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Associate Prof at MSVU History | Digital Communications Editor at Acadiensis | VP MSVUFA | Dad | Husband | Historian | Disability Rights Advocate | Old School BMX/MTBer | Tweets my own

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Mi'kmaw History Month – Wi'kipatmu'k Mi'kmawey – Honoring of the Mi'kmaw way

October is Mi’kmaw History Month, a time to celebrate and to reaffirm commitment to the Peace and Friendship Treaties. We are all Treaty People.

You can explore more here: mikmaqhistorymonth.ca

#MiKmawHistoryMonth #MSVUHistory

10.10.2025 13:41 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

An introduction to this project would look real nice on the Acadiensis Blog. 😀

22.09.2025 13:29 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Morris St in Halifax looking east towards Queen. The eastbound lane has been closed and only the westbound lane is open. Traffic crews are directing traffic, but there is none in the photo.

Morris St in Halifax looking east towards Queen. The eastbound lane has been closed and only the westbound lane is open. Traffic crews are directing traffic, but there is none in the photo.

Morris has been reduced to one lane for water work. I assume the port has shut down and ambulances are refusing to even try answering calls in the area.

21.07.2025 13:39 👍 164 🔁 59 💬 14 📌 9
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Scientists have studied remote work for 4 years and have reached a clear conclusion: working from home makes us happier - Caring Minds United Scientists have spent four years diving deep into the world of remote work and stumbled upon a powerful truth: working from home genuinely makes us

Not only can working from home make you happier, for many disabled people it allows them to remain in the workforce

It gives them autonomy & independence. Flexibility to attend doctors appointments and care for their health

It’s a crucial accommodation, and removing it will harm disabled lives

15.06.2025 20:49 👍 1552 🔁 556 💬 31 📌 29
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Uninformed comments on autism are resonant of dangerous ideas about eugenics Part of a eugenic logic is the ongoing belief that erasing disability and people with disabilities is a desirable and commonsense objective.

Uninformed comments on autism are resonant of dangerous ideas about eugenics

27.05.2025 18:50 👍 10 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 1

China’s response is not the start of a global trade war since it only targets the USA. It is how you would expect a major player to respond. This is not the global economy breaking down, it is not the 1930s, it is not the formation of multiple imperial blocs, it is the US isolating itself.

04.04.2025 11:09 👍 487 🔁 125 💬 28 📌 10
1.    We have decided not to host a single-site in-person conference in Seattle this year. Instead, we will have two in-person sites and a robust online participation option. While we are still working out the details, we will have an in-person conference site in Seattle, another in-person conference site in Vancouver, B.C., and significantly more opportunities for online participation than in years past, as well as opportunities for sessions that virtually bring together folx in the two in-person locations. We emphasize that we want your own safety and comfort to be the primary consideration as you decide whether and how to participate in this year’s conference. Wherever you live and whatever your citizenship status and/or subject position, we encourage you to carefully consider which of the three participation options (if any) you decide to take up. It is entirely up to you whether you feel safe or willing to cross a border or to travel at all. To help us with our organizational efforts, we will be sending out a very short survey in the coming days. It is imperative that we hear from as many NASSSers as possible both in terms of organizational efforts and to minimize our financial liabilities.

1. We have decided not to host a single-site in-person conference in Seattle this year. Instead, we will have two in-person sites and a robust online participation option. While we are still working out the details, we will have an in-person conference site in Seattle, another in-person conference site in Vancouver, B.C., and significantly more opportunities for online participation than in years past, as well as opportunities for sessions that virtually bring together folx in the two in-person locations. We emphasize that we want your own safety and comfort to be the primary consideration as you decide whether and how to participate in this year’s conference. Wherever you live and whatever your citizenship status and/or subject position, we encourage you to carefully consider which of the three participation options (if any) you decide to take up. It is entirely up to you whether you feel safe or willing to cross a border or to travel at all. To help us with our organizational efforts, we will be sending out a very short survey in the coming days. It is imperative that we hear from as many NASSSers as possible both in terms of organizational efforts and to minimize our financial liabilities.

In a move that *should* be precedent-setting for other scholarly organizations, the North American Society for the Sociology of Sport (NASSS) announces that this year’s conference will be held concurrently at sites in the US and Canada and online due to the dangerous US political climate.

04.04.2025 11:30 👍 473 🔁 189 💬 6 📌 24

Canada could remove all tariffs from US goods and I still wouldn’t buy them.

02.04.2025 21:00 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Very nice (and very Canadian)!

01.04.2025 19:44 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Is that an AT table?

01.04.2025 18:15 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Last year I was talking with one of our honours students about where to do their MA and I recommended a couple of US schools (along with a few CND). This year I would not offer the same advice (and I’m glad they didn’t opt for the US schools).

29.03.2025 20:36 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Prenatal Testing, Genetic Advocacy and the “Burden of Down Syndrome” in 1970s Nova Scotia By Martha Walls March 21 is World Down Syndrome Day, held symbolically on the 21st day of the third month (3/21), to celebrate of the contributions of people with Trisomy 21, better known as Down s…

Happy World Down Syndrome Day!!!

While you're rocking your funky socks in celebration of difference and inclusion, please take a look at Martha Walls' examination of Prenatal Testing, Genetic Advocacy, and the "Burden of Down Syndrome" in 1970s NS:

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21.03.2025 12:00 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

One positive thing in all of this is that my Canadian-American Relations class next year is going to be fuckin’ lit!

06.03.2025 13:27 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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23.02.2025 18:44 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I have never wanted Canada to win a hockey game so badly in my life.

20.02.2025 19:34 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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A TRIBUTE TO ELIZABETH MANCKE: HER CONTRIBUTION TO NEW BRUNSWICK STUDIES Bonnie Huskins This tribute originally appeared in the Journal of New Brunswick Studies. Reprinted with permission. My first memory of Elizabeth Mancke dates back to April 1998 when she was MC-ing …

Today on the blog, the Journal of New Brunswick Studies has been kind enough to let us repost Bonnie Huskins' lovely tribute to our late colleague Elizabeth Mancke. acadiensis.wordpress...

25.11.2024 15:21 👍 6 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 1
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Trouble with Women and Cod: Multispecies Entanglements in Newfoundland and Labrador’s Colonial History By Vicki S. Hallett The Labrador floater fishery was a migratory fishery that lasted roughly 200 years, from ca. 1750-1950, in which schooners sailed from the island of Newfoundland to the coast of…

On the blog, Vicki Hallett looks at the trouble with women and cod in NF and Labrador's Colonial History. Also, this includes my fave line ever in a post: "Atlantic cod have the twin disadvantages of being supremely delicious and supremely ugly." acadiensis.wordpress...

12.11.2024 13:04 👍 16 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 1