You have asked for transparency. That is normally on an About page. We do indeed have an About page: you can see three tabs at the top of the page - "Home", "Archive"" and "About." This is a basic -- and normal -- Substack site.
Please go to the "About" tab at the top of the page:, which I provide a direct link to here for ease of access: https://engagementcanadapledge.substack.com/about If you go the "About" page, you are then also presented with the very first post introducing the Info Hub. From either the "About" page or the Introduction, you are also reminded that is all linked to the Pledge for Canada and the link is given. I give it here again: https://engagement-canada-pledge.ca/ Every lead signatory (87 in total) and the launch committee are there.
We are volunteers. There are no "major financial backers." Just hours and hours and hours of free work.
Sincerely, Craig (one of the members of the Launch Committee whose Substack account is hosting the Pledge site).
PLEASE! PLEASE! PLEASE! I like what I've read so far. However, in these days of rampant propaganda, mis- and dis-in formatioin and manipulation of so-called «Social Media» by back-room billionaires, CREDIBILITY can ONLY be established if the backers of sites like this are VISIBLE. Please place a page, findable from your welcome page, which lists your PRINCIPALS and major financial donors. Otherwise, I, and many thinking readers will continue to be suspicious of what's really BEHIND this initiative. For evidence just take a look at the propaganda surrepititiously flogging M. Hair-of-the-Rabbit's fascist agenda.
I'll have another look. I scolled thru HUNDREDS of page and didn't see it. I still maintain it should be OBVIOUS — i.e. if you will, «in your face» for old fart luddites like me..
Greetings from Massachusetts, where everyone I know is horrified, appalled, embarrassed, furious, and resisting any way we can. I spent the dark day of Jan. 20 in Montréal and will return this summer for the tennis tournament. We are still best friends and neighbors with you and very much admire your stance. One day, this will be a sad chapter in the history books, and we will repair fences. But for now, the goose triumphed over the eagle, and you all can vacation elsewhere. So very sorry.
The sad irony of the Molson Canadian Ad is that Molson Beer is currently listed among the donors to Donald Trump and to Project 2025. I sincerely hope that its not true, but.............
'It would be much better if a song could cut through the moment we are living in. Ohio - Southern Man, but alas this is not the case. We must defer to the father figure, Scott and the backbone he showed standing up to sponsors and owners. Sports and its corporate interests are what drives culture these days. Guts, glory and gambling.' https://trkingston.substack.com/p/russia-plays-usa-the-no-nation-cup
When are we going to flood the US media with data on how much drugs and firearms are coming north? we seem to be totally incompetent at putting facts in front of the US electorate. While bullshit from Trump is pouring over our news media, I see no hint of us pressing data south. We cannot win if we don't fight.
I read today’s newsletter. If we are trying to correct mis/disinformation with the Americans, I think a good place to start is with the fact that there is virtually no fentanyl coming from Canada through the US border. This is one of Trump’s justifications for attempting to annex Canada.
Great point, Adrienne. I have yet to figure out why Canada has been so slow to counter with the facts on this apart from Ministers repeating how low the amount is. The Globe and Mail did a great investigative study and found -- low as it already was -- the US figures are out of whack and do not show even that small amount: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-white-house-misusing-fentanyl-data-to-justify-tariffs-globe/ > "The facts on fentanyl and the northern border: Trump’s White House is using misleading data about drug seizures and their links to Canada, a Globe investigation finds," by Kathryn Blaze Baum, Colin Freeze and Andrea Woo, The Globe and Mail, Toronto, Ottawa and Spokane, Wash. Published February 27, 2025. I have not seen the Government pick up this study and use it in messaging into the US -- which to be is a serious case of them dropping the ball.
Hello Freeman,
You have asked for transparency. That is normally on an About page. We do indeed have an About page: you can see three tabs at the top of the page - "Home", "Archive"" and "About." This is a basic -- and normal -- Substack site.
Please go to the "About" tab at the top of the page:, which I provide a direct link to here for ease of access: https://engagementcanadapledge.substack.com/about If you go the "About" page, you are then also presented with the very first post introducing the Info Hub. From either the "About" page or the Introduction, you are also reminded that is all linked to the Pledge for Canada and the link is given. I give it here again: https://engagement-canada-pledge.ca/ Every lead signatory (87 in total) and the launch committee are there.
We are volunteers. There are no "major financial backers." Just hours and hours and hours of free work.
Sincerely, Craig (one of the members of the Launch Committee whose Substack account is hosting the Pledge site).
PLEASE! PLEASE! PLEASE! I like what I've read so far. However, in these days of rampant propaganda, mis- and dis-in formatioin and manipulation of so-called «Social Media» by back-room billionaires, CREDIBILITY can ONLY be established if the backers of sites like this are VISIBLE. Please place a page, findable from your welcome page, which lists your PRINCIPALS and major financial donors. Otherwise, I, and many thinking readers will continue to be suspicious of what's really BEHIND this initiative. For evidence just take a look at the propaganda surrepititiously flogging M. Hair-of-the-Rabbit's fascist agenda.
There’s a complete list of those who started the Pledge right there on the Pledge page.
and sadly we have no donors yet - it’s all been volunteer and out of pocket - so far - but no donors to reveal and nothing to hide
I'll have another look. I scolled thru HUNDREDS of page and didn't see it. I still maintain it should be OBVIOUS — i.e. if you will, «in your face» for old fart luddites like me..
Yes. I’m sorry but I don’t know who wrote the preceding post.
Greetings from Massachusetts, where everyone I know is horrified, appalled, embarrassed, furious, and resisting any way we can. I spent the dark day of Jan. 20 in Montréal and will return this summer for the tennis tournament. We are still best friends and neighbors with you and very much admire your stance. One day, this will be a sad chapter in the history books, and we will repair fences. But for now, the goose triumphed over the eagle, and you all can vacation elsewhere. So very sorry.
The sad irony of the Molson Canadian Ad is that Molson Beer is currently listed among the donors to Donald Trump and to Project 2025. I sincerely hope that its not true, but.............
Coors-Molson.... yep, not as Canadian as they once were. And those Coors boys... they're such upstanding supporters of Democracy. /s
'It would be much better if a song could cut through the moment we are living in. Ohio - Southern Man, but alas this is not the case. We must defer to the father figure, Scott and the backbone he showed standing up to sponsors and owners. Sports and its corporate interests are what drives culture these days. Guts, glory and gambling.' https://trkingston.substack.com/p/russia-plays-usa-the-no-nation-cup
When are we going to flood the US media with data on how much drugs and firearms are coming north? we seem to be totally incompetent at putting facts in front of the US electorate. While bullshit from Trump is pouring over our news media, I see no hint of us pressing data south. We cannot win if we don't fight.
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We know something’s been injured
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We harness our fears
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I read today’s newsletter. If we are trying to correct mis/disinformation with the Americans, I think a good place to start is with the fact that there is virtually no fentanyl coming from Canada through the US border. This is one of Trump’s justifications for attempting to annex Canada.
Great point, Adrienne. I have yet to figure out why Canada has been so slow to counter with the facts on this apart from Ministers repeating how low the amount is. The Globe and Mail did a great investigative study and found -- low as it already was -- the US figures are out of whack and do not show even that small amount: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-white-house-misusing-fentanyl-data-to-justify-tariffs-globe/ > "The facts on fentanyl and the northern border: Trump’s White House is using misleading data about drug seizures and their links to Canada, a Globe investigation finds," by Kathryn Blaze Baum, Colin Freeze and Andrea Woo, The Globe and Mail, Toronto, Ottawa and Spokane, Wash. Published February 27, 2025. I have not seen the Government pick up this study and use it in messaging into the US -- which to be is a serious case of them dropping the ball.