#SundayRead | #BookSky Peace isn’t something we just hope for anymore — it’s something we prepare for. Chapter 6 looks at readiness as Canada’s quiet strength, from SAR crews to cyber defence. 🔗 lenispooner.substack.com/p/prepared-f...

Canada sits on 20% of the world’s freshwater, yet we still treat water like an afterthought. In agriculture we already see how fragile security becomes when supply chains stretch thin. Water will be no different. Efficiency is sovereignty. Good thought piece by @lenispooner.bsky.social

Canada’s future runs through tidewater. Just published a deep explainer on why our access to the Atlantic, Pacific & Arctic will shape our economy, security & sovereignty for decades. #cdnpoli Read here: between-the-lines.ca/tidewater-ac...

Free trade was sold as prosperity. Forty years later, we’ve lost industries, leverage, and much of our say. If a deal isn’t worth the paper it’s written on, why act bound by it? #cdnpoli Food for thought from @readthemaple. 🔗 www.readthemaple.com/time-to-thin... #cdnpoli #Trade #Sovereignty

This is our country, and we decide what happens next. #Canada #cdnpoli #ViveLeCanada 🍁 Prime Minister Mark Carney www.youtube.com/watch?v=wV-G...

Canada’s trade future isn’t North–South anymore — it’s East–West. My latest piece looks at PM Carney’s ASEAN trip and how Canada is building new trade bridges across the Pacific. 🌏🇨🇦 🔗 Read: lenispooner.substack.com/p/the-asean-... #Canada #ASEAN #Trade #Economy #dcnpoli

When we read deeply, we stop reacting and start relating. Dinah’s “The Stories That Stay” is a reminder that #empathy isn’t weakness—it’s civic maintenance. #reading #booksky #substack A beautiful reflection on “othering,” courage, and connection. 🔗 dinahbeingme.substack.com/p/the-storie...

AI isn’t just tech — it’s power. Canada stands at a digital crossroads: build our own bridge, or rent someone else’s. 📖 Canada at the AI Crossroads — why digital sovereignty matters more than ever. #KitchenTablePolitics #AICanada #Canada lenispooner.substack.com/p/canada-at-...

Most people under 40 only know the Cold War as background noise in old movies. But for Canada, it was a test of quiet power — building peace through cooperation, not bluster. #SundayRead #booksky 👉 lenispooner.substack.com/p/a-quiet-re...

We Canadians love to think our lakes are pristine — but the Don River alone sends 500 billion microplastics a year into Lake Ontario. Maybe it’s time to ask what “clean” really means. 🔗 www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... #Waterways #FoodPolitics #Canada #environment

Every new home hides a small invoice to the town that built it. Who Pays for Growth? digs into how development fees keep the lights—and pipes—on. #Canada #Municipal #Developer #Onpoli between-the-lines.ca/who-pays-for...

“Care is not a soft word. It’s the operating system of civilization.” The most important essay I’ve read on what truly holds a society together. Should be required reading for every elected official. #BookSky open.substack.com/pub/twvme/p/...

We’ve started playing poker when we should be hosting potlucks. Why Canada’s debate sounds like a zero-sum game—and what that’s costing us. 📖 #SundayRead #BookSky medium.com/@leni_las/ze...

Intro + Past Is Prologue | A Quiet Reckoning, Chapter 1 Every era thinks itself exceptional. Ours may be the first to forget how we got here. This chapter traces the unraveling of Canada’s civic fabric—and what it will take to mend it. 📖 #BookSky #SundayRead lenispooner.substack.com/p/introducti...

A Quiet Reckoning begins here. A long-form series tracing how ordinary Canadians built, broke, and can still rebuild the country we share. Start with Three Generations. One Country. A Quiet Reckoning. 📖 #BookSky #SundayRead lenispooner.substack.com/p/three-gene...

🔥 Cauldron of Chaos drops the heat: a sharp, no-fluff look at where geopolitics, Canada’s role, and everyday lives collide. If you want clarity in the storm, this one’s for you. #cdnpoli #Canada #USA #Politics Read + share: lenispooner.substack.com/p/cauldron-of-chaos

New #BehindThePaywall: Carney heads to Washington as Trump reopens the CUSMA fault lines — and Ottawa stalls on AI guardrails. Can Canada stay sovereign when the rules keep changing? 🇨🇦 lenispooner.substack.com/p/behindthep... #CUSMA #AI #Fall24 #cdnpoli

From Collingwood’s farm stalls to city halls — how we grow back local food systems. What is Canada's 'missing middle'? #SundayRead  📚 lenispooner.substack.com/p/how-munici...

The rebellion isn’t in the streets — it’s in the mailbox. Families are done paying for the planet’s mistakes. 🌍 When the Bill Comes Due #climate #cdnpoli between-the-lines.ca/when-the-bil...

🌊 #SundayRead: From campfire suppers to sovereignty stakes — why the Lakes aren’t just scenery. Superior shaped my childhood. Now the fight is over who controls the Great Lakes. 👉 The Great Lakes: Canada’s Sleeping Sovereignty Crisis open.substack.com/pub/lenispoo...

Gov't says Canada Post can permanently stop door-to-door home deliveries, shifting those addresses to community mailboxes over several years. Mail delivery can be expanded to 3 - 7 days Colour me shocked that Carney is doing what Harper wanted to do. www.cbc.ca/news/politic... #CdnPoli #CanadaPost

We talk hockey trades more than trade wars — but BRICS + Trump could change what’s on our tables and in our wallets. 🇨🇦 👉 lenispooner.substack.com/p/canada-bri... #cdnpoli #economy #Canada #CUSMA #BRICS

Canada broke UN protocol to put one issue first: Russia’s abduction of Ukraine’s children. Some stories can’t wait. 👉 lenispooner.substack.com/p/stolen-chi... #cdnpoli #UNsummit #ukrainehttps://lenispooner.substack.com/p/stolen-childhoods-canada-un-ukraine-children

🇨🇦👩‍🎓 Youth unemployment in Canada just hit its highest non-pandemic level in 15 years. With summer jobs behind us, fall/winter prospects aren’t looking much better. #cdnpoli #youth #unemployment I unpack the history and the numbers here: between-the-lines.ca/youth-unempl...

Brilliant!

If Canada’s media repeats the same 5–6 stories a day, what voices and issues are we missing? #cdnpoli #media between-the-lines.ca/broken-infra...

Let’s do it #Canada

🇨🇦 From tariffs to tables: Canada can cut U.S. food dependence by 50%. 💡 $2.6B of that shift is as simple as you and me choosing Canadian at the checkout. Full piece 👉 between-the-lines.ca/from-tariffs...

🇨🇦 Half of Canadian households earn under $90K — and they’re at the heart of Ottawa’s new housing roadmap. Deeply affordable housing, rental protection & supportive builds for almost 50% of us. #cdnpoli #housing 👉 between-the-lines.ca/new-housing-... between-the-lines.ca/new-housing-...

B.C. goes ahead with next step of single-use plastics ban. Tofino has become the first city in Canada to ban the sale of single-use plastic water bottles. #cdnpoli

Wonderful early fall #sundayread!

“Certainty is fragile. Resilience lasts.” A war bride once taught me that survival isn’t about wealth or luck, but about solidarity, resourcefulness, and courage. #Sundayread 📖 Resilience Is the Best Inheritance — now on Medium. medium.com/living-digit...

🌿 Freedom isn’t always found in far-off places — sometimes it’s right at your own kitchen table, garden, or neighbourhood. ✨ A reflection on what it means to live free, close to home: ☕️ Take a #read break and let me know what freedom feels like to you. between-the-lines.ca/freedom-foun...

Hilarious. All too true, and hilarious.

H55 is a Swiss multinational company that has built their new battery factory in Canada. h55.ch/en/h55-accel...

August 2025: Returning by vehicle ⬇️ 33.9% Returning by air ⬇️ 25.4% An estimated loss of $2.1B for the US travel sector this summer as a result of the Canadian boycott. #Canada #USBoycott

"These are tough times. We have to make tough choices for a better future," says PM Mark Carney on plans for cuts to government expenditures in its upcoming federal budget as he addresses Liberal party caucus in Edmonton. #cdnpoli

⚡ Life doesn’t run on certainty anymore—it runs on resilience. 🇨🇦 With tariffs, CUSMA talks & rising costs, the best inheritance isn’t wealth—it’s adaptability, creativity & endurance. 💭 What qualities will Canadians need most to roll with change? 👉 Read: lenispooner.substack.com/p/no-going-b...

"However, for all the differences of approach, it’s in their descriptions of reality that Poilievre and Carney differ most, and that may be the point of most friction in the coming months. For, whereas Carney likes to stick to facts, Poilievre has the tendency to stray from them." #cdnpoli

1/9 🇨🇦 CARNEY ANNOUNCES $80M TARIFF-RELIEF FUND FOR ATLANTIC CANADA 🇨🇦 PM targets small and medium businesses hit by Trump's trade war. Part of the larger $1B national fund. CBC reports from St. John's shipyard announcement. #cdnpoli #AtlanticCanada #Trump #TradeWar #Tariffs #TrumpTariffs

Before going whole hog into AI & firing government staff for imagined $ savings hope PM @mark-carney.bsky.social considers this. He should not be unfamiliar with over hype from his investment banker days. #cdnpoli www.theatlantic.com/economy/arch...

Exporting Brazilian coffee beans to US via third countries not an option, industry says reut.rs/3JTTKJQ

Families deserve to have democratically elected advocates at their children’s school board. School board trustees represent the needs of the local community. #OntEd www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Canada’s food system is an hourglass: farms at the top, consumers at the bottom, a fragile chokepoint in between. Here’s a local playbook to rebuild the missing middle — and Canadian food sovereignty. 🇨🇦 #cdnpoli #foodsecurity #Canadiansovereignty #farming between-the-lines.ca/filling-the-...

The free-trade era may be ending. From tariffs to Buy Canadian, nations are reaching back to mercantilist playbooks. Canada’s latest rupture is a case study in resilience vs retreat. 👉 medium.com/@leni_las/ca... #Trade #Economy

There is zero chance that I could support removing Trustees, elected education advocates. The province is going too far, by a lot.

I am all in. Let's go. #cdnpoli www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Now, this is cool. www.tomshardware.com/3d-printing/...

Carney calls it a rupture, not a transition. Canada is pivoting from free-trade assumptions to mercantilist tools — a C$5B fund, Buy Canadian push, and EV pause. A seismic shift in trade strategy. #cdnpoli #ElbowsUp between-the-lines.ca/canada-free-...

Dog whistles ≠ policy. Killing the Temporary Foreign Worker Program won’t fix youth unemployment. It’ll wreck food security & rural Canada. We need reform, not slogans. #cdnpoli #TFWP open.substack.com/pub/lenispoo...