Jon Shell

Cote D'Ivoire is on the map! Track Canada's international agreements as they happen. Follow @variablegeometry.bsky.social

Canada's new international agreements can now be tracked here.

My article in @thestar.com argues that Carney's middle power pitch is about breaking the chokepoints controlled by the U.S. and China that hold everyone else's economy down. It's a middle power revolt against the hegemons' monopoly strategy. www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

Our show Gloves Off with @stephenmarche.bsky.social is climbing the podcast charts. Why? Season 2 is all about winning: Trade, tech, defense, alliances, economy. Canadians want to fight, and we tried to show the ways we can win. We all left the season more optimistic, and I think you will too.

You'll want to dive into this feature interview with Social Capital Partners' Jon Shell as he talks about who owns the Canadian economy, digital sovereignty, and working on inequality as a way of working on climate change. @jonshell.bsky.social www.theenergymix.com/qa-climate-a...

The European football association with a remarkable condemnation of financialized capitalism. "Football’s future cannot be dictated by the expectations of those whose first duty is to maximise financial return." Read it in full. www.uefa.com/news-media/n...

Defense strategy must be a middle power resilience strategy - and it can be. That's my main learning from Gloves Off Ep. 5. Me, Stephen Marche and Vasiliki (Vass) Bednar work through it on the Cross Check aftershow. lnkd.in/gPtqnng5

We mapped the agreements Canada has signed since @mark-carney.bsky.social took office. It's interactive and will be updated as new ones come in. Partnership between @canadianshieldinstitute.ca, @scpartners.bsky.social and the Gloves Off podcast. Check it out. variablegeometry.ca

Each week Shield Managing Director @vassb.bsky.social is also sitting down with Gloves Off host Stephen Marche and SCP's @jonshell.bsky.social to have a free-flowing conversation about Canadian sovereignty, and our strategy. Watch Cross Check Ep. 1 here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=arQG...

In time for Canada Day, a powerful 4-part video series from re-generation, "How to Buy a Country." It gives the essential backstory to our fight for survival against Trump: free trade, staples dependence, and political domination. Trailer: youtube.com/watch?v=r5-3.... #cdnpoli /2

Launch day! Cross-Check is a new YouTube show with me, @vassb.bsky.social and @stephenmarche.bsky.social digging in on the topics covered in Stephen's Gloves Off podcast. We start with the Davos speech - 6 months later, what does it mean, and how does Canada win? www.youtube.com/watch?v=arQG...

It's Canada Day. Season 2 of Gloves Off is here. How Canada can move beyond surviving—and start winning—in the new world disorder. Listen here apple.co/glovesoff or watch on YouTube www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBni... #GlovesOffPodcast #Canada #Geopolitics #CanadianPolitics

"Employee Ownership Trusts provide a practical alternative that keeps companies rooted here, protects jobs and maintains strategic capacity in the Canadian economy.” 👏👏👏 🖋️ by @alexriehl.com at @betakit.com #OwnershipMatters #EOTs

🚨New video!🚨 Canada is facing a $2-trillion business handoff. What if employees owned more of it? #EmployeeOwnership #SmallBusiness #FutureofWork #CdnPoli #CanadaSky #BusinessSuccession #CdnEcon

🚨New video! 🚨 We all want more investment in Canada's economy. But when it comes to foreign investment (FDI), @jonshell.bsky.social says we have to ask: is it investment that builds? Or investment that buys? Because these are two very different things. #FDI #cdnpoli #cdnecon #econsky

You know what’s easier than making a generational investment and building a bunch of new things? Not selling the things we already have. An investment strategy without an ownership strategy from the federal government is not good enough. @jonshell.bsky.social www.linkedin.com/pulse/you-ca...

Canada’s wealth gap is way worse than official data show. The PBO just confirmed the top 1% own nearly 25% of all wealth—which StatsCan missed because it doesn’t even count the richest families in its surveys. 🔗 Read more: socialcapitalpartners.ca/wealth-inequ... #CdnPoli #BillionaireBlindspot

🚨New video🚨 As Canadians, we like to think we’re strong and free. But, when it comes to the wealth gap, we’re looking more like America Lite—better manners, but almost all the inequality. #CdnPoli #CanadaSky #Wealth #EconSky

The Parkland (🍁) sale to Sunoco (🗽) offers little benefit to Canada while risking jobs, innovation and sovereignty. Ottawa should say no. Read Sarah Doyle and @jonshell.bsky.social in Policy Options. #FDI #OwnershipMatters #AlwaysCanada #Never51 policyoptions.irpp.org/2025/09/suno...

Build, baby, build? Or sell, baby, sell? Sunoco's acquisition of Parkland is a bad deal for Canada, and should be rejected. policyoptions.irpp.org/2025/09/suno...

Today's meeting with @jonshell.bsky.social , chair of @scpartners.bsky.social , @danskilleter.bsky.social, Gene Chartier, Taylor Seek hon, and Lee Chitiz, all representing Employee Ownership Trusts (EOTs), was productive and insightful. #employeeownershiptrusts

For @guardian I wrote about how the world is separating from America this Independence Day. www.theguardian.com/us-news/comm...

We can't win this trade war with the US, but we can win the next one. Appeared on @stephenmarche.bsky.social's new podcast Gloves Off (lnkd.in/gtc3qFRa) to talk about whether free trade with America has really been good for Canada and what a pivot toward a Middle Power Alliance could look like.

How long until the MAGA cover of "Not Like Us" about Elon?

Growth that widens inequality will weaken, not strengthen our economy. Canada Strong means putting economic sovereignty and broad access to wealth-building at the heart of our agenda. Read Matthew's piece: socialcapitalpartners.ca/as-the-feder... #CanadaSky #CdnPoli #AlwaysCanada #Never51

PM Carney met Trump at the White House last week and passed his first real test. Now he faces a different kind of test. Will Canada be willing to go "elbows up" in the Sunoco/ Parkland energy takeover and kill the deal? @mendelmatt.bsky.social, @jonshell.bsky.social 👇 #Never51 #CanadaSky

As the threat to Canada’s sovereignty intensifies, we need policies that keep Canadian companies owned by Canadians. Employee-ownership is growing in 🍁 for good reasons: - more wealth for workers - more resilient in recessions - more productive 🔗 goodmenproject.com/featured-con... #EOT #CdnPoli

Corporate leaders are obsessing over GDP per capita. But, if you look at just about any number that would meaningfully tell you how well our economy is doing, Canada does better than the U.S. @mendelmatt.bsky.social @jimstanford.bsky.social #alwayscanada #never51 #gdp #cdnpoli #cdnecon

At PPF growth summit. Starting with a classic orthodox economic speech by a bank economist. Manufacturing isn't important, invest in services, we have educated people. Yawn.

Yesterday, America had their “Liberation Day.” Now it’s time for the rest of us to plan our own. The world needs a new Alliance, independent of the US or China. Here's one way to do it. It's wrong and incomplete. But maybe it can help get the ball rolling. jonshell.medium.com/manifesto-fo...

The bravest person in know, being awesome.

Rich tech leaders are sharing their ideas about how political decisions should be made. Vass Bednar, executive director of McMaster University’s master of public policy in digital society, has to wonder: Is a Canadian version of DOGE in our future? thewalrus.ca/are-a-handful-of...

From fighter jets to TikTok, satellites to steel, nothing is off the table when it comes to creative-even-crazy ideas to secure Canada's sovereignty. Fired up? Focused on the future? Full of ideas? Read ours: tinyurl.com/ycxkfn82/ Add yours: 👇 #AlwaysCanada #Never51 #CanadaSky #EconSky

Canada didn't "steal" American auto jobs. We didn't even take them nicely. Some facts about Trumps' latest lie in the trade war: * As a % of population, Canada has underperformed the US in auto manufacturing jobs since 1992 * Both countries have about the same # of jobs as 1992 #Canadasky #elbowsup

Worker ownership is an effective model for local ownership and democratic control. Rather than having businesses shut down or sold to distant shareholders and corporate entities, they can be transferred to the workers themselves, allowing for jobs and profits to remain in their communities.