“My own experience prescribing puberty blockers has demonstrated enormous psycho-social benefits in youth who feel a quiet desperation watching their bodies change in ways they can’t control […] A puberty blocker provides them with a pause […] with no effects on fertility, and is 100% reversible.”

40 years ago today the world was introduced to a small boy and his best friend. Happy birthday Calvin & Hobbes.

Museological equivalent of the Simpsons "Don't make me tap the sign" meme - from the 1990s effort to eliminate measles in BC #cdnhist www.historymuseum.ca/collections/...

This photo of rookie Yesavage casually walking off the mound as future Hall of Famer and helmet-less Ohtani is still in motion striking out is everything. #WantItAll

Coco wanted to remind you it’s important to check your sources, amplify the good stuff and to be kind to the humans around you. Keep going 🖤

A Brief History of Let’s Bring Back The Good Old Days 🧵

ATT: Ontario #Museum workers! With the downloading of heritage from regions to local levels, data is needed about the future capacity of Ontario museums to take on tens of thousands of deaccessioned artifacts & archival records. Please take this anonymous short survey lnkd.in/g9M3GA7K to help.

A Brief History of Men are Becoming Less Manly 🧵

The second is Fraser and @jdunkin.bsky.social's intro to their new @nichecanada.bsky.social on the #envhist of residential and day schools in Canada. Read "Environmental History and the Work of Truth and Reconciliation" - niche-canada.org/2025/09/30/e... #cdnhist #indigenoushistory #indigenous

WELCOME TO PANTS

Museums are a social tool for constructing values and disciplining populations, thereby shaping the present and future. Investments in public history at museums are almost always about a desired future. Good exhibits handle this with integrity and transparency.

The crux of their argument is that if they're found liable, then the consequences of their own actions that no one forced them to take could ruin them and the rest of their industry that undertakes similar practices. To which I say motherfucker did you never hear about Napster

Buried in the regime's political takeover letter of the Smithsonian is the worst bit. Unlike exhibits, which are non-destructive towards primary materials, temporary in nature, and reversible, the foundational collections are irreplacable. They want to be able to throw stuff out.

friend and I had drinks with her cousin and his 7yo kid in Marseille and he brought us to this pedestrian square that's basically lots of terraces with a playground in the middle so the adults can do lunch/drinks/dinner while keeping an eye on their playing kids and......why is this not everywhere

Furthest in each direction I've been in Canada: N: Little Gold Creek, Yukon E: Cape Spear, NL W: Little Gold Creek, Yukon S: Tillsonburg, ON

The NCC has thrived under Tobi. And reversed loads of ill will, recognized its role and done wonders with what it can; remaining challenges (official residences) need will/budget of feds

Look at all of the tragic collisions involving pedestrian and cyclists just this month. Sidewalks and bike lanes save lives and make mobility possible for people of all ages and income levels. They should not be optional depending on the whims of nearby residents.

During the election campaign, Mark Carney pledged to increase the CBC’s budget by $150 million dollars a year. Now that he’s in government, he’s telling the public broadcaster to find up to $198 million in annual cuts. He can’t claim to defend the country when he’s gutting its media and culture.

Holy fuck do I wish I had crafting supplies with me right now. www.kqed.org/arts/1397837...

He was the Greatest Canadian for a reason…

Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Wars, Star Trek, Lord of the Rings, or Marvel

My partner, an academic, gets man crushes on any blue collar worker he interacts with who patiently explains things he doesn’t know to him without shaming him and it’s adorable.

Who gets to determine what is “negative about either past or living Americans”? Seems like Indigenous perspectives are erased to appease a settler colonial mindset that cannot confront a violent colonial history in the shaping of the US west. This is why history matters

Reclaiming Alcatraz. Alcatraz Island, San Francisco Bay, California, USA, during the Indians of All Tribes 1969 reclamation. (unnamed). 📷 © Stephen Shames | Polaris

Lots of urban coyotes come here looking for wifi.

Often, the "bothsidesing" hides the fact it's been like this for a while. "Canadians who voted Conservative aren’t your enemies. They’re your neighbours. These are good people." Justin Trudeau Feb 22 2014 "The lefty radicals are also the dumbest people at your university." Erin O'Toole Dec 14 2020

he should have done the hip flip

Lukacs is right about Poilievre's love of Friedman. But L's description of the 1950s and the development of 🇨🇦's welfare state makes a common mistake. And it's a mistake that matters because it misleads how we think about ideas, politics, & policy change #cdnhist 🧵

The big mistake, in case you missed it, is seeing progress on your preferred policy agenda as having been continuous at some better time in the past. Precise chronology helps to identify what circumstances have put the wind at your back or helped out your opponents The struggle continues, slowly

Really shoots a hole through the argument of conservatives that hating trans people is all part of their God's plan.

If you're having a difficult day, have a read through of this article on the urgent question of whether the Bayeux Tapestry has 93 or 94 penises. And people say history is boring. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

This is terrible. The Heritage Village has over three dozen buildings that have been restored to their early 20th century appearance. So much history in danger of being lost forever. Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Village on fire east of Edmonton globalnews.ca/news/1113964...

Federal election postponed until all Canadian teams eliminated from playoffs

Time to dig out the old adage about events, the past and rhyming....... www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

That is what I take to be the lesson of history for today's politics Fight for projects we care about now. Our history, honestly understood, won't help. The history of the national question in Canada is utterly fascinating and it's really not a source of unity.

A Brief History of Kids Today Are Lazy 🧵

Happy Trans Day of Visibility to all you wonderful lovely people! 🏳️‍⚧️ Thank you for sharing as much of yourselves as you are comfortable sharing; all our lives are richer for it ❤️

Today is Trans Day of Visibility. As one of Canada's most visible trans activists, my thoughts are simple: Advocating for your community shouldn't come at such a steep price. But any price is worth paying to build a better world for future generations of trans people.

To implement this, in any real way, here’s what a CPC gov’t would have to do: - cancel GBA+ analysis (in place since 90’s, yes through Harper) - fire all Status of Women employees - direct that any DEI objectives be scrubbed from exec performance evaluations 🧵

If Canada survives another 100 years, Manitoba's moment with Wab Kinew will feature as prominently in the history books as a bunch of other things happening right now.

Schrödinger's archival file is both totally irrelevant and essential to your research process until you open it. Take lunch and enjoy the frisson of possibility for another 20 minutes.

Boots, Not Suits sounds like the name of an Alan Jackson album

did we ever hold the person who came up with the term "biweekly" accountable for their crimes, or are they still walking around oblivious to the chaos they set upon the world

"Whenever I hear any one arguing for slavery I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally." - Lincoln (March 17, 1865)

Best Jersey ever. #Canpoli #Canada #Hockey