craigscottca.bsky.social @craigscottca.bsky.social · 16/06/2025FYI, open.substack.com/pub/engageme...open.substack.comTrusting democracy by amending federal Bill C-5 (Part 1)Today we talk about the democratic principles at stake when Parliament reviews Bill C-5. On Wednesday we will explore possible amendments. 000
craigscottca.bsky.social @craigscottca.bsky.social · 15/06/2025For those who don’t subscribe to Haaretz newspaper, this link may be behind a paywall but try it anyway in case the editors decided to make this one available to all. It is an important read from an Iranian writing in the leading sane and humanist newspaper in Israel www.haaretz.com/opinion/2025...haaretz.comNetanyahu and Khamenei want this war. Yet Iranians and Israelis have no reason to fight | Opinion*** 020
craigscottca.bsky.social @craigscottca.bsky.social · 04/06/2025The focus this week of the Pledge for Canada's website/newsletter is the criteria for nation-building major projects. Today's is "Investing in people and in social goods: smart and moral economics for PM Carney's 'major projects' push" engagementcanadapledge.substack.com/p/investing-...engagementcanadapledge.substack.comInvesting in people and in social goods: smart and moral economics for PM Carney's "major projects" pushThe first ministers have called for "dual use" projects in the North and Arctic. Why should this notion not be put at the centre of the discussion of all nation-building and major projects? 000
craigscottca.bsky.social @craigscottca.bsky.social · 18/04/2025Posted today, the final newsletter from the Pledge for Canada until after the election on April 28. Featuring pieces by Substack contributors Rachel Gilmore, Dan Gardner, Robert Reich, Shannon Litzenberger, and Timothy Snyder… open.substack.com/pub/engageme...open.substack.comAn election of great consequenceUne élection d'une grande importance 111
craigscottca.bsky.social @craigscottca.bsky.social · 25/03/2025On the efforts of the Premier of Alberta to court Trump’s election interference, an article I have written fyi: open.substack.com/pub/craigmar...open.substack.comOn Premier Smith’s courting of election influencing from Trump: a question first of morality but also of criminal lawThe Chief Electoral Officer of Canada denies she engaged in any wrongdoing under the Canada Elections Act. It is a different matter under the Foreign Interference and Security of Information Act. 000
craigscottca.bsky.social @craigscottca.bsky.social · 23/03/2025A newsletter for the Pledge for Canada went out early this morning, FYI. engagementcanadapledge.substack.com/p/canadians-...engagementcanadapledge.substack.comCanadians contemplate our future as the US goes further and further off the railsLes Canadiens s'interrogent sur leur avenir alors que les États-Unis dérapent de plus en plus. 010
craigscottca.bsky.social @craigscottca.bsky.social · 20/03/2025Just posted, “An Age of Authoritarianism and Aggression,” which you can click to read below. The lead image is of a draft Executive Order circulating in the US administration. It would have Trump designate fentanyl as a Weapon of Mass Destruction. substack.com/home/post/p-...substack.comAn Age of Authoritarianism and AggressionWMD enters the US-Canada equation; introducing a series of notes on our crisis times 101
Reposted by @craigscottca.bsky.socialJameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 20/03/2025This is *tens of thousands* of warrantless searches every year by border agents who have essentially unfettered discretion to decide who enters and who doesn’t. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/w... 33314
craigscottca.bsky.social @craigscottca.bsky.social · 11/03/2025Please consider adding your views to the discussion on « Canada’s Future » on the Substack site of the Pledge for Canada. open.substack.com/pub/engageme...open.substack.comCANADA'S FUTUREL'AVENIR DU CANADA 000
craigscottca.bsky.social @craigscottca.bsky.social · 03/03/2025Koolaid. Colour: Rubio red. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/02/u...nytimes.comRubio Attacks Zelensky, Firmly Defending Trump and VanceFacing a wave of criticism from his former Senate colleagues, Secretary of State Marco Rubio backed the complaints lobbed by President Trump and Vice President JD Vance against Ukraine’s leader. 010
craigscottca.bsky.social @craigscottca.bsky.social · 03/03/2025Transcript of Trump outburst during meeting with Zelenskyy at the White House. Draw your own conclusions. 000
craigscottca.bsky.social @craigscottca.bsky.social · 01/03/2025Highly recommend from Tim Snyder today: substack.com/home/post/p-...substack.comThe War Trump ChoosesThat wasn't Trump against Zelens'kyi. It was Americans against reason 000
craigscottca.bsky.social @craigscottca.bsky.social · 01/03/2025Reading the ruins of history for the world's future under Trump: A reflection on Trump's public assault on Ukraine's Zelenskyy, February 2025, in light of Hitler's tirade against Austria's von Schuschnigg, February 1938 substack.com/home/post/p-...substack.comReading the ruins of history for the world's future under TrumpA reflection on Trump's public assault on Ukraine's Zelenskyy, February 2025, in light of Hitler's tirade against Austria's von Schuschnigg, February 1938 010
craigscottca.bsky.social @craigscottca.bsky.social · 28/02/2025Michael Ignatieff has recently come to Substack: substack.com/@michaeligna... This is a terrific development at the moment in which we -- Canadians, the world -- find ourselves. Spread the word, follow, subscribe and recommend. 000
craigscottca.bsky.social @craigscottca.bsky.social · 27/02/2025www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... The needle on my OAHFA-meter (Optimism and Hope for America) just spiked as I was reading this Guardian report. Savvy digital resistance that could blossom into wider societal capacity and coordination.theguardian.com#AltGov: the secret network of federal workers resisting Doge from the insideGovernment employees fight the Trump administration’s chaos by organizing and publishing information on Bluesky 020
craigscottca.bsky.social @craigscottca.bsky.social · 25/02/2025engagementcanadapledge.substack.com/p/rememberin...engagementcanadapledge.substack.comRemembering when US-Canada cooperation was key to winning a global war against fascism and aggressionSe souvenir de l'époque où la coopération entre les États-Unis et le Canada était essentielle pour gagner une guerre mondiale contre le fascisme et l'agression 010
craigscottca.bsky.social @craigscottca.bsky.social · 25/02/2025substack.com/home/post/p-...substack.comA brief detour to remember another age of fighting fascism and aggressionOn the lessons of Roosevelt Campobello International Park for the Trump and Putin epoch 000
Reposted by @craigscottca.bsky.socialJustin Ling @justinling.ca · 21/02/2025MAGA is trying to destroy Keith Kellogg — the White House's own pick for Ukrainian envoy — for being too pro-Ukrainian. www.politico.com/news/2025/02...politico.comMAGA takes aim at the Republican hawksTrump loyalists are sending a message to the GOP’s foreign policy traditionalists. 24713
craigscottca.bsky.social @craigscottca.bsky.social · 21/02/2025Big Lies + Psychopathic leaders + Despotic drives = Dark Ages ahead. Keeping the light depends on people waking up and resistance — allied with folks and leaders around the world. @charlieangus104.bsky.social substack.com/@craigmartin...substack.comCraig Scott on SubstackIt is time for us all to truly become familiar with two definitions as we watch the grotesque mafioso behaviour of Trump, Musk and their morally bankrupt minions towards Ukraine and its President — an... 000
craigscottca.bsky.social @craigscottca.bsky.social · 21/02/2025A four-minute video from Member of Parliament Charlie Angus with messages to Governor of Texas and Trump. Video is embedded as YouTube four-minute clip in this Pledge for Canada post: engagementcanadapledge.substack.com/.../charlie... You can watch it direct without going to YouTube. 012
Reposted by @craigscottca.bsky.socialRepublicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 16/02/2025Canadian MP Charlie Angus: “We will never, ever, ever, kiss the ring of that gangster from Mar-A-Lago." 1784633942
craigscottca.bsky.social @craigscottca.bsky.social · 20/02/2025It gets more and more disgusting every day. The Trump reality is pretty much as feared, but worse than I could have imagined in detail. My thoughts on the the headspace we need to be in: substack.com/home/post/p-...substack.comFrom Trump's Napoleonic spasm on 'Truth' Social to the Despot PrincipleHow should we invoke history, including that of Nazi Germany, when trying to get our minds around the threat represented by a United States driven by the likes of Trump, Vance and Musk? 010
craigscottca.bsky.social @craigscottca.bsky.social · 20/02/2025Consider reading American Pulse americanpulse.substack.com?r=pxhfy&utm_...americanpulse.substack.comAmerican Pulse | SubstackThe unvarnished truth about Donald Trump, Big Business, Big Media. Click to read American Pulse, a Substack publication with hundreds of subscribers. 010
craigscottca.bsky.social @craigscottca.bsky.social · 19/02/2025Laughing even when it hurts. Geopolitical satire and cartoon commentary will sharpen our awareness like little else. @zezvaz.bsky.social's Tiananmen Man Stopping Tesla Cybertruck Tanks deserves to go viral (maybe it has, and I am late to the party!). 120
craigscottca.bsky.social @craigscottca.bsky.social · 19/02/2025What is happening via the Trump, Musk, Vance trio (add in as many support players like Rubio) is far from a laughing matter. But we need to laugh even if it is as schadenfreude. See: Tesla Cybertruck spinning in the Montreal snow: www.youtube.com/watch?v=VrKC... Poetic justice. Small victories. Etc.youtube.comTesla Cybertruck stuck in snow in MontrealYouTube video by Trafic Moldova 022
craigscottca.bsky.social @craigscottca.bsky.social · 19/02/2025Please, please read this post from Charlie Angus at a NATO meeting in Brussels, about Europe waking up to the Trump, Musk, Vance global threat: open.substack.com/pub/craigmar...open.substack.comAt NATO meeting in Brussels, Charlie Angus, MP, speaks out against the United States' conductThis is a post on "Charlie Angus / The Resistance." We need this kind of pushing back against timidity and complacency that Charlie showed when taking the floor at a NATO parliamentarians meeting. 020
Reposted by @craigscottca.bsky.socialElizabeth Thompson @lizt1.bsky.social · 15/02/2025A timely post from Ontario's College of Physicians and Surgeons, letting American board-certified doctors know that it might be easier than they realize to practice in Ontario. Wonder how many U.S. doctors would be interested in moving to Canada? dialogue.cpso.on.ca/articles/rem...dialogue.cpso.on.caReminder: American Board-Certified Doctors Exempt from CFPC/RCPSC Certification | Dialogue - CPSO's Publication for Ontario Doctors 03211
craigscottca.bsky.social @craigscottca.bsky.social · 16/02/2025On Flag Day, Alex Himelfarb distills the stakes for the US and for Canada—and indeed the world beyond whose democracies will be polluted by what Trump and an oligarch gang are doing. The attached passage goes to the heart of what this moment demands of us. afhimelfarb.wordpress.com/2025/02/15/t... 010
craigscottca.bsky.social @craigscottca.bsky.social · 15/02/2025Louise Penny cancels appearance at Kennedy Centre after Trump takes it over. Encouraging to see high-profile figures take concrete action in solidarity w/ both Americans watching Trump gut their democracy and Canadians dealing with his threats. #canadapledge www.cbc.ca/news/enterta...cbc.caDonald Trump and the Kennedy Center controversy, explained | CBC NewsCanadian author Louise Penny has joined the growing list of people from the arts and culture communities to cancel events or dissociate themselves from the Kennedy Center, after U.S. President Donald ... 182
craigscottca.bsky.social @craigscottca.bsky.social · 15/02/2025The “Come From Away” cast on stage for Flag Day in Toronto, singing opening piece from their musical, which narrates and celebrates how the people of Gander, Newfoundland, took in planeload after planeload on 9/11. Just a small reminder to our American cousins what being good neighbours means. 011
Reposted by @craigscottca.bsky.socialJustin Ling @justinling.ca · 15/02/2025In its constant effort to show strength, the Trump administration has cemented itself into a completely incoherent position. It wants the EU to manage security guarantees, but won't let them into talks? 56914
craigscottca.bsky.social @craigscottca.bsky.social · 13/02/2025One and half minute video from Canadian Heritage — The Flag That Unites Us youtu.be/iq2AooGZPw4 Pass it along.youtu.beThe Flag That Unites UsYouTube video by Canadian Heritage 000
craigscottca.bsky.social @craigscottca.bsky.social · 13/02/2025WTF? Ford calls for death penalty’s return— and does it is at a police service gala. WTF. Reveals inner Trumpist instincts his handlers have worked so hard to hide. Also, recall him telling folks he was happy Trump won — when he already knew what Trump stood for. www.thestar.com/politics/pro...thestar.comRecording reveals Doug Ford calling for return of death penalty in campaign speech: ‘Send ‘em right to sparky’Ontario Progressive Conservative leader called for changes in the federal Criminal Code that would empower judges to "send 'em right to sparky." 011
craigscottca.bsky.social @craigscottca.bsky.social · 11/02/2025Citizens’ Lab team explains why the Hogue commission left a massive gap in our understanding of transnational digital repression. They explain why things are getting worse with the Big Tech Bros and why a new commission is urgently needed. www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...theglobeandmail.comOpinion: The final Hogue report was a missed opportunity to tackle transnational repressionCanada’s commission on foreign interference did not adequately address the problems faced by diaspora communities 000
craigscottca.bsky.social @craigscottca.bsky.social · 10/02/2025Today the Toronto Star published an opinion editorial from the Launch Committee for the Pledge for Canada / Engagement pour le Canada that : www.thestar.com/opinion/cont... Please consider adding your support to the nearly 60,000 already having signed at canadapledge.ca #canadapledgethestar.comCanadians need to resist Trump’s bullying and intimidation. Here’s howThe Pledge for Canada is a commitment to a strong, unified response to an emerging threat. 021
craigscottca.bsky.social @craigscottca.bsky.social · 10/02/2025This mix of incompetence, callousness and system-wide inanity from Air Canada is stunning. And what would we know without CBC’s Go Public? www.cbc.ca/news/gopubli...cbc.caSafety concerns raised after Air Canada had no record these passengers were on its flights | CBC NewsGo Public heard from six people on four different flights who had their return tickets cancelled after Air Canada incorrectly deemed them “no-shows” on earlier flights, requiring them to buy new ticke... 000
craigscottca.bsky.social @craigscottca.bsky.social · 09/02/2025Canadians axing US vacations en masse is having an effect south of the border: www.thetravel.com/us-travel-as...thetravel.comU.S. Travel Association Warns of Economic Tourism Disaster After Thousands of Canadian Tourists Cancel Trips in ProtestWhile Proposed Tariffs Against Canada Are Now Paused, Canadian Travel Agencies Already Witnessing Retaliation in Form of Canceled Trips 000
craigscottca.bsky.social @craigscottca.bsky.social · 06/02/2025I’ve done a post that is, broadly speaking, about the global moment we are in, connecting Canada’s situation with Trump/the US to the #ManifestDestiny plans #Trump and #Netanyahu have for #Gaza. It is on Substack (no account needed to read) here: open.substack.com/pub/craigmar... 021
craigscottca.bsky.social @craigscottca.bsky.social · 06/02/2025What Trump, and the Americans who elected and now enable him, hath wrought. At whatever point Trump, Musk and their vandal hordes are with marauding or dance-to-my-tune yanks of the chain — even in what feels like lulls — Cdns are not going back to complacency. vancouversun.com/news/opinion...vancouversun.comOpinion: Farewell to my American friends. It's over.Pete McMartin: Where there was once admiration, there is now a firm and angry resolve. Read more. 000
craigscottca.bsky.social @craigscottca.bsky.social · 04/02/2025Don’t for a moment think Trump has gone away. Threats, chaos, pulling back with a ‘win’, this could well be a pattern. But there will also be path-dependent pathways that he later will go down once he sees what divisions he has created and can exploit. engagement-canada-pledge.ca #canadapledge 100
craigscottca.bsky.social @craigscottca.bsky.social · 04/02/2025“What is motivating Trump’s reckless trade war?” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...theguardian.comWhat is motivating Trump’s reckless trade war? | Robert ReichThe point is to show the world – not just Canada and Mexico – that he’s willing to mete out big punishments 101
craigscottca.bsky.social @craigscottca.bsky.social · 02/02/202525,000 Canadians have already signed the Pledge for Canada #CanadaPledge. Trump must be faced with Canadians’ fierce resolve and support for our governments coming together to respond fiercely not just to immediate tariff coercion but to Trump’s annexation fantasies. engagement-canada-pledge.ca 034
craigscottca.bsky.social @craigscottca.bsky.social · 01/02/2025February 1, 2025, 12:01 am - The Pledge for Canada / Engagement pour le Canada reached 10,145 signatures on Day 1 (between the 10:30 am launch and midnight). Many thanks to everyone across the country joining in support. #CanadaPledge / #EngagementCanada See engagement-canada-pledge.caengagement-canada-pledge.caPledge for Canada | Engagement pour le Canada 132
craigscottca.bsky.social @craigscottca.bsky.social · 01/02/2025Today the Pledge for Canada / Engagement pour le Canada launched, w/ 80+ lead signatories. Have a look and please join in support by signing the pledge: engagement-canada-pledge.ca We're at 9990 signatures in ENG, FR and w/ lead sigs. Help make Day 1, 10,000+! #CanadaPledge #EngagementCanadaengagement-canada-pledge.caPledge for Canada | Engagement pour le Canada 041
Reposted by @craigscottca.bsky.socialchristoaivalis.bsky.social @christoaivalis.bsky.social · 28/01/2025Our electoral system is poised to give Poilievre absolute power with 35-40% of the vote It doesn't have to be this way. That's why the NDP has to fulfill the broken Liberal electoral reform promise canadiandimension.com/articles/vie...canadiandimension.comThe NDP must fulfill Justin Trudeau’s broken promise on electoral reformWhile Justin Trudeau abandoned his commitment to electoral reform all the way back in 2017, the issue has endured because Canadians understand that our voting system fails to accurately represent the ... 194
craigscottca.bsky.social @craigscottca.bsky.social · 20/01/2025Trump releases $Trump coin weekend b4 back in office. He + his family are shameless grifters who will milk the recaptured presidency for creation of personal wealth: see extract 1 from this NYT report on how Trump ties his political win to driving billions his way. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/19/u... 100
craigscottca.bsky.social @craigscottca.bsky.social · 17/01/2025In less than 24 hrs Wed/Th, Canada's sitting governments got their act together regarding the US threat, in quite heartening fashion. On LinkedIn - www.linkedin.com/pulse/les-ch... - or on Substack - substack.com/@craigmartin... - you can find an overview and a little comment from me.linkedin.comLes choses bougent, very much for the betterOn Monday, I urged consideration of a Canadian unity Cabinet, including the need for a new (interim) Prime Minister if a grand coalition at the level of federal political governance was to have any ch... 120
craigscottca.bsky.social @craigscottca.bsky.social · 16/01/2025David Brooks on how American political and wider culture deserves what it gives and gets in return. Hegseth is not qualified on so many more dimensions than what most Dems focused on and Dems showing themselves so incurious on global threats as to be irresponsible. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/15/o...nytimes.comOpinion | Pete Hegseth Is the Secretary of Defense We DeserveIf you thought the former TV host would be asked important questions at the confirmation hearings this week, you must be living under the illusion that we live in a serious country. 231
craigscottca.bsky.social @craigscottca.bsky.social · 15/01/2025Stumbled on this Justin Ling essay weaving historical threads together on dragphobia and (soi-disant democratic-state) policing crackdowns. Engaging, clever, alert to the circles of history, recommended. www.bugeyedandshameless.com/p/a-short-hi...bugeyedandshameless.comA Short History of the Drag PoliceRon DeSantis joins an odious gallery of anti-drag tyrants. 000