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Arn Keeling @arnkeeling.bsky.social · 3h

Ekati closure “for Indigenous governments and citizens to take a leading role in cleaning up the mine.” www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

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Phillip Meintzer @phillipmeintzer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

CleanUpYourMess.ca just launched our new website! It features stories from ordinary Albertans affected by the oil & gas cleanup crisis, and actions YOU can take right now to stop tens of billions in industry's cleanup costs from being pushed onto the public! #ABPoli #ABLeg @cuym-alberta.bsky.social

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Alberta landowners & allies fighting for an industry cleanup of oil and gas wells.

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Avi Lewis @avilewis.ca · 01/10/2026

Throwing billions in public money behind a pipeline at a time of climate breakdown – while sweeping aside environmental protections, meaningful Indigenous consultation and workers’ right to strike – is absolutely not in the national interest.

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Jimmy Thomson @jameswsthomson.com · 01/10/2026

Carney begins his announcement of a new oil pipeline by acknowledging the climate-linked wildfire that came close to levelling the town where he's announcing the new oil pipeline. A flat circle.

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Arn Keeling @arnkeeling.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Sickening. Ban the death penalty, join the 20th century.

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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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Arn Keeling @arnkeeling.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

A rousing mandate. Well, $ now has trumped long-term thinking once again.

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Arn Keeling @arnkeeling.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I was thinking more a progressive jazz outfit, but yeah.

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Arn Keeling @arnkeeling.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

A lot of the recent pronouncements (not to mention 'investment' summits) have the ring of tech-bro "sandboxing" and Davos-style hot-takes rather than considered, studied and thoroughly debated policy. Parliament (and perhaps, Cabinet) don't seem very engaged in any of it.

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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 · 12/09/2026

Srsly somebody send a memo to Fernandes in particular. That said, few big chances created either.

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Arn Keeling @arnkeeling.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I’m lucky enough to have completed the set a while back. Helps to have lived in different regions (BC, Prairies, Ontario, NL) and chosen to do research in the North. Pleased to have visited many hard-to-reach treaty territories, too, including Nunavik and Nunatsiavut.

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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 · 10/09/2026

Remembering the bad old days (early 2000s!) of plotting various bus transfers from East Van to even get within spitting distance of the airport. That line is when VanCity grew up.

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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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Arn Keeling @arnkeeling.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Thanks Sara! We’re getting through it and hope you are, too.

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Arn Keeling @arnkeeling.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I recently received an *8-page* project proposal that was almost certainly an AI summary of my own previous work. You can’t make this stuff up—or perhaps, you can!

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Arn Keeling @arnkeeling.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

💯. Going through this now with my folks. (Thanks to a public sector pension, they’re not immiserated). Makes me realize that getting old with dignity is one more thing we have tragically left to the market, but will be blamed on individuals.

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Arn Keeling @arnkeeling.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

And nothing drives them crazier than a guy like @corblund.bsky.social who doesn't just cosplay, but defends rural places and culture from an authentic experience.

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Arn Keeling @arnkeeling.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I know there’s good stuff in the slightly older text, Cultures of Natural History.

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Arn Keeling @arnkeeling.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

The MLI has become a horrific pseudo intellectual “think tank” giving the Frase Institute a run for its money. A shill for O&G and a cats paw (however feeble) for Trumpism.

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Arn Keeling @arnkeeling.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

So that’s where Mike Davis got this stance

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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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Arn Keeling @arnkeeling.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

See also today’s article in the NYT by William Dalrymple on the convergence of corporate and imperial interests under the British East India Company. Empires gonna empire.

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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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