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Chris Ives

@chrisives.bsky.social
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🇨🇦 Ex-twitterer, ex-navy, whiskey, craft beer, ex wine country now O-town, commentary and very random

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Chris Ives @chrisives.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
open.substack.com/pub/chrisive... It Won’t
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A Realist’s Guide to Canada’s Path in an Unhinged World
Or, It won't
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Chris Ives @chrisives.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
From sub 2 pounds, abandoned alone in a ditch, kennel cough, weird worms, gastrointestinal food and 3 months later he’s 6.5 pounds, purrs all the day and is a big floofy mush ball. Nori.
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Chris Ives @chrisives.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
Jays and Cowboys win!!
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Chris Ives @chrisives.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
"a bitter pill for a leader whose stark future relies on a a party now questioning whether populism has plowed its last prairie furrow." open.substack.com/pub/chrisive...
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BREAKING NEWS: Poilievre Stunned in Alberta Byelection as Protest Ballot Uprising Topples Tory Leader
The Prairie Sentinel | August 18, 2025 | BATTLE RIVER—CROWFOOT, ALBERTA
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Chris Ives @chrisives.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Could this White House chaos actually have a happy ending? 🎭 open.substack.com/pub/chrisive...
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Breaking News: Cabinet Invokes 25th Amendment in Unprecedented “MAGA Mutiny”
The Capitol Chronicle | December 15, 2025 | WASHINGTON D.C.
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Chris Ives @chrisives.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
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Red States Are Failing Their Children On Purpose
How red states buy voter ignorance
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Chris Ives @chrisives.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Tariffs. Retaliation. Collateral Damage. Repeat. open.substack.com/pub/chrisive...
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Tariffs. Retaliation. Collateral Damage. Repeat.
Tariffs are not really a new problem
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Chris Ives @chrisives.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
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Chris Ives @chrisives.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
Canada’s free trade gamble with the U.S. paid off for decades, until Trump turned our dependency into a weapon. With CUSMA rulings ignored and tariff threats looming, the system that built our prosperity now risks becoming our biggest vulnerability open.substack.com/pub/chrisive...
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Canada's Free Trade Bargain Turns Sour Under Trump
The trillion-dollar trade system that built Canada’s wealth is now its greatest risk
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Chris Ives @chrisives.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
Turns out the best way to negotiate with a human tornado isn’t to shout louder, it’s to document the storm. Carney’s genius move is treating Trump’s inconsistency as a feature rather than a bug. The ultimate power move is knowing unpredictability is predictable.
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Chris Ives @chrisives.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
The greatest magic trick that works every time...
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Why Does the Right Hate Immigrants So Much?
The Pledge, The Turn, and The Prestige Behind Political Scapegoating
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Chris Ives @chrisives.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
“Owner responsibility” … What the actual F. MAGA is without morals Dems need a plan
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
No lies told here.
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Chris Ives @chrisives.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
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No Holiday for Breaking News
Three Stories That Won’t Take a Day Off. Even If You Did
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Chris Ives @chrisives.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Nuclear capabilities destroyed ❌ Ceasefire successfully negotiated ❌ At least we got our first Presidential F Bomb
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Chris Ives @chrisives.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
So much for 2 weeks
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Chris Ives @chrisives.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
chrisives.substack.com/p/how-jacind... Her downfall wasn't due to policy failure; it was a victim of the right-wing playbook: exploit hardship, amplify division, weaponize disinformation, and attack competence as elitism. Carney, the ultimate global technocrat, is a prime target.
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How Jacinda Ardern Won the Pandemic and Lost Her Country
Competent leadership shouldn’t be this fragile. But in an age of disinformation and division, it is and Canada isn’t immune.
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Chris Ives @chrisives.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Bizarre. Is not the right word. Alarming is underwhelming. Unframeable. For one from the west to see people living and loving life while rockets fly overhead.
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Chris Ives @chrisives.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
open.substack.com/pub/chrisive... It’s getting real .. can Canada survive partisanship?
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The Partisan Poison Spreading Through Democracy And Canada's (Struggling) Antidote
Western democracies are losing their guardrails but Canada is holding on, for now.
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Chris Ives @chrisives.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
The 30% of Albertans who support separation is about the same % it’s always been. I’d bet 30 / 100 people in Nova Scotia or Quebec or Ontario would vote that way as well. The only difference is that Smith is the PM and fanning the flames.
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Chris Ives @chrisives.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
After decades of rust & procurement disasters, Carney promises to hit NATO’s 2%, dump 75% US defence spending, and buy EU jets. Canada’s gamble for sovereignty. Game-changer or grave risk? open.substack.com/pub/chrisive...
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Carney’s Defence Gambit: Can Canada Finally Fix It's Broken Military?
A promise of a spending shockwave, a divorce from U.S. arms deals, and a brutal admission of decay. Why this gamble could redefine or ruin Canadian defence
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Chris Ives @chrisives.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
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The Poilievre Paradox
Four weeks in, the Conservative leader’s numbers are bad. Is his party looking for an exit?
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Chris Ives @chrisives.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
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Carney’s Early Report Card
Just weeks into his tenure leading a Liberal minority, Mark Carney has kept pundits engaged, Pierre Poilievre’s opposition rhetoric consistent, and the hopes of many Canadians alive.
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Chris Ives @chrisives.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
open.substack.com/pub/chrisive... Is the Ring Of Fire worth it?
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Is Dougie trying to Trade Ontario's Future for the Ring of Fire?
As Trump’s tariffs loom and Ottawa watches closely, Bill 5 forces the question: Can Ontario win without sacrificing its soul?
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Chris Ives @chrisives.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Conservative pundits on day one of Parliament; Poilievre had a good day, evolving… Carney needs to hurry up… Attack … They have literally learned nothing.
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Chris Ives @chrisives.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
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Poilievre's Alberta Bailout: A Leader Digging His Own Grave?
What happens when a rejected leader tries to shortcut his way back to power? Alberta Conservatives might just help him to find out
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Chris Ives @chrisives.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
open.substack.com/pub/chrisive... History may judge this as Carney’s miracle or Poilievre’s miscalculation. But Canada remains a country where elections aren’t won in rallies, but in quiet spaces. The Liberals of 2025 proved democracy holds its breath, then exhales one vote at a time.
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57 Votes: A Whisper Away from Majority
How paper-thin margins in three ridings and Pierre Poilievre's stunning defeat wrote the history of Election 2025
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Chris Ives @chrisives.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
#DarkestTimes #CultOfTrump
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Chris Ives @chrisives.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Can’t seem to find the rage posts about election fraud after the official calls for Terra and Windsor. Hmmm
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Chris Ives @chrisives.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
🔥 Canada Post is bleeding and its own union might finish the job. Can CUPE save the postal service, or will it cling to demands that destroy it? #cdnpoli #canadapost open.substack.com/pub/chrisive...
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Canada Post Is Dying. The Union Must Choose: Adapt or Let It Collapse
Can labour and management strike a deal before it’s too late? And can the government stay out of it?
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Chris Ives @chrisives.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
The Unfinished Business of Canadian Prime Ministers open.substack.com/pub/chrisive...
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The Unfinished Business of Canadian Prime Ministers
Why this PM's plans face tougher tests than Trudeau's optimism or Harper's austerity ever did
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Chris Ives @chrisives.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
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The Two Most Powerful Phrases in Leadership
The Hollow Thanks
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Chris Ives @chrisives.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
open.substack.com/pub/chrisive... lie after lie to flood the zone, feeding a brainwashed base. The media, meanwhile, plays its usual role as mercenary enablers, cashing in on falsehoods for clicks and eyeballs, while an army of grifting tweeters and billionaire bros profit behind the scenes.
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The Velocity of Deception
How MAGA, billionaire bros, grifters and click baiters rewrote the rules and why truth can’t keep up
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Chris Ives @chrisives.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
This is MAGA. So proud of his tweet he pinned it.
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Chris Ives @chrisives.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
Scheffler down one for the day, Rahm charging, needed that birdie (5:15pm)
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Jordan Heath-Rawlings @jordanhr.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
Btw the key to winning money betting on sports is just to bet on the maple leafs doing the exact opposite of what their biggest, craziest fans expect them to do.
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Chris Ives @chrisives.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
open.substack.com/pub/chrisive... "Trump and now, sadly, Poilievre has brought the camera out of the backroom, saying the bad things out loud, courting the fringe and fighting for nations by winning half of one." hope isn’t dead it just needs the rest of us to speak up.
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Hope, Anger, and the Battle for the Middle
Why inspiration wanes and the fringe dominates the conversation.
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Chris Ives @chrisives.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Musk tags along with Trump to join the grift ..
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Chris Ives @chrisives.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
At Yalta, a dying FDR and fading Churchill handed Stalin the Cold War. Now, weak leadership risks repeating history. Power abhors a vacuum—and the world is watching. open.substack.com/pub/chrisive... #HistoryRepeats #Geopolitics"
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Chris Ives @chrisives.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Every comms revolution empowers the fringe first. Luther's pamphlets shattered Church control. Radio let Hitler bypass gatekeepers. Trump and social media have merged conspiracy theories with state power - influencers whisper in the White House open.substack.com/pub/chrisive...
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When Technology Rewrites the Rules of Power
History says societies adapt to chaos but this time, the fringe is in charge
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Chris Ives @chrisives.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Hot take; democratic social media personalities are just as bad as MAGA versions.. they just use different rhetoric. Neither version of grifting helps ..
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Chris Ives @chrisives.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Carney’s White House visit went as expected—calm, measured, no fireworks. The real surprise? Scheer’s not so surprising comeback as Conservative House Leader. Poilievre’s loss keeps giving. #cdnpoli open.substack.com/pub/chrisive...
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Carney and Trump Play It Safe
The PM’s White House visit delivered no surprises. The real surprise was the surprise over Andrew Scheer’s comeback as Conservative House Leader
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Chris Ives @chrisives.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
As Canada’s PM meets Trump to talk trade and who knows what else gets "negotiated" read why this isn’t America’s first rodeo with power-hungry presidents. #Democracy #TradeWar #ConstitutionalCrisis open.substack.com/pub/chrisive...
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Trump’s Authoritarian Playbook Isn’t Even Original
Why Trump’s Second Term Could Be the One That Finally Breaks America
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Chris Ives @chrisives.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
Imagine trying to build a factory when policy changes like the weather—and your workers are too busy calling storms ‘genius.’ New post on why Trump’s chaos isn’t 5D chess open.substack.com/pub/chrisive...
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Trump’s Chaos Is His Achilles Heel and MAGA’s Blind Loyalty Makes It Worse
When Chaos Isn't a Strategy: The Economic Toll of Trump's Unpredictability
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Chris Ives @chrisives.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
With Poilievre wounded, the NDP crushed, and voters exhausted, what's next for Canada? open.substack.com/pub/chrisive...
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After the Election, the Real Test Begins
With Poilievre Wounded, the NDP Crushed, and Voters Exhausted, What’s Next for Canada?
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Chris Ives @chrisives.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
What to the non-professional pundits say … here’s my take on Carney’s momentum and missed chances, Poilievre’s rebuke and the NDP collapse chrisives.substack.com/p/after-the-...
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After the Election, the Real Test Begins
With Poilievre Wounded, the NDP Crushed, and Voters Exhausted, What’s Next for Canada?
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Chris Ives @chrisives.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Fanjoy graphic has got liberal fans giddy lol
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Clare Blackwood @clareblackwood.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Pierre Poilievre's Personal Assistant Reads His Concession Speech youtu.be/X-OU8eW2Dl0
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Pierre Poilievre's Personal Assistant Reads His Concession Speech
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Chris Ives @chrisives.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Early hot take; NDP vote in Atlantic split Bloc broke for the Liberals to seal the deal. Majority within reach but too close to call. BC will get their wish and will have the final say. Coyne; “[Carney] was enough change for enough people”
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Chris Ives @chrisives.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
NDP vote splitting Bloc broke for the Liberals 🇨🇦 just hasn’t seen a two party election since I don’t know when
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