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Tim Ford @timfordwrites.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Tla'amin First Nation has shared this letter they were copied on from Israel Powell's descendants, to Powell River Mayor and Council. The Nation and Powell River's muni gov are collaborating on a possible name change, and this letter is a great gesture of support.

September 28, 2026

To Powell River Mayor and Council:

We are the grandchildren, and great-grandchildren of Helen Marjorie (Powell) Fisher. Helen Marjorie Fisher (HMF) was the granddaughter of Walker Powell, who was the brother of Israel Wood Powell. As you know, Israel Wood Powell was a doctor and leader, who was the first
superintendent of Indian Affairs in British Columbia. Although he had never lived or visited there, the river Powell River was named in Israel's honour, in recognition of his political influence and legacy.

Israel Wood Powell no longer has any direct descendants, and we are among his closest living relatives.

We understand that Tla’amin Nation has requested the town of Powell River change its name, out of respect for the harms done to their people by Israel Powell's policies, which included the creation of Residential Schools and banning of Indigenous cultural and spiritual practices. Specific to the region of the Tla’amin People, Powell's part in the delays of reserve allocation resulted in the loss of Tla’amin’s village site at tiskwat as it was granted to Robert Patterson Rithet.

We are supportive of changing the name of Powell River, given the above request by Tla’amin Nation, and also the lack of any historic family connection to the river and the surrounding lands.

Respectfully,

Elise Durante, great-granddaughter of Helen Marjorie Fisher

Marjorie Fisher, granddaughter of HMF

Brenda Buller Focht, granddaughter of HMF

Heather Fisher, great-granddaughter of HMF

Eric Focht, great-grandson of HMF

Meghan Buller, great-granddaughter of HMF

Leslie Campbell, great-grandson of HMF

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Arn Keeling @arnkeeling.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The Price of Gold is officially on the shortlist for the 2026 J.W. Dafoe Foundation prize for the best book on Canada, Canadians, or Canada's place in the world. What a fun list of authors and books to be considered alongside! dafoefoundation.ca/news/

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News – J. W. Dafoe Foundation

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Arn Keeling @arnkeeling.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Oh, no. This is a big loss to the Canadian history community—and to Cuban-Canadian relations. She documented her many years building educational and cultural relations with Cuba in her recent book, Strangely Friends. She generously took time to indulge my Cuban mining questions years back…

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Arn Keeling @arnkeeling.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Mine remediation, meet economic reconciliation. With cleanup projects creating economic opportunities , it’s important that local First Nations are first in line to benefit. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

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First Nation opens work camp at Faro mine cleanup project in Yukon | CBC News

The hundreds of workers tasked with one of the most complicated industrial cleanup jobs in the country now have a place to bed down.

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Jason Kint @kint.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Eye popping. Court just unsealed Summary Judgment motions in New York Times v OpenAI / Microsoft. Easy to see why the AI companies had so many redactions (pink). Their own people wrote the lede for NYT, the "largest theft of labor in human history"... "more and more substitutive..." /1

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Jordan Carlson @jordantcarlson.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Okay, I have a few minutes, so unpacking this a bit more for the timeline: During my PhD, I worked with the Nunatsiavut Government - the Inuit of northern Labrador - to ask: could their southernmost community, Rigolet, use tidal energy (or other renewables) to reduce their reliance on diesel?

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Toronto Star @thestar.com · 14/09/2026

The guest list features asset managers, pension funds, sovereign wealth funds and private equity firms. Together, the investors gathering Sept. 15 manage over $100 trillion in assets. As Carney says, if you’re not at the table, you’re on the menu. This time, Canada is both host and entrée.

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Canada taking control of its future, Mark Carney tells new investment gathering

The prime minister hinted Sunday in Toronto that deals are about to be announced as his inaugural Investment Summit gets underway.

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Arn Keeling @arnkeeling.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Now that we’ve all dumped our Yanqui bourbon down the sink, we need to fight off tariffs by buying good Canadian rye whiskey. It’s only patriotic! (BTW separatists, offer only applies to provinces that remain in 🇨🇦. Otherwise, no Forty Creek either.

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Trailer Park Boys: Ricky Grabs Through Window

ALT: Trailer Park Boys: Ricky Grabs Through Window

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Arn Keeling @arnkeeling.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

This thread will be a welcome one for Newfoundlanders! We has a bog or two round these parts…

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Caroline Dodds Pennock @carolinepennock.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

In news that will surprise absolutely no one in HE... ‘It notes that institutions “routinely” hire consultancies for these restructures as well as change management specialists, however, these processes often introduce additional management layers, “adding cost rather than removing it”…’

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Restructuring ‘too often adding cost rather than removing it’

Universities are ‘underestimating’ the challenges caused by outsourcing services amid major professional services staff redundancies, report warns

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

(NBC News) — It is now the least rewarding time to be a worker in the U.S. economy since the government started keeping track. @nbcnews.com www.nbcnews.com/business/eco...

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Daniella M. @farsouthhistory.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Check out @arnkeeling.bsky.social's review of Fred Quivik's "Smoke and Tailings: An Environmental History of Butte and Anaconda, Montana, 1880-1930," published in 2025 by @unvpress.bsky.social; review now available @hnetreviews.bsky.social #envhist #envhum #extraction www.h-net.org/reviews/show...

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Eli's Native Plants @elisnativeplants.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

The Peace of Wild Things By Wendell Berry I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief. I come into the presence of still water. And I feel above me the day-blind stars waiting with their light. For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.

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Wendell Berry, influential Kentucky writer and activist, has died

Wendell Berry, a Kentucky native and man of letters and the land, who helped inspire the new American food movement, has died. He was 92.

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All Our Yesterdays @allouryesterdays.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Vol. 2, no. 6 of the CO2 Newsletter, Sept-Oct 1981 is now downloadable. Founded by American geologist William Barbat, each was 8 pages of excerpts from recent reports, editorials and deeply researched articles. All 18 issues are heart-breakers. allouryesterdays.info/co2-newslett... 1/9

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Daniella M. @farsouthhistory.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Check out Sarah Perry's review of John Sandlos & Arn Keeling's "The Price of Gold: Mining, Pollution, and Resistance in Yellowknife," published in 2025 by @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social; review now available @hnetreviews.bsky.social #envhist #envhum #mining #extraction www.h-net.org/reviews/show...

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Arn Keeling @arnkeeling.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Climate change is coming for all our beloved places. I remember on a hiking trip to Mt Robson falling asleep to the sound of the glacier calving into Berg Lake. Now the glacier doesn’t reach the lake. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

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'Visual symbol of climate change': Mount Robson's Berg Glacier no longer reaches lake | CBC News

One of the most picturesque sights in British Columbia is changing — as Mount Robson's Berg Glacier has retreated so far back that it no longer touches the water of Berg Lake.

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kate bush’s husband @airbagged.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

RIP TO ONE OF THE GREATEST TO EVER DO IT

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Arn Keeling @arnkeeling.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Beef and circuses in ‘merica

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Stewart Prest @stewartprest.ca · 15/08/2026

These are issues of sovereignty, and shouldn't be negotiable if we wish to continue to claim to be so.

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James Kneale @jameskneale.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

I've just heard that the BA/BSc Geography programme is to close at the University of Exeter’s Centre for Geography and Environmental Science (CGES) in Cornwall. This programme was made up of excellent modules with original and content, taught brilliantly—often with real innovation—by extremely 1/9

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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

“In the 1990s + 2000s, gov’ts, uni’s, + libraries—the institutions that historically bore responsibility for organizing + preserving public knwldg—declined to, or were prevented from, bldg the digital infrastructure plainly required by an age when democracy seemed ascendant + universally desirable”

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What Was the Internet?

As AI overtakes the web, five writers reflect on how far it’s fallen and what comes next.

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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Vaccine benefit in children "Since 1974, vaccination has averted 154 million deaths, including 146 million among children younger than 5 years of whom 101 million were infants younger than 1 year." www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... The most striking benefit was for vaccination vs measles (Figure)

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Arn Keeling @arnkeeling.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Controversy strikes whimsical online event! I agree there’s a category error here, even as an avowed Mr PG supporter

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Arn Keeling @arnkeeling.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

“Washington is looking at the Imperial Valley and saying that’s just a desert, that’s just wasteland.” A classic example of what @tracibrynne.bsky.social calls Wastelanding: rendering places extractable & pollutable by defining them as waste places.

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Max Fawcett @maxfawcett.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

This is genuinely astonishing: a piece by the Globe and Mail’s editorial board lamenting the “new normal” of wildfires and summer smoke and no mention whatsoever of a) climate change, or b) the burning of fossil fuels that causes it. #cdnpoli www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/edit...

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Globe editorial: A summer season of fire, smoke, ashes and fear

The carefree feeling of summers past has been incinerated as wildfires rage across the country

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Ryan Van Velzer @ryanvanvelzer.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Kentucky Public Radio and NPR obtained a draft of the NIOSH letter before publication. Researchers found that working veteran underground coal miners in central Appalachia are suffering from the incurable and fatal lung disease at the highest rates in nearly 50 years. www.lpm.org/2026-08-05/a...

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Appalachia's black lung rates highest in nearly 50 years as miners' protections stall

Rates are now as bad as the 1970s, with thousands of miners sick and dying. Mining experts blame toxic silica dust, now more common in mines.

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Paul N. Edwards @avastmachine.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

« Hansen’s team found PFOS in Swedish blood samples from 1957 and 1971. After that, her lab analyzed blood that had been collected before 3M created PFOS. It tested negative. Apparently, fluorochemicals had … leached out of 3M’s sprays, coatings and factories — and into all of us.

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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Mark Carney has: -scrapped consumer carbon tax -scrapped oil/gas emissions cap -cut $1.3B from environment Canada -weakened industrial carbon pricing -axed 2 billion trees program -approved 1M barrels/day pipeline -weakened greenwashing laws While this is happening:

Five straight years warmer than anything observed before 2023 (Current record +1.53 degrees warming) en route to 2 degrees by 2030

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Canadian Dimension @canadiandimension.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Mark Carney promised "elbows-up" nation-building. What Canadians are getting instead is a carve-out economy—where environmental protections, Indigenous rights, and labour standards are treated as obstacles to growth, write @shirip.bsky.social and Eve Saint.

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The new rules of Carney’s carve-out economy

It has been one year since Mark Carney introduced the Building Canada Act in Parliament. Since then, a succession of new laws has hollowed out legal protections for the environment, Indigenous rights,...

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Arn Keeling @arnkeeling.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

It’s almost 18 mos since I cancelled planned conference travel & began my USA travel boycott (aka pre-self-deportation). Don’t miss America a lick—tbh I mainly feel grateful my folks left there many years ago and made me 🇨🇦 www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

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Canadians spent $3.3bn less on travel to US in 2025 after Trump’s return to office

Data shows Canadians have replaced US vacations with other international trips in apparent rebuke to Trump

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Sonja Boon @storiedselves.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Canadian arts and culture folks: the federal government has launched a (methodologically flawed) survey on "the Cultural Sector's readiness for Artificial Intelligence". If you're ready to resist or refuse genAI, here's your chance to let them know. pch.research-recherche.ca/f/s.aspx?lan...

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National Survey on the Cultural Sector’s Readiness for Artificial Intelligence

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Arn Keeling @arnkeeling.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Hey America: come and get your boy. He’s a POS and we don’t want him here.

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Are the US in the final? Why their national anthem?

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Canadian Dimension @canadiandimension.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Canada can’t claim climate leadership while fast-tracking mines and pipelines, weakening environmental reviews, and sidelining Indigenous consent. A just transition cannot be imposed from above. It must be built with Indigenous nations, not over them, write Tyler McCreary and Warren Bernauer.

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Canada’s new resource deals drive a climate and rights backslide

Indigenous nations have clearly expressed concern over the government’s orientation to prioritize resource extraction over their rights, lands, and environmental well-being. By preemptively committing...

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Arn Keeling @arnkeeling.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Here we go again: Ekati mine enters receivership without a final costed closure plan and uncertainty around whether there is enough money for reclamation (their likely isn’t). How is this still happening in the 21st century? www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

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Uncertainty looms over jobs, clean-up costs as N.W.T.'s Ekati mine nears closure | CBC News

Ekati Diamond Mine had been slated to close in 2029 but is now in receivership after its parent company could not secure a buyer for the site. Receiver PricewaterhouseCoopers, along with experts, are ...

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Arn Keeling @arnkeeling.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Saw this coming a ways off. Took a good bit of govt money on the way out.

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Cabin Radio @cabinradio.ca · 15/07/2026

The era of diamonds as the North's economic heartbeat is over. #northwestterritories #diamonds #mining #canada #ekati

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