October is Mi’kmaw History Month, a time to celebrate and to reaffirm commitment to the Peace and Friendship Treaties. We are all Treaty People.

You can explore more here: mikmaqhistorymonth.ca

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Morris has been reduced to one lane for water work. I assume the port has shut down and ambulances are refusing to even try answering calls in the area.

Not only can working from home make you happier, for many disabled people it allows them to remain in the workforce

It gives them autonomy & independence. Flexibility to attend doctors appointments and care for their health

It’s a crucial accommodation, and removing it will harm disabled lives

Uninformed comments on autism are resonant of dangerous ideas about eugenics

China’s response is not the start of a global trade war since it only targets the USA. It is how you would expect a major player to respond. This is not the global economy breaking down, it is not the 1930s, it is not the formation of multiple imperial blocs, it is the US isolating itself.

In a move that *should* be precedent-setting for other scholarly organizations, the North American Society for the Sociology of Sport (NASSS) announces that this year’s conference will be held concurrently at sites in the US and Canada and online due to the dangerous US political climate.

Canada could remove all tariffs from US goods and I still wouldn’t buy them.

Last year I was talking with one of our honours students about where to do their MA and I recommended a couple of US schools (along with a few CND). This year I would not offer the same advice (and I’m glad they didn’t opt for the US schools).

Happy World Down Syndrome Day!!!

While you're rocking your funky socks in celebration of difference and inclusion, please take a look at Martha Walls' examination of Prenatal Testing, Genetic Advocacy, and the "Burden of Down Syndrome" in 1970s NS:

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One positive thing in all of this is that my Canadian-American Relations class next year is going to be fuckin’ lit!

Please join me tomorrow (Monday) evening at 7 pm AST for a discussion of partial day attendance in schools and how bad it is for children and their families.

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I have never wanted Canada to win a hockey game so badly in my life.

Today on the blog, the Journal of New Brunswick Studies has been kind enough to let us repost Bonnie Huskins' lovely tribute to our late colleague Elizabeth Mancke. acadiensis.wordpress...

On the blog, Vicki Hallett looks at the trouble with women and cod in NF and Labrador's Colonial History. Also, this includes my fave line ever in a post: "Atlantic cod have the twin disadvantages of being supremely delicious and supremely ugly." acadiensis.wordpress...