Views on Defending our Country
Strategies for Sovereignty
Articles for Discussion
With Canada at risk, it is more important than ever to explore strategies and share insights on how best to stand firm against the external pressures threatening our sovereignty.
Everyone has good ideas, but they do little if they are not made known to people who may be in a position to act on them. We intend to build this section into a useful repository of analysis, explanations and potential solutions. The initial articles were written by one of our founders (Ron) over the past several months, some posted on Facebook. There are also articles written by Joe, our website manager. We invite you to discuss these topics using the comment feature, and also to submit some of your own ideas here. Please let us know if you would like to submit an article for discussion, or become a regular contributer.
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Ten Quiet Ways Canadians Can Build Resilience and Hold the Line
10 practical habits and decisions—things ordinary Canadians can do on their own and together—that reduce vulnerability and strengthen resilience in real, measurable ways. None of them are heroic. Most are quiet. That is precisely why they work.
When “Police” Means Something Different: Immigration Enforcement, Authority, and Civil Liberties in the U.S. and Canada
In Canada, “Police” is not merely a descriptive label. It is a legally protected institutional title governed primarily by provincial Police Acts. While the specifics vary across provinces, the underlying rule is consistent: only legally constituted police services may present themselves as police. This is not an oversight or a cosmetic choice. It reflects a core principle of Canadian law, and it significantly distinguishes us from our southern neighbours. Let’s make sure it stays that way.
Canadian Civil Resistance: What History and Minneapolis Teach Us About Defending Democracy
The tale of two resistances With Canada facing an uncertain but deeply troubling risk to its sovereignty from our previously allied U.S. neighbour—driven by increasingly authoritarian leadership—it behooves Canadians to seek inspiration from how ordinary citizens in...
Canada’s Readiness Crisis: Resisting Trump’s “Donroe Doctrine” Threat
The problem: instability caused by erratic politics It is time that Canadians faced the very uncomfortable fact that the world has fundamentally changed in ways that undercut the relative personal security and predictability which most of us have taken for granted...
The alluring fallacy of simplicity
The adage "For every complex problem there is a solution that is clear, simple, and wrong" is attributed to the 1920’s American journalist and satirist H. L. Mencken. That’s a profound maxim which I’ve long taken to heart and which has served me well in my life. ...
Have we regressed in our humanity over the past 2,000 years?
Writing this on Boxing Day in the afterglow of last night's traditional family dinner, I can't help but think about the hundreds of thousands of refugees and displaced people for whom this is a season of abject fear in Donald Trump's USA. I was inspired by the lyrics...
Petitioning Parliament
Until the event of the past year, any Canadian who warned of a possible takeover by our closest ally would have been deemed to be mentally deranged. Now, not only is that a real-world possibility, but its probability is impossible to estimate with any degree of confidence. This threat to Canadian sovereignty motivates the Standing with Canada resistance movement.
Charlie Angus and the Fight to Protect Canadian Sovereignty
Charlie Angus’s recent post on Founding Father D’Arcy McGee’s pivotal role in creating the Canada we love constitutes a compelling reason why we Canadians must preserve our sovereignty at all costs.
Holding on to Canada will likely get harder
While recent polls have reported that 85% of Canadians say they’re tired of hearing about Donald Trump, history has proven that burying one’s head in the proverbial sand in the face of a developing fascist dictatorship has always has disastrous consequences. We must remain vigilant.
Holding on to Canada will likely get harder
While recent polls have reported that 85% of Canadians say they’re tired of hearing about Donald Trump, history has proven that burying one’s head in the proverbial sand in the face of a developing fascist dictatorship has always has disastrous consequences. We must remain vigilant.
Canada as the 51st State?
Until the event of the past year, any Canadian who warned of a possible takeover by our closest ally would have been deemed to be mentally deranged. Now, not only is that a real-world possibility, but its probability is impossible to estimate with any degree of confidence. This threat to Canadian sovereignty motivates the Standing with Canada resistance movement.
Friendship Spurned
In standing up for Canadian sovereignty in the face of Mr. Trump’s stated intent to annex our country, let’s remember that it is their current leadership which we despise, not our many American friends. Kingston Stands with Canada involves Kingstonians coming together to organize public events and provide wearables for all of us who seek to keep Canada free. If you wish to be involved, please click on the Volunteer button on this page.
16 Warning Signs of the Rise of Fascism
I asked the Google AI for a list of defining characteristics of a state devolving into fascism. It returned a list of 16 such characteristics. Disturbingly, the Trump Administration is already so far advanced on nearly all of them that no impartial observer could consider them to be anything but fascist.
U.S.A. border crossing denial
At a recent Kingston event, I heard about a recent U.S. border experience. A woman and her husband were driving on a routine trip to visit family in the U.S. At the U.S. point of entry, the border officer had only one question: how she felt about Canada becoming the 51st state. You won’t believe what happened next.
Worst case scenario
Democracy is, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, “a system of government by the whole population or all the eligible members of a state, typically through elected representatives.” Canadians enjoy an arguably imperfect but still functional democracy which is...
The Nation that could never break
Posts like this one don't need an introduction or commentary; they say it all. Check out this article: The Nation That Trump Could Never Break
Empathy, moral bankruptcy and Canada
As if we needed another reason why Canadians must never accept our nation being taken over by the Trump Administration, yesterday morning's Globe and Mail quoted a spokesperson for U.S. Customs and Border Protection confirming that "it is now the organization's policy...
The Jasmine Mooney story
Ms. Mooney is a 30-something Canadian living in Vancouver. She was essentially kidnapped by US authorities in the sense of having been arbitrarily thrown into a US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention centre while seeking a visa extension at the San...
The well-trod road to autocracy
I gave the AI this prompt: “Provide for me a list of the strategies that historically have been used by political leaders with the ambition of fascist, dictatorial power. Provide strategies deployed in a democratic society to undermine constitutional and democratic safeguards and increase centralized power for the would-be dictator.” Here is the response.
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