Roberta Lexier

Are car washes and other companies shut down or just residents who need to sacrifice??

Annual Meeting | Canadian Historical Association | Société historique du Canada The CHA hosts an annual meeting in May/June in coordination with the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences which is held in a different Canadian city each year. Between 350-500 historians gat...

Registration has now opened for the CHA annual meeting! We hope to see you there. #CHASHC2026 #cdnhist

Also, no one is choosing AB for social programs that have been gutted beyond recognition

Oh good, it’s woodpecker mating season.

Apparently not necessarily. Lots of Puerto Rico players couldn’t go because of insurance and there’s political shit going on with the Cuba team (shocker). This might be the one time we can get out of pool play.

Episode Three of Student Power is now available! I talk to Zainab Amadahy about South African Apartheid and Joel Harden about tuition fees. Enjoy!

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To piss off your enemies

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He also helped George W manufacture consent for the invasion of Iraq. How has he been so thoroughly rehabilitated?

Please let Alberta be next.

So enraged about the state of things

🚨 @niigaanwewidam.bsky.social and I - along with a dream team of incredible collaborators - are excited to announce a new book challenging residential school denialism!

Truth Before Reconciliation will be released in September with the University of Manitoba Press: uofmpress.ca/books/truth-...

Exactly. Can’t blame the actual culprit - the profit motive underlying capitalism - so best blame immigrants (or trans folks or the disabled or…)

My id card is hilarious

Seriously?? Yikes

Naheed Nenshi needs to step up — or step down The former mayor of Calgary was supposed to bring the Alberta NDP back to political power. Instead, they're further away from it than they've been in a decade.

My latest: Naheed Nenshi has been a monumental disappointment as Alberta NDP leader — and it could actually get worse from here. #abpoli #cdnpoli

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I’ll tell you right now: you’re old 😂😂

You, an individual, cannot "fix" the whole world. You can act at the scale of your life. You should act at the scale of your life.

The “Radical” Sixties Podcast Episode · Student Power: A Canadian Student Movement History Podcast · February 20 · 29m

Episode two of Student Power is now out! I talk to Dr. Jessica Squires about support for draft dodgers and @judydarcy.bsky.social about the amazing Abortion Caravan!

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Couldn’t possibly blame the real culprit: capitalism

The “Radical” Sixties Podcast Episode · Student Power: A Canadian Student Movement History Podcast · February 20 · 29m

Episode two of Student Power is now out! I talk to Dr. Jessica Squires about support for draft dodgers and @judydarcy.bsky.social about the amazing Abortion Caravan!

podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/s...

Joke of a province

Oooh yay!

Polite City, Loud Streets: Protesting in Calgary with Dr. Roberta Lexier | Hot Dogs & Hot Takes on History — The Confluence Debunk myths. Debate opinions. Eat hot dogs. Is Calgary really as politically quiet and conservative as its reputation suggests? Or has protest always been part of the city’s DNA — easier to overlook...

YYC folks: I’m giving a talk at the Confluence on Thursday evening about the history of protest in the city. Join me!

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Interregnums, Morbid Symptoms, and Climate Denial By Don Wright The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear. – Antonio Gramsci What…

Don Wright explores climate change and climate denial as part of the Time of Monsters series, examining how historians approach current manifestations of right-wing populism.

This series is ongoing and asking for submissions. Check out all the posts and find more info on our website!

Trampling student movements: a growing trend at Canadian universities Suppression of Palestine protests highlights a new and dangerous context for campus activism.

"Universities have [..] always deeply enmeshed in settler-colonial and capitalist projects."

"These affiliations [..] are so important to universities that [administrators] are willing to attack their own students."
#Canada #Vietnam #Gaza #Palestine #Israel #Protest #Policing #Education #Genocide

come and join me on 26 February at UCalgary, it’s a free event with a reception after the talk, but you need to register @ laceylecture2026.eventbrite.ca

Sorry but if you’re willing to throw trans folks under the bus you’re no saviour.

Now seems like a great time (ie long past time) to reopen national labs to prepare vaccines and pandemic responses…

Photograph of book Student Power: Canadian Student Movements From the Sixties to Today

It’s real!!