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Niigaan Sinclair @niigaanwewidam.bsky.social · 21h

On this day I’m thinking of all residential school survivors - my aunties and uncles and grandparents and in particular but also Phyllis Webstad, the founder of the Orange Shirt Society whose memoir I wrote the foreword for - check it out!

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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This is foul. A reader reached out and told me the first google result when you search "kamloops unmarked graves discovery" is residential school denial. I did the search myself, and I found the same thing. The first non-sponsored result is the Fraser Institute's residential school denial.

Google search result for "kamloops unmarked graves discovery" has, as its first non-sponsored post, a publication from the Fraser Institute.

It reads: "No evidence of 'mass graves' or 'genocide' in residential ..."

"Feb 12, 2024 — ... Kamloops narrative are either false or highly exaggerated. No unmarked graves have been discovered at Kamloops or elsewhere-not one. As of ... Read more"

Another screenshot shows the only result before the Fraser Institute result is a sponsored post from Angus Reid, affirming that the Fraser Institute result is the first non-sponsored one.

Screenshot shows the intial response Google provides to the search "kamloops unmarked graves discovery"

All you can see on this first screenshot is the AI overview (barf) and the sponsored result from Angus Reid. However, as the other screenshots show, that Angus Reid result is followed by the first non-sponsored result: residential school denial from the Fraser Institute.

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Harsha Walia @harshawalia.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Huge news! Charges against Eris Nyx and Jeremy Kalicum, founders of the Drug User Liberation Front, have been stayed. Judge found parts of Canada's drug laws are unconstitutional and that the compassion club reduced the harms associated with the toxic drug crisis. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

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Judge tosses drug trafficking convictions for B.C. compassion club founders after constitutional challenge | CBC News

A British Columbia Supreme Court judge has ruled in favour of two harm-reduction activists convicted of drug trafficking who argued they were doing it to reduce the harms caused by toxic drugs.

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Rob 🏳️‍🌈 @rotster.net · 29/09/2026

Why is this question ‘*How* are you using AI?’? I AM NOT USING AI. Do not assume that I am using AI! AI sucks. I cannot see any moral or ethical case for using generative AI.

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draglikepull @draglikepull.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Worth noting that this means if you message someone who is using Meta Muse, *even if you don't have Muse or any other Meta products installed yourself*, Facebook is reading your private communications.

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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

He just said that Indigenous knowledge will help the government to ensure that the ocean waters “remain safe, sustainable and healthy for future generations and for all the life that lives in them.” WHAT ABOUT THE SOUTHERN RESIDENT ORCAS YOU’RE GETTING POWERS TO DRIVE TO EXTINCTION MARK? MARK???

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Steve Burtch @stephenburtch.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The Ontario government has regularly paid private nursing services to fill gaps in coverage. Rather than just hiring more nurses, they would prefer to pay a private company way more money. There is only one reason to do this and it isn't *improved service* or to *reduce wait times*.

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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Update: environmental groups say yeah, this announcement isn’t sufficient to mitigate the harms of the powers the government is giving itself with respect to endangered species (like the whales!). Soooooo a nice move in general, but insufficient in context. Which means Carney is indeed full of it.

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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This bold faced lie is actually appalling in its audacity. What he’s saying is NOT true if a project is deemed in the national interest!! Which he applied for the whale-killing port expansion to be!! And if C-39 passes, even the conditions won’t necessarily apply!!!!

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Members of fraternities are three times more likely to be rapists than male college students who aren’t members of fraternities

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Last week the Portland Police made a huge deal about a K9 killed in the line of duty apprehending a dangerous suspect. Turns out that K9 was shot and killed by...the Portland Police www.kgw.com/article/news...

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Niigaan Sinclair @niigaanwewidam.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A burial site for dozens of children who died while attending the Brandon Indian Residential School will be acquired by the province, the Free Press has learned. www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews...

winnipegfreepress.com

Province to acquire campground near former residential school

A burial site for dozens of children who died while attending the Brandon Indian Residential School will be acquired by the province, the Free Press has learned.

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Harsha Walia @harshawalia.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

If we are serious about dismantling patriarchy and rape culture, we would stop calling it Cornell 7. It's the Cornell 57. Passive bystanders are a pillar of misogyny. Men must actively intervene in shifting social norms & refuse to participate in rape *culture* Its the Cornell 57, not Cornell 7.

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Scott Matla @callmescort.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Loud cheers for both Babcock and Formenton Burn in hell Edmonton

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GameTimeArt @gametimeart.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Loud cheers for both Babcock and Formenton in Edmonton. Just a reminder that sports fan outrage is performative at best and can be easily shut down if you just drape it in your favorite team's colors and logo.

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edeath @edithcharles.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

All I can really say from the other side of the pond about fraternities is that there are severe consequences for your society when you let the ritual pig fucker clubs get away with it.

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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

i worry that men think being A Good Guy is dramatically and heroically intervening on behalf of an endangered woman and then being publicly rewarded on a grand scale when actually being A Good Guy is just usually saying, “hey man that’s not funny” or “wow that’s fucked up” and there is no reward

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Kelly B @kellyblack.ca · 29/09/2026

Here’s the thing about white supremacy in BC today: The Premier and opposition party have spent the last year saying “First Nations are coming for your homes. Private property is sacrosanct.” These politicians deny such statements are stoking racist backlash. But they are

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Tyler, from the Internet @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 30/09/2026

acab includes fraternities

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GB Metz @notthegiraffe.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This is absolutely criminal and it's long passed time we stopped tolerating this toxic/abusive sports coaching cutlure. Good for the players here sticking up for themselves, just unfortunately too late for Mayich.

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History Keeps Happening @historykeeper.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Please don't promote/repost fake AI photos of Native protests against the fascists in Kamloops. Look at the photo for a second, there are several obvious tells. Thanks.

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Dr Adam J Barker @adamjb.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

National Day for Truth and Reconciliation is tomorrow, and denialists are out in full force. I figured it was a good time to reflect on what I've learned while volunteering for Woodland Cultural Centre and the Mohawk Institute over the past year. allygned.wordpress.com/2026/09/28/t...

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This Struggle is Far From Over

Lessons from a year of volunteering at a former residential school By Adam Barker When the Truth and Reconciliation Commission released the Final Report of their investigations into the impact of r…

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The lads bicker over who it was that got rid of Boris Johnson: was it the public, because he was incompetent, or Tory backbenchers, because they are opportunists? Which is all good fun because anyone with eyes could see it was the British press that fired him, for mortally embarrassing them all.

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The polling company YouGov has released its latest MRP survey, and in a dramatic reversal of last year's findings it now projects a hung parliament, with Labour on top and Nigel Farage's Reform UK squeezed by the rise of Restore Britain.
But is it too soon for Labour and the Tories to break out the champagne, especially given the difficulty of putting together a coalition that could command a majority in the Commons?
With Danny away, Sally, Polly and Hugo are joined by Guto Harri, who worked for Boris Johnson when he was Mayor of London and was his Director of Communications in Downing Street.
We also talk about attempts to freeze out the mainstream media, from Boris Johnson through to Donald Trump launching Trump TV, and enjoy this remarkable early YouTube

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Trapdinawrpool @trapdinawrpool.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Mark Carney is using the threat of Trump to remake Canada in ways that should alarm us - rabble.ca rabble.ca/columnists/m...

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

literally thousands of jobs in higher education were cut *last year alone* and there's been almost no media coverage and no government action

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Nicholas Beuret @nicholasbeuret.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Wild. Not only did Osborne personally reduce Britain's GDP by 2% and cost theUK half a trillion pounds of public spending since 2010, his program of austerity caused at least 190,000 deaths between 2010 and 2019. But yeah, lets build data centres

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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

it literally could not be easier to run against an opponent who is fixated on a microscopic minority that isn’t actually harming anyone! focusing on imaginary threats posed by trans people instead of the world burning down around us is bad politics! point that out! loudly!

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Rick Caruso’s Private Fire Crew @amandasmith.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I just think it’s strange that all the gambling companies have ads with athletes and celebrities instead of featuring all their users who have become millionaires betting, very strange indeed

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Dr Adam J Barker @adamjb.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

My girl, Gabrielle, is just the most beautiful girl anyone has ever seen. Fact.

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McNally Robinson Booksellers @mcnallyrobinson.com · 18/09/2026

If you missed last night's launch of Truth Before Reconciliation: Confronting Residential School Denialism featuring @seancarleton.bsky.social, @niigaanwewidam.bsky.social, Michelle Good and host Shelagh Rogers, a recording has been posted here: youtu.be/SUI20ht12H0 @umanitobapress.bsky.social

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Sean Carleton & Niigaan Sinclair Book Launch (Truth Before Reconciliation)

YouTube video by McNally Robinson Online Events

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Sean Carleton @seancarleton.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

For those unable to join @niigaanwewidam.bsky.social and I and contributors for the Winnipeg launch of Truth Before Reconciliation, the event was recorded and is now available: m.facebook.com/story.php?st...

m.facebook.com

See posts, photos and more on Facebook.

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SK Winnicki, PhD 🏳️‍⚧️ @skwinnicki.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

if you get frustrated by younger people's more doom-adjacent takes, that's understandable (and research shows doom isn't a good comms strategy) but consider how you'd feel if you were reading the news with no permanent job, savings account, material assets to leverage (home, property)

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Trapdinawrpool @trapdinawrpool.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Carney says he will balance the budget by next year despite corporate tax cuts and massive military spending. Guess who is going to pay for that. Hint, it ain't the rich and corporations

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I do urge people to understand that as much as this looks like crackpots yammering and squawking: this paper is thr British ruling class talking to themselves and to each other, and its contents - increasingly deranged and extreme as they have been for years - are generally taken quite seriously.

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Rob 🏳️‍🌈 @rotster.net · 17/09/2026

Edinburgh’s most recent published a counts (FYE 07/25) shows an operating surplus of £96m. Up £12m on the year before.

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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

"We are committed stewards of our natural heritage." (Plans a new oil pipeline, dismantles climate action) "We believe that a strong economy is not an end in itself, but the means to a just society. We believe that our prosperity grows when it is shared." (Privatizes, cuts taxes for corporations)

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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Carney to the EU: "We believe that a strong economy is not an end in itself, but the means to a just society. We are committed stewards of our natural heritage. We believe that our prosperity grows when it is shared." I wish the Carney we hear in speeches was the Carney who governs Canada.

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daily dose of estragon @craigburley.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

We are running a beautiful and hopeful and very pointed campaign to put Scarlett in the Mayor’s office. Please join us in electing the most prominent trans mayor in world history: all Ontario residents can donate. scarlettformayor.ca/donate/

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Donate - Scarlett for Mayor

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 17/09/2026

Every day, the stories from the UK read like a dystopian novel.

Screenshot of a Reddit post from r/transgenderUK titled "Excluded from school for supporting a trans girl." A parent describes their daughter, who has Complete Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome (CAIS), choosing to use the boys' restrooms in solidarity with a trans classmate who was forced to do so, resulting in her being excluded from school.

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Saeed Khan @saeedwkhan.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

A majority (61%) of ALBERTANS say they do not want taxpayer money to be used for a new pipeline. And yet Carney is committing about $50 BILLION of our tax dollars to a pipeline and carbon capture plant. Why? MOST Albertans & Canadians don't support this. www.pembina.org/pub/polling-...

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Polling Albertans on Energy and Climate 2026 | Pembina Institute

Probe Research conducted an online survey with a representative sample of 1,484 Alberta adults between April 27 and May 6, 2026. All respondents were recruited from a national online panel (LEO). The ...

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APTN News @aptnnews.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

As Prime Minister Mark Carney wraps up the first investment summit with investors from around the world, the Anishinabek Nation has a warning for the government | Story by Keelan Jacobs.

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Grand chief tells Carney summit resources 'are not theirs to give'

The grand council chief of the Anishinabek Nation tells investment summit that Canada can't give away resources that 'aren't theirs to give.'

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Plashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Woke up and realised that even before the final sacking next week that my university now employs more people with English Literature PhDs in administration than in the English department. Tells you something about the state of HE.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Just so we understand: “right wing wanker campaign to claim Doctors Without Borders are terrorists” means “the IDF is going to kill aid workers this week”.

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oh jeez @nimakokaaz.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

"this shit ruled when I didn't know the artist was a dick, but now it's all I can think about when in see it" is perfectly valid, cos it is one of the times you actually get to make a personality out of something, which is to say, constant, principled, thoughtful evaluation of what you enjoy.

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Media Diversified @writersofcolour.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

A HMRC official was sacked because he was caught on camera saying he gives wrong information to black and brown people when they call for advice in a bid to sabotage them. He was a member of the far right group Patriotic Alternative. How many more?

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Plashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

This is very good on the psychological damage caused by universities ripping themselves apart, but it presumes that leaders want to repair that damage. My experience is that they deny its existence or simply do not care.

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