1/10 🇨🇦 A LOVE LETTER TO TUMBLER RIDGE 🇨🇦
In the wake of unspeakable tragedy, Amanda Follett Hosgood writes to a town defined not by darkness, but by resilience.
"It has survived against the odds."
Amanda Follett Hosgood...
#TumblerRidge #BCPoli #CdnRural
#CdnPoli #CdnHistory #SciSky
In the wake of unspeakable tragedy, Amanda Follett Hosgood writes to a town defined not by darkness, but by resilience.
"It has survived against the odds."
Amanda Follett Hosgood...
#TumblerRidge #BCPoli #CdnRural
#CdnPoli #CdnHistory #SciSky
February 12, 2026 at 11:23 PM
1/10 🇨🇦 A LOVE LETTER TO TUMBLER RIDGE 🇨🇦
In the wake of unspeakable tragedy, Amanda Follett Hosgood writes to a town defined not by darkness, but by resilience.
"It has survived against the odds."
Amanda Follett Hosgood...
#TumblerRidge #BCPoli #CdnRural
#CdnPoli #CdnHistory #SciSky
In the wake of unspeakable tragedy, Amanda Follett Hosgood writes to a town defined not by darkness, but by resilience.
"It has survived against the odds."
Amanda Follett Hosgood...
#TumblerRidge #BCPoli #CdnRural
#CdnPoli #CdnHistory #SciSky
Delighted to have my research featured in this new podcast hosted by my alma mater's radio station! It's based on a book talk I gave at @ualberta.bsky.social last fall. #cdnhist #cdnhistory @ubcpress.bsky.social
New 🧠🧠 Brains on Campus episode!
Hear @tinaadcock.bsky.social on how exploration of “the North” exposes colonialism and @mountroyalu.bsky.social's Dr. Muhannad Ayyash on what effective protest looks like after encampments were quashed at universities.
#BDS #yeg podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/b...
Hear @tinaadcock.bsky.social on how exploration of “the North” exposes colonialism and @mountroyalu.bsky.social's Dr. Muhannad Ayyash on what effective protest looks like after encampments were quashed at universities.
#BDS #yeg podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/b...
Cold colonialism + what's next for protesting
Podcast Episode · Brains on Campus · 2026-02-11 · 58m
podcasts.apple.com
February 11, 2026 at 11:22 PM
Delighted to have my research featured in this new podcast hosted by my alma mater's radio station! It's based on a book talk I gave at @ualberta.bsky.social last fall. #cdnhist #cdnhistory @ubcpress.bsky.social
🇨🇦Make no mistake
Canada did not make these women and men great
THEY MADE US great
Let's NOT forget it.
#WAKEUP🇨🇦 #STANDUP🇨🇦 #SPEAKUP🇨🇦 #daniellesmith #CDNpoli #ABpoli #pierrepoilievre #jamiljivani #maplemaga #arpankhanna #BLACKHISTORY #CDNhistory #TRAITORS #CANADA #TAGYOURMP #NEVER51
#RESIST
🇨🇦✊🏽🐸
Canada did not make these women and men great
THEY MADE US great
Let's NOT forget it.
#WAKEUP🇨🇦 #STANDUP🇨🇦 #SPEAKUP🇨🇦 #daniellesmith #CDNpoli #ABpoli #pierrepoilievre #jamiljivani #maplemaga #arpankhanna #BLACKHISTORY #CDNhistory #TRAITORS #CANADA #TAGYOURMP #NEVER51
#RESIST
🇨🇦✊🏽🐸
February 10, 2026 at 7:25 PM
🇨🇦Make no mistake
Canada did not make these women and men great
THEY MADE US great
Let's NOT forget it.
#WAKEUP🇨🇦 #STANDUP🇨🇦 #SPEAKUP🇨🇦 #daniellesmith #CDNpoli #ABpoli #pierrepoilievre #jamiljivani #maplemaga #arpankhanna #BLACKHISTORY #CDNhistory #TRAITORS #CANADA #TAGYOURMP #NEVER51
#RESIST
🇨🇦✊🏽🐸
Canada did not make these women and men great
THEY MADE US great
Let's NOT forget it.
#WAKEUP🇨🇦 #STANDUP🇨🇦 #SPEAKUP🇨🇦 #daniellesmith #CDNpoli #ABpoli #pierrepoilievre #jamiljivani #maplemaga #arpankhanna #BLACKHISTORY #CDNhistory #TRAITORS #CANADA #TAGYOURMP #NEVER51
#RESIST
🇨🇦✊🏽🐸
The Curio Emporium reopens with a 1964 Chatelaine ad where its publisher, Maclean-Hunter, discusses how its publications help Canadians understand themselves. #cdnhistory
jbscurioemporium.substack.com/p/january-25...
jbscurioemporium.substack.com/p/january-25...
January 25: The Varied Voices of Canada, According to Maclean Hunter
Can a publisher help a country understand itself?
jbscurioemporium.substack.com
January 24, 2026 at 10:21 PM
The Curio Emporium reopens with a 1964 Chatelaine ad where its publisher, Maclean-Hunter, discusses how its publications help Canadians understand themselves. #cdnhistory
jbscurioemporium.substack.com/p/january-25...
jbscurioemporium.substack.com/p/january-25...
#poiLIEvre conveniently omits mention of man who started all this 🔚 #BrianMulroney #cdnHistory #cdnPoli #CPC #JohnTurner #NAFTA
#JohnTURNER vs. #MULRONEY:
@sPaikin.bsky.social
offers comment, book.
THX to @PauliticalEye.bsky.social
I’ve been thinking about this! youtu.be/jlvb9czZFXw
@sPaikin.bsky.social
offers comment, book.
THX to @PauliticalEye.bsky.social
I’ve been thinking about this! youtu.be/jlvb9czZFXw
‘You have sold us out’: Turner debates Mulroney over free trade (1988)
YouTube video by CBC News
youtu.be
January 24, 2026 at 3:05 PM
#poiLIEvre conveniently omits mention of man who started all this 🔚 #BrianMulroney #cdnHistory #cdnPoli #CPC #JohnTurner #NAFTA
Today is #LincolnAlexander Day in #Canada, honouring the first Black #MemberOfParliament.
He served in WW2, and enjoyed a varied career: lawyer, Observer at the UN, an MP, federal Minister of Labour, and Lieutenant Governor of Ontario!
#cdnhistory
He served in WW2, and enjoyed a varied career: lawyer, Observer at the UN, an MP, federal Minister of Labour, and Lieutenant Governor of Ontario!
#cdnhistory
January 21, 2026 at 10:28 PM
Today is #LincolnAlexander Day in #Canada, honouring the first Black #MemberOfParliament.
He served in WW2, and enjoyed a varied career: lawyer, Observer at the UN, an MP, federal Minister of Labour, and Lieutenant Governor of Ontario!
#cdnhistory
He served in WW2, and enjoyed a varied career: lawyer, Observer at the UN, an MP, federal Minister of Labour, and Lieutenant Governor of Ontario!
#cdnhistory
#CanadianHistory 🇨🇦
(Wage &) Price Controls 🔚 #cdnHistory #cdnPoli #CostOfLiving #Groceries #PriceControls canadahistory.com/sections/per...
(Wage &) Price Controls 🔚 #cdnHistory #cdnPoli #CostOfLiving #Groceries #PriceControls canadahistory.com/sections/per...
Canada History-Wage and Price Controls
canadahistory.com
January 17, 2026 at 6:33 AM
#CanadianHistory 🇨🇦
(Wage &) Price Controls 🔚 #cdnHistory #cdnPoli #CostOfLiving #Groceries #PriceControls canadahistory.com/sections/per...
(Wage &) Price Controls 🔚 #cdnHistory #cdnPoli #CostOfLiving #Groceries #PriceControls canadahistory.com/sections/per...
As for 1926 in Canada, here's an old Torontoist story I wrote about the big political story, the federal elections of 1925/26 and the constitutional crisis surrounding them...or as my dad called it, the "King-Byng wingding" #cdnhistory #cdnpoli
jamiebradburnwriting.wordpress.com/2025/04/26/k...
jamiebradburnwriting.wordpress.com/2025/04/26/k...
King vs Meighen for the Fate of Canada (The 1925-1926 Federal Elections)
Originally published as a Historicist column on Torontoist on September 28, 2015. William Lyon Mackenzie King, September 8, 1925. City of Toronto Archives, Globe and Mail fonds, Fonds 1266, Item 62…
jamiebradburnwriting.wordpress.com
January 1, 2026 at 6:54 PM
As for 1926 in Canada, here's an old Torontoist story I wrote about the big political story, the federal elections of 1925/26 and the constitutional crisis surrounding them...or as my dad called it, the "King-Byng wingding" #cdnhistory #cdnpoli
jamiebradburnwriting.wordpress.com/2025/04/26/k...
jamiebradburnwriting.wordpress.com/2025/04/26/k...
#CBS in 🇨🇦 #Canada
O! Those
TREACHEROUS Canadians
They’ve been subverting 🇺🇸 📺 for >55 years (almost as long as they’ve had National Health Care) 🔚 #Canadian #cdnHistory #cdnHumour #cdnPoli #DavidSteinberg #SmothersBrothers #TV thedavidsteinberg.com
O! Those
TREACHEROUS Canadians
They’ve been subverting 🇺🇸 📺 for >55 years (almost as long as they’ve had National Health Care) 🔚 #Canadian #cdnHistory #cdnHumour #cdnPoli #DavidSteinberg #SmothersBrothers #TV thedavidsteinberg.com
December 24, 2025 at 2:54 AM
#CBS in 🇨🇦 #Canada
O! Those
TREACHEROUS Canadians
They’ve been subverting 🇺🇸 📺 for >55 years (almost as long as they’ve had National Health Care) 🔚 #Canadian #cdnHistory #cdnHumour #cdnPoli #DavidSteinberg #SmothersBrothers #TV thedavidsteinberg.com
O! Those
TREACHEROUS Canadians
They’ve been subverting 🇺🇸 📺 for >55 years (almost as long as they’ve had National Health Care) 🔚 #Canadian #cdnHistory #cdnHumour #cdnPoli #DavidSteinberg #SmothersBrothers #TV thedavidsteinberg.com
The SUITCASE PROJECT 🧳
you have 24 hours…
what would YOU take❓
Now at museumofvancouver.ca/the-suitcase...
Remember that those abducted by ICE are not afforded even this meagre gesture
#art #cdnHistory #ICE #usPol #CanadianHistory #SuitcaseProject #Vancouver #JapaneseCanadians #JapaneseAmericans
you have 24 hours…
what would YOU take❓
Now at museumofvancouver.ca/the-suitcase...
Remember that those abducted by ICE are not afforded even this meagre gesture
#art #cdnHistory #ICE #usPol #CanadianHistory #SuitcaseProject #Vancouver #JapaneseCanadians #JapaneseAmericans
The Suitcase Project - About
The Suitcase Project is a multimedia exhibition focused on the narratives of fourth and fifth generation Japanese Canadians and Americans.
suitcaseproject.ca
December 13, 2025 at 12:58 AM
The SUITCASE PROJECT 🧳
you have 24 hours…
what would YOU take❓
Now at museumofvancouver.ca/the-suitcase...
Remember that those abducted by ICE are not afforded even this meagre gesture
#art #cdnHistory #ICE #usPol #CanadianHistory #SuitcaseProject #Vancouver #JapaneseCanadians #JapaneseAmericans
you have 24 hours…
what would YOU take❓
Now at museumofvancouver.ca/the-suitcase...
Remember that those abducted by ICE are not afforded even this meagre gesture
#art #cdnHistory #ICE #usPol #CanadianHistory #SuitcaseProject #Vancouver #JapaneseCanadians #JapaneseAmericans
One best explanations I've read about the differences between Canada and the US (no we aren't the same) and how these differences result from our two very different histories. #Cdnpoli @Cdnhistory #USA #Canadasky
open.substack.com/pub/srbowm/p...
open.substack.com/pub/srbowm/p...
Two Different Kinds of Europeans in North America
Originally posted on Quora, Dec.
open.substack.com
December 10, 2025 at 7:32 PM
One best explanations I've read about the differences between Canada and the US (no we aren't the same) and how these differences result from our two very different histories. #Cdnpoli @Cdnhistory #USA #Canadasky
open.substack.com/pub/srbowm/p...
open.substack.com/pub/srbowm/p...
36th yrs ago today at the École Polytechnique in Montreal 14 young female engineering students were killed because they were female. We must never forget & work to prevent violence against women. #Canada #cdnhistory #women en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89c...
École Polytechnique massacre - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
December 7, 2025 at 12:06 AM
36th yrs ago today at the École Polytechnique in Montreal 14 young female engineering students were killed because they were female. We must never forget & work to prevent violence against women. #Canada #cdnhistory #women en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89c...
And my grandfather George was among them. He was an engineer. Upon landing, his landing craft was destroyed. He and 3 others survived the attack. He ALONE survived the war.
#Canadians are not to be fucked with. 🇨🇦 #Cdnmilitary #Cdnhistory #WWII #Stormtroopers
#Canadians are not to be fucked with. 🇨🇦 #Cdnmilitary #Cdnhistory #WWII #Stormtroopers
December 3, 2025 at 12:33 AM
And my grandfather George was among them. He was an engineer. Upon landing, his landing craft was destroyed. He and 3 others survived the attack. He ALONE survived the war.
#Canadians are not to be fucked with. 🇨🇦 #Cdnmilitary #Cdnhistory #WWII #Stormtroopers
#Canadians are not to be fucked with. 🇨🇦 #Cdnmilitary #Cdnhistory #WWII #Stormtroopers
The newly revamped Canada's History magazine @canadashistory.bsky.social is now on newsstands, and features a book review by yours truly!
#cdnhistory
#cdnhistory
November 29, 2025 at 8:13 PM
The newly revamped Canada's History magazine @canadashistory.bsky.social is now on newsstands, and features a book review by yours truly!
#cdnhistory
#cdnhistory
Canadian historians: is there a reference list somewhere of all the government record groups (RGs) at LAC? I hope so but Google is not turning up anything... #cdnhist #cdnhistory
November 24, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Canadian historians: is there a reference list somewhere of all the government record groups (RGs) at LAC? I hope so but Google is not turning up anything... #cdnhist #cdnhistory
Told some younger Gen Z guys about The Battle of Christie Pits and blew their minds. One of my good deeds of the day.
#toronto #cdnhistory
#toronto #cdnhistory
November 23, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Told some younger Gen Z guys about The Battle of Christie Pits and blew their minds. One of my good deeds of the day.
#toronto #cdnhistory
#toronto #cdnhistory
ICYMI for TVO @tvotoday.bsky.social I look at the waves of school board consolidations across Ontario during the 1960s as part of the effort to modernize the province's educational infrastructure #onpoli #cdnhistory #history
www.tvo.org/article/how-...
www.tvo.org/article/how-...
November 23, 2025 at 6:40 PM
ICYMI for TVO @tvotoday.bsky.social I look at the waves of school board consolidations across Ontario during the 1960s as part of the effort to modernize the province's educational infrastructure #onpoli #cdnhistory #history
www.tvo.org/article/how-...
www.tvo.org/article/how-...
They weren't just soldiers they were #Canadian attack aircraft — #Stormtroopers, as the #Germans themselves called them. It's the same word they used to call their elite shock troops in the First WorldWar. But now it was the nickname of their enemies
🇨🇦 #Cdnhistory #WWI #WWII
youtu.be/_Rou4qhb50Q?...
🇨🇦 #Cdnhistory #WWI #WWII
youtu.be/_Rou4qhb50Q?...
Why Were the Elite SS Troops AFRAID of the Canadians?
YouTube video by Soldiers of past wars
youtu.be
November 20, 2025 at 4:08 AM
They weren't just soldiers they were #Canadian attack aircraft — #Stormtroopers, as the #Germans themselves called them. It's the same word they used to call their elite shock troops in the First WorldWar. But now it was the nickname of their enemies
🇨🇦 #Cdnhistory #WWI #WWII
youtu.be/_Rou4qhb50Q?...
🇨🇦 #Cdnhistory #WWI #WWII
youtu.be/_Rou4qhb50Q?...
Come hear me talk about some of Toronto's journalistic history this week! #TOHistory #cdnhistory
November 16, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Come hear me talk about some of Toronto's journalistic history this week! #TOHistory #cdnhistory
This link includes #DavidSuzuki 🔚 #cdnHistory #CanadianHistory #JapaneseCanadians www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/i...
Internment of Japanese Canadians
The forcible expulsion and confinement of Japanese Canadians during the Second World War is one of the most tragic sets of events in Canada’s history. Some 21...
www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca
November 12, 2025 at 4:06 PM
JAPANESE CANADIANS WWII
There is a searchable database for all affected individuals
>60% born in Canada
>75% British subjects
The list includes (most of) the
~25 individuals then resident in Toronto 🔚 #cdnHistory #CanadianHistory #JapaneseCANADIANS landscapesofinjustice.uvic.ca/archive/
There is a searchable database for all affected individuals
>60% born in Canada
>75% British subjects
The list includes (most of) the
~25 individuals then resident in Toronto 🔚 #cdnHistory #CanadianHistory #JapaneseCANADIANS landscapesofinjustice.uvic.ca/archive/
Landscapes of Injustice: Archive
landscapesofinjustice.uvic.ca
November 12, 2025 at 4:05 PM
JAPANESE CANADIANS WWII
There is a searchable database for all affected individuals
>60% born in Canada
>75% British subjects
The list includes (most of) the
~25 individuals then resident in Toronto 🔚 #cdnHistory #CanadianHistory #JapaneseCANADIANS landscapesofinjustice.uvic.ca/archive/
There is a searchable database for all affected individuals
>60% born in Canada
>75% British subjects
The list includes (most of) the
~25 individuals then resident in Toronto 🔚 #cdnHistory #CanadianHistory #JapaneseCANADIANS landscapesofinjustice.uvic.ca/archive/
From the vaults for Remembrance Day: for TVO @tvotoday.bsky.social I wrote about how communities across Ontario built First World War memorials during the 1920s and 1930s #cdnhistory #remembranceday
www.tvo.org/article/lest...
www.tvo.org/article/lest...
November 11, 2025 at 2:48 PM
From the vaults for Remembrance Day: for TVO @tvotoday.bsky.social I wrote about how communities across Ontario built First World War memorials during the 1920s and 1930s #cdnhistory #remembranceday
www.tvo.org/article/lest...
www.tvo.org/article/lest...
REMEMBRANCE DAY
Leonard Cohen recites
“In Flanders Fields”
by John McCrae
Legion Magazine 🔚 #war #wars #Canada #cdnHistory #poetry #RemembranceDay. youtu.be/cKoJvHcMLfc?...
Leonard Cohen recites
“In Flanders Fields”
by John McCrae
Legion Magazine 🔚 #war #wars #Canada #cdnHistory #poetry #RemembranceDay. youtu.be/cKoJvHcMLfc?...
Leonard Cohen recites “In Flanders Fields” by John McCrae | Legion Magazine
YouTube video by Legion Magazine
youtu.be
November 11, 2025 at 12:27 PM
REMEMBRANCE DAY
Leonard Cohen recites
“In Flanders Fields”
by John McCrae
Legion Magazine 🔚 #war #wars #Canada #cdnHistory #poetry #RemembranceDay. youtu.be/cKoJvHcMLfc?...
Leonard Cohen recites
“In Flanders Fields”
by John McCrae
Legion Magazine 🔚 #war #wars #Canada #cdnHistory #poetry #RemembranceDay. youtu.be/cKoJvHcMLfc?...