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Jon Shell @jonshell.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
My article in @thestar.com argues that Carney's middle power pitch is about breaking the chokepoints controlled by the U.S. and China that hold everyone else's economy down. It's a middle power revolt against the hegemons' monopoly strategy. www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
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Mark Carney is uniting the world’s middle powers. Here’s what comes next
When monopoly is defeated, sovereignty, freedom and growth are a result
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Jon Shell @jonshell.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Our show Gloves Off with @stephenmarche.bsky.social is climbing the podcast charts. Why? Season 2 is all about winning: Trade, tech, defense, alliances, economy. Canadians want to fight, and we tried to show the ways we can win. We all left the season more optimistic, and I think you will too.
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The Energy Mix @theenergymix.com · 21/08/2026
You'll want to dive into this feature interview with Social Capital Partners' Jon Shell as he talks about who owns the Canadian economy, digital sovereignty, and working on inequality as a way of working on climate change. @jonshell.bsky.social www.theenergymix.com/qa-climate-a...
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Q&A: Climate Action, Community Resilience Begin with Who Owns Our Economy, Jon Shell Says
Canadians won’t be able to respond to climate change without taking control of our own economy and confronting inequality, Social Capital Partners Jon Shell says in a feature interview.
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Jon Shell @jonshell.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
The European football association with a remarkable condemnation of financialized capitalism. "Football’s future cannot be dictated by the expectations of those whose first duty is to maximise financial return." Read it in full. www.uefa.com/news-media/n...
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Statement on behalf of UEFA and its 55 national associations
UEFA and its national associations will not participate in FIFA competitions.
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Jon Shell @jonshell.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Defense strategy must be a middle power resilience strategy - and it can be. That's my main learning from Gloves Off Ep. 5. Me, Stephen Marche and Vasiliki (Vass) Bednar work through it on the Cross Check aftershow. lnkd.in/gPtqnng5
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Jon Shell @jonshell.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Now that trade is political, there's no path to a stable new free trade agreement with the U.S. that will encourage investment in Canada. No investor will believe in the long-term security of U.S. market access. So, if nostalgia isn't a strategy, what's next? www.youtube.com/shorts/edBGF...
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The Stable Canada–U.S. Trade Deal Is Over
YouTube video by Gloves Off with Stephen Marche
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Jon Shell @jonshell.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
We mapped the agreements Canada has signed since @mark-carney.bsky.social took office. It's interactive and will be updated as new ones come in. Partnership between @canadianshieldinstitute.ca, @scpartners.bsky.social and the Gloves Off podcast. Check it out. variablegeometry.ca
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Tracking Variable Geometry
An interactive global map of Canada's recent international agreements, updated live.
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The Canadian Shield Institute @canadianshieldinstitute.ca · 02/07/2026
Each week Shield Managing Director @vassb.bsky.social is also sitting down with Gloves Off host Stephen Marche and SCP's @jonshell.bsky.social to have a free-flowing conversation about Canadian sovereignty, and our strategy. Watch Cross Check Ep. 1 here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=arQG...
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Cross Check: The Rupture
YouTube video by Gloves Off with Stephen Marche
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Jim Stanford @jimbostanford.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
In time for Canada Day, a powerful 4-part video series from re-generation, "How to Buy a Country." It gives the essential backstory to our fight for survival against Trump: free trade, staples dependence, and political domination. Trailer: youtube.com/watch?v=r5-3.... #cdnpoli /2
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How to Buy a Country | Official Trailer
YouTube video by re•generation
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Jon Shell @jonshell.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Launch day! Cross-Check is a new YouTube show with me, @vassb.bsky.social and @stephenmarche.bsky.social digging in on the topics covered in Stephen's Gloves Off podcast. We start with the Davos speech - 6 months later, what does it mean, and how does Canada win? www.youtube.com/watch?v=arQG...
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Cross Check: The Rupture
YouTube video by Gloves Off with Stephen Marche
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Stephen Marche @stephenmarche.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
It's Canada Day. Season 2 of Gloves Off is here. How Canada can move beyond surviving—and start winning—in the new world disorder. Listen here apple.co/glovesoff or watch on YouTube www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBni... #GlovesOffPodcast #Canada #Geopolitics #CanadianPolitics
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Gloves Off
Society & Culture Podcast · Updated Weekly · Gloves Off is about the threat to Canada’s sovereignty and how the country can thrive in the new world disorder. Because it’s not just about surviving as a...
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Stephanie Carvin @stephaniecarvin.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
I hate the conversation about “productivity” because no one ever explains what it actually means or what they are talking about. This is a fantastic explainer.
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Social Capital Partners🇨🇦 @scpartners.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
"Employee Ownership Trusts provide a practical alternative that keeps companies rooted here, protects jobs and maintains strategic capacity in the Canadian economy.” 👏👏👏 🖋️ by @alexriehl.com at @betakit.com #OwnershipMatters #EOTs
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Business leaders urge Ottawa to extend employee ownership tax incentive | BetaKit
A short-lived tax break that encourages founders to sell to their employees is set to expire this year.
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Social Capital Partners🇨🇦 @scpartners.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
🚨New video!🚨 Canada is facing a $2-trillion business handoff. What if employees owned more of it? #EmployeeOwnership #SmallBusiness #FutureofWork #CdnPoli #CanadaSky #BusinessSuccession #CdnEcon
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Social Capital Partners🇨🇦 @scpartners.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
🚨New video! 🚨 We all want more investment in Canada's economy. But when it comes to foreign investment (FDI), @jonshell.bsky.social says we have to ask: is it investment that builds? Or investment that buys? Because these are two very different things. #FDI #cdnpoli #cdnecon #econsky
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Are foreign takeovers good for Canada's economy?
YouTube video by Social Capital Partners
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Matthew Mendelsohn @mendelmatt.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
You know what’s easier than making a generational investment and building a bunch of new things? Not selling the things we already have. An investment strategy without an ownership strategy from the federal government is not good enough. @jonshell.bsky.social www.linkedin.com/pulse/you-ca...
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You can’t be sovereign if you don’t own anything
Canada needs an ownership strategy, not just an investment strategy The day before the Canadian federal budget was introduced, a Canadian gold mining company called New Gold announced that it would be...
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Social Capital Partners🇨🇦 @scpartners.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Canada’s wealth gap is way worse than official data show. The PBO just confirmed the top 1% own nearly 25% of all wealth—which StatsCan missed because it doesn’t even count the richest families in its surveys. 🔗 Read more: socialcapitalpartners.ca/wealth-inequ... #CdnPoli #BillionaireBlindspot
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Wealth inequality in Canada is far worse than StatsCan reports
Our government’s best available data on Canada’s wealth gap excludes, by design, the wealthiest families in the country. As SCP Director of Policy Dan Skilleter writes, if we didn’t have the Parliamen...
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Social Capital Partners🇨🇦 @scpartners.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
🚨New video🚨 As Canadians, we like to think we’re strong and free. But, when it comes to the wealth gap, we’re looking more like America Lite—better manners, but almost all the inequality. #CdnPoli #CanadaSky #Wealth #EconSky
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Social Capital Partners🇨🇦 @scpartners.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
The Parkland (🍁) sale to Sunoco (🗽) offers little benefit to Canada while risking jobs, innovation and sovereignty. Ottawa should say no. Read Sarah Doyle and @jonshell.bsky.social in Policy Options. #FDI #OwnershipMatters #AlwaysCanada #Never51 policyoptions.irpp.org/2025/09/suno...
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Canada should reject Sunoco’s US$9-billion takeover of Parkland
The Parkland sale to Sunoco offers little benefit to Canada while risking jobs, innovation and sovereignty. Ottawa should say no.
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Jon Shell @jonshell.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Build, baby, build? Or sell, baby, sell? Sunoco's acquisition of Parkland is a bad deal for Canada, and should be rejected. policyoptions.irpp.org/2025/09/suno...
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Canada should reject Sunoco’s US$9-billion takeover of Parkland
The Parkland sale to Sunoco offers little benefit to Canada while risking jobs, innovation and sovereignty. Ottawa should say no.
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MP Ryan Turnbull 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @turnbullwhitby.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Today's meeting with @jonshell.bsky.social , chair of @scpartners.bsky.social , @danskilleter.bsky.social, Gene Chartier, Taylor Seek hon, and Lee Chitiz, all representing Employee Ownership Trusts (EOTs), was productive and insightful. #employeeownershiptrusts
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Stephen Marche @stephenmarche.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
For @guardian I wrote about how the world is separating from America this Independence Day. www.theguardian.com/us-news/comm...
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This Fourth of July, the world declares its independence from America | Stephen Marche
America is turning away from itself, and the rest of the world must follow
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Jon Shell @jonshell.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
We can't win this trade war with the US, but we can win the next one. Appeared on @stephenmarche.bsky.social's new podcast Gloves Off (lnkd.in/gtc3qFRa) to talk about whether free trade with America has really been good for Canada and what a pivot toward a Middle Power Alliance could look like.
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Jon Shell @jonshell.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
How long until the MAGA cover of "Not Like Us" about Elon?
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Social Capital Partners🇨🇦 @scpartners.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Growth that widens inequality will weaken, not strengthen our economy. Canada Strong means putting economic sovereignty and broad access to wealth-building at the heart of our agenda. Read Matthew's piece: socialcapitalpartners.ca/as-the-feder... #CanadaSky #CdnPoli #AlwaysCanada #Never51
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As the federal government sets out to “build, baby, build,” do we want to own or be owned?
As our new government pursues growth and a nation-building agenda, we should remember this lesson from history: too often, we build and invest, only to sell off our assets and resources to the highest...
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Jon Shell @jonshell.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Sunoco's deal to buy Parkland is as clear a decision as the government is going to face. @mendelmatt.bsky.social and I write that it needs to be killed. No new investment, lost good Canadian jobs and lost energy infrastructure to an American company. All for a small premium. Embows up = no deal
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Social Capital Partners🇨🇦 @scpartners.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
PM Carney met Trump at the White House last week and passed his first real test. Now he faces a different kind of test. Will Canada be willing to go "elbows up" in the Sunoco/ Parkland energy takeover and kill the deal? @mendelmatt.bsky.social, @jonshell.bsky.social 👇 #Never51 #CanadaSky
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Mark Carney passed a tough test in Washington. He now faces an even tougher one at home
Canada cannot afford to cede further control of its infrastructure to foreign interests.
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Social Capital Partners🇨🇦 @scpartners.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
As the threat to Canada’s sovereignty intensifies, we need policies that keep Canadian companies owned by Canadians. Employee-ownership is growing in 🍁 for good reasons: - more wealth for workers - more resilient in recessions - more productive 🔗 goodmenproject.com/featured-con... #EOT #CdnPoli
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Social Capital Partners🇨🇦 @scpartners.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Corporate leaders are obsessing over GDP per capita. But, if you look at just about any number that would meaningfully tell you how well our economy is doing, Canada does better than the U.S. @mendelmatt.bsky.social @jimstanford.bsky.social #alwayscanada #never51 #gdp #cdnpoli #cdnecon
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Jon Shell @jonshell.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
At PPF growth summit. Starting with a classic orthodox economic speech by a bank economist. Manufacturing isn't important, invest in services, we have educated people. Yawn.
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Jon Shell @jonshell.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Yesterday, America had their “Liberation Day.” Now it’s time for the rest of us to plan our own. The world needs a new Alliance, independent of the US or China. Here's one way to do it. It's wrong and incomplete. But maybe it can help get the ball rolling. jonshell.medium.com/manifesto-fo...
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Manifesto for the Rest(o)
Middle Powers Unite! It’s time to plan our own Liberation Day
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Jon Shell @jonshell.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
The bravest person in know, being awesome.
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The Walrus @thewalrus.ca · 03/04/2025
Rich tech leaders are sharing their ideas about how political decisions should be made. Vass Bednar, executive director of McMaster University’s master of public policy in digital society, has to wonder: Is a Canadian version of DOGE in our future? thewalrus.ca/are-a-handful-of...
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Social Capital Partners🇨🇦 @scpartners.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
From fighter jets to TikTok, satellites to steel, nothing is off the table when it comes to creative-even-crazy ideas to secure Canada's sovereignty. Fired up? Focused on the future? Full of ideas? Read ours: tinyurl.com/ycxkfn82/ Add yours: 👇 #AlwaysCanada #Never51 #CanadaSky #EconSky
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Jon Shell @jonshell.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Canada didn't "steal" American auto jobs. We didn't even take them nicely. Some facts about Trumps' latest lie in the trade war: * As a % of population, Canada has underperformed the US in auto manufacturing jobs since 1992 * Both countries have about the same # of jobs as 1992 #Canadasky #elbowsup
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The Cooperative Economy @cooperatives.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
Worker ownership is an effective model for local ownership and democratic control. Rather than having businesses shut down or sold to distant shareholders and corporate entities, they can be transferred to the workers themselves, allowing for jobs and profits to remain in their communities.
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Opinion: How employee ownership can help secure Canadian sovereignty
As the threat to Canada’s sovereignty intensifies, we need policies that keep Canadian companies owned by Canadians.
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Jon Shell @jonshell.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Employee Ownership can be an important tool in the fight for Canadian sovereignty. Current policy isn't up to the task. Michael Ras and my take in today's @calgaryherald.com. It's time to move this issue into the front and centre of the Canadian economic agenda. calgaryherald.com/opinion/colu...
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Opinion: How employee ownership can help secure Canadian sovereignty
As the threat to Canada’s sovereignty intensifies, we need policies that keep Canadian companies owned by Canadians.
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Jon Shell @jonshell.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
A few hundred workers at a company in Vermont are about to share in about $1B. They will get over $1M each on average. Some will get as much as $10M. Most of these will 𝒏𝒐𝒕 be executives - they will be receptionists, salespeople, analysts, etc. #Thread #ESOP #Employeeownership
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Jon Shell @jonshell.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
I've had a reasonably long career and never cared about whatever title I happened to have. It just never mattered to me. But now that you can be a "czar" it's the only thing I want in the world. I'd do anything to be a czar of something.
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Jon Shell @jonshell.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
A solid Canadian troll would be to hire someone from McKinsey as the fentanyl czar
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Jon Shell @jonshell.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Here's a critical part of any Canadian tariff response plan that I have not seen talked about: *every* purchase of a Canadian company by a US buyer must be reviewed by the federal government as a security risk - no matter how small.
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Social Capital Partners🇨🇦 @scpartners.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Canada needs to recognize that the U.S. is no longer a reliable partner or friend, and begin reorienting our economy accordingly, says SCP CEO @mendelmatt.bsky.social. None of this may work, but we have to try: socialcapitalpartners.ca/concepts-of-... #EconSky #CdnPoli #tariffs #trade
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Concepts of a plan to confront the new United States | Social Capital Partners
Living next to a superpower run by oligarchs is not where we expected to be 20 years ago, says Matthew Mendelsohn. But it’s where we are. Pretending otherwise doesn’t serve our interests. Canada is bi...
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Jon Shell @jonshell.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
In the depths of the pandemic, Chrystia Freeland acted to help save small businesses across this country by rescuing the commercial rent relief program. While the focus will be on the politics of her resignation, that's what I'm thinking about today. Thank you for your service.
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