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Consumer Choice Radio EP60: Fergus Hodgson on Inflation and Independence

Posted on 25 February, 2021 | Big Talker 106.7FM

-We start off the show with consumer corner, highlighting awesome consumer innovations -Canada’s genocide vote and why it matters INTERVIEW with EconAmericas founder and executive director Fergus Hodgson -Four Signs That Inflation Has Arrived https://www.theepochtimes.com/four-signs-inflation-has-arrived_3497895.html -Gamestop, investors, and the stock market -Canadia’s fiscal path and stimulus -Western independence (Alberta/Saskatchewan) Fergus Hodgson (@FergHodgson) is the director…

PanAm Podcast: Yael Ossowski Suggests Greater Political Autonomy Might Avert Catalonia Crisis

Posted on 16 October, 2017

A recent podcast conducted with PanAm Post. This past weekend, the world watched as Mariano Rajoy‘s government deploy the national police to the Catalonia region in what proved to be a violent attempt to shut down an independence referendum regarding a political break with Spain. Journalist Yael Ossowski wrote an op-ed for the Washington Examiner…

How do you build a successful independence movement?

Posted on 5 October, 2017

By Yaël Ossowski In Scotland’s 2014 referendum, what I really learned is that a successful independence movement must be cultural and all-encompassing. A minority language helps. For many years, that’s what Québec had. But entrenched politicians (at the federal and provincial levels) began to change the terms of independence and what it would mean for…

We are all Catalonians now: Why the Spanish crisis matters for all nations

Posted on 3 October, 2017 | Washington Examiner

In scenes straight from a 1984-esque dystopian thriller, armed policemen from the Spanish Guardia Civil descended into the streets of the Catalonian region over the weekend to halt a planned referendum for independence. Clubs were whirled in the air, polling stations demolished, and voters shoved to the ground. At last count, more than 1,300 people…

For an Independent Scotland, and a Free One Too

Posted on 16 September, 2014 | PanAm Post

Dispatches from the Battleground in What Could Be a New Nation By Yaël Ossowski | September 12, 2014 | PANAM POST It’s been said we’re all witnesses to history. In just a few days, ordinary Scots have the rare opportunity to be promoted far beyond that, to the level of active participants in a major…

If Not the Parti Québécois, Who Is Today’s Quebec Secessionist?

Posted on 22 April, 2014 | PanAm Post

A Reset Button for the Quebec Independence Movement is Due By Yaël Ossowski | PanAm Post After a whopping defeat in the last provincial election, Quebec secessionists are doing of bit of soul-searching, and with good reason. The Parti Québécois (PQ), the province’s progressive separatist party, held the reins of a minority government when it…

What the Québec Independence Movement Can Learn from Catalonia

Posted on 24 September, 2013 | PanAm Post

Leaving National Secession to Politics Alone Is a Mistake On September 11, the National Day of Catalonia, an estimated 1.6 million Catalans joined hands across the vast territory they’d like to call their own. Catalans link hands to rally for independence on the National Day for Catalonia. Dubbed the “Catalan Way,” the idea was to…

The Stateless Man: As Europe Centralizes Power, Catalonia Yearns to Break Free

Posted on 15 April, 2013 | The Stateless Man

By Yaël Ossowski | The Stateless Man “Catalunya no és Espanya.” More than just a slogan, it’s become a rallying cry for the nearly 7.5 million Catalans who wish to demonstrate to the world that their culture, history, and language are far removed from the traditional concept of Spain. As a recent visitor to the city of…