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Tina Loo
@lootina.bsky.social
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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...]
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lootina.bsky.social
Ice, ice, baby! Freeze up starting on the Bow River. #photography
Black and white photo taken from Canmore’s Engine Bridge looking towards the Three Sisters mountains and over the Bow River, which is slowly icing up. Trees on both river banks are dusted with snow.
December 14, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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jimclifford.bsky.social
And we’ve done it all before. Canadian tax payers will spend $1 billion to $4.38 billion on Giant mine long after the companies sold or went bankrupt.
profsmithsask.bsky.social Charles Smith @profsmithsask.bsky.social · 3d
This is the logical policy outcome for a government that is captured by a single industry. Socialize the risk, privatize the profits. It is socialism for the rich while the public is left with all the environmental costs.
Albertans at risk of paying oil sands reclamation costs, Auditor-General says
Funds set aside as security for mine reclamation vastly lower than estimated cleanup costs, report finds
www.theglobeandmail.com
December 12, 2025 at 11:45 PM
lootina.bsky.social
Into the mystic #photography #multipleexposure #winter
Multiple exposure of a wintry path (branches and leaves in the foreground) in Canmore with the town's Engine Bridge (which used to bring coal to the Canadian Pacific Railway's main branch).
December 12, 2025 at 5:47 PM
lootina.bsky.social
“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...
Is Environmentalism Out of Ideas?
The answer depends on where you look.
conservationworks.substack.com
December 2, 2025 at 4:23 PM
lootina.bsky.social
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
lootina.bsky.social
#cdnhist and #envhist worth reading!!!!
stillots1.bsky.social Shirley Tillotson @stillots1.bsky.social · 16d
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.

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Screen capture of a book cover. It's a white background with a picture of part of a multicolored lobster dominating the bottom 2/3 of the cover. Book title is Contested catch: lobster, localism and Canada's Atlantic coast, 1870 to 1970
December 2, 2025 at 5:53 AM
lootina.bsky.social
#envhist!
animalhistory.bsky.social Animal History @animalhistory.bsky.social · 13d
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
lootina.bsky.social
Fun in he dark #photography #filmphotography #analog #oldskool
Photo of the darkroom. Processing underway with the red lights on. (photos were already in the fixer so no problem with pulling out the phone to take this shot). Two test strips in the tray; slightly different exposure times. Final print of the night. Haven’t quite got the sky right. Needs to be burned in more. Ran out of time.
November 26, 2025 at 5:44 AM
lootina.bsky.social
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...
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
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arnkeeling.bsky.social
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-...
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
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stevenhigh.bsky.social
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/?...
Search Jobs - University Affairs
universityaffairs.ca
November 17, 2025 at 12:41 PM
lootina.bsky.social
#LumiereFestival #yvr
November 17, 2025 at 5:14 AM
lootina.bsky.social
Spectacular night at the #Lumière Festival. November days are shorter, but that just meant more time to take in the light… #photography
Night shot of brightly coloured large spherical lanterns with people gathered around them. Intentional camera movement used. Night time shot of a moving light display (mainly pink and blue) on the front plaza of the Vancouver Art Gallery, looking north towards the Hotel Georgia. Blue laser light show inside the pillars of the Vancouver Art Gallery. Black and white shot from the Robson Square Court House looking north at the skating rink and the lights of Robson Square. The buildings are lit up behind.
November 17, 2025 at 5:08 AM
lootina.bsky.social
Well deserved! A terrific book. But also a significant one that deserves a wide reading by anyone interested in human rights. #cdnhist
November 15, 2025 at 12:46 AM
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nichecanada.bsky.social
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
November 13, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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rpanchasi.bsky.social
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...
Screenshot of a French History journal webpage for the article "On ne peut pas couler un arc-en-ciel: the Rainbow Warrior bombing at forty," by Roxanne Panchasi. Black text on a white background with links and a blue banner up top.
November 13, 2025 at 4:31 PM
lootina.bsky.social
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
lootina.bsky.social
Pigeons parked… #photography
Pigeons flocked around a man seated in a wheelchair feeding them.
November 8, 2025 at 12:26 AM
lootina.bsky.social
Thanks to Alberta's UCP... Gift link.
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
lootina.bsky.social
This looks terrific! #photography #chinatown

www.cbc.ca/arts/for-mor...
For more than a decade, this artist has photographed North America’s changing Chinatowns | CBC Arts
Visiting Chinatowns from Ottawa to Oakland, Calif., Morris Lum’s new book is a visual exploration of restaurants, grocery stores and community halls as important sites of cultural heritage.
www.cbc.ca
November 6, 2025 at 3:48 AM
lootina.bsky.social
Whoa! Dizzying installation in the atrium of the @vanartgallery.bsky.social #photography
Aerial shot of the very colourful floor of the atrium of the art gallery. It’s multicoloured stripes arranged in a pattern which extends up the staircase.
November 6, 2025 at 3:19 AM
lootina.bsky.social
Excellent news!
picardonhealth.bsky.social André Picard @picardonhealth @picardonhealth.bsky.social · Nov 6
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
lootina.bsky.social
It’s good to be in the dark[room] again. #filmphotography #analog #oldschool
Black and white contact sheet Test strips hanging to dry in the darkroom
November 5, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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terriclarke.bsky.social
A must read thread about the history of anti-urbanism and fascism:
georgemonbiot.bsky.social George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · Nov 5
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
lootina.bsky.social
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...
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