Sitting here crying while after getting WhatsApped the photo on the right, so let me tell you a little story about how we got here from the photo on the left and why repatriation research matters!

Never had something more truthful been said about our Congress.

Two identical pictures of Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney. The first has text: "Shares feel good zoom call with Canadian astronaut as public relations exercise." The second has different text: "Cut's funding for Canadian Space Agency by 32.6%"

A lot of Canucks feel pride at a Canadian astronaut on a moon mission. The Carney government is milking this opportunity to associate itself with those good feelings while cutting nearly a third of all funding for Canada's space agency.

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these are the stupidest people to ever live

The whole world will be your enemy, prince with a thousand enemies. And when they catch you, they will smash you with a hammer. But first they must catch you.

Endgame for the Open Web, brought on by LLM bots, content summarizing while driving no traffic, increasing paywalls for information of all kinds, locking down APIs (due to AI abuse), attacks on Wikipedia, disruption of open source communities, etc. [anildash.com]

How RCMP spies infiltrated the 1970s Indigenous rights movement | CBC News A CBC Indigenous investigation has found the Cold War-era RCMP Security Service had a widespread and intrusive surveillance operation targeting at least 30 legitimate Indigenous political organization...

Militant democracy, Canadian style. Newly declassified RCMP files show massive campaign against legitimate Indigenous organizations and leaders.

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Supporting Library Workers Who Have Lost Their Jobs - ACRLog If you haven't had the experience of losing your job suddenly, of being laid off or fired, it might be difficult to imagine what it's like. The person who has lost their job is probably going through ...

New from me on ACRLog, Supporting Library Workers Who Have Lost Their Jobs. If you don't know what to say or do when your coworker or colleague gets laid off or fired, here's a list of action items. 📚 acrlog.org/2026/03/21/s...

Please enjoy my cartoon for Thursday's Toronto Star

A personal note: I was very touched to hear Best Editing winner Andy Jurgensen thank his aunt Barbara Hall. As an Academy archivist, she took an interest in my research and, miraculously, found me George Stevens's pocket diary. A miracle. Five Came Back would not have been what it was without her.

I really don’t think enough is being made of the fact that it’s a three supposedly do-nothing toothless scholarly organizations—the AHA, the MLA, and the ACLS— who are directly responsible for one of the clearest and most damning exposures of this administration’s stupidity and malfeasance.

This is Nathan Cavanaugh, another DOGE staffer explaining how he flagged grants at NEH for "DEI" which would be reviewed for termination. 404 Media has reviewed hours of this footage and we'll have more soon.

Part of a lawsuit by @acls1919.bsky.social, @modernlanguage.bsky.social + @historians.org

Tribute Post for Fobazi Ettarh - ACRLog With immense sadness, the writers of ACRLog acknowledge the passing of Fobazi Ettarh, library worker and influential LIS scholar. If you are able to contribute, there is a GoFundMe established for Fob...

My colleagues at ACRLog wrote short tributes to the life and work of Fobazi Ettarh @fobettarh.bsky.social. I wrote about her work on disability, which I think deserves more recognition. acrlog.org/2026/03/04/t...

Thanks @ezerrenner.bsky.social for coordinating. #CripLib #VocationalAwe

I keep hearing that the Epstein files are so big if we held everyone accountable everything would collapse. And no it wouldn’t. These rich guys don’t do any actual work. They aren’t actually important or useful they are just rich.

Episode 358 – New World Over same as the Old World Order In this episode, Sandy and Nora talk about the speech heard around the world: Mark Carney announces that neoliberalism was premised on lies, and now that the US is collapsing, it’s time for Canada to ...

A new Sandy and Nora is out! Wednesday are the new days of publication for us and this week, waiting allowed us to dedicate the episode to understanding Carney at Davos. If you're looking for a leftwing perspective and critique -- here you go.

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Excerpt "A Shining mausoleum on a hill" Kendzior newsletter https://sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/a-shining-mausoleum-on-a-hill

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At the top, a participant of the Mascara Festival smiles while wearing traditional attire. In the bottom, people smiling and dancing during the Sandurot Festival. Text says: Happy 25th birthday, Wikipedia!

Twenty-five years ago, Wikipedia was an unlikely idea: a place where anyone could share free knowledge.

Today, it’s one of the most visited sites on Earth, not powered by corporate ads, but by people.

semi-regular reminder that ICE was only created in 2003

when you are asked to imagine a world without ICE, you're basically being asked to remember where you were when Lilo & Stitch came out

30 Rock "What a week" meme: "What a year, huh?" "Lemon, it's January 3rd."

The “Venezuela distracts from Epstein” line is ridiculous because 1) many awful things happen at once 2) Same Iran-Contra crowd pushing Venezuela invasion are or were involved with Epstein/Maxwell 3) Epstein associates (for ex, Dershowitz) want Iran invasion and see Venezuela as a test run for Iran

Sarah Kendzior THEY KNEW (2022) book excerpt

The librarian who was under surveillance: Inside the RCMP’s spy operations against radicals and leftists A Waterloo grandmother was surprised to see her name in RCMP file. A soft-spoken, retired librarian caught in Cold War era surveillance program 50 years ago.

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this isn't an excuse for the republican party's atrocities, but miller's not a party guy at all, he's a fascist and a fanatic pursuing his own personal agenda, and he will burn the party to the ground in pursuit of that agenda if that's what it takes. this is why you don't put fanatics in charge.

Every time you see that the government is trying to raise our military spending to 5% of GDP, think about the fact that our total elementary and secondary school spending is 3.9% of GDP.

Stamps featuring Kate Beaton, Jimmy Beaulieu, Guy Delisle, Julie Doucet, Bryan Lee O’Malley and Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas

Canada is releasing a set of stamps celebrating the nation's graphic novelists.

These stamps feature Kate Beaton, Jimmy Beaulieu, Guy Delisle, Julie Doucet, Bryan Lee O’Malley and Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas, alongside some of their famous works.

Reversal of Fates: Access Through Photographs can be a Counterbalance “Cultural losses continue to beset communities around the world, especially in areas subject to armed conflict...”

"Ongoing digitization and cataloging work not only serves the interests of scholars and manuscript communities—it also creates crucial, publicly-accessible provenance records that provide an increasingly robust bulwark against manuscript theft and trafficking."
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Opinion: A decade ago, writer Steven Galloway’s cancellation tore CanLit apart. The effects linger to this day The bestselling novelist faced sexual-assault allegations, costing him his job. Marsha Lederman asks, would this case be handled differently today?

I dunno, man. Seems pretty wild to write an extensive piece like this and only give a cursory mention of why so many people "declined to be interviewed."

The man has sued so many people for even just TWEETING about the case. But I still gotta listen to CanLit elites play the victim? C'mon.

JOB POSTING! 📚📜

Catalog/Metadata Librarian (Arabic Language) at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University

The salary range is $68,000—$145,250 (depending on experience).

careers.yale.edu/us/en/job/13...

Gutting the mail and propping up AI sure sound like bold plans for ‘nation building’ to me.