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Gordon Laxer

@afterthesands

Founding Director of Parkland Institute at the University of Alberta, Author of After the Sands: Energy & Ecological Security for Canadians. Runner, snow shoer.

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Western separatism? Never going to happen. Danielle Smith talks it up to scare the feds from regulating Big Oil corps’ carbon pollution. BTW all Big Oil corps in Canada are majority foreign-owned Linda McQuaig Maude Barlow Jim Stanford Elizabeth May cbc.ca/news/canada/sa…

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Restoring decency, restoring democracy. Ending gangster regimes that can create genocide. It’s a big task. But I think Canadians are up for it. Charlie Angus takes resistance to Picton ON Linda McQuaig Maude Barlow Seth Klein #cdnpoli #abpoli #onpoli #yeg youtube.com/watch?v=hHWEyW…

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I’m not a royalist but I’ll take these fine words over Keir Starmer’s spinelessness any day!! 🇨🇦 cbc.ca/news/politics/…

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My father Stephen Lewis is spectacularly uninterested in social media, so I’m posting this myself (though he has read it and is prepared to suffer the indignity of all I'm about to reveal). When he was Canada’s ambassador to the UN from 1984-88, Dad was truly shocked by the

My father Stephen Lewis is spectacularly uninterested in social media, so I’m posting this myself (though he has read it and is prepared to suffer the indignity of all I'm about to reveal).

When he was Canada’s ambassador to the UN from 1984-88, Dad was truly shocked by the
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Remember when Carney said "Trump is trying to break us, so America can own us". Oh, That was the election. Today Carney met behind closed doors with Big Oil. They pose as Canadian but all are a majority U.S owned. What happened to elbows up? Linda McQuaig Maude Barlow #cdnpoli

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Are exporting resources all the premiers & prime minister can think of to build an economy independent from the US? Back to hewers of wood & drawers of water is not progress. We are capable of so much more. What about manufacturing, high tech & a care economy? Linda McQuaig

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*sighs Smith is never #TeamCanada She is a Maple MAGA Trumper. Seriously embarrassing to live in AB right now. I will be continuing to buy Canadian vs American products. Worst Premier Ever. #ResignSmith

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Danielle Smith struts around noisily, threatening to break up the country if Big Foreign Oil doesn’t get its way. A must read Linda McQuaig Jim Stanford Seth Klein Maude Barlow Parkland Institute Tim Elizabeth May #cdnpoli #abpoli #bcpoli #onpoli thestar.com/opinion/contri…

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It takes more than mighty construction projects to build a nation. Human services like public healthcare are equally important to growth, jobs, innovation & investment. Here's an open letter signed by 275 🇨🇦 economists & health policy experts: centreforfuturework.ca/2025/06/17/the… #cdnecon /2

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Linda McQuaig writes terrific fiction too. The Road to Goderich just came out. What a great read. Best book I’ve read in a few years. It’s a great tale, characters very well drawn, spare style, tightly woven, fits together like a complex puzzle, great unexpected turns,

Linda McQuaig writes terrific fiction too. The Road to Goderich just came out. What a great read. Best book I’ve read in a few years. It’s a great tale, characters very well drawn, spare style, tightly woven, fits together like a complex puzzle, great unexpected turns,
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Watch Naomi Klein’s brilliant take on “end-times fascism” & how it differs from earlier fascisms. She paints a hopeful picture of a way out - through progressive, international solidarity Linda McQuaig Maude Barlow #cdnpoli #abpoli #onpoli #bcpoli youtube.com/watch?v=9rTkfo… 📷

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Don’t make a secret deal with Trump, Mr. Carney. After the election, your elbows seem to be down. Put any deal to Canadians to decide in a referendum. Read insightful op-ed by Christopher Holcroft Linda McQuaig Maude Barlow #cdnpoli #abpoli #bcpoli thetyee.ca/Analysis/2025/…