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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 random
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For whatever good it will do, I've written a letter to my MP asking that Canada immediately restore funding to the UNRWA.

brian_gettler, to random
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You don't have to be a conspiracy theorist to find it suspicious that the timing of the UNRWA allegations matched the ICJ ruling so closely.

brian_gettler, to history
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Historical question! Does anyone know when institutions in the English-speaking world - corporations, government departments, etc - began opening bank accounts in their own names rather than entrusting funds to individual officeholders (who often mixed public and private funds in personal accounts)? I'm currently looking at 1830s-40s Canada where, if I'm understanding the admittedly sparse material correctly, this shift had not yet occurred. @histodons @econhist

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@histodons @econhist
An example re: the receiver general (John Henry Dunn) - text from a report of Upper Canada's Committee of Finance (1829)

brian_gettler,
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@mpjgregoire Thanks. I'll see if I can dig anything up on Taschereau. In the 1820s, the interest was an issue, but so was the lax accounting, which meant that public funds deposited in private accounts sometimes went missing.

brian_gettler, to Canada
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Required reading for those of us in Ontario, where the government is currently considering installing 4 small reactors at the Darlington Nuclear Station, just east of Toronto. The Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission is holding hearings on the project this week.

Jim Green, "Small Modular Nuclear Reactors: A History of Failure"

https://www.climateandcapitalmedia.com/small-modular-nuclear-reactors-a-history-of-failure/

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It's only the third week of term and I'm already exhausted. So I decided to resist the impetus to produce for the glory of the university, science, humanity and myself and to make homemade pasta on a Tuesday night instead. It was worth it. Now, on to the dishes.

brian_gettler,
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@odr_k4tana I have kids.

brian_gettler, to Canada
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On the current state and activities of the First Nations Finance Authority
https://www.thestar.com/politics/federal/first-nations-are-turning-away-from-private-lenders-heres-why/article_d60684b4-b95e-11ee-8d9d-5f56a1b3c504.html

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For anyone interested in the First Nations Fiscal Management Act (2005), the Canadian Tax Journal published a policy forum on it a few years ago.

https://www.ctf.ca/CTFWEB/EN/Publications/CTJ_Contents/2021CTJ3.aspx

And, as an aside, we could really use histories of First Nations and taxation in Canada. I'd rather not have to write one myself but would be more than happy to share the thing or two I know on the subject. @histodons

brian_gettler, to history
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Spent the morning hunting for an archival collection cited by a dissertation written in the 60s. I had no trouble finding another collection - the reference has changed somewhat, but not beyond recognition. But what about the first one? Nowhere to be found. Until, just now, I pulled up the finding aid to the second collection. Guess what? The two collections are actually one and the same and have always been. Cite correctly!!! Someone will appreciate it one day. @histodons

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When the archives' site is down, I can never figure out what to do with myself. @histodons

brian_gettler, to history
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I only just learned of Peter Russell's passing on January 10. Beyond his important body of work, he was a generous colleague. Though I would not say I knew him, I had the pleasure of discussing Canadian political history, including both his and my own work, with Peter on a few occasions since arriving in Toronto. Rest in peace. @histodons

https://politics.utoronto.ca/2024/01/remembering-peter-h-russell-1932-2024/

brian_gettler, to random
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Libraries (and librarians!) will save us.

jordinn, to random

Sometimes I deeply miss the extended family that raised me, who are now either dead (most of them) or scattered to the four winds (the rest of us).

It's a weird thing to be raised as a place-rooted generation, only to grow into a collectively uprooted adulthood.

brian_gettler,
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@jordinn As a rootless academic, raising kids in another country both from where, on the one hand, I was born and grew and, on the other, where my wife was raised, I feel this in the pit of my stomach and deep in my soul. It's so hard to know what we're doing to our kids.

brian_gettler, to Montreal
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Who's up for another crystal palace building boom? Here's Montreal's 1860 contribution.

Source: McCord Museum

James George Parks, Crystal Palace and exhibition grounds, Fletcher’s Field, Montreal, QC, about 1880. A photograph. From an elevated foreground of fields, fences, and trees, we see the crystal palace in the background surrounded by a number of smaller buildings.

brian_gettler, to baking
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Today's a birthday at our house. This is a sober decorating job by our standards.

brian_gettler, to solarpunk
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Suggestions for authors? For professional reasons I'm particularly interested in authors from , writing in either English ou en français, but would be happy with suggestions of great authors from elsewhere too.

brian_gettler, to history
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A nice short talk from my colleague Dimitry Anastakis stemming from his current work on the history of neoliberalism in Canada. @histodons

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fC6wxl2Ak-8

#neoliberalism #histodons #history #CdnHist #cdnpoli #Canada

brian_gettler, to Toronto
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I voted for someone (who actually won!) who is working hard to raise my property taxes (by more than 10%!) and it feels great! Hearing my generally awful city councillor whining about it on the local news yesterday was icing on the cake.

brian_gettler,
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@monicarooney @Chigaze @rcjpisani Among the many things it is, Toronto is home to ON's (and much of Canada's) wealthy, conservative political elite. This group has always had vastly more influence on municipal politics than its demographic weight merits and has used that influence to protect its wealth. It struck a deal with homeowners like me to keep taxes as low as possible. As the city crumbles around us, enough homeowners who'd accepted it have come to understand it was a Faustian bargain.

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RIP Ed Broadbent

https://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/1763704/mort-deces-ed-broadbent-politicien-npd

prachisrivas, to Canada
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Right on the money by on the spectacularly ill-advised segregationist policy against English-language universities in Quebec.

Story by Toula Drimonis in The Walrus.

https://thewalrus.ca/quebec-tuition-hike/

#AcademicChatter #HigherEducation #Canada #CdnPoli @academicchatter

brian_gettler,
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@prachisrivas "instead of adequately funding Quebec universities, the government wants to implement a system where French-language universities will become more dependent on the ability of their English-language counterparts to recruit Canadian and international students while simultaneously undermining the latter’s ability to do so."

To my mind, this has always been the story. Unfortunately, too much response has fallen into the CAQ's language politics. This article doesn't.

@academicchatter

brian_gettler, to history
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If you're in Toronto, join us on Jan. 24 for the launch of Catherine Larochelle's excellent School of Racism, translated from the original French. @histodons

#histodons #CdnHist #HistQC

philip_cardella, to random
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My university has an unofficial policy that you only need your syllabus up by the first class.

Ok. I guess.

But most books for my readings classes are listed as "required" in the school's B&N website, yet my experience is that almost all, if not all, the reading material will be available online for free... Once the syllabus is up.

Which I can't see until class starts.

But if there are materials that hard copies are needed B&N only does orders, the books are NEVER in stock on site. 🙄

brian_gettler,
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@tkinias One of the benefits of teaching here, which I haven't experienced anywhere else, is that the library vets syllabi and will scan and post book sections - so long as they respect copyright and fair use - directly to the course shell. What this means in practice is that neither faculty nor students need to chase after most readings for undergrad courses. @philip_cardella

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