@msquebanh We only ever make jelly with black currants - it's like Proust's madeleines for my partner. But we've already made great rhubarb and dandelion soda this year.
#Quebec minister of higher ed won’t yield on reforms despite financial hits to #McGill, #Concordia
“Quebec’s university policy changes are part of Déry’s effort to increase funding for French universities and reduce the number of non-French speakers in #Montreal’s post-secondary institutions.
French Language Minister Roberge has also complained too much English is being spoken on Montreal streets.”
@AnnaAnthro This whole mess is so dishonest. If the CAQ wanted to increase the funding to French-language universities, they could've easily done it. They could've even reallocated some funding away from Anglo universities without causing major trouble. Instead, they've decided to cosplay defenders of French (take that, PQ!) while not investing a single cent. It's language-baiting in the service of electioneering and the government's refusal to adequately fund public institutions.
@inquiline Among Canadian historians, there's a small (OK - 2 of us, so far as I know - but everyone's welcome!), though keen group who keep folders of custom painted vans. The best trace I've found to date isn't a photo but a description from a 1975 classified ad placed in one of the main Montreal newspapers (Firebird seats!!).
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.
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
Students at #McGill 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/
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/
@stephanie@AnnaAnthro@bougiewonderland Youppi looks speechless. Because the the airport has a mascot? Because it's (she's!) a giant poutine in athletic shorts?
Emeritus faculty not insult non-tenure-stream faculty because you don’t realize that getting hired in 2010 and 1980 are not the same challenge: impossible
@inquiline I'm often tempted to tell these people that, based on their files coming out of grad school, we wouldn't hire them today, not into the tenure stream, not as adjuncts, maybe not even as TAs. But I don't think the ones running their mouths would care.
Anyone else notice a trend with customer service queues where the system offers to call you back; then calls back immediately and puts you in hold queue anyway?
Following yesterday's interest rate announcement, it's worth a reminder that our collective fixation on inflation only reflects one aspect of the Bank's remit under the Bank of Canada Act (1985).
The BoC is tasked with mitigating "fluctuations in the general level of production, trade, prices and employment" - that is, using interest rates not only to influence inflation, but employment, etc. The obsession with 2% came later and isn't reflected in the law.
... And, while this is something of a flippant observation, it's also worth pointing out that the word "inflation" appears nowhere in the Bank of Canada Act (1985).