We had a meeting on April 17 attended by over 100 cultural heritage workers. We struck a temporary committee to carry out the work resulting from the dialogue. There is representation on it from archivists, museum workers, historians, genealogists, historical society folks, and librarians.

Revising Cowichan history: How Thomas Quamtany actually lost his arm – The Discourse. Historian Kelly Black gets to the bottom of a persistent myth about a one-armed Hudson’s Bay Company employee.

“During a time when most people have a search engine in their pocket, one might think boxes of records are now irrelevant. But, an internet search or chatbot prompt cannot replace making a trip to the archives, simply because not everything is digitized” #cdnHist

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This was a good meeting, chaired by @millarlaura.bsky.social and attended by 113 people from museums, archives, libraries, historical societies, along with historians. A temporary advocacy committee is being set up to steer the work coming out of today’s discussion.

#archives #library 📚

Thank you to everyone who participated in the zoom advocacy meeting. It was wonderful to see everyone involved in heritage in Canada come together.
More to come!

Don't forget the heritage advocacy meeting being held today at Noon ET. Register here:
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This is a really odd argument because I think at the heart of it, there is a deep misunderstanding about what writing is for. I write to communicate my thoughts and ideas, and to bring people along with me, which AI cannot do for me because it isn't me.

CHA president Colin Coates and IHAF president Thomas Wien have sent a letter to Minister Julie Dabrusin, with Richard Dennis (Chief Librarian, Parks Canada) and Media Relations in CC. #cdnhist #parkscanada

Invitation to an Advocacy Meeting for Heritage Funding, April 17th A few weeks ago I wrote a blog on the cuts to memory and knowledge institutions by the Canadian Government. I called on people to come together and do something. I have been urged by many to be the…

Don't forget the advocacy meeting being held tomorrow concerning the cuts to memory and knowledge institutions in the federal budget. Everyone welcome.
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If we treat our collective past like a disposable commodity, what does that say about how we view our future and the country we want to pass on to generations to come?

Invitation to an Advocacy Meeting for Heritage Funding, April 17th A few weeks ago I wrote a blog on the cuts to memory and knowledge institutions by the Canadian Government. I called on people to come together and do something. I have been urged by many to be the…

Advocacy meeting to plan actions, create a voice against the cuts made to archives, libraries and museums is this Friday. Please join us on April 17th at Noon ET.

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🧵 The Canadian federal government’s 2025 budget has allocated:

More business tax breaks including for fossil fuels sector
$925 million for AI
$81.8 billion over 5 years for military

However, this comes at the expense of cultural heritage.

Invitation to an Advocacy Meeting for Heritage Funding, April 17th A few weeks ago I wrote a blog on the cuts to memory and knowledge institutions by the Canadian Government. I called on people to come together and do something. I have been urged by many to be the…

Join us to save funding for archives, libraries and museums - Meeting April 17th
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Had an amazing time at the McGill Canadian Scottish Studies Colloquium yesterday. Thanks so much for the change to talk about the St Andrew's Society's archives!

CFP – Slayage, 2026 Slayage: The International Journal of Buffy+ and the Association for the Study of Buffy+invite proposals for the eleventh biennial Slayage Conference (SC11). Devoted tocreative works and workers of…

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My colleague discussing federal funding cuts to cultural heritage in Canada:

#archives #library 📚

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AHA Files Lawsuit to Defend the Presidential Records Act - AHA The American Historical Association, in collaboration with American Oversight, filed a lawsuit last night challenging a recent memorandum from the Department of Justice declaring the Presidential Reco...

The AHA, with American Oversight, filed a lawsuit challenging a DOJ memo declaring the Presidential Records Act unconstitutional—threatening access to millions of records, including at the National Archives.

This case is about public access to our nation’s history.

Learn more and support our work:

Invitation to an Advocacy Meeting for Heritage Funding, April 17th A few weeks ago I wrote a blog on the cuts to memory and knowledge institutions by the Canadian Government. I called on people to come together and do something. I have been urged by many to be the…

It is official - join us in an advocacy meeting regarding heritage cuts - on April 17th
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Stay strong!

Cut 15 percent. Get 15 percent less.

The Legacy of Unwritten Histories By Stephanie Pettigrew When I first started my PhD in 2013, I left a very comfortable, established community of support in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, made up of friends I had known since middle scho…

Hey, I wrote a blog post about my blog posts.

A reflection on the end of Unwritten Histories and the importance of community:

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AI commercial produced on budget of just 3 lakes LOS ANGELES, CA — The advertising industry is abuzz after reports that a recent AI-made television commercial was produced on a budget of only three pristine Tennessee lakes.

AI commercial produced on budget of just 3 lakes

Happy Tartan Day!

Is this letter from my MP AI? And finally I got a response from one of my emails to my Member of Parliament Greg Fergus. I have written four emails to date. I have to say, the response is remarkably unsatisfying. I don’t …

My MP responded to one of my emails, and I am left wondering - is it real, or is it AI?

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My parents took this picture off of their tv during the moon landing in 1969. And now we are headed back their again.

Screenshot. What looks to be an AI generated image of people panning for gold above a description of an “online learning” event about the 1858 gold rush

Hey @royalbcmuseum.bsky.social - why are you using an AI generated image when you have a wealth of digitized images and paintings from the gold rush that you could use?

Miami has hurricanes, right?
Just thinking such a tall building was tempting fate...
Or dumb.

I like that CTV News classifies this as entertainment, and not a serious look at faith :)

On the blog, Danny Samson looks at the Nova Scotia Government's decision to close the Sutherland Steam Museum: acadiensis.wordpress...