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Aug 7, 2026
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Canada’s hidden political centre is more normal than you think
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Canada’s hidden political centre is more normal than you think
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7 AUGUST 2026
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Measuring the politics of normalcy
SEAN SPEER
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For the past month I’ve been writing about what might be referred to as the politics of normalcy—or what I’ve called “normalism.”
At its core, normalism is an attempt to articulate a set of practical intuitions about work, belonging, and citizenship that most ordinary Canadians hold instinctively, even if they’ve never thought of them as a coherent political philosophy—intuitions that are, I’d argue, increasingly underreprese…
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