“No random historical exercise:” The Implications of Coupal v. Leroux activehistory.ca/blog/2026/04...

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House Republicans Buried the Jack Smith Transcript on New Year’s Eve. I Read It So You Don’t Have To. 12 takeaways from Smith's closed-door testimony

House Republicans Buried the Jack Smith Transcript on New Year’s Eve. I Read It So You Don’t Have To.
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As foreign funds dry up, so do South Sudan’s hopes of stopping hunger crisis In a nation beset by civil war and corruption, foreign-aid cuts add to the struggle to support malnourished children

Predictably, we'll find our morality after the people have died, when it's cheaper. www.theglobeandmail.com/world/articl...

A professor once told me lecture prep will take as much time as you give it. I usually worked on my lectures almost to the last minute the first time, but the second time teaching a course was much easier.

Why the Best Bike Lanes Always Get Blamed A standoff over cycling infrastructure and traffic congestion in Toronto shows why building protected bike lanes on essential corridors draws controversy along with riders.

“The magic happens when a city’s bike network is expansive enough to safely accommodate the bulk of trips. At that point, a wide range of residents may consider using a bike as their primary means of transportation, perhaps ditching their car completely”

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Opinion: Hard line? Soft line? There may be no way of dealing with Trump that works Carney is being accused of hypocrisy, having promised to stand up to the President on the campaign trail only to offer a series of concessions in office

From @acoyne.bsky.social "There is no “win-win,” as in most negotiations. There is only a problem to be managed, a matter of stalling for time and presenting as small a target as possible, until Mr. Trump grows too old or enfeebled to menace us further."

Evaluating the impact of two decades of USAID interventions and projecting the effects of defunding on mortality up to 2030: a retrospective impact evaluation and forecasting analysis USAID funding has significantly contributed to the reduction in adult and child mortality across low-income and middle-income countries over the past two decades. Our estimates show that, unless the a...

Impact of 2 decades of USAID interventions & projection of effects of defunding on mortality up to 2030: retrospective & forecasting analysis in @thelancet.com : www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... / @aidhistory.bsky.social @francoisaudet.bsky.social @jillcm.bsky.social @dwebster.bsky.social

Strong mayor powers, budget plans, Morris Street bike lane: What's on the agenda for Halifax regional council - Halifax Examiner Council meets on Tuesday.

Strong mayor powers, budget plans, Morris Street bike lane: What’s on the agenda for Halifax regional council

Story by me

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It says she can’t be messaged…perhaps she needs to follow me?

@halifaxexaminer.ca Route #4 to Lacewood earlier today. #ExaminerBus

To all @activehist.bsky.social readers interested in this topic, please consider attending the CNHH event on June 25, virtually or in person @carleton.ca : "Tracing the History of Indigenous Women’s Internationalism: An Afternoon with Dr @jonathancrossen.bsky.social " carleton.ca/history/cu-e...

Also a good time to remind everyone of @jonathancrossen.bsky.social 's piece about Marie Smallface Marule in the collection I co-edited with the late Greg Donaghy and Stacey Barker, Breaking Barriers, Shaping Worlds: Canadian Women and the Search for Global Order from @ubcpress.bsky.social

Thanks for this response to my previous @activehist.bsky.social post from Jody Mason. I appreciated learning more about the connections between critiques of development and Indigenous activism in Canada.

Green background, with a white graphic image of a tab open on a computer with black text quoting: “If writing is thinking, it follows that outsourcing writing is outsourcing thinking. And this outsourcing is accelerating at a staggering pace. This should concern us all: as educators, but also as citizens.”Underneath it says “Edward Dunsworth” in black text and has a white Active History.ca logo in the bottom right corner.

In today’s post Edward Dunsworth explores and critiques the use of AI in scholarship, academia, and the classroom.

Read it here: activehistory.ca/blog/2025/06...

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New @aidhistory.bsky.social blog: "State Funding for the Non-Profit Sector" by Dominique Clément, about the new database which lists grants to non-government organizations (NGOs) in Canada since the 1960s. aidhistory.ca/state-fundin... / @cndhistassoc.bsky.social‬ @insidephilanthropy.com‬

Google and Meta search both report that Cape Breton Island has its own time zone 12 minutes ahead of mainland Nova Scotia time because they are both drawing that information from a Beaverton article I wrote in 2024

Dr Crossen is Associate Professor at the Centre for Sámi Studies at UiT, the Arctic University of Norway & Visiting Scholar at Carleton University, Department of History He will present his work on Indigenous Women’s Internationalism for 45 minutes. An exchange will follow, including a report on the research he is conducting in Ottawa this June on the international aid work of Inuit Circumpolar Council, and discussions on common interests. The event is co-hosted by the Canadian Network on Humanitarian History (CNHH) and Carleton University Department of History. To know more, read Dr Crossen’s blog on the CNHH website: International cooperation between Indigenous peoples in the late twentieth century : inter-governmental undertakings and the history of Indigenous rights, May 5, 2025. A virtual version will be streamed at this address: https://carleton-ca.zoom.us/j/6543041746 Please contact Dominique Marshall (dominque_marshall@carleton.ca ) for more information

Tracing the History of Indigenous Women’s Internationalism
An Afternoon with Dr Jonathan Crossen

Wednesday June 25 from 1:00 to 3:00
Lounge of the Department of History of Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada, Paterson Hall 433

The Open History of Crisis James Cairns “It is exceptionally difficult to grasp the present as history.”[1] Thus begins David McNally’s book on the 2008-09 financial crisis. In everyday usage, the present means now, this ins…

In today’s post James Cairns discusses his new book and explores thinking historically and using historical imagination to understand the present as history.

Do not normalize children dying from measles. Measles was previously eliminated in the US, thanks to vaccines.

When children die from measles, it means that adults have catastrophically failed to protect them because they have rejected basic science.

Let’s be proudly Canadian…by mimicking Trump’s worst and most inhumane foreign policy measures?

Pierre Poilievre Wants to Slash Canadian Foreign Aid A post-USAID world is set to be dangerous and dominated by China. Poilievre wants to make things worse.

Pierre Poilievre is promising to do for Canadian foreign aid what Donald Trump did for USAID. www.bugeyedandshameless.com/p/pierre-poi...

Sorry I missed this we were away last weekend and I wasn't checking on my notifications very well I guess!

I once had the opportunity to look through health statistics of Nova Scotia prior to the adoption of the measles vaccine and let me tell you, it was bleak. If you’re not sure if your child completed their series, call your doctor. If you’re travelling, call public health - you may need to get one.

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CHA Teaching Awards | Canadian Historical Association | Société historique du Canada The Teaching and Learning Committee on the CHA Council is pleased to announce the launch of the 2025 CHA Teaching Awards. In 2019, in response to a long-standing request from members, the CHA Council ...

Do you know an excellent post-secondary instructor? Are you an excellent post-secondary instructor? Nominations for the 2025 CHA Teaching Awards are now open! Deadline: March 28, 2025. #cdnhist #prize #teaching cha-shc.ca/teachers-lea...

Green background with white text saying: “The destruction of USAID is representative of much more than the aid itself. It is the clear rejection of a global norm that, however imperfectly, acknowledges the humanity of all.” Jill Campbell-Miller

“Shocked, but not surprised.” In today’s post Jill Campbell-Miller explores the decision and repercussions of closing the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).

Check it out here: activehistory.ca/blog/2025/02...

Thanks Steve! I feel seen - you can see why I needed to get this out of my head and onto the digital page I guess 😂

Shocked, but not Surprised: The End of USAID in Historical Perspective It was a shock when I read that as the unofficial head of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), a group that has no Congressional authority, Musk began to shutter USAID operations at the …

Some thoughts on USAID I felt compelled to share - thanks @activehist.bsky.social for the opportunity activehistory.ca/blog/2025/02...

Stop Analyzing Trump's Unhinged Ideas Like They're Normal Policy Proposals The New York Times just ran 1,200 words gaming out the electoral math of forcibly annexing Canada. We're in trouble.

The New York Times analyzed the electoral impact of annexing Canada instead of asking why the president is talking like a dictator. www.readtpa.com/p/stop-analy...