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Rick Jobs @richardivanjobs.bsky.social · 12d

@stevenvanwolputte.bsky.social look at this crowd!

My thanks to Jessica Hardin, @rebeccapscales.bsky.social, @rit-cola.bsky.social and RIT students for a great Conable lecture last night. Such great conversation about our new book ‘In The Land of the Lacandón’!

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Rick Jobs @richardivanjobs.bsky.social · 14d

My thanks to the Department of History at the University of Rochester for hosting me yesterday. An enthused and engaged audience and a student asked the first question!

Poster advertising a book talk for In the Land of the Lacandón with author Richard Ivan Jobs.

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McGill-Queen's University Press @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social · 14d

We are so honoured to be on this list! Congrats and good luck to all the shortlisted authors and publishers. @alasdairroberts.bsky.social

The Hill Times @hilltimes.com · 14d

UNLOCKED | A great primer for tonight’s Politics & the Pen: Q&As with all five Shaughnessy Cohen nominees

www.hilltimes.com/story/2025/0...

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Sarah Smith @smithsarah.bsky.social · 20d

📕It's official, 𝘛𝘳𝘢𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘰𝘯 𝘈𝘳𝘵: 𝘊𝘶𝘭𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘢𝘭 𝘋𝘪𝘱𝘭𝘰𝘮𝘢𝘤𝘺 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘍𝘳𝘦𝘦 𝘛𝘳𝘢𝘥𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘕𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘩 𝘈𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘢 is now out in a free open access version and as a paperback. Spread the word!

📚Open Access: www.ubcpress.ca/asset/103563...
➡️Order paperback: www.ubcpress.ca/trading-on-art

@ubcpress.bsky.social

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Alasdair Roberts @alasdairroberts.bsky.social · 21d

My op-ed in today's @theglobeandmail.com, based on my book from @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social

www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

Opinion: We’re missing a vision for Canada

We are living in a different world, and we need to talk about what that means for all of us

www.theglobeandmail.com

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Xtra @xtramagazine.com · 22d

Fewer LGBTQ2S+ people hold positions of political power in Canada, and those who do represent a narrower range of political perspectives, according to research by @qalbaugh.bsky.social and @kebaisley.bsky.social.

LGBTQ2S+ representation in Parliament is declining. What can we do? | Xtra Magazine

Research shows fewer queer and trans people hold political power in Canada, and those who do represent fewer political perspectives

xtramagazine.com

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Emily Andrew @eandreweditor.bsky.social · 24d

Great to see @yasmeenabulaban.bsky.social at the @apsa.bsky.social meetings! Here, with her new book, coedited with @tungohan.bsky.social and @mireillepaquet.bsky.social.

@mcgillqueensup.bsky.social is the proud publisher.

A woman wearing a black dress stands in front of a table, holding a copy of her book and smiling.

The book cover of “Knowledge, Power, and Migration: Contesting the North/South Divide“.

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Senator Reverend Raphael Warnock @warnock.senate.gov · 25d

It takes strength to love.

It takes courage to love.

It takes patience and persistence to love.

God grant us strength and courage.

God grant us patience and persistence for the facing of this hour and for the living of these days.

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McGill PoliSci @mcgillpolisci.bsky.social · 28d

New from @debthompsonphd.bsky.social in the Globe & Mail

www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

Opinion: Trump is turning the National Guard into his personal police force

The President views the troops and ICE as his own tools to do with as he pleases

www.theglobeandmail.com

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Rick Jobs @richardivanjobs.bsky.social · Sep 7

Happy to report that 'In the Land of the Lacandón' is being used in classrooms this fall. We think this can be a great tool for instructors and had that in mind when we put it together. I've already gotten emails from very engaged and excited students! 🗃️🏺 #skystorians #academicsky

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Emily Andrew @eandreweditor.bsky.social · Sep 6

Signing a copy of his book for my son with all the time in the world, as though there weren’t a lineup of hundreds waiting. RIP, Ken Dryden. 💔

A man, signs a copy of his book while a little boy looks up at him.

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · Sep 4

The “problem” with vaccines? They so effective at preventing deaths that they create generations of people that question whether disease was a problem in the first place because they have never experienced the horrors of a world without vaccines.

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Emily Andrew @eandreweditor.bsky.social · Sep 4

Cue Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9.

Dan Hayward @danielhayward.bsky.social · Sep 4

I rarely buy books in hard copy these days - too little room in the house - but I ordered this one. I also want to give @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social, a vital Canadian publisher (and I went to Queen's!) my business.

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Emily Andrew @eandreweditor.bsky.social · Sep 4

@drjessicariddell.bsky.social goes from amazing to amaZINGER! Soon to be inducted into the Royal Society of Canada, @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social is the publisher of her game-changing book.

#EduSky, #AcademicSky, @ubishops.bsky.social

Cover image of Jessica Riddell's book, Hope Circuits: Rewiring Universities and Other Organizations for Human Flourishing. A blue spirograph background converges on the "O" of HOPE.

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Emily Andrew @eandreweditor.bsky.social · Sep 4

Who wouldn't be thrilled to have legendary Rt. Hon. Joe Clark endorsing this @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social book about SE Asian refugees and their immense contributions to Canada? 🤩

The Hill Times @hilltimes.com · Sep 4

Heard On The Hill: Former PM Joe Clark lends his voice to a new book on Southeast Asian refugees, interim NDP Leader Don Davies talks about his party's rebuild.

www.hilltimes.com/story/2025/0...

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Emily Andrew @eandreweditor.bsky.social · Sep 1

For the union makes us strong.

Emily Andrew and her partner, a carpenter, wear United Brotherhood of Carpenters Tshirts during the Labour Day 2025 March.

Representing the east side of Toronto, a proud union member in a red Tshirt.

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Emily Andrew @eandreweditor.bsky.social · Aug 30

Must be! I’ve never felt in conversation with rock before seeing that beauty.

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Emily Andrew @eandreweditor.bsky.social · Aug 29

Your photo reminded me of two I took this spring, at Crawford Lake, ON.

Pinkish stone promontory, covered in moss with a tree poking out the top.

Close-up of beautiful pink stone, sliced horizontally by nature, and covered in moss.

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Laura Davulis @davulis.bsky.social · Aug 28

Darlings, a reminder: an editorial assistant will, in her first six months on the job, work on more books than you will publish in your lifetime. If she warns you that an image won’t reproduce well, or that [whatever] will cause delays, or that [thing] often ends up looking silly: believe her.

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Ryoa Chung @ryoa.bsky.social · Aug 25

Félicitations à Yann Allard-Tremblay, membre de la Première Nation huronne-wendat, et chercheur du Centre de recherche en éthique, pour la parution de son livre chez Oxford University Press.
academic.oup.com/book/60793?l...

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Emily Andrew @eandreweditor.bsky.social · Aug 25

My next weekend getaway!

Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · Aug 25

New trail signs in Dundas Valley tell the 'Basadinaa Experience' from the Indigenous perspective #Ontario

Hamilton Conservation Authority teamed up with Indigenous communities to share cultural stories

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

New trail signs in Dundas Valley tell the 'Basadinaa Experience' from the Indigenous perspective | CBC News

The Basadinaa Experience shares stories of cultural and historical significance from the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation and Six Nations of the Grand River — the traditional lands of both grou...

www.cbc.ca

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Kenneth F. Duggan 🇨🇦 @kfduggan.bsky.social · Aug 23

PLEASE REPOST 🥺🙏

The Canadian Letters & Images Project is an online digital archive of Canadians’ experience during wartime at home & in battle. It contains thousands of personal letters & photos that reveal people’s experience through their own words & eyes.
www.canadianletters.ca/content/abou...

The homepage for the Canadian letters and images project. It shows soldiers posing for a photograph and there is a search bar in the centre. In the about section below, which cannot be seen in this image, it provides this information:

The Canadian Letters and Images Project, created in 2000, is an online digital archive of the Canadian war experience, both home front and battlefront, from any conflict in which Canadians have participated. The focus of the project is on the personal materials of participants, such as letters and photographs, which permit us to experience the war through their eyes and their words. These are very often the stories of ordinary Canadians, largely forgotten and overlooked. Our mission is to digitally preserve and continue to make freely accessible this important part of Canada’s heritage for this generation and future generations.

The vision of the project is to continue to expand this repository of Canadian archival materials by collaborating with Canadians to preserve and share the individual and collective stories that have shaped our past

Accessibility to the past is key to understanding who we are as a nation. We are committed to free access for everyone to the materials of the project.

All collections are of equal importance. Every letter, photograph, or other artifact has an important story to tell.

The collections and their contents are not edited or censored. Our role as historians is not to judge the past in light of the present, but to present everything in its entirety at the time of its creation.

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Emily Andrew @eandreweditor.bsky.social · Aug 14

Peter Biro's remarkable @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social volume has been cited, not once or twice, but THREE times by the Saskatchewan Court of Appeal in its recent ruling on preferred names and gender pronouns in schools. So proud to be making legal history! 🏳️‍🌈

Cover of Peter Biro's edited volume, "The Notwithstanding Clause and the Canadian Charter: Rights, Reforms, and Controversies". A line drawing of the federal parliament building appears in the top part of the cover, and a sharp scalpel in the bottom.

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W. Andy Knight @knight54.bsky.social · Aug 14

www.cbc.ca/listen/live-... Professor develops a free, online course on Black Canadian history | Information Morning - NS | On Demand | CBC Listen

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Nimisha Barton @nimishabarton.bsky.social · Aug 13

My French history students from the last couple years wanted to summer book club @richardivanjobs.bsky.social new graphic novel In the Land of Lacandon and LOVED it! Perfect for undergrad courses on colonialism, science, knowledge and power, mass media, and so much more! 10/10 highly recommend.

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