Tod Maffin 🇨🇦

Since some of you have asked, here are links to the Canadian projects we've launched: 👩🏻‍⚕️ National Healthcare Infusion Movement 🧳 Tourism Infusion Handbook 🛒 Main Street Canada 🔌 Unplug America 💪🏻 Canada Is Not Broken ▶️ Videos about Cdn identity 🍫 Canadian snacks See them all ▶️ projects.todmaffin.com

Not surprised Telus is awful. We still have an active complaint filed against them with the federal regulator. That’s how bad their billing practices were with us.

TODAY IN CANADA: In 1887, Saskatchewan's first telephone exchange (not pictured) opened in a bookstore in Regina, transforming communication across the Canadian Prairies. ☎YOUR SAY: Do you still have a landline? Why or why not?

Last Saturday I asked: do you send snail mail? 1,993 of you answered. Every week I ask one question in my free email newsletter, and you settle it. ✅ Weigh in on the next poll this weekend. Join the newsletter: join.farandwide.news

B.C. elected Conservatives, but what if we elected no parties at all?

Your Monday Cannections is here! Tuck into some Halloween candy (if you eat it all, you have time to go get more) and see how many words you can cannect. Share your scores in the comments. 🍫 games.hey.cafe/cannections/...

Every week, I bring you the secret stories in Canadian bureaucracy that the deep state doesn’t want you to know!

If the B.C. election result stings for you tonight, remember that this province once forced a majority government to back down on a tax it had just brought in. A new government still answers to the same people who hired it.

An election worker at the #Nanaimo Golf Club voting location says it’s been quiet all morning. Don’t let the rain or apathy keep you home. Don’t take this Canadian right for granted. Don’t let the boomers decide who’s elected. They’re all voting today. Get out there and vote!!!

Two million of you. I’m stunned and so grateful.

Two million of you. I’m stunned and so grateful. Thank you for caring about this country with me. 🇨🇦

This was two days’ worth of postcards btw

The face you trust most is now the easiest to borrow

TODAY IN CANADA: In 1980 The Globe and Mail printed its first national edition using satellite communications to do so. It was this first Canadian newspaper to use this technology. 📰YOUR SAY: Did you ever cut out a newspaper story and keep it? What was it about?

Want to know if we got your postcard? Look it up at dearcanada.todmaffin.com 🙂

Two Canadian games: One for fighting your family, and one for fleeing them 🤣

TODAY IN CANADA: Brian Bowman became the first Indigenous mayor of Winnipeg, Manitoba, when he was elected in 2014. 🍁YOUR SAY: What was the first moment you saw someone "like you" in a position of power?

This Week’s Act of “Relentless Decency” Over 200 people volunteered to be part of a “human book chain” to help an independent bookstore in Ottawa move to a new location. www.youtube.com/shorts/h6jPS...

Dust off your mortarboard and pop it on because a new Cannections is out now! Share your scores in the comments. 🇨🇦 games.hey.cafe/cannections/...

An update on the “Dear Canada” project

BREAKING: If you ever called CrimeStoppers, your name might be out there.

BREAKING: Alberta Rejects Separatism

Give Gooblin a follow. She draws frog butts for a living.

CBC decision desk projects Albertans have rejected separatism

Best of luck to the new Republic of Grande Prairie.

Home is wherever your effort finally gets treated like it matters.

TODAY IN CANADA:In 1911, the Royal Mint in England shipped the master dies for Canada's proposed new silver dollar to Ottawa; because the traditional Latin phrase "Dei Gratia" was left off the coin, only 3 were made. YOUR SAY: We’ve eliminated the penny should we eliminate the nickel and dime next?

I asked everyone on my newsletter if politicians in Quebec should have to swear allegiance to the Monarch (as they do everywhere else in the country). How would YOU have voted? ✅ Weigh in on the next poll this weekend. Join the newsletter: join.FarAndWide.news

Here are some great Canadian performers and authors to check out!

Start your week off on the right foot with an all-new Cannections! Share your scores in the comments. 🍁 games.hey.cafe/cannections/...

You folks asked for it, so here it is... How to switch to Canadian companies: The HOUSEHOLD edition! 🙂

Well, pack it up. @donnamatrix.bsky.social has the best post of the night.

I feel like I’m more invested in that Kelowna candidate who seemed like he really didn’t want to run at all. I keep refreshing to see if he got a seat 😂 #bcelections

ALBERTA VOTES: On Monday, Alberta decides which supports will hold the nation’s roof.

Things are getting weird, y’all 🫪 (Photo taken at a No Kings rally in the U.S.)

I read the Canada Gazette so you don’t have to 🙂 — Banks can't do any significant side hustle — They still can’t lease you a car — Political candidates get most security costs repaid — The EU’s bank wants Canada to rule it isn’t “foreign” ...and more! ✅ My free newsletter: join.farandwide.news

⚠️ Breaking: MASSIVE hack of More Rewards

TODAY IN CANADA: On today's date in 1841, Queen's University in Kingston received its royal charter. Oddly, the charter required the college stay within three miles of a specific Presbyterian church. 🎓️ YOUR SAY: Should post-secondary education be paid for by the government?

America: Meddling in Canadian Elections Since 1962

This is not ok. www.niemanlab.org/2026/10/meta...

437 Canadian small businesses are now on Main Street Canada! I made a spreadsheet. Then I made charts. You're welcome, fellow nerds. Swipe for the highlights. ✅ See them all at mainstreet.todmaffin.com

More Canadian small businesses hit by American tariff that you can support, episode 18

Quebec’s premier skipped the King’s oath and a lawyer is not amused