David Webster
@dwebster.bsky.social
Historian: Canada, Quebec, Asia, Timor-Leste, human rights, development. Latest book Challenge the Strong Wind https://www.ubcpress.ca/challenge-the-strong-wind . On unceded Abenaki land, maintenant connu sous le nom Estrie/Eastern Townships.
We need archives. On a besoin les archives. heritageadvocacy.ca/we-need-arch...
We need archives/On a besoin les archives
Sled dogs and Inuit hauling away freight from DC4 airplane at Kugluktuk, NWT. Credit: Provincial Archives of Alberta. Des chiens de traîneau et des Inuits déchargent des marchandises d’un avi…
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This is a massive blow to transparency in Canada, which was already bleak. It means Canada is keeping Canadians in the dark about their own past.
The Hill Times@hilltimes.com · 2w agoLibrary and Archives Canada has ended proactive declassification activities, a move access and archival experts say removes one part of an already limited federal system for making older records easier to process and release. www.hilltimes.com/2026/07/21/a...
Very sad news: " @library-archives.canada.ca has ended proactive declassification activities" www.hilltimes.com/2026/07/21/a... via @hilltimes.com with comments from @archivistsdotca.bsky.social / @activehist.bsky.social @archivistesqc.bsky.social @histoireengagee.ca
‘A disaster’ for access, expert says as cuts push Library and Archives to end proactive declassification work - The Hill Times
'It's just another tragedy in the access story,' says historian Timothy Sayle of the decision to axe the three-year-old program, and part of a 'broader pattern of underfunding access to information an...
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Open for signatures - Open Letter on Indigenous Faculty Equity, Authority, and Institutional Accountability at Bishop's University docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Open Letter on Indigenous Faculty Equity26-07-08.docx
Open Letter on Indigenous Faculty Equity, Authority, and Institutional Accountability at Bishop's University July 8, 2026 We, the undersigned, write as Indigenous and non-Indigenous scholars, educat...
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It was a huge honour to consult on the creation of a new Department of History at the National University in Timor-Leste. Thanks to UNESCO for making it possible!
Sometimes I am still shocked at the cruelty, hatred for employees, and white or male supremacy that universities perform every day. So many women default people work in universities, but their leadership is so often destructive and vicious. How did we let this happen to our institutions?
Canada continuing genocide aga... www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Canada continuing genocide against Indigenous Peoples, international tribunal finds | CBC News
An international tribunal has ruled that the Government of Canada’s current policies constitute an ongoing genocide against Indigenous Peoples, following a grueling week of hearings on intergeneration...
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Stand with refugees to Canada Letter. Sign here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/le...
Letter
Some politicians are actively counting on social permission from the few and silence from the many to deflect blame and anger toward refugees and immigrants for problems decades in the making through ...
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A terrific win on climate. Even as Eussia and the USA, Israel and Iran, all join hands to vote against the survival of humanity.
Academic friends, do you have any tips for how to work in a deeply unethical academic workplace? Finding it harder every day.
Now available Words are our Paddles: 35 years of writing on rights pressbooks.pub/paddles/
Words are our Paddles
35 years of collected articles, 1989-2023
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Safety is important and so is not buying as much petroleum, so I drive a Kia EV. Bonus: it doesn't fund American fascism and it doesn't look like a wedge of silver shit.
Emoji Caresser@lizrummy.bsky.social · 3mo ago<aristocrats voice> The Resistance!
Mark Carney, tragically, is the worst PM in Canadian history for climate change. Yes, worse than Harper. Read this incredible thread for why.
Michael Nabert@sustainablesong.bsky.social · 3mo agoNot just bad for the climate, the worst we've had to date. Harper might have *wanted* to cause this much harm, but Carney is the one actually doing it. Harper was warned, but the situation in Harper's term wasn't nearly this dire. Not by a long shot. 37/
Surprised to see no CBC coverage of the death of Claude Morin, the man who tried to use Canada's gradual oath to independence as a road map for Quebec independence, and the second most famous smoker of the sovereignty movement. Le père de l’étapisme n’est plus lp.ca/qfR020?shari... #cdnhist
Loving 70s Chinese book titles. Archival finds include: 🟥Refuting the Fallacies of Soviet Revisionist Social imperialism 🟥On the Correct handling of Contradictions Among the People 🟥Decision of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party Concerning the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution
a cartoon dog is sitting at a table with a cup of coffee in front of a fire with the words this is fine .
ALT: a cartoon dog is sitting at a table with a cup of coffee in front of a fire with the words this is fine .
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Bon Pote@bonpote.com · 3mo agoIl y a en ce moment même la plus grande canicule de l'histoire en Inde, qui s'étale sur des millions de km², avec des températures jusqu'à 48 degrés ! Et le pire, c'est que ce n'est visiblement que le début de la canicule. Où est la couverture médiatique pour parler d'un tel évènement ?
Fleuron des études québécoises à travers le monde, l’Association internationale d’études québécoises est menacée de fermeture suite à une décision brutale du gouvernement québécois. Si la promotion de la culture vous préoccupe, signez la pétition en appui à l'AIEQ. www.change.org/p/sauvons-l-...
Signez la pétition
SAUVONS L’AIEQ : NE LAISSONS PAS LE RAYONNEMENT INTERNATIONAL DU QUÉBEC SE FAIRE MINER
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USA, the most provincial country on this planet.
Alex Usher@alexusherhesa.bsky.social · 4mo agoJust read the Yale report on Trust in Higher Education. You will be shocked, no doubt, to learn that it did not occur IN THE SLIGHTEST to a committee at a top American university looking at trust in American higher ed to use any other country's experiences to pose intelligent counterfactuals.
#ErasingHistory www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
Canada’s residential school abuse survivors face fresh battle to stop testimony being destroyed
First Nation communities warn that government must act as accounts face destruction, risking central part of Canada’s reckoning with its colonial legacy
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There are two types of people in academic leadership roles: Those who will say yes to good ideas unless they absolutely can't, and those who say no unless they run out of objections. I guarantee that anything innovative at your institution happened because of the former and in spite of the latter.
Hey 🗃️ #skystorians -- I am recommending books about History to buy for a new library collection in Timor-Leste. If you could furnish a university that has no history books with a collection, what would be your top 5 or 10 books to recommend?
In which I discuss McGill's attempt to brand Israel boycotts as anti-semitism. Colour me skeptical.
Boycotts and Antisemitism | HESA
A few weeks ago, the McGill Law Students’ Association (LSA) held a referendum to amend its constitution. Among the elements of the changed constitution were clauses which embedded the Association’s op...
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