A slightly acidic space for commentary, mixed with sweet undertones of optimism, and occasionally garnished with a cherry of insight. Pample the Moose is the blog of Matthew Hayday, an associate professor in the History Department at the University of Guelph . The assorted musings here are his, and do not reflect the positions of the university.
Where to begin a blog post about the events at Toronto Pride yesterday, events that got me worked up enough to post to this blog after more than a two-year hiatus? There are a lot of entangled issues for me here, personal, professional, and political, and it’s not always clear where one begins and the other ends. But let me start by saying that I was very upset yesterday by the demand from Black Lives Matter Toronto (BLM) that police booths and floats be excluded from Toronto Pride, and by the apparent ca
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