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Ryan Kelpin

@ryankelpin.bsky.social
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Ph.D, Poli Sci, York University | teach at York University/Seneca Polytechnic | write for Canadian Dimension, The Grind, and Jacobin|buy Against the People: How Ford Nation is Dismantling Ontario fernwoodpublishing.ca/book/against-…

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Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Canadian Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre recently appeared on The Joe Rogan Experience. He offered a blend of anti-government populism and free-market triumphalism in a pitch that was aimed at US capital as much as Canadian voters.
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Joe Rogan Hosted Canada’s Free Market Champion
Canadian Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre recently appeared on The Joe Rogan Experience. He offered a blend of anti-government populism and free-market triumphalism in a pitch that was aimed at US capital as much as Canadian voters.
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Ryan Kelpin @ryankelpin.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
My newest piece on Pierre Poilievre is an analysis of his Rogan appearance. Check it out on @jacobinmag.bsky.social tinyurl.com/4ux9djjr I also have an upcoming scholarly article on Poilievre and Milton Friedman in the Journal of Canadian Studies. #jacobin #poilievre
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Joe Rogan Hosted Canada’s Free Market Champion
Canadian Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre recently appeared on The Joe Rogan Experience. He offered a blend of anti-government populism and free-market triumphalism in a pitch that was aimed...
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Alex Callinicos @alexcallinicos.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
This seems to get what to think about Chomsky and Epstein more or less right. canadiandimension.com/articles/vie...
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Chomsky, Epstein, and the responsibility of intellectuals
Burning down houses and raping their female inhabitants is the kind of imperialist standard operating procedure that Chomsky spent his life condemning in East Timor, in Iraq, in El Salvador. But when ...
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Ryan Kelpin @ryankelpin.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
Quite a few articles out for peer review right now. Hopefully expect some stuff on Peter Brimelow, Pierre Poilievre/Milton Friedman, James Buchanan/Canadian Taxpayers Federation in 2026. Have others nearly finished and in the tank. Plus my book manuscript is at UofT Press... Hopefully a good year.
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Ryan Kelpin @ryankelpin.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
It's kind of an amazing level of corruption because many leaders in the last 100 years have been overthrown for this kind of shit.
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Ryan Kelpin @ryankelpin.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
She's been upgraded from grifter to right wing propagandist POS
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Spencer Sunshine @transform6789.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
It’s sorta funny that people still deny that Medea Benjamin isn’t a red/brown when she shouts it from the rooftops
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Charles Smith @profsmithsask.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Well that is a reason to unionize and unionize immediately.
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Canadian Dimension @canadiandimension.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Half of us are depending on an ever-expanding real estate bubble to sustain our financial wellbeing while the other half faces a life of precarity until the bubble deflates. Restoring affordability means rebuilding the economy on something other than housing speculation, writes James Hardwick.
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Canada has become a hostage of its own housing bubble
Any project aimed at restoring housing affordability must articulate a plan to reform the large swathes of the economy that depend on the commodification of our homes, argues James Hardwick. The time ...
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Jeremy Appel 🍉 @readtheorchard.org · 08/12/2025
Folks, I'm hoping to go to the NDP leadership convention in Winnipeg in March to cover it for The Orchard. In order to do so, I need 16 new paid subscribers by the end of the year. Who's gonna help me? www.readtheorchard.org
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The Orchard | Jeremy Appel | Substack
News and analysis from an unabashedly progressive perspective, focusing on the intersection of politics, media and corporate power. Click to read The Orchard, by Jeremy Appel, a Substack publication w...
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Harbinger Media Network @harbingermedia.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Don't miss your least-favourite notorious podcast has-been finally taking some hard questions in this critical conversation on accountability and Canadian media with your pal @youcaughtscott.com! readthecatch.ca/accounts-and... 🔶
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Ryan Kelpin @ryankelpin.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Cross correlate this data with canceled programs at these universities
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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
RFK Jr: "Two weeks ago we ended, under your leadership, a twenty year war on women". Three out of five men in this shot have been accused of sexual misconduct, harassment or abusive behaviour towards women. A fourth signed into law a near-total abortion ban in his state as governor.
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Ryan Kelpin @ryankelpin.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Bingo
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Ryan Kelpin @ryankelpin.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
This is wonderful
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
"Society pushing the lie that there are multiple genders and everyone should be whatever they want to be is demonic and severely harms American youth." This passage is objectively "offensive" as the instructor noted, and given the instructor is trans, likely discriminatory!
I do not think men and women are pressured to be more masculine or feminine. I strongly
disagree with the idea from the article that encouraging acceptance of diverse gender expressions
could improve students’ confidence. Society pushing the lie that there are multiple genders and
everyone should be whatever they want to be is demonic and severely harms American youth.
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Ryan Kelpin @ryankelpin.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
My newest article for @canadiandimension.bsky.social unpacks Danielle Smith's use of the notwithstanding clause for her anti-trans and anti-labour reactionary politics in relation to a lineage of right wing uses of the NWC. canadiandimension.com/articles/vie...
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The authoritarian edge of Alberta conservatism
Danielle Smith’s unprecedented use of the notwithstanding clause is reshaping Alberta politics, targeting labour, trans youth, and minority rights. Ryan Kelpin traces the far-right project behind her ...
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Charlie Kirk was a champion of free speech and anyone who says otherwise will be fired
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Daniel Robson @dancollen.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
An easy story for reporters in tech and extremism right now might be to ask major music streaming platforms why they quietly let Skrewdriver back on some time this year
A screenshot of Apple Music which shows a playlist of Skrewdriver songs under a "Skrewdriver" banner.
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Ryan Kelpin @ryankelpin.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
For fucksakes. Can prominent pro Palestine Canadian leftist journos stop making friends with the far right? First Lascaris praising Candace Owens and now this shit. Not exactly being good allies to the LGBTQ community...
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Ricardo Acuña @ricacuna.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Alberta teachers are compiling lists of the books in their classrooms so the #ABGov can tell them which ones to toss. On a related note, Parkland Institute will be releasing a new report on the "Parental Rights" movement in AB next week. ualberta-ca.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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Kim Crawley (she/her) 😷🍉 @stopgenai.com · 04/09/2025
Ughhh. You were so close. 🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️ "Bad political instincts." No!! Carney is a central banker! Buddies with Trump! Oligarchs on the same side of the class war against us! Wake the fuck up!
Square hole memeBess Hamilton @besshamilton.bsky. s... 19m
l'm blocking every person who makes a
mealy-mouthed argument "know thine
enemy" is any kind of strategy.
You don't want a Nazi bar? You kick the
Nazis out. You don't invite one in to get to
know them better. Especially when you can
read his published manifesto. You get actual
experts in to help
) Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmor... 2h
HAHAHAHA UHHHH WHAT THE
EVERLOVING FUCK??????
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Noo00o. You were so close.
Not "bad political instincts."
All the mega rich are on the same side!
Goddamnit.
Bess Hamilton @besshamilton.bsky.so... 13m
I'm aghast. Truly, our PM has the worst political
instincts.
September 3, 2025 at 9:29 PM Everybody can reply2
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Ryan Kelpin @ryankelpin.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
My newest piece for Jacobin traces the ideological inheritances of Danielle Smith. jacobin.com/2025/08/albe... @johncke.bsky.social @charlieangus104.bsky.social @dgrdon.bsky.social @nolore.bsky.social @youcaughtscott.com @desmondcole.bsky.social @temcd.bsky.social @dillonwamsley.bsky.social
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Meet Danielle Smith, Canada’s Ayn Rand in Cowboy Boots
Danielle Smith, Alberta’s leader, is fusing libertarian dogma with oil-soaked grievance politics. It’s Canada’s version of the New Right, dressed up in provincial pride.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
Think about every pro-Israel person who denied this was the plan for the past 22 months; who gaslit you; denied this to you; pretended this wasn't the plan. And then never believe those liars about anything ever again.
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PMO: Benjamin Netanyahu decides full IDF occupation of Gaza | The Jerusalem Post
The Prime Minister's Office conveyed the message to the Chief of Staff: If this does not suit you, then you should resign.
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 07/06/2025
So... according to Greenblatt, Elon doing the Nazi salute wasn't so bad. But students protesting... What a fucking disaster the ADL is. What a joke.
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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Never in my lifetime has the Democratic Party been as much as a ghost ship as it is today. Incredible there aren't more insurgent primary campaigns. Power is just sitting there and the only thing guarding it is fossils like Chuck Schumer
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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Pierre Poilievre, speaking to caucus yesterday, referred to what I can only assume are the anti-genocide protests as “rampaging antisemitic riots.” He got a standing ovation. For seemingly pledging to crack down on people who want a genocide stopped. Very “free speech” of him. Fucking foul
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Damien Moule @damienmoule.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Notice that they're now shifting from "we need our parking spots" to "transit gets in the way of cars" type arguments.
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 07/05/2025
“Massive numbers of students are going to emerge from university with degrees, and into the workforce, who are essentially illiterate…Both in the literal sense and in the sense of being historically illiterate and having no knowledge of their own culture, much less anyone else’s.”
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Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College
ChatGPT has unraveled the entire academic project.
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Leliworld 🍁🇨🇦🦉 @leliworld.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
I live in Alberta and I have no words to tell how much I respect and LOVE this!!! Thank you #FirstNations 🪶🍁
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K @appiah.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
“The anti-Semites will become our most dependable friends, the anti-Semitic countries our allies.”https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1057/9780230101371_12
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Ryan Kelpin @ryankelpin.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
He also got the right a higher share of the popular vote than Harper ever did... And the highest in almost 40 years... This kind of analysis is so surface level. What the numbers actually show is the cons would have won if not for Trump's tariff stupidity.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Far right extremists, inspired by Trump per Whitmer herself, tried to kidnap her. Trump himself later suggested it was a fake plot and mocked it. He called her ‘that woman in Michigan’ and led a crowd that chanted ‘lock her up.’ Today Whitmer hugged him on the tarmac. This is why Dems lose. 🤷🏽‍♂️👇🏽
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Ryan Kelpin @ryankelpin.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
Appropriate energy when dealing with brown shirts.
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
According to three members of Congress, Rumeysa Ozturk has been repeatedly denied access to her lawyer, refused asthma medication despite attacks, forced to endure extreme temperatures, and denied religious accommodations. Her ‘crime’? An oped in a school newspaper. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/25/o...
When we met Ms. Ozturk in Basile, she told us she feared for her life when she was taken off the streets of her neighborhood, not knowing who had grabbed her or where they were taking her. She said that at each step of her transit — from Massachusetts to New Hampshire to Vermont to Louisiana — her repeated requests to contact her lawyer were denied. Inside the detention center, she was inadequately fed, kept in facilities with extremely cold temperatures and denied personal necessities and religious accommodations. She suffered asthma attacks for which she lacked her prescribed medication. Despite all this — and despite being far away from her loved ones — we were struck by her unwavering spirit.

Why did the Trump administration target her? By all accounts, it’s because she was one of the authors of an opinion essay for The Tufts Daily criticizing her university’s response to resolutions that the Tufts student senate passed regarding Israel and Gaza.

This is not immigration enforcement. This is repression. This is authoritarianism.
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Nathan Newman @nathansnewman.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
History books will barely be able to cover the montrous depravity of Trump's actions, since we can barely cover it in daily news accounts to imagine having to pick just a few examples to summarize his evil on a page in a HS text. But this could make the cut.
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🔫🎃Scott Martian Invaders 🎃🛼 @youcaughtscott.com · 26/04/2025
Two North State episodes in one week? That’s what you get when it’s election time. @nolore.bsky.social joined me to review how journalism has performed during the federal election. We have notes. Check it out.
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Grading Journalism's Election Performance ft. Nora Loreto (The North State Podcast)
See us after class, news outlets
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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 25/04/2025
Bill Maher has the behavior of a very specific band of boomer white guy: an "equal-opportunity offender" perfectly willing to weaponize identity politics and cry like a baby the second anyone gives back to him even 1/8 of what he dishes out. I guessed his birth year (1956) instantly and correctly
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Harbinger Media Network @harbingermedia.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
On 🌊 The @breachmedia.ca Show🌊 ep49 Martin Lukacs welcomes scholar @ryankelpin.bsky.social for a conversation dissecting radical right-wing economist Milton Friedman’s influence on Pierre Poilievre and what it could mean for the future of Canada. breachmedia.ca/the-radical-... 🔶
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The radical economist behind Pierre Poilievre’s plans for Canada ⋆ The Breach
Scholar Ryan Kelpin joins Martin Lukacs to dissect Milton Friedman’s influence on Pierre Poilievre
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Ryan Kelpin @ryankelpin.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Spent 50 minutes chatting with Martin Lukacs and @breachmedia.ca about the profound ideological influence Milton Friedman has had on Pierre Poilievre. Podcast episode is at the link attached: breachmedia.ca/the-radical-... #poilievre #cdnpoli
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The radical economist behind Pierre Poilievre’s plans for Canada ⋆ The Breach
Scholar Ryan Kelpin joins Martin Lukacs to dissect Milton Friedman’s influence on Pierre Poilievre
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Daniel Robson @dancollen.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
How a man baselessly got called a pedophile by a stranger, flips them off, and is doxxed in major newspapers for doing so. Really great story that perfectly encapsulates a manufactured outrage machine that transports scapegoats from the grassroots far-right all the way to international news media.
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Ryan Kelpin @ryankelpin.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
My review of Martin Lukacs' new book on Poilievre. canadiandimension.com/articles/vie... @breachmedia.ca @canadiandimension.bsky.social #cdnpoli #poilievre
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Demolishing Pierre Poilievre’s radical blueprint for Canada
The first book from The Breach’s new publishing arm Breach Books, The Poilievre Project: A Radical Blueprint for Corporate Rule, is a short but incisive analysis of Pierre Poilievre’s ideology. This d...
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PressProgress @pressprogress.ca · 22/04/2025
University teachers’ association warns Canadian academics against travelling to the United States The Canadian Association of University Teachers warns Canadian academics could be searched and detained over their political views at US border
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University Teachers’ Association Warns Canadian Academics Against Travelling to the United States
Canadian Association of University Teachers warns Canadian academics could be searched and detained over their political views at US border
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Ryan Kelpin @ryankelpin.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
Reading Mark Bourrie's book on Poilievre and it is full of incredibly problematic writing practices, like implied citations for unsubstantiated claims. An example:
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Nora Loreto @nolore.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
The mainstream media and it's institutions (hey CAJ) has been playing footsies with the far right press for a decade. Of course we would end up here, where non-journalists monopolize the mic at press conferences. We all saw this coming.
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Canadian Dimension @canadiandimension.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Rebel Media is as a powerful influence on Canada’s far-right, fanning the conspiratorial flames of Islamophobia, transphobia and anti-migrant sentiments to sickening levels. But Ezra Levant’s hateful news outlet was long enabled by Canada’s media establishment.
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Ezra Levant’s hateful news outlet enabled by Canada’s media establishment
Levant and his crew of propagandists exist because the Canadian media establishment allowed them to. Journalists and industry associations should have denounced the outlet and its correspondents as ha...
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Ryan Kelpin @ryankelpin.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Every commission member should resign in disgrace.
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