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Out this week. The history you never learned in school; the argument you never thought you’d make
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Doug Saunders
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Doug Saunders
@DougSaunders
International-Affairs Columnist, The Globe and Mail. Richard von Weizsäcker Fellow at the Robert Bosch Academy. Author of Arrival City, Maximum Canada, etc.
Toronto, Canada Katılım Mart 2009
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Resource-curse money! Now it’s a terrific hotel
Lindsay Ripplinger@songbirdpublish
These dudes had WAY too much money. #Montreal
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@jerryzeez @stustin @100MCanada Tustin is a true rocker, regardless of the statutory nature of his citizenship.
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Canadian citizen = British subject until 1977. There has always been the idea among “upper class” that Canada should be an agrarian and natural resource colony of Britain. That has kept us small population-wise and economically.
Maximum Canada, page 102
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Half the expert replies to this mention great improvements in schooling, literacy, engagement etc; the other half great reductions in exposure to nasty elements and substances, increased vaccination etc.
So don’t elect leaders who threaten both things! They’ll dement you.
Nicolas Badre@BadreNicolas
The odds of having dementia at age 85 were close to 1 in 3 in the 80s; now they are 1 in 10. I don’t think we have a great explanation: better cardiovascular health, diet, and education are often mentioned. Good news nonetheless. Carnall Farrar. (2025, March 27). Dementia trends.
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@LucianoNocente @mepsmith Absolutely. Parliamentary government is repeatedly proven to be more stable and effective than separate executive government. But it works when the people elect their representatives, who then choose a PM from among their ranks. Handing that off to party members is undemocratic
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@DougSaunders @mepsmith Doesn't it beat the US system, where the president is treated as a king?
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@mepsmith My feeling is that they need to make it strictly MPs who pick PMs — a lot of the chaos has come from tension between leaders chosen by party membership and actual aspirations/needs of elected caucus. Stick to caucus — they have legitimacy. Canadian parties could learn the same.
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@DougSaunders His replacement will be the 6th prime minister in 10 years. At some point they need to reckon with how out of control the caucus revolt system has become
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@InsiderTakes @100MCanada Elite middle-class immigrants will come. We’ll get those when catchup begins. The problem is that the housing crisis is THE voter concern today. It won’t be solved until we can get 100s of 1000s of trades and labourers/yr — and public opinion says they need to be permanent
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@InsiderTakes @100MCanada The momentary downturn in popularity was entirely about TFWs, Harper+Kenney’s wrongheaded solution to the problem of overskilled immigrants (continued by Trudeau). Challenge ahead will be attracting much larger numbers of non-professional permanents to solve housing crisis
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So you're telling me that cutting tariffs leads to lower prices?
Fascinating.
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@InsiderTakes @100MCanada (The failure of the “decline of the Laurentjan elites” hypothesis of the early 2010s, rendered false by Canada’s demographics and its high education rate and manifested in 15 years of popular politics, is a story that needs to be told in greater detail)
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@InsiderTakes @100MCanada Luckily those Laurentian elites make up more than 60% of the Canadian population, a proportion that’s growing, and the need for growth toward sustainable population is baked into the political mainstream. After the current emergency ends, we’ll hit 60 in ~2060 and 100 by 2090.
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@DougSaunders @100MCanada Thanks, Doug. I guess I'll postpone my move to Nottingham Hill.
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@stustin @100MCanada Until 1977, in theory we sort of did, but not really. We can still vote in British elections, but so can all members of the commonwealth if they’re residents of the UK.
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@100MCanada @DougSaunders So, many of us should, legitimately, have automatic dual citizenship? 🤔🙃
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Doug Saunders retweetledi
This is the first book I’m reading on what author Doug Saunders calls the five minimalizing issues that have kept Canada underpopulated relative to our geographic size. Please check it out. More book recommendations to come.
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@DougSaunders The Canary Islands have been renamed Nebraska Atlantic and claimed by the USA as the 52nd state.
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An excellent photo of the Hantavirus victims finally departing their cruise ship and landing in… does that say Nebraska? What part of Nebraska is that tugboat landing in? Is there something I don’t know about Nebraska?
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I can confirm, from my recent time in Riyadh, that this is a consensus view among Saudi elites.
Arnaud Bertrand@RnaudBertrand
This (arabnews.com/node/2642938) is, by any measure, an extraordinary article: Prince Turki Al-Faisal is a son of King Faisal and ran Saudi intelligence (the GID) for over two decades. He is writing that the plan of "the US-Israeli war on Iran" was "to ignite war between us [Saudi Arabia] and Iran," so that Israel could "impose its will on the region and remained the only actor in our surroundings." This further confirms that, contrary to what many have asserted, the notion that the Saudis were quietly backing the war on Iran was a myth (alongside the recent fact the Saudis denied the U.S. access to its bases and airspace: x.com/RnaudBertrand/…). From the horse's mouth they're literally saying it was as much a war on them as it was on Iran! Pretty crazy when you think about it: this is Saudi Arabia saying that their real enemy in this war was the U.S. and Israel. Hard to overstate how significant a rupture this represents. Now of course they could be saying so because, seeing how the war turned out, they're trying to retroactively position themselves on the winning side (at least strategically, by saying they didn't take the bait), or trying to justify domestically why they absorbed hits from Iran without retaliating. And, of course, it's not like they're presenting Iran as some sort of ally here: Prince Turki explicitly calls them a "neighbor" that caused "pains." But still, the end result remains: the Saudi establishment is now committing, on the record and in plain language, to a framing in which, while Iran is a "painful neighbor", the U.S. and Israel represent the deeper strategic threat, having tried to engineer their destruction. If you had any lingering doubt that this war accelerated the collapse of U.S. influence in the region, this should settle it.
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