Kelly B
@kellyblack.ca
Public history. Museums. PhD. Tidal pool explorer. Vancouver Island - Coast Salish territories. Opinions mine etc. Newsletter: buttondown.com/leftcoastdispatch he/him kellyblack.ca
i saw @davidebybc.bsky.social recently visit heritage park museum in terrace and speak with the curator, a former student of mine. perhaps @annekangburnaby.bsky.social should do a BC-wide consultation with historians, curators & archivists working "on the ground"-- voices outside the heritage branch
“The province is trapped in a cycle of offering low funding for fresh business plans every few years,” he said. “It’s a complete shame, and the people that lose out are British Columbians and visitors to Victoria.” www.timescolonist.com/local-news/p... #yyj #bchist #Cdnhist
Former operator not surprised by closure of Victoria's Point Ellice House
The province says it is taking over the site, whose doors will close to the public on Aug. 21, and “reviewing options for reopening.”
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“The ministry said it has provided more than $55M in funding to preserve and protect heritage assets across the province since 2020.” That is… a shockingly low amount of money? Taxpayers now fully fund the Port Mann bridge, which would have collected nearly $1 billion in tolls during that period.
Kelly B@kellyblack.ca · 7h ago“The province is trapped in a cycle of offering low funding for fresh business plans every few years,” he said. “It’s a complete shame, and the people that lose out are British Columbians and visitors to Victoria.” www.timescolonist.com/local-news/p... #yyj #bchist #Cdnhist
Brookfield is doing well! I cant remember, who was the head of their board before Carney became PM?
The Globe and Mail@theglobeandmail.com · 6h ago
Absolutely insane footage of rock avalanches currently sweeping across the entire south face of the Matterhorn, as filmed from Cervinia! 🔥😱 📽️ Via @meteovalledosta
Here's the thing: I saw this coming and said as much when I had to close up this museum in 2023. The province has no plan for its heritage sites and is making them irrelevant. I'm doing media now as I want that to be known, but I already grieved this loss: www.kellyblack.ca/stories/2024... #yyj
Grief and Closing Point Ellice House Museum & Gardens — KB
Like many people who worked and volunteered at Point Ellice House, I went through all the stages of grief. I simultaneously grieved the loss of the community that we built and also the loss of a frien...
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Kelly B@kellyblack.ca · 7h ago“The province is trapped in a cycle of offering low funding for fresh business plans every few years,” he said. “It’s a complete shame, and the people that lose out are British Columbians and visitors to Victoria.” www.timescolonist.com/local-news/p... #yyj #bchist #Cdnhist
“The province is trapped in a cycle of offering low funding for fresh business plans every few years,” he said. “It’s a complete shame, and the people that lose out are British Columbians and visitors to Victoria.” www.timescolonist.com/local-news/p... #yyj #bchist #Cdnhist
Former operator not surprised by closure of Victoria's Point Ellice House
The province says it is taking over the site, whose doors will close to the public on Aug. 21, and “reviewing options for reopening.”
timescolonist.com
ICYMI: “The devastation stretches for more than a kilometre along the northwest shore of British Columbia’s Okanagan Lake, house after house reduced to scorched and twisted metal and grey dust.” www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/bc... - @ctvnewsvancouver.bsky.social #BCWildfire #BradleyCreekWildfire
‘Devastation’: Chief says about 230 homes destroyed by B.C. wildfire
The chief of the Okanagan Indian Band says about 230 homes have been destroyed by a raging wildfire near Vernon, B.C.
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I remain hopeful that Bernie Sanders can win the 2016 democratic presidential primary
4/ How many wildfires, heatwaves, droughts, burnt down communities, ruined livelihoods, and lost lives will it take for PM Carney to stop his reckless pursuit of expanded fossil fuel production?
1/ Over the weekend -- while Canadians across the country were dealing with raging wildfires and the aftermath of severe flooding and heatwaves -- PM Carney quietly accelerated the timeline on his taxpayer funded pipeline. environmentaldefence.ca/2026/08/04/p...
PM Carney proceeding at breakneck pace with West Coast Pipeline - Environmental Defence
Statement by Julia Levin, Associate Director, National Climate, Environmental Defence Over the weekend, while Canadians across the country are dealing
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On this day in 1701, the Great Peace of Montreal was signed between New France & the chiefs of several Indigenous "nations" (New France's words), ending the Beaver Wars. Sharma in Home Rule (2020) argues, "claims to indigenous nationhood comprise a form of presentism... [wrongly] read back..."
Great Peace of Montreal - Wikipedia
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You know what, I think I'll post another one. This is one of William Hodges' 18th Century depictions of Tahiti, painted while he was official artist on one of Captain Cook's expeditions. #landscape #art #Tahiti #18thCentury
the Billboard Modern Rock chart from 30 years ago today — August 3, 1996.
He’s 100% correct. ‘I’m happy if I look silly in seventy years because I said you’re a brain dead fucking loser for making “art” with AI’
It's hard to overstate how ISOLATING and scary it was with a child under 5 waiting for that under 5 vaccine. The world was kind of moving on and you not only couldn't, you had to be scared for your child every day
Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 3d agoAlso the Republicans were screaming that Fauci helped authorize vaccines for children, which is something every goddamn parent I know was praying for every day for more than a year and have been thankful for ever since. These people are all self-centered idiotic sociopaths, nothing more.
Tony Hale does the voice of Ultron in the Marvel kid shows and now whenever my kid watches it I can only think of Buster Bluth terrorizing Iron Man
Im A Monster Buster Bluth
Alt: Gif. Buster Bluth saying, “I’m A Monster!”
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What I hate about COVID downplayers is… you won okay. In the aftermath of humanity coming together to develop the most crucial vaccines of our lifetime & collectively sacrificing to save lives, we are now less safe, less vaccinated & less empathetic than ever. You won ok. Lay down your swords.
Hello I have made this due to a mutual having issues with some folks on here forgetting this fact and shouting at him for it. Feel free to use it as a handy PSA x
During COVID, medical workers filled latex gloves with warm water so the dying could feel like their hands were being held by another person as they died alone in hospitals pushed to the brink of collapse. People who downplay the horrors of the pandemic to focus on its inconveniences are fools.
Lewis Goodall@lewisgoodall.com · 5d agoThere are working class and vulnerable kids who will never have the life they should have had because of school closures. Let’s address that too, shall we?
it's always "where's Mitch McConnell?" and never "good things come to those who wait"
