Canadian Returnee

The Bad Job Market Nearly Broke Me After interview rounds led nowhere, I started asking harder questions about the job market, ghost jobs, civic disengagement, and the cost of false hope.

The Bad Job Market Nearly Broke Me
After interview rounds led nowhere, I started asking harder questions about the job market, ghost jobs, civic disengagement, and the cost of false hope.
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There’s nothing more obnoxious than when people celebrate being an asshole or “just saying what everyone’s thinking”

Yeah, dude, most people have edgy thoughts, and learn to keep them inside. It’s called control. What you’re doing is like being really proud of constantly shitting yourself.

How the Canada Pension Plan Actually Works Understand the Canada Pension Plan (CPP). Learn how it works, who pays into it, and what benefits you can expect when you retire.

How the Canada Pension Plan Actually Works
Understand the Canada Pension Plan (CPP). Learn how it works, who pays into it, and what benefits you can expect when you retire.
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🇨🇦 Elbows Up Canada 🇨🇦
🇨🇦 Support Canada 🇨🇦
🇨🇦 Boycott U.S. 🇨🇦

When Democracy Forgot to Protect Itself Trump’s rise exposed how fragile American democracy really is and how a nation built on trust lost its ability to defend itself.

When Democracy Forgot to Protect Itself
Trump’s rise exposed how fragile American democracy really is and how a nation built on trust lost its ability to defend itself.
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Whenever I dial into the CRA customer service line at 1-800-959-8281, I keep getting directed to the automated menu with no updates as to when a Live Agent is available. The same is true for Live Chat. The other customer service lines in the government have no idea why this is happening.

When Invasion Talk Tests Canadian Judgment Annexation rhetoric fuels fear in Canada. Exploring history, alliances, and why restraint and literacy matter more than panic or war fantasies.

When Invasion Talk Tests Canadian Judgment
Annexation rhetoric fuels fear in Canada. Exploring history, alliances, and why restraint and literacy matter more than panic or war fantasies.
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#BuyCanadian

When Faith Becomes a Political Weapon Christianity, Trump, and how modern politics reshapes faith, power, and the meaning of the Book of Revelation.

When Faith Becomes a Political Weapon
Christianity, Trump, and how modern politics reshapes faith, power, and the meaning of the Book of Revelation.
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Paid Subscription Pricing Updates on Substack For those concerned about paid subscription pricing, apologies for any confusion caused by the autorenewal pricing

As an update, Substack support informed me that Subscribers are grandfathered into the original price they pay on the back end by default. As a result, the subscription price changes I made to improve value did not affect existing paid subscribers. canadianreturnee.substack.com/p/paid-subsc...

The Toronto Job Market Feels Broken A look at why Toronto’s job market feels impossible, with economic context, immigration pressures, AI disruption, and what it means for marketers.

The Toronto Job Market Feels Broken
A look at why Toronto’s job market feels impossible, with economic context, immigration pressures, AI disruption, and what it means for marketers.
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Paid Subscription Pricing Updates on Substack For those concerned about paid subscription pricing, apologies for any confusion caused by the autorenewal pricing

Paid Subscription Pricing Updates on Substack
For those concerned about paid subscription pricing, apologies for any confusion caused by the autorenewal pricing
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Macklin Celebrini saying his sister, Charlie Celebrini, is his favourite women’s player. ❤️🇨🇦

What Article 5 Actually Obligates Canada to Do If Iran attacks a NATO ally, is Canada legally bound to fight? A close reading of Article 5 reveals a more nuanced answer than you expect.

What Article 5 Actually Obligates Canada to Do
If Iran attacks a NATO ally, is Canada legally bound to fight? A close reading of Article 5 reveals a more nuanced answer than you expect.
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Hey Trump, how's your plan to annex Canada by
crippling our economy going?
Well holy merde!
#CDNpoli #USApoli #ElbowsUp #BoycottUSA

So let me get this straight ...

1. US bombs Iran
2. Oil price goes up a bit, benefitting Russia's petrostate
3. Russia gives Iran targeting info
4. Oil price shoots WAY up
5. US unsanctions Russian oil

A promotional graphic for the EU-Canada Digital Trade Agreement featuring the circular flags of the European Union and Canada side-by-side. The text "EU-CANADA DIGITAL TRADE AGREEMENT" is displayed in white capital letters over a scenic background of a turquoise mountain lake, likely Lake Louise in Canada, with snow-capped peaks reflected in the water.

We've launched negotiations with Canada for a Digital Trade Agreement.

This will make it easier and safer to do [EU-CA] business online and across borders and provide stronger protections for consumers↓

link.europa.eu/pTTf6h

It sounds like something a supervillain would do in one of your X-Force comic books. That or something from the ABSOLUTE DC stories

Alberta’s Shift Toward Privatization Threatens Public Services Alberta’s reforms in schools and healthcare mirror U.S. privatization, risking the future of universal access.

Alberta’s Shift Toward Privatization Threatens Public Services
Alberta’s reforms in schools and healthcare mirror U.S. privatization, risking the future of universal access.
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What swing state voters settled for

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Exclusive: US investigation points to likely US responsibility in Iran school strike, sources say Military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school that killed scores of children on Saturday, two U.S. officials told Reu...

Exclusive: US military investigators believe it is likely that US forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school that killed scores of children on February 28 but have not yet reached a final conclusion or completed their investigation reut.rs/40b19JN

Canada’s Broken Hiring Illusion A personal take on ghost jobs, hiring freezes, and civic apathy in Canada’s uncertain labour market.

Canada’s Broken Hiring Illusion
A personal take on ghost jobs, hiring freezes, and civic apathy in Canada’s uncertain labour market.
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Trump's Iran War Has No Plan Trump's war on Iran is about ego, empire, and a president who never had a strategy and still doesn't.

Trump's Iran War Has No Plan
Trump's war on Iran is about ego, empire, and a president who never had a strategy and still doesn't.
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or Harveys

Why Canada's Gun Buyback Faces Backlash Canada’s gun buyback sparks backlash as critics argue it targets legal owners while illegal smuggling and root causes drive gun violence.

Why Canada's Gun Buyback Faces Backlash
Canada’s gun buyback sparks backlash as critics argue it targets legal owners while illegal smuggling and root causes drive gun violence.
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From Abroad to Home: March 2026 My update on unemployment, recession anxiety, family reconnection, and the exhausting cost of staying honest in a country under pressure.

From Abroad to Home: March 2026
My update on unemployment, recession anxiety, family reconnection, and the exhausting cost of staying honest in a country under pressure.
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From Abroad to Home: March 2026 My update on unemployment, recession anxiety, family reconnection, and the exhausting cost of staying honest in a country under pressure.

From Abroad to Home: March 2026
My update on unemployment, recession anxiety, family reconnection, and the exhausting cost of staying honest in a country under pressure.
canadianreturnee.substack.com/p/from-abroa...

Why ICE Recruits the Targeted Why so many Latino officers work in U.S. ICE, and how history, power, and assimilation shape painful contradictions.

Why ICE Recruits the Targeted
Why so many Latino officers work in U.S. ICE, and how history, power, and assimilation shape painful contradictions.
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