Max Cameron

Opinion: This is what the opening move of the U.S.’s attempted annexation of Canada could look like A Trump annexation effort would likely start in the North. It’s time to take the possibility seriously and have a hard conversation about Canada’s maritime Arctic sovereignty

This is brilliant. And deeply concerning.
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Trump Administration Asks Colleges to Sign ‘Compact’ to Get Funding Preference

If you want federal funding judged by a committee of your peers with high success rates, UBC Political Science is hiring an endowed chair in democracy and SFU is hiring in political psychology

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Jason Kenney says a sovereignty referendum in Alberta would be 'deeply divisive'' Former Alberta premier Jason Kenney doesn’t mince words when asked about possible Alberta separation.

"It's bananas if we allow a tiny, perennially angry minority to drag the whole province through a deeply divisive debate,” - Jason Kenney on the sovereignty referendum in Alberta. www.nationalobserver.com/2025/09/15/n...

⚠️@heiditworek.bsky.social and @cjten.bsky.social recently presented to the BC Special Committee on Democratic and Electoral Reform - using research from collaboration with @meo-cdmrn.bsky.social. @maxcameron.bsky.social, former CSDI Director, also testified.
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Is Canada A Country, Or The 51st State? The Carney government must not cede more ground to the Trump administration by backing down on recognizing the state of Palestine.

David Moscrop is absolutely right. Canada must insist that we have an independent foreign policy and will not have our foreign relations dictated by the United States. See his "Is Canada A Country, Or The 51st State?" open.substack.com/pub/davidmos...

No wonder the people of Ottawa kicked this guy into the unemployment line. For 3 weeks the capital was occupied. Citizens were threatened. Businesses were forced to shut from harassment.
Poilievre brought the donuts.
Canada is dealing with threat from Trump while Poilievre whines about the convoy.

Caving to Trump does not pay. Canada should retaliate proportionately.

Tensión entre Canadá y EE.UU. en la era Trump: análisis con Maxwell Cameron | Al Filo YouTube video by La Mula Stream

Mi entrevista con Javier Torres sobre Trump, Canada, y la política de EEUU.
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What if Alberta really did vote to separate? An independent Alberta would be a landlocked, oil-exporting nation. It would have to enter into long and painful negotiations with Canada and the U.S. over every aspect of its new status.

It is always worth reading what Stewart Prest says!
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Free Speech at UBC: ‘We're Watching This Case Very Closely’ | The Tyee Profs petitioned BC’s Supreme Court to stop land acknowledgments and other ‘political’ statements by the university. That’s dangerous, says a BCCLA lawyer.

"The petition...supposes that being on unceded [Musqueam] territory and not saying anything about it is not political, and that acknowledging it is political...of course, it’s no more political to acknowledge it than to be there without acknowledging it."
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Quentin Skinner and the Contested History of Freedom Over a long career, Skinner has sought to reclaim the idea of republican liberty for the modern age. But his work also raises the question: free for what?

"The grand story of freedom isn’t just about the loss of the republican ideal of independence to an ascendant liberalism; it’s about the invention of the ideal of free self-creation by liberals and socialists, who continue to squander their contribution even now." www.thenation.com/article/poli...

YouTube video by Anselmo Flores Andrade Maxwell A. Cameron. Democracias de Baja Calidad.

Sobre democracias de baja calidad.

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Coloquio IdA-MEAE-EULAC-AFD 2025 | Institut des Amériques www.institutdesameriques.fr/es/cycle/col...

Twitter (X) use predicts substantial changes in well-being, polarization, sense of belonging, and outrage - Communications Psychology Data obtained from a 7-day experience sampling method in a sample of US American users of Twitter (now X) shows short term relationships between Twitter use and wellbeing, sense of belonging, and expe...

"Twitter use is related to decreases in well-being, and increases in political polarization, outrage, and sense of belonging..." www.nature.com/articles/s44...

LASA Guillermo O'Donnell Democracy Award and Lectureship: Michelle Bachelet
Date & Time: May 24, 2025 10:15 AM Pacific Time.
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Mark Carney Meets with Gander Residents Who Helped After 9/11 In Gander, N.L., Liberal Leader Mark Carney meets with Beulah Cooper and Diane Davis, two residents of the town that helped American travellers after the 9/11 terrorist attacks. The city of Gander she...

This is a very sweet conversation, one Carney alluded to in his victory speech.
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We have Whigs and Tories, republicans and monarchists, settlers and Indigenous people, French and English and many other tongues. Trump understands none of this. All he sees is oil, water, and minerals.

Canada is an Atlantic nation, founded by French and English settlers, who occupied the territory of First Nations. Not easy to assimilate into a US melting pot. Why isn't a French monarch invited to also contribute to the throne speech? The last one was quite rightly beheaded.

I'm a republican (small "r"!) but I'm happy to see King Charles deliver the throne speech. The event will underscore that the only source of imperialist danger right now, Trump's US, is entangling itself in a conflict that has implications both within and beyond our borders.

King Charles will visit Canada, deliver throne speech to open Parliament | CBC News King Charles will travel to Canada later this month and deliver the speech from the throne on May 27, it was announced Friday.

I think Carney could have been better prepared for these questions: how will a throne speech by King Charles play in Quebec? And how does inviting the sovereign from another country to open our parliament protect our sovereignty? To be clear: there are good answers. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Carney also writes that "Civic virtue and public spirit atrophy with disuse and grow like muscles with regular exercise." We all need to exercise the muscles of civic virtue and public spiritedness so that we can turn the corner on toxic polarization and divisiveness.

I'm not surprised. On p. 145 of Carney's book Values, he writes: “According to Aristotle in the Nicomachean Ethics, virtue is something we cultivate with practice: ‘We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.’”

Read the transcript of Prime Minister Mark Carney’s victory speech - National | Globalnews.ca Prime Minister Mark Carney, projected to form the next federal government, spoke to an excited crowd in Ottawa on Tuesday morning.

In his election night speech, Mark Carney channelled Aristotle. He said: "We become just by doing just acts, brave by doing brave acts. When we are kind, kindness grows. When we seek unity, unity grows. When we are Canadian, Canada grows." globalnews.ca/news/1115459...

The New Patriotism. Where Do You Sit? | The Tyee The surge in Canadian pride invites a question. What’s the right kind of love of country?

U.S. President Donald Trump’s punitive tariffs and threats of annexation have unleashed an unprecedented wave of pride and indignation among Canadians. It’s a curious thing for a mild-mannered country.

The New Patriotism. Where Do You Sit? | The Tyee The surge in Canadian pride invites a question. What’s the right kind of love of country?

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The New Patriotism. Where Do You Sit? | The Tyee The surge in Canadian pride invites a question. What’s the right kind of love of country?

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YouTube video by SFTheOtherSide Joan Baez and Neil Young, The Oligarchy Tour 

Joan Baez joins the resistance to oligarchy.
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“EE.UU. avanza hacia una democracia vaciada como la de Perú”: Maxwell Cameron En entrevista con Javier Torres en el programa "Al Filo" de #LaMulaStream, el politólogo Maxwell Cameron alertó sobre los riesgos que enfrenta la democracia en Estados Unidos y comparó el descontento ...

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Trump y el fin del equilibrio de poderes | Maxwell Cameron en Al Filo YouTube video by La Mula Stream

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