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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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.
The U.S. is on fire.
Don’t lie down on it.
Standing With Canada means resisting the influence of the U.S.A. on our own democratic institutions. Canada’s more centrist political culture offers no absolute protection, making vigilance and civic activism essential to stave off democratic backsliding. Here are 8 ways you can make a difference.
Liberalism and the Canadian Soul: Standing With Canada in an Age of Threats
While liberalism remains a core Canadian value, the same cannot be said for our closest neighbor and cultural sibling. In the United States, the term “liberal” is grossly misunderstood by many people, and has become a slur in right-wing discourse. Read this article to discover the actual meaning of liberalism and why it matters.
What Would Happen If a 13-Year-Old Bully Was Given a Billion Dollars and the Power of the Presidency?
Trump’s return is not simply a failure of character—it is a failure of collective vigilance. And if citizens of the USA are to prevent another schoolyard tyrant from ascending to such heights, you must demand not just competence from your leaders, but conscience.
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.
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 fear factor
Last Saturday, I met with a dozen other Kingstonians (including a City Councillor, a former mayoralty candidate and a former school trustee) for a brainstorming session on how best to go about organizing local public gatherings to collectively affirm Canada's...
An important presentation
This is not something to watch in the evening lest you lose a night's sleep. It is YouTube video of a presentation made by Connecticut senator Chris Murphy in the US Senate Chamber, documenting what Donald Trump did in his first six weeks in office in terms of...
Disturbingly Crass
This morning's Globe and Mail included a quite disturbing story about the recent visit of Kristi Noem, the US Secretary of Homeland Security, to the Haskell Free Library. Seated directly on the border, this library is half in the Province of Québec and half in the...
Attack on Canada
In yesterday’s post, I shared some ideas on how we as individual Canadians can contribute to surviving and winning the economic war which Trump has forced upon us. While all of those actions, along with many more that you should collectively come up with, are...
Forced into an economic war
So, the first unjust tariff shots have been fired by the aggressor Trump Administration, forcing Canada into an unwanted, unjustified and highly unequal economic war with our until-recently-closely-allied American neighbours. In his excellent article in the March 1...
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