This is exactly right. Most people opposed to #bikelanes don’t understand what it is like to bike & how our infrastructure actively prevents people from choosing this option. #onpoli

This applies to me too in #ldnont. I can bike most places as quickly as driving. When I lived in #Halifax in the mid-2000s, I could ride from the HFX shopping centre to SMU History Department just as quickly as driving. The main impediment to biking for rational actors is safety.

This messaging is profoundly disappointing & represents all that is wrong in #cdnpoli. It is hard to believe that so many Canadians seeming willing to endorse a politician so willing to go low.

"After recording the first of many oral histories with Joey Hollingworth in February 2022 [...] I felt an urgency to preserve his story. He spoke with humor and details as smooth and precise as his tap." Zahra McDoom's essay is live today. activehistory.ca/blog/2024/11/0…

We lost two amazing men yesterday who worked hard to ensure that Canadians understood the importance of Indigenous cultures & histories to the constitutional fabric of Canada. I never met Murray Sinclair, but I knew Dan Smoke well. May they both rest in peace. #cdnpoli #cdnmedia

This is my take too. The Colborne bike lane in #ldnont is a critical piece of infrastructure for biking with my family. It will also be important for my kids once they start high school. The politicization of #bikelanes demonstrates all that is wrong with #cdnpoli.

No more red tape… errr… only for alcohol sales and other inane projects, otherwise lots of red tape for people who threaten the status quo &, of course, bike lanes.

Brian Lilley ran a column today about how we will likely end up with a “balanced” budget in #onpoli. It is worth observing that #cdnpse is at a breaking point because so-called #RespectForTaxpayers policies have left our institutions w/o resources to support the public.

Yesterday was such a heavy day for a lot of us in the @westernu system.

So far my ⁦City of London⁩ council has banned encampments from residential neighbourhoods, & now they have banned shelters from business improvement districts. It is hard to understand how this doesn’t lead to ghettoization of poverty in #ldnont lfpress.com/news/local-new…

We have a new episode today over ActiveHistory.ca as Sean Graham talks with Molly Miowak Guise, author of Alaska Native Resilience, about the book and local communities' response to the Aleutian campaigns during the Second World War #podcast activehistory.ca/blog/2024/11/0…

On the blog, Colby Gaudet examines Acadian social networks of the revolutionary Atlantic: acadiensis.wordpress.com/2024/11/05/317…

Call for Applications: Indigenous Artist-in-Residence 2025, Western University #LdnOnt #publichistory akimbo.ca/listings/call-…

"The contradiction at the centre of the American experiment is the contradiction between the promise of freedom and equality and the reality of racism and nativism." Donald Wright's essay is live. activehistory.ca/blog/2024/11/0…

"Since the release of the TRC’s Final Report, denialists feel that they have lost control of the narrative and [...] seek to distort, downplay, and discredit established historical truths to try and regain control." Sean Carleton's post is live today. activehistory.ca/blog/2024/11/1…

This is a critical campaign in #ldnont pushing back on significant cutbacks to @cityofldnont support for our non-profit sector. The organization that I am most familiar with operates with 35% of the city funding they had a decade ago. Pillar Nonprofit Network nwmd.social/s/twitter/5QuP…

Laura Madokoro's class on History in the News has been particularly challenging this year. Read on for Laura's reflections. activehistory.ca/blog/2024/11/1…

Witness a prime example of an agitator and activist mimicking the very behaviour he claims to condemn. This tweet is deeply shameful. #cdnpoli

This shameful op-ed should never have been published National Post. Not only is it misleading (public perception towards these issues was shifting well before 2015) but it ignores #MurraySinclair’s important work before the TRC. nationalpost.com/opinion/the-mi… #cdnpoli #racism #cdnmedia

"Humans, privileging the works of social historians, challenges many long-accepted conclusions about various historical eras that traditional global histories have kept alive." Alvin Finkel provides a peek at his new book in today's post. activehistory.ca/blog/2024/11/1…