Let’s face it, Canada has been dumped & is on its own. Let’s dust ourselves off & make things by Canadians for Canadians. My op ed in Edmonton Journal @MaudeBarlow @LindaMcQuaig @JimboStanford @SethDKlein @ElizabethMay @ParklandInst @CanadiansOrg #cdnpoli https://t.co/3PL80GlqrV

Don’t make a secret deal with Trump, Mr. Carney. After the election, your elbows seem to be down. Put any deal to Canadians to decide in a referendum. Read insightful op-ed by Christopher Holcroft @LindaMcQuaig @MaudeBarlow #cdnpoli #abpoli #bcpoli https://t.co/48ZTda3D6u

Watch Naomi Klein’s brilliant take on “end-times fascism” & how it differs from earlier fascisms. She paints a hopeful picture of a way out - through progressive, international solidarity @LindaMcQuaig @MaudeBarlow #cdnpoli #abpoli #onpoli #bcpoli https://t.co/n3b7Omsomk 📷

Linda McQuaig writes terrific fiction too. The Road to Goderich just came out. What a great read. Best book I’ve read in a few years. It’s a great tale, characters very well drawn, spare style, tightly woven, fits together like a complex puzzle, great unexpected turns,

It takes more than mighty construction projects to build a nation. Human services like public healthcare are equally important to growth, jobs, innovation & investment. Here's an open letter signed by 275 🇨🇦 economists & health policy experts: https://t.co/IO4BBcXAoh #cdnecon /2

Danielle Smith struts around noisily, threatening to break up the country if Big Foreign Oil doesn’t get its way. A must read @LindaMcQuaig @JimboStanford @SethDKlein @MaudeBarlow @ParklandInst @ClimateTim @ElizabethMay #cdnpoli #abpoli #bcpoli #onpoli https://t.co/GVunYXFnjX

I am proud to have been the first chair of the Waffle’s Toronto chapter. May the Waffle Manifesto inspire new generations. Copy the link to the full manifesto: https://t.co/nAtrPHr4eh @LindaMcQuaig @MaudeBarlow @JimboStanford @SethDKlein

But there were two anachronistic omissions that will strike contemporaries: the male-centric language and the notable oversight of the rights of first nations. These derelictions were soon set right during the Waffle’s brief life (1969-1974).

The Waffle movement for an independent socialist Canada, a ginger group within the New Democratic Party is an inspiration for today’s resistance to Trump’s annexation threats. The Manifesto was a product of its time. Most of it stands up very well today.

activities whose value cannot be measured by the standards of profitability. It is not accidental that housing, education, medical care, and public transportation are inadequately provided for by the present social system.”

and the fundamental threat is external, not internal. But economic independence without socialism is a sham, and neither are meaningful without true participatory democracy. The criterion that the most profitable pursuits are the most important ones causes the neglect of

Trump’s threats to annex Canada, Greenland and Panama make the 1969 Waffle Manifesto more apropos than ever. “The major threat to Canadian survival today is American control of the Canadian economy. The major issue of our times is not national unity but national survival,

My father Stephen Lewis is spectacularly uninterested in social media, so I’m posting this myself (though he has read it and is prepared to suffer the indignity of all I'm about to reveal). When he was Canada’s ambassador to the UN from 1984-88, Dad was truly shocked by the

*sighs Smith is never #TeamCanada She is a Maple MAGA Trumper. Seriously embarrassing to live in AB right now. I will be continuing to buy Canadian vs American products. Worst Premier Ever. #ResignSmith

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Are exporting resources all the premiers & prime minister can think of to build an economy independent from the US? Back to hewers of wood & drawers of water is not progress. We are capable of so much more. What about manufacturing, high tech & a care economy? @LindaMcQuaig

Remember when Carney said "Trump is trying to break us, so America can own us". Oh, That was the election. Today Carney met behind closed doors with Big Oil. They pose as Canadian but all are a majority U.S owned. What happened to elbows up? @LindaMcQuaig @MaudeBarlow #cdnpoli

I’m not a royalist but I’ll take these fine words over Keir Starmer’s spinelessness any day!! 🇨🇦

Restoring decency, restoring democracy. Ending gangster regimes that can create genocide. It’s a big task. But I think Canadians are up for it. Charlie Angus takes resistance to Picton ON @LindaMcQuaig @MaudeBarlow @SethDKlein #cdnpoli #abpoli #onpoli #yeg https://t.co/39OE82ETBV

The myth of Ottawa stifling Alberta's oil sands punctured by Ian Urquhart. A Must read op-ed @LindaMcQuaig @MaudeBarlow @SethDKlein @ClimateTim #abpoli #cdnpoli @ParklandInst @CanadiansOrg @envirodefence @JimboStanford @standearth @Tzeporah https://t.co/OB3UcRj9pW

Western separatism? Never going to happen. Danielle Smith talks it up to scare the feds from regulating Big Oil corps’ carbon pollution. BTW all Big Oil corps in Canada are majority foreign-owned @LindaMcQuaig @MaudeBarlow @JimboStanford @ElizabethMay