It has come to my attention that many people are not aware that my book about Justin Trudeau's prime ministership is now available in convenient paperback format, with a gripping new afterword that covers his final months in office. Christmas is coming!

Before colonization, the landscape in the Americas was anything but wild. 9/12

This is from Charles C. Mann's fascinating 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus, about the Hudson River Valley in the 1640s. 8/12

Why did they stop? Colonial authorities made them stop. This is from Forty years in Canada, by famous 19th Century Mountie Sam Steele. He is describing a trip west from Manitoba. 6/12

I was in British Columbia last month to learn about wildfires, which got me thinking about how we see the forests around us, and how it is not necessarily good thinking. 1/x

The casting call for this ad seems to have been posted on Facebook on Monday for a shoot in Kanata the same day x.com/CPC_HQ/statu...

I think the problems Poilievre is having now were foreseeable. From Nov 2023:
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I want to have the sense that our political class, in all parties, is focused on protecting Canadian sovereignty
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Fun fact: Isapo-Muxika, known as Crowfoot, who I quoted above, once killed a grizzly bear with a spear. 24/23

"And We do hereby strictly forbid, on Pain of our Displeasure, all our loving Subjects from making any Purchases or Settlements whatever, or taking Possession of any of the Lands above reserved. without our especial leave and Licence for that Purpose first obtained." 5/x

Trotsky was successful at converting fellow detainees to communism when he was locked up in Nova Scotia nationalpost.com/news/canada/...

When I was researching my book on Trudeau, I was impressed by how broad the coalition was that helped Trudeau maintain our trade relationship with during Trump 1.0. 1/x

Ignatieff 2.0? Carney has some homework to do before he runs www.ipolitics.ca/opinions/ign...