@brian_gettler@mas.to2025-12-03 15:08:25
I love university libraries.
(Dear reader, I have a weakness for 70s prog from Québec, arguably the beating heart of the genre at the time. I don't know where else I'd find this LP.)
@brian_gettler@mas.to2025-12-03 15:08:25
@jerome@jasette.facil.services2026-02-01 16:35:06
À travers cet article on apprend que VIA va commander 42 locomotives et 320 voitures. Mais ça prendra certainement plusieurs années #viarail
https://www.
@cdarwin@c.im2025-11-28 20:30:43
Bill 9, introduced by the governing Coalition Avenir Québec on Thursday,
bans prayer in public institutions, including in colleges and universities.
It also bans communal prayer on public roads and in parks,
with the threat of fines of C$1,125 for groups in contravention of the prohibition.
Short public events with prior approval are exempt.
@brian_gettler@mas.to2025-12-02 14:09:37
#TuneTuesday this week asks for #AnimalCalls, songs with animal sounds or about animals. I'll go literal. This tune - the first off the first album by the best ever Québec trad group (on se bat-tu ?) - features a loon right off the top.
@LillyHerself@Mastodon.social2026-01-29 21:50:50
RE: https://mastodon.social/@Snoro/115980311563744273
In 2024, a study by the Institut national de santé publique du Québec concluded that
➡️ increased control of wood-burning stoves could prevent deaths.
In the province, wood heating kills three…
@jlpiraux@wallonie-bruxelles.social2025-12-25 09:24:09
Au Québec, L’interdiction des cellulaires a été bénéfique selon plusieurs directions scolaires
https://www.ledevoir.com/actualites/education/944070/interdiction-cellulaires-ete-benefique-selon-plusieu…
@mxp@mastodon.acm.org2025-11-24 13:31:17
I was looking for something else when I discovered that Jean-Guy Meunier passed away last year:
https://philo.uqam.ca/babillard/nouvelles/hommage-a-jean-guy-meunier-1940-2024/
He was one of the reviewers I suggested for my tenure review, but a…
@brian_gettler@mas.to2026-01-14 16:05:27
LŠ, je suis étonné.
#Québec
@jerome@jasette.facil.services2026-01-27 03:27:30
@peter_mcmahan@mas.to2025-12-10 18:31:01
"Secularism is when you force Jewish and Muslim students to participate in school Christmas pageants."
- Québec, apparently
#quebec #secularism #laicite
@newstik@social.heise.de2025-11-06 08:34:22
Hello #Québec #Doctors , the Yukon is hiring:
https://yukondocs.ca
I don't know how the pay competes with…
@brian_gettler@mas.to2026-01-28 01:33:21
Jean Leloup, "Isabelle" (1990)
A Québec classic.
#TuneTuesday #MyNameIs
@paulbusch@mstdn.ca2025-11-26 12:35:50
Good Morning #Canada
#HappyBirthday to Bat Masterson, the famous American gunslinger who was born near Henryville Quebec in 1853. He's our segue to another #CanadianCapitals post, naturally about Quebec City. Explorer Samuel de Champlain founded the French settlement in 1608 and adopted the Algonquin name, which means "where the river narrows." Quebec City is one of the oldest European settlements in North America. The ramparts surrounding Old Quebec (Vieux-Québec) are the only fortified city walls remaining in the Americas north of Mexico. Those walls were put to good use as Québec spent the next 170 years fighting off invaders, mostly by the British but also by Americans. The city was established as the capital of Canada under British rule in 1792 and was named the provincial capital in 1867 when Canada East became Quebec.
#CanadaIsAwesome #History
https://thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/quebec-city
@jerome@jasette.facil.services2026-01-12 02:55:31
Fascinant, les derniers orangistes du Québec sont en voie de s'éteindre (finalement)
https://www.lesoleil.com/actualites/le-fil-des-coops/2026/01/11/les-irreductibles-orangistes-du-pontiac-JAVWPMFILRFFHKH…
@jerome@jasette.facil.services2025-12-18 19:47:13
@brian_gettler@mas.to2025-12-18 12:05:05
@jerome@jasette.facil.services2026-01-15 17:20:27
Projet de TGV Toronto-Québec : une première ébauche de corridor proposée
https://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/2220745/tgv-trace-corridor-toronto-montreal-quebec-train-grande-vitesse
@brian_gettler@mas.to2026-01-15 15:45:40
@brian_gettler@mas.to2025-11-11 13:46:06
This week's #TuneTuesday theme is #IsThisEmo, songs that express or make the listener feel sadness.
How about a classic from #Québec? It's about a guy who tries to go home, finds himself disoriented by eve…
@paulbusch@mstdn.ca2025-11-22 13:59:45
Good Morning #Canada
Checking my fake holiday calendar, and I see it's Go For A Ride Day. I guess that could include cars, trains, skateboards, horses, and your favourite human, but let's focus on bicycles. Some people say Canada is too big to have a cycling culture and that's why there's only 1 bike for every 4 Canadians. But those are the people who have never heard of cities... or are named Doug Ford. Only 6% of Canadians are active commuters, meaning walking or biking, but it's more prevalent in Victoria (18.7%) and Halifax (12.3%). About one-third (34%) of neighbourhoods across Canada have no cycling infrastructure but some municipalities have invested in high-comfort bike lanes (dedicated & protected pathways), including Montréal (360 km), Vancouver (246 km), Edmonton (226 km) and Québec City (190 km).
Here's some #StatsCan data on commuting by bike.
#CanadaIsAwesome #Biking #GetOutside
https://www.statcan.gc.ca/o1/en/plus/6203-bike-work-day-cycling-through-data
@brian_gettler@mas.to2026-01-07 22:45:52
The end of Twitter and my choice of the fedi as the place I hang my virtual hat means that I only just now learned of the deaths in September and October 2025 of three seminal scholars in my field (the history Québec and Canada).
RIP Jim Miller, Tim Cook, and Alfred Dubuc.