Leni Spooner

Southwestern ON via AB.
Writer | Table Politics: helping make sense of costs, choices & change.
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[Leni Spooner @leni_las]

Quick reminder while we're all worried about Canada's auto sector: Ford lost $8.2 billion last year. GM's profits fell 55%. U.S. steel manufacturers' profits dropped 30%. The trade war is expensive for Americans too. They're just not saying it as loudly. https://t.co/EMjSttAoHY

[Leni Spooner @leni_las]

There’s a lot of heat around the CPC motion on immigration. This is a look behind the controversy — how the asylum system actually works, where costs build up, and what reform can realistically do. #cdnpoli #immigration https://t.co/LnFcMG5ika

[Leni Spooner @leni_las]

I’ve been sitting with Mark Carney’s Davos speech. It’s not a sales pitch — it’s a warning about pretending the world still works the way it used to. transcript & video #cdnpoli https://t.co/EJQfNnkioB

[Leni Spooner @leni_las]

Canada’s China trade reset is coming into focus. Ottawa signals future auto access will favour companies that build here while export relief lands fast for canola/ seafood. Same deal, very different regional reactions. #cdnpoli #TradePolicy #AutoIndustry https://t.co/NVf2NR966V

[Leni Spooner @leni_las]

Greenland isn’t suddenly strategic because of security — it’s strategic because climate change has made extraction, routes, and control profitable. Ownership sets the rules. That’s the story behind the headlines.
#cdnpoli #USpoli #climate #economy https://t.co/rygHmDFYAT

[Leni Spooner @leni_las]

Canada isn’t facing a hostile United States.
It’s facing an unsettled one — and that difference matters for trade, security, and sovereignty. https://t.co/jwFbmakAim

[Leni Spooner @leni_las]

Canada’s Food Banks Are at a Breaking Point
Shelves are thinning early. Demand is soaring. A look at why Canada’s food banks are under such strain this season. #cdnpoli #Canada #Food
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[Leni Spooner @leni_las]

This week’s #SundayRead: Chapter 7 of A Quiet Reckoning. Alliances, autonomy, and the world shifting faster than our institutions can adapt. Canada’s choices matter now more than ever. #BookSky
https://t.co/i2Oklgi4LB

[Leni Spooner @leni_las]

Canada’s Arctic is becoming the hinge of our sovereignty, climate resilience, and economic future. Part 2 of my Tidewater series looks at what’s changing — and what Canada must do now.

#Arctic #Canada #Sovereignty

LINK: https://t.co/hispcwO1G8

[Leni Spooner @leni_las]

Free trade was sold as prosperity. Forty years later, we’ve lost industries, leverage, and much of our say.
If a deal isn’t worth the paper it’s written on, why act bound by it?
Food for thought from @readthemaple.
🔗 https://t.co/fOTFZQrcTI
#cdnpoli #Trade #Sovereignty

[Leni Spooner @leni_las]

@LukaszukAB Go Spruce Grove!

[Leni Spooner @leni_las]

The rebellion isn’t in the streets — it’s in the mailbox.
Families are done paying for the planet’s mistakes.
🌍 When the Bill Comes Due #ClimateAction
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[John Pasalis @JohnPasalis]

The federal government’s new Build Canada Homes program is a welcome step in tackling Canada’s housing crisis.

I want to clear up a couple of misconceptions I keep hearing 🧵⤵️

[Leni Spooner @leni_las]

Carney calls it a rupture, not a transition. Canada is pivoting from free-trade assumptions to mercantilist tools — a C$5B fund, Buy Canadian push, and EV pause. A seismic shift in trade strategy. #cdnpoli #ElbowsUp https://t.co/JBePBPr0Kq

[Leni Spooner @leni_las]

Youth unemployment ≠ immigration.
No evidence TFWs displace young Canadians.
Scrapping TFWP would gut farms & tourism, not help youth.
#cdnpoli https://t.co/0VLzTeWlfQ

[Leni Spooner @leni_las]

Canada helped invent modern AI. The question now: will families here see the benefits, or will we just rent them back from Silicon Valley? #Canada #AI #Tech https://t.co/Hf6XvgiCz1

[Leni Spooner @leni_las]

When a shirt costs less than a sandwich, someone else is paying the bill. 👕🥪 Subsidies, waste, hidden costs distort what “cheap” really means. The real cost of #fastfashion isn’t on the price tag ,it’s in our water, air, & future. #ClimateActionNow https://t.co/saquXzonna

[Leni Spooner @leni_las]

Canada’s grocery shelves are full of imports—even when our fields are full. Municipal food policy can rebuild the “missing middle” with hubs, cold storage, and procurement. 🛒🌾 #canada #food #FoodSecurity

👉 Read more: https://t.co/yxLgsWpXOF

[Leni Spooner @leni_las]

Canada’s future can’t just be ships & steel. 🛠️
Nation-building means care, classrooms & farms too. 🌾🏥📚
Full piece 👉
#Canada #NationBuilding #CareEconomy #FoodSovereignty #cdnpoli

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