because I Yes But now you can't read it, but that's basically the ps command ps mem. It's a list of a What is using all of my memory basically and ps cpu is the same kind of command But of course it sorts them by cpu usage. Let me clear the screen here Unfortunately, those ps commands don't look all that well because they spit out so much output When I'm zoomed in it's unreadable. All right Now the next set of commands are my get commands So I use get all the time and really when you're thinking about what shell aliases You want to use think about the commands you run all the time. I'm always pushing to my get lab I'm always doing stuff with get so it makes sense to not have to do get add name a file get commit Dash yum and then the message get push your origin master get pull Well, you know all of that stuff get check out get status this and that why not just drop all the get And that's what I did so instead of get add space dash you for add all the updated files How about just add up for add updated files add all for get add everything Get check out is now just check out get commit is now just commit get fetch is now just fetch get pull is now Just pull get push is now just push etc some of the other stuff I have aliased is SSN pseudo shut down now SR pseudo reboot for those of you that run X term or you are X VT You're probably playing in the X resources file all the time and for those changes to take effect You have to run the command XR DB dash merge and then the location of your X resources file For your changes to take effect and for your you know color changes and font changes and all that to take effect And those terminals well wouldn't it be nice to not to have to type that long command all the time So and I just alias merge to be XR DB dash merge X resources I'm just quickly taking a look at some of the other stuff here I mean I've got some aliases for some GPG stuff got a YouTube DL and these YouTube DL aliases I believe were in the default arco Linux config and It's really nice because YouTube DL the commands are very lengthy because The name of the command is YouTube dash DL That's already a long word to have to type and then you usually have to add several flags to all the commands So if you use YouTube DL all the time it really makes sense just to alias all the commands You use on a regular basis then I had one more get alias and this is for my get bear repository for my dot files Repository I have alias config equals actually the get command dash dash get dash dear Equals the location to that bear repository for my dot files and the working tree is actually the home directory The next alias is TB and TB stands for term bin So it runs the command NC, which is the netcat command term bin dot com at port 9999 I did a video about term bin a while back and I just kept this alias I don't use term bin that often, but it is an interesting program and the last alias and what I want to discuss is RR RR runs this very lengthy command curl and then this URL It's going and getting this roll dot shill file From github and it's gonna run it inside my bash shill and I alias this to RR Because it stands for Rick roll. So if I run RR in the terminal You get some Rick Astley I don't have the music up because I don't want to get demonetized, but you guys know the song never gonna give you up Never gonna let you down Anyway, that was just some of my favorite bash aliases if you guys want to share your favorite bash aliases or any shill aliases I would love to hear about them because Everybody's gonna have different favorite aliases because again most people are gonna alias the programs They use on a regular basis and you guys are gonna use different stuff than me I just think it would be neat if we all shared a little bit share the software as RMS would say Now before I go I need to thank Michael Gabe Nate Corbinian Mitchell entropy UK John Devon Fran arch 55 30 Christian DJ Donnie Dylan George Lewis. I'm repoll Robert Sean Tobias and Willie these guys They are my highest tier patrons over on patreon without these guys This episode wouldn't have been possible the show is also brought to you by each and every one of these ladies and gentlemen These are all my supporters over on patreon because this channel is supported by you guys the community You'd like to support my work check out DT over on patreon. Peace


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In this tutorial, students will learn different isolation methods that are used for culturing of microbes. In coming series of videos, we will discuss study of fermented products on specified media. There are basically three different isolation methods that are used for culturing of microbes, straight-plate method, pore-plate method, and spread-plate method. First, we will discuss straight-plate method. For straight-plate method, falling procedure is used. Label the factory plates with isolation method and date. This will also help to identify the microorganisms and although it may take some time, but it may lead to help to avoid the big mistake later on. Secondly, check agar plate. If any moisture is present then it is preferable to place them in an incubator for overnight. Now, pour the melted agar on sterile petri plate. Sterile the mouth of glass with the help of separate lamp. Pour melted agar on sterile petri plate carefully. Place the petri plate on side. Now, check agar plates if any moisture is present then it is preferable to place them at room temperature for overnight. Step is addition of inoculum. Inoculum from another plate then it is preferable to use single colony from inoculated plates. For inoculation, first, flame this inoculating loop to red hot. Let it cool for one to two minutes. Single colony from plate, heat in a slightly rapid movement to avoid the gorging of agar plates. After inoculation, again red hot dilute the inoculated plate in an incubator in inverted position at 37 degrees centigrade for overnight. After incubation, observe the plate at a safe distance from space. Isolation method part two. Pour plate method. Pour plate method is also a pure culture technique which is used for isolation of microbes. It is very economical way for food labs to test, to perform tests on a sample that focused on specific number of bacteria. For pour plate method, following procedure is used. First, set the micro pipette on a specified volume which is 100 micro litre. Now, for second step, we use inoculum to inoculate the empty petri plate. For inoculum addition, we take culture, measure 100 micro litre of culture and spread it evenly on petri plate. Discard the micro pipette. Now pour melted agar on inoculated plate. For inoculation, sterilize the mouth of flowers and pour melted agar uniformly on plate. According to recommendation, it is preferable to fill the plate to 12 to 15 ml. Now, place the plate in laminar to dry. After this, place plate in incubator at 37 degrees centigrade for overnight. At desired temperature, at a quite 37 degree centigrade, actual temperature is 30 and it will set at 37 after few minutes. It will automatically adjust to the set point temperature. For night incubation, we will observe the plates and the colonies were calculated with the help of colony counter. After the calculation of colonies, we will also find out colony forming unit with the help of formula. This is the basic two isolation methods. Pour plate and straight plate. Facilitation method part three, bread plate method. Bread plate method is a technique which is used to place the liquid sample containing bacteria so that bacteria easily count and isolate. Successful spread plate method will have countable number of colonies that are evenly isolated on agar surface. For the bread plate method, calling procedure is used. Place the agar and allow it to cool less than 50 degrees centigrade. Now, take sterile petri plate and pour melted agar on plate. To pouring, place the plate for some time to dry. Pour plate and use spreader for spreading off inoculum. If you use glass spreader, then it is preferable to dip the spreader in alcohol and then flame it on burner. This is disposable spreader. Dip it in 1000 microlitre and take 1 ml culture. Inoculum on the surface of agar. Inoculum evenly on the surface of agar plate. Continue spreading until it fully absorbs on the surface of agar. It is recommended during the spreading, place the plate in front of flame to avoid the risk of contamination. As agar is fully absorbed on the agar surface, close the lid of plate and place in an incubator at 37 degree centigrade. For incubation, place the plates in an incubator at 37 degree centigrade for overnight. After overnight incubation, again observe the plates and at a safe distance from the face. Count the number of colonies with the help of colony counter and also calculate the colony forming unit from isolated colony.


On Saturday, the Government of Zamfara State announced the shutdown of some broadcast stations in the state. Two of the affected stations are owned by the federal government, while the other three are privately owned. The State Information Commissioner Ibrahim Dossara said Governor Matawale ordered the immediate shutdown of the Nigerian television authority NTA Gusso, Federal Radio Corporation Pride FM Gusso, Al Muma TV, Gamji FM and Gamji TV. There is no indication that the Zamfara State Government got permission from Nigeria's broadcast regulator NBC to sanction the media houses. What's running us to discuss the seeming abuse of power is Deji. I will be there. He's a legal practitioner. Thank you so much, Deji, for joining us. Thank you for having me. So we know that in reaction to what happened in Zamfara State, the broadcasting organization of Nigeria Bonn had reacted, saying that the Government of Zamfara State had no powers whatsoever to shut down these media houses, whether they be owned by government or even private stations, enlighten us, as laymen, what the law says about issues such as this. Thank you very much, baby. One thing is clear, that the Constitution provides for the freedom of the press. I mean, that you will find in the second test line of the Constitution, which clearly provides that you can disseminate information, you can disseminate opinions without any fear of any rank call or any threats. So that's clearly provided for in the Constitution. Now, what's good is that the NBC and the BOM, as well as the NUJ, quickly came out in defense of those stations to ensure that press freedom is not suppressed. So if you have a right that is guaranteed by this Constitution, it cannot be taken away either by any arbitrary means or either by any under-antactics, of course, you can see that this one clearly has a political undertone, and that's why it played out the way it did. But interestingly, today, I read in the papers that the Government of Zamfara State had apologised for what seems to be an error of judgement in terms of trying to impose its will on the media houses, you know, because we went through a lot to get to this point. I mean, we went through the military rule, and we've tried to ensure that our flagging democracy is protected from the 1990s or days. So it's very important that the NBC and the NUJ and the BOM came out clearly in defense of these media stations, because the right to sanction media houses or to impose any penalties on them is clearly tested in the NBC. So without the NBC imposing any of those sanctions or penalties, it is wrong for any person, particularly in this case, the Government of Zamfara State, to try and impose its will on these media houses, just because the media houses did not do what it thought was favourable to it. In other words, the background to all of this is that the media houses went ahead to cover the rally of the opposition party, the PDP, and gave some media airtime to the Governor's opposition rival of the other party. So that's where all of this is coming from. And of course, I first of all found it very interesting that this defence of the government in terms of alleging security and unrest and if other suspicions and all political activities came shortly before the PDP rally. I mean, it wasn't a month before it wasn't known to even the media stations when in advance that there was an derivative order by the government. OK, so all of a sudden you just went ahead and issued a fiat like you are in the military era. I mean, we moved past all of that. Right now, we should be trying to salvage our nascent democracy, try to hold it together, try to promote it and sustain it, and not to have such pronouncements or such unguarded utterances issued by the deputant of government of Zafra state. I'm curious because many people have asked that question of, does the government of any state have the powers as outside of the electoral acts to say, well, we're banning all forms of political campaigning or politicking, especially at a time where INEC has said, well, we've taken off the ban on campaigning and so let the games begin. Does the state have any powers outside of the electoral act to put such a ban in place? Absolutely not. No state has that kind of power. And that's why in the statement issued by the NBC and the BOM, they did reference the fact that the actions of the government of Zafra state was unconstitutional. And of course, in a certain sense of that particular gap on the apart, they issued an apology. Now, don't forget that INEC itself is a body that's recognized by the Constitution of the Parliament of Nigeria, which is supreme. It's the sovereign instrument which all of us are bound by. Whether states, local, federal, we're all bound by the Constitution. And no matter how, how, how, how I agree with you feel about the content of the workings of the Constitution, it's still the preeminent document that guides our relationship as a people. So it's no governor, no, either the president, the governor or the chairman of the local government has the power to, you know, by his own will say, well, no more campaigning. Nobody can use this particular blitz. Nobody can, nobody can, no media house, you can cover any candidate. All of those things are things of the past. Because INEC has opened the floodgates for campaigning, it's campaign season. So what the government should be focused on is pushing out his agenda, his achievements. What have they done in the past four years to make the life of the average and far and better? What do they plan to do in the next four years to further enhance the legacy which has been in place in the last four years? So it's when you are, when you are afraid that you have anything to campaign on, that you then go ahead to try to impose and unmask your position. I believe that at this level of our democracy, we should be talking about issue-based campaigns. We're talking about ideas, about what we can put on the table to better the lot of our brothers and sisters in all parts of the country. And not just Muslim people out of the political space. The PDP is a political party just like the APC. The APC is in power now. But who says that the PDP won't be power in the next election after the results are counted? So we need to ensure that we are tolerant in our politics, either at the state level or the national level. We need to be very tolerant of all of your position. Politics of ideas without bitterness is what I look forward to as an African Nigerian to see this election season. But good news, like I say, is that the defense put forward by the NBC and by the PUN and the NUJ is quite commendable. And of course I have made the governments to do a uton and to apologize publicly to those media houses. And you know, for good measure, those media houses can, I mean, go ahead and take on the collection against the government if they so desire for, particularly the order directing all military personnel or police personnel to enforce that directive of the governor. I mean, it's a bridge of the benefits of human person, of all those journalists who work in that station, who might have to do all kinds of ill treatment on account of the governor's executive order. So it's important that these agencies, the NBC, the PUN, protect our democracy, protect the freedom of the press. Don't forget that lives have been lost to get us to this particular point, to get us to a point where we now enjoy this freedom that we all have, either on social media, either as licensed broadcasting TV or radio stations. We won't have to get to this point. We should not allow the likes of Governor Matawali to take us back to the days of Egypt. We have moved beyond that. And we are looking at getting to our Kenan land. And I believe that with the actions of the NBC and the PUN in curtailing the accesses of this kind of government, we would be able to get to the promised land in no sooner time. Let me talk, let's talk about the dangers of government owning this many media houses. We have been at forums where conversation has been had as to media houses in this country and how many of them are state owned. Now we know how it works in Nigeria. Every state does have its own media. The federal government also has one domicile there. So you have the federal and the state all owned by government. What are the possible dangers of government owning these many media houses and what it could also do in terms of bifling the freedom of press or freedom to cover as much as they would. Because many would say that some of these state owned media are just basically praise singers of the government in power. What must be done to change that narrative? Thank you very much for the question. I recall that when I was growing up the government stations were the only means of getting any official information from the government. So we all had to wait for the government stations to come on here and tell us and push whatever narrative that the government wants to push. But of course with private stations coming on board and we've all seen movements from people not having the choice of what to watch. So having very diverse TV channels pushing for different different arguments, different content for all of us to now pick from. So of course I really do not see any problem with government owning a TV station pushing out its own agenda is propaganda. But what I enjoy right now is that the people have the right to pick and choose which TV station to watch, which is a good thing that the government itself has enabled the environment for these private TV stations to also try. So it's now left for the government TV stations on TV stations or broadcast stations to now up their game to a level where people would willingly choose to watch their programs. For me, I don't remember the last time I ever watched a government's own station. I mean it's been years that I ever did that and I'm spot for choice. So each station has its own dynamic content and programming. So you find that sometimes even right now for the prime time slots, you have people switching channels and taking a bit of content from each different station. So it's good that you have some diversity and it helps the public to be better informed. So come at the days where you can decide to impose yourself and those pushing to government propaganda, none of that works anymore. People can even go ahead and pick out their own news online. I mean you have various online platforms also disseminating information. So people have better advice now. You know back in the day, I mean this campaign season will have been all stuff with watching rallies of political parties and nothing else. But these days all you just get is a recap of the highlights of these rallies, of these engagements. In five minutes on social media, you can watch a recap of all that has been said and you can move on. So Kudos must also go to the NBC and other regulators that have made this platform available for private individuals to own TV stations. I must also acknowledge the proprietors of the TV stations for the painstaking efforts that they've made to get us to this point. What is fascinating for me as a legal practitioner is that the constitution is supreme and no person should be allowed to disregard or engage in any action that would render our constitution to be at the backbone of national discourse. No matter what we think about the constitution, it still remains our supreme document that guides how we relate and how we do all that we do as a people within the territorial boundaries of Nigeria. So it's important that we are able as a people to pick and choose which medium wants to hear any information, which media outlets want to follow, want to listen to. And the government needs to understand that it needs to up its game from what they had done in the military era. We need to move with the times otherwise this will be left behind. Why would the government want to up its game if it's benefitting entirely from how this propaganda in your words or propaganda stations are working, why would they want to up their game again? You and I have had conversations previously about government trying in disguise of trying to regulate media to try to stifle the press and we've seen people come out on mass to fight against that, thank goodness. But then how do we also make sure that this doesn't come again in the future in another guys to try to regulate the media or social media and then of course try to stifle those private media houses who are able to put out the truth unfiltered as opposed to the propaganda stations that you make reference to in clothing? Well, like I said when growing democracy we're still in that sense, we're barely 15, barely say 23 years of this democracy so you will still expect that those military tendencies that we used to have is to take a while for those things to be pushed out of our system completely but however the point most we made that these private TV stations yes they are able to put out the news unfiltered but we also have civil society organizations, we have the NBA and other Star Wars that defend our democracy and you can see that there's been an improvement overall in how this democracy has been defended I mean we have journalists who have been arraigned on previous counts and charges in court but we also have access to legal counsel provided for them by these NGOs and civil society organizations so by and large it will take a while for us to get that right balance between government polling TV stations and private stations being able to put out the news unfiltered it will take a while for us to normalize hearing the truth the uncensored truth and being able to allow our citizens to pick and choose which news outlets they want to listen to but again if the government is not up its game these channels or these bigger houses will soon become a thing of the past because nobody will be watching them and of course the government financing of these stations will soon dry up and without any of these revenues or any of this financing you guys are as good as mine that these private media houses are the most watched channels in the country as of this moment will continue to hold sway and the government will have to rethink his own strategy going forward Deja Wobide is a legal practitioner always a pleasure having you thank you so much for joining us thank you for having me well that's the show tonight but before I go I would like to give you my take unity is a nice sounding bus word politicians like to employ when they ask for votes of groups and sections of the population which they cannot possibly identify with while it is a nice sentiment it comes with a caveat of insisting that such candidates are the only ones capable of carrying the flag of true unity now northern leaders have been a part and parcel of leadership since independence the people of the north have always had voices representing their interests at every level of government within the immigration service, the military the police and even in civilian parts of the government the Yoruba, Igbo and members of other tribes serve within these institutions but most often serve under the command of these northerners sitting at the highest levels even in the southern part of the country that with so much access to the levels of political power the north of the country is the least developed part of the country true unity may only ever be possible in Nigeria when we do away with the need for power sharing formulas and to make you know to make individual choices to vote for one of the most competent candidates we need to try as much as possible to fill candidates who actually represent a true Nigeria I'm Mary Anacong, have a good evening


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