LUTNICK: It is outrageous that Canada will not put US spirits on the shelf. It is insulting and disrespectful to America SHAHEEN: They won't do it because of the insults from this president and comments like yours

What a mess. But truly foreseeable!

We brought Maple back to her elderly lady today after she had been stabbed. A truly special moment… niallharbison.substack.com/p/the-power-...

This man explains to men how they got to this unhappy place. Not only for them, but for all of us. Well said.

Loblaws strikes again.

For my American friends who will be participating in tomorrow’s No Kings demonstrations, yell loud. We want to hear your voices all the way up here in 🇨🇦 Stay safe.

Another Zoom social coming up this Wednesday evening at 8pm, you don't have to talk or be an expert, you can just listen, so join us. us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

On this day in 1905, Elsie MacGill was born. She oversaw the construction of 1,451 Hawker Hurricanes during the Second World War and was called "Queen of the Hurricanes". Learn more in my Deep Dive 👇 buff.ly/QaqvQun

The others are just too slow to keep up with me!

Happy Bouncing the Rhine Day for all who celebrate! 81 years ago today was Op. Varsity. It’s also the day that Fred ‘Toppy’ Topham earned his VC. If you want to hear about Canadians at Op. Varsity - and the story of how Toppy won a VC - you can listen to here: youtu.be/rnr2t7Zf1JQ?...

Have you been here, @jmcn.bsky.social ?

Cognitive dissonance: listening to a Second World War podcast while sewing baby wipes for the grandbaby due in May. 🫤

@streetwriter.bsky.social You have a fan!

Off to Ottawa and Library and Archives Canada. Nice day for it.

What’s really striking in Saruman’s speech to Gandalf is how broadly (and unusually for Tolkien) relevant it is. Take out the one specific reference to the Elves and Númenor and it is just an absolute classic rationale for collaborating with evil in the confidence you can ultimately direct it.

If you don’t think the Trump Regime is planning to steal the midterms, you are not paying attention.

Five authors I’ve read at least 5 books by: Somerset Maugham Peter Caddick-Adams Tim Cook Margaret Atwood Nevil Shute

Happy #Caturday from Duke and me.

"Camp X" was a training school for covert agents and a radio communications centre that operated during the Second World War. It served the needs of the Special Operations Executive, the British agency created in 1940 to “set Europe ablaze” by promoting sabotage and subversion behind enemy lines.

Wow.

If you are craving a little World War II waffle, come and join the fellow afflicted, join or just listen in, either way you are more than welcome Thursday at 8pm. Register here. us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Woohoo! Back to school I go! Laurier University has accepted my application for grad school. This fall I start my MA in history. Getting old doesn’t have to mean stopping learning! Big thanks to @mike-bechthold.bsky.social for the encouragement and the reference!

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Signed.

That would be why.

For my fellow Marc Milner fans. youtu.be/nbM0NM6Yq6Q?...

In Germany the camps did not begin as death. They began as temporary, legal and administrative. "For public order", they said. They grew because space existed, because citizens adjusted, because each step towards extermination felt small. It was built, justified, one "warehouse" at a time.

“that’s the Canadian way”. —Tom Brokaw #cdnpoli #nato #uspoli

It is important to note that the first Canadian casualties, for answering the US article 5 call, were the US military murdering Canadian soldiers for being where they told us to be, doing what they told us to do. #TarnakFarm Never, again, America, never again.

including the clipped beginning www.youtube.com/watch?v=dE98...

“…our national press, claiming to provide an impartial news service, was sailing under false colours. Many newspapers, even those which openly wore the livery of party beliefs, were secretly enslaved to unavowed … interests. Some of them were controlled by foreign interests.” -Marc Bloch. Leave X.

Terribly uncanny how relevant this is to today.

50% of Conservatives are traitors — and the other 50% enable them. The CPC either needs to split into two separate parties, or enact serious change from within. Either way, Maple MAGA needs a new home. Because, right now, their very existence is a threat to Canada. cultmtl.com/2025/12/50-o...

Froze my ass off at the Iowa City anti-ICE rally, but it was worth it

Welcome to new followers, I hope you’ll like it here. You might have a detox period after leaving X - I know I did: when I wasn’t getting nasty comments to everything I posted and firing back, it took a while to adjust.

This photo is Canadians fighting the Nazis in the Battle of Britain. We were a poor country of 11 million people. We built the 4th largest air force and navy in the world. When the Brits were being evacuated at Dunkirk we were already defending her shores. Message to fascists and tyrants: FAFO

Still don't think they'll invade Canada? Really?

How I’m walking out of 2025

@nmtdambusters.bsky.social For you, Jane!

Merle is looking with some scepticism at my attempts to write a paper. Not helping me overcome the imposter syndrome, bud.

This!