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Kate Armstrong

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On a journey trying to find new worlds while sending joy into the ether. Human 🎧 Shazam 🎧. Sports fan. Anti-racist. 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️LGBTQ2S+ Supporter 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈. From Tkaronto. She/her. Co-curator of @womensart2.bsky.social.

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Kate Armstrong @brainchain.ca · 1h
More about Jeremy: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Neqotkuk's Jeremy Dutcher 1st double-winner of prestigious Polaris Music Prize | CBC News
Jeremy Dutcher won the award, given annually to a Canadian full-length recording based on artistic merit, for his 2023 album, Motewolonuwok.
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Kate Armstrong @brainchain.ca · 1h
Is there ever enough Jeremy Dutcher on the timeline? That answer is a resounding no. This song’s title means ‘Native Land’ in Wolastoqiyik . m.youtube.com/watch?v=CCPN...
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Jeremy Dutcher - Skicinuwihkuk (Filmed at Union Sound Company Tkaronto)
YouTube video by Jeremy Dutcher
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Kate Armstrong @brainchain.ca · 1h
Completely unfair. I’m so sorry to hear about Rocky’s passing. I know in my heart that Leni and Ned will be there to say hello and be warm and welcoming .
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Kate Armstrong @brainchain.ca · 1h
No worries - can do!
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Kate Armstrong @brainchain.ca · 1h
Damnit when Toronto Life took over their brand it looks like they took a boatload of content off line. If you are still curious and have time in your query until the weekend I’ll see if I can find an alternate source
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Kate Armstrong @brainchain.ca · 2h
But let me look for that Torontoist article - hopefully it’s on a server somewhere
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Kate Armstrong @brainchain.ca · 2h
I recommend Glenn Turner’s book that mentions Teiaiagon in passing a lot www.torontocarryingplace.ca/home
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Toronto Carrying Place
Glenn Turner's book The Toronto Carrying Place: rediscovering Toronto's most ancient trail documents his three-day walk along the route of the old portage from Lake Ontario to Lake Simcoe, searching f...
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Kate Armstrong @brainchain.ca · 2h
Also.. I never heard of the Gayogo̱hó꞉nǫˀ blues of Gary Farmer and the Troublemakers from Brant County until today … but boy do I love them now. m.youtube.com/watch?v=YBgR...
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Gary Farmer and The Troublemakers - 2009 Stage 49 Performance
YouTube video by GONStage49
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Kate Armstrong @brainchain.ca · 2h
The NFB did a great documentary short. Well worth the four minutes today: m.youtube.com/watch?v=l8po...
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John Kim Bell: Born to "Indspire"
YouTube video by NFB
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Kate Armstrong @brainchain.ca · 2h
I want to send recognize Kanien'kehá꞉ka composer and conductor John Kim Bell as the first indigenous conductor in North America. Here he is conducting Lakme but I’m going to post one of his works next m.youtube.com/watch?v=RBcl...
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JohnKimBell Aria
YouTube video by Harbourfront Centre
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Kate Armstrong @brainchain.ca · 4h
3:30pm EST if you are in west end Toronto
A placard near the Roncesvalles peace garden that has an orange shirt on a blue background and says ‘orange shirt walk’ with details
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Kate Armstrong @brainchain.ca · 4h
Happy to send some resources - I think that Torontoist had a good article about Teiaiagon
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Kate Armstrong @brainchain.ca · 4h
Seems on brand
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Kate Armstrong @brainchain.ca · 4h
More music coming late this afternoon - had to do some actual work work
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Kate Armstrong @brainchain.ca · 9h
Love it! Will post tomorrow.
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Kate Armstrong @brainchain.ca · 10h
Fun fact - it was only around 1840 that the settler population of Toronto eclipsed the population of Teiaiagon in the 17th and early 18th centuries.
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Kate Armstrong @brainchain.ca · 10h
You are welcome. It’s not one anyone wants to talk about - but if you ever walk around there .. you can see why it’s such a sacred and strategic place.
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Kate Armstrong @brainchain.ca · 10h
As you know I’m a big fan of the Haisla hiphop duo the Snotty Nose Rez Kids. Here is their song ‘Red Future’ m.youtube.com/watch?v=dehM...
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Snotty Nose Rez Kids - RED FUTURE (Official Video) ft. Electric Fields
YouTube video by SNRKVEVO
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burnzz @13urnzz.bsky.social · 10h
#ColorADay #RedWed The red gets shiny in a thunderstorm. #Utah Highway 163 #photography
A puddle foreground and desert scrub lead to a few buttes and a couple mesas background, under a wet cloudy sky 9/17/2026 AI can go fuck itself
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Kate Armstrong @brainchain.ca · 10h
All of the TPL branches have been doing a great job and I appreciate the spotlight on Indigenous authors on Libby as well.
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Kate Armstrong @brainchain.ca · 10h
I’m not going to today but one day I should do a thread on the racist and belittling Toronto Purchase of 1787. People have had enough of my anger it seems. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toronto...
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Toronto Purchase - Wikipedia
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Kate Armstrong @brainchain.ca · 10h
Come for the flowers and music, stay for the really strong views on Indigenous issues and rights.
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Kate Armstrong @brainchain.ca · 10h
Yup. And we paper it over.
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Kate Armstrong @brainchain.ca · 10h
If there’s any area with which I disagree with our federal government (from any political party, I might add) it is on the reticence to address Indigenous self government. We all make choices and this is one we can make much more efficiently. #cdnpoli www.rcaanc-cirnac.gc.ca/eng/13733855...
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General Briefing Note on Canada's Self-government and Comprehensive Land Claims Policies and the Status of Negotiations
Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada - Treaties, agreements and negotiations
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David Brooks @dgbrooks.bsky.social · 10h
Deep in the woods of South Carolina. #Fungi #ForestFriday #ColorADay #YellowThu #EastCoastKin #ItsAJungleOutThere #Scape
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Kate Armstrong @brainchain.ca · 26/02/2025
Yup. This is correct that this is Haudenosaunee land and I’m not sure if it was in the Toronto Purchase of 1805. In fact I’m almost positive it wasn’t.
A for lease sign in a dirty snow bank that says NDN Land in red spray paint - a Freshco is in the distance
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Kate Armstrong @brainchain.ca · 10h
I should mark this post with #TOHistory because this is Toronto’s history… no matter how uncomfortable that may make you.
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Kate Armstrong @brainchain.ca · 30/09/2023
If you want to read more about the Haudenosaunee, the Anishinaabe, and the Mississaugas of the New Credit … I strongly recommend Glen Turner’s book ‘The Carrying Place’ 🧡 www.torontocarryingplace.ca/about-the-tr...
torontocarryingplace.ca
Toronto Carrying Place - about the trail
The Toronto Carrying Place was an Indigenous trail that led from the mouth of the Humber River on Lake Ontario to the Holland River near Lake Simcoe. For much of its 45 km (26 miles) length, the trail...
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Kate Armstrong @brainchain.ca · 04/04/2025
I was thinking about that Tshirt and the fact that it’s going to be spring in Teiaiagon … and Canada needs more historians too. www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/t...
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Toronto Feature: Teiaiagon Seneca Village
This article is from our Toronto Feature series. Features from past programs are not updated....
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Kate Armstrong @brainchain.ca · 10h
Every year I talk about the village of Teiaiagon on a strategic cliff on what is now Baby Point in Toronto’s west end. And how a village of 4500 Haudenosaunee people was destroyed through targetted trade with settlers who provided infected items. Every year no one gives a shit.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 10h
It’s also really clear to me this week that the people telling us that AI will transform work…haven’t seen a lot of jobs where people work.
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Espaces autochtones @espacesautochtones.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Des Premières Nations réclament une unité de recherche dirigée par des Autochtones ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/228...
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Des Premières Nations réclament une unité de recherche dirigée par des Autochtones
Le programme coordonnerait les recherches, mobiliserait du personnel qualifié et des bénévoles formés.
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Kate Armstrong @brainchain.ca · 10h
Kind regards to you as well, Luis!
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Kate Armstrong @brainchain.ca · 11h
Umami plus
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Kate Armstrong @brainchain.ca · 11h
This might just become one of my Thanksgiving side dishes for all the folk coming over next weekend so thank you for sharing
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Kate Armstrong @brainchain.ca · 11h
Yeah I’m a big fan of mix-ins into cornbread - I use cornbread recipe from the Mixer Bible as a base recipe that is very close to this mrmakeithappen.com/cornbread-an...
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Cornbread and Sausage Stuffing Recipe (Southern-Style)
This Southern-style cornbread and sausage stuffing is savory, moist, and crisp on top—the perfect make-ahead side for Thanksgiving or Christmas.
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Kate Armstrong @brainchain.ca · 12h
news.westernu.ca/2025/10/jodi...
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Jodi Lynn Maracle, 2025-26 Indigenous artist-in-residence - Western News
Jodi Lynn Maracle, the 2025-26 Indigenous artist-in-residence at Western is a mixed Tyendinaga Mohawk/settler artist and Kanien’kéha language teacher.
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Kate Armstrong @brainchain.ca · 12h
If there’s a site you really rabbit hole on today it’s the Woodland Cultural Centre in Brantford that has both a contemporary art gallery, performance space, and a department for preserving and reviving indigenous languages. woodlandculturalcentre.ca
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Woodland Cultural Centre - Indigenous Preservation Museum
The Woodland Cultural Centre serves to preserve, promote and strengthen Indigenous language, culture, art and history.
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Kate Armstrong @brainchain.ca · 12h
www.ontarioculinary.com/where-to-eat...
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Where to eat Indigenous Food in Ontario | Ontario Culinary
Indigenous food is diverse, delicious and a reflection of the place it was made. Here are our favorite places to eat Indigenous food in Ontario.
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Kate Armstrong @brainchain.ca · 12h
Well it looks like those are off the table for today’s look
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Mick1122 @mickgould.bsky.social · 12h
Fucker. Right where I need to be.
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mollygagne11-63.bsky.social @mollygagne11-63.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Hello=)💙Alberta🍁💙Lake Louise🩵💚 Canadian lake located in Banff National Park💝 💙Alberta🍁💙Lake Louise🩵💚 Lac canadien situé dans le parc national de Banff💝 #Photography #Photo #PhotographersOfBlueSky #Alberta #LakeLouis #CanadianLake #BanffNationalPark #Canada
"Lake Louise is a Canadian lake located in Banff National Park, Alberta. Situated 67 km from the town of Banff and 190 km from Calgary, its turquoise waters derive their color from rock flour—fine sediment created by the mechanical grinding of the bedrock by surrounding glaciers. The primary glacier feeding the lake is the Victoria Glacier, located to the west of Lake Louise. However, the water's emerald hue is at risk of becoming dull due to glacial melting, according to Janet Fischer and Mark Olson, biology professors at Franklin & Marshall College in Pennsylvania."

"Lake Louise est un lac canadien situé dans le parc national Banff, en Alberta. Situé à 67 km de la ville de Banff et à 190 km de Calgary, il doit la couleur turquoise de ses eaux à la farine glaciaire — un sédiment fin issu du broyage mécanique de la roche mère par les glaciers environnants. Le principal glacier alimentant le lac est le glacier Victoria, situé à l'ouest de Lake Louise. Toutefois, la teinte émeraude de l'eau risque de perdre de son éclat en raison de la fonte des glaciers, selon Janet Fischer et Mark Olson, professeurs de biologie au Franklin & Marshall College, en Pennsylvanie."
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John Walker - Industry Analcyst @botherer.bsky.social · 12h
Ashley is one of the smartest and most engaging writers I've read in years. People should be giving her all the work.
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Kate Armstrong @brainchain.ca · 12h
I’m hoping to take the time to reflect and to do a good walk today- so I’m all for the nature immersion
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Kate Armstrong @brainchain.ca · 12h
We should call this ‘doginnovation’ , Wendy!
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Kate Armstrong @brainchain.ca · 12h
Mine too!
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Kate Armstrong @brainchain.ca · 12h
This has been such a great fall for good riding weather
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Kate Armstrong @brainchain.ca · 12h
Thank you for the correction - a lot going on today with our National Day here and I was typing fast
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Auburn Scallon @wsauburn.bsky.social · 12h
Agreed! With a tiny caveat that it’s “Unshrinking” for anyone inspired to seek out the book. www.katemanne.net/unshrinking....
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UNSHRINKING
For as long as I can remember, I have wanted to be smaller. I can tell you what I weighed on any significant occasion: my wedding day, the day I became a professor, the day my daughter was born. I've....
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David K Smith @professor-dave.bsky.social · 14h
One of the most interesting biographies I discovered during my #DecolonisingChemistry project for the @chemistryatyork.bsky.social curriculum was that of Alice Ball a black chemist, whose leprosy treatment, using carbonyl chemistry to build on traditional medicine, was stolen by a male colleague.
Portrait of Alice Ball including images of the Chaulmoogra plant and its conversion into a leprosy treatment.
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