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David Webster @dwebster.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Just finished this staggeringly good and important book.

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David Webster @dwebster.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Oh good another racist asshole will be PM of Quebec

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David Webster @dwebster.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

For a Quebec that believes in its science - terrific @acfas.ca road map for a policy-research dialogue www.acfas.ca/communaute/e...

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David Webster @dwebster.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

As Mark Carney revives the concept if Canada as a "middle power," I am re-reading essays by the great Canadian diplomat of the 1940s and 50s John Holmes, who did so much to define the term. His 1976 book A Middle Aged Power opens with fire. "Canada, middle-powered, middle-class, and now middle-aged"

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David Webster @dwebster.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Hey apparently I work at a Multiversit y

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David Webster @dwebster.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Spent Timor-Leste referendum day with the remarkable activist Arnold Kohen, whose work for Timor goes back to 1975, then a visit to the amazing art show by Maria Madeira at Museo do Oriente. See it if you are Lisbon!

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David Webster @dwebster.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

John A. Macdonald’s Aryan Canada: Aboriginal Genocide and Chinese Exclusion – Active History share.google/rCkdyl11jy19...

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David Webster @dwebster.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

It was a huge honour to consult on the creation of a new Department of History at the National University in Timor-Leste. Thanks to UNESCO for making it possible!

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David Webster @dwebster.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

A terrific win on climate. Even as Eussia and the USA, Israel and Iran, all join hands to vote against the survival of humanity.

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David Webster @dwebster.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Surprised to see no CBC coverage of the death of Claude Morin, the man who tried to use Canada's gradual oath to independence as a road map for Quebec independence, and the second most famous smoker of the sovereignty movement. Le père de l’étapisme n’est plus lp.ca/qfR020?shari... #cdnhist

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David Webster @dwebster.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

4 "She held in her hand a gold cup. "I saw that the woman was drunk on the blood of the holy ones and on the blood of the witnesses to Jesus. "The woman whom you saw represents the great city that has sovereignty over the earth." "Depart from her, my people, so as not to take part in her sins."

Donald Tr*mp, an eagle, the USA flag and the slogan "Blood for America"

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David Webster @dwebster.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

And yet I still believe Light overcomes darkness

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David Webster @dwebster.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Early morning 5k easy run in Dili. I am outsider and worker at once in this stunning, beautiful, impossible country. As always. The wind calls welcome as the sun threatens to rise. Another runner greets me. Soon, coffee. A world in motion and at peace.

Photo of the sea in front of Dili, Timor-Leste.

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David Webster @dwebster.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Sorry Fellow Canadians, but we suck.

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David Webster @dwebster.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Google maps now does air quality, how cool is that?

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David Webster @dwebster.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Is it wrong to be right? A CBC deep dive.

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David Webster @dwebster.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Guest speaker Danny Beaton ( Mohawk) this week at @ubishops.bsky.social Sherbrooke Quebec.

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David Webster @dwebster.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

In case you haven't seen it yet, MAGA influences are already threatening to invade Canada. No, this is not yet the US government, but it is making thoughts like invading Canada more thinkable. Is our own govt up to the challenge?

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David Webster @dwebster.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

12 full time positions to historians? This really is science fiction! (From Stephenson and Galland, The Rise and Fall of DODO)

Text: "... moving on to Line 539 of the proposed budget, unless my eyes deceive me, you wish to allocate twelve full-time positions to historians?"

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David Webster @dwebster.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

"The most destructive idea in existence..." - Oldman Juma

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David Webster @dwebster.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

It is actually fascinating how easily Liberal partisans abandoned all they claimed to believe in, and their once belived Trudeau, and are in thrall to Carney every bit as much as Republicans are to Trump.

CBC headline: Tokyo much regulation, not enough action': Carney rebuffed Trudeau's climate policies

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David Webster @dwebster.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

NEW DOCUMENT RELEASE: The United Nations and the invasion of Timor-Leste timorarchive.ca/undocs Indonesian military forces invaded Timor-Leste on 7 Dec 2025. To mark the 50th anniversary, TiSA presents selected United Nations documents on Timor-Leste in the lead-up and aftermath to the invasion.

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David Webster @dwebster.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Without downloading any new pics, describe your vibe for today using an image from your gallery

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David Webster @dwebster.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

Love the joy on the face of the Dean of Philosophy and Human Sciences as she talks about plans for a new History department at the National University, Timor-Leste. At a History departments gathering organized by UNESCO, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

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David Webster @dwebster.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

Facebook wants me to rate the product "Mark Carney." I am not satisfied with this product. It did not deliver the good or service that was promised.

Facebook ad asking if I am satisfied with the business "Mark Carney." I am not.

Facebook asks me how much the business "Mark Carney" was trying to scam me. A great deal, I think.

What poor service did I experience? Product "Mark Carney" was not as advertised. Poor customer support from product "Mark Carney." Never received the product or service that was advertised.

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David Webster @dwebster.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Nothing better than reading memoirs

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David Webster @dwebster.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

6. Luckily, the #notwithstanding clause cannot over-ride Indigenous or minority-langauge rights. But the clause is only a "last resort" as intended when politicians use it responsibly, when all other options are exhausted. Our politicians today have gone trigger-happy. #cdnhist #cdnpoli

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David Webster @dwebster.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

5. In the last decade, provinces are pressing the #notwothstanding "nuclear option" button like they are playing an arcade game. Sask in 2017 (over Catholic schools). Ontario in 2018 (over the size of a city council!). Quebec in 2019. Ontario in 2020. Both Ontario AND Quebec in 2022. Now Alberta.

Chart shows uses of notwithstanding clause by year and province as described in text of post.

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David Webster @dwebster.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

The "notwithstanding" clause in Canada's 1982 constitution was meant as a "nuclear option." Section 33: “Parliament or the legislature of a province may expressly declare ... that the Act or a provision thereof shall operate notwithstanding" the Charter of Rights. #cdnhist #notwithstanding /2

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David Webster @dwebster.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

The joy that comes from learning. Victoria BC, Lək̓ʷəŋən territory.

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David Webster @dwebster.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

Memikwaldamnana, we remember. Vigil for the Rogers Raid on the Abenaki village Odanak, October 4, 1759 and the 34 massacred that day.

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David Webster @dwebster.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

Not surprisingly, apologists for Israel's genocide have a soft spot for war criminal Prabowo Subianto, president of Indonesia.

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