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APTN News @aptnnews.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

The Indigenous artifacts recovered from the Vatican have started their rollout at the Canadian Museum of History. One of the items shown was a 100-year-old Inuit kayak.

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Canadian Museum of History has unveiled Indigenous artifacts recovered from the Vatican | APTN News

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APTN News @aptnnews.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

A unanimous decision made by the Sipekne’katik First Nation’s chief and council, have moved to ban Nova Scotia Premier Tim Houston, Attorney General Scott Armstrong and Minister of Indigenous Affairs Leah Martin from their lands and events.

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Mi’kmaw Nation bans their Nova Scotia premier and two cabinet ministers from their lands | APTN News

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Howdy @icandie.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

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Janice Braden, Associate Member of EU @janicebraden.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Here’s a starter pack of all new Cabinet members who are on Bluesky. go.bsky.app/PVpEzRs

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Berty Leamon (she/they/he) @bertylicious.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Inspired to see Cree MP Mandy Gull-Masty named as Minister of Indigenous Services Canada in the new cabinet. For the first time, an Indigenous person will head the department charged with providing services for First Nations, Inuit and Métis in Canada. #cdnpoli www.aptnnews.ca/national-new...

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Cree leader named minister of Indigenous Services Canada

Cree MP Mandy Gull-Masty has been named minister of Indigenous Services Canada by Prime Minister Mark Carney.

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Berty Leamon (she/they/he) @bertylicious.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Delighted to see @mark-carney.bsky.social choose to reinstate WAGE in his new cabinet, reaffirming gender equality as a priority for this government. Best of luck to @rechievaldez.bsky.social as she begins her new role as Minister of Women and Gender Equality! #cdnpoli #WAGE #LGBTQ2S

A photo of the Honourable Rechie Valdez; Member of Parliament for Mississauga-Streetsville, Ontario; Liberal Party

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Berty Leamon (she/they/he) @bertylicious.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Terrifying that the USA is attacking access to gender affirming healthcare... doubly concerning that they're encouraging transphobes to target Canadian doctors who provide this essential healthcare The Breach (@breachmedia.ca) bsky.app/profile/brea... #TransRights

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The Breach (@breachmedia.ca)

Canadian jurisdictions were listed on a U.S. gov’t site that encouraged snitching on doctors providing trans health care. After journalist Ophélie Dénommée-Marchand pressed the department about it,…

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Berty Leamon (she/they/he) @bertylicious.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

We literally have more statues of colonizers than of any women in our history. I'm curious who is represented by the other two statues of women and where they are located in the province? Once they replace Amelia Earhart, will gov consider adding more statues of women from our history?

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Berty Leamon (she/they/he) @bertylicious.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

Shocking fact #3: with only two statues of women left standing in NL, they equal the number of statues dedicated only to colonizer John Cabot (Bonavista & St. John's) Shocking fact #4: we still have statues dedicated to colonial slave-traders like Corte-Real www.cbc.ca/amp/1.6893114

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No changes for controversial Corte-Real statue, despite working group recommendations

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Berty Leamon (she/they/he) @bertylicious.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

Shocking fact #1: somebody stole/removed the Amelia Earhart statue in Harbour Grace Shocking fact #2: this was one of only three statues in the province named after women vocm.com/2025/05/09/e...

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Province Gives $50,000 for Replacement of Amelia Earhart Statue in Harbour Grace

The provincial government is giving $50,000 to the town of Harbour Grace to help them replace a statue of Amel...

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Berty Leamon (she/they/he) @bertylicious.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Agreed - we need meaningful implementation & focus, regardless of title. I worry that without a dedicated Minister; these issues will fall to the sidelines among many other portfolios deemed *more urgent*. I raise this critique in hopes that he will reinstate WAGE in the new post-election cabinet.

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Berty Leamon (she/they/he) @bertylicious.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Since the creation "Status of Women" in 1971 under Pierre Trudeau, Mark Carney's 2025 election/war-cabinet marks the first time in more than 50 years that we do not have a dedicated champion for gender equality in cabinet. Yes, he can still fix this on May 12 - which is why people raise the issue.

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Berty Leamon (she/they/he) @bertylicious.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Sure - he did not eliminate the file, but he did eliminate the Ministerial role - meaning it is now just one among many files to be managed by a single person: Minister of Canadian Culture & Identity, Parks Canada & Quebec Lieutenant. Is Parks Canada more "war-time" than Women and Gender Equality?

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Berty Leamon (she/they/he) @bertylicious.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Broadly, the removal of WAGE in 2025 marks the first time in 50 years that there has not been a dedicated champion for gender equality in cabinet. This has been widely criticized by people/groups advocating gender equality, which is why we are voicing this concern in hopes it is fixed on May 12.

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Berty Leamon (she/they/he) @bertylicious.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Interestingly, the role first appeared in cabinet in 1971 under Pierre Trudeau - known then as "Status of Women". The role has evolved and been been renamed a few different ways in the last 50 years, notably to "WAGE" under Justin Trudeau in 2018. This change may be contributing to the confusion.

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Berty Leamon (she/they/he) @bertylicious.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

I genuinely hope this is all this was... and that Carney will restore WAGE and other social portfolios in the post-election cabinet on May 12. So far, he has made no clear commitments to restore WAGE. Which is why many groups are raising this issue in hopes that he corrects this in the new cabinet.

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Berty Leamon (she/they/he) @bertylicious.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

This is not misinformation. Carney eliminated WAGE from cabinet in March when he became PM. People have been raising this concern since then, in hopes that he will reinstate the role in the new post-election cabinet on May 12. He has not yet made any clear commitments to reinstate WAGE.

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Berty Leamon (she/they/he) @bertylicious.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

By that logic, why form a cabinet during the election at all? Why only remove some? Choosing to eliminate existing roles for a temporary cabinet signals that he doesn't see those issues as a core priority, or as a liability during an election cycle. I hope he corrects this in the new cabinet.

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Berty Leamon (she/they/he) @bertylicious.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Even if it was just during the election, the elimination of a minister of WAGE looks like a calculated move to appeal to conservatives who have long dismissed gender equality policies as unnecessary identity politics. Carney has an opportunity to clarify his stance in his new cabinet on May 12.

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Berty Leamon (she/they/he) @bertylicious.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

If he makes a commitment to reinstate WAGE and other missing cabinet roles in his new cabinet post-election, I'll happily tell that part of the story too. That hasn't happened yet - we raise this criticism in hopes that he will correct course in the new cabinet on May 12.

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Berty Leamon (she/they/he) @bertylicious.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

It's also the first time in decades that the file of Women and Gender Equality will be led and overseen by... a man 🙃 Carney also eliminated Minister roles for youth, official languages, diversity, inclusion, persons with disabilities and seniors — all included in recent cabinets.

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Berty Leamon (she/they/he) @bertylicious.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Because the work of WAGE used to have a dedicated Minister, Office, and funding to advance relevant programming and services in this area. It now sits as one file among many for the Minister of "Canadian culture and identity, Parks Canada and Quebec lieutenant", meaning WAGE is not a priority.

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Berty Leamon (she/they/he) @bertylicious.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

However, Premier Hogan & his cabinet will need to go further to prove they want to make progress for Women and Gender Equality, especially after his troubling statement last year that "it's impossible" for lawyers to retraumatize survivors of sexual assault in a courtroom. www.cbc.ca/amp/1.7163204

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Justice minister apologizes for saying lawyers can't retraumatize survivors of sexual assault

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Berty Leamon (she/they/he) @bertylicious.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

In what seems to be a cynical election ploy to cater to conservatives, one of Mark Carney's first actions as PM was to eliminate the Minister of Women & Gender Equality from cabinet - instead shuffling the office under culture & identity, currently led by a man 🙃 thetyee.ca/Opinion/2025...

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By Axing the WAGE Minister, Carney Puts at Risk Decades of Progress | The Tyee

Women and Gender Equality Canada no longer has a dedicated champion in cabinet. Here’s what we stand to lose.

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Berty Leamon (she/they/he) @bertylicious.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

I'm glad to see new Premier Hogan chose to maintain the Ministry of Women and Gender Equality in NL; unlike his federal Liberal counterpart Mark Carney, who removed WAGE and other key social portfolios from his national cabinet. vocm.com/2025/05/09/n... #nlpoli #cdnpoli #wage

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Newly-Sworn in Premier Hogan Shakes Things Up in Provincial Cabinet

John Hogan has officially been sworn in as Premier of Newfoundland and Labrador, and he has made some sweeping...

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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

One of the very few re-elected NDP MPs posted on Twitter that she found out Don Davies is her party's interim leader "through the news." Yikes. It also doesn't help that they picked a white dude and didn't even bother to tell his colleague, who is an Indigenous woman...

NDP MP Leah Gazan tweets "Great finding out through the news.... Go "team" NDP," responding to a post that reads: "Don Davies is the new NDP interim leader, formerly a labour movement lawyer with the Teamsters, now the MP for Vancouver Kingsway"

Former NDP MP Rachel Blaney replies to Leah saying: "Not unexpected. Love you Leah Gazan"

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Berty Leamon (she/they/he) @bertylicious.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

@bsky.app really feels like old Twitter and I'm loving it! I used to post regularly on Twitter before it became X and was taken over by right wing trolls. Now it's so toxic I won't even open the app. I hadn't opened it in a while, and this is what my notifications looked like: Stop pushing PP!

Seven consecutive notifications on X (formerly Twitter) about conservative leader Pierre Poilievre going live. No other live feeds or content featured in this image.

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Berty Leamon (she/they/he) @bertylicious.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Notably, the MMIWG2S+ Inquiry Report was released in 2019. If we were to believe Poilievre is actually "only aware of two-genders", then it's a damning admission that he has never read this report and is not listening to the needs of Indigenous peoples. www.mmiwg-ffada.ca/final-report/ #cdnpoli

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Final Report | MMIWG

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Berty Leamon (she/they/he) @bertylicious.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Disappointing to see Conservatives claim voters didn't "understand" Poilievre or were "misinformed" about his hateful, "anti-woke" messaging. You can't claim to support 2SLGBTQ+ peoples while also claiming to only be aware of "two genders". Voters understood PP - and voted against him. #cdnpoli

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Berty Leamon (she/they/he) @bertylicious.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Interesting research on the federal election and social media engagement across parties and platforms (pun intended) 🤓 Seems like Conservatives are on X, Liberals are on BlueSky, and NDP on TikTok 🤷‍♀️ Thankfully, 3/4 people still do trust the polls [Elections Canada] 🗳️ www.cdmrn.ca/weekly-updat...

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Weekly Update 4 | Friday, April 18 — Canadian Digital Media Research Network

Canadians are avid users of social media platforms – and, consequently, so are our electoral candidates.

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Berty Leamon (she/they/he) @bertylicious.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

I'm thinking it'll be like early Twitter... One we get enough NLers on BlueSky they'll make the switch. I see @mmburton.bsky.social is already on BlueSky, amazing! Always on the front lines of change in the city 👏 Curious which other #nlpoli types are already on BlueSky, or might jump over soon

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Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

I missed this entirely: The FAA Administrator criticized Space X’s safety record and threatened fines. Musk demanded he resign. He did. On January 20th. www.thedailybeast.com/faa-chief-mi...

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FAA Chief Quit on Jan. 20 After Elon Musk Told Him to Resign

Michael Whitaker had only been in the role for a year but the SpaceX chief accused him of “harassment.”

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