Meta’s move to stop fact checking is widely seen as the company trying to get out of Trump’s doghouse amid worldwide efforts to regulate it. Meta banned Trump from Facebook in 2020 after he fomented that year’s January 6 insurrection, but announced in 2022 that it would stop fact-checking his speeches ahead of his third presidential bid.

We are nationalists, not in the sense that we want to keep Canada forever out of all future mergers of nations, but in the sense that we want to keep Canada out of the United States in the foreseeable future. We are nationalists because we believe that something new can be created here, and that something new might be a social democracy.

The alternative to Canadian nationalism is not a far-seeing policy of rational welfare on an international basis, but instead a gradual slide into satellite status, which will make it more and more difficult to solve even our problems of economic development with the full measure of freedom we require. The alternative is a policy of paralytic continentalism.

This Via Dolorosa leads to a global death spiral, especially as the climate crisis reconfigures the planet and international bodies, such as the United Nations and the International Criminal Court, become hollow appendages. We are sowing the Middle East with dragon’s teeth and, as in the ancient Greek myth, these teeth are rising from the soil as enraged warriors determined to destroy us.

Much has been written about the importance of communicating and implementing the public service functions of higher education if these institutions are to earn public support. To date, the chief executives of universities have failed to make this their central task. As a result, universities have been isolated by ruling parties that are hostile to higher education.

While Justin Trudeau abandoned his commitment to electoral reform all the way back in 2017, the issue has endured because Canadians understand that our voting system fails to accurately represent the will of voters. But this Trudeau failure is an opportunity for Jagmeet Singh and the NDP to become the outspoken champions of electoral reform.

When news broke over the weekend that President Biden just approved an $8 billion deal for shipping weapons to Israel, a nameless official vowed that “we will continue to provide the capabilities necessary for Israel’s defense.” Following reports last month concluding that Israeli actions in Gaza are genocide, Biden’s decision was a new low for his presidency.

Like the National Housing Strategy and our shoddy attempts at Housing First, zoning reform is another good idea borrowed from social democracies and shoehorned into the neoliberal framework. The result is just one more technocratic non-solution designed to funnel money to the finance, insurance, and real estate sector while pushing Canadians further into precarity and homelessness.

US President-elect Donald Trump recently referred to Canada as the “51st State” and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as its “governor.” While on one level, such ridiculous statements are part and parcel of Trump’s political persona, they reveal something deeper about the role that Canada occupies in the American economy and political imagination.

While concern for mental health and self-care are increasingly prevalent across US society, our extensive conversations with current and former players to support our new book, The End of College Football: On the Human Cost of an All-American Game, reveal that the world of big-time college football is a clear exception.