David Tough
@davidtough.bsky.social
Historian of Politics and Inequality in 20th Century Canada • Books: _The Terrific Engine_ (UBC press), _Who Pays for Canada_ (co-ed w E.A. Heaman, MQUP) • Adjunct teaching History and Canadian Studies at Trent University • Grieving Dad to William
If I cite Frank Tough in something I write, should I specify that we are not related? (We necessarily share some ancestry, as it's an uncommon name that comes from a tiny village in Scotland.)
February 3, 2024 at 7:17 PM
If I cite Frank Tough in something I write, should I specify that we are not related? (We necessarily share some ancestry, as it's an uncommon name that comes from a tiny village in Scotland.)
Economists and public service people, does it make sense to say that Canada's Department of Finance deals with the economy as a whole macroeconomically while Treasury Board manages government expenditures microeconomically? Or is that too simplistic?
January 12, 2024 at 9:02 PM
Economists and public service people, does it make sense to say that Canada's Department of Finance deals with the economy as a whole macroeconomically while Treasury Board manages government expenditures microeconomically? Or is that too simplistic?
Re plagiarism, I'm pretty convinced by the argument that when your scholarly work is mostly relating what happened with a given statistical/computational model or even lab tests, it's very likely you will use the exact same wording as many other people doing the same work.
January 7, 2024 at 7:27 PM
Re plagiarism, I'm pretty convinced by the argument that when your scholarly work is mostly relating what happened with a given statistical/computational model or even lab tests, it's very likely you will use the exact same wording as many other people doing the same work.
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Any French historians know of a graduate student (ideally of the 18th C) who would like a chance to practice their paleography skills?
I’m looking for someone to help me with a little project—compensated of course!
Please share widely and feel free to reach out.
I’m looking for someone to help me with a little project—compensated of course!
Please share widely and feel free to reach out.
January 4, 2024 at 8:49 PM
Any French historians know of a graduate student (ideally of the 18th C) who would like a chance to practice their paleography skills?
I’m looking for someone to help me with a little project—compensated of course!
Please share widely and feel free to reach out.
I’m looking for someone to help me with a little project—compensated of course!
Please share widely and feel free to reach out.
It's an unavoidable occupational hazard, but the number of times I have Bobby Gimby's Expo67 song ("CA--NA--DAAA!") playing on a loop in my mind is ... a lot.
January 5, 2024 at 3:36 AM
It's an unavoidable occupational hazard, but the number of times I have Bobby Gimby's Expo67 song ("CA--NA--DAAA!") playing on a loop in my mind is ... a lot.
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I'm not 100% on this, but I think what people miss when they say historians should do counter-factuals and we don't, is that contingency - which historians do discuss - is a similar concept, bit much more open-ended and epistemologically rich.
January 3, 2024 at 5:18 PM
I'm not 100% on this, but I think what people miss when they say historians should do counter-factuals and we don't, is that contingency - which historians do discuss - is a similar concept, bit much more open-ended and epistemologically rich.
I'm not 100% on this, but I think what people miss when they say historians should do counter-factuals and we don't, is that contingency - which historians do discuss - is a similar concept, bit much more open-ended and epistemologically rich.
January 3, 2024 at 5:18 PM
I'm not 100% on this, but I think what people miss when they say historians should do counter-factuals and we don't, is that contingency - which historians do discuss - is a similar concept, bit much more open-ended and epistemologically rich.
Hey @kellyb.bsky.social TRU is hiring someone to do an open online BC history course. It's a paid position - your favourite! - and potentially fairly easy to adapt existing course content.
January 3, 2024 at 1:28 PM
Hey @kellyb.bsky.social TRU is hiring someone to do an open online BC history course. It's a paid position - your favourite! - and potentially fairly easy to adapt existing course content.
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I've been thinking lately about the Princes in the Tower, 12-year-old Edward V and his 9-year-old brother Richard, who were imprisoned in the Tower of London "for their protection" in 1483 and never heard from again, while their uncle Richard III took the throne.
December 24, 2023 at 2:32 AM
I've been thinking lately about the Princes in the Tower, 12-year-old Edward V and his 9-year-old brother Richard, who were imprisoned in the Tower of London "for their protection" in 1483 and never heard from again, while their uncle Richard III took the throne.
I've been thinking lately about the Princes in the Tower, 12-year-old Edward V and his 9-year-old brother Richard, who were imprisoned in the Tower of London "for their protection" in 1483 and never heard from again, while their uncle Richard III took the throne.
December 24, 2023 at 2:32 AM
I've been thinking lately about the Princes in the Tower, 12-year-old Edward V and his 9-year-old brother Richard, who were imprisoned in the Tower of London "for their protection" in 1483 and never heard from again, while their uncle Richard III took the throne.
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the most insidious thing that any politician or media or cruel, malicious stranger can convince you of is that there are people who are not people in the same way you are. and i want to bring them to my job and shake them and tell them look, look at this grief, tell me this person is not my people
the number one thing that my job has given me, that i wish i could forcibly give to everyone, is an understanding of the universality of grief and in turn the universality of humanity. there is no "type" of person i meet in a day, and once you understand that, there are no "types" of person at all
December 10, 2023 at 4:48 PM
the most insidious thing that any politician or media or cruel, malicious stranger can convince you of is that there are people who are not people in the same way you are. and i want to bring them to my job and shake them and tell them look, look at this grief, tell me this person is not my people
Does anyone know a grad student or underemployed historian in the Waterloo area who would want to do a small amount of paid archival research?
December 10, 2023 at 4:15 PM
Does anyone know a grad student or underemployed historian in the Waterloo area who would want to do a small amount of paid archival research?
Ok, here's a funny story from my youth (undergrad, so technically early adulthood) about Canadian History/Canadian Studies at Trent in the 90s. I was in my 3rd year, it was March, and we had to register for courses in person at the department office.
December 7, 2023 at 11:26 PM
Ok, here's a funny story from my youth (undergrad, so technically early adulthood) about Canadian History/Canadian Studies at Trent in the 90s. I was in my 3rd year, it was March, and we had to register for courses in person at the department office.
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December 6, 1989
École Polytechnique massacre
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
December 6, 2023 at 1:34 PM
December 6, 1989
École Polytechnique massacre
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
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The way politicians and pundits get ppl to care about "the economy" is so wild
I’m sure if we didn’t have to actually see people regularly BEGGING FOR THEIR LIVES via fundraising on social media we’d all feel better about the economy.
December 2, 2023 at 5:23 PM
The way politicians and pundits get ppl to care about "the economy" is so wild
It's often hard for students to see history as a narrative practice, rather than a set facts that books tell you happened; people can easily understand their present reality as lacking in inherent meaning, but historical eras and events feel inherently narrative because their shape is so familiar.
November 30, 2023 at 6:19 PM
It's often hard for students to see history as a narrative practice, rather than a set facts that books tell you happened; people can easily understand their present reality as lacking in inherent meaning, but historical eras and events feel inherently narrative because their shape is so familiar.
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An important statement by some of the leading Indigenous artists and thinkers on the impact of the AGO's probable firing of Wanda Nanibush and the false "Indigenization" efforts from Canada's major cultural institutions.
indiginations.wordpress.com/statement-of...
indiginations.wordpress.com/statement-of...
November 28, 2023 at 2:04 PM
An important statement by some of the leading Indigenous artists and thinkers on the impact of the AGO's probable firing of Wanda Nanibush and the false "Indigenization" efforts from Canada's major cultural institutions.
indiginations.wordpress.com/statement-of...
indiginations.wordpress.com/statement-of...
One of the realities of living in a consumer society, with easy access to credit, is that buying one commodity or another is rarely a stable referent for our class position. That's why we end up with weird freak outs about charcuterie boards and avocado toast that then just fizzle out.
November 28, 2023 at 5:31 PM
One of the realities of living in a consumer society, with easy access to credit, is that buying one commodity or another is rarely a stable referent for our class position. That's why we end up with weird freak outs about charcuterie boards and avocado toast that then just fizzle out.
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““Armed police raiding activists’ homes to execute warrants in the early morning is an egregious overreach,” said Irina Ceric, an assistant professor in the Faculty of Law at the University of Windsor. “It appears to be an attempt to intimidate and terrorize these activists.””
In stunning pre-dawn raids, Toronto police ‘terrorize’ Palestine activists ⋆ The Breach
After operation that policing expert say may have cost 'seven figures', Toronto police pursuing hate-crime charges against activists who postered Indigo
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November 24, 2023 at 9:37 PM
““Armed police raiding activists’ homes to execute warrants in the early morning is an egregious overreach,” said Irina Ceric, an assistant professor in the Faculty of Law at the University of Windsor. “It appears to be an attempt to intimidate and terrorize these activists.””
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Ingrid (oil) | Arthur Shilling (1941-1986) Anishinaabe
November 24, 2023 at 4:58 PM
Ingrid (oil) | Arthur Shilling (1941-1986) Anishinaabe
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Today on our site we have "Blood-Soaked Commodities: Nova Scotia Taxes and Caribbean Slavery, 1789-1824" by @stillots1.bsky.social
niche-canada.org/2023/11/24/b...
#envhist #econhist #cdnhist #slavery
niche-canada.org/2023/11/24/b...
#envhist #econhist #cdnhist #slavery
Blood-Soaked Commodities: Nova Scotia Taxes and Caribbean Slavery, 1789-1824
Absent the rich revenue from trade taxes on slave-made goods (and imported British manufactures), the colony of Nova Scotia would have been hard pressed to pay for the infrastructure essential to econ...
niche-canada.org
November 24, 2023 at 5:00 PM
Today on our site we have "Blood-Soaked Commodities: Nova Scotia Taxes and Caribbean Slavery, 1789-1824" by @stillots1.bsky.social
niche-canada.org/2023/11/24/b...
#envhist #econhist #cdnhist #slavery
niche-canada.org/2023/11/24/b...
#envhist #econhist #cdnhist #slavery
Ok, I have an archives question for #canadianhistory colleagues: I am researching the 1969 White Paper on Indian Policy and hoping to look at Sally Weaver's research notes. Both U of Waterloo and the Museum of History have her papers, but each one claims the other has the bulk of them.
November 23, 2023 at 10:58 PM
Ok, I have an archives question for #canadianhistory colleagues: I am researching the 1969 White Paper on Indian Policy and hoping to look at Sally Weaver's research notes. Both U of Waterloo and the Museum of History have her papers, but each one claims the other has the bulk of them.