#50YearsAgoToday in #YYC: Official opening of three new #UCalgary buildings on convocation day: Biological Sciences (opened by former Board of Governors chair L.A. Thorssen), Earth Sciences (by Chancellor W.A. Friley), & Math Sciences (by Advanced Education Minister Jim Foster).

November 10, 1972! #UCalgary #UCalgarySciences

Major Stanley Jones was the first Calgarian to volunteer for duty in World War I and the first officer from western Canada to be killed in action. In 1916, Bridgeland School was renamed to Stanley Jones School in his honour. #RemembranceDay calgary.ca/arts-culture/h…

Today, we remember and honour all of those who gave their lives to serve our country. #remembranceday #shabbatshalom #calgaryjewishfederation #jewishcalgary #jewishcalgarytogether

Remembrance Day Service 2022, Okotoks Cenotaph - Grateful for all who served, especially those who made the ultimate sacrifice. #LestWeForget #RemembranceDay

Artillery craters at #Vimy over one hundred years later. We remember. 🇨🇦 #FirstWorldWar

Listen to Dan van Leeuwen now on The Homestretch CBC. His family hid Jews in the Netherlands during the #Holocaust. #yyc #WWII

Does anyone still have a Saturday #CalgaryHerald with the Bob Edwards/Calgary Eye Opener article that I can have? I’ll come and pick it up from you. Impossible to buy now.

Bob Edwards, editor-publisher of the #Calgary Eye Opener, died #100YearsAgo this week. The #CalgaryHerald published this story on him on Saturday. I missed buying the paper, & it's impossible to get. Does anyone have one they can part with? I'll pick up. epaper.calgaryherald.com/article/281642…

Maxine Fischbein and AJNews win CEMA Award for Journalistic Excellence in Community Engagement  - albertajewishnews.com/maxine-fischbe…

Re-sharing this piece I wrote about online and IRL bullies for no particular reason. theglobeandmail.com/opinion/articl…

Mazel Tov, Maxine, on this well deserved award!

"Singing, entertaining, and being in kind of good health at my age, that's why I survived." In "Hogan’s Heroes," Robert Clary played a French POW. In reality, he was born to a Jewish family in France in 1926 and survived several concentration camps. He died yesterday at 96.

Robert Clary, last of the ‘Hogan’s Heroes’ stars, dies at 96 bit.ly/3hOviLS

Hogan’s Heroes reruns were on TV 13 times per week when I was a kid, and I watched them all. I went to hear Robert Clary speak in #YYC (at the Carriage House Inn, I think) about his #Holocaust experience. Oleh v’sholem.

On this day Blackfoot Crossing was received a donation from the Cross family on behalf of the descendants of Colonel Macleod, one of the actual medals gifted at the signing of the Blackfoot Treaty. This is one of three in known existence.

Hi. Historian here. I see that a lot of people are using the hashtag #TrudeauIsTheNewHitler without sarcasm. Hitler was directly responsible for the deaths of approximately 20 million people. Please shut up, fuck off, then fuck off some more.

This is the limit for me. I’m not closing my account, but I’m done posting here. Find me on Mastodon at @[email protected].