Harrison Lowman

Today I asked Prime Minister Trudeau about his assertion that, in response to #COVID19, his government "took on debt so that individual Canadians didn't have to." #cdnpoli

‘It seemed to satisfy something that was lacking in the lives or the meaning making of many of our contemporary lives': @thomaschattwill on how George Floyd's death became an extraordinary cultural moment — and what our response to it reveals

"Is Canada becoming more antisemitic? How much of it is not homegrown? Are Canadians allowing themselves to become more honest, more aware of their prejudices that have existed beneath the surface? Was Connor Cruise O’Brien right when he pronounced sagely that “antisemitism is a light sleeper”? Has Gaza awakened dormant suppositions about the inexplicable differentness of Jews"?

My essay on Canada’s vigorous debate over entering its first foreign war: the Boer War. The debate threatened to tear Canada apart at its seams! This took a lot of effort and the Boer War is seldom discussed nowadays. I’d appreciate a read! open.substack.com/pub/lukemontal…

Are we past “peak Carney”?

"We have a culture now that is pretty self-centred. Our products we want, the movies and TV we consume, the apps on our phones…it's all customizable around us. The whole self-help movement etc. It's very like “me me me”. But I often tell friends the way to feel better about yourself is to give back and volunteer. This is going to sound kind of corny, but when I feel overwhelmed at work or with my new baby and I feel like the world is imploding, helping with Scouting: like making sandwiches for the homeless, or delivering food to needy families, or delivering garden care stuff to our neighbours so they can see our faces, that makes me feel better as a person. So I think it's something we should be looking at." On @carastern and @MikePMoffatt's Missing Middle podcast. "The Secret to Building Strong Communities." WATCH: youtu.be/WFX6-QMhFUk?si…

@hellojohnhere Yes

@harrisonlowman I believe this has always been true. We as a society have certainly drifted well away from this.

Bottom of the barrel.

@Chad_WestReal @jessesingal It’s incredible. Takes a half day to get through. Looks the same as it does the day its employees scurried away.

@jessesingal @harrisonlowman The Stasi museum in Berlin is excellent.

finally figured out how to describe my summertime aesthetic

One of the greatest speeches of the late 20th century, given on the 40th anniversary of one of the most spectacular days in human history.

@LillianJT @timthielmann @lamphieryeg I have!

@timthielmann @harrisonlowman @lamphieryeg And watch the documentary “Making a Killing “

"Specifically when it comes to journalists, I think we did a major disservice to the country five years ago. I was a part of it. I remember reporting on it. We got swept up. There were press releases that said things like kids as young as three, 215 bodies. It was in the middle of the pandemic, the racial reckoning down south was going on simultaneously, and it felt true. And international media descended on B.C., and we ran with it. I think we felt that as years passed to change the headline or the lead that was "actual remains, actual bodies" would mean everything else below it would fall away as well. And people would question the residential school system in its entirety, and not reckon with that. But I would say that our jobs are not to be the therapists for Canada, our jobs are to be the storytellers. And with storytelling comes telling the facts as they are, and having some really tough conversations with sources, and then allowing people to sort through them and make opinions of their own. I think that this story has had a lot of us held hostage for a few years, and I'm happy that there's some steps in the opposite direction." What the Media (Including Us) Got Wrong About Residential School Graves- Went on @CANADALAND with @JesseBrown LISTEN: podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/wha…

.@TaraRHenley in @TheHubCanada in the lead up to her book The Trust Spiral: Why the Media Needs Objectivity coming out soon. "An entire body of scholarship rests on this understanding of objectivity. A good primer can be found in a Liberties journal essay, “The War on Objectivity in American Journalism,” by Rutgers historian David Greenberg. In that essay, Greenberg defines objectivity as “the unceasing attempt to correct subjectivity and thereby come closer to what people of many standpoints can agree is the truth.” He describes its specific policies and practices thus: In the reporting stage, they call for independently verifying sources’ claims and talking to a mix of sources so as not to fall captive to one person’s perspective. In the writing stage, they prescribe an antiseptic tone: no ideology, snark, self-righteousness, anger, euphoria, invective, or exaggeration. They call for furnishing evidence to substantiate doubtful assertions. They stipulate the attribution of claims to let readers judge their validity. They require the inclusion of multiple, competing explanations about complex or controversial issues. Similar practices exist for editing (having multiple editors review a story); photojournalism (no staging or doctoring images); even anchoring the news (the Olympian Cronkite delivery). Large news agencies concerned with protecting their reputation for objectivity also impose rules to reassure readers that their employees approach stories with an open mind. While correspondents may offer considered judgements about the events they cover, they must not have conflicts of interest — a scruple that is a small moral revolution in itself. And they may not crusade on behalf of a cause or spout off carelessly. Doing otherwise would compromise their credibility … thehub.ca/2026/06/05/its…

@DorchesterRev @TheHubCanada Homework before you talk to me. Got it.

@harrisonlowman @TheHubCanada Ottawa. Time is short, so we would not meet anyone who has not taken the trouble to read the books and irsrg.ca material online. These are serious people. After that effort is made, happy to meet.

"This righteous narrative: the idea that we as journalists, should be pushing forward a righteous narrative. It gets into, and this is overused, this whole idea of activist journalism. It's not our job...As much as we interact with, and are often left crying ourselves when we hear horrible stories from sources. And you connect with them, and their feelings become words on your page, I get it, the connection you form there. But you also, at the same time, in the back of your head, have to be questioning and have to take a step back to tell the whole story. We've done a disservice by not doing that. I want this to be taught in journalism schools. It won't be, because journalism school are absolutely ridiculous what they're teaching now over there." What the Media (Including Us) Got Wrong About Residential School Graves- Went on @CANADALAND with @JesseBrown LISTEN: podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/wha…

@DorchesterRev @TheHubCanada Where are you based? I'll buy you a coffee and you can tell me how I'm wrong in person and offline.

@harrisonlowman @TheHubCanada Friend your post is garbled but in any case you need to get real. This is a serious problem that has been created, maybe on the scale of centuries to fix it.

Frances. Going down to protests wearing a sign that says "What remains?" and daring people to yell at you will not heal this country. It is mean and unhelpful. This is a conversation about dead Canadian children. You want progress? You want to convince others? You want pendulums to swing? This is not how you achieve it. You may now sic your online flying monkeys on me.

What do you mean by "that's how you get a Frances Widdowson", @harrisonlowman and @JesseBrown? What claims of mine are you taking issue with?

@DorchesterRev @TheHubCanada Weird, cause I've the Dorchester Review!

Are Harrison Lowman and @TheHubCanada not self-published? It's plain @harrisonlowman is a lightweight; his posts are only for positioning himself as the good guy, distancing himself from, not "weird people" (that is his blockhead small-town Toronto conformism speaking) but from scholars like Hymie Rubenstein, Nina Green, Rod Clifton, and Tom Flanagan who have worked more effectively than the TRC to get at the facts. In short, he is lazy and (unless he starts to take his assumed role seriously) what he writes is of no lasting importance. He has not read the most basic book in this controversy, Grave Error.

My latest contribution to @TheHubCanada thehub.ca/2026/06/05/the…

FIRST CANADIAN ARMY A PERSONAL MESSAGE FROM LT-GEN H. D. G. CRERAR, C.B., D.S.O. GOC-in-C., FIRST CDN ARMY It is not possible for me to speak to each one of you, but by means of this personal message, I want all ranks of the Canadian Army to know what is in my mind, as the hour approaches when we go forward into battle. I have complete confidence in our ability to meet the test which lies ahead. We are excellently trained and equipped. The quality of both senior and junior leadership is of the highest. As Canadians, we inherit military characteristics which were feared by the enemy in the last Great War. They will be still more feared before this war terminates. The Canadian formations in the assault landing will have a vital part to play. The plans, the preparations, the methods and the technique, which will be employed, are based on knowledge and experience bought and paid for by Canadian Division at Dieppe. The contribution of that hazardous operation cannot be over-estimated. It will prove to have been the essential prelude to our forthcoming and final success. We enter into this decisive phase of the war with full faith in our cause, with calm confidence in our abilities and with grim determination to finish quickly and unmistakably the job we came overseas to do. As in 1918, the Canadian, in Italy and in North West Europe, will hit the enemy again and again, until at some not distant time, the conquering Allied Armies link together and we will be rejoined, in Victory, with our comrades of 1 Canadian Corps. H. D. G. Crerar Lt-Gen D Day 1940

Canadian boys surge towards Juno Beach on D-Day 82 years ago today. By the end of that day, 14,000 Cdn soldiers pushed farther inland than any other Allied forces. The successful operation, the largest movement of men and machines in the history of the world, would be the beginning of the end of the War in Europe. More than 5,000 of them never returned to Canadian shores. Remember them.