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ALL HAIL THE TURKEY OF INFINITE KNOWLEDGE

While Archie Belaney (Grey Owl) is more famous for his conservation work, it was Anahareo who convinced him to stop trapping and to focus on saving animals. Listen to Canadian History Ehx on all podcast platforms. youtube.com/shorts/Xgw1-...

No true innovation wythout HEART For a bettir future we need poetrye, creativitye, historical studye, love of language, bold dialogues, new storyes, & intellectual curiositye. Fund higher educacioun yn the HEART disciplines: H umanityes E thiques A rtes R hetorique & the crafte of T eachinge

From this recent piece from @gsoh31.bsky.social: isrf.org/blog/what-do...

Into the Mystic

Thanks to @chly.ca’s Mid-Coast Morning for having me on the show to talk about The Great Vancouver Island Land Grab travelling exhibit - on now at the #Nanaimo @vilibrary.bsky.social Harbourfront Branch #VILandGrab podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/m... @vilocalhistory.bsky.social #cdnhist

#johngreenbluesky #theawayend Coo-roo-coo-coo-coo-coo-coo-coooo!!!!!

Since there appears to be Cheetos discourse, I'm obliged to mention the FAR superior Canadian puffed cheese product.

Everyone should read and share this thread. #AI

Bill Waiser is a serious scholar and a great writer. Too bad I live too far away to attend this, but friends in Toronto take note!

Just saw this somewhere and realized THEY WOULD HAVE BEEN AMBASSADORS AT THE SAME TIME

Treaty negotiations in BC have never included private land. So what's up with the Cowichan Tribes trying to change that? This display explains how so much timberland in the Cowichan Valley ended up not as Crown Land, but the property of private timber companies: thediscourse.ca/vancouver-is...

Remember, if our solutions for homelessness don’t start with more housing, we don’t really want to solve homelessness. And if you think building public/social housing costs too much, it costs much more public money to leave people unhoused. #UrbanTruth

Thank you to everyone who came out to the launch of the Great Vancouver Island Land Grab!! The exhibition will be on at the Nanaimo Harbourfront Library until June 2026. Details about this amazing exhibitions travelling schedule coming soon! #VILandGrab #VILHS #VancouverIsland

The Great Vancouver Island Land Grab explores the history and legacy of the Esquimalt & Nanaimo Railway land grant of the 1880s. This travelling exhibit looks at what happened, who was affected, and why the story still matters today #BCHistory #VancouverIsland youtu.be/xJ7P0rP95d8?...

I hate to say it, but the colleagues positioning themselves to be pro AI in teaching and curriculum, are probably also positioning themselves to be administrators, and probably aren’t thinking about or don’t care how it will affect teaching, learning, or the careers of those around them.

Erin Isaac and Cady Berardi revisit the Ross-Thomson House and the topic of Nova Scotia's rural museums facing budget cuts and closures. Isaac and Berardi first explored this in March 2026; that post can be found here: activehistory.ca/blog/2026/03...

Today is ANOTHER good day for Pierre Poilievre to prove to Canadians that he’s actually capable of passing the standard security check, and get the normal security clearance that he’s STILL refusing to get. Until he does, I’m continuing to assume that it’s because he knows that he can’t pass it.

Preserves Mary Pratt 1978

Enjoy a few moments from the center of (Nlaka’pamux) world, where the Fraser and Thompson Rivers meet at Tl'kemtsin/Lytton. #waterislife

“Provide access to trusted AI agents for every post-secondary student” Good news, everyone! @mark-carney.bsky.social will ensure all #cdnpse students will have access to “trusted” thieving plagiarism machines that hallucinate by design, lower cognitive abilities, and boil our oceans. Yay? #cdnpse

If only we were one of them. #FuckHoekstra

Our new exhibit is opening at the Nanaimo Public Library on Thursday. Congrats to Kelly B and the whole team at the Vancouver Island Local History Society.

Also, this is correct. Alberta has long told itself that it is The West, as if the country ended at the Rockies. bsky.app/profile/maxf...

This is a book you need: broadviewpress.com/product/the-...

Based on the ads being served to me on youtube, I gather that men have discovered stretch pants.

Never get hit with an ad break again, become a supporter at Greatest.Supercast.com. #greatesttrek #greatestgen #startrek #friendsofdesoto

I just got a book-club scam email. I was surprised that so many book-club readers were interested in a 25 year old academic book about an obscure Canadian writer. Turns out they aren't. Read about it here: writerbeware.blog/2025/09/19/r...

Carney is championing an unliveable future: “There is no scenario in which these policy shifts do not increase both Canada’s domestic emissions and, even more, downstream carbon pollution elsewhere through the expansion of oil and gas exports.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I really like the clarity of this rule. It's unambiguous in its prohibition and clearly identifies the responsibility for accuracy can't be passed off to the system, just as you couldn't pass it off with any other method of research.

UVic Humanities is hiring a Research Chair in AI and Cultural Change — focused on justice-centered, critical, humanist approaches to AI and related technologies. Check it out and distribute widely (deadline Aug 28). www.uvic.ca/faculty-staf...

I believe this is known as liquified natural gaslighting. www.cbc.ca/player/play/...

One of the two public universities in Oregon currently undergoing retrenchment published a report on which programs make the most $ for the university (which shouldn't be the primary factor in keeping or cutting them), and the answer by a LONG SHOT was History/Poli Sci

Continual extortion of Canada. Beyond tired of these stupid freaking whiney on going narratives. #Smith you're not getting a pipeline through BC. One is enough we are done. #bcpoli #abpoli #cdnpoli

Better cars are like better cigarettes. We stay dependent, they sell more. #UrbanTruth

As I put it a few years ago in my blunt advice to Irish cities, “Your goal SHOULDN’T be to replace a million fossil fuel vehicles with a million electric vehicles. It should be to replace a million fossil fuel vehicles with 250,000 electric vehicles. The main answer MUST be FEWER cars driven LESS."

Name your top 15 tv shows ever, gut instincts only Star Trek (TOS) The Next Generation The Wire Breaking Bad North of 60 Prime Suspect Poirot Jewel in the Crown Kids in the Hall South Park Bodyguard Anne of Green Gables (Megan Follows version.) Royal Canadian Air Farce The Last Airbender Due South

Air Canada was privatized. How’d that work out for us?

The Road Lobby claims cars deliver freedom. But what about the freedom to NOT have to drive? #UrbanTruth Our #1HourCityConspiracy Campaign continues all this week. This poster gives a hat tip to #NotJustBikes.

We’ve been working on the exhibit for 2 years, but this project is the culmination of work that began during my PhD, more than a decade ago. I can’t wait to bring the story of The Great Land Grab to people on Vancouver Island #bchist

"Originally, their goal was to try and attract one U.S. nurse to move to #Nanaimo but Maffin estimates that close to 50 [healthcare workers have moved to the Island] since he and his wife started the Healthcare Infusion a year ago." thediscourse.ca/nanaimo/seco...

What if 6-7 was just shorthand for 86 47?

Maybe they think a canoe is involved?

This goes double for academic writing.

A tea room in Chinatown in Victoria. With a unique menu combining dim sum with English tea sandwiches and cakes. And MORE THAN ONE KIND OF BLACK TEA!! because there is more than one kind. Some oolong would be nice too.

They may put it back on the shelves, but they can't make us buy it. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Todays walk #1 Meadow full of blooming native camas. #yyj Beacon Hill Park