@profnickmount

Professor, historian, peregrino. Best-selling author of Arrival: The Story of CanLit, currently writing the first history of #vandalism. Believes in naps.

 University of Toronto
nickmount.ca/
Joined May 2013
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a nobel prize is cool i guess but Anne Carson also received a Sappho finger puppet from yours truly and just look at that smile
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𝐀𝐮𝐭𝐨𝐛𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐲 [𝑛𝑜𝑢𝑛]: the alarming growth of private cars in height, width, length and weight at the expense of public space, the environment and overall safety.
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Rob Roberts@itsrobrobertsSep 9
Someone has left this note - and this lighter! - at the Halifax grave of Maj.-Gen. Robert Ross, the British military man who burned down the White House.
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Just a reminder my Canadian friends. Many spring projects. Home Depot is 100% American owned. The owner is Bernard Marcus is a huge Trump supporter. Home hardware is 100% Canadian owned. Pass the word repost.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
Bernard Marcus is dead. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_M…
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HEY EVERYONE REMEMBER WHEN TRUMP WAS IMPEACHED FOR DENYING AID TO UKRAINE BECAUSE HE WANTED ZELENSKY TO LIE AND SAY BAD THINGS ABOUT BIDEN AND ZELENKSY WOULDN’T DO IT? Maybe literally one fucking American newspaper could mention this in their, “think pieces,” about what happened yesterday.
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Look at it again.
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Neil Renic@NC_Renic12 Oct 2024
Congratulations on your completion of a PhD at our university - you are now a valued member of our academic family. Your email and library access will terminate in 11 minutes.
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An American beast. Tamed. #WorldBollardAssociation
A huge American truck is disabled by a bollard.

ALT A huge American truck is disabled by a bollard.

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A flimsy piece of public infrastructure that’s been lazily delegated to a private media company burning in front of the city’s newest and glossiest mall is actually a pretty complete portrait of the city’s shortcomings.
alex@steven_lebron20 Jul 2024
going out for a walk in toronto and cool there’s a garbage can on fire
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People on both sides of the aisle always talk about how small business is the foundation of our economy. And also a big part of employment. We also know that mostly, they just pay lip service. But - two thirds of private workers come from those small employers. Places like the Toronto’s Revue Cinema are well run businesses and a big part of our history. If they can’t compete, what are we even doing. There was an 38 per cent increase of small business bankruptcies in 2023. Save Toronto. And Canada.
Revue Cinema@RevueCinema27 Jun 2024
Important news!
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The Walrus
@thewalrus19 Jun 2024
Hitting that mid-week slump? Take a pause for some poetry with writer @richardgreene2’s nautical poem, “On the Use of the Sextant.” thewalrus.ca/on-the-use-of-t…

On the Use of the Sextant | The Walrus

In their wooden boats of spirit, the saints / saw little of God

thewalrus.ca
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Tomorrow we're publishing Harold Sonny Ladoo's final, unfinished work, Yesterdays. It is a big departure from his first book, and it shows a trajectory to his writing career that might have changed the course of Canadian literature. Check it out here: chbooks.com/Books/Y/Yesterda… ☀️
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New edition! New cover! New content! New low price! Out this week. The history you never learned in school; the argument you never thought you’d make
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A @cbcideas doc on Bear, by Marian Engel: cbc.ca/radio/ideas/why-the-c…

Why the classic Canadian novel Bear remains controversial — and relevant | CBC Radio

Marian Engel’s Bear is one of Canada’s most controversial novels. But experts say it’s also one of the most daring and enduring.

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I’ve seen three images in the last few minutes that’ll be with me for the rest of my life. To bomb a refugee camp is an unimaginable horror. Every hand has to be turned to stop this.
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@omarsakrpoet27 May 2024
There is no good way to perceive this nightmare.
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Videos from strike on UNRWA camp in Rafah are truly horrific. I won’t share them. But this is insanity, and most people paying close attention know it. It won’t end the war. It won’t destroy Hamas. It won’t bring home the hostages. It will just create more orphans and misery
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Grad students from across @UofT: This fall, @profnickmount will teach Destroying the City to ask What is vandalism? Who does it, and why? Does it also create? Can a transhistorical, interdisciplinary approach offer new perspectives? Learn more & apply now: schoolofcities.utoronto.ca/l…
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When my son was born, Alice Munro wrote me a letter. The letter was one of congratulations, and then instructions to me about my partner: to let her carve out a life outside of raising a kid - that I'd better raise this child equally & respect the working life of my son's mother.
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A treasure. 19 year-old me was star-struck. RIP Alice Munro.
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proof that non-UofT students have infiltrated the encampment @uoft #GeeseAgainstGenocide
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