The European football association with a remarkable condemnation of financialized capitalism. "Football’s future cannot be dictated by the expectations of those whose first duty is to maximise financial return." Read it in full. www.uefa.com/news-media/n...
Statement on behalf of UEFA and its 55 national associations
UEFA and its national associations will not participate in FIFA competitions.
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Defense strategy must be a middle power resilience strategy - and it can be. That's my main learning from Gloves Off Ep. 5. Me, Stephen Marche and Vasiliki (Vass) Bednar work through it on the Cross Check aftershow. lnkd.in/gPtqnng5
Now that trade is political, there's no path to a stable new free trade agreement with the U.S. that will encourage investment in Canada. No investor will believe in the long-term security of U.S. market access. So, if nostalgia isn't a strategy, what's next? www.youtube.com/shorts/edBGF...
The Stable Canada–U.S. Trade Deal Is Over
YouTube video by Gloves Off with Stephen Marche
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We mapped the agreements Canada has signed since @mark-carney.bsky.social took office. It's interactive and will be updated as new ones come in. Partnership between @canadianshieldinstitute.ca, @scpartners.bsky.social and the Gloves Off podcast. Check it out. variablegeometry.ca
Tracking Variable Geometry
An interactive global map of Canada's recent international agreements, updated live.
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Each week Shield Managing Director @vassb.bsky.social is also sitting down with Gloves Off host Stephen Marche and SCP's @jonshell.bsky.social to have a free-flowing conversation about Canadian sovereignty, and our strategy. Watch Cross Check Ep. 1 here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=arQG...
Cross Check: The Rupture
YouTube video by Gloves Off with Stephen Marche
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In time for Canada Day, a powerful 4-part video series from re-generation, "How to Buy a Country." It gives the essential backstory to our fight for survival against Trump: free trade, staples dependence, and political domination. Trailer: youtube.com/watch?v=r5-3.... #cdnpoli /2
How to Buy a Country | Official Trailer
YouTube video by re•generation
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Launch day! Cross-Check is a new YouTube show with me, @vassb.bsky.social and @stephenmarche.bsky.social digging in on the topics covered in Stephen's Gloves Off podcast. We start with the Davos speech - 6 months later, what does it mean, and how does Canada win? www.youtube.com/watch?v=arQG...
Cross Check: The Rupture
YouTube video by Gloves Off with Stephen Marche
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It's Canada Day. Season 2 of Gloves Off is here. How Canada can move beyond surviving—and start winning—in the new world disorder. Listen here apple.co/glovesoff or watch on YouTube www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBni... #GlovesOffPodcast #Canada #Geopolitics #CanadianPolitics
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Society & Culture Podcast · Updated Weekly · Gloves Off is about the threat to Canada’s sovereignty and how the country can thrive in the new world disorder. Because it’s not just about surviving as a...
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I hate the conversation about “productivity” because no one ever explains what it actually means or what they are talking about. This is a fantastic explainer.
Matthew Mendelsohn@mendelmatt.bsky.social · 5mo agoCanada needs to increase its productivity performance. But we keep talking about the wrong things. What would actually help?
"Employee Ownership Trusts provide a practical alternative that keeps companies rooted here, protects jobs and maintains strategic capacity in the Canadian economy.” 👏👏👏 🖋️ by @alexriehl.com at @betakit.com #OwnershipMatters #EOTs
Business leaders urge Ottawa to extend employee ownership tax incentive | BetaKit
A short-lived tax break that encourages founders to sell to their employees is set to expire this year.
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🚨New video!🚨 Canada is facing a $2-trillion business handoff. What if employees owned more of it? #EmployeeOwnership #SmallBusiness #FutureofWork #CdnPoli #CanadaSky #BusinessSuccession #CdnEcon
🚨New video! 🚨 We all want more investment in Canada's economy. But when it comes to foreign investment (FDI), @jonshell.bsky.social says we have to ask: is it investment that builds? Or investment that buys? Because these are two very different things. #FDI #cdnpoli #cdnecon #econsky
Are foreign takeovers good for Canada's economy?
YouTube video by Social Capital Partners
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You know what’s easier than making a generational investment and building a bunch of new things? Not selling the things we already have. An investment strategy without an ownership strategy from the federal government is not good enough. @jonshell.bsky.social www.linkedin.com/pulse/you-ca...
You can’t be sovereign if you don’t own anything
Canada needs an ownership strategy, not just an investment strategy The day before the Canadian federal budget was introduced, a Canadian gold mining company called New Gold announced that it would be...
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Canada’s wealth gap is way worse than official data show. The PBO just confirmed the top 1% own nearly 25% of all wealth—which StatsCan missed because it doesn’t even count the richest families in its surveys. 🔗 Read more: socialcapitalpartners.ca/wealth-inequ... #CdnPoli #BillionaireBlindspot
Wealth inequality in Canada is far worse than StatsCan reports
Our government’s best available data on Canada’s wealth gap excludes, by design, the wealthiest families in the country. As SCP Director of Policy Dan Skilleter writes, if we didn’t have the Parliamen...
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🚨New video🚨 As Canadians, we like to think we’re strong and free. But, when it comes to the wealth gap, we’re looking more like America Lite—better manners, but almost all the inequality. #CdnPoli #CanadaSky #Wealth #EconSky
The Parkland (🍁) sale to Sunoco (🗽) offers little benefit to Canada while risking jobs, innovation and sovereignty. Ottawa should say no. Read Sarah Doyle and @jonshell.bsky.social in Policy Options. #FDI #OwnershipMatters #AlwaysCanada #Never51 policyoptions.irpp.org/2025/09/suno...
Canada should reject Sunoco’s US$9-billion takeover of Parkland
The Parkland sale to Sunoco offers little benefit to Canada while risking jobs, innovation and sovereignty. Ottawa should say no.
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Build, baby, build? Or sell, baby, sell? Sunoco's acquisition of Parkland is a bad deal for Canada, and should be rejected. policyoptions.irpp.org/2025/09/suno...
Canada should reject Sunoco’s US$9-billion takeover of Parkland
The Parkland sale to Sunoco offers little benefit to Canada while risking jobs, innovation and sovereignty. Ottawa should say no.
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Today's meeting with @jonshell.bsky.social , chair of @scpartners.bsky.social , @danskilleter.bsky.social, Gene Chartier, Taylor Seek hon, and Lee Chitiz, all representing Employee Ownership Trusts (EOTs), was productive and insightful. #employeeownershiptrusts
For @guardian I wrote about how the world is separating from America this Independence Day. www.theguardian.com/us-news/comm...
This Fourth of July, the world declares its independence from America | Stephen Marche
America is turning away from itself, and the rest of the world must follow
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We can't win this trade war with the US, but we can win the next one. Appeared on @stephenmarche.bsky.social's new podcast Gloves Off (lnkd.in/gtc3qFRa) to talk about whether free trade with America has really been good for Canada and what a pivot toward a Middle Power Alliance could look like.
Growth that widens inequality will weaken, not strengthen our economy. Canada Strong means putting economic sovereignty and broad access to wealth-building at the heart of our agenda. Read Matthew's piece: socialcapitalpartners.ca/as-the-feder... #CanadaSky #CdnPoli #AlwaysCanada #Never51
As the federal government sets out to “build, baby, build,” do we want to own or be owned?
As our new government pursues growth and a nation-building agenda, we should remember this lesson from history: too often, we build and invest, only to sell off our assets and resources to the highest...
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Sunoco's deal to buy Parkland is as clear a decision as the government is going to face. @mendelmatt.bsky.social and I write that it needs to be killed. No new investment, lost good Canadian jobs and lost energy infrastructure to an American company. All for a small premium. Embows up = no deal
Social Capital Partners🇨🇦@scpartners.bsky.social · last yr.Canada should kill the Sunoco deal that would see the TX-based energy giant take over AB-based Parkland Corp. Elbows up means using all available tools to protect Canadian sovereignty. Read our op-ed in today's Star: www.thestar.com/opinion/cont... #ICA #AlwaysCanada #CdnPoli #Never51 #EconSky
PM Carney met Trump at the White House last week and passed his first real test. Now he faces a different kind of test. Will Canada be willing to go "elbows up" in the Sunoco/ Parkland energy takeover and kill the deal? @mendelmatt.bsky.social, @jonshell.bsky.social 👇 #Never51 #CanadaSky
Mark Carney passed a tough test in Washington. He now faces an even tougher one at home
Canada cannot afford to cede further control of its infrastructure to foreign interests.
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As the threat to Canada’s sovereignty intensifies, we need policies that keep Canadian companies owned by Canadians. Employee-ownership is growing in 🍁 for good reasons: - more wealth for workers - more resilient in recessions - more productive 🔗 goodmenproject.com/featured-con... #EOT #CdnPoli
Corporate leaders are obsessing over GDP per capita. But, if you look at just about any number that would meaningfully tell you how well our economy is doing, Canada does better than the U.S. @mendelmatt.bsky.social @jimstanford.bsky.social #alwayscanada #never51 #gdp #cdnpoli #cdnecon
At PPF growth summit. Starting with a classic orthodox economic speech by a bank economist. Manufacturing isn't important, invest in services, we have educated people. Yawn.
Yesterday, America had their “Liberation Day.” Now it’s time for the rest of us to plan our own. The world needs a new Alliance, independent of the US or China. Here's one way to do it. It's wrong and incomplete. But maybe it can help get the ball rolling. jonshell.medium.com/manifesto-fo...
Manifesto for the Rest(o)
Middle Powers Unite! It’s time to plan our own Liberation Day
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The bravest person in know, being awesome.
The Walrus@thewalrus.ca · last yr.Rich tech leaders are sharing their ideas about how political decisions should be made. Vass Bednar, executive director of McMaster University’s master of public policy in digital society, has to wonder: Is a Canadian version of DOGE in our future? thewalrus.ca/are-a-handful-of...
Rich tech leaders are sharing their ideas about how political decisions should be made. Vass Bednar, executive director of McMaster University’s master of public policy in digital society, has to wonder: Is a Canadian version of DOGE in our future? thewalrus.ca/are-a-handful-of...