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TODAY IN CANADA: In 1936 the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) was established. Today, CBC/Radio-Canada offers programming in English, French, and eight Indigenous languages on its domestic radio service. 📻 YOUR SAY: What’s the first CBC show you remember? Bonus points if it involved a puppet.

Starting your holiday shopping? Use the Main Street Canada shopping guide — 362 small Canadian businesses hit by the tariffs. #BuyCanadian No tracking links. No affiliate links. Just businesses to support. ✅ Download free PDF: shopping.todmaffin.com ✅ Online directory: mainstreet.todmaffin.com

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This weekend, I asked my newsletter readers how much of an effort they make to buy Canadian. Turns out they read grocery labels more closely than I proofread the newsletter. ✅ Weigh in on the next poll this weekend. Join the newsletter: join.farandwide.news

Want to hang out? I've got time this month for meetups in Vancouver and Victoria. BUT: I need a downtown venue for both. If you OWN or MANAGE a suitable indoor venue that can accommodate 100 people, please let me know about it at venue.todmaffin.com (please use that form, not replies to this post).

It’s time to announce the next phase of Main Street Canada!

It’s time to announce the next phase of Main Street Canada! 📰 𝗡𝗘𝗪𝗦𝗟𝗘𝗧𝗧𝗘𝗥: newsletter.todmaffin.com 👕 𝗠𝗘𝗥𝗖𝗛: shop.todmaffin.com 🎙️ 𝗣𝗢𝗗𝗖𝗔𝗦𝗧: mirrorfalls.com ☕ Help support my work: support.todmaffin.com 🔗 Follow me on social: links.todmaffin.com ✉️ Contact my team: contact.todmaffin.com

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Tod Maffin 🇨🇦@todmaffin.com · 3d ago

A major announcement about our Main Street Canada project coming later today! 🤫

Did you or your kids have a particularly Canadian costume for Halloween? Post a pic in the comments! ⬇️

Tod Maffin 🇨🇦@todmaffin.com · 3d ago

Why yes, we ARE the popular house on Hallowe’en!

Why yes, we ARE the popular house on Hallowe’en! 📰 𝗡𝗘𝗪𝗦𝗟𝗘𝗧𝗧𝗘𝗥: newsletter.todmaffin.com 👕 𝗠𝗘𝗥𝗖𝗛: shop.todmaffin.com 🎙️ 𝗣𝗢𝗗𝗖𝗔𝗦𝗧: mirrorfalls.com ☕ Help support my work: support.todmaffin.com 🔗 Follow me on social: links.todmaffin.com ✉️ Contact my team: contact.todmaffin.com

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Tod Maffin 🇨🇦@todmaffin.com · 4d ago

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Tod Maffin 🇨🇦@todmaffin.com · 5d ago

TODAY IN CANADA: In 1995, Québec voters narrowly voted down separating from Canada, by a margin of barely 1%. 🍁YOUR SAY: Should the rest of Canada have any say when one province votes on leaving? Why or why not?

Tod Maffin 🇨🇦@todmaffin.com · 5d ago

Canada's new national security plan in plain English

Ottawa just released Canada’s first national security strategy in more than 20 years, and almost nobody has read it. So I did. It’s a 13-page national security framework from Prime Minister Mark Carney’s government, and the first strategy of its kind since 2004. I compare it to a home insurance policy we signed two decades ago, tossed in the junk drawer with the Ikea Allen keys, and forgot about because we lived next door to the biggest fire department on Earth. Then the neighbour started threatening to move in. In this video, I break down what’s actually inside Canada’s national security strategy: Economic security and the eight sectors Canada wants to control for itself Defence spending and the path to NATO’s 5 per cent of GDP target by 2035 Public safety, infrastructure protection, and money laundering Intelligence, including plans to expand Canada’s role in the Five Eyes alliance with the US, UK, Australia, and New Zealand How Ottawa talks about the United States after annexation threats Why so much of this plan is a promise to write more plans What gives me cautious hope, including updates at least every four years and national security as a standing item at First Ministers’ Meetings If you care about Canadian sovereignty, Canada US relations, Canadian defence policy, or what Ottawa is actually planning while the headlines are elsewhere, this one’s for you. Subscribe for more plain-language breakdowns of Canadian politics, policy, and identity. And tell me in the comments: should Canada keep sharing intelligence with the United States? #Canada #CanadianPolitics #NationalSecurity #PlanForAStrongerCanada #MarkCarney #CanadaUS #FiveEyes #CanadianSovereignty #NATO #DefenceSpending #Ottawa #LetsJustReadTheGoddamnedThing --- 🏆 Get exclusive weekly Behind the Scenes videos and more by joining this channel! https://www.youtube.com/todmaffinvideo/join 📰 NEWSLETTER https://newsletter.todmaffin.com ✅ MY LINKTREE: https://links.todmaffin.com ☕ Like my stuff? — Buy me a coffee https://support.todmaffin.com 🦋 Follow me on Bluesky — https://bsky.app/profile/todmaffin.com 🔗 Contact my team — https://contact.todmaffin.com

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TODAY IN CANADA: In 1929, share prices on the Montreal and Toronto stock exchanges plummeted in their worst drop ever, as the New York crash spread north. 💲YOUR SAY: Name a Canadian town you think handles tough times better than anywhere else. Why that one?

This Week’s Act of “Relentless Decency” A student in Surrey, B.C., founded Tales with Teens, a program that offers online aids to help youth become less reliant on AI. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Surrey teen starts free literacy program to combat AI reliance among peers | CBC News

A Grade 12 student in Surrey, B.C., says she has helped hundreds of school-aged kids improve their literacy skills after starting a free program this year aimed at reducing AI reliance and…

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It's time for a very special Halloween Cannections! Throw your costume on over your snowsuit and get to solving. Share your scores in the comments below. 🎃 games.hey.cafe/cannections/...

Cannections Thursday Edition / Hey.Café Games

The Thursday Edition of a Canadian based word matching game where you pick 4 words that match. Puzzles by Tod Maffin and Elspeth Wright with a new one every Thursday for you to enjoy.

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Tod Maffin 🇨🇦@todmaffin.com · 7d ago

How to respond to American pressure on Canada after the midterms

How to respond to American pressure on Canada after the midterms 📰 𝗡𝗘𝗪𝗦𝗟𝗘𝗧𝗧𝗘𝗥: newsletter.todmaffin.com 👕 𝗠𝗘𝗥𝗖𝗛: shop.todmaffin.com 🎙️ 𝗣𝗢𝗗𝗖𝗔𝗦𝗧: mirrorfalls.com ☕ Help support my work: support.todmaffin.com 🔗 Follow me on social: links.todmaffin.com ✉️ Contact my team: contact.todmaffin.com

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TODAY IN CANADA: 1995 Canadian acrobat Jay Cochrane crossed 636 metres of steel wire, 411 metres above the Yangtze River at Three Gorges, China. The trip took him 53 minutes. 🌄YOUR SAY: Which Canadian deserves a statue for doing something absolutely unhinged?

Tod Maffin 🇨🇦@todmaffin.com · 7d ago

Alberta democracy, in a nutshell: 1. Hold a referendum to ask citizens if they should do something. 2. Citizens reject it by 57%. 3. Alberta ignores referendum results and does it anyway. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Alberta pursuing own dental, drug plans despite referendum defeat on federal opt-outs | CBC News

The United Conservative Party government will press ahead with its plan to opt out of federal dental and drug benefit programs in favour of its own made-in-Alberta approach, even though voters…

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Tod Maffin 🇨🇦@todmaffin.com · 7d ago

If you've ever said "Fuck it, I'm moving to an island and starting a bakery..." There's one in Campbell River for sale ($449,900 CAD / $320,500 USD). Turnkey, fully equipped, with wholesale accounts and a school lunch program. (This was not a paid post.) sophiegardnerhometeam.ca/properties/2...

TODAY IN CANADA: In 1982 Bill C-201 was given Royal Assent, legally changing Dominion Day to Canada Day. 🍁 YOUR SAY: If Canada Day needed a new name today, what would you call it?

Stephen Smith 🇨🇦@smist08.bsky.social · last wk.

Not surprised Telus is awful. We still have an active complaint filed against them with the federal regulator. That’s how bad their billing practices were with us.

No. Got rid of it, only getting spam calls and Telus kept silently raising the price, which they’d put down again if called, but too annoying to continue. Have MeshCore and ham radios for emergencies. Also lots of battery backups.

TODAY IN CANADA: In 1887, Saskatchewan's first telephone exchange (not pictured) opened in a bookstore in Regina, transforming communication across the Canadian Prairies. ☎YOUR SAY: Do you still have a landline? Why or why not?

Last Saturday I asked: do you send snail mail? 1,993 of you answered. Every week I ask one question in my free email newsletter, and you settle it. ✅ Weigh in on the next poll this weekend. Join the newsletter: join.farandwide.news

B.C. elected Conservatives, but what if we elected no parties at all?

B.C. just elected a Conservative majority, and headlines call it the first Conservative government in nearly a century. What if we elected no parties at all? The Northwest Territories and Nunavut already do. Their MLAs run as independents, pick the premier and cabinet by secret ballot, and the regular members act as a real opposition with real committee power. #BCElection #BCPolitics #CanadianPolitics #ConsensusGovernment #Nunavut #NorthwestTerritories #ElectoralReform BC election 2026, BC Conservatives, BC politics, Canadian politics, consensus government, Nunavut, Northwest Territories, no political parties, electoral reform Canada, first past the post, John Main Nunavut premier --- 🏆 Get exclusive weekly Behind the Scenes videos and more by joining this channel! https://www.youtube.com/todmaffinvideo/join 📰 NEWSLETTER https://newsletter.todmaffin.com ✅ MY LINKTREE: https://links.todmaffin.com ☕ Like my stuff? — Buy me a coffee https://support.todmaffin.com 🦋 Follow me on Bluesky — https://bsky.app/profile/todmaffin.com 🔗 Contact my team — https://contact.todmaffin.com

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