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Stephen Maher @stephenmaher.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

We need to stand together A message from a decorated Canadian veteran stephenjmaher.substack.com/p/we-need-to...

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Stephen Maher @stephenmaher.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Carney’s FAFO moment stephenjmaher.substack.com/p/carneys-fa...

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Stephen Maher @stephenmaher.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Here's a mental exercise for people who think we can "manage" fire risk in the boreal forest. If you drive from Goose Bay to Churchill Falls, and you stop your car and walk into the woods on the north side of the road, you can walk all the way to Russia before you hit a town.

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Stephen Maher @stephenmaher.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

This mass murder is at the heart of the American project, and was openly celebrated. t.co/E7MqmUFaBp 16/19

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Stephen Maher @stephenmaher.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

That, more than a tax on tea, was the reason for the revolution. During the revolution, most Indigenous nations, who knew the Yanks wanted their land, sided with the British. The Americans attacked them. The image here is of the Gnadenhutten massacre. t.co/DvCASXwext 14/19

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Stephen Maher @stephenmaher.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

In 1763, the British issued a royal proclamation recognizing Indigenous title to their land and drawing a line down the Appalachians, banning new settlement in the territory of the Shawnee and other Indigenous nations in what is now Ohio. 12/19

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Stephen Maher @stephenmaher.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

At the time of the revolution, Europeans lived in a strip of land near the coast. Toronto did not yet exist. After the Seven Years war, when the British conquered New France, they were broke, so they wanted no more fighting. 11/19

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Stephen Maher @stephenmaher.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Washington and Franklin were also enslavers. Here is an ad Washington placed when one of his slaves escaped to freedom. 7/19

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Stephen Maher @stephenmaher.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Hemmings was the daughter and grandaughter of enslaved people who were impregnated by their owners. He started raping her (how could she consent?) when she was a teenager. This was all secret until some detective work by historian Annette Gordon-Reed. 6/19

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Stephen Maher @stephenmaher.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Those words were written by Thomas Jefferson, a Virginia planter who did not recognize the inalienable rights of the children he fathered by his enslaved servant, Sally Hemmings. 5/19

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Stephen Maher @stephenmaher.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

250 years ago today, in Philadelphia, the rebels signed the Declaration of Independence, which contains these words: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights.” 4/19

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Stephen Maher @stephenmaher.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

This is a good day to talk about our southern neighbours and their revolution, not out of a desire to insult them on a day that should be full of hotdogs, bunting and fireworks, but because our history is shared and we too often let their version of events into our brains. 1/19

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Stephen Maher @stephenmaher.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

It was a pleasure to work with the editors and especially with @konnorkilloran.bsky.social, who took great pictures, including this one of me at Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump, a place I had long wanted to visit.

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Stephen Maher @stephenmaher.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Violin Celestine holds her fourth child, Dave. She gave birth in the woods while travelling to the DR. I told her I thought she was tough. She shrugged and said "I am as God made me." 5/x

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Stephen Maher @stephenmaher.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Alena Pierre, 23, gave birth to her daughter, Angel, on the floor next to her bed rather than risk deportation. She was born in the DR but has no papers. She is terrified of being sent to Haiti, where she has never been. 4/x

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Stephen Maher @stephenmaher.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

I convinced the @TorontoStar to take a story on the very difficult lives of "les san papye" — whose lives are so hard. Photographer @KonnorKilloran and I visited the "bateys" where they live in constant fear of deportation, working for very little money, isolated, without medical care. 2/x

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Stephen Maher @stephenmaher.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Canadian @chrisinsilico, who worked with Bannon then, describes the kind of dark territory they explored in his book t.co/rr6dnFYK3p 14/16

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Stephen Maher @stephenmaher.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

The gamers went berserk, the game company shut down "gold" sales, and Bannon and his investors lost their money, but Bannon was inspired, as @joshuagreen.bsky.social describes in this book: t.co/XTkb4OLQzp 12/16

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Stephen Maher @stephenmaher.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Bannon is talking nonsense, militarily, according to Mark Norman, who ought to know. 2/15

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Stephen Maher @stephenmaher.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

Hannah Arendt, in The Origins of Totalitarianism, explained the dynamic behind Trump’s lies about the shooting of Renee Nicole Good.

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Stephen Maher @stephenmaher.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

With his new National Security Strategy, and the abduction of Maduro, Trump is trying to turn back the clock to the early 20th century. whitehouse.gov/wp-content/upl… 9/x

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Stephen Maher @stephenmaher.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Lifted this from Facebook. Interesting comparison, given the relentless complaints about Canada lagging behind our neighbour economically.

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Stephen Maher @stephenmaher.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

It has come to my attention that many people are not aware that my book about Justin Trudeau's prime ministership is now available in convenient paperback format, with a gripping new afterword that covers his final months in office. Christmas is coming!

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Stephen Maher @stephenmaher.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Before colonization, the landscape in the Americas was anything but wild. 9/12

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Stephen Maher @stephenmaher.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

This is from Charles C. Mann's fascinating 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus, about the Hudson River Valley in the 1640s. 8/12

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Stephen Maher @stephenmaher.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Why did they stop? Colonial authorities made them stop. This is from Forty years in Canada, by famous 19th Century Mountie Sam Steele. He is describing a trip west from Manitoba. 6/12

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Stephen Maher @stephenmaher.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

I was in British Columbia last month to learn about wildfires, which got me thinking about how we see the forests around us, and how it is not necessarily good thinking. 1/x

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Stephen Maher @stephenmaher.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

The casting call for this ad seems to have been posted on Facebook on Monday for a shoot in Kanata the same day x.com/CPC_HQ/statu...

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Stephen Maher @stephenmaher.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

I think the problems Poilievre is having now were foreseeable. From Nov 2023: www.ipolitics.ca/opinions/poi...

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Stephen Maher @stephenmaher.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

I want to have the sense that our political class, in all parties, is focused on protecting Canadian sovereignty www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

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Stephen Maher @stephenmaher.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

Fun fact: Isapo-Muxika, known as Crowfoot, who I quoted above, once killed a grizzly bear with a spear. 24/23

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Stephen Maher @stephenmaher.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

"And We do hereby strictly forbid, on Pain of our Displeasure, all our loving Subjects from making any Purchases or Settlements whatever, or taking Possession of any of the Lands above reserved. without our especial leave and Licence for that Purpose first obtained." 5/x

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Stephen Maher @stephenmaher.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Trotsky was successful at converting fellow detainees to communism when he was locked up in Nova Scotia nationalpost.com/news/canada/...

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Stephen Maher @stephenmaher.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

When I was researching my book on Trudeau, I was impressed by how broad the coalition was that helped Trudeau maintain our trade relationship with during Trump 1.0. 1/x

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Stephen Maher @stephenmaher.bsky.social · 03/11/2023

Ignatieff 2.0? Carney has some homework to do before he runs www.ipolitics.ca/opinions/ign...

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