@JefferyPetts Don't give them credibility by calling them old right. They are middle right at earliest.
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Matthew Standish
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This. Is. Not. Sustainable.
I know a lot of people really don't want a CPC leadership race because it might enable fake conservatives and the old right to dominate the field and cause fractures in the movement, but come on guys, you can't fear hypotheticals more than reality...
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(Models Available For Subscribers) Federal Polling: LPC: 46% (+2) CPC: 36% (-5) NDP: 8% (+2) BQ: 6% (-) GPC: 3% (+2) PPC: 1% (-) Abacus / May 6, 2026 / n=2284 / Online (% Change w 2025 Federal Election) Visit @338Canada for polling details: 338canada.com
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@ClarkeMicah @PaulEmbery It's similar in Canada where even so called conservatives often think the problem began with Trudeau the Younger.
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2/2 .@paulembery ...likewise, those living in Modern Britain, when they ask why the country is such a constitutional, legal and educational disaster, should be told: 'Because you voted for Blair in 1997 and for Cameron in 2010'. Most will have done one or the other. Many will have done both.
Paul Embery@PaulEmbery
A student from India who does not hold British citizenship and is here on a temporary visa has just been elected to the Scottish parliament to serve a four-year term (salary £80,000 per year). How in God’s name can something like this be allowed to happen? Our democracy is sick.
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@FortySacks I decided about 2 or 3 years ago to stop avoiding considering myself an Anglo-Canadian. In reality I have, since I was about 8, but just get over that final hurdle and just not care about what anyone might think of it.
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Les “anglophones” sont à peu près aussi anglo-canadiens que les Maghrébins qui parlent français, brandissent des drapeaux marocains ou algériens et allument des feux sur les marches de l’Oratoire Saint Joseph sont “français”. Les anglophones ne peuvent pas devenir “anglais”, et les Anglo-Canadiens eux-mêmes préfèrent le terme “anglo-canadien”.
pwopwo@pwopwo1
@FortySacks Non. Pas pour remplacer les Anglais. Au contraire. Les immigrants deviennent anglais à Montréal, Laval et Gatineau.
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@RedCrow1534 @9Kings1910 That particular column has always stuck with me. Luckily I had saved it years ago as I can no longer find it online.
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@mrwstandy @9Kings1910 I was thinking about David Warren the other day. I spent a night drinking with him in the early’90s in Halifax, and subsequently watched a Leafs playoffs run at The Idler pub on Davenport Ave. He had a handsome limestone house in Kingston, near the Princess of Wales Own Regiment.
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I’m sorry if I’ve alienated any relatively moderate monarchists. It’s just getting increasingly unbearable for me that so many vermin who don’t deserve it were born in the United Kingdom and I wasn’t. I don’t like my life very much & I want to take out all my rage on republicans.
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@RedCrow1534 @9Kings1910 That is terrific. He seems like a great person to drink with. I really enjoyed his writing; he shaped a lot of my opinions in my mid teens which was two decades ago now. Time is strange.
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@RedCrow1534 @9Kings1910 I suppose it was the Citizenship Act of '77. Either way, solidly between my dad's birth and mine. 🫤
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@mrwstandy @9Kings1910 The Crown of Canada became sovereign and independent of the UK with the Statute of Westminster 1931. Patriation of the Constitution in 1982 did not effect any changes on the Crown in Canada.
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@Simon_Nixon @_paullay A few more than four. I can think of at least five off the top of my head.
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@_paullay Maybe you should educate yourself that the United Kingdom consists of four distinct counties and then you might not be so surprised that the arrogant nativist Brexit expression of English chauvinism has (once again) fuelled division and instability on these island
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This was always the likely outcome of Brexit, a hugely destructive expression of mindless, aggressive English nationalism
Michelle O’Neill@moneillsf
I have contacted SNP leader John Swinney and Plaid Cymru leader Rhun ap Iorwerth to congratulate them on their enormous mandates. For the first time ever, there could be three pro-independence First Ministers across these islands. More and more people are looking towards a future beyond the constraints of the Union. I look forward to continuing to build the friendship between the people of our nations, and to working closely with both John and Rhun in the time ahead.
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@9Kings1910 So it's a term we all agree on. Good.
It's been hard to pin them down the last few decades.
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@mrwstandy They embrace it. There is an actual magazine in the U.S. called “Jacobin”whose editor in 2020 openly defended the murder of the Romanov children. (I am proud to be Blocked by him.)
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@9Kings1910 Thinking about it, I'd like to revive "Jacobin" as the adjective.
More precise.
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@9Kings1910 I'd avoid the subhuman comment, but it is very frustrating.
Every single one of my fathers was born a subject of the English/British crown since 1066, yet because I was born after 82 I am the first in my line to not.
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@9Kings1910 It's different though.
I shared this a few weeks ago and more or less sums up my position:
@matthewstandish/note/p-194088065?r=232vak" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">substack.com/@matthewstandi…
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@mrwstandy There is nothing wrong with having been born under the Canadian crown. 🇨🇦 Especially compared to the USA…
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@9Kings1910 "So do all who live to see such times, but that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us."
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@9Kings1910 A practical suggestion would be to start making short easy to digest content on this, on historical stories.
I've thought about it but I kind of loath trying to make content
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@9Kings1910 I think the angle that needs to be taken is to share again the story from our perspective, how our ordered liberty is protected by our King-in-Parliament.
That we had more order and more liberty before this backdoor republicanism.
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It's profoundly depressing to me that there is this whole growing culture of slopulist "right-wing" ideology that has nothing but contempt for Royalty, and not only in the USA. Count me out of this kind of "Right."
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@JefferyPetts Did Erskine-Smith already resign his seat or is he going to stick around now?
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I am happy that hyper progressive ideological beliefs were defeated in Scarborough but I am definitely not happy diaspora politicking is what beat it.
Everything about the OLP race in Scarborough was an embarrassment to Toronto
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@9Kings1910 "We must be very careful not to assign to this deliverance attributes of a victory."
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One can oppose Nazism and still see that collectively the two World Wars were ultimately a defeat for Civilisation. I see nothing to celebrate.
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@Smileyyeg Must be their vaunted medicinal tradition.
100% health rate.
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Another learning that Canada seems to be taking from Indigenous peoples, though not one that they practice currently.
🇨🇦 RitaLouise@PBlood64
@Smileyyeg Weren’t old and sick people sent out on ice flows to die?
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@Albrochier Well, the boomers seemed to have less kids for some reason. Easier to import I guess.
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If Western nations had a post WW2 baby boom, then why did they also need mass migration to "rebuild the country"?
Something doesn't add up and I'm starting to strongly doubt that it was actually true.
It was all a moral project, disguised as pragmatism.
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@FortySacks @alexbrown17 @canstrongfree @WDiminishment Fair point. But Mr Trudeau was in power ~30 years before Mr Harper 😉
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@alexbrown17 @canstrongfree @WDiminishment Harper let in 2 million foreigners from China, India and the Philippines in that order. He was criticized in his time for not curving abuses of the TFW program and was entirely a precursor to Trudeau era mass immigration.
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Want to help Canada’s youth? Fix immigration. Everything else is fiddling at the margins.
@canstrongfree @WDiminishment
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@AtheistTakes Animals do believe in God, though.
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