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So, how’s that separation of church and state going?

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First Nations children are still waiting for safe schools, clean water, adequate housing and equitable services. Meanwhile, Canada somehow finds urgency when the “national interest” is pipelines, mines and major projects. Reconciliation has to mean more than wearing orange once a year. 🧡

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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 12h

BREAKING: Tsawwassen First Nation ends Truth and Reconciliation event early as police say 4 people hit in collision. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

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Tsawwassen First Nation ends Truth and Reconciliation event early; police say 4 people hit in 'collision' | CBC

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Dr. Az Klymiuk @klymiuk.ca · 6h

Sharing this again for the evening crowd.

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Erica Ifill @wickdchiq.bsky.social · 11h

Read my latest column on this National Day of Truth and Reconciliation. I name names! “Political institutions and political leaders have effectively played their part in minimizing the horrors of residential schools” www.hilltimes.com/2026/09/30/o...

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Outrage rings hollow when paired with lack of action on residential school denialism - The Hill Times

Political institutions and political leaders have effectively played their part in minimizing the horrors of residential schools.

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Deb Haaland @debhaalandnm.bsky.social · 9h

My grandparents survived the terrible abuse of the Federal Indian Boarding School Era. That trauma wasn't isolated to the past—it was carried down through my family all the way to me. And there are so many families like my own across Indian Country.

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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 10h

"Pro-Russian influence operations have caused a surge of 850% in fake news stories mimicking real media brands, according to a report published this week by disinformation specialist, NewsGuard. Out of the 15 most imitated news outlets, eight are French – including FRANCE 24."

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Russia ramps up disinformation attacks on French media ahead of 2027 Presidential race

Pro-Russian influence operations have caused a surge of 850% in fake news stories mimicking real media brands, according to a report published this week by disinformation specialist, NewsGuard. Out of...

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Avi Lewis @avilewis.ca · 9h

Earlier today, as the community at Tsawwassen First Nation gathered to reflect and mourn, two people were killed and two others injured in a vehicle collision. On an already somber day, it is a terrible tragedy that the community has been pushed further into grief.

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Dr. Az Klymiuk @klymiuk.ca · 6h

(Also, just so we’re clear: this post is mostly only superficially about walking the dog.)

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Dr. Az Klymiuk @klymiuk.ca · 7h

I expect this sort of thing (I have lived here for half a decade), but I think Rosie’s feelings got hurt. She was thoroughly worked up and frustrated by the end of our walk, because most people we encountered reflexively jerked their dogs away from us.

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Dr. Az Klymiuk @klymiuk.ca · 7h

Anyway, Settlers in Winnipeg: please know that you are extremely obvious when you are clocking someone as indigenous and deciding not to meet their gaze, and to avoid interacting with them at all costs. ** Extremely ** obvious.

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Dr. Az Klymiuk @klymiuk.ca · 7h

—oh, & we nearly got run over by a motorcade of formally-dressed lads in Extremely Large SUVs who decided to drive ~30km faster than posted limits, and blasted around corners and across the crosswalk with zero regard for any human life whatsoever, let alone an Indigenous professor and their dog.

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Dr. Az Klymiuk @klymiuk.ca · 7h

So she did not get to make very many new friends, and did not get the usual abundance of petting from strangers.

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Dr. Az Klymiuk @klymiuk.ca · 7h

Took Rosie for a walk at Assiniboine Park today. We do this fairly often, and she always enjoys saying hello to other dogs. I feel like I owe her apologies today, because I wore my braids, earrings, and orange. This led people to make stereotypical assumptions about what kind of dog she is.

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Naheed Nenshi @naheednenshi.bsky.social · 14h

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 · 14h

#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 · 16h

“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 · 16h

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 · 16h

“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 · 17h

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 · 30/09/2026

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 · 20h

#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 · 19h

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 · 23h

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 · 29/09/2026

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 · 30/09/2026

"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 · 29/09/2026

“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 · 30/09/2026

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 · 29/09/2026

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 · 30/09/2026

'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 · 30/09/2026

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 · 29/09/2026

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 · 30/09/2026

How soon can we offer this to Alberta separatists?

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

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 · 29/09/2026

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 · 30/09/2026

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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Dr. Az Klymiuk @klymiuk.ca · 30/09/2026

Well, maybe not a whole day. But yes!

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