Angela Lindow
Not red. Not blue. Something new.
The future is not what it used to be.
Independent Candidate · University-Rosedale · 2026
Not red. Not blue. Something new.
The future is not what it used to be.
Independent Candidate · University-Rosedale · 2026
A riding that holds multitudes — and a pattern that demands an answer.
Two realities. One riding. And a proposal that actually addresses it.
↓CGCD-50 is a framework to repatriate Canadian pension capital and return it to the graduates whose families built it. One domino that moves everything.
The Prime Minister himself has said that Canada has the most educated population on Earth. If that is true, then the first test of leadership is whether we trust that education with responsibility.
This framework is intentionally skeletal. It sets the floor, not the ceiling.
A capital dividend of $50,000 for every qualifying graduate — funded not by taxes, not by borrowing, but by repatriating a portion of the pension wealth that already belongs to Canadian workers.
The criteria are simple and non-negotiable:
● You must be a Canadian citizen prior to entering university.
● You must be a graduate.
● Your parents or grandparents must have paid into the Canadian pension system for a meaningful period of time.
The Quebec precedent: La Caisse de dépôt et placement manages $473 billion and has reinvested $93 billion directly into Québec's economy — infrastructure, housing, transit, jobs. It proves the model works. CGCD-50 applies the same logic nationally.
Every crisis in Canada — housing, mental health, brain drain, healthcare strain — traces back to a generation locked out of capital. Address that, and every other domino begins to fall.
Three interactive tools built to make policy tangible. Data first. Then engagement. Then play.
Enter your details and see exactly what the Graduate Capital Dividend could mean for you — your payout, your housing path, your numbers.
Calculate Your DividendTell us where you stand. Your answers become the aggregate data that goes to every MP in the country — real voices, real weight.
Share Your Voice$107 million leaves Canada every single day. How much can you catch? A two-minute game that makes the offshore problem impossible to ignore.
Play the GameNo script. No teleprompter. No handlers. Just the candidate, the camera, and the case for change.
This campaign does not accept donations. Not a penny. It runs on data, on ideas, and on the belief that a single, well-built policy framework can shift the conversation in this country — permanently.
I am running as an independent in University-Rosedale because the seat is available and because no party is having this conversation. The Canadian Graduate Capital Dividend is not an ideology. It is arithmetic — $777 billion in pension wealth, 85% invested offshore, and a generation of graduates locked out of the returns their families created. CGCD-50 asks one question: what happens when we bring that capital home?
The workplace model has shifted. Hybrid work is the norm — unless you are a government worker. AI is displacing entry-level roles faster than policy can keep pace. Youth unemployment sits at 14.7%. Young Canadians carry our mistakes — and they are running out of patience with leaders who offer slogans instead of solutions.
This is not a traditional campaign. A doorstep conversation lasts under four minutes typically. In that time, you can share a headline. You cannot explain a framework. So this site does what a pamphlet cannot: it puts the data in your hands. The calculator shows you what CGCD-50 means for your life. The survey collects your voice and sends it to every MP in the country. The game makes the offshore problem visceral. The quiz asks whether this is your story.
I built every tool on this site using AI — and I am transparent about that, because transparency is not a liability. It is a standard. Hundreds of volunteers will carry this message forward. Not because a party told them to, but because the math made sense.
And if you want the policy explained by someone other than me, there is Philippa — an AI policy advisor trained on every piece of CGCD-50 data. She is there in May. She is there in July. She does not take days off, and she does not dodge questions.
I face some challenges that affect mobility. That is one reason this campaign lives online — but it is not the only reason. The future of political engagement is digital, and pretending otherwise is how parties lose an entire generation. This campaign meets people where they actually are.
A riding is a conversation. These are the articles — some mine, some not — that speak to what matters here: housing, youth, work, and the future we're building together.
Toronto's mental health report card is devastating. The number of residents reporting good mental health has collapsed from 73% to 52% in less than a decade — and youth are bearing the worst of it. Affordability, online exposure, and rising stress are driving a crisis that no party has meaningfully addressed. This is University-Rosedale's reality.
McMaster University researchers studied 35,000 Ontario students and found depression and anxiety symptoms nearly tripled — from 10.7% to 27.4% — between 2013 and 2023. One in five reported self-harm. One in six had serious thoughts about suicide. These are not statistics from a distant country. These are our children, in our province, right now.
The world's richest man says don't bother saving for retirement — AI will create such abundance that money itself becomes irrelevant. Financial experts disagree. But here's what matters: if even Musk admits traditional jobs are disappearing, then asking what happens to the generation entering the workforce right now isn't radical. It's arithmetic.
For the first time since the Bureau of Labor Statistics began tracking the data, trade workers now have lower unemployment than college graduates. The 50-year promise — get the degree, get the job — has broken. Stanford research shows a 13% employment drop-off for young workers in AI-exposed occupations since 2022. The article diagnoses the problem with precision. It does not offer a solution. CGCD-50 does.
Dan Donovan asks the question Ottawa doesn't want to hear: if Canadian capital is leaving faster than foreign investment is arriving — a gap approaching one trillion dollars — then who exactly is Carney's "strategic renaissance" for? With youth unemployment at 14.7%, food bank visits at historic highs, and not a single piece of investment-repelling legislation repealed, the gap between the Davos speech and Canadian reality has never been wider.
Politics has one model: knock, pamphlet, vote, disappear. Entertainment abandoned that approach years ago. People engage differently now — through podcasts, through social media, through play, through music. A campaign that only speaks in press releases and pamphlets only reaches people who read press releases and pamphlets. That's not enough. These songs are part of a different approach — multiple ways into the same conversation, because the younger generation doesn't sit and read a platform. They listen. They share. They feel. Every track here was written for CGCD-50. This is policy you can hear.
This campaign is running in University-Rosedale because the seat is available. But CGCD-50 is not about one riding. It's about every graduate across Canada.
We need the numbers. We need MPs to see that this idea has weight — that it isn't going away when the lawn signs come down. Here's how you make that happen:
Get out to vote. U of T, OCAD, TMU, George Brown — every campus in this riding has students who've been overlooked. You vote, and we are unstoppable.
You still matter. Share this site with anyone who graduated in the last ten years. Take the quiz. Do the survey. Every number we collect is evidence that this idea has legs — and that evidence goes to every MP in the country.
Tell them you support CGCD-50. Tell them you want it on their agenda. This isn't red or blue — it's arithmetic. And they need to hear it from you, not from us.
Create a TikTok. Choose one of the songs and make it yours. Share the Davos Contradiction. DM me. Start a petition in your city and send it over. Whatever your platform is — use it.
We're not building a campaign. We're building a movement. A Digital Woodstock. And it starts the moment you decide that your voice — your share, your video, your vote — is the one that tips the balance.
The seat will help. If we win it, the microphone gets louder. If we don't, whoever does win should hear this idea so clearly that they have no choice but to carry it forward. That's how change works. Not by screaming. By being impossible to ignore.
Ask Philippa