sample letter from the Calgary Board of Education

Economic nationalism, just colonialism? Carney's "One Canadian Economy" claims it'll uphold UNDRIP/"Indigenous rights" (no mention of treaties) and expedite big development projects "with a focus on “how” the project will be built as opposed to “whether” it can be." Hmm www.canada.ca/en/intergove...

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We decided to go the non-traditional route and have a "conversational" book launch! If you're in Fredericton on June 16th join us at the public library to hear us discuss "Debt, Destruction, and Development" from a political science and historical perspective. All are welcome!!

When we feel like we have to strategically vote we have to think seriously about electoral reform. The Conservative Party may have lost yesterday, but progressive politics lost as well

I gotta say it was nice be present yesterday when the President of #UNB publicly announced the university's commitment to inclusive and diverse excellence and addressing anti-Black racism when he signed the #ScarboroughCharter

Happy #BlackHistoryMonth everyone! The Department of Historical Studies at UNB will host its 9th annual lecture by #CanadaResearchChair Claudine Bonner speaking about love and #Africville - A free public lecture!

Just ordered these books a few days ago, and arrived today! From an awesome co-op bookstore @kingsbookstore.bsky.social in Halifax that has a $5 Canada-wide shipping flat rate. The cool sticker was a bonus, thank you 😊

hello #historians and anyone in near or around #Fredericton interested in Canada Research Chair Dr. Claudine Bonner's Black History Month Lecture "Addendum to a love letter: Narratives from Africville"- Dr. Bonner's talk will be at the Public Archives of NB from 5-7pm. Open to the public!

Page proofs! The Debt of Nation looks at the #history of Canada's public debt and examines the relationship between #capitalism and #imperialism. It shows how Canada's public debt has been central to the appropriation of the territories of Indigenous nations. June 2025 release date/ open access!

As a way to try to read more fiction, I kept a list of fiction I’ve read for 2024! I chose books based on my mood, and some were recommendations. If I have to pick a favourite read of 2024 it’s Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro, really, though I really liked most of these books on this list!

Just a reminder: Racialized people should not have to constantly prove their humanity to their white colleagues. The Turing Testing around here is dystopian.

Are you interested in critiques of EDI at PWIs? In community-building as decolonial praxis? @mercedespeters.bsky.social , Rachel Bryant, and I co-authored an article in Settler Colonial Studies that addresses these issues and more!

John Stuart Mill has got to be top three worst handwriters I've ever encountered -A 1859 letter on the Reform Question. LSE Archive.

We're hiring! Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Intimate Partner Violence Responses at the University of New Brunswick (Fredericton). Review of applications will commence 1st January, 2025. Please share widely!

Guess what? Canada was one of the earliest British settler colonies to have its public debt issued as securities on the London Stock Exchange (1837) The credit to borrow to pay for colonisation derived from claiming Indigenous territories as assets. (G.Library, Course of the Exchange 1857)