Christopher Moore

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

Moi? This morning I read in a Toronto Star op-ed by pollster Allan Gregg how:Wilfrid Laurier won the 1911 election by rejecting the Conservative government’s proposal for a reciprocal trade agreement with the United States. It's not so much that we need the kids to learn history. It's that we need the adults to keep reading it.

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

Timothy Garton Ash on the newly elected President of Poland Nawrocki is a 42-year-old nationalist historian and historical propagandist with virtually no international experience and an extremely dubious past as a young man (violent football hooliganism, strong connections with gangsters on the Baltic coast, an unsavoury story about more or less tricking an old man into handing over his council flat, alleged involvement in pimping prostitutes to guests at the hotel he was working at as a...

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

For all of you not following every twist and turn of the Giro d'Italia 2025, now two weeks into the three-week race: news flash: Canadian rider Derek Gee stands fifth over all. Gee is leader of the partly Canadian-owned Israel Premier Tech team (Premier Tech being the Canadian part, obs.)  Stage 15 (of 21) was run on Sunday, and Gee once more moved moved up a few places in the Maglia Rosa race. He's a big hill rider, and the big hills loom ahead.

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

Paul Krugman states what the vital American issue is:The question is what happens if investors change their minds — if they decide that we’re an unserious country in which the governing party believes in voodoo economics and the president is an authoritarian ruler who spends much of his time rage-tweeting about popular musicians. And what may happen: Right now I’m worried thatthe U.S. might be facing an emerging-market-type crisis: A “sudden stop,” anabrupt cutoff of inflows of foreign capital.

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

Spacing magazine, the Toronto-centric magazine about urbanism, civic culture, and the built environment, has a nice little feature in the current issue about Heritage Toronto (a city agency) and its Emerging Historians program.