The more I think about it, the more bugged I get that the history we're taught about in schools is mostly about old white dudes. (And when you do learn about Canada's First Nations, it's pretty much exclusively about their lifeways prior to European contact, and there's often very little sense that they continued to exist, and still exist today ( Read more... )

[EDIT: I guess I should warn for spoilers. If you want to read the book, it's available online in full for free here. Yay expired copyrights!]

( Cut for length: feminism, patriotism, twilight, Afghanistan and more! )

I had a dream last night, and in that vague, logic-defying way that you just know certain facts to be true while you are dreaming, my dream somehow included the fact that Wolverine was friends with Louis Riel.

0_o

This weekend, an event called Doors Open Toronto took place. I took advantage of it on Sunday and had a look inside Mackenzie House, Old City Hall, and the old Don Jail.

HUGE PIC-SPAM under the cut. Seriously. Many many pictures and bits of info. Definitely not dial-up friendly.

( Those three landmarks, plus a few random shots of the city )

Apparently the Toronto Public Library is putting on a few comics-related events at the North York Central branch, in addition to hosting TCAF at the Reference Library ( Read more... )

So I'm reading a book by Anna Brownell Jameson called Winter Studies and Summer Rambles in Canada, which is about the author travelling to Toronto from England in December 1836, her journeys and observations about Upper Canada ( Read more... )

So, I was looking up the 1837 Rebellion of Upper Canada, which of course led me to a list of conflicts in Canadian history, which led me to the Ipperwash Crisis, which led me to the evil hated Mike Harris, which led me to FRANK MILLER: former Ontario Premiere!

Yeah, I'm sure it's a common name, but gah. It's like when Pierre Pettigrew used to be ( Read more... )

So today I purchased two new sets of pyjamas and fluffy pink (well, coral-coloured, really) bathrobe ( Read more... )