‘Just shedding my snake skin’: Retiring MP Charlie Angus is Canada’s brashest voice against Trump

By Matteo Cimellaro, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Canada’s National Observer Charlie Angus, a longtime NDP MP, is set to exit stage left after announcing he will not run in the next election. But in quintessential Angus style, he isn’t leaving without making noise. Ever since the U.S. tariff threat, Angus has been publicly railing, seemingly every chance he gets, against President Donald Trump and his cronies, including multi-billionaire Elon Musk. He’s hopped on podcasts, YouTube videos and other print interviews; he’s written op-eds and continues to post on social media at a prolific clip to launch bareknuckle attacks against what he calls a bully to the south. The broadsides against Trump have caught the attention of alternative and mainstream media alike, inciting virality in both Canada and the U.S. Over…

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