With an increasingly erratic U.S. breathing down our necks, Canada feels a lot like Finland in 1948 — only our options are a lot, lot worse.
⬇️ New from me in @ForeignPolicy⬇️
foreignpolicy.com/2026/03/25/can…
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John Last
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John Last
@johnwlast
🇨🇦 writer & journalist in 🇮🇹 | regular contributor @NoemaMag | covers Europe for @CBCNews | bylines all over
Italy Beigetreten Mart 2011
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My latest for @newrepublic, in which @jkenney says definitively he would leave an independent Alberta: newrepublic.com/article/206942… #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
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“What we’re looking at here is a radical conservative attempt to reshape American foreign relations,” Michael Williams, an expert on the radical right at the University of Ottawa, told me. “The West is a cultural and political entity, and its greatness … is being undermined by liberalism. So you need to find ways to attack liberalism in any way that you can.”
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Figures like Stephen Miller and Steve Bannon, who has explicitly compared Canada to Ukraine, see Canada as a bastion of decadent liberalism in the West that must be broken and subdued, one way or another. trib.al/iaQbcEJ
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“We knew the story of the international rules-based order was partially false. … That rules were enforced asymmetrically. And we knew that international law applied with varying rigour depending on the identity of the accused or the victim.”
— Mark Carney, PM of Canada
Gino Hard@GinoHard_
Did the Americans get away with too many men? 😬🫣
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@David_Moscrop I actually think Idlout abstaining in this vote is doing exactly what she should as a local MP: ensuring Nunavut's interests (Nukkiksautiit hydro) are protected without selling out her party's principled position (opposed). You could make the same case for Johns.
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The NDP passed the budget and they ought to own that, for better or for worse.
Stuart Benson@LeftHandStu
The Liberal’s budget appears to have passed thanks to two abstentions from NDP MP Gord Johns and Lori Idlout—the other five NDP MPs voted Nay—and a Yea vote from Green Party Leader Elizabeth May, with a final vote of 170 to 168.
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“Building a stage worthy of God is one of humankind’s most ancient obsessions. But in the West at least, it is a dying art.”
—@johnwlast
noemamag.com/the-vanishing-…
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Back in @NatGeo with an article that's been in the works for some time, about wolfdog hybrids and the dangers they present to owners and conservationists alike.
Read it here:
nationalgeographic.com/animals/articl…
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Once upon a time, “it went largely unquestioned that government experts, working for no one but the public, could help define the best products & practices in the marketplace,” @johnwlast writes.
What happened?
noemamag.com/the-good-socie…
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The Catholic Church has been undergoing a long, slow shift, playing out on the timescale of centuries: a shift to distance itself from the popular enthusiasms of its most devout parishioners.
Read @johnwlast on the tensions within sainthood: longnow.org/ideas/saints-w…
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@HumbleFlow There used to be a government department that did this kind of thing.
It was good for business, and good for consumers.
Republicans gutted it.
noemamag.com/the-good-socie…
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My grandpa has had the same washing machine since the 80s. It still works. He’s never had to replace it. Meanwhile, I have to buy a new one every five years.
It’s not just washing machines. It’s everything. Fridges, dishwashers, phones. We used to build things to last. Now we build things to sell.
If they don’t last, what’s the point?
I just want a washing machine that works for 40 years. Is that too much to ask?
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The "great" America MAGA traditionalists harken back to was built on the bones of this exact kind of government. So why are they trying now to tear it down? noemamag.com/the-good-socie…
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“For an administration that campaigned on making America ‘great again,’ there is remarkably little curiosity about what version of government, exactly, elicited such widespread acclaim.”
—@johnwlast
noemamag.com/the-good-socie…
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As Ottawa’s ties with Washington fray, the Commonwealth could be increasingly valuable for Canadian foreign policy, @johnwlast writes. foreignpolicy.com/2025/03/31/can…
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Saying the government should be run like a business lmfao
Raja Saqib@RajaSaqib0335
What’s a sign of very low intelligence?
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The CBC has provided vital coverage during the American attack on our sovereignty, really drilling down on, for example, questions around our military vulnerabilities. Getting rid of CBC now, during a sovereignty crisis, would be insane.
Stephen Taylor@stephen_taylor
Do you still support Pierre Poilievre’s plan to defund the Carney Broadcasting Corporation? The CBC has made Canada weak. It portrays us as a villainous country with sins that are irredeemable, whose history is without defense.
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Danielle Smith tiny box of shame
Doug Ford@fordnation
Team Canada is strong and united. Today, Prime Minister @MarkJCarney and Canada’s premiers agreed on the need to cut red tape and streamline approvals to get big things built faster, including unleashing the enormous economic potential of the Ring of Fire. The prime minister answered Ontario’s long-standing call and agreed to end needless duplication by recognizing provincial environmental assessment processes for nation-building projects. This will let us get shovels in the ground years sooner. Business as usual is over. Let’s get building.
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"If it could be proven that the church was built on the foundation of holy fungi, not only would figures like Allegro be vindicated — psychedelics, too, could no longer be considered so taboo."
John Last for @longnow: longreads.com/2025/03/11/is-…
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