Tina Loo
@lootina.bsky.social
Mountain itinerant and photog who teaches and writes Canadian and environmental history at the University of British Columbia. [I chose the photo of Sycamore Gap not knowing what would soon happen...]
“I don’t think it’s possible, or even desirable, for an abstraction like ‘the enviro’ to top the list of concerns for voters. I’d rather see enviro orgs drive home the relationship betw enviro issues+health, safety, affordability.”
conservationworks.substack.com/p/is-environ...
conservationworks.substack.com/p/is-environ...
Is Environmentalism Out of Ideas?
The answer depends on where you look.
conservationworks.substack.com
December 2, 2025 at 4:23 PM
“I don’t think it’s possible, or even desirable, for an abstraction like ‘the enviro’ to top the list of concerns for voters. I’d rather see enviro orgs drive home the relationship betw enviro issues+health, safety, affordability.”
conservationworks.substack.com/p/is-environ...
conservationworks.substack.com/p/is-environ...
Heading into university exam season, here's something to read on accommodations and class (of the socio-economic kind). www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
Accommodation Nation
America’s colleges have an extra-time-on-tests problem.
www.theatlantic.com
December 2, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Heading into university exam season, here's something to read on accommodations and class (of the socio-economic kind). www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
It's finally here. A history of the Nova Scotia lobster fishery.
Morton is truly an historian's historian, and from the installments I've seen, the book is going to have riches of social history, politics, economics, and even some marine biology.
share.google/J3GYgjTkjV9I...
Morton is truly an historian's historian, and from the installments I've seen, the book is going to have riches of social history, politics, economics, and even some marine biology.
share.google/J3GYgjTkjV9I...
December 2, 2025 at 5:53 AM
NEW tracks in the field: Frédéric Laugrand - "Sentient Beings, Hunting, and Respect: Animals and Inuit Cosmologies in the Canadian Arctic" online.ucpress.edu/ah
December 2, 2025 at 5:26 AM
November 26, 2025 at 5:44 AM
Terrific piece! “LLMs predominantly reflect western cultural values and epistemologies. They overrepresent certain dominant groups in their outputs, reinforce+amplify the biases held by these groups+are more factually accurate on topics associated w/NA+Europe.”
www.theguardian.com/news/2025/no...
www.theguardian.com/news/2025/no...
What AI doesn’t know: we could be creating a global ‘knowledge collapse’ | Deepak Varuvel Dennison
The long read: As GenAI becomes the primary way to find information, local and traditional wisdom is being lost. And we are only beginning to realise what we’re missing
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Terrific piece! “LLMs predominantly reflect western cultural values and epistemologies. They overrepresent certain dominant groups in their outputs, reinforce+amplify the biases held by these groups+are more factually accurate on topics associated w/NA+Europe.”
www.theguardian.com/news/2025/no...
www.theguardian.com/news/2025/no...
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NEW: You can now freely access the *full* introduction of our new book, The Price of Gold, on the refreshed website for @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social:
www.mqup.ca/Books/T/The-...
www.mqup.ca/Books/T/The-...
The Price of Gold
Fifty years of gold mining at Yellowknife in the Northwest Territories spurred northern settlement and produced millions of dollars in profits. But mineral processing also had catastrophic environment...
www.mqup.ca
November 17, 2025 at 12:26 PM
NEW: You can now freely access the *full* introduction of our new book, The Price of Gold, on the refreshed website for @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social:
www.mqup.ca/Books/T/The-...
www.mqup.ca/Books/T/The-...
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Another Canadian/Quebec history job posting, this one at UQAM - its been a couple decades since I've seen 6 tenure-track job postings in Cdn history all at once. Very happy to see this.
universityaffairs.ca/search-job/?...
universityaffairs.ca/search-job/?...
Search Jobs - University Affairs
universityaffairs.ca
November 17, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Another Canadian/Quebec history job posting, this one at UQAM - its been a couple decades since I've seen 6 tenure-track job postings in Cdn history all at once. Very happy to see this.
universityaffairs.ca/search-job/?...
universityaffairs.ca/search-job/?...
November 17, 2025 at 5:14 AM
Spectacular night at the #Lumière Festival. November days are shorter, but that just meant more time to take in the light… #photography
November 17, 2025 at 5:08 AM
Spectacular night at the #Lumière Festival. November days are shorter, but that just meant more time to take in the light… #photography
Well deserved! A terrific book. But also a significant one that deserves a wide reading by anyone interested in human rights. #cdnhist
Beyond thrilled for this rave review from @johnibbitson.bsky.social in the @theglobeandmail.com for our book, Challenging Exile: Japanese Canadians and the Wartime Constitution. Now available @ubcpress.bsky.social and fine bookstores.
www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/book...
www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/book...
Challenging Exile is essential reading for history buffs
The book tells the story of Japanese Canadians who were deported to Japan after the end of the Second World War
www.theglobeandmail.com
November 15, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Well deserved! A terrific book. But also a significant one that deserves a wide reading by anyone interested in human rights. #cdnhist
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More reading from John Sandlos and @arnkeeling.bsky.social - "Yellowknife’s Giant Mine: Canada downplayed arsenic exposure as an Indigenous community was poisoned" - niche-canada.org/2025/09/03/y...
#envhist #mininghistory #cdnhist
#envhist #mininghistory #cdnhist
November 13, 2025 at 4:40 PM
More reading from John Sandlos and @arnkeeling.bsky.social - "Yellowknife’s Giant Mine: Canada downplayed arsenic exposure as an Indigenous community was poisoned" - niche-canada.org/2025/09/03/y...
#envhist #mininghistory #cdnhist
#envhist #mininghistory #cdnhist
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I wrote a piece for @frenchhistory.bsky.social about the 40th anniversary of the French bombing of the "Rainbow Warrior."
Huge thanks to @eldrclaire.bsky.social @donalh.bsky.social @meghankroberts.bsky.social & the journal's extremely patient staff.
doi-org.proxy.lib.sfu.ca/10.1093/fh/c...
Huge thanks to @eldrclaire.bsky.social @donalh.bsky.social @meghankroberts.bsky.social & the journal's extremely patient staff.
doi-org.proxy.lib.sfu.ca/10.1093/fh/c...
November 13, 2025 at 4:31 PM
I wrote a piece for @frenchhistory.bsky.social about the 40th anniversary of the French bombing of the "Rainbow Warrior."
Huge thanks to @eldrclaire.bsky.social @donalh.bsky.social @meghankroberts.bsky.social & the journal's extremely patient staff.
doi-org.proxy.lib.sfu.ca/10.1093/fh/c...
Huge thanks to @eldrclaire.bsky.social @donalh.bsky.social @meghankroberts.bsky.social & the journal's extremely patient staff.
doi-org.proxy.lib.sfu.ca/10.1093/fh/c...
Agreed: read their new book on how arsenic emissions polluted a northern mining town – and the ways activists and Indigenous people fought back. #envhist www.mqup.ca/price-of-gol...
November 13, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Agreed: read their new book on how arsenic emissions polluted a northern mining town – and the ways activists and Indigenous people fought back. #envhist www.mqup.ca/price-of-gol...
Thanks to Alberta's UCP... Gift link.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/w...
Canada Is About to Lose Its Status as Having Eliminated Measles
www.nytimes.com
November 6, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Thanks to Alberta's UCP... Gift link.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/w...
Whoa! Dizzying installation in the atrium of the @vanartgallery.bsky.social #photography
November 6, 2025 at 3:19 AM
Whoa! Dizzying installation in the atrium of the @vanartgallery.bsky.social #photography
Excellent news!
An update on my column: Parliamentary committee drops most contentious parts of its demand for data on research funding. It now wants aggregated, not disaggregated data. www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
November 6, 2025 at 3:12 AM
Excellent news!
November 5, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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A must read thread about the history of anti-urbanism and fascism:
9. Now this idea is being resuscitated once again. The city is cast by the new wave of fascists as a degenerate, crime-ridden arena, dominated by Muslims, immigrants and “alien” ideas such as feminism, antifa, anti-racism, trans rights, asylum, public transport and intellectualism.
November 5, 2025 at 1:55 PM
A must read thread about the history of anti-urbanism and fascism:
Agree with this editorial: focus on research impacts, not the identities of the researchers. (And reading the peer reviews and notes from the adjudication committees?!)
www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/5f5c26a...
www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/5f5c26a...
How much are MPs entitled to know about research grants? Not as much as they think
A parliamentary committee is asking for academics’ private information on a strange anti-DEI crusade
www.theglobeandmail.com
November 4, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Agree with this editorial: focus on research impacts, not the identities of the researchers. (And reading the peer reviews and notes from the adjudication committees?!)
www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/5f5c26a...
www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/5f5c26a...
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New Master in Public Environmental Humanities - @greenhouseuis.net
2-year masters program for students who want to study today’s environmental challenges as deeply rooted in culture and history
Info sessions on November 11 & 21
niche-canada.org/2025/11/01/n...
#envhum #envhist #envstudies
2-year masters program for students who want to study today’s environmental challenges as deeply rooted in culture and history
Info sessions on November 11 & 21
niche-canada.org/2025/11/01/n...
#envhum #envhist #envstudies
New Master in Public Environmental Humanities
2-year masters program for students who want to study today’s environmental challenges as deeply rooted in culture and history
niche-canada.org
November 1, 2025 at 8:01 PM
New Master in Public Environmental Humanities - @greenhouseuis.net
2-year masters program for students who want to study today’s environmental challenges as deeply rooted in culture and history
Info sessions on November 11 & 21
niche-canada.org/2025/11/01/n...
#envhum #envhist #envstudies
2-year masters program for students who want to study today’s environmental challenges as deeply rooted in culture and history
Info sessions on November 11 & 21
niche-canada.org/2025/11/01/n...
#envhum #envhist #envstudies
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"Vancouver loses 'a culinary community centre' with sudden closure of Floata Seafood Restaurant" feat @donnaseto.bsky.social as told by Dan Fumano via @vancouversun.bsky.social
#bcpoli #vanpoli #vanre
vancouversun.com/opinion/colu...
#bcpoli #vanpoli #vanre
vancouversun.com/opinion/colu...
Vancouver loses 'a culinary community centre' with sudden closure of Floata Seafood Restaurant
Often called Canada's largest Chinese restaurant, its size and layout allowed it to fill a crucial role as a community hub in Chinatown.
vancouversun.com
October 31, 2025 at 1:06 AM
"Vancouver loses 'a culinary community centre' with sudden closure of Floata Seafood Restaurant" feat @donnaseto.bsky.social as told by Dan Fumano via @vancouversun.bsky.social
#bcpoli #vanpoli #vanre
vancouversun.com/opinion/colu...
#bcpoli #vanpoli #vanre
vancouversun.com/opinion/colu...