Jill CM
@jillcm.bsky.social
She/her. Public servant and historian, from Unama’ki/Cape Breton.
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“The magic happens when a city’s bike network is expansive enough to safely accommodate the bulk of trips. At that point, a wide range of residents may consider using a bike as their primary means of transportation, perhaps ditching their car completely”
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Why the Best Bike Lanes Always Get Blamed
A standoff over cycling infrastructure and traffic congestion in Toronto shows why building protected bike lanes on essential corridors draws controversy along with riders.
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July 15, 2025 at 5:41 PM
“The magic happens when a city’s bike network is expansive enough to safely accommodate the bulk of trips. At that point, a wide range of residents may consider using a bike as their primary means of transportation, perhaps ditching their car completely”
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From @acoyne.bsky.social "There is no “win-win,” as in most negotiations. There is only a problem to be managed, a matter of stalling for time and presenting as small a target as possible, until Mr. Trump grows too old or enfeebled to menace us further."
Opinion: Hard line? Soft line? There may be no way of dealing with Trump that works
Carney is being accused of hypocrisy, having promised to stand up to the President on the campaign trail only to offer a series of concessions in office
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July 16, 2025 at 12:00 PM
From @acoyne.bsky.social "There is no “win-win,” as in most negotiations. There is only a problem to be managed, a matter of stalling for time and presenting as small a target as possible, until Mr. Trump grows too old or enfeebled to menace us further."
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Impact of 2 decades of USAID interventions & projection of effects of defunding on mortality up to 2030: retrospective & forecasting analysis in @thelancet.com : www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... / @aidhistory.bsky.social @francoisaudet.bsky.social @jillcm.bsky.social @dwebster.bsky.social
Evaluating the impact of two decades of USAID interventions and projecting the effects of defunding on mortality up to 2030: a retrospective impact evaluation and forecasting analysis
USAID funding has significantly contributed to the reduction in adult and child mortality
across low-income and middle-income countries over the past two decades. Our estimates
show that, unless the a...
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July 8, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Impact of 2 decades of USAID interventions & projection of effects of defunding on mortality up to 2030: retrospective & forecasting analysis in @thelancet.com : www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... / @aidhistory.bsky.social @francoisaudet.bsky.social @jillcm.bsky.social @dwebster.bsky.social
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Strong mayor powers, budget plans, Morris Street bike lane: What’s on the agenda for Halifax regional council
Story by me
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Story by me
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Strong mayor powers, budget plans, Morris Street bike lane: What's on the agenda for Halifax regional council - Halifax Examiner
Council meets on Tuesday.
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July 4, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Strong mayor powers, budget plans, Morris Street bike lane: What’s on the agenda for Halifax regional council
Story by me
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Story by me
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@halifaxexaminer.ca Route #4 to Lacewood earlier today. #ExaminerBus
June 25, 2025 at 7:50 PM
@halifaxexaminer.ca Route #4 to Lacewood earlier today. #ExaminerBus
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To all @activehist.bsky.social readers interested in this topic, please consider attending the CNHH event on June 25, virtually or in person @carleton.ca : "Tracing the History of Indigenous Women’s Internationalism: An Afternoon with Dr @jonathancrossen.bsky.social " carleton.ca/history/cu-e...
June 12, 2025 at 4:32 PM
To all @activehist.bsky.social readers interested in this topic, please consider attending the CNHH event on June 25, virtually or in person @carleton.ca : "Tracing the History of Indigenous Women’s Internationalism: An Afternoon with Dr @jonathancrossen.bsky.social " carleton.ca/history/cu-e...
Thanks for this response to my previous @activehist.bsky.social post from Jody Mason. I appreciated learning more about the connections between critiques of development and Indigenous activism in Canada.
In today’s post, Jody Mason reflects on Indigenous thought, developmentalism, and lament in response to Jill Campbell-Miller’s previous piece on the closure of USAID.
Against Lament: Developmentalism and Fourth-World Perspectives
Jody Mason “CUSO Volunteer Wants More Indians to Go Overseas,” CUSO / SUCO Bulletin, Dec. 1968, p. 9, Vol. 103, file 2, “CUSO Bulletin, 1967–1971,” Canadian University Students Overseas fonds, Libr…
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June 12, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Thanks for this response to my previous @activehist.bsky.social post from Jody Mason. I appreciated learning more about the connections between critiques of development and Indigenous activism in Canada.
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In today’s post Edward Dunsworth explores and critiques the use of AI in scholarship, academia, and the classroom.
Read it here: activehistory.ca/blog/2025/06...
Read it here: activehistory.ca/blog/2025/06...
June 11, 2025 at 5:28 PM
In today’s post Edward Dunsworth explores and critiques the use of AI in scholarship, academia, and the classroom.
Read it here: activehistory.ca/blog/2025/06...
Read it here: activehistory.ca/blog/2025/06...
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New @aidhistory.bsky.social blog: "State Funding for the Non-Profit Sector" by Dominique Clément, about the new database which lists grants to non-government organizations (NGOs) in Canada since the 1960s. aidhistory.ca/state-fundin... / @cndhistassoc.bsky.social @insidephilanthropy.com
June 9, 2025 at 8:34 PM
New @aidhistory.bsky.social blog: "State Funding for the Non-Profit Sector" by Dominique Clément, about the new database which lists grants to non-government organizations (NGOs) in Canada since the 1960s. aidhistory.ca/state-fundin... / @cndhistassoc.bsky.social @insidephilanthropy.com
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Google and Meta search both report that Cape Breton Island has its own time zone 12 minutes ahead of mainland Nova Scotia time because they are both drawing that information from a Beaverton article I wrote in 2024
June 10, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Google and Meta search both report that Cape Breton Island has its own time zone 12 minutes ahead of mainland Nova Scotia time because they are both drawing that information from a Beaverton article I wrote in 2024
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Tracing the History of Indigenous Women’s Internationalism
An Afternoon with Dr Jonathan Crossen
Wednesday June 25 from 1:00 to 3:00
Lounge of the Department of History of Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada, Paterson Hall 433
An Afternoon with Dr Jonathan Crossen
Wednesday June 25 from 1:00 to 3:00
Lounge of the Department of History of Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada, Paterson Hall 433
May 23, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Tracing the History of Indigenous Women’s Internationalism
An Afternoon with Dr Jonathan Crossen
Wednesday June 25 from 1:00 to 3:00
Lounge of the Department of History of Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada, Paterson Hall 433
An Afternoon with Dr Jonathan Crossen
Wednesday June 25 from 1:00 to 3:00
Lounge of the Department of History of Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada, Paterson Hall 433
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In today’s post James Cairns discusses his new book and explores thinking historically and using historical imagination to understand the present as history.
The Open History of Crisis
James Cairns “It is exceptionally difficult to grasp the present as history.”[1] Thus begins David McNally’s book on the 2008-09 financial crisis. In everyday usage, the present means now, this ins…
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April 17, 2025 at 2:05 PM
In today’s post James Cairns discusses his new book and explores thinking historically and using historical imagination to understand the present as history.
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Do not normalize children dying from measles. Measles was previously eliminated in the US, thanks to vaccines.
When children die from measles, it means that adults have catastrophically failed to protect them because they have rejected basic science.
When children die from measles, it means that adults have catastrophically failed to protect them because they have rejected basic science.
April 7, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Do not normalize children dying from measles. Measles was previously eliminated in the US, thanks to vaccines.
When children die from measles, it means that adults have catastrophically failed to protect them because they have rejected basic science.
When children die from measles, it means that adults have catastrophically failed to protect them because they have rejected basic science.
Let’s be proudly Canadian…by mimicking Trump’s worst and most inhumane foreign policy measures?
Pierre Poilievre is promising to do for Canadian foreign aid what Donald Trump did for USAID. www.bugeyedandshameless.com/p/pierre-poi...
Pierre Poilievre Wants to Slash Canadian Foreign Aid
A post-USAID world is set to be dangerous and dominated by China. Poilievre wants to make things worse.
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April 7, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Let’s be proudly Canadian…by mimicking Trump’s worst and most inhumane foreign policy measures?
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Pierre Poilievre is promising to do for Canadian foreign aid what Donald Trump did for USAID. www.bugeyedandshameless.com/p/pierre-poi...
Pierre Poilievre Wants to Slash Canadian Foreign Aid
A post-USAID world is set to be dangerous and dominated by China. Poilievre wants to make things worse.
www.bugeyedandshameless.com
April 6, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Pierre Poilievre is promising to do for Canadian foreign aid what Donald Trump did for USAID. www.bugeyedandshameless.com/p/pierre-poi...
I once had the opportunity to look through health statistics of Nova Scotia prior to the adoption of the measles vaccine and let me tell you, it was bleak. If you’re not sure if your child completed their series, call your doctor. If you’re travelling, call public health - you may need to get one.
March 14, 2025 at 12:42 PM
I once had the opportunity to look through health statistics of Nova Scotia prior to the adoption of the measles vaccine and let me tell you, it was bleak. If you’re not sure if your child completed their series, call your doctor. If you’re travelling, call public health - you may need to get one.
On this day in 1920, James Doohan was born in Vancouver.
He became famous for playing Scotty on Star Trek, but before he was chief engineer on a starship he was fighting for Canada in the Second World War.
Let's learn more about that time of his life!
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He became famous for playing Scotty on Star Trek, but before he was chief engineer on a starship he was fighting for Canada in the Second World War.
Let's learn more about that time of his life!
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March 3, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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Do you know an excellent post-secondary instructor? Are you an excellent post-secondary instructor? Nominations for the 2025 CHA Teaching Awards are now open! Deadline: March 28, 2025. #cdnhist #prize #teaching cha-shc.ca/teachers-lea...
CHA Teaching Awards | Canadian Historical Association | Société historique du Canada
The Teaching and Learning Committee on the CHA Council is pleased to announce the launch of the 2025 CHA Teaching Awards. In 2019, in response to a long-standing request from members, the CHA Council ...
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February 27, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Do you know an excellent post-secondary instructor? Are you an excellent post-secondary instructor? Nominations for the 2025 CHA Teaching Awards are now open! Deadline: March 28, 2025. #cdnhist #prize #teaching cha-shc.ca/teachers-lea...
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“Shocked, but not surprised.” In today’s post Jill Campbell-Miller explores the decision and repercussions of closing the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).
Check it out here: activehistory.ca/blog/2025/02...
Check it out here: activehistory.ca/blog/2025/02...
February 26, 2025 at 5:47 PM
“Shocked, but not surprised.” In today’s post Jill Campbell-Miller explores the decision and repercussions of closing the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).
Check it out here: activehistory.ca/blog/2025/02...
Check it out here: activehistory.ca/blog/2025/02...
Some thoughts on USAID I felt compelled to share - thanks @activehist.bsky.social for the opportunity activehistory.ca/blog/2025/02...
Shocked, but not Surprised: The End of USAID in Historical Perspective
It was a shock when I read that as the unofficial head of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), a group that has no Congressional authority, Musk began to shutter USAID operations at the …
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February 26, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Some thoughts on USAID I felt compelled to share - thanks @activehist.bsky.social for the opportunity activehistory.ca/blog/2025/02...
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The New York Times analyzed the electoral impact of annexing Canada instead of asking why the president is talking like a dictator. www.readtpa.com/p/stop-analy...
Stop Analyzing Trump's Unhinged Ideas Like They're Normal Policy Proposals
The New York Times just ran 1,200 words gaming out the electoral math of forcibly annexing Canada. We're in trouble.
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February 18, 2025 at 5:49 PM
The New York Times analyzed the electoral impact of annexing Canada instead of asking why the president is talking like a dictator. www.readtpa.com/p/stop-analy...
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Trump just fired the National Archives Director Colleen Shogan
“This evening, President Trump fired me. No cause or reason was cited."
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“This evening, President Trump fired me. No cause or reason was cited."
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February 8, 2025 at 2:59 AM
Trump just fired the National Archives Director Colleen Shogan
“This evening, President Trump fired me. No cause or reason was cited."
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“This evening, President Trump fired me. No cause or reason was cited."
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My Father Was a Conservative Evangelical Pastor. Then I Came Out. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Opinion | How My Dad Reconciled His God and His Gay Son
How did my dad go from hating homosexuality to imploding his church by embracing me? His journal entries show how he changed his mind.
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February 6, 2025 at 4:14 PM
My Father Was a Conservative Evangelical Pastor. Then I Came Out. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Nothing bad ever happened when only white men were completely in charge.
January 31, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Nothing bad ever happened when only white men were completely in charge.
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(Call for applications) Lecturer in Medicine, Health and Society at University College London histoiresante.blogspot.com/2025/01/post... #medhum
January 30, 2025 at 1:42 PM
(Call for applications) Lecturer in Medicine, Health and Society at University College London histoiresante.blogspot.com/2025/01/post... #medhum