It’s not every week the Premier of Ontario calls your work “right-wing radical,” so we had to get out a podcast before the end of summer to mark this most amusing and momentous of occasions.

Link to Ford’s well-measured comments: https://x.com/junonewscom/status/1958237427262443875

And the link to the latest episode of my Juno News show, featuring Project Ontario co-founder Matt Spoke. (Embedded online and in the Substack app.)

I’ve been trying to limit correspondence in August out of respect to your summer and what is surely an already-overloaded inbox, so we’ll be back full-time in September with regular columns, more projects, and more radical notions, such as:

“Maybe crime should be illegal.”

“Our 15-24s should probably have jobs.”

“What if we once again let in a reasonable amount of people, who want to fit in, obey our laws, and that have high-level skills?”

“What if running a country like a Ponzi scheme for ten years has its downsides?”

Radical stuff, I know.

Thank you for subscribing to the best-selling Acceptable Views Substack.

So much for a summer slowdown. It’s been a busy week for the Canadians interested in their country being less terrible on purpose. Let’s just say we’re off to an inauspicious start.

Tune in to chat ongoing immigration debacles, failing healthcare, a public safety minister’s mega-conflict, and Bill C-5 so far leading to conversations, and little else.

Communications and columns for reference:

https://x.com/alexbrown17/status/1945922599432995129

https://x.com/alexbrown17/status/1945541107875811470

https://www.acceptableviews.co/p/canadas-energy-future-cant-wait

And my sister, the intro musician: https://www.instagram.com/mollybrownofficial/

Thanks for listening. Kindly like, comment, share, or chip in a few dollars if you enjoy the hang.

-Alex

New from the Acceptable Views podcast. Let’s talk the recent immigration work around these parts that’s made headlines, crack some jokes at Doug Ford’s expense, and get our ducks in a row for summer.

Companion articles: https://www.acceptableviews.co/p/immigration-kicking-the-habit-the-hub

https://www.acceptableviews.co/p/declarations-of-faith

https://www.acceptableviews.co/p/everything-is-still-immigration

Like the intro music? Follow my rockstar for a sister on Instagram at “mollybrownofficial.” She has new music dropping shortly.

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Have a chance to watch that mummer’s farce between Carney and Trump today? Acceptable Views sure did, and we come bearing notes.

The companion debrief:

https://www.acceptableviews.co/p/watch-we-have-no-choice

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Let’s talk campaign! For the latest on Election 2025, columnist, resource sector policy manager, and energy advocate Geoff Russ joins the pod.

To read Geoff’s latest work for the NCC: https://www.nationalcitizens.ca/russ_carney_no_more_pipelines_emissions_cap

His feature in Modern Age: https://modernagejournal.com/what-is-a-canadian/250271/

And to follow him on Twitter: https://x.com/GeoffRuss3

Much more to come in the days and weeks to come. And thank you to subscribers who helped the Acceptable Views Substack reach ‘Top 100’ in World Politics status earlier this week.

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It’s election call weekend! (Probably.)

Let’s get into the latest, as we prepare for the fight (against Liberal boomers).

Companion article:

https://www.acceptableviews.co/p/comforting-sounds

Thanks for listening on the Substack App, Apple Podcasts, or Spotify. If you enjoy the hang and wish to support these chats and columns, consider taking out a paid subscription so that I can make more of them.

-Alex

It finally happened. Tariffs are here — for now.

Perhaps more importantly, tune-in for what I’m hearing firsthand about the expected election call to come.

Companion articles:

https://www.acceptableviews.co/p/which-way-canadian-boomer

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Thanks for listening.

It’s getting tight at the top in the Canadian polls. Some of that is all noise and no signal. But there are legitimate Liberal gains in there — however fickle — largely thanks to the actions of a certain president (and a cratering NDP who can’t fall much further).

Let’s get into it in the latest pod.

Companion articles:

https://www.acceptableviews.co/p/read-the-fine-print

https://www.acceptableviews.co/p/lets-handle-that-better-next-time

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It was a good day for prosperity-minded Americans who like safe borders and personal freedoms. The same can’t entirely be said for Canadians.

Join us for the latest episode of the Substack companion pod, and thank you to the first 2.5k who have listened here on Substack.

You can also find these episodes on Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

Companion article: https://www.acceptableviews.co/p/safe-supply-flies-economy-plus

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With what felt like three weeks rolled into one behind us, we should be back to our regularly scheduled one article + one pod for the week.

Companion articles for those listening along:

https://www.acceptableviews.co/p/oh-now-they-love-their-country

https://www.acceptableviews.co/p/some-weeks-you-make-the-news

Thank you to the first 1000+ who have listened to the Acceptable Views Podcast, and who haven’t stormed my 50 sq. ft of writing and recording space with complaints about the audio. I’ll continue to figure this out as a I go…

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