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Nationalistic Fervor

Todd Hayen

I was at the ballet the other night, yes, the ballet. It was the Canadian Ballet Company’s production of Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake. Before the ballet started, the orchestra struck up a thundering version of Canada’s national anthem, O Canada.

I knew the ballet had not yet started because I was aware that Tchaikovsky’s masterpiece did not begin with a drum roll. This rendition of O Canada most certainly did.

Almost without hesitation, the entire audience stood and broke into song. How riveting. I do not know the words to the national ditty, and even if I did, I doubt if I could have persuaded my lungs to pump them out. In fact, I was more inclined to sit down, but instead, I stood with the rest of them. When in Rome and all that—and better not to start a fight with the Canadian wife.

When it was over, the crowd broke into a cheer that would rival hockey game exuberance. For a moment, I expected the ballet dancers to come out with helmets and sticks rather than tutus and ballet slippers. “What in hell was that all about?” I thought to myself. Ahh, it is time for Canadian nationalistic fervor!

They have, once again (the first time being in 1812), been attacked by their neighbours to the south, and I’ll be danged if they are going to stand for it! The first time, they burned the White House to the ground. Who knows what they will do this time? (Fact Check Alert: I doubt if the White House was burnt to the ground, and it wasn’t even Canadians who did it—Canada as a country was not yet invented. It was the British who set the place ablaze—but try to tell that to a Canadian.)

Ever since Big Bad Orange Man Trump levied tariffs on poor little ol’ Canada, Canadians have been in a feverish uproar. How dare he? That horrible bully! And rather than look to their leaders (in this case, the venerable Justin Trudeau) for possible causes for the tariff, they rally ‘round the maple leaf flag and cry out about American hostility. Down with America! Up with Canada, O Canada, We Stand on Guard for Thee!

That’ll show ‘em!

Only it won’t. Not even close.

Sad, I know. I like Canada, and particularly Canadians. I am a Canadian citizen as well (I know that does not make me a true Canadian), and I have no qualms with Canada (other than its government, for which I have the same qualms as I have with nearly all governments). But unfortunately, Canada is going to lose this fight with the Great Bwana of America. Trump has issues with Canada and the current trade agreements (although he was the one who originally negotiated the USMCA, which replaced NAFTA, in 2020). Trump’s issues are not only of the fairness of trade between the two countries but also include border security and the alleged illegal passage of fentanyl between The True North and the US.

Needless to say, there is a lot of controversy regarding these Trump demands, but rather than try earnestly to sort them out, the attack on Trump commences. I am no fan of tariffs and trade wars, or even sanctions in time of war, but I am also not an expert on international trade, so I plead ignorance to the details, and subsequent support, of Trump’s actions. But come on, hate America is the response? Really? Dear Canada, you can surely do better than that.

And the people of Canada are eating it up like a chocolate-covered Beavertail (that’s a real thing, by the way). At best, it is a distraction removing the true line of sight from Canada’s atrocious Trudeau government to nationalistic anti-American fervor. Who cares if Canada is run by a delinquent, he is now a hero for standing up to Trump! According to them, Trump’s fentanyl complaint is completely fabricated—it simply is not true (yeah, right, so why pump 1.3 billion dollars into making an effort to minimize it?) And Trump himself created the trade agreement currently in place, so why should he be complaining about that?

Canada’s leadership might actually be playing a different game, one where “winning” isn’t about economic health, but political survival. If they can’t outpunch Trump (and they’d be deluded to think they can), maybe the Liberal brain trust sees a scorched-earth strategy as their ticket. Tank the economy, let Canadians feel the squeeze—higher prices, job losses, a battered loonie—and spin it into a heroic saga: “We stood up to the orange Goliath, and though we bleed, we’re still here.” It’s not about prosperity; it’s about power. A broken country that still chants your name beats a thriving one that boots you out.

There’s precedent for this kind of gambit. Leaders have ridden populist waves through hardship before—think wartime rallying cries or economic crises turned into “us vs. them” narratives. Trudeau’s team (and now Carney’s) could be betting that Canadians, riled up by national pride and anti-Trump fervor, will forgive the pain if it’s packaged as noble resistance. Mark Carney’s gravitas as ex-Bank of Canada governor adds polish to the story—he’s the steady hand guiding the ship through the storm, even if it’s sinking. The Liberals stay in power, ruling a wounded but loyal flock, while Trump’s the villain in the history books.

The national anthem incident at the ballet the other night freaked me out. Not so much because I don’t like national anthems played at sporting events (yes, the ballet is definitely an athletic spectacle), but because nationalistic fervor is dangerous. It is a tool used by those in power to coerce people to go bonkers for some fabricated cause. Personally, I remember this in 1968, at the height of the Vietnam War in America, although there was little nationalistic fervor at that point in the history of the conflict, the government certainly did not refrain from efforts to conjure it up. It is never a good thing; in times of war, it is used to justify killing fellow humans “in the name of patriotism.” In times of peace, it is used to dehumanize the citizens of another country, so that the country’s actions, and that country’s leadership, become the target of pure hate.

At a little coffee shop two doors down from my office this morning a woman ordered a “Canadacano” because she didn’t want to say “Americano”—if she knew I was an American, she probably would have thrown it in my face.

Todd Hayen PhD is a registered psychotherapist practicing in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He holds a PhD in depth psychotherapy and an MA in Consciousness Studies. He specializes in Jungian, archetypal, psychology. Todd also writes for his own substack, which you can read here

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Erik Nielsen.
Erik Nielsen.
Mar 16, 2025 2:02 AM

But Canada was noticed. Jackson Hawke from 1976 – Aint no cowboys https://youtu.be/Og6ZS0OtSu4

les online
les online
Mar 16, 2025 12:32 AM

Where Has All The Fervour Gone (asks this 70+ years old useless eater deplorable) ?
aka:

Johnny
Johnny
Mar 16, 2025 12:16 AM

An insider or a provocateur ?

Johnny
Johnny
Mar 16, 2025 12:38 AM
Reply to  Johnny
Johnny
Johnny
Mar 16, 2025 12:11 AM
les online
les online
Mar 15, 2025 11:47 PM

“There’s no fervour in a deflated child’s balloon” … (anon) …

Jonathan
Jonathan
Mar 16, 2025 2:10 AM
Reply to  les online

I hope you mean a child’s deflated balloon. I’m off to bed and I’ll have nightmares now.

John Manning
John Manning
Mar 15, 2025 10:09 PM

Recently read another article which gave the same message very succinctly.

War is when a government tells the people who is the enemy. Revolution is when the people work it out for themselves.

my ways are not theirs
my ways are not theirs
Mar 15, 2025 10:02 PM

hey wasn’t that there Tschaikovsky character some sort of dirty Russkie who blew up the national anthem of the freedom-loving French using fireworks in one of his greatest hits? seems like patriotic-minded Canadians oughta be slapping some sanctions on a ballet like that

MartinU
MartinU
Mar 15, 2025 9:19 PM

There are very strong grounds for thinking that all this Trumpian blather is actually a sign of weakness, not strength. Obviously we still have considerable clout among economies that are dependent on us and societies that are too weak to shoot back (we’re really good at bombing people who can’t fight back) but if you take a step back and look at the big picture we don’t appear that strong any more. (…and our influence is diminishing, not increasing)

Give what’s been going on recently having a bunch of Canadians give us the finger is understandable The Canadian government is different, though. The Canadian people would very much like to tell us to pound sand but the government, like European governments, is too wedded to ‘the system’ to advocate on their peoples’ behalf. Like all of these government (including our own) its become more of a sales and enforcement organization than representative of the people’s wishes (sales to convince us that life’s rosy and its the best it has ever been and enforcement to deal with the inevitable naysayers). The problem is that there are many signs that “the rest of the world” just isn’t interested in tagging along with us any more and that, furthermore, we’re not in the same position to ‘get their minds right’ that we used to be.

Brigitte
Brigitte
Mar 15, 2025 10:06 PM
Reply to  MartinU

The not-quite-dead British Empire and old family bloodlines have used the U.S. as their military instrument to pursue and implement foreign policy. It came at a great cost your people — in blood and treasure. Trump knows this and is seemingly attempting to turn away from the ‘international rules based (dis)order’. Meanwhile, the EU has committed 600 billion Euros to take up where the U.S. left off. Starmer, a loyal British and WEF servant, is all in. On a war footing. Germany will be manufacturing war machines/weapons instead of VWs in one or two of its emptied factories.

Erik Nielsen.
Erik Nielsen.
Mar 16, 2025 12:02 AM
Reply to  Brigitte

I didnt knew EU jumped on that waggon too.
But, as both Brussel and Washington are filled with influential Liberals and Doos, then……….we start with Iran.
So 600 billion and 600 billion to military equipment for WWIII in West alone. Per year.

Jonathan
Jonathan
Mar 15, 2025 9:03 PM

The problem with Nationalistic Fervor is that it’s hard to separate love for one’s nation from support of its government. At least in terms of optics.

I love England. And Scotland, Wales and Ireland too. But I’ve gone off the “United Kingdom” because it’s basically

Jonathan
Jonathan
Mar 15, 2025 9:10 PM
Reply to  Jonathan

…(continued) a product of government oppression. I can’t be proud of the Union Flag any more, I’ll wave the English flag instead.

As for the government, they hated me and my people for decades before I realised this and hated them back.

I would happily be jingoistic… if I had a sovereign nation with a dutiful government, to be jingoistic about.

Erik Nielsen.
Erik Nielsen.
Mar 15, 2025 9:54 PM
Reply to  Jonathan

We yr government live by the river and you cant do a SHIT about it: https://dzen.ru/video/watch/6316d9a1bccb566e891e6e4c .

Thom Crewz
Thom Crewz
Mar 15, 2025 10:25 PM
Reply to  Jonathan

The Island you reside on should be called Britain, “United Kingdom” is a Corporate racket set up by your beloved Anglo-Saxon invaders and their criminal banking backers.

Brigitte
Brigitte
Mar 15, 2025 8:30 PM

Is it possible that the world map is being redrawn into perhaps a few spheres of influence? It may be of interest to those who care about historical facts to go to Matt Ehret’s Insights substack. Who knew of British and Russian involvement in the American civil war? Indeed, John Wilkes Booth was sent on his mission from Montreal afterwards.
As a side note, Mark Carney (aka Mark Carnage) is off to see Sir Keir Stalin and President Macron. God help us all.

Erik Nielsen.
Erik Nielsen.
Mar 15, 2025 10:00 PM
Reply to  Brigitte

Ehret is a good factual link and choice. But he only points to what some of us already knew, but which at least 90% of the populations will refuse to believe:

The Agenda is de-population!

Therefore nobody cant get anything right and cause. Because this is the last thing which could arrive in their heads. “I dont believe it”. “Impossible”.
And, if it arrives in their brainwashed heads, they will say that the Elite is right. We are too many. Yes?

Brigitte
Brigitte
Mar 15, 2025 10:26 PM
Reply to  Erik Nielsen.

That is the ‘elite’ consensus, yes. Yet the western nations are in serious population decline already. Hence, perhaps, the UN document (can’t recall the exact one) titled ‘Replacement Migration’. Wars contribute to depopulation, as in Ukraine. Then there’s ethnic cleansing in Palestine. While the jabs help the objective considerably, they may also serve a scientific objective in transforming humans into transhumans (the Internet of Bodies) over time. Transgenderism ->->->> transhumanism? Then there’s the technocracy somewhere in between?

Erik Nielsen.
Erik Nielsen.
Mar 16, 2025 1:50 AM
Reply to  Brigitte

It is also unclear to me whether the Transgender/Transhuman/Man-merging-machine/LGBT just is an excuse for depopulation or it has something real in it.

But I know at least these Maurice Strong/Rome Club m.m. talked about “doing it in a human way”.
All right, the vaccine trick we could perhaps call human, the cancer wave human, spreading in-fertility is ‘human’.
But Iraq, Gaza, Ukraine, Syria, Fallujah, Libya, genocides, m.m. we cant call human.
So there is still confusion left, other than a psychopath’s joy of seeing someone suffer.

A human is too complex to change to live longer and stronger. You know our limits are 75 years old plus minus 25 years, man or woman, and thats it.

So why all this jumping and fumbling around? It does not make sense.

Its an illusion, and the more we dig into it, the more we meet the requirement of seeing a spiritual cause in it.
There is a reason why we have rich Churches and Monasteries all over the world.
The spiritual and soul matters much more than we know in our Western world.

All right I have peace in myself because I walk with God, but I still dont get how the most intelligent specie here on earth can be caught so easily in acting so irrational. Maybe its true they come from an ape.

les online
les online
Mar 15, 2025 8:24 PM

It’s must be A Coincidence,
because “correlation does not imply causation.”

Flu Vaccine Exposed. The Shocking NIH Discovery They Dont Want You To Know.
https://www.zerohedge.com/medical/flu-vaccine-exposed-shocking-nih-discovery-they-dont-want-you-know

Skinnymouse
Skinnymouse
Mar 15, 2025 7:28 PM

Thanks Todd for a great article…!

Scoobis
Scoobis
Mar 15, 2025 7:26 PM

Heil Hitler…??????

Annie
Annie
Mar 15, 2025 6:44 PM

Hear me out.What if we stopped listened to authority I mean who are they exactly people like you and me.To be honest we are stuck on this ball with cranks.

Todd Hayen
Todd Hayen
Mar 15, 2025 7:32 PM
Reply to  Annie

We would have to stop listening to the media as well. They are all in cahoots.

el Gallinazo
el Gallinazo
Mar 15, 2025 6:07 PM

As an ex-pat estadounidense and an anarcho-libertarian, I doubt that Trump is unhinged, other than in the most universal sense. His patron saint, Roy Cohen, was arguably the most evil American of the second half of the 20th century, though he was running some stiff competition, with LBJ and Allan Dulles running second and third. The first question one might ask about Trump is who is he really working for? But preceding that, one might ask what general goal does he wish to drive the US “citizenry” toward. The answer to that is rather simple – a Hunger Games society of the 99% on UBI and the 1% owning everything. A technocratic society with pseudo trillionaire frontmen Oligarchs such as Besos and Musk ostensibly running the computers who will be the de facto rulers. This is the same goal as the Goldfinger like Nazi Klaus and his evil sorcerer Israeli sidekick are aiming at. 

Part of the goal is to consolidate the planet into a few superstates, of which the EU is, at the moment, the only one and apparently heading for a rendezvous with an iceberg. As an ultrazionist, exactly how is the Real Donald Trump at war with the WEF? But his job should be to consolidate the USA with Canada and Mexico with the Amero as the sole currency. Insulting Canada by referring to the recently defrocked moron Castreau as “governor”(a plausible case may be made that he was actually the biological child of the late Fidel. who his acidhead mother, Margaret, referred to as the “sexiest man alive”) does not appear to further this goal. Or making Canada “the 51st state.” So one must wonder at the overall strategy.

Of course, Canadians are just as fucking stupid as Americans, with their head of state, the British monarch, who holds the real political power of the country, as demonstrated by the recent dismissal of Parliament until Trump could insult Canadians to the point of bolstering up the party of former second-in command, Banderista Freeland, and Trump could build up sufficient resentment to weaken the also pro-war Conservatives. Our Overlords must find our general gullibility and stupidity well past amusing.

Todd Hayen
Todd Hayen
Mar 15, 2025 7:36 PM
Reply to  el Gallinazo

Oh, oh, oh, oh…Canadians would swear until blue in the face that the UK monarchy has NOTHING to do with the way their country is run…NOTHING…not even a speck of INFLUENCE. I heard this ad nauseam when I first moved here, and even then, when I was still dumb as a box of rocks, I thought it was nonsense.

underground poet
underground poet
Mar 15, 2025 8:02 PM
Reply to  Todd Hayen

Yeah but this is some disheartening news, sold (Canada) to the highest bidder, China. In a behind the scenes deal, I would join the US rather than play second fiddle to a creditor.

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/brookfields-deep-ties-chinese-land-loans-green-deals

Erik Nielsen.
Erik Nielsen.
Mar 15, 2025 10:08 PM
Reply to  Todd Hayen

Cognitive Dissonance.

mgeo
mgeo
Mar 16, 2025 4:56 AM
Reply to  el Gallinazo

Apportioning stupidity, incompetence or evil is a big thing in USA, but irrelevant to the rest of the world. Every bit of injustice, malice and brutality will be repaid in full in this world; that was Osama’s last genuine (non-fake) message.

MartinU
MartinU
Mar 15, 2025 6:03 PM

Most national anthems are uninspiring at best. German and Russia are standouts simply because they both had an ample supply of composers to choose from. The UK’s is a simple, recyclable, tune –it was also used by Imperial Germany before WW1 and even by the US before they lit on that adapted drinking song.

I can’t comment on border security, tariffs and the like because regardless of what’s coming out of the White House its a mess. There’s probably a hard core of Americans who think we’re under siege from Mexico (and Canada, of course) and feel that we’re being taken advantage of just because our business leaders find it more profitable to import rather than produce locally. Nuanced arguments aren’t going to cut it in this conversation — trying to explain that tariffs are just a tax on imports just doesn’t work. We’re supposed to believe that, for example, all Walmart has to do is go to the Chinese and ask them to cut their prices by 10% to offset the tariffs. Which they have done already. The relevant Chinese ministry politely explained to them that “China” is actually a network of businesses, many operating on slender margins. This suggests a fundamental lack of understanding of how business works on someone’s part,

As for fentanyl we seem to have forgotten that the entire opioid crisis was 100% home grown. We allowed widespread prescription of opioid painkillers because the manufacturer said that they were non-addictive. When reality eventually shone through the marketing hype our reaction was to simply turn off the tap. A strategy that’s guaranteed not to work, but then its always easier to blame external factors (“Mexican cartels”) than figure out what the real problem is and deal with it.

Howard
Howard
Mar 15, 2025 9:13 PM
Reply to  MartinU

Great comment. Thank you for it.

Thom 9
Thom 9
Mar 15, 2025 5:28 PM

Oh Ca Nada,

I watch my fellow Canadians run down the Americans while paying for their Starbuck’s Coffee with their Apple or Google Pay then sitting in Starbucks and watching Net FLix.

Oh Ca Nada the hypocrisy…

The Canadian Government is attempting to cling to power using Canadians as stones to stand on and keep themselves above water. Never forget what the Canadian government did to Canadians most recently with the COVID Scamdemic. “Safe and Effective” they said. BULLSHIT! Not to mention they handed their corporate masters Billion$$$ of dollars in freebie bailouts and then called in all the money that the “lent” to Canadians through their CERB scam.

Screw Mark”Tru to the dough” Carney, him and his carbon-tax climate scam.
And let’s not believe that Pierre Polievre would be any better. All Canadian politicians are beholding to a foreign power “The City of London”. So it’s always been a (s)election process of the City of London’s candidates.

My guess is that Mark Carney will win the election and eventually will capitulate to POTUS 47 by September if Canada lasts that long.

Always remember CANADA INC. is a corporation that has been bankrupt twice previously and is now bankrupt again. The end is near…Canada the myth created by the CBC and NFB etc.. Our “Canadian” culture has been steadily eroded the Americans over Canada’s existence. Walt Disney and company stole our identity and the rest is history.

Todd Hayen
Todd Hayen
Mar 15, 2025 5:35 PM
Reply to  Thom 9

I could not have said all that better myself. Thank you. And don’t forget the Truckers and the bullshit emergency act.

The grocery stores up here have labels on everything…even Kellogg’s Corn Flakes…” packed in CANADA.” Do not be confused with Battle Creek in good ol’ USA.

I bought some cheese, and the woman cutting it said, “You, of course, want CANADIAN cheese, right?” “Of course, I said, anything American has a 200+% tariff on it!” Hypocrisy is right…

Howard
Howard
Mar 15, 2025 9:11 PM
Reply to  Thom 9

I remember decades ago a 60-Minutes interview with Canadian author Mordecai Richler about his novel “The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz.” It came up in the interview that Canadian authors were viewed even in their native Canada as less accomplished than American authors.

The more things change the more they stay the same.

dviourland
dviourland
Mar 15, 2025 4:51 PM

Trump’s issues are not only of the fairness of trade between the two countries but also include border security and the alleged illegal passage of fentanyl between The True North and the US.

Wakey Wakey the biggest drug dealers are the CIA and they do not believe in borders so regurgitating the lies shows again the MSM plus (woke right) network has worked wonders on you.

pure bullshit part at the end for Dr fibber.

At a little coffee shop two doors down from my office this morning a woman ordered a “Canadacano” because she didn’t want to say “Americano”—if she knew I was an American, she probably would have thrown it in my face.

Miles calls this spook central and this guys articles are becoming grift to the point of embarrassing.

You being American or Canadian.

YER right!!

dviourland
dviourland
Mar 15, 2025 4:43 PM

Clown world of hypocrite of the highest order.
what sick fuck sends there baby girl to ballet lessons.?
Dr Todd and his elk wets his knickers over the MSM plus regurgitated trans and girl boy boy girl and all the jazz they manufactured to LOW IQ argue about.
What sick fuck suppose parent sends there baby girl to ballet to train.
Pure child abuse of the highest order.
Then to watch it shows again the deformation of the woke right.
The most disgusting thing.

Todd Hayen
Todd Hayen
Mar 15, 2025 5:37 PM
Reply to  dviourland

I’m sensing a lot of hate over there. Are you in prison? (A real one, with real bars and guards with guns ready to shoot you…not a self-created one; I know you are in that one.)

Howard
Howard
Mar 15, 2025 9:03 PM
Reply to  dviourland

May we have a quick peek at your system of logic? I’m with you that forcing very young children into any sport – just because if they don’t start young they supposedly don’t stand a chance at making “the big time” – is an abomination.

However, I haven’t come upon a link in your reasoning between child abuse and attending the ballet? Nor with IQ level. It would be nice perhaps if a high IQ in and of itself clears the mind of evil; but that does not seem to be the case.

Veex
Veex
Mar 15, 2025 4:29 PM

Nationalism is our form of incest, is our idolatry, is our insanity. ‘Patriotism’ is its cult…Just as love for one individual which excludes the love for others is not love, love for one’s country which is not part of one’s love for humanity is not love, but idolatrous worship.”― Erich Fromm

Howard
Howard
Mar 15, 2025 4:10 PM

As an American, and as much as I loathe anything nationalistic, I’m afraid I have to applaud Canadians for standing up for their country. And for giving me some much needed ammunition in my seemingly one may stand against the notion that “they’re all in it together.”

This uber-nationalistic response by Canadians indicates in no uncertain terms exactly how great the challenge to a One World Government really is. So give me a beat and I’ll sing along to O Canada!

And let me just add that, since our new President is a bit of a lunatic – which the pundits smooth over by calling him “mercurial” – it is not at all out of place for Canadians to be very very wary of America. Believe me, ALL Canadians are mad dog traitors compared to the MAGA Troglodytes – MAGAdytes for short – who gave us Trump.

Todd Hayen
Todd Hayen
Mar 15, 2025 5:39 PM
Reply to  Howard

Unfortunately, nationalism all for the wrong reasons. As such, they are playing right into Trump’s hands.

Howard
Howard
Mar 15, 2025 8:54 PM
Reply to  Todd Hayen

I’m wondering if you ever saw Michael Moore’s masterpiece, “Bowling for Columbine?” In it, he mentions Canada fondly and even interviews a person or two. His point being that while Canadians have way more guns per capita than the US, there’s very little shooting violence (of course that was 2002). And apparently (again in 2002), not everyone bothered locking their doors.

Unless it’s changed drastically, just imagine Canada as part of the seeped in violence USA. Now that’s scary.

mgeo
mgeo
Mar 16, 2025 5:09 AM
Reply to  Howard

Creating mass shooting in the West is easy. Sell guns freely, or even give them to the stooge. Either select a schizo or slip him the right pill – after you write and plant a manifesto of violence on him. The allocations to all the “security” and “intelligence” bodies is enormous. This is capitalism; those who don’t like it can move to Russia, China or Cuba.

SeamusPadraig
SeamusPadraig
Mar 15, 2025 3:17 PM

In fairness, Trump did also make some remark about annexing Canada, so it’s not all just about money. But seeing as how an actual annexation of Canada by the US seems unlikely, all of this patriotic fervor is a bit overwrought.

Scoobis
Scoobis
Mar 15, 2025 7:27 PM
Reply to  SeamusPadraig

A population of cucks…

Erik Nielsen.
Erik Nielsen.
Mar 15, 2025 2:46 PM

Well Canada is a British Colony as you know, and how is the nationalistic feelings here?

Starmer England’s PM talk to his populations about the necessity of raising the military spending drastically (taxes) in order to make some tough decisions for future peace: https://www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-14th-march-2025 .

Please note the words here. FOR PEACE. “Blue Birds over the White Cliffs of Dover for little Jimmy and his Teddy Bear.” Just you wait and see!
https://www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-14th-march-2025

Erik Nielsen.
Erik Nielsen.
Mar 15, 2025 3:11 PM
Reply to  Erik Nielsen.

wrong last link: https://yandex.ru/video/preview/16768384958846629522 .
see how much we miss the 15 min edit button.

underground poet
underground poet
Mar 15, 2025 8:05 PM
Reply to  Erik Nielsen.

That speaks French as the first language, are these people confused or what.

Erik Nielsen.
Erik Nielsen.
Mar 15, 2025 10:16 PM

I beg your pardon?

The Real Edwige
The Real Edwige
Mar 15, 2025 2:21 PM

Obviously Hollywood product will be blocked by this trade war (won’t it?) so Canada will have to make its own movies. Following on from ‘A Canadian Werewolf in London’ and ‘Canadian Psycho’ from previously, there could be: ‘Canadian Graffiti’ (we were going to scrawl rude things about Trump but it’s too anti-social); ‘Canadian History X’ (everything we’re terribly guilty about); ‘Canadian Hustle’ (sorry am I holding you up? I’ll get a wiggle on); ‘Canadian Gangster’ (the Mark Carney biopic); ‘Canadian Gigolo’ (he’s very caring the morning after); ‘Canadian Pie’ (he eats the pie and asks for seconds rather than sticking his todger in it); and so on….

Sandra Locke
Sandra Locke
Mar 15, 2025 3:58 PM

I don’t know, but every TV series I see seems to be made in Canada, starring mostly Canadian actors. Vancouver seems to be the new Hollywood. It seems to stand in for all the cities of the world.

Richard
Richard
Mar 15, 2025 1:48 PM

When I was in my teens, there was this kid whose family spent the summers touring Canada with Royal American Shows. He was infatuated with one of my sisters. His “boy” strategy to get to know her was to be my friend. One day he invited me on an early morning tour of the midway. It changed my outlook on the world. Everything was rigged. The most common instruments were distraction and leveraging people’s greed. So, now Canada has a Prime Minister named Mark Carney. God, apparently, has a seriously twisted sense of humor.

2cents
2cents
Mar 15, 2025 1:46 PM

Thanks, Todd, excellent to read, and well put.

It’s starting to resemble the 2020 psyop all over again.

Given the experience of 2020 on, I just asked my 20-year younger nephew what he thought the next song the chorus will be singing to make everyone else who wasn’t on the same page as uncomfortavle as possible.

No reply yet.

Yes, Canadians appear to be taking the predictbly unimaginative, dogmatic, knee-jerk reflex route, with the prospect of immediately forgetting how the Liberal government just destroyed their lives and country — and reinstalling them.

What the hell, it’s a non-productive, parasitic, multi-party, totalitarian bureaucracy that can’t be dismantled anyhow, no matter who they vote for.

Self-destructive Canadians never learn.

And, given that goverment encouraged and assisted suicide is now a leading cause of death in Canada, it should come as no surprise Canadians are longing to rush into yet another collective leap into an even deeper, darker abyss.

A.I. SUMMARY CANADIAN SUICIDE STATS

“The number of medically assisted deaths in Canada has been increasing annually. In 2022, there were 13,241 medically assisted deaths, marking a 31.2% increase from 2021 when there were 10,092 deaths. This trend continued in 2023, with the number rising to 15,343, representing a 15.8% increase from 2022.”

Won’t be joining them this time either.

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However, I will remain standing on guard, among the living dead, keeping a close watch over things as they exponentially disintegate

ariel
ariel
Mar 15, 2025 12:58 PM

‘National Anathema’! I like that.
Replacing Trudeau with Carney was a foregone conclusion, if you have been following his trajectory. Perhaps canonisation follows?
The question is, and should be, ‘Are you now, or have ever been a WEF Young Leader?’
‘Nuff said.’

davcmat
davcmat
Mar 15, 2025 4:08 PM
Reply to  ariel

The question is, and should be, ‘Are you now, or have ever been a WEF Young Leader?’

Add for wider relevance
“a member of the Trilateral Commission”

Consider as a catch all
are you in the pocket of Rockefella or Rothschild “

ImpObs
ImpObs
Mar 15, 2025 11:47 AM

I don’t know Todd, I’ll have to disagree slightly. Nationalism is the last bulwalk against Globalism, that’s why the Globalists hate it so much.

Without a bit of healthy Nationalism we would be subjected to the whims of the unelected EU blob and the whims of the unlelected, and convicted criminal, Christine Lagarde. Not to mention subject to the machinations of a foreign currency.

I’d much rather see the Union Flag flying, instead of that rainbow monstrosity. Without a bit of healthy Nationalism we wouldn’t have Traitors, well I guess we still would, but we wouldn’t be able to call them that.

There’s also a Nationalistic response to the “stand with this flag” (of another country) jingoism: That’s not my Flag. At the end of the (well researched) day, ALL wars are bankers wars.

I’m not a fan of our official National Anthem either, but our unofficial National Anthem still gets the hairs on the back of my neck standing to attention.

Land of Hope and Glory.

Clutching at straws
Clutching at straws
Mar 15, 2025 12:51 PM
Reply to  ImpObs

Nationalism has been turned into a pejorative word for the same reason that AFD lost the election.

The spectre of 1930’s Germany has been deliberately extended to slap down opposition to the communist utopia that is globalism.

Richard
Richard
Mar 15, 2025 2:07 PM
Reply to  ImpObs

Nation states evolved to provide increased financing and cannon fodder so that so-called “elites” could wage war on their rivals. That’s it. Everything else is just promotion and recruitment marketing A best of all world’s might involve a myriad of tiny, warring states – demarcated along the usual ethnic, linguistic, religious, racial, hate line fractures – overseen by one, nuclear colossus, to prevent us from blowing ourselves all to Hell. Perhaps that’s the idea behind the creation of a continental USA? As it stands, the present Canada “fervor” may provide a basis for a false flag event resulting in an American version of a SMO?

SeamusPadraig
SeamusPadraig
Mar 15, 2025 3:22 PM
Reply to  ImpObs

Yes, but the problem with the Canadian ‘nationalism’ that Todd is describing is that it’s fake. The sentiments may be real, but objectively, it’s more pro-globalist than pro-Canadian.

Todd Hayen
Todd Hayen
Mar 15, 2025 3:40 PM
Reply to  SeamusPadraig

Exactly. The nationalism I am talking about is coerced by the agenda to achieve a particular effect. Pride in the country, controlled borders, etc, are all good things. But just like DEI is not about diversity, equity, and inclusion, this sort of nationalism is not about being proud of country and working hard toward a unifying concept of nationality.

Johnny
Johnny
Mar 15, 2025 11:40 AM

National Anthems : 0.
Tchaikovsky: 10.

I find singing the Australian National Anthem squirmworthy.

Love of country (The natural environment) and the amazing kindness and generosity of people following natural disasters is something to be proud of.

Love of the flag and our willingness to send young people off to every single war over the last two hundred years is nothing to be proud of. Indeed it is shame worthy.

Todd Hayen
Todd Hayen
Mar 15, 2025 11:53 AM
Reply to  Johnny

Exactly my point.

ariel
ariel
Mar 15, 2025 1:05 PM
Reply to  Johnny

I also feel the same, ‘whether it’s ‘Advance Australia Fair,’ or ‘God save the Knig.’

Erik Nielsen.
Erik Nielsen.
Mar 16, 2025 7:27 AM
Reply to  Johnny

I love my country and my government.
The feeling when you march proud together in a group for your Family, King and Fatherland, willing to give up your life for what you believe in. Nothing is more beautiful.

Sorry guys, but we are in majority and YOU are parentheses in our global development.
https://yandex.ru/video/preview/10351862345072246182

Johnny
Johnny
Mar 16, 2025 8:09 AM
Reply to  Erik Nielsen.

🎶Hi ho, hi ho, it’s off to war we go🎶

I_left_the_left
I_left_the_left
Mar 15, 2025 11:00 AM

The greatest enemy of nationalism is Zionism/globalism, with its capture and control of western governments and its brainwashed armies of socialist and communist minions. Global tyranny and depopulation loom. Todd’s fears of ‘nationalistic fervour’ suggest how deeply globalist mind control has conquered western intellects.

Todd Hayen
Todd Hayen
Mar 15, 2025 11:39 AM

It is the agenda’s coercion that worries me, not a sense of national identity.

antonym
antonym
Mar 15, 2025 11:41 AM

Zionism is just Jewish nationalism.

How can 17 million Jews concur the whole world? 1.8 billion Muslims maybe or 1.4 billion Chinese.

As usual the Left is bereft of logic: mind bending on pretzel level, needed when you run on raw emotions only.

George Mc
George Mc
Mar 15, 2025 2:39 PM
Reply to  antonym

I don’t think that 17 million could concur with each other far less get the whole world to concur with them.

Time for the programmers to give the bot known as “antonym” an overhaul. Its word selector is malfunctioning.

SeamusPadraig
SeamusPadraig
Mar 15, 2025 3:26 PM
Reply to  antonym

Without the City of London behind it, Zionism would never have amounted to anything.

antonym
antonym
Mar 16, 2025 6:45 AM
Reply to  SeamusPadraig

Blame the Juice for yUK’s Black hole, typical projection.

Without oil & gas Islam would have ceased to exist today.
Without US/K capital the CPC would never have become an industrial monster.

Erik Nielsen.
Erik Nielsen.
Mar 15, 2025 10:21 PM
Reply to  antonym

If just a handful of these 17 mio people owns trillions of USD and buy people and governments, you begin to see through the smug and why, yes?

SeamusPadraig
SeamusPadraig
Mar 15, 2025 3:25 PM

Yes, but there are fake nationalisms out there that are actually controlled by globalists — modern Ukrainian nationalism being a perfect example, so beware: sometimes globalism masquerades as nationalism.

Clutching at straws
Clutching at straws
Mar 15, 2025 10:23 AM

Todd, consider yourself lucky to live in a country that still respects itself.

The UK is now a country that hates itself and it’s past.

Well, the government does- along with a great number of handwringing Grauniadistas.

We have at least over four years of the current regime, who are tearing up the rule book to build millions of soulless shoe-box houses on our famously green and pleasant land and making the country a very unattractive place to invest with their far-left economic policies.

Whatever you think of the orange man and his advisors, they were right to criticise the free speech restrictions in UK.
Even if legally you have a degree of latitude on what you say, the feeling of being careful what you say and write is oppressive- I am being careful of what I write here.

Sure, there are voices of dissent but the government’s huge majority means that, for the minute, they are unassailable.

Maybe we should adapt the National anthem to be more like yours ?

O’ UK !

I_left_the_left
I_left_the_left
Mar 15, 2025 11:02 AM

Todd has been programmed to believe that tyranny results from nationalism, not from Zionist internationalism.

Todd Hayen
Todd Hayen
Mar 15, 2025 11:41 AM

Oh, you know so much about me, I shudder.

Howard
Howard
Mar 15, 2025 8:40 PM

You’re always going to be just shy of the mark blaming everything bad on “the far left.” The truth is, there is no such thing anywhere in The West anymore as “the far left.” The farthest “left” you will find in The West is maybe a severed left hand that got thrown from a vehicle way into somebody’s pasture.

Clutching at straws
Clutching at straws
Mar 15, 2025 9:08 PM
Reply to  Howard

I believe that the “far right” have done some bad things.

However, the “far left” as we are witnessing in their first term in UK, are pursuing an unsustainable woke agenda which will destroy any real economic development.

God help us if they get another term and finish the job.

Erik Nielsen.
Erik Nielsen.
Mar 15, 2025 10:24 PM
Reply to  Howard

Yes you are right. The far left went up in smoke in useful idiots on a green lgbt woke marihuana trip.

Rolling Rock
Rolling Rock
Mar 15, 2025 9:29 AM

At a little coffee shop two doors down from my office this morning a woman ordered a “Canadacano” because she didn’t want to say “Americano”

Reminds me of the Americans renaming of French Fries to ‘Freedom Fries’ when Chirac didn’t want to shock and awe a whole country of random Arabs in Iraq.

Oh, how the French surrender monkeys political class have changed. They must have got the memo, since nowadays they can’t get enough of ‘moar war’.

ariel
ariel
Mar 15, 2025 1:02 PM
Reply to  Rolling Rock

‘America reaches all the way down to Tierra del Fuego.’

2cents
2cents
Mar 15, 2025 1:52 PM
Reply to  Rolling Rock

Hey, Canadians renamed sauerkraut “liberty cabbage” during WWI, AND WENT SO FAR AS TO RE-NAME BERLIN, ONTARIO, “KITCHENER” in order to disrespect and erase the historical origins and foundation of the community.

Veex
Veex
Mar 15, 2025 4:27 PM
Reply to  2cents

Is this really true.?

Ort
Ort
Mar 15, 2025 6:38 PM
Reply to  2cents

During WWI, in the US patriotic vigilantes occasionally viciously attacked dachshunds if they happened upon them outdoors– you know, to teach those dastardly Belgian nun-raping Huns a lesson.

I don’t know the history or full extent of another jingo euphemism, but in the US German Shepherds became “police dogs”. 🐕 🤨