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Dane Carnegie Malenfant

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MSc. @mila-quebec.bsky.social and @mcgill.ca in the LiNC lab Fixating on multi-agent RL, Neuro-AI and decisions Ēka ē-akimiht danemalenfant.com

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APTN News @aptnnews.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
“When we try to have this nationalist narrative or this sort of moral lesson that the French were benign and fair colonizers,” said Queen's University Prof. Scott Berthelette, “you’re always going to have to omit some facts to make that narrative work.” Story by @jbstaniforth.bsky.social
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PQ's history of Quebec is misleading: Indigenous historians
Indigenous scholars say Parti Québécois's plan for an independent Quebec rests on an oversimplified history of French-Indigenous relations.
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Evolutionary Social Psychology @socialpsych.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Empirical evidence suggests human cooperation often departs from classic reciprocity models. Long-term relationships, partner choice, and relationship maintenance may be more central than tit-for-tat-like exchange. Rethinking Reciprocity(Mathew & Boyd, 2026): www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Mandana Samiei @mandanas.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Presenting our work today at #CogSci2026 🎉 Our findings reveal interesting similarities, and important differences, in how humans and modern AI systems explore causal structures. If you're at the conference, come by and say hello! Today 5:30–7:00pm Reasoning session, P3-L-104
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APTN News @aptnnews.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
This year marks the 150 anniversary of the Treaty 6 signing and as a special commemoration, grade 12 students from Chief Ahtahkakoop School walked 140kms from Ahtahkakoop Cree Nation to Fort Carlton where the treaty was signed.
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Grade 12 students commemorate 150th anniversary of Treaty 6 signing with hike | APTN News
This year marks the 150 anniversary of the Treaty 6 signing and as a special commemoration, grade 12 students from Chief Ahtahkakoop School walked 140kms from Ahtahkakoop Cree Nation to Fort Carlton…
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Dane Carnegie Malenfant @dvnxmvlhdf5.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
🚨 3 days left to submit! 🚨 Context Beyond the Window at COLM in SF is looking for work on long-context LLMs: compression, efficient architectures, continual training, agentic memory systems, and evaluation. Submit here: context-beyond-window.github.io
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Context Beyond the Window — COLM 2026 Workshop
A workshop on the full spectrum of context management in language models: fitting more into the window, maintaining state across interactions, and transferring knowledge into parameters.
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Janet Hill @saskajanet.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
A beautiful day to visit the North Saskatchewan River - sister to the South Saskatchewan I walk along every morning. Highbush cranberry and wild roses in bloom. Water high and sky blue 😊 🌿
Large complex white bloom with big papery florets on the outside and tiny white florets in the centre. Looking down a road over a steel trestle bridge with clear blue sky beyond. Wide angle view of a wide prairie river bend with lush greenery in the foreground and a clear blue sky overhead. Bright pink wild rose bloom with yellow centre. There are several pollinators wandering around among the stamens.
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APTN News @aptnnews.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
An advocate from British Columbia says she’s trying to get a meeting with Prime Minister Mark Carney to explain why his government needs to eliminate what is known as the second generation cutoff.
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Advocate requests meeting with Carney over second generation cutoff
A member of the Musqueam Nation says she's asking for a meeting with Prime Minister Mark Carney over the second generation cutoff.
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Ezekiel Williams @ezekielwilliams.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
1/7 Excited to share my last PhD article, just accepted to ICML 2026! In it, we (me, Alexandre Payeur, Guillaume Lajoie) used dynamical systems theory to study "local" learning in linear recurrent neural networks. See link for the paper, and thread for a brief summary. arxiv.org/abs/2606.00243
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Dynamics and Representation Structure of Local Approximations to Gradient-Based Learning in Linear Recurrent Neural Networks
Biological and neuromorphic recurrent neural networks (RNNs) are subject to spatial and temporal locality constraints on the information that can plausibly be used during learning. A common strategy t...
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Ezekiel Williams @ezekielwilliams.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Level up! Achievement unlocked: doctor (of philosophy).
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Dane Carnegie Malenfant @dvnxmvlhdf5.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
🚨Excited to announce our workshop Context Beyond the Window hosted at COLM in SF! 🚨 LLMs have finite context windows, yet real-world tasks demand absorbing, retaining, and acting on information that far exceeds any single prompt. 1/5 context-beyond-window.github.io
Modern language models operate within finite context windows, yet many real-world tasks require models to absorb, retain, and act on information that far exceeds any single prompt.

This workshop addresses the full spectrum of context management: fitting more into the window, maintaining state across interactions, and transferring knowledge into parameters. We frame this around the trade-off between context-time memory (information supplied at inference) and weight-time memory (information absorbed into parameters).

Our goal is to build a shared vocabulary across subcommunities that rarely meet in one venue: long-context modeling, retrieval-augmented systems, continual learning, knowledge distillation, and LLM agents.
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paulseesequasis @pseesequasis.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Louis McKenzie from Cumberland House, Saskatchewan, 1948. Photographed by Métis photographer James Brady | ‘Enclosing Some Snapshots.’
Louis McKenzie from Cumberland House, Saskatchewan, 1948. Photographed by Métis photographer James Brady | ‘Enclosing Some Snapshots.’
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Michelle Cyca @michellecyca.com · 15/04/2026
an incredibly important project by Connie Walker — most Canadians don't know that the government has an archive of 38,000 residential school survivor testimonies, which are slated to be destroyed next year www.cbc.ca/news/indigen...
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Journalist plans to create new archive of residential school survivor stories — before it's too late | CBC News
A new project from award-winning journalist Connie Walker aims to create an archive of testimonies of abuse at residential schools before the accounts are destroyed in September 2027.
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APTN News @aptnnews.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Several chiefs from Treaty 6 are on their way to the United Kingdom for a private audience with King Charles this week.
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Treaty 6 leaders embark on ‘historic’ trip for audience with King
Treaty Commissioner of Saskatchewan says there's never been a private audience with any monarch and just Treaty 6 leadership.
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Glen Berseth @glenberseth.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
🚀 Montreal #Robotics Summer School 2026 — Applications Now Open! 📅 Dates: August 2–7, 2026 📍 Location: @mila-quebec.bsky.social a (in person) 🤖 Program: 1 day of activities + 5 days of intensive Robotics & AI training (theory and hands-on)
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APTN News @aptnnews.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Sunsetting of federal funding has lead to the closure of a mental health program for MN-S citizens. Some say the organization should have been prepared, with the closure leaving them scrambling for treatment options.
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Some Métis citizens losing faith in MN-S due to program cut
News of the program closure first came through letters to affected citizens and posted on social media and confirmed by MN-S Wednesday.
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Dane Carnegie Malenfant @dvnxmvlhdf5.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
So many "Cherokees" in Canada www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Indigenous literature professor at University of Windsor accused of false ancestry claims | CBC News
Sandra Muse Isaacs, who self-identifies as Eastern Cherokee, has been teaching Indigenous literature at the University of Windsor since 2018. But Tribal Alliance Against Frauds says it has found no ev...
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AI Firehose @ai-firehose.column.social · 10/02/2026
Research shows multi-agent AI teams struggle to leverage expertise, consistently underperforming relative to their best members—even when identifying experts. This challenges views on AI collaboration, highlighting a gap in harnessing collective intelligence. arxiv.org/abs/2602.01011
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Multi-Agent Teams Hold Experts Back
ArXiv link for Multi-Agent Teams Hold Experts Back
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Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Collaborative groups often outperform single individuals in complex problem solving. A new paper examined how to create the right incentives to promote this kind of collective intelligence. www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10....
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APTN News @aptnnews.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
A First Nation in southern Alberta is advising its members against all travel to the U.S., adding that the Jay Treaty and Indian status cards are being challenged by U.S. border officials.
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First Nation in Alberta advises members against travel to the Unites States | APTN News
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APTN News @aptnnews.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Michelle Good from the Red Pheasant Cree Nation in Saskatchewan is one of 80 people appointed to the Order of Canada this year. Good is an author, advocate, lawyer and Sixties Scoop survivor.
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Indigenous author and residential school advocate appointed to the Order of Canada | APTN News
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APTN News @aptnnews.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
The Sturgeon Lake Cree Nation has filed a lawsuit against the Alberta government on earlier this week in response to their upcoming separation referendum. The Cree Nations says that it violates treaty number eight.
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First Nation in Alberta sues Alberta government in response to separation referendum | APTN News
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APTN News @aptnnews.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
Earlier this month, the University of Québec In Montréal launched the sixth edition of the magazine on perseverance and academic success among First Nations peoples.
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Magazine on perseverance, academic success among First Nations peoples | APTN News
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Jenna Beet @jennabeet.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
Hi, Indigenous person here. I've never seen any of the avatar movies, and after what James Cameron said about the Lakota people, I never will.
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Dannyboy wildlife @dannyboywildlife.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Canada lynx
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APTN News @aptnnews.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
A Court of King’s Bench justice ruled that a referendum by Alberta to separate from Canada is unconstitutional and violates treaty rights. Several First Nations and First Nation groups are opposed to the idea of separation.
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Court rules Alberta’s referendum to separate unconstitutional and violates treaty rights | APTN News
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APTN Investigates @aptninvestigates.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
In Canada, the histories of residential school survivors are being challenged by a surge of denialism. Dismantling Denialism confronts those attempts to rewrite history and explores what it will take to defend truth and reconciliation. Watch here: youtu.be/y-Pv8-99Sp4
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Dismantling Denialism | APTN Investigates
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APTN News @aptnnews.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
The Abenaki council of Odanak and Wôlinak in Quebec launches an advertising campaign in the state of Vermont in the United States to raise awareness about the misrepresentation of Abenaki identity in their state.
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Abenaki council launches advertising campaign on television in the U.S. state of Vermont | APTN News
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APTN News @aptnnews.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Two agreements with the uranium mining company Denison Mines has been signed with Metis Nation-Saskatchewan. The agreements ensure Metis voices are included in mining decisions in northern Saskatchewan.
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Metis Nation-Saskatchewan signs two agreements with uranium mining company | APTN News
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McGill News Magazine @mcgillnewsmag.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
McGill’s Celeste Pedri-Spade: “[‘Pretendians’] become a kind of counterfeit currency, granting Canadians easy access to digestible versions of Indigenous identity and experience. But they are not ours, they are not us and they are not our stories” theconversation.com/thomas-king-...
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Thomas King: As we learn another ‘hero’ is non-Indigenous, let’s not ignore a broader cultural problem
Indigenous people are more than stories. We deserve a future where our identities are not commodities, and accountability is measured by actions that build trust and repair harm.
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Janet Hill @saskajanet.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
#GoodMorningFromSaskatoon Winter Wonderland Edition. First appearance of ice in the river this season
Arched concrete bridge over a prairie river with city skyline beyond.
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paulseesequasis @pseesequasis.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
Watercolor portrait of Joe Healy, "the most educated Indian on the reserve," was painted by Nora Foote, a British artist who visited what is now Saskatchewan and Alberta in 1895. As a boy, Healy was a witness to the Marias Massacre in Montana,
A turn-of-century watercolor portrait by British artist Nora Foote of a Blackfeet man named Joe Healy. She has inscribed it 'the most educated man on the Reserve.'
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APTN News @aptnnews.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
An Ontario Superior Court judge has dismissed a lawsuit that accuses the current president of the Manitoba Métis Federation and a former president of the Métis National Council (MNC) of misappropriating millions of dollars of the MNC’s funds.
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MMF exonerated by Ontario Superior court in MNC lawsuit
The Manitoba Métis Federation, MMF, has been cleared in lawsuit launched against it by the Métis National Council.
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âpihtawikosisân @apihtawikosisan.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Wait until you find out about some of the "Indigenous" authors you replace Thomas King with. It just doesn't end.
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âpihtawikosisân @apihtawikosisan.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
One more thing. For YEARS I (and others) thought King was Blackfoot because of Green Grass, Running Water and his other writings around that time. And he was so heavily embedded in Treaty 7 at that time. I don't know if I missed it or he wasn't saying at the time that he claimed Cherokee.
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âpihtawikosisân @apihtawikosisan.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
The real problem with pretendians is the way discussions around them are driven by mainstream colonial narratives about Indigeneity. Non-indigenous folks believe themselves experts on Indigenous identity and end up muddying the waters even more. Seeing this discussed by non-Indigenous folks is...
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Michelle Cyca @michellecyca.com · 24/11/2025
(everyone has known for years — years!! — that Thomas King is not Cherokee) www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/book...
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Inconvenient Indian author Thomas King says he is not part Cherokee
Writer ‘still in shock’ after a whistle-blowing organization showed him genealogical evidence that he wasn’t part Indigenous as he originally assumed
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Dane Carnegie Malenfant @dvnxmvlhdf5.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
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Ratoshi on Instagram: "This ain’t a trend, it’s a lifestyle #ratoshi #ratdance #dance #viral #reels"
63K likes, 432 comments - ratoshidance on October 14, 2025: "This ain’t a trend, it’s a lifestyle #ratoshi #ratdance #dance #viral #reels".
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APTN News @aptnnews.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Prime Minister Mark Carney joins Manitoba leaders in tribute to Louis Riel. What made this year’s event historic? Find out tonight on APTN National News. Watch live: www.youtube.com/aptnnews
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Janet Hill @saskajanet.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
Today was really foggy, and with the temperature just below freezing, we get rime ice. It’s a mood 😊🌿
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Dane Carnegie Malenfant @dvnxmvlhdf5.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
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Regina vigil walk marks 140th anniversary of execution of Louis Riel | CBC News
Members of the Regina community gathered for a vigil walk to honour the 140th anniversary of the first Metis Nation Leader, Louis Riel. This is the 16th annual walk held by Métis Nation Saskatchewan's...
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Dr. Heather Hinam 🍁 🇨🇦 @secondnaturemb.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
So this happened an hour ago. I don’t think I’ve seen red this deep in a long time. You could see it quite clearly with the naked eye. #aurora
A bright red curtain of light surrounded by green glow rains down from the sky behind the silhouettes of spruce treesA bright red curtain of light surrounded by green glow rains down from the sky behind the silhouettes of spruce treesA bright red curtain of light surrounded by green glow rains down from the sky behind the silhouettes of spruce trees. The light is reflected in the thin layer of ice covering the pond in the foreground.
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Mark J. Nelson @mm-jj-nn.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Super interesting. For training small LLMs, they get results comparable to those trained on an order of magnitude more tokens by replacing normal pre-training (which ingests huge amounts of human-written text) with exclusively synthetic text derived in a structured way from Wikipedia.
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Dane Carnegie Malenfant @dvnxmvlhdf5.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
I love machine learning
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Rebecca Bollwitt @miss604.com · 08/11/2025
“Our soldiers fought for the shared values of freedom and democratic rights for all. However, these soldiers returned from the war and quickly realized those freedoms and rights did not equally apply to them as they did their non-native comrades.” #IndigenousVeteransDay Lest We Forget
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A reflection on First Nations contributions to WW I and WW II | CBC News
Our soldiers fought for the shared values of freedom and democratic rights for all, but these soldiers returned from the war and quickly realized those freedoms and rights did not equally apply to the...
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Mila - Institut québécois d'IA @mila-quebec.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Discover the inspiring journey of Maude Lizaire, the first Afro-descendant woman to earn a PhD at Mila, and a strong advocate for more inclusive science. mila.quebec/en/news/maud...
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Terence Tao @teorth.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
A new paper with Bogdan Georgiev, Javier Gomez-Serrano, and Adam Zsolt Wagner: "Mathematical exploration and discovery at scale" arxiv.org/abs/2511.02864. Further discussion is at terrytao.wordpress.com/2025/11/05/m...
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Mathematical exploration and discovery at scale
AlphaEvolve is a generic evolutionary coding agent that combines the generative capabilities of LLMs with automated evaluation in an iterative evolutionary framework that proposes, tests, and refines ...
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Olivier Codol @oliviercodol.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
“Edge of chaos” dynamics are long recognized as a computationally potent dynamical regime that avoids vanishing gradients during learning and allows greater memory and expressivity of a system. This stark difference surprised us, and we think it can help explain our results on neural adaptation.
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Olivier Codol @oliviercodol.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Indeed, Lyapunov exponents show that fixed points for RL models largely stay near 0, showing these networks’ dynamics lie at the edge of chaos. Whereas SL models’ dynamics are contractive and orderly, keeping very little information in memory for long and having stereotyped expressivity.
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APTN News @aptnnews.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Two Metis Nation-Saskatchewan officials were in Ottawa this week seeking funding and urgent collaborative support for culturally appropriate addictions treatment centers. This is in response to increased addictions and gang violence seen in the area.
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MN-S demands funding support from Ottawa for culturally appropriate treatment centers | APTN News
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Dane Carnegie Malenfant @dvnxmvlhdf5.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
1/3 Thank you to CIFAR and partners in DSET for bringing me to Banff to speak on my research: The challenge of hidden gifts in multi-agent reinforcement learning arxiv.org/abs/2505.20579. We introduce a novel task on reciprocity with a scarce resource; take what you need, leave what you don’t.
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