In February, I found out that my breast cancer (2021, stage 2) had metastasized to my bones (stage 4).

Not curable, but it won’t kill me right away.

Since then, I’ve learned a lot about this state of being sick / not sick. Thought I’d share a bit of what I’ve learned. It was a shock, but it turns out that, in my case, it’s not any kind of emergency.

Cases vary a lot among the approx 30% of breast cancer survivors whose cancer metastasizes.

I have bone lesions, painless, and I’ll be fine until the little bastards get to my vital organs

Covid-19, inflation, wildfires. Some of the necessary remedies lie in the hands of “the public.” How to mobilize them/us?

I’ve been thinking about where we are with this problem, as I write about inflation in 1968-72
A thread
1/13 In 1968, the federal gov’t created a Prices & Incomes Commission (PIC). Bankers had deemed inflation a problem since at least 1965. Little did they know how trifling a 4.6% annual CPI rise would soon look. But in 1967, Gallup reported that inflation was “our No. 1 problem!”
2/13

An economist asked for examples of “weird” Canadian taxes. Yes, I DO have examples. But are any of them genuinely “weird”? Same thing for tax exemptions – why was *this* taxed and this other similar thing not?

Examples and then explanations. A thread. Candy manufacturers objecting to chocolate tax in 1958. Why this kind of candy and not others? (Toronto Globe)

Here’s what one kind of objection to state expansion looks like. From World War II.

Thread, on why crisis-led state-building isn’t… so bad. In 1943, as soldiers died in combat all over the world, some Canadians were ticked off at having to fill out questionnaires.

The connections of universities to slavery and why it matters. Along with the Report on Lord Dalhousie's History on Race and Slavery, the first Canadian research! #Halifax! @Tim_Bousquet

A second thread (and a link to the first)

https://twitter.com/stillots1/status/1227947830226104320?s=20

Nova Scotia King’s was connected to the slave economy of the West Indies in another way, too. Between 1825 and 1846, King’s was kept afloat financially by funding from the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel (SPG).

On @infomorning today, I shared (in 8 minutes!) some results of the pathbreaking research we've done on the history of Nova Scotia's King's College connections to the enslavement of African people. Here's a taste:

History thread!

#UVADeanKvD @ukings First, we made sure the basics were covered: slavery was practiced in Nova Scotia. The trade was abolished by a British statute in 1807, and enslaved people were emancipated by an 1833 British statute. Read HA Whitfield's great book on the subject (North to Bondage).