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Leni Spooner @lenispooner.bsky.social · 2d

Thanks, Linda — appreciate the pin and the share 🔥🙌

Leni Spooner @lenispooner.bsky.social · 2d

🔥 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

Caldron of Chaos: How America’s Implosion is Rewriting Canada’s Future

While America’s political theatre keeps the cameras rolling, its power structure is quietly being rebuilt. Canada’s survival depends on recognizing that this is not a phase — it’s a transformation.

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Leni Spooner @lenispooner.bsky.social · 9d

Agreed. The longer we keep our powder dry the better.

Leni Spooner @lenispooner.bsky.social · 10d

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? 🇨🇦

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#CUSMA #AI #Fall24 #cdnpoli

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Leni Spooner @lenispooner.bsky.social · 11d

From Collingwood’s farm stalls to city halls — how we grow back local food systems. What is Canada's 'missing middle'?
#SundayRead 📚
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A colourful display of locally grown produce at a rural market in Collingwood, Ontario. The produce section features neatly arranged rows of red, orange, yellow, and green bell peppers, leafy greens, carrots, leeks, cucumbers, mushrooms, and herbs under a chalkboard listing farm origins and prices. The scene captures the abundance of Ontario-grown food and the pride of small producers supplying local markets.

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Leni Spooner @lenispooner.bsky.social · 12d

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...

A diverse group of silhouetted people standing on a ridge at sunrise, looking at a glowing Earth—symbolizing collective global responsibility and hope for climate action.

People everywhere are beginning to look up—and insist on changing who pays to protect it. The billable path is shifting.

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Leni Spooner @lenispooner.bsky.social · 18d

🌊 #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

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TA Childhood on Superior — and a Fight for the Great Lakes

From campfire suppers to sovereignty stakes — why the Lakes aren’t just scenery.

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Dani Em @dani-em.bsky.social · 21d

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

Canada Post says green light to end door-to-door deliveries can help with climb out of financial hole | CBC

www.cbc.ca

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Leni Spooner @lenispooner.bsky.social · 21d

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 at the Crossroads: BRICS, Trump, and the Fight for Trade Sovereignty

As BRICS expands and Trump pushes protectionism, Canada faces tough choices. Should we deepen ties to the U.S. through USMCA, diversify toward Europe and Asia, or risk being left adrift in a multipola...

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Leni Spooner @lenispooner.bsky.social · 22d

I agree. I'm very impressed with the PM on the world stage. Time will tell how well he manages the domestic stresses...and there are many and not of his making. I don't regret my vote either!

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Leni Spooner @lenispooner.bsky.social · 22d

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

Stolen Childhoods: Canada’s UN Spotlight on Ukraine’s Abducted Children

Prime Minister Mark Carney used his first UN appearance to accuse Russia of abducting thousands of Ukrainian children — making it Canada’s top priority on the world stage. Here’s why the choice matter...

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Leni Spooner @lenispooner.bsky.social · 22d

🇨🇦👩‍🎓 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...

A shopfront window displays two red-and-white signs reading “We Are Hiring” and “Apply Today.” The empty bottom panel underscores how opportunities are shrinking, symbolizing the gap between visible job ads and the reality of scarce, unstable work for young Canadians in 2025.

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LadyFireHorse 🍁 @ladyfirehorse.bsky.social · 23d

Brilliant!

J. Elvis Weinstein @jelvisweinstein.bsky.social · 24d

I know antifa isn't a real organization because I don't get 40 texts a week from them asking for donations.

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Leni Spooner @lenispooner.bsky.social · 23d

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...

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Kara Fagan 🇨🇦 Liberal @fagankara.bsky.social · 24d

Let’s do it #Canada

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Leni Spooner @lenispooner.bsky.social · 23d

🙏 thanks!

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Leni Spooner @lenispooner.bsky.social · 24d

🇨🇦 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...

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Leni Spooner @lenispooner.bsky.social · Sep 15

🇨🇦 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-...

A New Housing Road Map: Canada’s Biggest Build Push Since WWII - Between the Lines

Canada is in a housing crisis — and this week, Ottawa responded with the most ambitious federal push since the postwar era. Prime Minister Mark Carney launch...

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PEIPolitical 🇨🇦 @peipolitical.bsky.social · Sep 14

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

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Leni Spooner @lenispooner.bsky.social · Sep 14

Wonderful early fall #sundayread!

Sussex Bylines @sussexbylines.co.uk · Aug 24

With all the horrendous news confronting us at the moment on the world stage, here's a wonderful respite for your #SundayRead from @mickchannon.bsky.social Take a deep breath, rest, recover, and come back into the fray...

The pause between breaths

The change of seasons is a time to slow down, reflect and renew

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Leni Spooner @lenispooner.bsky.social · Sep 14

“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...

Why Resilience, Not Certainty, Is the Best Inheritance

Farmland shrinks, costs rise, and the world grows more unpredictable. The one inheritance we can truly pass on to our children isn’t…

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Leni Spooner @lenispooner.bsky.social · Sep 13

🌿 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.
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Freedom Found Close to Home - Between the Lines

This summer reminded me that freedom isn’t always about how far we travel, but how deeply we root ourselves in the places close to home. From gardens and con...

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Leni Spooner @lenispooner.bsky.social · Sep 11

Hilarious. All too true, and hilarious.

The Howling North🇨🇦🖤🩶🤍💜 @lanewight.bsky.social · Sep 11

www.thebeaverton.com/2025/09/poil...

#cdnpoli

Poilievre demands Carney scrap Temporary Foreign Worker program so Conservatives can quietly reinstate it

OTTAWA - Pierre Poilievre is demanding the TFW program be scrapped, in order for him to ride a wave of public resentment over immigrant labour into the Prime Minister's office before quietly reinstati...

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Glen 🇨🇦 part owner of Canada* @honestcanadian.bsky.social · Sep 10

H55 is a Swiss multinational company that has built their new battery factory in Canada.
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H55 Accelerates North American Expansion with New Aircraft Battery Pack Manufacturing Facility in Canada - H55

Over 100 systems already sold on the Bristell B23 Energic platform, as the company inaugurates its Québec facility to continue supporting its customers LONGUEUIL, QUEBEC, CANADA – August 28, 2025 – ...

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🇨🇦 👊🇨🇦 @sorry-iamcanadian.bsky.social · Sep 11

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

Canadians made three million fewer trips to the U.S. during summer travel boycott

August continued a pattern of U.S. visitors to Canada outnumbering Canadians travelling to the U.S.

www.theglobeandmail.com

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