ANGUS: The Manchurian Candidate Goes to Harvard

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The Manchurian Candidate Goes to Harvard

Trump shuts the lights out on learning

Charlie Angus / The Resistance - June 13, 2025

EXCERPT: "Canada’s Opportunity

The lights are going out on American innovation. Is Canada ready to open the borders to invite thinkers, writers, and researchers?

After Trump came to power, three of the top scholars on fascism left the United States for Canada. Marci Shore, Timothy Snyder, and Jason Stanley have made it clear they are leaving because of the dangerous drift of American fascism.

Are we ready to invest in post-secondary research to such a degree that Canada could become a haven for intellectuals just as the United States became a haven for 1930s German thinkers?

It presents a huge opportunity, but the reality is Canada's MAGA premiers, Ford, Moe, and Smith, have been seriously undermining what should be world-class education systems.

Ford has left Ontario universities and schools hanging by an economic thread. Premier Moe seems to want to push Saskatchewan back into the black-and-white world of the 1950s, and Danielle Smith is in full MAGA mode and is targeting funding to research she considers "too liberal."

Maple MAGA leader Pierre Poilievre has threatened to go after international students and universities that he considers "woke." It's his Mini-Me Trump attempt to beat up on underfunded schools to stoke the rage base.

Canada has a chance to build on the research collapse in the United States, but it will take vision and leadership, both in short supply among the premiers.

Perhaps the Prime Minister will step up.

This is our moment. Either we seize the opportunity to lead, or we can sit back and be a branch plant of the great American decline."

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