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Naheed Nenshi @naheednenshi.bsky.social · 52m

I am touched, as I always am, by the courage of First Nations people and all Indigenous people. Indigenous people have been harmed by the mistakes of Canada more than anybody else, and yet no one has stood stronger in favour of fighting for this country.

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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 1h

#ICYMI "Schooled by Trump, Americans are learning to dislike their allies. Our polling shows that Americans’ and Europeans’ attitudes towards each other are changing quickly" www.economist.com/graphic-deta...

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Schooled by Trump, Americans are learning to dislike their allies

Our polling shows that Americans’ and Europeans’ attitudes towards each other are changing quickly

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The Breakdown AB @thebreakdownab.bsky.social · 3h

“her most horrible memory is what a nun did at her school after a young girl gave birth to a baby. “There was this nun walking with this little pink bundle,” Favel told the hearings. “Right into the furnace, they burnt that little baby’s body.” globalnews.ca/news/200201/...

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Regina hearings hear from elders who lived through residential school system | Globalnews.ca

REGINA - The dark legacy of the residential school system is being explored at Regina hearings of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada.

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APTN News @aptnnews.bsky.social · 3h

Today is National Day for Truth and Reconciliation and we’re live at 11 a.m. ET leading up to the special 90-minute multilingual commemoration, Remembering the Children. Watch live in English, Plains Cree, Anishinaabemowin, Kanien'kéha and Inuktitut here: www.aptnnews.ca/ourstories/r...

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Remembering the Children | APTN News

For 160 years, Indigenous children were taken and put into institutions across Canada. September 30 is a day to remember the children.

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The Breakdown AB @thebreakdownab.bsky.social · 3h

“The senior boys had to participate in the disposal of some of these newborn bodies when the girls would get pregnant,” he said. Some of the bodies were thrown into the two furnaces that were on school grounds” #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli www.timescolonist.com/local-news/s...

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Students were forced to dispose of newborns at Kuper Island residential school, says survivor

“They stripped us of our dignity. They raped us. They whipped us, and they did everything possible to … defeat us mentally, physically,” survivor says

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APTN News @aptnnews.bsky.social · 4h

September 30 is National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, also known as Orange Shirt Day. Today is a time to raise awareness of the ongoing impacts of residential schools and remember the children who never came home. How are you honouring the day?

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APTN News @aptnnews.bsky.social · 18h

APTN’s Charlotte Morritt-Jacobs explains how Indigenous filmmakers in the Northwest Territories are using film to preserve language and culture, but also how they use the art to push for more out of its future with younger generations.

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Northern Indigenous filmmakers wants more for the future in the Northwest Territories | APTN News

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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 6h

#NovaScotia 'Real reconciliation': Medicine trail partners Mi’kmaw communities, N.S. landowners Trail is working with 9 landowners to secure sites to harvest medicinal plants www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

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'Real reconciliation': Medicine trail partners Mi’kmaw communities, N.S. landowners | CBC News

Trail is working with nine landowners to secure sites to harvest medicinal plants

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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 6h

Orange Shirt Day creator Phyllis Webstad reflects on a life of overcoming adversity in new memoir Webstad's new memoir We Are Still Here details how a single voice inspired a national movement www.cbc.ca/books/orange...

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Orange Shirt Day creator Phyllis Webstad reflects on a life of overcoming adversity in new memoir | CBC Books

The Orange Shirt Day creator reflects on her life in new memoir, We Are Still Here.

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Dr. Az Klymiuk @klymiuk.ca · 9h

And here’s me, awake for the past two hours, and currently contemplating getting up to make the data table I’ve been asking a student to do for at least half a year.

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APTN News @aptnnews.bsky.social · 19h

Images of white supremacists demonstrating near a former residential school in Kamloops have sent a chill across the country, just days before the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. An expert on extremist groups called it disturbing but not surprising.

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Expert disturbed-not surprised by white nationalism demonstration

A demonstration of white nationalism by Second Sons of Canada near the Kamloops residential school site has sent a chill across the country.

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Denis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 12h

"Just 5 Infections Responsible For More Than 2 Million New Cancer Cases Annually" 🦠H. pylori 🦠Human papillomavirus (HPV) 🦠Hepatitis B virus (HBV) 🦠Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) 🦠Hepatitis C virus (HCV)

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Just 5 Infections Responsible For More Than 2 Million New Cancer Cases Annually

Cancer may seem like an inevitable part of life, but there are so many factors that can help reduce your risk.

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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 29/09/2026

When the documentary NAZA premiered this month, it sent shockwaves across the globe. Composed of interviews with 24 anonymous Israeli intelligence officers and soldiers, NAZA is a haunting exposé of the tools that the Israeli military uses to carry out the remote killing of Palestinians in Gaza.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I’m seeing a lot of posts about talking to your sons in light of the Cornell article. And yes. Talk to your sons. Here are some things you should say, based on anti-violence research about what they need to hear:

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APTN News @aptnnews.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Images are circulating online of a rally of some 30 disguised men—allegedly part of the alt-right group 'Sons of Canada' at Tk̓emlúps te Secwépemc in B.C. just days before the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. Hear more on APTN News Brief:

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APTN News Brief: 'Got bones?' White supremacists stage rally at Tk̓emlúps te Secwépemc ahead of Reconciliation day

Our lead story: concerning images circulate online of a rally of some 30 disguised men—allegedly part of alt-right group, "Sons of Canada"—at Tk̓emlúps te Secwépemc in B.C.'s Interior, just ...

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Alex Zucker @alexzucker.bsky.social · 23h

“These filings reveal shocking disdain for writers and their work through repeated, intentional decisions to steal books rather than pay for them with full knowledge that their products will destroy the careers of authors. +

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Dr. Az Klymiuk @klymiuk.ca · 10h

Okay this is excellent. I’m not an uncritical Carney fanatic, credit where it’s due.

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Well, That Was Spooky @thediscoveryofzero.com · 21h

This interview with @timnitgebru.blacksky.app does a good job puncturing some of this BS. I think the private sector often profits off of just this sort of move: hiding ‘expertise’ behind proprietary doors and then making public claims that can’t be scrutinized is par for the course in business.

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There Is No ‘Existential Threat’ From AI Says Timnit Gebru

Podcast Episode · Uncanny Valley | WIRED · September 29 · 32m

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 11h

'Unspecified proposals by UK Research and Innovation to phase out some “specific” QR funding streams could reduce institutional diversity and weaken regional research capacity, specialist universities have warned.'

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UKRI’s plans to cut QR funding risk ‘weakening regional capacity’

Proposed loss of certain quality-related streams could undermine specialist institutions’ ability to build research capacity

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The Progress Report @theprogressreport.ca · 16h

The Alberta chapter of the Canadian Bar Association has published an analysis of Premier Smith's nine referendum questions. They find that most of these proposals would invite immediate court challenges, and several of them are not legally clear at all.

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CBA Alberta Referendum Analysis

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Mike DiGirolamo @mikedigirolamo.bsky.social · 21h

For the first time in 150 yrs, kiwi once again live in the hills surrounding Wellington. More than 250 were successfully translocated back to the region, thanks to the efforts of the iwi (nations of Aotearoa), community members, and the Capital Kiwi Project. They join the podcast this week:

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Iwi and community-led effort return kiwi to Wellington for first time in over a century

For the first time in 150 years, kiwi once again live in the hills surrounding Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand. More than 250 manu (“birds” in the Māori language) were successfully translocated back ...

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Dr. Az Klymiuk @klymiuk.ca · 11h

How soon can we offer this to Alberta separatists?

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 22h

Until the Reagan years, the SEC considered stock buybacks to be illegal stock manipulation. Now, NVIDIA has announced the largest buyback in American history — fueled by the data center boom. It's time to make buybacks illegal again.

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Stock Buybacks, Explained | Robert Reich

Robert Reich explains that Trump's corporate tax is going to stock buybacks, leaving most workers behind.Watch More: Tru

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honor sachs @drhonor.bsky.social · 20h

One of the main reasons fraternities still exist is that membership signals to potential employers that you’re capable of keeping institutional secrets, even when it means covering up illegal behavior.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 14h

Time for this classic again.

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

For me, the hardest thing about stories like the Cornell gang rape case isn’t reading the initial details—although that is hard. What’s even harder is when men online, especially the journalists and pundits, start trying to combat the feminist outrage by purposefully seeding doubt and victim-blaming

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The Breakdown AB @thebreakdownab.bsky.social · 23h

“Calgary could lose between 44,000 and 69,000 jobs if Alberta separates and trade costs rise, according to a new report commissioned by the Calgary Chamber of Commerce.” #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli www.ctvnews.ca/calgary/arti...

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Alberta separation could mean tens of thousands fewer Calgary jobs: chamber report

Calgary could lose between 44,000 and 69,000 jobs if Alberta separates and trade costs rise, according to a new report commissioned by the Calgary Chamber of Commerce.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 19h

A thing I learned not too long ago is that when an LLM selects a token that leads it down an incorrect path (factually), it has no way to back up, or even know that it should back up, it's just on to the next likely bit. Literally every LLM is just posting their way through it. What an image.

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UAINE @mahtowin1.bsky.social · 16h

Update on sacred #OakFlat litigation: Eleven judges call on the Supreme Court to protect Oak Flat. "This is our last chance to prevent the irreversible desecration of a place, of a religion, and of a people."

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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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Dr. Az Klymiuk @klymiuk.ca · 29/09/2026

Yet another of the myriad issues with supporting AI, is the cover given to situations like this.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 29/09/2026

Your daily reminder - the Norwegian Consumer Council has really, really solid work on how to be anti-enshittification www.forbrukerradet.no/breakingfree/

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Breaking Free

In the new report Breaking Free: Pathways to a fair technological future, the Norwegian Consumer Council has delved into enshittification and how to resist it.

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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

#Saskatoon program helps food go to students, instead of landfill FoodBridge Alliance delivers surplus food hampers to 2 Saskatoon elementary schools Surplus food from grocers usually gets destroyed across Canada, this is a food rescue service. /1 thread www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

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Saskatoon program helps food go to students, instead of landfill | CBC News

Founded by a former classroom volunteer, the FoodBridge Alliance redirects surplus commercial groceries away from landfills and into food hampers that support families at Vincent Massey and Saint Edwa...

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Alexander J. Stein @ajstein.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

No matter how it is raised, beef comes with a steep climate cost. Many #consumers think an organic label implies #sustainability, but organic, #grassfed beef is more environmentally harmful than conventional beef in terms of carbon emissions, water use… sentientmedia.org/organic-beef... +

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Organic Beef Has a Larger Carbon Footprint Than Feedlot Beef

But no matter the way it’s raised, beef comes with a steep climate cost.

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Dr. Az Klymiuk @klymiuk.ca · 29/09/2026

I don’t know who needs this, but it’s Tuesday. So.

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Leah ProudLakota (she/her) @leahgazan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The act of hate and violence shown by white nationalist residential school denialists demonstrating on the Tk’emlups te Secwepemc First Nation is abhorrent, dangerous and unacceptable. Read my full statement here:

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MP Leah Gazan Statement on the Denialist Attack at Tk’emlups te Secwepemc First Nation

MP for Winnipeg Centre

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026

In RBG hall. Symbolism vs material reality. “The latest allegation was reported to Cornell University Police by a third party on September 23 and is said to have taken place four days earlier inside Ruth Bader Ginsburg Hall, a residence dorm on the school's North Campus.“

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Cornell rocked by new sex assault probe days after 'gang rape' lawsuit

The latest allegation was reported to Cornell Police by a third party on September 23 and is said to have taken place four days earlier at Ruth Bader Ginsburg Hall on the school's North Campus.

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

‘After the incident with Usman, Robb told Muse to stop giving his address. To test the bot, he asked a few friends to see if Muse would still share it. “And it literally gave my address out to five people,” he said.’ 😱 www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

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Meta’s AI agent Muse gives out user’s home address without permission, sending buyer to his house

The new AI agent, Muse, was released last week and has been downloaded by 3 million users

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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 29/09/2026

Fascinating new research: "1 in 8 cancer cases worldwide are caused by infections, study finds. Researchers estimate infections caused 2.3 million new cancer cases worldwide in 2024" www.cbc.ca/news/health/...

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Researchers are discovering more infections that can cause cancer | CBC News

New global research suggests 12 per cent of cancers were caused by infections, predominantly caused by HPV and H. pylori

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