I wish KWL charts and exit tickets had never been created.

Please no double play

Elbows up?

“And I would like to be able to love my country all while loving justice. I don’t want just any greatness for my country if such is to come from blood and falsehood. It’s through upholding justice that I want my country to flourish.” You said to me, “Well, you don’t love your country.”

Our beloved cat Rosa died in May at the age of 22. We dearly miss her and don’t want to get another cat. Luckily we have a neighbourhood cat named Simon who loves to come over and hang out for a few hours a day, including snuggle time.

RIP Tim Cook. A huge loss for the Canadian history community. Undoubtedly the best Canadian military historian of his generation. He was also an incredibly kind and generous person, who was encouraging to me in the early part of my academic career. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

The US government is at war with the American people.

Now do his mental age

I am the consummate car guy. I dedicated my life to creating and adoring them. But I have also learned that life is better when you don’t need one. I’d rather take the bike and/or the train and I love living in a walkable city. It’s not about “taking away your car”, it’s about giving you a choice.

Cannot wait for the #BetaBand in Vancouver on Sunday night. Tour sounds like a triumph so far. louderthanwar.com/the-beta-ban...

Next up after the Chretien/Harper debate. Arthur Meighen vs Mackenzie King

Residential schools denialism has consequences. The deplorable LS shamelessly uses her pregnancy and young children to elicit sympathy while denying the harms that Indigenous children experienced. "More to come" suggests that she's currently strategizing about how to turn this into a grift.

This dude represents all of us who watched this shitshow.

I’m heartened by the fact that even high ranking military officials including the hawkish ones don’t appear to like Trump or Cringey Pete

My 5th year BEd students were talking about learning resources for teaching about Residential Schools and one student brought up Gord Downie and the Chanie Wenjack resources. I was amazed that only one student knew about Gord Downie or the Tragically Hip. I'm officially old.

In her interminable quest for attention, Lindsay Shepherd continues to be a blight on Canadian society and espouse vile, malicious views, in this case residential schools denialism. She should be fired. Free speech does not equal speech without consequences. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Nice to see the Americans getting absolutely smoked by the Europeans in the #RyderCup. American exceptionalism indeed. Exceptionally terrible performance.

Someone needs to tell Trump that ordering the removal of a monument doesn't erase history. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

Heavy sack beatings will continue until morale improves.

The "ultimate" symbol of the complete and utter degradation of the Presidency and the White House.

“I’m gonna be honest with you. Once you use ChatGPT, you don’t want to think for yourself anymore.”

"Now, I began to see, while the pen might be mightier than the sword, the wallet is mightier than the pen."

This essay is yet another example of a historian writing about historical thinking (or what they call historical sensibility) as if it's a new idea, while ignoring 50+ years of scholarly literature in history education focused on conceptualizing and theorizing historical thinking.

Canadian Liberal MPs give a standing ovation to Charlie Kirk in the House of Commons, while MP Vince Gasparro uses false and malicious claims to ban a band for opposing the ongoing genocide in Gaza. x.com/vgasparro/st...

Expo 86 trivia time. The U.S. pavilion focused on their space program, but the Space Shuttle Challenger exploded less than four months before Expo began The USSR's pavilion celebrated their nuclear industry, but the Chernobyl nuclear disaster occurred less than a week before Expo began.

"The really frightening thing about totalitarianism is not that it commits atrocities but that it attacks the concept of objective truth: it claims to control the past as well as the future."

Classic west coast moment. Eating candied salmon on the sandstone shores of Galiano Island overlooking the Salish Sea.

The 5th most popular article on CBC.ca couldn't be more wrong about what the inscriptions on the bullet casings mean and give the impression that Robinson was from the left. www.cbc.ca/news/world/c...

It’s dangerous for the federal government to keep stepping into labour disputes and impose settlements on workers that force them back to work. Why would companies negotiate in good faith if they know the government will just impose workers back to work?

Glad to hear #AirCanada flight attendants are refusing the back-to-work order and remain on strike after the federal government ordered binding arbitration to end the work stoppage. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Air Canada should get extra pilots to work as flight attendants so they don’t have to cancel flights.

“Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.” ― Voltaire

Today is Emancipation Day in Canada, across the Caribbean, and other regions - marking the day slavery was abolished in the British Empire. My book, The Book of Possibilities, has been featured on a few Emancipation Day reading lists, and I'm grateful! Lemme tell y'all a bit about the day:

One of the surprising things about the peer review process for many education journals is how few journals provide descriptive and justifiable criteria for a quality academic article. The end result is that reviewers are left to define their own criteria, which leads to inconsistent reviews.

Calls for public grocers are gaining traction in North America—but where did the idea come from? Nick Pearce makes the case for social democratic "zones" in Issue no. 3 of Perspectives Journal: perspectivesjournal.ca/zoning-out-f...

McDonald's in Canada going with the Axis of Flavour in these perilous times seems incredibly historically ignorant.

Theocratic fascism

Remember your homeland’s heritage upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/co...

Here's a link to a short 2000-word open-source article about historical thinking I co-wrote with Carla L. Peck, James Miles, and Catherine Duquette. Historical thinking: Trends, critiques, and future directions doi.org/10.1016/j.co...

Four orcas pass by the beach we go to on Galiano island. First time in three years I’ve seen orcas there. Awe-inspiring.

Maybe this will convince the climate change denier in your life

HERJ has a new #CallForPapers: 'Truth-telling in history education: Truth and justice in a ‘post-truth’ era'. For more information, including how to contribute, read the full call here: journals.uclpress.co.uk/herj/news/25/ Articles will publish #OpenAccess and without APC

HERJ has a new #CallForPapers on Narrative Competence, History & Responsibility. For more information, including how to contribute, read the full call here: journals.uclpress.co.uk/herj/news/25/ Articles will publish #OpenAccess and without APC

Up is down, down is up. “McMahon said her department will give the state ten days to sign an agreement rescinding its Native American mascot ban and apologizing to Native Americans for having discriminated against them and attempted to “erase” their history.”

"The job of the US Armed Forces is not hosting drag shows to transform foreign cultures, but to spread democracy to everybody around the world at the point of a gun."

The Thinking Historically for Canada’s Future Mini Update took place last week. For details on project work and presentations, visit the website here: thinking-historically.ca/annual-gener... @carlapeck.bsky.social @lsgibson.bsky.social @ualbertaed.bsky.social

La mise à jour « Penser historiquement pour l’avenir du Canada » a eu lieu la semaine dernière. Pour plus de détails sur les projets et les présentations, visitez le site web ici: thinking-historically.ca/fr/assemblee... @carlapeck.bsky.social @lsgibson.bsky.social @ualbertaed.bsky.social

Hamilton. Straight out of the 1960s

This interview reveals the need for public service announcements that explain the meaning of bias, impartiality, neutrality, and objectivity.

Baby arbutus tree seeds I planted in the fall are popping up.