Canadian academics - please consider signing this open letter against the University of Calgary's decision to call police against student peace camp. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

Signed, one of more than a thousand Canadian academics.

Student encampments for #Gaza are welcome on Indigenous land. NEW from Ellen Gabriel: "As title holders, Kanien’kehá:ka peoples must constantly remind entities like McGill University, that they have built their institutions upon our unceded homelands." ricochet.media/indigenous/stu…

Natanyahu renews declaration of war on UN, international law. theguardian.com/world/article/…

Canada finding its voice on Day 234 of the war in Gaza…

When I step back, I realize that what is happening with the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences McGill University is astonishing. 1/5

What a farce Canada’s Access to Information policy is, as Tim Sayle regularly points out. I’m doing research involving Canadian foreign policy from the 1980s - which I can easily get access to in British archives, but not our Canadian ones without jumping through major hoops.

I am presently spending some time in Mexico and today is the Mexican elections. While I do not claim to be an expert, I have spoken Spanish as a second language for about forty years and have been coming to Mexico since 1990. I have quite a few Mexican friends and have been

Zionists can’t get over the fact that Zionism did not originate among the indigenous Jewish communities of the Middle East. Rather Zionism was a nationalist ideology invented in 19th century Europe to respond to European antisemitism and nationalism. It proposed a European

We no longer have a historian of Canada at my university. Funding issues mean this is no9t likely to change.

Well said

Water and Indigenous Stories - a webinar with Indigenous speakers from both sides of the Pacific hosted by Pacific Peoples' Partnership & friends June 13, 5pm Pacific time (June 14 in Pacific & Asia). Details & registration at events.teams.microsoft.com/event/5b3c8530… MiningWatch Canada MelanesianWomenToday Bishop's University

Really looking forward to this one!

Incoming Indonesia president Prabowo a dangerous partner: my backgrounder. reconciliationtim.ca/timor/who-is-p…

The CHA/SHC CSHM-SCHM CCHA CSDH-SCHN meetings are ending, but why should the fun stop? If you met a new collaborator, got a question that reframed your thinking, or had a brainwave on the train home, publish with Active History! activehistory.ca/about/

Joining this Paddle for Pacific fundraiser for Canada's only group working in the Pacific. Proceeds go to Pacific partners working on Indigenous resilience, climate change and women's empowerment. Please consider donating if you can! pacificpeoplespartnership.org/engage/paddle4…

“The Pacific, contributes 0.02% of global emissions. Yet you are on the frontlines of the climate crisis, dealing with extreme weather events from raging tropical cyclones to record ocean heatwaves.” - UN SecGen António Guterres theguardian.com/world/article/… #PiF Pacific Peoples' Partnership