Miscellaneous items I found interesting this week.
StatsCan Labour Force Survey, July 2026
Encouraging – Canada’s unemployment rate declined 0.1 percentage points. Meanwhile, the US unemployment rate rose by 0.1 percent. Both are likely within the bounds of survey error?
Reconciliation or recolonization? What Canada can learn by looking abroad
Who were the Luddites? Their legacy ripples through politics, cultural commentary and literature
U.S., School Yearbooks, 1900-2016
Now with 937,013,729 records, this update follows that to Ancestry’s corresponding Canadian collection.
Binface
Thanks to the following individuals for their comments and tips: Anonymous, Barbara Tose, Gail, Glenn, Teresa, and Unknown.
What a juxtaposition to read first about colonization/recolonization and then the luddites….many of whom left england and were a huge part of the very colonization of canada, south africa, new zealand and australia. Interesting to contemplate.
Who has the answers for any of it, that will placate either side? Much less both sides?