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Settler historian of food, health and colonialism | hapless area man | amateur squirrel theorist | against fascism | sometimes make music: distrokid.com/hyperfollow/thrums/va…

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Nora Loreto @nolore.bsky.social · 13h
I guess when you run out of vacant threats, you rush to just being like, yep death time, lady.
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The Beaverton @thebeaverton.com · 19h
Carney announces $1.2B investment to protect oceans from his own climate policy
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Carney announces $1.2B investment to protect oceans from his own climate policy
Vancouver, BC – Prime Minister Mark Carney has announced more than one billion dollars in federal funding to keep the ocean safe from the consequences of his own actions.
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staring blankly into the abyss @irmsby.bsky.social · 21h
Bradford has been my councillor for the past two terms & I can confirm that this is an accurate portrayal. He's a cipher of a man whose only core belief is in his own ambition. But he's also a terrible local representative (as anyone who's contacted his office or read his newsletters can confirm).
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staring blankly into the abyss @irmsby.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
You will not see a better parody of modern podcast culture (and Joe Rogan, specifically) than this video from InfoWars. Perfection: youtu.be/OdEpyZVP5dU?...
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The Tim Heidecker Podcast #0001 - Jeremy Levick, Rajat Suresh, Sean Coleman
YouTube video by InfoWars
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staring blankly into the abyss @irmsby.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Carney's anti-Indigenous policy agenda is going to be his defining legacy.
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University of Manitoba Press @umanitobapress.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Excerpt from Mary Jane Logan McCallum's excellent TRUTH BEFORE RECONCILIATION chapter, "Orange Shirt Day Hangover" on Quill and Quire.
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Excerpt from Truth Before Reconciliation: Confronting Residential School Denialism - Quill and Quire
Orange Shirt Day Hangover: Municipalities, Indigenous Historians, and the Long History of Denialism Indigenous historians’ community-based and public education work of researching and analyzing the past and presenting it in ways that make sense in the present has always been tricky. For too long, and even now, a decade after the release of the Truth
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University of Manitoba Press @umanitobapress.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"[On Orange Shirt Day] Theorized best by scholar Audra Simpson, our arguments about real anger, real frustration, and real need to identify and reject colonialism in all its forms can be pre-emptively framed in an affective performance of sorrow, contrition, and moving on."
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staring blankly into the abyss @irmsby.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
An all timer. Music = V. Good. Cover Art = Best.
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staring blankly into the abyss @irmsby.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Anti-trans bathroom policies are hate, full-stop. Fuck these ghouls.
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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This is foul. A reader reached out and told me the first google result when you search "kamloops unmarked graves discovery" is residential school denial. I did the search myself, and I found the same thing. The first non-sponsored result is the Fraser Institute's residential school denial.
Google search result for "kamloops unmarked graves discovery" has, as its first non-sponsored post, a publication from the Fraser Institute.

It reads: "No evidence of 'mass graves' or 'genocide' in residential ..."

"Feb 12, 2024 — ... Kamloops narrative are either false or highly exaggerated. No unmarked graves have been discovered at Kamloops or elsewhere-not one. As of ... Read more"Another screenshot shows the only result before the Fraser Institute result is a sponsored post from Angus Reid, affirming that the Fraser Institute result is the first non-sponsored one.Screenshot shows the intial response Google provides to the search "kamloops unmarked graves discovery"

All you can see on this first screenshot is the AI overview (barf) and the sponsored result from Angus Reid. However, as the other screenshots show, that Angus Reid result is followed by the first non-sponsored result: residential school denial from the Fraser Institute.
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Connie Walker @conniewalker.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
When we finished our podcast Stolen: Surviving St. Michael's in 2022, I knew that I wasn’t done with the story. Even though we had spent a year investigating my dad's experience at the St. Michael's Indian Residential School and uncovered a staggering level of abuse, the story felt unfinished.
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Who is protected by the destruction of Indian Residential School records?
“There’s not a single Indigenous person in Canada, who has not been touched by the legacy of Residential Schools.” - Justice Murray Sinclair, Chair of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC)
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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Every college in this country decided that expelling and/or sending the police to beat the shit out of their own students for the crime of being opposed to genocide was their top priority. That and giving Trump complete control of what they teach. Contrast that with how they treat rapists.
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Patrick Canning 🇨🇦 @patrickcanning.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The "environmental wing" of the BCNDP is a political sacrifice zone.
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Roberta Lexier @robertalexier.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This is legitimately terrifying. Threats like this should not be tolerated, especially in one of our major news outlets. Do not let this pass unchallenged. nationalpost.com/opinion/yoni...
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Yoni Goldstein: Jewish law tells us how to deal with Avi Lewis
His Yom Kippur message was indefensible
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Daniel S. Goldberg @profgoldberg.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Trying to explain to colleagues from elsewhere on the planet that the US has no public funding body with real resources* to fund research in the humanities is amazing. I just get dumbfounded stares, usually.
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Harsha Walia @harshawalia.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Huge news! Charges against Eris Nyx and Jeremy Kalicum, founders of the Drug User Liberation Front, have been stayed. Judge found parts of Canada's drug laws are unconstitutional and that the compassion club reduced the harms associated with the toxic drug crisis. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Judge tosses drug trafficking convictions for B.C. compassion club founders after constitutional challenge | CBC News
A British Columbia Supreme Court judge has ruled in favour of two harm-reduction activists convicted of drug trafficking who argued they were doing it to reduce the harms caused by toxic drugs.
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Nora Loreto @nolore.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Why the Globe and Mail looked past rising right-wing violence, the shooting at the Quebec City mosque, the connection between antivaxxers and white supremacy, to blame Canada's highest profile Jewish politician for the synagogue shooting in Belleville ... noraloreto.substack.com/p/turning-a-...
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Turning a peaceful movement violent
Canadian elites blame Palestinian solidarity for Belleville synagogue shooting
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Dr. Az Klymiuk @klymiuk.ca · 29/09/2026
What if, and just hear me out here, you DIDN’T invoke Indigenous dispossession in the name of higher education?
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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 28/09/2026
If I’m reading this correctly, Toronto mayoral candidate Brad Bradford’s campaign is asking volunteers to give them full access to their contact lists on their *personal* cell phones? www.nationalobserver.com/2026/09/28/i...
'You don't need to freak out about this'
Introducing Bradford's supporters to the app on the Zoom call, Punia instructed them to give the app permission to access all of their contacts.

"Do not give it partial contact ability, give it full. And what I want to say to you guys here is, you don't need to freak out about this," said Punia. He reassured them that only contacts they marked as known or potential Bradford supporters would be given to the campaign.

One attendee hesitated as she had over 2,400 contacts on her phone. She was instructed to give the app access to all of them and mark them one by one according to their level of support for Bradford.
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staring blankly into the abyss @irmsby.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Lost a lot of respect Geddy Lee for endorsing Bradford. Not shocked that super rich guy wants lower taxes but his statement that he "truly fear[s] for the future of Toronto" [subtext: under a center-left woman with a Chinese accent] is pretty fucking rich.
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staring blankly into the abyss @irmsby.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This is not a reformable system.
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Emile Chabal @emile-chabal.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Crisis, what crisis? www.the-tls.com/regular-feat...
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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
*mid-eulogy, looking down at casket* you’ve read your last free article
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staring blankly into the abyss @irmsby.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
What climate catastrophe?
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staring blankly into the abyss @irmsby.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Can confirm
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staring blankly into the abyss @irmsby.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
A+ Canadian content.
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Bruce Arthur @brucearthur.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Walking Eagle News @theeagleist.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
On This Day in Wab Kinew History: Anicinabe Park occupation avoided after participants make wise choice to stay home, let authorities sort issue out
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staring blankly into the abyss @irmsby.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This is so genuinely cruel and heartless. Ford is, among other things, just a bad person.
Aware that the premier gives out his cellphone number freely, DiBernardo decided to get in touch. On Sept. 7, he sent Ford the following text:

Hello, I just saw the news in the Toronto Star that proposals from the city to retain the bike lanes and reduce traffic congestion were rejected without due consideration. A close friend of mine died in a cycling accident north of Bloor on university [sic] in an area where bike lanes were removed due to construction. This political move is going to cost Canadian lives at a time when we need to be more united than ever before. Please reconsider.He didn’t expect to hear back. He only wanted to register opposition to a plan that will needlessly endanger lives (not to mention one that will have almost no impact on traffic, as an engineering report commissioned by Ford’s own government indicates). “I spoke from the heart,” DiBernardo told me. “And I almost immediately got a response.”

The response he got (verified by the Star): “I am sorry for your loss! Star is always truthful lmao! I have been talking to the Mayor last week about University!”
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History Keeps Happening @historykeeper.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"We have felt keenly the stealing of our lands by the B.C. government..." 1911 Declaration of the Lillooet Tribe
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Lil'wat pamphlet
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Rebecca Nagle @rebeccanagle.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Macklemore has been saying #FreePalestine for a minute. That’s not what disrupted the status quo. What disrupted the status quo was a stadium full of people cheering. 1/2
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âpihtawikosisân @apihtawikosisan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Residential School denialism is done in the service of white supremacy and they are very, very clear about this link.
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Joanne Hammond @joannehammond.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
white nationalists doing hate crime on the highway overpass in Dufferin neighbourhood of Kamloops now
A bunch of fucking losers dressed in black with white masks, standing on an overpass with a black banner that says “GOT BONES?”
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Lia @liasae.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I am now keeping this on speed-dial
Edited old IBM printout in black caps on off-white paper.
'A computer can never be held accountable
Therefore a computer must always do the hacking haha what are they gonna do, put a computer in jail? Haha "oops it's alive" lmao'
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Safe Kjipuktuk @safehrm.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
unreal what we permit on our roads whilst screaming at politicians to ban e scooters. www.thestar.com/life/autos/r...
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Ram’s new 777-horsepower super truck can launch its three-tonne frame to 96 km/h in just 3.5 seconds
Priced at $147,990, the 2027 TRX SRT lands at Canadian dealerships this fall with a supercharged V8 and luxury cabin.
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staring blankly into the abyss @irmsby.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
jfc
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staring blankly into the abyss @irmsby.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Madness
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Mike Chen @mikechenwriter.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
You can't unsee this.
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staring blankly into the abyss @irmsby.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The BC NDP is about to learn what happens when you give your core base the most meager scraps—and in fact do a bunch of things that directly alienate them—in order to attract people who will never, ever vote for you into the fold. I suspect it's not going to go well!
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staring blankly into the abyss @irmsby.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Stoking anti-Indigenous racism is the *top priority* of a political party that may well win the BC election. Ugly, ugly times.
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Alex Usher @alexusherhesa.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Reminder: Liberals reduced university and college income by $10 billion/year.
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The State of Post-Secondary Education in Canada, 2026 | HESA
Morning all. The State of Post-Secondary Education in Canada 2026 is out today, and you can download it here. Sincere thanks to our partners at Studiosity, Riipen, Pearson, Duolingo, Intellectual Prop...
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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
guy who fell into a coma after the last episode of fawlty towers wakes up and looks at the internet
5 panel comic

Panel 1: Purple Guy looks at a laptop and says “boy o boy! I wonder what my comedy hero’s up to”

Panel 2: A tweet from John Cleese that reads “This is where the Arabs were ahead of us

By castrating all their slaves, they made sure that there were no descendants who could claim reparations”

Panels 3-5: Purple Guy slowly closes laptop with a mystified look of revulsion
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Dylan Reid @dylanreid.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
From @graphicmatt.com newsletter, on the transformation of mode count at Mill & Cherry: "Those two August counts are pretty darn remarkable, and do a good job of validating the work that went into building the West Don Lands into a walkable urban neighbourhood." #walkTO
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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 24/09/2026
This is absolutely deranged: Months before murdering 6 people and injuring 27 more, ChatGPT told the teen school shooter in Tumbler Ridge, BC that using a Remington 870 pump-action shotgun is “brutal” in a “hallway, indoors or a crowded classroom” because “close quarters” is that gun’s “playground”
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staring blankly into the abyss @irmsby.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Wild that my retirement savings are going to get wiped out because of this absolute bullshit technology.
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staring blankly into the abyss @irmsby.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
1000% thought this was Russel Brand at first.
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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 24/09/2026
lol lol lol lol lol lol lol
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staring blankly into the abyss @irmsby.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Believing in it while cutting literally all the efforts to mitigate it while doubling down on fossil fuels, doing almost nothing on renewables--hard to take seriously.
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staring blankly into the abyss @irmsby.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Probably my all time fav album cover.
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Ryan North @ryannorth.ca · 23/09/2026
Pompeii is a UNESCO world heritage site not because it was remarkable in its prime, but because it survived to our era untouched: one moment, preserved for all time. But future generations won't know what OUR world was like unless we do the same. This is why we MUST bury Toronto with a volcano
Picture of the streets of Pompeii, from https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pompei_-_panoramio_(26).jpg. Taken by Tanya Dedyukhina, used under CC
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