'A small act of patriotism': Canada's anti-Maga hats go viral

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‘A small act of patriotism’: Canada’s anti-Maga hats go viral
Ontario premier’s ‘Canada is not for sale’ cap emerges as an unlikely expression of unity amid Trumpian threats
Leyland Cecco
Sat 18 Jan 2025 06.30 EST


Few items of clothing have come to exemplify American far-right nationalism in the 21st century as much as the red “Make America Great Again” hats worn and sold by Donald Trump. But this week, the beloved – and reviled – headwear appeared to have met its match.

Before a high-stakes meeting with Canadian leaders in preparation for American tariffs, the Ontario premier, Doug Ford, strode into the summit wearing a hat emblazoned with a defiant message: “CANADA IS NOT FOR SALE”.

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For the hat’s creators, “it’s been a wild and surreal few days”.

Liam Mooney, who runs a design firm in Ottawa with his fiancee Emma Cochrane, said the hat came about as a direct rebuttal to a viral Fox news segment in which the host Jesse Watters taunted Ford about Trump’s threat to annex Canada.

“If I were a citizen of another country and I was a neighbour of the United States, I would consider it a privilege to be taken over by the United States of America,” Watters told the Ontario leader.

Mooney and Cochrane were “shocked” at the hostile interview and spent the next few hours coming up with the “creative rebuttal” to the Trumpian threats.

The result was a cap with a Canadian-designed typeface and a simple but firm message. “It was a small act of patriotism to respond to these big threats and this big bluster,” said Mooney.

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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jan/18/canada-not-for-sale-hats-maga

[no_hypocrisy]

1. WANT ! ! !

[Hekate]

10. Me too 🇨🇦

[Charging Triceratops]

2. I'd rather have a blue hat that says ...

Just Shoot Him Again

[Hekate]

3. That would probably get you a very uncomfortable visit from the FBI, so maybe notthe best idea

[msfiddlestix]

4. If it was printed on an article of clothing?

it's not an actual threat or an issuance of an order.
If J6 conspirators to install a hangman's gallows on the Capitol grounds, with direct intent to hang Pence, and not face serious consequences, well I don't see how this unremarkable and harmless text print on a baseball hat or a tee shirt rises to the occasion of a visit from his soon to be department of goons.

[Hekate]

5. Let us know how that works out. Mango Mussolini punches down, and MAGAs are mean suckers...

… cops are not to be trusted, and as for the FBI, they appear to be in trump’s thrall.

I like the Canadian hat. Can’t see anything in that calling for someone to hit me.

[Charging Triceratops]

7. Yeah, we must cower in fear now

[Hekate]

9. I have always chosen my battles, being small and female. Now I'm in my late 70s. You do you.

I don’t “cower” but I also don’t go out of my way to have individual confrontations with aggressive strangers.

Did you see the protests several years ago where a man about my age stood in front of a line of marching thugs? Lifelong peacenik. Stood out in front of the young thugs and they didn’t just keep going, one of them straight-armed him in the chest and he went over like a felled tree. Hit his head so hard on the sidewalk that blood ran out of his ears — a very bad sign of a serious brain injury.

[Charging Triceratops]

6. I didn't say WHO

Maybe I meant Hitler or Lenin or Oswald.

[Brother Buzz]

8. Photo of Doug Ford sporting the hat