Matthew Hayday
@mhayday.bsky.social
University of Guelph Canadian History Professor and Department Chair, Chocolatier, Inexpert Gardener.
I’ve written about the 1979 budget vote (my book MS is currently in peer review) and so feel compelled to watch tonight’s vote live. But I am not willing to jinx it by disclosing my guess as to what will happen.
November 17, 2025 at 11:33 PM
I’ve written about the 1979 budget vote (my book MS is currently in peer review) and so feel compelled to watch tonight’s vote live. But I am not willing to jinx it by disclosing my guess as to what will happen.
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Another Canadian/Quebec history job posting, this one at UQAM - its been a couple decades since I've seen 6 tenure-track job postings in Cdn history all at once. Very happy to see this.
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November 17, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Another Canadian/Quebec history job posting, this one at UQAM - its been a couple decades since I've seen 6 tenure-track job postings in Cdn history all at once. Very happy to see this.
universityaffairs.ca/search-job/?...
universityaffairs.ca/search-job/?...
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It occurs to me now that the discipline of history was not born out of reverence for the past, but rather out of somebody watching the people in charge make the most insane decisions and just being like “if I don’t write this down nobody’s ever gonna believe any of it happened”
November 16, 2025 at 3:10 PM
It occurs to me now that the discipline of history was not born out of reverence for the past, but rather out of somebody watching the people in charge make the most insane decisions and just being like “if I don’t write this down nobody’s ever gonna believe any of it happened”
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“Our research in our book ’No ‘I’ in Team: Party Loyalty in Canadian Politics’ points to a simple, powerful answer: hyper-partisanship has evolved from traditional ‘party discipline’ (voting together) into ‘message discipline’ (speaking together).”
Three experts write. #abpoli #canpoli
Three experts write. #abpoli #canpoli
Party Discipline Is Undermining Canadian Democracy | The Tyee
Alberta’s bill ordering teachers back to work is a prime example, say authors of a new book.
thetyee.ca
November 13, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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"Historical analysis is fundamentally different and more complex than producing a mass of visualizations and statistics that are the lifeblood of many A.I. programmes."
Gordon McKelvie @gordonmckelvie.bsky.social on the problematic use of A.I. within historical research.
Gordon McKelvie @gordonmckelvie.bsky.social on the problematic use of A.I. within historical research.
Artificial Intelligence: A Warning for History
Does A.I. have the potential to simplify, and ultimately impoverish, our study of the past? Gordon McKelvie considers the recent explosion in A.I. and what it means for historians facing the current H...
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November 11, 2025 at 12:45 PM
"Historical analysis is fundamentally different and more complex than producing a mass of visualizations and statistics that are the lifeblood of many A.I. programmes."
Gordon McKelvie @gordonmckelvie.bsky.social on the problematic use of A.I. within historical research.
Gordon McKelvie @gordonmckelvie.bsky.social on the problematic use of A.I. within historical research.
I'm cited in this piece in the Toronto Star today about the spread of generative AI, the challenges it poses for historians & history education, and the need for digital literacy.
www.thestar.com/news/how-fak...
www.thestar.com/news/how-fak...
How fake AI history is threatening Remembrance Day — with endless YouTube videos glamorizing Nazis
A search for any historical topic is sure to be met with a torrent of fake AI-generated garbage — at real cost to our history.
www.thestar.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:15 PM
I'm cited in this piece in the Toronto Star today about the spread of generative AI, the challenges it poses for historians & history education, and the need for digital literacy.
www.thestar.com/news/how-fak...
www.thestar.com/news/how-fak...
On Remembrance Day, I always think of my two grandfathers, Charles Herbener (centre of left pic) and Ronald Hayday (named in the certificate) who served in the RAF and the Royal Navy during the Second World War.
Fighting fascism & the Nazis was necessary then, and it's necessary now.
Fighting fascism & the Nazis was necessary then, and it's necessary now.
November 11, 2025 at 1:27 PM
On Remembrance Day, I always think of my two grandfathers, Charles Herbener (centre of left pic) and Ronald Hayday (named in the certificate) who served in the RAF and the Royal Navy during the Second World War.
Fighting fascism & the Nazis was necessary then, and it's necessary now.
Fighting fascism & the Nazis was necessary then, and it's necessary now.
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Time to bring back these t-shirts:
www.historymuseum.ca/collections/...
www.historymuseum.ca/collections/...
November 10, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Time to bring back these t-shirts:
www.historymuseum.ca/collections/...
www.historymuseum.ca/collections/...
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From the vaults: 45 years ago today, voters cast their ballots in one of the ugliest municipal elections in Toronto history, which involved a lot (and I mean a lot) of homophobia.
Here's my TVO @tvotoday.bsky.social story about the 1980 campaign.
#TOHistory #TOpoli
www.tvo.org/article/how-...
Here's my TVO @tvotoday.bsky.social story about the 1980 campaign.
#TOHistory #TOpoli
www.tvo.org/article/how-...
November 10, 2025 at 4:52 PM
From the vaults: 45 years ago today, voters cast their ballots in one of the ugliest municipal elections in Toronto history, which involved a lot (and I mean a lot) of homophobia.
Here's my TVO @tvotoday.bsky.social story about the 1980 campaign.
#TOHistory #TOpoli
www.tvo.org/article/how-...
Here's my TVO @tvotoday.bsky.social story about the 1980 campaign.
#TOHistory #TOpoli
www.tvo.org/article/how-...
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This Saturday, the Guelph Museums is hosting a Liberation and Remembrance Symposium to mark the 80th anniversary of the end of the War and the liberation of Europe.
I'm speaking on the RCAF and other speakers include Roger Sarty, Geoff Hayes, and Alex Souchen.
guelphmuseums.ca/event/libera...
I'm speaking on the RCAF and other speakers include Roger Sarty, Geoff Hayes, and Alex Souchen.
guelphmuseums.ca/event/libera...
Liberation and Remembrance Symposium - Guelph Museums
This year marks 80 years since the end of the Second World War and the liberation of Europe. Eight decades later we reflect on Canada’s contributions to the war effort,…
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November 10, 2025 at 4:39 PM
This Saturday, the Guelph Museums is hosting a Liberation and Remembrance Symposium to mark the 80th anniversary of the end of the War and the liberation of Europe.
I'm speaking on the RCAF and other speakers include Roger Sarty, Geoff Hayes, and Alex Souchen.
guelphmuseums.ca/event/libera...
I'm speaking on the RCAF and other speakers include Roger Sarty, Geoff Hayes, and Alex Souchen.
guelphmuseums.ca/event/libera...
If Bryan Adams released a time-adjusted “Summer of ‘69” this year, it would be “Summer of 2010”.
November 8, 2025 at 10:38 PM
If Bryan Adams released a time-adjusted “Summer of ‘69” this year, it would be “Summer of 2010”.
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While researching my current column, I had trouble finding something PM Carney said in a speech in either Factiva or Google, so I tried asking ChatGPT-5 to search for it. This was its internal response.
It hallucinates in basic searches. It can't write truth. It can't copyedit. What is it good for?
It hallucinates in basic searches. It can't write truth. It can't copyedit. What is it good for?
November 7, 2025 at 1:42 PM
While researching my current column, I had trouble finding something PM Carney said in a speech in either Factiva or Google, so I tried asking ChatGPT-5 to search for it. This was its internal response.
It hallucinates in basic searches. It can't write truth. It can't copyedit. What is it good for?
It hallucinates in basic searches. It can't write truth. It can't copyedit. What is it good for?
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Royal Agricultural Winter Fair is almost here! An exhibit of cookbooks from the @uofguelph.bsky.social collection will be on display w/ info about the @uguelphhist.bsky.social Food History course & I’ll be speaking about Cdn food history on the Growth Hub Stage! news.uoguelph.ca/2025/11/cana...
Canada’s Food University at Royal Agricultural Winter Fair
The University of Guelph will attend 103rd Royal Agricultural Winter Fair, showcasing full continuum of agri-food activities invigorating Canadian food.
news.uoguelph.ca
November 5, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Royal Agricultural Winter Fair is almost here! An exhibit of cookbooks from the @uofguelph.bsky.social collection will be on display w/ info about the @uguelphhist.bsky.social Food History course & I’ll be speaking about Cdn food history on the Growth Hub Stage! news.uoguelph.ca/2025/11/cana...
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Random performative cuts to aid will only hurt Canada globally when we need new friends and diversified trade. Short term thinking remains the problem.
I don’t object to cuts to Canada’s international spending per se
I object to the capricious, callous and dismissive way it’s being done
I get this is feminized, wooly stuff. Not like hard, tangible economics, or hanging out with private equity talking billion dollar deals
I object to the capricious, callous and dismissive way it’s being done
I get this is feminized, wooly stuff. Not like hard, tangible economics, or hanging out with private equity talking billion dollar deals
November 5, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Random performative cuts to aid will only hurt Canada globally when we need new friends and diversified trade. Short term thinking remains the problem.
1. I'm very familiar with the 1979 budget vote that toppled Joe Clark's government, but the dynamics are different with Carney's budget. Clark needed opposition support or MPs from more than one party to suffer "budget flu". If the NDP abstains and all the Libs show up, Carney's fine.
November 4, 2025 at 4:35 PM
1. I'm very familiar with the 1979 budget vote that toppled Joe Clark's government, but the dynamics are different with Carney's budget. Clark needed opposition support or MPs from more than one party to suffer "budget flu". If the NDP abstains and all the Libs show up, Carney's fine.
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Here @picardonhealth.bsky.social rightfully takes on Parliament’s attacks on academic research in Canada.
November 4, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Here @picardonhealth.bsky.social rightfully takes on Parliament’s attacks on academic research in Canada.
Exciting news - Robert Munsch has donated his archives to the Guelph Public Library! I had just asked a colleague last week whether his papers had been donated anywhere - delighted to learn that they'll be staying here in Guelph! www.guelphpl.ca/Modules/News...
Robert Munsch donates his archives to Guelph Public Library
Robert Munsch donates his archives to Guelph Public Library
www.guelphpl.ca
November 3, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Exciting news - Robert Munsch has donated his archives to the Guelph Public Library! I had just asked a colleague last week whether his papers had been donated anywhere - delighted to learn that they'll be staying here in Guelph! www.guelphpl.ca/Modules/News...
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New piece up @ca.theconversation.com: TL;DR, Canada needs to be strategic and diplomatic, but it cannot keep caving to a bully's version of the truth. theconversation.com/mark-carneys...
Mark Carney’s apology to Donald Trump: Far from ‘elbows up,’ it seems Canada has no elbows at all
An Ontario ad on Ronald Reagan’s support of free trade may have been an unnecessary risk. But Mark Carney’s apology to Donald Trump was an unnecessary own-goal.
theconversation.com
November 3, 2025 at 3:03 PM
New piece up @ca.theconversation.com: TL;DR, Canada needs to be strategic and diplomatic, but it cannot keep caving to a bully's version of the truth. theconversation.com/mark-carneys...
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The gloves come off! 🥊🥊
One of the most common debates in our comments is about how our experts sometimes handle collection materials without those iconic white cotton gloves.
Find out why gloves aren’t always necessary here: https://thediscoverblog.com/2019/04/05/the-gloves-come-off/
November 3, 2025 at 1:01 PM
The gloves come off! 🥊🥊
One of the most common debates in our comments is about how our experts sometimes handle collection materials without those iconic white cotton gloves.
Find out why gloves aren’t always necessary here: https://thediscoverblog.com/2019/04/05/the-gloves-come-off/
Baking macarons helps me feel a bit better in a scary world. Now I just need to fill these shells.
November 2, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Baking macarons helps me feel a bit better in a scary world. Now I just need to fill these shells.
I’m just saying, there is a killer opportunity for a meme-able single for the artist who records “Spring Forward”.
I think it should have a dance-able beat!
I think it should have a dance-able beat!
November 2, 2025 at 2:04 PM
I’m just saying, there is a killer opportunity for a meme-able single for the artist who records “Spring Forward”.
I think it should have a dance-able beat!
I think it should have a dance-able beat!
This brings to mind thoughts of episode 2, season 2 of The Good Place. If you know, you know...
If Canadian PM Carney manages a “reset” with China, it will be the fifth reset in 20 years under three Prime Ministers. Two of those resets have required their own reset, by the same PM, after they went south. Heavy lies the hand on the China Reset button
www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
Opinion: Carney wants a China ‘reset.’ May he avoid the mistakes of the previous four
To be sure, the Prime Minister has good reasons to attempt this century’s fifth reset
www.theglobeandmail.com
October 31, 2025 at 8:17 PM
This brings to mind thoughts of episode 2, season 2 of The Good Place. If you know, you know...
Excited to pick up my copy of Ed Conroy’s “ImagiNation: The Golden Age of Toronto Kids’ TV” today. Ed runs the popular Retrontario YouTube channel and gave a great presentation to our Between Postwar and Present Day Canada conference a few years back.
October 31, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Excited to pick up my copy of Ed Conroy’s “ImagiNation: The Golden Age of Toronto Kids’ TV” today. Ed runs the popular Retrontario YouTube channel and gave a great presentation to our Between Postwar and Present Day Canada conference a few years back.
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This is some psychotic, McCarthy-esque bullshit.
The Canadian Parliamentary Standing Committee on Science and Research is launching a US-style attack on EDI in Tri-Council funding.
As part of this attack, they are demanding disclosure of confidential demographic info + reviewer comments of all Canadian researchers who have applied b/w 2000-2025.
As part of this attack, they are demanding disclosure of confidential demographic info + reviewer comments of all Canadian researchers who have applied b/w 2000-2025.
October 31, 2025 at 3:09 PM
This is some psychotic, McCarthy-esque bullshit.