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Atlantic Canada Studies Centre (University of New Brunswick) @acsc-unb.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Sophie Lavoie, @nbmediacoop.bsky.social has done some fantastic coverage of our events: See her article on Mi'kmaw historian Mercedes Peters' talk, "'She Didn't Leave Anybody Out': Rita Smith, Mi'kmaw Family, and the Coming Together of Glooscap First Nation." nbmediacoop.org/2026/04/30/m...

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Mi’kmaw leader Rita Smith ‘saw something that needed to get done and she did it’ [video]

Innovative historical research on Mi’kmaw communities, done with Indigenous protocols in mind, sheds light on women’s roles in founding Mi’kmaw

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Angela Tozer (she/her) @agentlazero.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

"Should Canada Post make money?...Lewis is stirring debate after arguing Canada Post should be treated like an essential public service rather than a profit-driven corporation" Wow, you don't say nowtoronto.com/news/avi-lew...

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Should Canada Post make money? NDP’s leader Avi Lewis says no

NDP leader Avi Lewis is stirring debate after arguing Canada Post should be treated like an essential public service...

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Angela Tozer (she/her) @agentlazero.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Good news everyone! New Brunswickers can call the toll-free number -- 1-844-806-9205 --for medical care information about abortion and how to book an appointment for a procedure. For more information: www.gnb.ca/en/topic/hea...

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a cartoon character says good news in front of a futurama sign

ALT: a cartoon character says good news in front of a futurama sign

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Catastrophic higher education news in New Brunswick: the Liberal government of my MLA @susanholtnb.bsky.social is potentially going to cut 10% of the budget for universities—$50M across 4 schools when much *more* funding is needed, not less. The impact would be devastating. Please share, NBers.

*Important*

At the Senate on Tuesday, the President summarized the Province's plan to cut University funding across the province by 10%. This is nuclear, amounting to ~50M divided among the four universities. (While Irving pulp and paper is to get +45M for tariff relief.)

But it is not yet a done deal. All university and union presidents are responding firmly.

Please write to your MLA asap. There is not much time.

Dear Hon. Susan Holt,

It has come to my attention that the budget for universities in the province may be cut by $50 million.

I am writing to plead with you to reconsider.

New Brunswick universities like the University of New Brunswick--recently ranked tops in Atlantic Canada and 14th in the country ahead of Western and Ottawa by TIME Magazine--serve a vital role educating the young people of this province.

Our constituency is our own children.

These proposed cuts would have a catastrophic impact on institutions that quite frankly require more public investment not less. This would be an incredibly short-sighted decision, with devastating long-term impacts.

I hope New Brunswick can count on you to reconsider and put its young people first, ahead of corporate interests.

Many thanks,

Nathan Kalman-Lamb

Associate Professor of Sociology,
University of New Brunswick

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Angela Tozer (she/her) @agentlazero.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

watching the Kid Rock TP USA "halftime show" and the Bad Bunny Super Bowl halftime show really makes a great case for why we need to fund the humanities

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Jasmine Crockett @jasmineforus.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Bad Bunny understood the assignment…

A picture of bad bunny with the word love

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Angela Tozer (she/her) @agentlazero.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

when they say "political" they mean a challenge to white supremacist imperialism. Read up on the history of Haiti and how their "sin" of defeating one of the most powerful Empires in the world in 1804 resulted in centuries of the west's intentional punishment of Haiti.

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Robyn Maynard @policingblack.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

ICE has offices in 5 Canadian cities and has been part of major police operations. Given its role in escalating fascist authoritarianism this should be a clear NO. Abolish ICE and its transnational reach. ici.radio-canada.ca/rci/en/news/...

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ICE has offices in 5 Canadian cities. Here’s what it can — and can’t — do | RCI

Alberta MP calls on Canada to shut down U.S. immigration and customs operations north of border.

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Angela Tozer (she/her) @agentlazero.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Canada needs a strong anti-colonial and anti-imperial political party.

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Angela Tozer (she/her) @agentlazero.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

"ICE was, in fact, the domestic arm of this (post-911) imperial warfare...we cannot separate imperialism from domestic militarization" settler colonial societies "are intrinsically based on expanding the frontier and intrinsically based on the logic of genocidal elimination"

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Mikki Kendall @karnythia.blacksky.app · 24/01/2026

You could actually structure your moral code around the idea that law enforcement doesn't exist to execute people. You don't have to create perfect victim narratives, you can just refuse to accept that the state gets to kill people.

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Angela Tozer (she/her) @agentlazero.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

they're still boldly 2+2=5 'ing us even with all of the videos. Learn how to protect yourself against DARVO (Deny, Attack, Reverse Victim and Offender) abuse tactics. Because they work, even on the most self-aware of us.

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Angela Tozer (she/her) @agentlazero.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

All are welcome! The Department of Historical Studies' 10th Annual Black History Month lecture will be at the Fredericton Public Library for community accessibility 😊

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Angela Tozer (she/her) @agentlazero.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

Remember when Citigroup's predecessor got the American government to deploy Marines to rob Haiti's national bank and take the loot to NYC and then invade and occupy Haiti a year later for the next 19 years and then re-institute slavery? www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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Haiti’s Lost Billions (Published 2022)

The staggering sum Haiti paid for its independence cemented its path to poverty.

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Angela Tozer (she/her) @agentlazero.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

Vicious fascists and milquetoast leaders

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Angela Tozer (she/her) @agentlazero.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

Charivari or "rough music" has been used by the people for centuries to target violations of community norms. The goal is to make as much noise as possible. Community power manifests in many ways en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charivari

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Charivari - Wikipedia

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Angela Tozer (she/her) @agentlazero.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

Understand that Canada already has the structures in place that allow for what is happening in the US. Structures rooted in colonial-capital power dynamics of domination, punishment, and control. Resist seeking power as the first step in resisting fascism. www.halifaxexaminer.ca/morning-file...

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'Be as courageous as you can': 20 lessons to fight fascism - Halifax Examiner

Timothy Snyder's book On Tyranny.

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Claudie - Buy Nerezia While I Vacation ;) @clh2oars.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

There is *no* ethical use of genAI. It is built on stolen art, through exploitative labour, and every day as they train new model and answer query, they burn immense amount of energy & water. It has no place in our field, none.

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Angela Tozer (she/her) @agentlazero.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

my favourite part about this is how it characterizes being a historian as just obliviously spewing dates and nouns at people.

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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

Oh my GOD. This is the Shopify broligarch-involved pet project to influence Canadian policy. Build Canada told journalist Taylor Noakes that Carney's office "has reached out to Build Canada on occasion to ask about our memos." www.desmog.com/2025/12/08/m...

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Mark Carney Took Speech Ideas From Billionaire-Founded ‘Build Canada’

The pro-AI and fossil fuel group tells DeSmog that it’s great to see its ideas “get taken up by government.”

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Angela Tozer (she/her) @agentlazero.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

We did it everyone, we won this year's Most Capitalist With A Human Face award! Pipelines, broken treaty relations, impending ecological disaster—service with a smile :) cultmtl.com/2025/11/cana...

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Canada named most positive leader on world stage

According to a study by Ipsos, Canada remains the top country expected to have a positive influence on world affairs.

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Angela Tozer (she/her) @agentlazero.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

On Nov 19th there will be a Canada-wide emergency public alert test. If you have a hidden phone the "Alert Ready" tone will still sound even if the phone is on silent/ do not disturb. The link shows when the test will happen by region #survivors #ipv www.theweathernetwork.com/en/news/life...

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Test of Canada’s public alerting system, Alert Ready, coming Nov. 19, 2025 - The Weather Network

Mark your calendars: A nationwide test of the Alert Ready, Canada’s National Public Alerting System, is scheduled for Wednesday, November 19, 2025.

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Angela Tozer (she/her) @agentlazero.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

If you happen to be in Fredericton tomorrow be sure to check out this fascinating lecture!!

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Angela Tozer (she/her) @agentlazero.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

last time the Bluejays won the World Series it was 1993 and this song played seemingly non-stop on Toronto radio stations, and it's like I'm 11 again www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZSg...

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"Along Came Joe" (Joe Carter song)

YouTube video by Adam J Duncan

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Angela Tozer (she/her) @agentlazero.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Massive internet outages and yet outlook still persists 😔

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Atlantic Canada Studies Centre (University of New Brunswick) @acsc-unb.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Join us on Monday Nov 3rd for Dr. Lachlan MacKinnon's talk on industrial crisis in Cape Breton-- a theme highlighted in the film My Bloody Valentine. All are warmly welcome!!

Media poster advertising talk by Dr. Lachlan MacKinnon titled "Cinematic Ruin: My Bloody Valentine and Industrial Crisis in Cape Breton, 1979-1990." 318 Harriet Irving Library, 4-6pm, Monday November 3rd. All are Welcome!

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Angela Tozer (she/her) @agentlazero.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

This is going to be a fascinating lecture, all are welcome!!

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Angela Tozer (she/her) @agentlazero.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

My book The Debt of a Nation is now available fully open access, simply hit "download" on the UBC Press page. The book looks at Canada's public debt and colonization, and underscores the process of the appropriation and theft of Indigenous lands to produce CND capital www.ubcpress.ca/the-debt-of-...

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The Debt of a Nation

The Debt of a Nation - Land and the Financing of the Canadian Settler State, 1820–73; The Debt of a Nation reveals not only the intimate relationship between public debt financing and colonization but...

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Angela Tozer (she/her) @agentlazero.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

Great opportunity for a MA Fellowship to start September 2026. The fellowship is $30 000 CAD over twenty months to work on deindustrialization, working-class community and identity, and settler colonialism under the co-supervision of an awesome colleague @fburrill.bsky.social

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Angela Tozer (she/her) @agentlazero.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

Finally! Carney actually said Israel's "sustained assault in Gaza has killed tens of thousands of civilians, displaced well over one million people, and caused a devastating and preventable famine in violation of international law” now add resources to end it www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...

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Canada, Britain and Australia recognize state of Palestine

Declaration marks a significant shift in Canada’s foreign policy

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Angela Tozer (she/her) @agentlazero.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

Alberta's "Fairness and Safety in Sport Act" form notes "athletes aged 12 and older" who join "a female-only sport division" must prove "sex at birth is female": Shocker, girls don't want their genitals policed so they don't play! TERFS setting ALL women back 50 years nwlc.org/why-arizonas...

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Why Arizona’s Anti-Trans Sports Ban Harms All Women and Girls

NWLC advocates for the rights of trans girls, cis girls, and all LGBTQI+ students because we know when the government enforces sex stereotypes, everybody loses.

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Angela Tozer (she/her) @agentlazero.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

every thought that you outsource to a LLM is a wasted chance to develop your own knowledge and voice. LLMs are sold to us as progress and freedom, and used against us to further labour and resource exploitation for the sake of capital accumulation

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Angela Tozer (she/her) @agentlazero.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

Anyone who believes fracking is a "win-win" can prove it to the rest of us by moving themselves+family+ friends to a town near a fracking site and just live there for a few decades. Drink the water, prove all those studies about the harms of fracking wrong www.fraserinstitute.org/commentary/f...

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Fracking a win-win for workers and the environment in New Brunswick

At current market prices, the total value of this resource, if fully recovered, ranges from $186 billion to $221 billion.

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UBC Press @ubcpress.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

Available now in paperback and open access download! Newest from our On Campus series, “What Could a University Be?” by Robert Gibbs identifies new ideas that can help refocus the university on educating its students and having a greater positive impact in society. bit.ly/4nvWDPJ

Banner featuring the book What Could a University Be? Revolutionary Ideas for the Future by Robert Gibbs. On the right is the book cover with a teal, orange, and pink gradient background. On the right, a quotation from the author, Robert Gibbs, reads: “When we explore the idea of research, we see that an open future is one where our universities can help us make new knowledge, new policies, new medicines, and new ways of grasping the truths about our past.”

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Angela Tozer (she/her) @agentlazero.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

"Stand your ground" alludes to some racialized other enemy who would be a "justifiable" death. Look how well it fits with the "(brown) immigrants are taking over" talk- You get to imagine yourself as a hero in an unlikely situation! To dream a future fuelled by rage! PP was voted out, and yet...

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

Tennis Canada is serving up these ads on FB. Note that they do not mention the pesky question of who Canada is playing. Spoiler: they are playing Israel.

🍁 Home court. Home crowd. Home soil.

Davis Cup World Group I Playoffs are coming to Scotiabank Centre in Halifax September 12–13 🎾

Let's rally for Team Canada and secure your tickets today 🎟️

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Angela Tozer (she/her) @agentlazero.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

"Incoherent empty men want to sell me the chance to stop reading and writing and thinking, to stop caring for my kids or talking to my parents, to stop choosing what I do or knowing why I do it. Blissful ignorance and total isolation, warm in the womb of the algorithm, nourished by hungry machines."

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Fred Burrill @fburrill.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

Really excited for this talk - the first of a brimming and exciting line-up of 2025-6 events at the @acsc-unb.bsky.social. Stay tuned for more, and sign up to come hear Dr. Adjetey speak!

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Angela Tozer (she/her) @agentlazero.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

Here's my interview on the podcast @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social about my new book The Debt of a Nation. Check it out if you're interest in learning about the history of Canada's public debt and the relationship between capitalism and settler colonialism newbooksnetwork.com/the-debt-of-...

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Angela C. Tozer, "The Debt of a Nation: Land and the Financing of the Canadian Settler State, 1820-73" (UBC Press, 2025) - New Books Network

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Angela Tozer (she/her) @agentlazero.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

This is going to be a good one folks, save the date and please share widely!!

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Angela Tozer (she/her) @agentlazero.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

sky's orange, heat warnings, smoke fumes, treaty violations, water's polluted, low-wages, housing crisis, food prices surging= capitalism is working boys, we just need to capitalism harder.

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