The AHR has launched a new project, Authoritarianism 101: A Global History, as part of the #AHRSyllabus series.
Explore 30 modules from different contributors and key questions on authoritarianism—each paired with primary sources and teaching resources. The first twelve modules are now live.
Prime Minister of Spain Pedro Sánchez:
“The Government of Spain will not applaud those who set the world on fire just because they show up with a bucket.”
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ditto when writing a PhD dissertation.
Big news to bring you from the beavers at Holnicote...
Doug Ford’s new budget for Ontario shows he’s a big fan. #DougTrump
Fabulous resource.
Google Has a Secret Reference Desk. Here's How to Use It. open.substack.com/pub/cardcata...
Detroit. FR: détroit, which means "strait" or "narrows". Glad to help.
Carney cuts $192m from CBC at time when Canadian news, culture probably not important
News In Photo:
"... and this bro is baked. This is a baked bro."
Hilarious, and horrific.
A picture of PEW poll on global attitude survey, saying the % who rate the morality and ethics of people in their country as good vs bad, where the US has the worst rankings and Canada the best
Americans: we live in a fallen state—embroiled by sin, cheating, lying, and evil. You cannot trust anyone, not even those who claim to know you best
Canadians: I love my neighbors and my friends!
March 1,1975 and it's Milk In A Bag at Vintage Edmonton:
http://www.vintageed
#yeg #alberta #edmonton #Milk
The day has arrived: I found a citation for an article of mine that I have never written (although I wish I had) in an academic publication (that was supposed to have gone peer-review). AI is among us in so many different ways.
During this slippery season I rarely go out. Falling on the ice could be a disaster for me. Sometimes, tho, the library or grocery calls to me and I must go. Five times this month young men, 20s/30s, have held my arm and made sure I walked safely. 2X they offered, 3X I asked. None said no. Thank U!!
“An immense and indispensable advantage of history – or poetry – is that it continually presents to us many other possible human ways of being, which might have different arrangements, communication, and patterns.”
– Paul Goodman
Dear KidYounger, I am an old lady who has had several surgeries over my life, all performed by Canadian medicare doctors. None as serious as yours! but pretty serious: emergency appendix removal, 2 knee replacements, 2 eye cornea replacements, lady parts surgery... All went great, and so will yours!
Yup we got weather here in downtown Toronto. Blowing snow heaped as high as my ribs on my condo balcony. Only suitable response is my mother's meatloaf and baked potatoes, which are in the oven now. Hope the power doesn't go out.
The people who spent years defending and even lionizing Kyle Rittenhouse and Ashli Babbitt now want us to believe that an unarmed mother in her car and a disarmed nurse were domestic terrorists who deserved to be murdered by law enforcement.
18th-C Canada historians - can you help? Am trying to decipher a citation in Cruikshank's Russell Papers, Vol. 2. Letters from Peter Russell circa 1798 to Robert Prescott, Canadian governor-in-chief, are cited only "C-1206". What archive is that? microfilm or? (Image is letter #39 dated 21Jan 1798.)
once again we are all tapping the sign
To be clear, they're play-fighting and also: this video improved my day measurably and I wish I'd've watched it earlier. If you haven't, fix that now.
Fab glasses, gotta say!
It's well past time for Canadian government officials to get off of X, @jameswsthomson.com writes. This latest — disgusting — incident is just one more reason.
I know disciplinary standards differ, but I've been at this for decades and I've never cited a paper I didn't read. Didn't like, sure; didn't understand, often; kind of drifted off in the middle there, it happens. But didn't read at all? Nah. Come on.
Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵
Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...
“A fully digitised collection of the records of the Nuremberg trials is being launched online to mark the 80th anniversary of the start of the groundbreaking legal effort to bring Nazi leaders to justice.”
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
What did the everydayness of racial chattel slavery look like in Upper Canada beyond enslaving? I explore this question in my talk. Join us on Oct. 15th!
Register here: www.thecounty.ca/residents/se...
Obviously we all know Bluesky is a retirement home for elder millennials but, if you happen to know any 18-30 people who might like to take a shot at this, do pass it on!
Map of British North America in 1791 showing Upper and lower Canada, as well as New Brunswick Nova Scotia and Newfoundland
A letter in today's Globe relies on the silly argument that, because slavery was abolished in the British empire in 1834 and "Canada" was formed in 1867, there has never been slavery in Canada.
But Canada existed as a colony of that name from the Constitution Act of 1791
With slavery
