Qu'est-ce qu'un francophone? François Legault a récemment déploré qu'il n'y avait plus que 43% de francophones à Montréal. Ce chiffre donne l'impression que le français est devenu minoritaire dans la métropole. Est-ce bien le cas? 1/4

Curious about the history of the region where you live, study, and work? Register now for HIST 4342: History of the Atlantic Provinces Since Confederation, taught by @fburrill.bsky.social, Director of UNB's @acsc-unb.bsky.social.

Trump tariffs causing losses in forestry jobs on both sides of the border. #deindustrialization www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

For those who are eager proponents of the "subcontract social housing to charities and non-profits" model. The essential message of 12 Neighbours is that their tenants are not functional enough to have legal rights. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

J'étais dans la rue aujourd'hui avec des dizaines de milliers de personnes qui manifestaient contre les agissements anti-syndicaux de la CAQ. Mal à l'aise par exemple avec l'idée qu'on y était "pour le Québec." Le mouvement syndical a besoin un 101 en politique anti-coloniale.

Biggest joke of the week is Steven Guilbeault acting like he has any moral authority on the environment whatsoever.

Going right on the syllabus.

Baraa belongs here at UNB, and the Canadian government needs to let him in immediately. Biometrics shouldn't be obligatory for anyone, let alone someone surviving an active genocide.

All the while, postsecondary institutions are terrified of losing the bit of funding they have left, so they grovel at the feet of AI, promising to integrate it into student learning with absolutely no idea how to actually do that (because you can't, it's a stupid idea that defies logic).

These dirty little racist fkkkers are desperate because they see the other white supremacist party looming behind them. We all lose. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

«La théorie, un autre jour» : penser et écrire le féminisme aujourd’hui | Le Devoir Malgré tout, il était important que le livre soit publié avec ses imperfections, assure Chloé Savoie-Bernard. « On laisse apparaître le différend, tout en ne sachant pas comment il va être reçu. »

« Ces maisons ont été des tremplins pour faire connaître et reconnaître qu’elles étaient des femmes articulées », des femmes de lettres, de cœur et de tête. »

An awesome student of mine has won an important prize for her essay on deindustrialization in rural New Brunswick. Way to go, Sabina!

Excellent local media coverage of our recent speaker event featuring the Canada Research Chair in Postindustrial Communities, Lachlan MacKinnon.

True. I also hope it'll inspire us to rethink a system in which students have to be overloaded with work (4-6 courses per term, or "full-time) to qualify for loans and bursaries.

Remember our fallen soldiers... The Everett Massacre - Nov.5, 1916 The hanging of the Haymarket Martyrs - Nov.11, 1887 The Centralia Tragedy - Nov.11, 1919 The hanging of Louis Riel - Nov.16, 1885 The execution by firing squad of Joe Hill - Nov.19, 1915 The Battleford hangings - Nov.27, 1885

SOLIDARITY! 98% of AUPE nursing care staff vote in favour of strike. Majority of 16,000 members are licensed practical nurses and health care aides. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Il y a 10 ans, les éditions @remue-menage.bsky.social publiaient "Le sujet du féminisme est-il blanc". Un 2e tome sera bientôt publié. On pourra y lire un texte cosigné par notre collègue Samia Dumais et par Alexandra Pierre. Le livre sera lancé le 5 déc. lors du colloque du @reqef.bsky.social 👇🧵

I will never be so far from anarchism that I think a mayoral race has revolutionary implications.

on the topic of dick cheney, one thing i’ve always said is that you shouldn’t kill a million people

Don't miss the @deindustrialpol.bsky.social virtual roundtable this Friday! Policies and Programs: Deindustrialization and the Environment Deindustrialization and the Politics of Our Time Friday November 7th at 9:30am Eastern Time niche-canada.org/2025/10/29/v... #envhist #envstudies

We spent an excellent weekend with Elders, community members, and scholars thinking about what it means to do engaged research in "Atlantic Canada" from the margins created by settler colonialism and white supremacy. It was grounding, challenging, exciting, and we can't wait for what comes next.

Satellite images show that most of the 260,000 civilians in Sudan’s el-Fasher are likely still trapped, as mass RSF killings continue

This was bad analysis in the 60s and it's worse now. A socialist settler state is not socialist.

Happy end-of-election day to Montrealers. A brief respite from the goofy faces on posters, the business darlings, the cynicism of movement profiteers, the cop-loving environmentalists.

So the #stockmarket may be booming and the #AI hype is still exploding, but the rest of the economy is not so buoyant; and there appear to be cockroaches eating into the clean running of the world of #debt. Watch that space. thenextrecession.wordpress.com/2025/11/01/d...

Et moi!

So, so much cruelty, on an unimaginable scale.

Torn because some of my best friends are Bluejays fans and I want them to be happy but also I hate Canadian nationalism with a deep abiding passion. Especially when it's sponsored by the cell company with the shittiest, most expensive service in the country.

AI stinks for political and ecological reasons and I ask my students not to use it. But I do think the pell-mell rush to in-class assignments, etc., is more about professors' need to see themselves as pristine educators rather than the mid-level intellectual management we all are.

starting to get the sinking feeling that Jon Stewart quips are not slowing down Donald Trump

Today’s DePOT Deindustrialization Blog comes from Joseph Coates and Emiliano Aguilar. The case of the Calumet Region of Northwest Indiana and Chicago is a particularly interesting one: deindustrialization.org/deindustrial...

At UNB, professors and students were surveilled for Palestine solidarity because, per campus security, the university is the President’s “house.” “If I tell my kids my kids you can’t do this, I don’t need to write it down… He’s the President and he can set the rules.”

Today at work we were invited to participate in yet another study on AI. Look closely at the human arm in the ridiculous image that came with the invitation. Did the study's authors do it on purpose? Is it an AI-generated joke? My colleagues and I have been laughing all day.

We're happy to announce two exciting new MA fellowship opportunities in our department. Please share with all interested students!

En ce 200e du #CanalLachine, Samia Dumais revisite l'histoire ouvirère de la Petite-Bourgogne, à travers les porteurs noirs du CN, images de marque de l'entreprise et nénamoins victimes de racisme par l'employeur. #capitalism #racism #railway #canada ingeniumcanada.org/channel/arti...

Mskwaasin Agnew (Dene/Cree, Salt River First Nation) was among the humanitarians on board Conscience that was illegally boarded by Israel in international waters. We are asking everyone to contact the Canadian Government (email addresses & phone numbers on the poster) #EyesOnGaza #EndGazaBlockade

In our October blog, Amber Ward reviews Netflix’s Toxic Town, a depiction of women’s response to the continued exploitation of residents in a deindustrialized English town.

Won't someone think of the administrators. Silent majority really.

Also really looking forward to this! Lachlan MacKinnon is coming to UNB on November 3 to speak on 1980s Hollywood camp horror's incursion into deindustrializing Cape Breton.

If you're inFredericton on November 3, join us for a spooky public lecture by @deindustrialpol.bsky.social co-investigator Dr. Lachlan MacKinnon, CRC in Post-Industrial Communities at Cape Breton University. "Cinematic Ruin: My Bloody Valentine and Industrial Crisis in Cape Breton, 1979-1990."

All are warmly invited to the Department of Historical Studies' 3rd Annual Queer History Month lecture. This year's lecture will be delivered by Dr. Ronald Cummings, Professor of Caribbean Literature and Black Diaspora Studies in the Department of English and Cultural Studies at McMaster University

Cartoon by Suhail H. Naqshbandi

Two (2) MA fellowships at Concordia in deindustrialization studies.

This Friday! I'll be participating in what promises to be a lively debate on @ruhr-uni-bochum.de Stefan Berger's controversial intervention into the field of deindustrialization studies.

35 years ago. The attempted invasion of Kahnawà:ke youtu.be/11xDKlCo-Ag?...

MA Fellowship – Deindustrialization in North America. Deadline: December 15, 2025. #cdnhist #skystorians #UNB @histstudiesunb.bsky.social cha-shc.ca/careers-and-...

Announced today that to vaccinate ourselves against COVID-19 in Quebec, my family will now have to pay $450 (150 per person). We have insurance and a middle-class income, so can make it work, but what about the majority of people? Eugenics at work.

If you're in Fredericton or environs tomorrow, please come out to hear the brilliant Dr. Wendell Nii Laryea Adjetey.