Michael Ledger-Lomas
@michaelledgerlomas.bsky.social
I write about kings and prophets. In but not from Vancouver, BC
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The whole thing is exquisite ribbed (for your pleasure) concrete. Yet it’s soft and quiet, a moon safari in the sky. Hotel Bonaventure. Built above the rail lines even. Canada: once great.
November 8, 2025 at 7:19 PM
The whole thing is exquisite ribbed (for your pleasure) concrete. Yet it’s soft and quiet, a moon safari in the sky. Hotel Bonaventure. Built above the rail lines even. Canada: once great.
Lovely, spirited piece.
My Family’s 240-Year Journey Shows Why Canada Will Never Bow to Trump
thewalrus.ca/my-familys-2...
thewalrus.ca/my-familys-2...
My Family’s 240-Year Journey Shows Why Canada Will Never Bow to Trump | The Walrus
I turned to history—and my ancestors—to understand the country’s resistance to American domination
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November 10, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Lovely, spirited piece.
O Canada!
Prefer Szalay's dank and very British early work but will take the win.
Prefer Szalay's dank and very British early work but will take the win.
November 10, 2025 at 10:09 PM
O Canada!
Prefer Szalay's dank and very British early work but will take the win.
Prefer Szalay's dank and very British early work but will take the win.
A Sorel Barbour collaboration feel very Carney's Canada (not least as it doesn't look as good as it sounds on paper)
November 10, 2025 at 8:51 PM
A Sorel Barbour collaboration feel very Carney's Canada (not least as it doesn't look as good as it sounds on paper)
Renting an apartment in Plaza St Hubert this week but must come back for this next time.
My favourite hotel on earth (at least in Montreal). It is really a brutalist low rise motor hotel high a top of a concrete plinth. It remains gorgeous & perfect 60 years later. Heaven.
November 9, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Renting an apartment in Plaza St Hubert this week but must come back for this next time.
Fowler's abhorred elegant variation in the Globe's ostrich piece
November 7, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Fowler's abhorred elegant variation in the Globe's ostrich piece
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BBC really burying the lede there
November 7, 2025 at 12:07 PM
BBC really burying the lede there
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Watching the Mamdani celebration from Vancouver, a city whose mayor is a corporate droid who loves cops and crypto
November 5, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Watching the Mamdani celebration from Vancouver, a city whose mayor is a corporate droid who loves cops and crypto
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Some breaking news: in a special Vancouver Police Board meeting only announced over the weekend, the police board has requested a $50 million increase to their budget for 2026.
This comes as other departments across the city are trying to cut staff to ensure a property tax freeze for next year.
This comes as other departments across the city are trying to cut staff to ensure a property tax freeze for next year.
November 3, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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Vancouver could be a real city but ABC would rather give cops $465 million a year. www.cnv.org/City-Hall/Ne...
City of North Vancouver and Swim Drink Fish Announce Plans for Swimming Deck in Burrard Inlet
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November 3, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Vancouver could be a real city but ABC would rather give cops $465 million a year. www.cnv.org/City-Hall/Ne...
One Halloween tradition of mine is to reread this brilliant meditation on what it means in Vancouver by @bychrischeung.bsky.social thetyee.ca/Culture/2018...
No, Rich People Do Not Give Out the Best Halloween Candy | The Tyee
If you want to understand Vancouver’s neighbourhoods, trick-or-treating is a good place to start.
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October 31, 2025 at 7:48 PM
One Halloween tradition of mine is to reread this brilliant meditation on what it means in Vancouver by @bychrischeung.bsky.social thetyee.ca/Culture/2018...
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Honestly gobsmacked by ABC's referral of my road safety motion to staff.
Halloween is the most dangerous night of the year for CHILDREN.
This was an attempt to use an existing process to keep CHILDREN safe, and ABC punted it to staff w/o offering an alternative.
Really, guys?
Halloween is the most dangerous night of the year for CHILDREN.
This was an attempt to use an existing process to keep CHILDREN safe, and ABC punted it to staff w/o offering an alternative.
Really, guys?
October 29, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Honestly gobsmacked by ABC's referral of my road safety motion to staff.
Halloween is the most dangerous night of the year for CHILDREN.
This was an attempt to use an existing process to keep CHILDREN safe, and ABC punted it to staff w/o offering an alternative.
Really, guys?
Halloween is the most dangerous night of the year for CHILDREN.
This was an attempt to use an existing process to keep CHILDREN safe, and ABC punted it to staff w/o offering an alternative.
Really, guys?
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They really abandoned the commonwealth hey
October 29, 2025 at 4:13 AM
They really abandoned the commonwealth hey
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New article from me in @macleans.bsky.social
The “Poet of Confederation” Thomas D’Arcy McGee helps us understand why not being American IS at the heart of being Canadian.
I’m very proud of this. Please share if you enjoy!
#CdnPoli #Election2025 #polQc
macleans.ca/politics/the...
The “Poet of Confederation” Thomas D’Arcy McGee helps us understand why not being American IS at the heart of being Canadian.
I’m very proud of this. Please share if you enjoy!
#CdnPoli #Election2025 #polQc
macleans.ca/politics/the...
The Architect of Canada’s Anti-Americanism - Macleans.ca
Canada’s fiercest founding father made sure that anti-Americanism was part of the country’s DNA right from the beginning
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April 23, 2025 at 9:55 PM
New article from me in @macleans.bsky.social
The “Poet of Confederation” Thomas D’Arcy McGee helps us understand why not being American IS at the heart of being Canadian.
I’m very proud of this. Please share if you enjoy!
#CdnPoli #Election2025 #polQc
macleans.ca/politics/the...
The “Poet of Confederation” Thomas D’Arcy McGee helps us understand why not being American IS at the heart of being Canadian.
I’m very proud of this. Please share if you enjoy!
#CdnPoli #Election2025 #polQc
macleans.ca/politics/the...
What he said.
It was a great pleasure to work with this great team at @thedialmag.bsky.social on this piece, something of a love letter to Canadian cultural nationalism interspersed with political and economic history. It all reverberates in Canada’s terrible position vis-a-vis the Trump admin. today 🇨🇦🍁
Canada’s embrace of free trade with the U.S. 40 years ago has come back to haunt it. To understand how, Dónal Gill winds the clock back to 1988 — the year the country abandoned its axiomatic principle: its separateness from the U.S.
www.thedial.world/articles/new...
www.thedial.world/articles/new...
October 28, 2025 at 7:53 PM
What he said.
Learned from Richard Holmes that Holst set Tennyson's songs from The Princess for a capella female choir (1907). They are wonderful: the Edwardian afterglow of Victorian Britain.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KBI...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KBI...
Holst: Songs from The Princess, Op. 20a: III. Tears, Idle Tears
YouTube video by Stephen Layton - Topic
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October 28, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Learned from Richard Holmes that Holst set Tennyson's songs from The Princess for a capella female choir (1907). They are wonderful: the Edwardian afterglow of Victorian Britain.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KBI...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KBI...
Reading that there's a big rainstorm timetabled for Halloween.
October 27, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Reading that there's a big rainstorm timetabled for Halloween.
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An excellent essay from @michaelledgerlomas.bsky.social
‘Although Cecil Rhodes talked of securing the future, power for him was not a means to an end but the expression of a need to treat people as objects to “quicken and control”.’
@michaelledgerlomas.bsky.social on what drove Cecil Rhodes:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
@michaelledgerlomas.bsky.social on what drove Cecil Rhodes:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Michael Ledger-Lomas · Wriggling, Wriggling: Ruthless Cecil Rhodes
Cecil Rhodes saw the ‘native question’ very differently from imperial officials and missionaries who tried to...
www.lrb.co.uk
October 26, 2025 at 8:48 AM
An excellent essay from @michaelledgerlomas.bsky.social
One more scoop
‘Rhodes and his first employer, Charles Rudd, found it easier to make money on side ventures, such as buying a steam-powered ice machine to sell refreshments to miners (Rhodes scooped the ice cream).’
@michaelledgerlomas.bsky.social on the ambitions of Cecil Rhodes.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
@michaelledgerlomas.bsky.social on the ambitions of Cecil Rhodes.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Michael Ledger-Lomas · Wriggling, Wriggling: Ruthless Cecil Rhodes
Cecil Rhodes saw the ‘native question’ very differently from imperial officials and missionaries who tried to...
www.lrb.co.uk
October 27, 2025 at 4:42 PM
One more scoop
Writing about this
October 25, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Writing about this
A box of books from Renaud Bray
October 25, 2025 at 3:47 AM
A box of books from Renaud Bray
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dear US friends, when a sitting president (re)builds the seat of government, it almost always means the president has no intention of leaving at the end of term. your African friends with decades of experience
October 24, 2025 at 1:39 PM
dear US friends, when a sitting president (re)builds the seat of government, it almost always means the president has no intention of leaving at the end of term. your African friends with decades of experience