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John Last retweeted
Jun 4
“The notions of borders, nations, alliances & war that helped sustain ‘the long peace’ of the late 20th century are crumbling. In their place, something far less stable has emerged: a world in which the gray zone is no longer the exception, but the rule.”
—@johnwlast
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Mar 25
With an increasingly erratic U.S. breathing down our necks, Canada feels a lot like Finland in 1948 — only our options are a lot, lot worse.
⬇️ New from me in @ForeignPolicy⬇️
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Mar 3
My latest for @newrepublic, in which @jkenney says definitively he would leave an independent Alberta: newrepublic.com/article/2069… #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
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John Last retweeted
Mar 2
“What we’re looking at here is a radical conservative attempt to reshape American foreign relations,” Michael Williams, an expert on the radical right at the University of Ottawa, told me. “The West is a cultural and political entity, and its greatness … is being undermined by liberalism. So you need to find ways to attack liberalism in any way that you can.”
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John Last retweeted
Mar 2
Figures like Stephen Miller and Steve Bannon, who has explicitly compared Canada to Ukraine, see Canada as a bastion of decadent liberalism in the West that must be broken and subdued, one way or another. trib.al/iaQbcEJ
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“We knew the story of the international rules-based order was partially false. … That rules were enforced asymmetrically. And we knew that international law applied with varying rigour depending on the identity of the accused or the victim.”
— Mark Carney, PM of Canada
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John Last retweeted
28 Aug 2025
“Building a stage worthy of God is one of humankind’s most ancient obsessions. But in the West at least, it is a dying art.”
—@johnwlast
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13 Aug 2025
Back in @NatGeo with an article that's been in the works for some time, about wolfdog hybrids and the dangers they present to owners and conservationists alike.
Read it here:
nationalgeographic.com/anima…
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John Last retweeted
31 May 2025
Once upon a time, “it went largely unquestioned that government experts, working for no one but the public, could help define the best products & practices in the marketplace,” @johnwlast writes.
What happened?
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John Last retweeted
8 May 2025
The Catholic Church has been undergoing a long, slow shift, playing out on the timescale of centuries: a shift to distance itself from the popular enthusiasms of its most devout parishioners.
Read @johnwlast on the tensions within sainthood: longnow.org/ideas/saints-wit…
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4 Apr 2025
The reason the U.S. is the way it is now is because Americans have deeply internalized the idea that all government is bad government.
But the best governments have been big governments that spend lots of money on making life better. /1
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4 Apr 2025
This used to be uncontroversial: government had a role to play in the market. It wasn't supposed to be run like a business. It was the thing that made business possible. /2
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4 Apr 2025
The "great" America MAGA traditionalists harken back to was built on the bones of this exact kind of government. So why are they trying now to tear it down? noemamag.com/the-good-societ…
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John Last retweeted
3 Apr 2025
“For an administration that campaigned on making America ‘great again,’ there is remarkably little curiosity about what version of government, exactly, elicited such widespread acclaim.”
—@johnwlast
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John Last retweeted
31 Mar 2025
As Ottawa’s ties with Washington fray, the Commonwealth could be increasingly valuable for Canadian foreign policy, @johnwlast writes. foreignpolicy.com/2025/03/31…
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John Last retweeted
24 Mar 2025
The CBC has provided vital coverage during the American attack on our sovereignty, really drilling down on, for example, questions around our military vulnerabilities. Getting rid of CBC now, during a sovereignty crisis, would be insane.
23 Mar 2025
Do you still support Pierre Poilievre’s plan to defund the Carney Broadcasting Corporation?
The CBC has made Canada weak. It portrays us as a villainous country with sins that are irredeemable, whose history is without defense.
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22 Mar 2025
Danielle Smith tiny box of shame
21 Mar 2025
Team Canada is strong and united.
Today, Prime Minister @MarkJCarney and Canada’s premiers agreed on the need to cut red tape and streamline approvals to get big things built faster, including unleashing the enormous economic potential of the Ring of Fire. The prime minister answered Ontario’s long-standing call and agreed to end needless duplication by recognizing provincial environmental assessment processes for nation-building projects. This will let us get shovels in the ground years sooner.
Business as usual is over. Let’s get building.
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John Last retweeted
11 Mar 2025
"If it could be proven that the church was built on the foundation of holy fungi, not only would figures like Allegro be vindicated — psychedelics, too, could no longer be considered so taboo."
John Last for @longnow: longreads.com/2025/03/11/is-…
ALT Headline: Is God a Mushroom? Dek: New research into the role of psychedelics upends our understanding of spirituality — and with it, our vision of the cosmos. Tagline: John Last for The Long Now Foundation A logo in the bottom right reads “Longreads Editor’s Pick”
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4 Mar 2025
In 1970, a controversial scholar published a book making an outlandish claim:
Jesus Christ, he said, was a magic mushroom.
50 years later, we've never been less certain that he was wrong.
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