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Because we believe the best defence is a strong, fearless, people-powered press.
Today we are kicking off a summer-long fundraising campaign to recruit 500 new monthly donors and ensure the sustainability of our award-winning journalism.
Your support will allow us to:
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We rely on your support, not billionaires or advertisers. A monthly donation is a direct investment in a small team of journalists who work tirelessly to challenge power and expose those behind the decisions shaping your life.
This year, we launched In Bed with the Elephant, a bold new podcast hosted by Adrian Harewood, confronting the defining issues of this historic moment. Help us keep expanding our coverage within a shrinking Canadian news ecosystem by becoming a supporter today!
But we want to make sure we express our deep gratitude to our supporters too, that’s why this summer, we are also including rewards for our monthly donors!
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And as promised, we would also like to shout out Janis, Kirwan, Joel, Shirley and Matthew for becoming Ricochet supporters this week!
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Stephen Maher: Canada Weak
The obituaries are premature, but Canada’s secessionist movements are putting dangerous strains on the federation
By: Stephen Maher
Near the end of an election that was not going well for him, Bloc Québécois leader Yves-François Blanchet delivered a disdainful assessment of his country: “Like it or not, we are part of an artificial country, which has very little meaning, called Canada.”
When Nova Scotia Premier Tim Houston fired off a letter saying, somewhat histrionically, that Blanchet had insulted “all Canadians and our great nation,” Blanchet repeated his assertion. He was stating a fact, he said, not trying to insult anyone.
“I am not the one to have said that Canada is a post-national nation,” he said. “Quebec is anything but a post-national nation. It’s a proud nation.”
Canada exists. The recent election demonstrates that Canadians, including an overwhelming majority in French and English Canada, want it to continue to exist — and do not wish to be annexed by the United States.
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Point Park returned to Northern Ontario First Nations after 27 year-long struggle
New town council declines to appeal June 17 ruling, concluding ‘endless litigation’.
By: Jon Thompson
The smell of walleye and the sound of live music wafted through Point Park on Indigenous Peoples Day. Under the 30C sun, dozens of children ran between the beach and inflatable, bouncy castles.
Susan Councillor took in the ruckus under a lone tree at the edge of the park. Across the mouth of Rainy River to her right, you could see International Falls, Minnesota. To her left, Couchiching First Nation was visible on the southern shore of Rainy Lake. And behind her, the highway met the Town of Fort Frances. All of this action right in the middle felt to her like the good old days.
“This is awesome. We haven’t had something like this anywhere, (a place) to sit and enjoy music and visit with people. There used to be pow wows here, there used to be fairgrounds. There used to be baseball,” she said. “It’s such a beautiful piece of land but it wasn’t being utilized for anything. When the organizers planned this, they didn’t know about the verdict that came out on Wednesday. It just fell into place.”
She was referring to a June 17 summary ruling 27 years in the making, which returns this sliver of land known as Point Park to the nearby Couchiching, Mitaanjigamiing, Naicatchewenin, and Nigigoonsiminikaaning First Nations, collectively known as Agency One.
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Zohran Mamdani’s victory should be a wake-up call to Canadian progressives
Mamdani’s win proves that people-first politics rooted in fairness, affordability, and real unity is the way forward
By: Jared Walker
By all the usual measures in American politics, it should never have been close.
Andrew Cuomo was the Democratic governor of New York for a decade, the son of a man who was elected governor three times. He has been a mainstay of national Democratic politics for three decades, since being a part of the Clinton administration in the 1990s. He is a powerful man with a history of sexual harassment in a country that has refused to punish men for this behaviour, instead granting them even higher offices, including the Presidency.
And then there was the money. Cuomo had a gargantuan financial advantage thanks to being bankrolled by a wide and cross-partisan array of billionaires and big money, from MAGA hedge funder Bill Ackman, to billion dollar app Door Dash, to three-term New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg.
Despite all that, Zohran Mamdani, a New York State Assemblyman with a name many New York voters hadn’t heard even a year ago, didn’t just beat Cuomo. He dog-walked him by a seven per cent margin in the first round of a ranked-choice election.
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On the latest episode of In Bed with the Elephant — A guest cast from our friends from Canada’s National Observer: The Takeover – Smoke, Fire and the Climate Pushback
This week, we’re doing something a little different. We’ve teamed up with our friends over at Canada’s National Observer to share the first episode of their gripping new podcast, The Takeover.
This series pulls back the curtain on a rising movement of politicians, think tanks and billionaires working to dismantle global climate commitments…
All of this at a time when huge parts of Canada enter extreme heat warnings under record-setting temperatures and wildfires burn across the country.
In this first episode, journalist Sandra Bartlett travels to London to attend one of the biggest conservative conferences in the world.
You can find The Takeover on your favourite podcast app or on Canada’s National Observer’s website.
We’ll be back next week on In Bed with the Elephant with more conversations that matter. But for now, here’s episode one of The Takeover.
Listen wherever you listen to podcasts.
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Canada must show moral courage as Israel–Iran tensions rise
Israel’s war crimes in Gaza and the bombing of Iran are not just concerning, they are unacceptable to an increasing number of Canadians
By: Jasmine Ramze Rezaee
As tensions escalate between Israel and Iran, Canada faces a defining foreign policy test. While we are not a military power in the region, we are a country that claims to stand for international law and human rights. In the face of mounting violence, Prime Minister Mark Carney must decide whether Canada will remain muted or take a principled stand, however modest, in defence of civilian lives and global norms.
Israel’s conduct is at the heart of this volatile moment. For more than three decades, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has warned that Iran is “months away” from developing a nuclear weapon. This apocalyptic warning has been repeated so often that it should have lost any credibility. Yet it has resurfaced once again, now serving as a pretext for pre-emptive military strikes.
We’ve seen this playbook before. In 2003, the United States invaded Iraq based on nuclear intelligence that was later discredited… Today, the conditions feel eerily familiar.
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