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Matthew Hayday @mhayday.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

I am sure there was a Futurama episode that warned us about this!

Matthew Hayday @mhayday.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

It bugs me /way/ more than it should that whoever wrote this Canadian Press article doesn’t know that “Everybody (Backstreet’s Back)” was /not/ a track in the Backstreet Boys’ Millenium album. www.thestar.com/news/canada/...

The concerts will draw on the group's 1999 album "Millennium," which included hits such as "I Want It That Way" and "Everybody (Backstreet's Back)."

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McGill-Queen's University Press @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Join Douglas McCalla for an online discussion about his new book Not a Simpler Time: Essays in Canadian Rural and Economic History on October 15! The book: buff.ly/WwlBKgm Event details: buff.ly/kKtfstO

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Matthew Hayday @mhayday.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Sad to learn that Carl Berger passed away last week. He taught half of the Canadian history survey that I took at the University of Toronto. His book The Sense of Power played a major role in shaping my understanding of Canada's relationship to imperialism in the late-19th and early-20th centuries.

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Matthew Hayday @mhayday.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

*Joe Clark entered the chat. And also faced a PQ government, and had things gone René Lévesque's way, would have been the PM to face the 1980 referendum.

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Matthew Hayday @mhayday.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

It was after Today’s Special. It was a race to turn off the TV once the credits rolled before the terrifying theme music played.

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Matthew Hayday @mhayday.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Canadian Thanksgiving was mentioned in an episode of How I Met Your Mother by Robin as the "real Thanksgiving," but I know that's not what you have in mind.

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Matthew Hayday @mhayday.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I'm planning to attend the CHA next year - my Clark biography comes out in the spring, and I want to be there to sign copies. 😉 I'm on the fence about presenting a paper, but if anyone's looking for a third for a panel about Canada between 1956 & 2004 - I can probably find some way to connect!

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ben bradley @benbradleyca.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

two weeks left to propose a paper, panel, or "other formats" for the #chashc2027 conference, being held at st johns college, university of manitoba. #cdnhist

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Jared Wesley @jaredwesley.ca · 30/09/2026

📣Funded PhD Position exploring the social and political implications of the consolidation, death—and even rebirth—of local newspapers in rural communities in Canada and the United States. Supervisor: Clark Banack at the University of Alberta www.ualberta.ca/en/alberta-c...

ualberta.ca

Funded PhD Position

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Charlie Feldman @parlcharlie.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

On this day in Canadian parliamentary history - September 28, 1978: The Commons Speaker announces a new page cohort and, for the first time, women become Commons pages.

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Matthew Hayday @mhayday.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Definitely an issue here. And when salary increases are done as percentages (as one component is in our collective agreement) those at the top end keep getting the largest increases.

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Matthew Hayday @mhayday.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Woohoo! I could retire next year at 50 if it were 20 years. Seriously though, I think this is a good potential workaround, and with the possibility of mutually agreed-upon but not automatic extensions.

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Matthew Hayday @mhayday.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Indeed. I knew from the get-go that a two-volume biography wasn't going to be marketable, but there's more than enough content to warrant that approach. His period as PM only accounts for 2 chapters out of 21. A lot of the more interesting stuff relates to his time in other roles.

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Matthew Hayday @mhayday.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I’ve set it out as six major sections corresponding to different phases of his political career - and recommend folks who find the full length daunting (understandably) focus on the time periods of more interest to them.

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Matthew Hayday @mhayday.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Yep. Although the text of the narrative ends at p. 475 (and some of the photo pages are in that count). He was active in federal politics in various capacities for almost half a century. It’s effectively a two volume biography in one set of covers. And that’s after I made major cuts.

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Matthew Hayday @mhayday.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Very excited to see my forthcoming book on page one of the Winter 2027 @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social catalogue. Joe Clark: Progressive, Conservative, Canadian will be released in early 2027!

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Matthew Hayday @mhayday.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Great piece by historian Dimitry Anastakis in the Toronto Star comparing past and present Canada-US trade wars. I particularly loved this money quote from his last point (screen capped) about how things are different now. www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

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Matthew Hayday @mhayday.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

An unholy combination of Uniweb and Sharepoint: CV data entered into Uniweb, then exported to Word. All supporting files uploaded to Sharepoint. Then faculty have to make shareable links on the Word document to the Sharepoint files. Then the Word document is resaved as PDF and uploaded to Sharepoint

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Matthew Hayday @mhayday.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I am firmly convinced that the only reason we were forced to use the train-wreck of a system the university bought for T&P & CV management (this year is our first biennial review of all faculty since 2018) is that they sunk so much money into it. It's an absolute disaster and the faculty loathe it.

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Matthew Hayday @mhayday.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I feel like I have now joined the club, as I’ve received my first spambot book club invitations this week. My first tip-off was that they are for an edited collection that came out in 2018… hardly the stuff of book club glory.

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Matthew Hayday @mhayday.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

It didn’t end as Joe Clark and the federal PCs hoped. 9/11 changed the focus of federal politics away from Liberal ethics, the CA ditched Day, Harper became leader, most of the DRC rejoined the CA, and then the merger happened. But in an alternate timeline, who knows how that might have played out.

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Matthew Hayday @mhayday.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Watching the drama in the BC Conservative Party I am thinking of the parallels from 25 yrs ago when the “Rebel Alliance” broke off from Stockwell Day’s leadership of the Cdn Alliance, and then caucused & sat alongside the federal Progressive Conservatives as the Democratic Reform Caucus.

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Matthew Hayday @mhayday.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I'm not sure what @stillots1.bsky.social will think about the fact that I'm thinking of her as I construct my book index entries related to taxation - but it's intended as a form of praise for how she and others (looking at you Elsbeth and Jeff) have built out the field of Canadian taxation history.

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UGuelph History Department @uguelphhist.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Last week the College of Arts held its summer staff BBQ, during which the winners of its 2026 Teaching Awards were announced. History PhD candidate Aidan Hughes won the Graduate Teaching Assistant Award. And professor Ben Bradley received one of the two Faculty Teaching Awards. Congratulations! 🌞🍔🦨

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Alex Usher @alexusherhesa.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Guys: what's the best single-volume history of British Columbia?

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Matthew Hayday @mhayday.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

As I watch all these Canadian universities roll out their announcements about the “Eddie Goldenberg” (ugh - partisan branding) research chairs, I can only think of how much federal and university money that /could/ have gone to brand new, junior, or current faculty already in Canada it represents.

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Shannon McSheffrey @medievalmcsheff.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

JOB!! The Department of History at the University of Ottawa invites applications for a position in medieval and/or transregional history, 7th-16th centuries. French or English, bilingualism an asset. universityaffairs.ca/search-jobs/...

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Matthew Hayday @mhayday.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I'd be more inclined to fasting. Think about lettuce...

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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

“Find out who you are and do it on purpose” -Dolly

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Matthew Hayday @mhayday.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Mine's of hanging out with my Dad while he watched the 1984 Canadian election returns on TV, so that scans! And now I'm about to publish a political biography in which that election's rather significant. So based on a sample of 2, Canadians become aware of politics at age 7. 😉

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Matthew Hayday @mhayday.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I suspect this varies by discipline, but our department's track record for the past decade has mostly been over-35 hires, and those under it have only been barely so. A reflection of a very competitive job market in the humanities.

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Matthew Hayday @mhayday.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Yeah, I am having end of summer scaries crossed with “what’s the latest AI” scaries right now.

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Lara Campbell @lcampbel.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Re-upping the work of expunging American products from my life. And please, folks: do not travel to the United States unless it's a family emergency. And let's get serious about dropping interprovincial trade barriers, especially alcohol.

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Matthew Hayday @mhayday.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

The pessimist in me gets tired of being right all the time in this timeline. But I am reminded of what Brian Mulroney said when his Progressive Conservative government walked away from the FTA talks in September 1987: A bad deal is worse than no deal.

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Matthew Hayday @mhayday.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I just received the page proofs for my book, Joe Clark: Progressive, Conservative, Canadian. Now to begin the work of creating the index and reviewing the proofs. It's really detail-oriented work, but it means the end is in sight!

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Matthew Hayday @mhayday.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

So, given that the orange one has announced a new Canada-US trade deal is imminent, am I correct, in 2026-speak, in thinking it is about as close as a deal between the US and Iran over the Strait of Hormuz. Just trying to ensure my recalibration is accurate.

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UGuelph History Department @uguelphhist.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

With forest fires posing big challenges to summer tourism in western Canada, and communities and businesses facing uncertainty about how to respond, professor Ben Bradley discusses the cultural and economic history of roadside attractions with CBC reporter Justin McElroy. #cdnhist

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Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 17/08/2026

We haven't been serious about peacekeeping for 30+ years.

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Matthew Hayday @mhayday.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

My immediate thought was Sam Hughes and the Ross rifle, but that was a choice between pre-existing options, not full-blown design.

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Matthew Hayday @mhayday.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Right there with you, sharing your birth year! What I want to do - a trip to New York to have a whale of a time with Broadway and great food - isn’t possible because of the orange one and my refusal to travel to the US because of him.

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Matthew Hayday @mhayday.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Just wait until you start getting those sweet sweet PLR cheques!

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Matthew Hayday @mhayday.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I had just moved to Montreal, and was supposed to be driving back to central Ontario for a cousin's wedding. I ended up cancelling, because there was no guarantee I'd be able to refuel the car to get home!

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Matthew Hayday @mhayday.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I swear this cartoonist has a camera in my home. ;-)

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