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Thomas Peace

@tpcanoe.bsky.social

Community. History. Place. Author of the Slow Rush of Colonization: Spaces of Power in the Maritime Peninsula and editor at ActiveHistory.ca. Visit my website at https://tpcanoe.ca

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Thomas Peace@tpcanoe.bsky.social · 2d ago

I am fairly worried about this. It has been a decade since Fort McMurray burned. That was supposed to be a wake up call, but we did nothing. We have sidelined science and known solutions because we - as a society - are unwilling to make the necessary changes. #ElNino will make it worse. #cdnpoli

Zeke Hausfather@zekehausfather.com · 3d ago

I'm not sure folks have realized just how crazy the second half of 2026 and 2027 will be for global temperatures – on the back of a record-smashing El Niño event. Here is my latest estimate of where both years will end up compared to global temperatures since 1850.

Thomas Peace@tpcanoe.bsky.social · last wk.

The heart ache over this reveals just how beholden #onpoli must be to the #BayStreet Execs who wanted to land their jets near the office. It would be great to see some investigative #onmedia #cdnmedia that named the people actually behind the #BillyBishop expansion. #cdnmedia

Toronto Star@thestar.com · last wk.

Premier Doug Ford told Prime Minister Mark Carney how “disappointed” he was that Ottawa is abandoning the Billy Bishop Toronto City Airport expansion to allow commuter jets, the Star has learned.

Thomas Peace@tpcanoe.bsky.social · last wk.

The horse trading discussed in this piece is 100% why #cdnpoli is dysfunctional. Let’s elect people who want to actually make Ontario & Canada better, rather than transactional politicians for whom everything is an exchange. Improved #passengerrail was needed decades ago. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Ontario rethinking support for high-speed rail after feds reject Billy Bishop expansion: source | CBC News

The federal government's rejection of a plan to allow commercial jets at Toronto's Billy Bishop Airport is threatening a wedge between the Ford government and Ottawa — and potentially strengthening op...

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Thomas Peace@tpcanoe.bsky.social · 2w ago

Yes, I subscribe mostly to international media - & local media - because #cdnmedia is so uneven in its coverage &, frankly, seemingly too close to wealth & power. It is also why arm’s length public news - like #CBC , @therundowntvo.bsky.social & @tvodocs.bsky.social - are so important.

Peggy Blair@peggyjblair.bsky.social · 2w ago

Why do I have to read a UK newspaper to find out a Canadian company shares data with ICE and that Avi Lewis is opposed to it? Where's the Canadian media on this one? www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

Thomas Peace@tpcanoe.bsky.social · 2w ago

This is now my favourite border crossing! It is located at the bottom of Lake Pohenegamook, QC. This bridge serves as a good reminder that borders can be bridges rather than blockades. #cdnpoli #uspoli (Though in this case, I think the deterrent to crossing is northern Maine itself!)

A family of four in front of a wooden bridge about 30 feet in length flying the US and Maine, Canada and Quebec flags.
Henry Snow@henrysnow.bsky.social · 3w ago

gonna use this as an opportunity to encourage everyone to read Jack Bouchard's excellent book Terra Nova yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...

Terra Nova

A bottom-up story of the fishworkers, whalers, First Nations, merchantwomen, oceans, and animals who together made a new colonial world in the early Atlantic...

yalebooks.yale.edu

Sarah Taber@sarahtaber.bsky.social · 3w ago

Also you'd be surprised how much of, for example, the "traditional European peasant diet of food they grew locally themselves" was salt fish from hundreds or thousands of miles away. Food & people traveling long distances to reach each other is THE longest tradition in human history.

Thomas Peace@tpcanoe.bsky.social · 3w ago

This is a really great piece that - coming from a place of catastrophic loss - demonstrates well that there is some truth to the fact that #cdnpoli has not adequately addressed the #WildFire situation & in #onpoli, a lot of this has to do with misallocated priorities.

Eric Robert Reguly@ereguly.bsky.social · 3w ago

Jerry Johnson, ex of @globeandmail wrote this piece about the loss of his cottage on #Lacdesmillelacs , in northwest Ontario. We have a cottage on the same lake and ours may be the next to burn: www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

Thomas Peace@tpcanoe.bsky.social · 3w ago

Seeing this in real time right now. It is hard not to see how many churches are corrosive & dangerous institutions, especially to family health & wellbeing. Many have strayed far away from the teachings of Jesus, towards the doctrine of the Moral Majority, Toxic Masculinity, & power politics.

Rev Michael Coren@revmichaelcoren.bsky.social · 3w ago

We all fail in this - certainly me - but I'm still shocked at how many loudly self identified Christians, liberal as well as conservative, seem to not even make the effort.

Thomas Peace@tpcanoe.bsky.social · 3w ago

Yeah, the retreat of #cdnpoli from any meaningful engagement on the #ClimateCrisis at either the national or provincial level is shocking. We need to make real change, especially moving towards renewable, sustainable energy. This is where we need leadership to make #CanadaStrong.

Katharine Hayhoe@katharinehayhoe.com · 3w ago

830 wildfires burning across Canada right now. And you know what’s going to make it worse in the future? More oil pipelines. This is why our voice and our vote matters.

A NASA map of the wildfires burning across Canada right now.
Thomas Peace@tpcanoe.bsky.social · last mo.

Precisely. Be weary of anyone who renders an academic field in such simplistic terms. This binary has plagued #History’s public perception since the 1990s, and has been particularly destructive in an era when reading long form is in such decline. #cdnhist

Larry Glickman@larryglickman.bsky.social · last mo.

As an American history professor, I regularly read new books, articles, and dissertations, and also evaluate unpublished manuscripts for journals and book publishers. I would not categorize the recent and emerging historiography in the binary way that Ezra Klein does.

There has been a severing of American history into two visions: one that can only see glory and one that can only see suffering and sin.
Thomas Peace@tpcanoe.bsky.social · last mo.

Some people are amazing, living their convictions to bring sustainable love into the world. In #cdnpoli, whether Stephen Guilbeault (who actually took this type of action) or Jane Philpott, these types of amazing ppl seem to be run out of their political parties. This needs to change.

Alt National Park Service@altnps.bsky.social · last mo.

Two people have climbed to the top of the Empire State Building antenna. They are holding a banner that reads: “When the power of love beats the love of power, the world knows peace”

Thomas Peace@tpcanoe.bsky.social · last mo.

I went to the #CNTower regularly for my birthday as a kid. It remains one of my favourite things about visiting downtown Toronto, though I have not gone up in years. Here’s one of my favourite photos of it, taken from a @aircanada.bsky.social flight from #ldnont to #Toronto several years ago.

The tip of the CN Tower pokes through cloud cover.
Shawn Micallef@shawnmicallef.bsky.social · last mo.

Today is the CN Tower's 50th birthday. The @thestar.com has a package celebrating this milestone, including a column by me. It still helps define the city, even as Toronto has radically changed around it & it's no longer the tallest. Old, but still looks like the future.

Cahiers pédagogiques@cahierspedago.bsky.social · last mo.

🔶 Marc Bloch, l’historien combattant L’album Marc Bloch. L’historien combattant propose une réflexion sur l’histoire, telle que Marc Bloch l’a vécue, cherchée, écrite, enseignée, dans un parcours qui entremêle la double vie évoquée par le titre.

Marc Bloch, l’historien combattant - Les Cahiers pédagogiques

Lecture didactique de la bande dessinée « Marc Bloch. L’historien combattant », de Jean-David Morvan, Suzette Bloch et Laurent Bidot.

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