Christopher Moore

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Journalist at Freelance

TV and radio journo. Spent many years as senior reporter/ presenter at France 24. BBC, RFI before that. Paris resident.

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Christopher Moore's History News

1 week ago | christophermoorehistory.blogspot.com | Christopher Moore

Today being the 80th anniversary of the end of the Second World War in Europe, lest we forget, I might note that last Monday May 5 I joined a small commemoration of the Liberation of Holland, held at the (previously unknown to me) Dundas Roncesvalles Peace Garden in Toronto.
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1 week ago | christophermoorehistory.blogspot.com | Christopher Moore

Earlier this year I was noting a New York Times article contemplating the end of world population growth and how far the human population might actually fall in the next few centuries. It seemed to me that on the whole it would be a good thing for the planet and for humanity if our numbers peacefully declined from 10 billion to say two billion.
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2 weeks ago | christophermoorehistory.blogspot.com | Christopher Moore

So as of this weekend one of our daughters has a new husband and we have a new son-in-law, and we had a very good time and experienced some fun Jewish wedding customs in the process too. So, blogging has been sparce. Voted today, right after reading Timothy Garton Ash's opinion piece in the today, saluting Canada's front row place in the global resistance to autocracy and trumpish. And I have been engrossed in both Mark Bourrie's and Greg Marchildon's .
A giant space rock demolished an ancient Middle Eastern city and everyone in it - possibly inspiring the Biblical story of Sodom

3 weeks ago | sfgate.com | Christopher Moore

“Following publication of this Article concerns have been raised by Jaret & Harris about errors in methodology, analyses, and interpretation of the mineralogic and geochemical data in the Article. In addition, Boslough & Bruno show that comparisons between the Tall el-Hammam site and the Tunguska event are not adequately substantiated, as a result of errors propagated from the original sources that overestimated the temperature, wind speeds, and impact of the air blast at Tunguska.
Christopher Moore's History News

4 weeks ago | christophermoorehistory.blogspot.com | Christopher Moore

I've been eager to read and take note of Greg Marchildon's Tommy Douglas and the Quest for Medicare, published a few months ago by University of Toronto Press. But UTP refers requests for review copies to NetGalley and NetGalley says UTP mostly doesn't supply it with titles, and not that one. And direct requests to UTP go unanswered. Anyway Marchildon on medicare seems big and timely and surely of interest. I hope to see it soon.
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1 month ago | christophermoorehistory.blogspot.com | Christopher Moore

He had been an Irish rebel who recanted, a patriotic American who grew disillusioned, an anti-clerical who made his peace with the Catholic church, a reformer who had gone over to John A. Macdonald, and a teetotaller given to alcoholic binges. -- from 1867: How the Fathers Made a DealWent down last night to the Duke of York pub in Toronto to observe the two hundredth birthday of Thomas D'Arcy McGee (1825-1868). Would Pogue Mahone or something more Irish have been more appropriate?
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2 months ago | christophermoorehistory.blogspot.com | Christopher Moore

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Christopher Moore's History News

2 months ago | christophermoorehistory.blogspot.com | Christopher Moore

Meant to post this yesterday. But things interfered. March 11 is the 177th anniversary of the achievement of responsible government in the Province of Canada, March 11, 1848. Details here if you need. It's also the fifth anniversary of the official declaration of the Covid pandemic. But I really wanted to mention that today is the fifth anniversary of the day I had surgery to remove my cancerous prostate gland. Thursday I am going to see the surgical urologist who performed the operation.
70 Times Book Lovers Found The Coolest Bookmarks And Just Had To Share Them

2 months ago | boredpanda.com | Christopher Moore |Kurt Vonnegut

People say that entire worlds can fit inside a book, no matter how tiny it is. Books give us fearless heroes, relatable stories, and transport us to lands unknown. But books can also carry stories as physical conduits: stories of their readers' past. There's an online community that shares the odd and delightful things readers find inside their old books.
Christopher Moore's History News

2 months ago | christophermoorehistory.blogspot.com | Christopher Moore

So the Trump tariffs are on. And so is the Canadian resistance. Here are three things not to be too reliant on in the struggle: Ending interprovincial "trade barriers." The King. Europe,1. Interprovincial trade barriers. I was heartened the other day to readthe economist Mark Lee casting doubt on interprovincial trade-barrier reductions as a easy source of Canadian economic strength.