FYI, open.substack.com/pub/engageme...

For 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...

The 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-...

Posted 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...

On the efforts of the Premier of Alberta to court Trump’s election interference, an article I have written fyi: open.substack.com/pub/craigmar...

A newsletter for the Pledge for Canada went out early this morning, FYI. engagementcanadapledge.substack.com/p/canadians-...

Just 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-...

This 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...

Please 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...

Koolaid. Colour: Rubio red. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/02/u...

Transcript of Trump outburst during meeting with Zelenskyy at the White House. Draw your own conclusions.

Highly recommend from Tim Snyder today: substack.com/home/post/p-...

Reading 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-...

Michael 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.

www.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.

MAGA 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...

Big 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...

A 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.

Canadian MP Charlie Angus: “We will never, ever, ever, kiss the ring of that gangster from Mar-A-Lago."

It 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-...

Consider reading American Pulse americanpulse.substack.com?r=pxhfy&utm_...

Laughing 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!).

What 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.

Please, 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...

A 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...

On 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...

Louise 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...

The “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.

In 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?

One and half minute video from Canadian Heritage — The Flag That Unites Us youtu.be/iq2AooGZPw4 Pass it along.

WTF? 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...

Citizens’ 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...

Today 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 #canadapledge

This 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...

Canadians axing US vacations en masse is having an effect south of the border: www.thetravel.com/us-travel-as...

I’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...

What 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...

Don’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

“What is motivating Trump’s reckless trade war?” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

25,000 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

February 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.ca

Today 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 #EngagementCanada

Our 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...

Trump 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...

In 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.

David 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...

Stumbled 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...