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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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brian_gettler, to gardening
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Soon there will be jelly! #gardening

brian_gettler, to cycling French
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À tous les matins que je dépose les enfants à l'école, nous chantons dans nos barbes une 'tite toune que nous avons composé il y a un certain temps déjà :

Vous êtes pas obligé
D'amener vos flos
En auto

Maintenant, vous pouvez faire pareil.

brian_gettler, to random
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34 is one more than Jesus' age when he was crucified. Trump is the GOAT.

brian_gettler, to generationx
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For my first proper #VanPosting toot, a photo of an excellent boogie van ca. #1970s #Canada.

The article that accompanies the photo - Peter Cheney, "Sex, Rugs and Boogie Vans," Globe and Mail, April 15, 2011 - includes anecdotes from the author, working as a mechanic in #Halifax in the early 80s, of installing a waterbed in one custom, "Playboy mansion" van and a casket in another, vampire-themed van.

brian_gettler, to random
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I can't be the only one who's vaguely disappointed whenever the original version of Feist's "1234" comes on. Without penguins by the door, what's the point?

brian_gettler, to cooking
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It's rhubarb season in that part of northern North America where we live. A family favorite turns waste into wine (OK, syrup). If you're of the rhubarb-peeling persuasion, put the peels in water, bring to a boil, then turn of the heat. After steeping for 30-60 minutes, remove the peels and press as much juice from them as possible. Add an unreasonable amount of sugar and heat again until fully dissolved. Enjoy homemade soda, a cocktail or an ice cream sundae!

#cooking

Water and rhubarb peels in a steaming kettle.
Reddish liquid in a small kettle next to a large jar full of refined sugar.
A glass bottle two-thirds full of red liquid.

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

#HigherEd #cdnpse #history #onpoli

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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

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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 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

#UofT #Toronto #HigherEd #cdnpoli #CampusProtests #divestment

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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

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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

#MayDay #PremierMai #Montréal #Québec #CdnHist #HistQC

brian_gettler, to Toronto
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Curious about #university #divestment movements, I poked around student newspaper archives today. While some discussion of South Africa took place at the U. of #Toronto 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. #BDS #histodons 1/
https://archive.org/details/varsity

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/

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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.

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For this week, we're posting : the first song we remember hearing live. Mine is the Screaming Trees, "Nearly Lost You." The Trees opened the MTV Alternative Nation Tour at the Marcus Amphitheater at Summerfest in Milwaukee, WI in July 1993. They were followed, in very obviously decreasing order of quality by Soul Asylum and headliners (ugh) the Spin Doctors. I quickly graduated from stadium rock to underground shows. But I still love this song.

https://inv.n8pjl.ca/watch?v=PE5f561Y1x4

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Canadian science* gets biggest boost to PhD and postdoc pay in 20 years†

*research

†it's still pretty damn modest

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-01124-2

brian_gettler, to Toronto
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There comes a time in every Torontonian's life when you have to have let your neighbour know that a family of raccoons has taken up residence in their roof.

brian_gettler, to history
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Héritage Canadiana, a large repository of digitized microfilm reels from Library and Archives Canada, has quietly begun rolling out full-text-searchable transcriptions (now mostly OCR on typed archival docs, but #Transkribus generated transcriptions on manuscript sources are on their way). The search engine is awful - you can't search only transcribed sources - but the collection is already impressive and promises to get better fast. @histodons

https://heritage.canadiana.ca/

#histodons #CdnHist

brian_gettler, to Canada
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No one believes us, but here it is again: at least in Canada, humanities grads make more money three years out than social and physical & life science grads.

My pitch to the parents of potential students: We're not the worst! Just imagine your kids' future if they studied psychology or physics.

https://higheredstrategy.com/new-graduate-salary-data-ngs-2020/

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