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A battle cry heard across the country is galvanizing Canadians amid U.S. President Donald Trump’s threats of annexation and the ongoing tariff dispute between the neighbouring countries.

‘Elbows Up!’ gained notoriety following Canadian actor Mike Myers’ appearance on the March 1 episode of Saturday Night Live, though its origins date back to the hockey playing days of the legendary Gordie Howe.

“I think, as a country, we’ve always been really quiet about our patriotism,” Carolyne Scramstad, a Winnipeg graphic designer, told CTV News. “And in light of recent events, I think it’s pretty important as a country that we are a little bit louder about how much we love Canada because it’s worth loving.”

Scramstad runs an online store called Real Salty Design Co., selling clothes, accessories and other products.

A few days after Myers’ declaration on U.S. network television, Scramstad joined the ‘Elbows Up!’ movement with a design of her own – a fed-up looking beaver playing hockey in an unmistakably red Team Canada jersey.

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• Richard Sandbrook | Professor Emeritus of Political Science, University of Toronto

The invader cannot consolidate control if citizens and their institutions refuse to comply with its rule. The tactics involve a complete refusal to co-operate with the occupying force along with open defiance.

That means that governments at all levels in the invaded nation continue to supply only basic services: clean water, electricity and policing, for example. Governments resign and civil servants find ways to subvert every order issued by the invader.

Crowds fill urban squares in silent or derisory defiance of orders, making it apparent to all — the occupiers, the dictator’s audience back home, less committed citizens and global observers — who are the true purveyors of violence against non-violent people

Throughout the occupation, citizens and non-governmental organizations focus on subverting the loyalty and morale of the occupying troops and functionaries and rallying international support.

In Canada’s case, the long history of friendship with Americans would likely mean that the morale of the occupiers would be low. The aim is to encourage defections by soldiers and functionaries, and erode the support base of the dictator. This erosion of support could lead to the overthrow of the leader, or at least to his concoction of a compromise to cover a retreat.

Attracting international support to Canada’s cause would not be a challenge. Trump has already alienated most of humankind and foreign governments during his first weeks in office.

Obstacles

Non-violent resistance is most effective with nation-wide training, organization and leadership. The national government is best equipped to provide the facilities. Training of volunteers could include responding to natural disasters and emergencies, as well as implementing a civil defence strategy.

Yet partisan divides and apathy make such nationwide training difficult. It would likely be viewed with suspicion by right-wing populist forces in this era of conspiracy theories and misinformation.

Apathy might also be a problem.

These considerations suggest that top-down, apolitical training in civilian defence may not work. If so, training and organization should be the goal of as many existing civil society associations as possible: churches, synagogues, temples, civil rights groups, unions, Indigenous rights organizations, peace advocates and climate groups, for example.

The manual authored by Michael Beer, the longtime director of the Nonviolence International non-governmental organization, includes more than 300 tactics. Widespread training and organization can not only deter aggression but ensure countries remain free of tyrants.

Hey, y'all, I want to help us to be on guard for Canada, and I was thinking I should learn how to fly drones.

I have started looking at schools and at the Transport Canada website. I'd like to hear from those who know more about drone flight schools and fly drones themselves.

I've never flown one myself, even if I do find them rather cool. I'm too old and creaky (and too averse to hierarchy) to join the military, but I can make myself useful in other ways.

Should I get a small drone (below 250 g) and practice?

Are there virtual tools I could practice with? I wouldn't want to crash an expensive piece of gear while I'm learning to pilot it.

Please chime in with your advice.

PP wants to destroy CBC completely and force us to be reliant on american-owned Postmedia, Sun Media, Saltwire Network instead!

For starters, Trump appears aware that he’s become a factor in the Canadian election, and that he may have contributed to the Liberal Party’s extraordinary rebound. He, and people close to him, have made statements showing some awareness of those dynamics.

Another reason? Carney is not Trudeau. Trump spoke with unique disdain for the former PM, something his former aide John Bolton said Trump also did in private.

Carney also surprised some Americans with his comments yesterday about the rupture in Canada-U.S. relations, getting lots of attention in Washington.

Washington-based Canada-U.S. trade consultant Eric Miller said it has begun to dawn on people here that there could be long-term damage to a close relationship, one that benefits the U.S.

“They [realize the] need to moderate their rhetoric and keep the relationship going in a historically positive direction,” Miller said.

And finally, Americans don’t want a fight with Canada. Poll after poll shows that tariffs on Canada are unpopular, as is the 51st-state talk.

Consumer sentiment is plunging and inflation fears are at a decades-long high, so Trump has some incentives to patch things up.

“Of course, it’s one statement, one call,” Miller added. “[Trump] changes just like the weather.”

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For those unfamiliar, please see this post: https://lemmy.ca/post/40262691

In total we received 20 nominations for the English category, 5 for the French category, and 1 for the Inuk category. We will be submitting 3 songs, one from each category.

Voting will be open from now until March 30th, 11:59 PM Pacific Time.

You can rank up to 5 songs in each category:

• The top song you select will receive 5 points
• The second song will receive 4 points
• The third song will receive 3 points
• The fourth song will receive 2 points
• The fifth song will receive 1 point

It is possible to select less than 5 songs, but the remaining points will not be applied to anything.

Nominated Songs

Below you can find a list of all the songs nominated, along with links to listen to them.

You can listen to most of the songs with this playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLzfFY_h7_GnZuMMcz4JlUDwmhiErYF47k

• It has all the songs, except for The Arrogant Worms - Canadian Famous, which is only available on the website link below
• Thank you to @hoserhobbes@lemmy.ca for putting it together 😊

See the end of this post for links to the voting form.

English:

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| | Palaye Royale | Dark Side of the Silver Spoon | song.link | YouTube | Spotify | | fanclubwallet | Band Like That | song.link | YouTube | Spotify | | Seven Graylands | Robotic Cicada | song.link | YouTube | | | Liminal Shroud | Nocturnal Phosphorescence | song.link | YouTube | | | Dan Mangan | Call Me Up High | song.link | YouTube | Spotify | | The Blue Stones | Come Apart | song.link | YouTube | Spotify | | Corb Lund | When the Game Gets Hot | song.link | YouTube | Spotify | | Chromeo | Words With You | song.link | YouTube | Spotify | | The Arrogant Worms | Canadian Famous | website link | | | | Billie du Page | Fake Friends (english list) | song.link | YouTube | Spotify | | Eva Shaw, DijahSB | RVPTVRE | song.link | YouTube | Spotify | | Men I Trust | Husk | song.link | YouTube | Spotify | | Rezz, Virtual Riot, One True God | Give in to you | song.link | YouTube | Spotify | | Akintoye | Raw | song.link | YouTube | Spotify | | Emma Alves | Bare Minimum | song.link | YouTube | Spotify | | Mustafa | Imaan | song.link | YouTube | Spotify | | Deer Fang | Low Tide | song.link | YouTube | Spotify | | DYLYN | Change Me | song.link | YouTube | Spotify | | PUP | Hallways | song.link | YouTube | Spotify | | Spiritbox | Deep End | song.link | YouTube | Spotify |

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| | P'tit Belliveau | Ring ring | song.link | YouTube | Spotify | | Billie du Page | Fake Friends (liste française) | song.link | YouTube | | | Dominique Fils-Aimé | Moi je t'aime | song.link | YouTube | Spotify | | Autre Part | Le monde à l’envers | song.link | YouTube | | | Mange la machine | Mange la machine | song.link | YouTube | |

Inuktitut

Since there was 1 nomination in the Inuk category, we will be submitting the song by Elisapie (ᐃᓕᓴᐱ)!

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| | Elisapie (ᐃᓕᓴᐱ) | Quviasukkuvit (If It Makes You Happy) | song.link | YouTube | Spotify |

Voting Form

The voting form website has instructions in both English and French. You only need to fill in the form once, and it will include songs from all categories. For convenience, you can find direct links below:

English: https://survey.fedecan.ca/lemmyvision-2025-en

Français: https://survey.fedecan.ca/lemmyvision-2025-fr

Prime Minister Mark Carney spoke with U.S. President Donald Trump for the first time this morning.

Carney’s office says the leaders agreed to begin “comprehensive negotiations” to be led by Trade Minister Dominic LeBlanc and U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick.

In the meantime, Carney will get back on the campaign trail, his office says.

Carney has a news conference scheduled for 3:30 p.m. ET, after he meets with provincial and territorial leaders.

In a social media post, Trump said the two “agree on many things.”

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is still in B.C., where he pitched life sentences for fentanyl traffickers and gunrunners.-

You should have your product available to us mere consumers...after all it's buy Canadian products

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Prof. Jason Stanley made decision after policy changes at Columbia University

A Yale University professor is leaving the U.S. and taking a position at the University of Toronto (U of T) due to what he says is a "far-right regime" under President Donald Trump.

"The United States is in the process of an autocratic takeover and it's directed by a regime that I don't think will want to leave power," said Jason Stanley, a professor of philosophy.

"Its not just Donald Trump. It's the machine behind Donald Trump."

Stanley, whose books include How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them, said he was considering joining U of T's Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy for over a year. But he decided to move after Columbia University made sweeping changes to its policies last week under pressure from the U.S. government.

Xatśūll First Nation asked B.C. to order an environmental assessment of the Gibraltar mine’s expansion plans. The provincial government declined

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Philosophy professor Jason Stanley announced this week that he will leave Yale, while history professors Timothy Snyder and Marci Shore, who are married, decided to leave around the November elections. The three professors will work at Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy.

Now signals of cuts across departments seem, if anything, inevitable. There are overt promises to trim back the public service to pay for income tax cuts as frontrunners Mark Carney and Pierre Poilievre vie for voters' trust at a time of economic insecurity.

Nate Prier, the president of CAPE, argues that now is not the time for cuts, particularly for IRCC, pointing to geopolitical instability and the hardline immigration policies of U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration. He questions whether Canada is ready to handle an influx of claimants after IRCC workers survive the wave of cuts to their teams and salaries.

“When America starts vomiting up its refugees, like it is right now, when they drive more wars to create more refugees, when we need to delink from the American economy, and we’re going to need skilled workers from around the world to help build the next chapter for Canada, that is a terrible time to start gutting the federal public sector, and especially people that you’ve already trained,” Prier said.

U.S. president signed an executive order in the Oval Office on Wednesday

U.S. President Donald Trump is dealing another tariff blow to Canada, signing an executive order on Wednesday that will hit all non-U.S.-made autos with hefty import levies.

Trump said the United States will be applying a 25 per cent tariff on those imports, but it's not clear when they would apply.

The president said the auto tariffs will kick in on April 2 but suggested they could start at a base rate of 2.5 per cent.

"What we're going to be doing is a 25 per cent tariff on all cars that are not made in the United States. If they're made in the United States, there is absolutely no tariff. We'll start off with a 2.5 per cent base, which is what we were at, and we'll go to 25 per cent," Trump told reporters in the Oval Office.

Autos are the second-largest Canadian export after oil — and by far the most lucrative manufactured product that Canada sells to the world, linked to hundreds of thousands of Canadian jobs.

I'll say this: I agree with the article. It's going to suck, but we need to reorganize our economy such that we cannot be afraid of US threats. Canadians need to come together and demonstrate the power of a social culture to overcome individualism.

Any politicians that express willingness to kowtow to Trump lose my support. Period.