Get yourself a daughter who, every time she passes the big indy bookstore near her university, goes in and front-faces your new book on the shelf

I chipped in to the @PressProgress.ca legal defence so journalists can keep holding the powerful to account. This case could set a chilling precedent across Canada. If you can, please donate and share. pressprogress.ca/journalism-defence/donate

Recent photo I took. Note: the bicycles trying to swerve around the @tps.ca car in the bike lane. Note: the car’s emergency lights aren’t on, so this doesn’t qualify for one. Imperilling lives.

Top of the day, from my local rep cinema!

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House. Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity. They are not the same.

Opinion piece @theglobeandmail.com with Laura Madokoro @carleton.ca The Trump administration’s suggestions for a privileged form of asylum for white and politically aligned refugees is not new – it is a throwback, and one that undermines decades of progress. www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

Tommy Prince is known as the most decorated First Nations veteran of the Second World War and the Korean War. Now people are celebrating his life days ahead of the military acknowledging its racism and discrimination against Indigenous soldiers.

Words are my life raft, but today they are pretty flimsy. Go well, Tim. Your first book was mine, too, as a scholarly editor. I marvel to witness all you accomplished.

It sounds crazy but I promise you: if you just put your phone aside and read for half an hour each night before bed, it will change your life.

“Run, comrade, the old world is after you.” — Jean-Claude Izzo, “Solea”

Preening Owl Kenojuak Ashevak ~ Inuk 1995

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o... How could our adopted son, born abroad but with us as a baby, possibly prove a “substantial connection“ to the country and why should he have to, more than I? Garbage legislation.

@stevenvanwolputte.bsky.social look at this crowd! My thanks to Jessica Hardin, @rebeccapscales.bsky.social, @rit-cola.bsky.social and RIT students for a great Conable lecture last night. Such great conversation about our new book ‘In The Land of the Lacandón’!

My thanks to the Department of History at the University of Rochester for hosting me yesterday. An enthused and engaged audience and a student asked the first question!

We are so honoured to be on this list! Congrats and good luck to all the shortlisted authors and publishers. @alasdairroberts.bsky.social

📕It's official, 𝘛𝘳𝘢𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘰𝘯 𝘈𝘳𝘵: 𝘊𝘶𝘭𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘢𝘭 𝘋𝘪𝘱𝘭𝘰𝘮𝘢𝘤𝘺 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘍𝘳𝘦𝘦 𝘛𝘳𝘢𝘥𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘕𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘩 𝘈𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘢 is now out in a free open access version and as a paperback. Spread the word! 📚Open Access: www.ubcpress.ca/asset/103563... ➡️Order paperback: www.ubcpress.ca/trading-on-art @ubcpress.bsky.social

My op-ed in today's @theglobeandmail.com, based on my book from @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

Fewer LGBTQ2S+ people hold positions of political power in Canada, and those who do represent a narrower range of political perspectives, according to research by @qalbaugh.bsky.social and @kebaisley.bsky.social.

Great to see @yasmeenabulaban.bsky.social at the @apsa.bsky.social meetings! Here, with her new book, coedited with @tungohan.bsky.social and @mireillepaquet.bsky.social. @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social is the proud publisher.

It takes strength to love. It takes courage to love. It takes patience and persistence to love. God grant us strength and courage. God grant us patience and persistence for the facing of this hour and for the living of these days.

New from @debthompsonphd.bsky.social in the Globe & Mail www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

Happy to report that 'In the Land of the Lacandón' is being used in classrooms this fall. We think this can be a great tool for instructors and had that in mind when we put it together. I've already gotten emails from very engaged and excited students! 🗃️🏺 #skystorians #academicsky

Signing a copy of his book for my son with all the time in the world, as though there weren’t a lineup of hundreds waiting. RIP, Ken Dryden. 💔

The “problem” with vaccines? They so effective at preventing deaths that they create generations of people that question whether disease was a problem in the first place because they have never experienced the horrors of a world without vaccines.

Cue Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9.

@drjessicariddell.bsky.social goes from amazing to amaZINGER! Soon to be inducted into the Royal Society of Canada, @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social is the publisher of her game-changing book. #EduSky, #AcademicSky, @ubishops.bsky.social

Who wouldn't be thrilled to have legendary Rt. Hon. Joe Clark endorsing this @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social book about SE Asian refugees and their immense contributions to Canada? 🤩

For the union makes us strong.

Darlings, a reminder: an editorial assistant will, in her first six months on the job, work on more books than you will publish in your lifetime. If she warns you that an image won’t reproduce well, or that [whatever] will cause delays, or that [thing] often ends up looking silly: believe her.

Félicitations à Yann Allard-Tremblay, membre de la Première Nation huronne-wendat, et chercheur du Centre de recherche en éthique, pour la parution de son livre chez Oxford University Press. academic.oup.com/book/60793?l...

My next weekend getaway!

PLEASE REPOST 🥺🙏 The Canadian Letters & Images Project is an online digital archive of Canadians’ experience during wartime at home & in battle. It contains thousands of personal letters & photos that reveal people’s experience through their own words & eyes. www.canadianletters.ca/content/abou...

Peter Biro's remarkable @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social volume has been cited, not once or twice, but THREE times by the Saskatchewan Court of Appeal in its recent ruling on preferred names and gender pronouns in schools. So proud to be making legal history! 🏳️‍🌈

www.cbc.ca/listen/live-... Professor develops a free, online course on Black Canadian history | Information Morning - NS | On Demand | CBC Listen

My French history students from the last couple years wanted to summer book club @richardivanjobs.bsky.social new graphic novel In the Land of Lacandon and LOVED it! Perfect for undergrad courses on colonialism, science, knowledge and power, mass media, and so much more! 10/10 highly recommend.

‘Nejma’: ‘Like many women during the time of colonization (Algeria by the French), Nejma was forced into being photographed by Marc Garanger in the 1960s, while she was interned in a ‘regroupement’ camp.’ (In my work) I wanted to give the women an opulent presence.’ - artist Alia Derouiche Cherif

Hey, as a librarian I need to tell you: Our funding depends on usage. So go ahead and check out that book even if you don't think you'll finish it. No one will know. Check out that DVD even though you might not like it. Get ambitious in your quest for knowledge.

Hear, hear!

The shores of Georgian Bay, following a dreamy Daniel Lanois concert.

Sharas Rita Letendre ~ Abenaki 1973

Butterfly bushes actually work, as well as being ravishingly pretty! I’ve been watching Monarchs flap around my backyard all morning.

Your semi-regular reminder that Winston Smith, in Orwell’s 1984, worked as a records editor for the Ministry of Truth, continuously rewriting the historical record to ensure that it matched the Party’s preferred version of events.

of our ancestors, and serves as a reminder that Black liberation is a continuing project, not limited to a single day. I discuss the history of Emancipation Day celebrations in Canada in my two books and examine slavery and freedom in Canada in several works.

What could be finer than anticipating tonight's concert with balladeer royalty at the Budweiser Stage? If you know, then you know.

This authoritarian thuggery has no place in Canadian politics. And it's no coincidence that the targets are women. Premier Smith must condemn this action immediately and call a public inquiry into the whole mess before this gets even worse. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

I spoke with the CBC's @aaronwherry.bsky.social about the need to revive national leaders' summits in Canada, based on my book from @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Hey @thestar.com has a massive Walking Toronto package coming out this weekend (some stories already up online). I contributed two walks for this list of Toronto walks (Bendale in Scarborough and Dupont). Check em all out.

Publication day for The Price of Gold with @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social is coming up quickly! You can now pre-order our forthcoming book on the history mining, pollution, and resistance at Giant Mine in #Yellowknife at fine retailers online (link below). www.toxiclegacies.com/project/the-...

The solitary time I line up two peer reviewers, as opposed to three, because "yah, we're good", my second reader goes AWOL. Scholars out there: we know life happens but for the love of all that's decent, do not ghost us (long-suffering) editors! 🤯 Rant concluded.

ACP condemns Alberta’s recent banning of "sexually explicit" books in school libraries, which disproportionately targets 2SLGBTQIA+ titles under the pretense of age-appropriateness. All students deserve to see themselves reflected in the stories they read. publishers.ca/alberta-scho...