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Marcin Gabrys

@marcingabrys.bsky.social
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#Canada 🇨🇦 fan, #Polsci & #Canadianstudies scholar, professor at @JagiellonskiUni, sometimes political commentator. My newest book - bit.ly/3H39R3P

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Marcin Gabrys @marcingabrys.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
NHL suspends Florida Panthers minority owner for ‘51st state’ posts www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/m...
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NHL suspends Florida Panthers minority owner for ‘51st state’ posts
The NHL suspended Doug Cifu, minority owner of the Florida Panthers, on Tuesday following what the league called ‘unacceptable and inappropriate’ social media posts
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Marcin Gabrys @marcingabrys.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Alberta has long accused Ottawa of trying to destroy its oil industry. That’s a dangerous myth theconversation.com/alberta-has-...
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Alberta has long accused Ottawa of trying to destroy its oil industry. Here’s why that’s a dangerous myth
Has Ottawa facilitated or obstructed the spectacular post-1990 growth of oilsands production? The evidence is clear: the federal government has been a major oilsands booster.
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Marcin Gabrys @marcingabrys.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
‘Elbows up’ in Canada means sustainable resource development theconversation.com/elbows-up-in...
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‘Elbows up’ in Canada means sustainable resource development
Accelerated resource development in Canada should not burden future generations with environmental destruction.
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Marcin Gabrys @marcingabrys.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Only Yesterday: Canada-US Convergence on China opencanada.org/only-yesterd...
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Only Yesterday: Canada-US Convergence on China - Open Canada
Canada and the US found much to agree on before Trump 2.0, especially the need to cooperate on the China challenge.
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Marcin Gabrys @marcingabrys.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Trump fixates on US-Canada border – does he actually want to tear it up? www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
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Trump fixates on US-Canada border – does he actually want to tear it up?
President eager to revisit 1908 boundary treaty, but experts suggest Trump using issue as bargaining chip
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Marcin Gabrys @marcingabrys.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
audycje.tokfm.pl/audycja/,Cza... Podcast z audycji OFF Czarek. Cezary Łasiczka. Gośćmi audycji byli: Marcin Gabryś. Dostępna transkrypcja. Temat: Czas na reformę systemu wyborczego w Kanadzie?
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Marcin Gabrys @marcingabrys.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
„the Liberals are an electoral machine—something of a rarity on the center-left—that would be foolish to bet against.” www.theatlantic.com/internationa...
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The Liberals Who Can’t Stop Winning
Trump isn’t the only reason Canada’s center-left has stayed in power.
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Marcin Gabrys @marcingabrys.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
„[O]ur track record as consumers speaks for itself. Pangs of patriotism don’t produce profits. Just ask Hudson’s Bay Co. Canada’s oldest retailer is facing possible demise precisely because it wasn’t a priority for our populace to buy Canadian.”
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Marcin Gabrys @marcingabrys.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Nova Scotia premier blasts Bloc leader for calling Canada 'artificial country' www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
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Nova Scotia premier blasts Bloc leader for calling Canada 'artificial country' | CBC News
Nova Scotia Premier Tim Houston is stepping into the federal fray, blasting the leader of the Bloc Québécois for calling Canada an “artificial country.”
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Marcin Gabrys @marcingabrys.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
New Brunswick and Newfoundland and Labrador are the latest provinces to pledge to work together and knock down trade barriers as Canada faces economic threats from U.S. President Donald Trump. financialpost.com/news/economy...
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N.B., N.L. sign agreement to knock down trade barriers
New Brunswick and Newfoundland and Labrador are the latest provinces to pledge to work together and knock down trade barriers. Read more.
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Marcin Gabrys @marcingabrys.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Canadian travel boycott hits American economy in realtime Fed snapshot financialpost.com/news/canadia...
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Posthaste: Canadian travel boycott hits American economy in realtime Fed snapshot
The Federal Reserve Beige Book said business leaders have reported a noticeable decline drop in tourism from Canada across the U.S. Read on.
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Marcin Gabrys @marcingabrys.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Canadians say their relations with Washington are just as bad as ties with Moscow, according to a survey that suggests an openness to improving links with China and especially Mexico. globalnews.ca/news/1114899...
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Canadians see U.S. relationship as just as bad as with Russia: survey - National | Globalnews.ca
According to polling, Canadians say their relationship with the United States has sunk to levels comparable to that of Russia and China, and citing Trump's actions.
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Marcin Gabrys @marcingabrys.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
The Quebec government has stepped in to defend the phrase “Go Habs Go!” as the provincial language watchdog takes heat for objecting to the English word “go.” globalnews.ca/news/1114941...
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Marcin Gabrys @marcingabrys.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Skilled migrants are leaving the U.S. for Canada — how can the north gain from the brain drain? theconversation.com/skilled-migr...
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Skilled migrants are leaving the U.S. for Canada — how can the north gain from the brain drain?
Skilled migrants and international students are leaving the U.S. in growing numbers and many are heading north to Canada. But will Canada be able to create policies to help retain them?
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Marcin Gabrys @marcingabrys.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Canada vs. Trump: How Monday’s Election Will Play Out www.politico.com/news/magazin...
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Canada vs. Trump: How Monday’s Election Will Play Out
The U.S. president’s tariffs and insults have altered alliances everywhere, with reverberations from Quebec to Alberta to Washington.
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Marcin Gabrys @marcingabrys.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
„[G]iven how soon the Canadian election is being held after the disaster occurred — and the record number of voters who have already cast their ballots in advance polls — this tragedy isn’t likely to have a substantial impact." theconversation.com/vancouver-su...
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Vancouver SUV attack exposes crowd management falldowns and casts a pall on Canada’s election
At least 11 people died in a Vancouver SUV attack deemed to have a ‘low threat level’ by police. What goes into making that calculation, and is a public event ever truly low-risk?
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Marcin Gabrys @marcingabrys.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Vancouver SUV attack exposes crowd management falldowns and casts a pall on Canada’s election theconversation.com/vancouver-su...
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Vancouver SUV attack exposes crowd management falldowns and casts a pall on Canada’s election
At least 11 people died in a Vancouver SUV attack deemed to have a ‘low threat level’ by police. What goes into making that calculation, and is a public event ever truly low-risk?
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Marcin Gabrys @marcingabrys.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
How J.D. Vance Brought US Politics to an Election in Durham, Ontario thewalrus.ca/how-j-d-vanc...
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How J.D. Vance Brought US Politics to an Election in Durham, Ontario | The Walrus
His friendship with a local Conservative candidate was treated as a boon. Then came the Trump tariffs
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Marcin Gabrys @marcingabrys.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
As Canadians head to the polls, rumours of manipulation and fraud are swirling macleans.ca/politics/is-...
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Why Voter Distrust is Brewing - Macleans.ca
As Canadians head to the polls, rumours of manipulation and fraud are swirling. Here’s why.
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Marcin Gabrys @marcingabrys.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
„In a federal election campaign dominated by U.S. tariffs and the cost of living, the two main parties vying to form the next government have spent little time debating the future of Canada’s climate action plans.” www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
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A federal election campaign without a climate plan
The two main parties vying to form the next government have spent little time debating the future of Canada’s climate action plans
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Marcin Gabrys @marcingabrys.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
„Pierre Poilievre is the one leader, as many Canadian Jews see it, who has spoken out unequivocally against antisemitism. He’s the one leader, they feel, who has their backs.” www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
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Opinion: Why many Canadian Jews are gravitating toward the Conservative Party
The support for Pierre Poilievre in the community is far from unanimous, but it’s loud
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Marcin Gabrys @marcingabrys.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
„Yes, there have been some Trumpian overtones in some of Pierre Poilievre’s rhetoric and tactics up to and during this federal election campaign, but nothing quite as unnerving and appalling as what we are seeing in the U.S.” www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
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Opinion: Donald Trump is the cautionary tale Canada needs to heed
We can’t be naive to the potential for autocracy in our own country
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Marcin Gabrys @marcingabrys.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
„With the stakes sky high, the Canadian campaign was supposed to be a barnburner, an all-time thriller. But as campaigns go, it’s been a rather quiet, pedestrian affair with few fireworks. All the drama came well before the Canadian election began via the Trump tsunami of deeds and threats”
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Opinion: This quiet election campaign is playing right into the lucky Liberals’ hands
The short five-week campaign has brought forward no strikingly new policy initiatives or surprises
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Marcin Gabrys @marcingabrys.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
The Liberals and Conservatives have two stark visions for the Arctic – and thus, for Canada www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
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Opinion: The Liberals and Conservatives have two stark visions for the Arctic – and thus, for Canada
In recent years, Ottawa and Inuit have made real gains in working together. What might Mark Carney and Pierre Poilievre do with this delicate relationship?
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Marcin Gabrys @marcingabrys.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
„U.S. President Donald Trump says at some point the automobile tariffs slapped on Canadian imports could increase while also indicating his administration is working on a deal with Canada.” www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...
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Trump says 25-per-cent tariff on cars made in Canada could go up
President says he wants to see more cars being built in U.S.
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Marcin Gabrys @marcingabrys.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
„Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is at risk of losing his Ottawa-area riding as the party scrambles to send in volunteers to save the seat he has held since 2004, two federal and two provincial Conservative sources say.” www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...
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Poilievre may lose his Ottawa-area riding as Liberals poised to sweep the region
The Conservative Leader is in dead heat with Liberal candidate Bruce Fanjoy in Carleton, sources say
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Marcin Gabrys @marcingabrys.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
„The Longest Ballot protest is targeting the Ottawa riding held by Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre for more than two decades. 85 of the 91 people listed as candidates are part of a protest that aims to make a point about electoral reform by flooding the ballot” ottawacitizen.com/news/local-n...
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Sorry for the inconvenience: Candidates explain why they are part of Longest Ballot protest
They're not campaigning, nor are they certain where the riding is, but Longest Ballot candidates in Carleton say they are exercising their rights
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Marcin Gabrys @marcingabrys.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
„The truth is that Canadian politics have always mattered. It’s just been easier to miss. Now, finally, people are recognizing that paying attention is patriotic. It only took a trade war and a direct threat to our national sovereignty to do it.” ottawacitizen.com/opinion/poli...
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St. Louis: When it comes to politics, boring is in the eye of the beholder
In the United States, politics is covered with the urgency of Armageddon and the flair of reality TV. Here, it's been calmer — until now.
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Marcin Gabrys @marcingabrys.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
„The attempt to claim Carney and Trudeau are cut from the same political cloth has been a significant feature of the Conservative campaign. But it also raises questions just how fair such comparisons are, and if they've been an effective point of attack against the Liberal leader.”
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ANALYSIS | Conservatives say Carney is 'just like Justin.' Do they have a case? | CBC News
The attempt to claim Mark Carney and Justin Trudeau are cut from the same political cloth has been a significant feature of the Conservative campaign. But it also raises questions of just how fair suc...
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Marcin Gabrys @marcingabrys.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Top election issues shifting from U.S. threats to affordability, health care, Vote Compass data suggests www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
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Top election issues shifting from U.S. threats to affordability, health care, Vote Compass data suggests | CBC News
Fewer Vote Compass users now say Canada-U.S. relations is the most important election issue for them. After last week's debates, more users say they are concerned by the economy, cost of living, healt...
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Marcin Gabrys @marcingabrys.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Days before the federal election and after more than a week without commenting on Canada, U.S. President Donald Trump resurfaced his 51st state rhetoric Wednesday afternoon and suggested he could further raise auto tariffs. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
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Trump reinserts himself into Canadian politics, saying 'as a state, it works great' | CBC News
Days before the federal election and after more than a week without commenting on Canada, U.S. President Donald Trump resurfaced his 51st state rhetoric Wednesday afternoon and suggested he could furt...
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Marcin Gabrys @marcingabrys.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
„It’s influence rather than money that drives Mark Carney. Not power for power’s sake, but a seat at a table where he can make big calls that matter, because he believes he’s equipped to do so. Public policy offers that like nothing else can.” www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/fed...
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Is Mark Carney a shrewd strategist or just lucky? Both, say those who know him
If the charming, meticulous and sometimes prickly economist lands the job of steering through a crisis, it wouldn’t be the first time
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Marcin Gabrys @marcingabrys.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
„Ontario has its own version of what Poilievre is proposing, down to the same name. It was brought in under Mike Harris, who then amended it when they needed to raise taxes. It was subsequently embraced by Dalton McGuinty’s Liberal government, who amended it when they needed to raise taxes.”
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ANALYSIS: Pierre Poilievre would axe one of Parliament’s primary purposes - National | Globalnews.ca
The Conservative leader promised that any future taxes or tax increases would be put to a national referendum, eliminating one of Parliament’s primary jobs.
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Marcin Gabrys @marcingabrys.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
„Thomas D’Arcy McGee more than any other founder of Canada still offers the most profound justification as to why not being American is, in itself, a meaningful and important part of being Canadian.” macleans.ca/politics/the...
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The Architect of Canada’s Anti-Americanism - Macleans.ca
Canada’s fiercest founding father made sure that anti-Americanism was part of the country’s DNA right from the beginning
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Marcin Gabrys @marcingabrys.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
As of Saturday, 92,000 voting kits have been sent out to Canadians living abroad, and some 20,000 have already been returned, Elections Canada says. www.cbc.ca/news/world/c...
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Why Canadian voters living in the Big Apple have a growing interest in the federal election | CBC News
Canadian voters living in New York are following the federal election — a race that's been dominated by the country's relationship with the U.S. following the imposition of tariffs on Canadian goods a...
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Marcin Gabrys @marcingabrys.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre's election promises amount to $90 billion in new measures over the next four years that will be paid for in part by cuts and the economic growth the party says these measures will generate. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
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Conservative platform banks on projected revenues to offset $106B in new measures | CBC News
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre's election promises amount to nearly $106 billion in new measures over the next four years that will be paid for in part by cuts and the economic growth the party ...
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Marcin Gabrys @marcingabrys.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Poilievre reiterates concerns with Liberals' UNDRIP law in Assembly of First Nations forum www.cbc.ca/news/indigen...
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Poilievre reiterates concerns with Liberals' UNDRIP law in Assembly of First Nations forum | CBC News
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre pitched First Nations leaders with what he called practical solutions to create economic prosperity on Tuesday, but he reiterated concerns around the UN Declaratio...
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Marcin Gabrys @marcingabrys.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Trevor Tombe: The Liberal platform walks away from the party’s own fiscal commitments thehub.ca/2025/04/21/t...
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Trevor Tombe: The Liberal platform walks away from the party’s own fiscal commitments
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Marcin Gabrys @marcingabrys.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
„With the release of the Liberals’ costed platform, the party is not just prescribing a huge increase to the deficits already planned under Justin Trudeau, it’s prescribing a peacetime debt splurge like few seen in Canadian history.”
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Marcin Gabrys @marcingabrys.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
„unlike 2021, when the former Conservative leader Erin O'Toole seemed to believe his party had to show Canadians it was serious about climate change, the Conservatives are not laying out a detailed plan for reducing Canada's emissions.” www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
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ANALYSIS | Poilievre isn't pivoting, but he's stepping lightly around a few things | CBC News
Pierre Poilievre is an ideological conservative who believes there is an inherent value in lower taxes and lower public spending. The campaign platform he tabled on Tuesday broadly hews to those princ...
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Marcin Gabrys @marcingabrys.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Poilievre says a government report predicts a 'terrifying' 2040. Here's what it actually says www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
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Poilievre says a government report predicts a 'terrifying' 2040. Here's what it actually says | CBC News
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre pounced on a government report that he argues predicts a "terrifying" world in 2040 to warn voters of the dangers of giving the Liberals a fourth term — but the ac...
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Marcin Gabrys @marcingabrys.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
„Donald Trump’s effort to trash his country’s relationship with Canada have led to dramatic realigning of allegiances, with a swell in Canadian pride washing over regional differences. one of the largest leaps is coming from Quebec.” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
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How Trump’s Canada threats dampened Quebec separatist movement – for now
Patriotism is on the rise in Quebec, a region that has held two referendums over whether to leave Canada
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Marcin Gabrys @marcingabrys.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
A record 7.3 million people have cast their ballots over four days of advanced voting in Canada’s election, official figures showed on Tuesday, in a possible sign of elevated interest in the 28 April poll. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
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Canada election sees record high early voting, figures show
About 7.3m people have cast ballots over four days of advanced voting in sign of elevated interest in 28 April poll
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Marcin Gabrys @marcingabrys.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
„Canadians’ trust in traditional institutions is waning, and fringe personalities and alt-media platforms have stepped into the vacuum, creating a society where many Canadians no longer encounter—or believe in—the same basic facts.” macleans.ca/politics/the...
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The War on Canadian Voters Is Online - Macleans.ca
As Bluesky’s head of trust and safety, I track disinformation for a living. Here’s why the election won’t just be shaped by parties and policies—but by online narratives.
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Marcin Gabrys @marcingabrys.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Why Canada Stays Out of America’s Clutches macleans.ca/politics/why...
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Why Canada Stays Out of America's Clutches - Macleans.ca
Trump is one of a long line of U.S. officials who’ve threatened annexation. History offers clues as to why they haven’t pulled it off.
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Marcin Gabrys @marcingabrys.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
„The border was once an afterthought, a barely existing barrier that 🇨🇦 and 🇺🇸 traversed routinely for the most casual of reasons. Now that frontier has become all-consuming for the residents of border towns who used to take living, working and playing between the US and Canada for granted.”
politico.com
‘We Didn’t Even See the Border — Until Now’: How Trump Has Driven Canadians and Americans Apart
Trump’s punishing tariffs have big implications for the upcoming Canadian election. It’s affecting personal relationships between the two countries, too.
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Marcin Gabrys @marcingabrys.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
„In Ontario, the Mississauga First Nation is currently suing both the province and Brookfield over the environmental impacts of four dams owned by the company. Carney has long presented himself as a champion of the environment. His career at Brookfield suggests he’s anything but.”
thewalrus.ca
Mark Carney, Cutthroat Capitalist | The Walrus
The prime minister sells himself as a public servant, but his private sector past reveals his true loyalties
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Marcin Gabrys @marcingabrys.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
“I would be quite surprised if one of them was elected,” said Mark McGowan, a professor of history at the University of St. Michael’s College in Toronto. “I don’t think our five guys in Canada are really up there in the running, in the top tier.” www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
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None of Canada’s five cardinals likely to be next pope, Vatican experts say
The Vatican announced Monday that Pope Francis had died after 12 years at the head of the Catholic Church
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Marcin Gabrys @marcingabrys.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Mark Carney, Cutthroat Capitalist. The prime minister sells himself as a public servant, but his private sector past reveals his true loyalties thewalrus.ca/mark-carney-...
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Mark Carney, Cutthroat Capitalist | The Walrus
The prime minister sells himself as a public servant, but his private sector past reveals his true loyalties
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Marcin Gabrys @marcingabrys.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
‘We Didn’t Even See the Border — Until Now’: How Trump Has Driven Canadians and Americans Apart www.politico.com/news/magazin...
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‘We Didn’t Even See the Border — Until Now’: How Trump Has Driven Canadians and Americans Apart
Trump’s punishing tariffs have big implications for the upcoming Canadian election. It’s affecting personal relationships between the two countries, too.
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