Congratulations Chief 7IDANsuu James Hart & Audain Art Museum! vancouversun.com/entertainmen...

On Dec. 8, 1941, the RCMP impounded 1,200 fishing boats owned by Japanese-Canadians. Within a few months, Japanese-Canadians were sent to internment camps. More than 21,000 people were uprooted. This is the story of Canada's Japanese Internment. 📸 LAC C-057250 🧵 1/12

Lord, bring forth the meteorites

Introducing the latest candidate for demolition by neglect in the national capital region: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Catching The Once at Manotick United Church, part of the Festival of Small Halls.

Remember their names and honour their memory. #dec6

Geneviève Bergeron Hélène Colgan Nathalie Croteau Barbara Daigneault Anne-Marie Edward Maud Haviernick Maryse Laganière Maryse Leclair Anne-Marie Lemay Sonia Pelletier Michèle Richard Annie St-Arneault Annie Turcotte Barbara Klucznik-Widajewicz

The Globe and Mail has a very succinct but comprehensive editorial outlining the foolery of Lansdowne 2.0. Well worth the read. www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/416c9c5...

Take my money! @architectsdca.bsky.social and I are happy to see it go towards our annual support for the @ottawafoodbank.bsky.social !

I just got to spend a pile of @toondreessen.bsky.social's money! Toon and others are matching donations right now to the @ottawafoodbank.bsky.social via CBC Radio’s ‘Make the Season Kind’ fundraiser. Please join us! www.cbc.ca/kind/ottawa

Built Heritage Committee Chair @rawlson.bsky.social welcomes students from our 2nd-year core course to City Hall this morning as they prepare to present their research findings to staff. As always, the councillor and the staff were an inspiration! @carletonfass.bsky.social

For #SteepleSaturday this week: St. Mary’s, Auburn, Nova Scotia, built 1790.

This is hilarious. But the fact that an outrageous made-up quote from a satirical magazine can so easily be mistaken for something that the ambassador actually said is less funny. www.cbc.ca/news/world/b...

Pedestrian struck by motorist on Parkside a block from the speed camera that vigilantes kept tearing down that caused ford to remove them from all Ontario. Drive as you wish Ontario. Nobody matters. This is what you voted for.

The Ghost Story for Christmas Eve this year is M R James's "An Episode of Cathedral History". It'll be livestreamed at 7pm (UK) but available to watch anywhere, anytime after that. Simply register and pay-what-you-can here christmascathedralghosts.eventbrite.co.uk art by Paul Lowe

I got to spend some time with Colleen Jones in 2009 when she did a story for the CBC about a historic Nova Scotian church that was being dismantled and sold to an American buyer. She was smart, kind, energetic, funny, curious and empathetic. RIP. 👇 She interviews the rector who authorized the sale.

Finally some good news from a Canadian university:

Well this is… complicated. www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/e94a79c...

My first online talk for nearly a year will take place tomorrow evening (Tue 25 Nov). It will look at how we can use archives, archaeology and dendrochronology to date ancient buildings. This will be a brand new bespoke talk & I hope you can join us... www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/dating-anc...

Oh no. This is the one thing that could make an already devastating loss even more painful. I can barely process this information, it’s so awful.

And much deeper blue than a Great Blue Heron actually is!

Well, this should be fun!

On my way to Toronto, looking forward to taking part in the conference “Sacred Space: Conflicts and Convergences” at Trinity College. I’ll be speaking first thing in the morning and again at the end of the event. www.trinity.utoronto.ca/study-theolo...

I have to admit I find it a bit creepy that MS Word is now offering to help me summarize, find key insights and questions in, and prepare me to discuss a document that I’ve written myself. I suppose that if I’d used AI to write it, I’d also need AI to tell me how to discuss it. 🤷‍♂️

It's official! @ckcufm.bsky.social www.newswire.ca/news-release...

I still don’t understand how this ridiculous story gained so much traction in the media, but @picardonhealth.bsky.social puts it in its proper place: www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

Scott was also, very late in his career, architect of Trinity College Chapel at the University of Toronto. Nov. 20 will mark the 70th anniversary of the consecration of the chapel, and the College will host the symposium "Sacred Space: Conflicts and Convergences”. I will be one of the speakers.

Amazing photos. I'd take this course in an instant. Lucky Carleton students! "Canadian architectural eye candy" is not a phrase that often comes to mind. But here it is! #cdnhist

And that candy comes in a huge variety of shapes and sizes that would take most people by surprise. And the stories behind them…. That’s what inspired my #VacationInCanada posts and blogs. carleton.ca/aah/category...

I had a really good conversation with someone from the Mi’kmawey Debert Cultural Centre yesterday about this exhibition. I can’t wait to go and see it. www.historymuseum.ca/exhibitions/...

I’m getting ready to co-teach our new course on Canadian architecture. So, What *is* Canadian architecture? Well, it’s a long story. Or rather, *many* long stories.

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Our latest departmental blog is by one of our students, Danielle Dickson! it’s always great to experience one of our events through a student’s eyes. Special thanks to Andrew Waldron. carleton.ca/aah/2025/dis...

Lansdowne 2.0 doesn’t give Ottawa what it needs. The plan is built around the limits of a public-private deal that leaves the city with hundreds of millions in new debt for a project that won’t serve residents well.

"It's only been six months since the election”, complains CPC MP Aaron Gunn. That would be the same election in which the people of Battle River-Crowfoot elected Damien Kurek, right? www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Happy Day of the Dead, if that’s not too paradoxical a sentiment. 👇Hillside Cemetery, Dawson City, Yukon.

Not an original idea, but I used ‘Moving Surfaces’ to frame the Aberdeen Pavillion for the ‘Lansdowne’ photo in Andrew Waldron’s architectural guidebook, ‘Exploring the Capital’. The piece does act as a visual and imaginative anchor for the place.

In which @sproudfoot.bsky.social says what we are all thinking, but not everyone dares say. And she adds a bit of history about the most odious ‘diplomat’ in living memory, for good measure. www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/opi...

New from me. I don’t know about you, but I’m getting a little tired of Canada being treated like a toy at a spoiled rich kid’s birthday party, so I wrote about Pete Hoekstra’s public meltdown in Ottawa this week.

David Winterton gives the sixth in our series of 🍁autumn online lectures on Frank Darling, Architect of Canada’s Imperial Age 🧵 Buy your ticket here: bit.ly/4oh6pWl #FrankDarling #architect #architecturalhistory #Toronto #EdwardianBaroque #TorontoEdwardian #onlinelecture #heritage #booktalk

Roundup post: Any excuse to delegitimise the Court #cdnpoli

🔆 Sending warmth and light to you all. One for All Hallows' Day - not taken today, but still worth posting. My favourite photo I've taken of York Minster at first light - it seems to magically exude warmth and light - after the darkness recedes and night turns into day...

It's All Souls Day! So here’s All Souls College, Oxford, by Nicholas Hawksmoor, 1716-34.

What an amazing shot!

On Feb 11 1869, 5000 people watched as these trap doors opened and Patrick J. Whelan, convicted assassin of Thomas D’Arcy McGee, dropped out of the world. This place #OughtToBeHaunted. 🎃😱👻 Happy #Halloween!

I spoke to the @ottcity council committee dealing with Lansdowne 2.0 (first time delegate!). I didn't talk about the pros and cons, but the alarming lack of transparency around this file. #ottcity www.youtube.com/live/asifIBt...

The Fort Garry Hotel is said to be the most haunted building in Winnipeg. Seems likely enough to me (although I’ve never ventured further inside than the restaurant). 🎃👻😱 #Halloween #OughtToBeHaunted

Enjoyed walking home from campus in daylight today, likely for the last time in a long while.

"You encounter a strange, cult-like group that lives in almost total isolation from the outside world. They jealously guard their arcane knowledge and practice some exceedingly cruel rituals."

October is World Blindness Awareness Month. How do the blind experience, navigate, and enjoy architecture? Check out my podcasts with writer, theatre artist - and blind travel writer - Alex Bulmer. #BlindnessAwarenessMonth @blindcanadians.bsky.social carleton.ca/aah/2024/hta...