Angela Tozer (she/her)
@agentlazero.bsky.social
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Prof @UNB. Historian of capitalism and settler colonialism. Book: The Debt of Nation: Land and the Financing of the Canadian Settler State (UBC Press, 2025). Work: Eels + the impacts of racial capital on Treaty in Wəlastəkwey territory. Tamil, eats lentils
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agentlazero.bsky.social
This is going to be a fascinating lecture, all are welcome!!
histstudiesunb.bsky.social
All are warmly invited to the Department of Historical Studies' 3rd Annual Queer History Month lecture. This year's lecture will be delivered by Dr. Ronald Cummings, Professor of
Caribbean Literature and Black Diaspora Studies in the Department of English and Cultural Studies at McMaster University
A poster advertising a talk with an image of Dr. Ronald Cummings. The talk is titled : Queer Marronage as Survival: Queer life in the Embers of the Plantation. It takes place Friday, October 24th, from 5-7 and the Harriet Irving Library room 318
agentlazero.bsky.social
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-...
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...
www.ubcpress.ca
agentlazero.bsky.social
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
csnrec.bsky.social
University of New Brunswick - Department of Historical Studies

MA Fellowship

Deindustrialization and the Politics of Our Time

The application deadline is December 15, 2025.

csn-rec.ca/student-zone...

#cdnhist @acsc-unb.bsky.social @robartscentre.bsky.social
agentlazero.bsky.social
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...
Canada, Britain and Australia recognize state of Palestine
Declaration marks a significant shift in Canada’s foreign policy
www.theglobeandmail.com
agentlazero.bsky.social
What the actual F. If they signed your name they used an email
agentlazero.bsky.social
380 ppl signed a letter justifying the murder of 50,000 children with "Hamas allegedly utilizes children as combatants, and that children make up about 50% of Gaza’s population."The use of "allegedly" here is pretty telling, plausible deniability I guess when genocide denial is no longer fashionable
agentlazero.bsky.social
sample letter from the Calgary Board of Education
agentlazero.bsky.social
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...
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.
nwlc.org
agentlazero.bsky.social
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
abeba.bsky.social
In this short piece, I lean on embodied cog sci to argue that we should refuse & resist llms in education (pp. 53-58) unesdoc.unesco.org/in/documentV...

"the classroom is an environment where love, trust, empathy, care & humility are fostered & mutually cultivated through dialogical interactions"
 But what iseducation? Embodied and enactive cognitive sciences remind us that knowledge is not something discrete that an individual possesses and passes down but an inherently dynamic and evolving endeavour that develops in the process of embodied, curious and engaged interaction through dialogue. The pinnacle of cognition, particularly ‘human  knowing’, is inextricably interwoven with interactions we engage in  with each other and the physical, cultural and social world we inhabit, ‘so much so that individuals are not thinkable outside of their interactions and embeddedness in their (social) world’ (De Jaegher, 2019). Dialogic models of knowledge and education emphasize that interactions between a student and teacher and/or peer provide ‘scaffolding’ for how that child understands the world. The always in flux, active and continually transforming nature of human cognition necessitates that education be fundamentally an ongoing activity. Far from the reductionist view whereby ‘formal knowledge’ can be packaged and acquired from an LLM, the classroom is an environment where love, trust, empathy, care and humility are fostered and mutually cultivated through dialogical interactions
agentlazero.bsky.social
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...
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.
www.fraserinstitute.org
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ubcpress.bsky.social
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.”
agentlazero.bsky.social
"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...
savethecbc.bsky.social
📢 Poilievre is pushing U.S.-style “Stand Your Ground” spin in Canada — twisting a tragic Ontario case to inflame fear and cater to his base.

Fact: Self-defence is already legal in Canada. The law requires reasonable force — CBC debunked his misinformation and set the record straight.
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nkalamb.bsky.social
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 🎟️
agentlazero.bsky.social
"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."
anthonymoser.com
I considered writing a long carefully constructed argument laying out the harms and limitations of AI, but instead I wrote about being a hater. Only humans can be haters.
I Am An AI Hater
I am an AI hater. This is considered rude, but I do not care, because I am a hater.
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fburrill.bsky.social
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!
histstudiesunb.bsky.social
We are extremely excited to be co-hosting Dr. Adjetey with @acsc-unb.bsky.social. If you are planning to attend, please register here (for catering!):

www.eventbrite.com/e/counterins...
agentlazero.bsky.social
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-...
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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agentlazero.bsky.social
This is going to be a good one folks, save the date and please share widely!!
histstudiesunb.bsky.social
Save the date!! We're thrilled to announce Governor General Award Winner Dr. Wendell Nii Laryea Adjetey's public lecture on Black revolutionary politics in North America and the Atlantic world! Sept 16th, 4-6pm, Tilley Hall room 102, University of New Brunswick. All are Welcome!!
a poster advertising a lecture by Governor General Award Winner Dr. Wendell Nii Laryea Adjetey on Black revolutionary politics in the Atlantic world. Sept 16th, 4-6pm, Tilley Hall room 102, University of New Brunswick. All are Welcome!!
agentlazero.bsky.social
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.
mark-carney.bsky.social
We’re building Canada strong. That means being our own best customer — using Canadian workers and Canadian resources to build the major projects that will transform and unite our economy.
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ianboudreau.com
Mamdani must explain his tweet from 1740 BC claiming that Ea-nāṣir had "high quality copper"
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wlupress.bsky.social
In recognition of National Indigenous History Month we have curated a list of recent titles in Indigenous Studies. WLU Press is exhibiting at NAISA next week. Please stop by the booth and talk with series editor Daniel Heath Justice. www.wlupress.wlu.ca/...
A selection of book covers with the words National Indigenous History Month