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Abstract This analysis examines activists’ remediation of a feminist media event, the 1984 televised leadership debate on women’s issues, during the 2015 Canadian federal election. Activists framed the 1984 event in campaign materials in commemorative terms, mobilizing a distinctly feminist cultural memory of the nation. Remediating the feminist past produced a discursive disruption of postfeminist constructions of the nation as already gender equal in news coverage of Up for Debate. In this way, women’s issues debates act as a barometer of neoliberal entrenchment in Canada.