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Mark Bourrie @drmarkbourrie.bsky.social · 8h

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Disabled war vets shipped to the Canadian Wilderness

How Britain's government saved a few shillings and created Canada's first poverty and homelessness crises.

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Mark Bourrie @drmarkbourrie.bsky.social · 2d

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Mark Bourrie @drmarkbourrie.bsky.social · 2d

Says he was talked into it by locals in Croatia. Of course, no one reads a few pages of mid-late 20th century Balkans history to see why Nazi imagery would be an accepted part of the local culture.

Mark Bourrie @drmarkbourrie.bsky.social · 2d

Real National Socialist aesthetic at work here.

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Mark Bourrie @drmarkbourrie.bsky.social · 2d

Archaeologists find a Roman fossil collector's trilobite.
The emperor Augustus was an avid fossil collector and opened the world's first paleontology museum.
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Digs & Discoveries - Fossil Force - Archaeology Magazine - November/December 2025

One of the planet’s most successful arthropods, trilobites, abounded in the oceans from about 520 […]

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Mark Bourrie @drmarkbourrie.bsky.social · 6d

McCullagh was the only other owner and he designed the place.

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Mark Bourrie @drmarkbourrie.bsky.social · 8d

Thanks. It was one of my favorite projects.

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Don Pittis @donpittis.bsky.social · 10d

Just finished Big Men Fear Me, a biog of the forgotten proto fascist who put the & in Globe & Mail. Huge amount of digging in a sparky style, Mark Bourrie @drmarkbourrie.bsky.social proves the advantage of biography in telling history - of a booze soaked political era most of us know nothing about.

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Mark Bourrie @drmarkbourrie.bsky.social · 12d

How do you find time while tearing down the White House?

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N.J.C. 🍁 🇨🇦 🍁 @njcallaghan.bsky.social · 13d

A must read!

Mark Bourrie @drmarkbourrie.bsky.social · 19d

See what critics are saying about Ripper: The Making of Pierre Poilievre:
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Ripper: The Making of Pierre Poilievre - Biblioasis

As Canada heads towards a pivotal election, bestselling author Mark Bourrie charts the rise of Opposition leader Pierre Poilievre and considers the history and potential cost of the politics of […]

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Mark Bourrie @drmarkbourrie.bsky.social · 13d

Doesn't answer the question. It takes so much work to win in the US because so much is stacked in favor of the Right.

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 14d

Time to re-up one of the great quotes of all time...while the Totenkopf is in the discourse. www.huffpost.com/entry/attemp...

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"Basically, I'm just fed up with the fact that I'm cis-gendered, I'm a white male, and I lean right, towards the Republican side," said Fears, 28, wearing a pin of the 3rd SS Panzer Division Totenkopf of the Waffen-SS. "And I get demonized if I don't accept certain things."

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Mark Bourrie @drmarkbourrie.bsky.social · 16d

Did all of these people vote last November?

Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 16d

I’m absolutely exhausted in the best possible way. I love us. We did it! #NoKings

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Mark Bourrie @drmarkbourrie.bsky.social · 19d

There has to be a third option, rather than "pick a fascist".

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Mark Bourrie @drmarkbourrie.bsky.social · 19d

Chatham House has spelled "Bundeswehr" wrong n your bio.

Mark Bourrie @drmarkbourrie.bsky.social · 19d

See what critics are saying about Ripper: The Making of Pierre Poilievre:
www.biblioasis.com/shop/new-rel...

Ripper: The Making of Pierre Poilievre - Biblioasis

As Canada heads towards a pivotal election, bestselling author Mark Bourrie charts the rise of Opposition leader Pierre Poilievre and considers the history and potential cost of the politics of […]

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Mark Bourrie @drmarkbourrie.bsky.social · 23d

Columbus, 'Indians,' and the Guanches dwhauthor.wordpress.com/2018/10/08/c...

Columbus, ‘Indians,’ and the Guanches

Never mind notions of spreading Christianity to the benighted of the world, or pursuing humanity’s insatiable love of adventure: money, then as now, sought fresh opportunity, and where opportunitie…

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jwdafoebookprize.bsky.social @jwdafoebookprize.bsky.social · 28d

"If we are to survive as a country, fending off the influence and threats of the United States and overcoming the internal forces of division, we need to understand how we got to the place where we are."

Read the Full Q&A with Mark Bourrie on our website now: dafoefoundation.ca/news/

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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 28d

ICE's contempt for the law has no bounds. newrepublic.com/post/201394/...

ICE’s Growing Feud With Chicago Police Now Includes Fake 911 Calls

Surprise, surprise: Federal immigration agents aren’t keeping the community safer.

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Mark Bourrie @drmarkbourrie.bsky.social · Oct 5

My "lost" book: The Race to the New World dwhauthor.wordpress.com/2025/10/05/m...

My “lost” book: The Race to the New World

Sometimes books fall between the cracks, regardless of how hard you worked on them or how good you think they are. Such has been the case with The Race to the New World, my book on Giovanni Caboto …

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Mark Bourrie @drmarkbourrie.bsky.social · Oct 3

What military planners, historians and politicians rarely tell you: most of the material created during pre-war arms races is rarely important and is often useless after the first few months of a major conflict. Most of the officer corps washes out, too.
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Canada’s new dollar-a-year man (and why he’s worth every penny)

Defence lobbyists love a good Second World War analogy.

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🇨🇦 Ken Robinson: Proud/ NASTY CANADIAN in AB 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 @kprobinson0155.bsky.social · Oct 2

This is #Blitzkrieg
Maybe look it up, y'all...

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Mark Bourrie @drmarkbourrie.bsky.social · Oct 2

I bought this book when it came out and I got a lot out of it.

jwdafoebookprize.bsky.social @jwdafoebookprize.bsky.social · Oct 1

"By the time I was twelve, I wanted to be a writer. The celebrated Jack Kerouac novel On the Road inspired me to venture out into the great wide world. Kerouac was adventurous, an explorer, a writer who reveled in real-world experience."

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Mark Bourrie @drmarkbourrie.bsky.social · Oct 2

I doubt it would fit me. It would look great on you.

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