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brian_gettler

@brian_gettler@mas.to

Settler historian. Prof, University of Toronto, member of the Montreal History Group (https://ghm.uqam.ca/) and Associate Editor, Canadian Historical Review.

Thinking about Indigenous peoples, capitalism, the state, and colonialism, especially the fiduciary and fiscal varieties. 🎶 and 🚴 too. Posts in English. En français itou. #histodons #CdnHist #HistQC #19thcentury | tfr

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inquiline, to random
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Didn’t you post a patent for something similar, @design_law ? I found the one in my office, handed down from midwestern grandparents

brian_gettler,
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@inquiline It's gorgeous. Can't wait for the next generation of hopper whoppers.

brian_gettler, to Ottawa
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The resistance in #Ottawa. #autowa #WarOnCars

brian_gettler, to random
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My institution - the University of Toronto - just released a remarkably bland statement on the student encampment. It basically says: we know emotions are running high, but please give us time - admin and students are talking. I have no inside information, but on the face of it at least, this is encouraging.

#encampment #UofT #HigherEd #divestment

brian_gettler, to history
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In Ontario, "public spending was still restrained by a frugal government more interested in highway building than higher learning." While one would be forgiven for imagining this is a description of the current provincial government, it actually applies to the province's priorities in the postwar period.

Source: Axelrod, Scholars and Dollars

brian_gettler, to random
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It'd be impossible to come up with any sort of definitive list, especially a short one, of great songs in which Steve Albini was involved. But below are a few, in no particular order that have long appealed to me.

  1. The Jesus Lizard, "Then Comes Dudley" (1991)

https://inv.n8pjl.ca/watch?v=cPA9kcVfcvI

#SteveAlbini #RIP

brian_gettler,
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  1. Pixies, "Gigantic" (1988)

https://inv.n8pjl.ca/watch?v=BdR-XpNNwDM

brian_gettler,
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  1. Dirty Three, "Ends of the Earth" (1998)

https://inv.n8pjl.ca/watch?v=evVuec0rE_o

brian_gettler,
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  1. Don Caballero, "Fire Back About Your New Baby's Sex" (2000)

https://inv.n8pjl.ca/watch?v=sl0uk12hmmg

brian_gettler, to random
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This morning, I wandered by the encampment at the University of Toronto. The students' demands seem clear to me.

"DIVEST" stencilled in yellow and green on a two by four holding two sections of construction fencing together. Through the fence, we see the student encampment and the Toronto skyline in the distance.
A white banner with black and red lettering hanging on blue construction fencing: "OUR TUITION WILL NOT BE SPENT ON GENOCIDE". The banner is flanked by two Palestinian flags.
A white banner with black and red lettering featuring a red broken heart with black ink dripping from it hanging on blue construction fencing: "BREAK UPP WITH BAD INVESTMENTS. DIVEST THE PENSION". The UPP is the University Pension Plan, made up of the University of Toronto and other Ontario universities.

brian_gettler, to random
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Obviously, if you're going to alphabetize correspondence in Canada, you need to have a "Mc" page.

Source: Office of the Auditor General of Canada, Minister of Finance, Memoranda Book, 1856-1864

brian_gettler, to Quebec French
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Plusieurs collègues / ami(e)s sur l'annonce récent du gouvernement du #Québec d'un nouveau musée.

Catherine Larochelle, Camille Robert, et al., « Les risques d’un retour au "récit national" » @histodons

https://www.lapresse.ca/dialogue/opinions/2024-05-02/musee-national-de-l-histoire-du-quebec/les-risques-d-un-retour-au-recit-national.php

#histodons #HistQC #Québec #PolQC #QCpoli #histoire

brian_gettler, to Toronto
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Students at my institution - the University of Toronto - have joined others across the continent in establishing an encampment on campus. Having been rebuffed by the administration in early April, the students continue to call "on the post-secondary institution to divest from assets that 'sustain Israeli apartheid, occupation and illegal settlement of Palestine.'"

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/israel-palestine-hamas-war-protests-toronto-1.7191443

brian_gettler, to random
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My faculty association's response to the university's recent letter to students:

"The Administration appears to believe that with the stroke of a pen it can transform freedom of expression from a fundamental right, the protection of which is the sine qua non of the University, into a privilege that the Administration may confer or deny at its pleasure. This cannot stand."

https://www.utfa.org/sites/default/files/2024-04-30_utfa_letter_re_demonstrations.pdf

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On the encampment in Montreal:

Léa Beaulieu-Kratchanov and Oona Barrett, "McGill Encampment: Students Stand Firm Against Their Universities for a Boycott of Israel"

https://therover.ca/mcgill-encampment-students-stand-firm-against-their-universities-for-a-boycott-of-israel/

brian_gettler, to Montreal
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Happy International Workers' Day.

Students - young and old - on May Day in Montreal, 1973.

Source: https://numerique.banq.qc.ca/patrimoine/details/52327/4618840

brian_gettler, to Toronto
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Curious about movements, I poked around student newspaper archives today. While some discussion of South Africa took place at the U. of earlier, 1983 looks like the moment when it took off. However, this relatively well-known case wasn't the first to garner attention at UofT and other Canadian universities (notably U. of Winnipeg). That honour seems to go to Noranda, a mining company heavily involved in Pinochet's Chile. 1/
https://archive.org/details/varsity

brian_gettler,
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Students at University, where the largest camp currently is, seem to have focused initially on South Africa. While the beginnings of the movement there look to have taken place around the same time as at UofT, the main student newspaper (the McGill Daily) includes far more material on divestment from an earlier date (1980). 2/

https://archive.org/details/mcgilluniversitystudentpublications

brian_gettler,
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All of this makes me want to do more university history, especially to get a better handle on how institutions (especially these two - McGill and UofT) shifted from a more-or-less hand-to-mouth existence (where they were in the mid-19th century, the period in which I know their history best), to the endowment-toting behemoths they've become. I've got reading to do! 3/

brian_gettler, to history French
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Olivier Bellavance, « Illustrer la circulation transnationale du numéraire étranger au Bas-Canada : les bons de marchands de 1837-1839 » @histodons

https://histoireengagee.ca/illustrer-la-circulation-transnationale-du-numeraire-etranger-au-bas-canada-les-bons-de-marchands-de-1837-1839/

#histodons #histoire #histQC #CdnHist #numismatics

brian_gettler, to history
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Required reading for historians, archivists, and librarians in and of Canada on the cuts suffered by Library and Archives Canada over the past 15-20 years. @histodons

Danielle Robichaud, "Contextualizing a Scandal: A Brief History of Library and Archives Canada"

https://activehistory.ca/blog/2024/04/29/contextualizing-a-scandal-a-brief-history-of-library-and-archives-canada/

#histodons #archive #librarians #GLAM

brian_gettler, to random
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Periodic reminder: cops are a recent phenomenon, existing in recognizably modern form for less than 200 years. They are not inevitable. Most societies in human history have done without them. Maybe we could too.

brian_gettler, to history French
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Oh boy.

Vu le parti politique et l'historien qui mènent le projet, il faut être bien innocent pour croire que le musée sera national et non pas nationaliste. @histodons

https://www.lapresse.ca/arts/2024-04-25/quebec/un-musee-national-d-histoire-sur-les-cendres-des-espaces-bleus.php

#histodons #HistQC #polqc #Québec #musée #museum

brian_gettler, to history
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Check out Rise UP!, an excellent digital archive of feminist activism in Canada covering the 1970s through the 1990s. @histodons

https://riseupfeministarchive.ca/

brian_gettler,
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@mimoqc En effet. Bien que les archives comprennent des publications du Québec, celles-ci semblent être uniquement en langue anglaise. @histodons

AnnaAnthro, to Poutine
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Ohh lord - The Montreal airport mascot is a large bowl of !

She (yes it’s gendered - la poutine!) is called YULtine, YUL is the airport code and its very first mascot.

https://www.yulexpress.com/en/2024/03/welcome-to-yultine-yuls-very-first-mascot/

brian_gettler,
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@stephanie @AnnaAnthro @bougiewonderland Youppi looks speechless. Because the the airport has a mascot? Because it's (she's!) a giant poutine in athletic shorts?

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