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My father, always a smart man and proud Canadian, pointed out the threat to Canadian sovereignty posed by the original NAFTA back in 1987. #cdnpoli
In 1987 critics of the newly minted US / Canada free trade agreement feared Prime Minister Brian Mulroney had sold Canada out to the Americans and left our future as an independent nation in question. tvo.org/article/noth...
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January 26, 2026 at 9:15 PM
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The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.”

That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.
January 26, 2026 at 11:35 PM
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For sale: Nazi coat, gently worn

(Size small)
January 27, 2026 at 12:17 AM
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Canada's humiliation ritual continues
January 12, 2026 at 3:20 AM
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The concept of posting “Canada is not considering a ban of X” as a QUOTE of your post condemning deepfake sexual abuse happening **ON X** of women and kids………….
January 11, 2026 at 5:51 AM
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It's fury but too many of my Canadian friends are still pretending everything is fine, giving their tourism $$ to the fascist US state (doesn't matter if it's a blue state, it's still a regime threatening annexation of Canada) and living in an "it can't happen here/he won't do it" bubble
January 7, 2026 at 3:22 AM
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International law if necessary, but not necessarily International law. The party of McKenzie King never misses a chance to avoid being clear.
Please see my statement on the situation in Venezuela:
January 3, 2026 at 4:35 PM
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Oooh…an occupation. People love those!!
Trump on Venezuela: "We're going to run the country until such time as we can do a safe, proper, and judicious transition"
January 3, 2026 at 4:51 PM
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Incredible. The Trump-Vance admin just posted a video promoting their bombing of Venezuela.

…And it is set to the song “Fortunate Son” — which is explicitly about the rich and powerful starting wars under the flag of hollow patriotism, and then making the rest of America pay the consequences.
January 3, 2026 at 5:08 PM
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Teetering on the edge of another pandemic, Truump is president, and Canada has no domestic vaccine production. What could possibly go wrong?
November 13, 2024 at 10:29 PM