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Canadian Dimension @canadiandimension.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
@seancarleton.bsky.social and @niigaanwewidam.bsky.social’s new edited collection confronts the growing presence of harmful and disrespectful residential school denialism in mainstream media and public discourse. Read more of their writing in Canadian Dimension here:
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Putting truth and respect before reconciliation
Sean Carleton and Niigaan Sinclair, Indigenous studies professors and editors of the new book, Truth Before Reconciliation: Confronting Residential School Denialism, respond to the slow creep of harmf...
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APTN News @aptnnews.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Our National Day for Truth and Reconciliation special starts at 11 a.m. ET on September 30, with hosts Dennis Ward and Tiar Wheatle. Watch live on APTN and online here: www.aptnnews.ca/rememberingt...
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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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Nora Loreto @nolore.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
(You can hear more about how the left is too white, and by proxy, too far from the working class, at our podcast -- www.sandyandnora.com)
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A political podcast. Just Listen.
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Sevtap Savas, PhD🫐 🇨🇦🍁 @savaslab.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Spend the night, learn Indigenous culture at Lunar Inn in St. John's | CBC News
“This is a place where we invite people to stay with purpose," says Rory Lambert, a co-ordinator with First Light about the Lunar Inn, which has seen guests from from across Canada, the United States ...
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💚🌏Myles🌏💚 @rainbowregionmyles.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"When the most powerful man in the country is a sexual predator who mainlines misogyny, he gives a blaring, glaring greenlight to men everywhere that they can treat us like shit and face no accountability. I call it Trickle-Down Misogyny". - Mona Eltahawy @monaeltahawy.bsky.social
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Mona Eltahawy @monaeltahawy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Trickle-Down Misogyny: When Trump was first campaigning to be president in 2015, those seven young men at Cornell were children—boys of about 10 or 11, I’d guess. They grew up in a United States of America in which Donald Trump was fruition, not an aberration www.feministgiant.com/p/essay-tric...
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Essay: Trickle-Down Misogyny
On the Cornell Seven
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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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Simon Little 🍁 @simonplittle.ca · 29/09/2026
Background: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Judge to rule on constitutional challenge by B.C. compassion club founders convicted of drug trafficking | CBC News
A British Columbia Supreme Court judge is expected to rule Tuesday on a constitutional challenge from two harm-reduction activists convicted of drug trafficking who argued they were doing it to reduce...
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dustin @godfrey.work · 29/09/2026
BREAKING: Jeremy Kalicum and Eris Nyx's charges are being thrown out. she said they did a public service "at considerable personal cost."
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merschrod (she/they) @merschrod.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
At a workshop on decolonization and right off the bat counted 6 chemists in attendance! #chemsky @chemjobber.bsky.social
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merschrod (she/they) @merschrod.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The right to strike gives workers power to stand up to big corporations and demand better wages. The federal government shouldn’t take that power away. share.canadianlabour.ca/s/Iqa2mL7i @munfaculty.bsky.social @nlfl.bsky.social @munfa-grenfell.bsky.social
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Tell the government: Protect our right to strike!
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merschrod (she/they) @merschrod.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
If the federal government makes it harder for workers to negotiate a fair deal at work, it opens the door for NL to do the same. We can’t let that happen. share.canadianlabour.ca/s/TRXmULqG @munfaculty.bsky.social @nlfl.bsky.social @munfa-grenfell.bsky.social
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Tell the government: Protect our right to strike!
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merschrod (she/they) @merschrod.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
When workers can stand together, we have a better shot at getting a fair deal at work. share.canadianlabour.ca/s/R0Sba55E @munfaculty.bsky.social @nlfl.bsky.social @munfa-grenfell.bsky.social
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Tell the government: Protect our right to strike!
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merschrod (she/they) @merschrod.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
When workers can stand together, we have a better shot at getting a fair deal at work. share.canadianlabour.ca/s/6671zDVO @munfaculty.bsky.social @nlfl.bsky.social @munfa-grenfell.bsky.social
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Tell the government: Protect our right to strike!
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merschrod (she/they) @merschrod.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Bring Back the Residential Energy Rebate I just signed the NL NDP petition calling on government to bring back the residential energy rebate by removing the provincial HST from home heating bills. Please join me in calling for the removal of this regressive tax. nlndp.actionkit.com/sign/bring-b...
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Bring Back the Residential Energy Rebate
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merschrod (she/they) @merschrod.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
@munfa-grenfell.bsky.social @munfaculty.bsky.social Help spread the word! Together, we can make sure the government gets the message: protect the right to strike! share.canadianlabour.ca/toolkit/0100... @nlfl.bsky.social @cupescfp.bsky.social
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SoSha
SoSha combines embeddable social share toolkits, real-time analytics, and AI-powered writing tools to help companies run engaging organic social share campaigns.
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merschrod (she/they) @merschrod.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
@munfa-grenfell.bsky.social @munfaculty.bsky.social Take 30 seconds to tell us why protecting workers' right to strike matters to you. share.canadianlabour.ca/toolkit/5de3... @nlfl.bsky.social @cupescfp.bsky.social
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SoSha
SoSha combines embeddable social share toolkits, real-time analytics, and AI-powered writing tools to help companies run engaging organic social share campaigns.
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merschrod (she/they) @merschrod.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
🚨The Canadian government wants to make it easier for companies to keep wages low and harder for workers to push back, by weakening the right to strike and collectively bargain. Not on our watch. Send a message to the government now. share.canadianlabour.ca/s/6vhh5hO3 @munfaculty.bsky.social
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Tell the government: Protect our right to strike!
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merschrod (she/they) @merschrod.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The right to strike means the right as individuals to vote on whether or not to strike. If a government minister can unilaterally overrule our vote, that undermines our fundamental rights as Canadians! @munfaculty.bsky.social #NoBillC39
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Judy Trinh @judytrinh.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Seniors who were protesting Mark Carney’s Bill c39 and fast tracking of environmental reviews arrested and charged with trespassing on Parliament Hill.
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OBDsity - Bunnies in a Bun Dance @obdsity.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Fini says "Drink more water!" 💦😘 This has been a Pawblic Service Finouncement. #FiniCore
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merschrod (she/they) @merschrod.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Invisible cuts to contract academic staff are everyone’s problem - www.caut.ca/bulletin/inv... @munfaculty.bsky.social @munsu35.bsky.social @munfa-grenfell.bsky.social #WeAreMUN
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Invisible cuts to contract academic staff are everyone’s problem | CAUT
Despite an increase of $17 million to its provincial operating grant for the 2026-2027 academic year, Memorial University of Newfoundland is taking aggressive austerity measures.
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merschrod (she/they) @merschrod.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Shana Tova! Wishing you a wonderful new year @munfaculty.bsky.social
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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 12/09/2026
for the record everyone this is from the UN definition of genocide
2. Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
3. Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole
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Nora Loreto @nolore.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
My latest! In this moment of potential massive change, liberals have made sure that no one will be given any room to talk about how we need to break with the logic that lead us here. Instead, they want us to do things as we have, but harder. noraloreto.substack.com/p/the-libera...
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The liberal Hit Parade
In a time of historical instability, the censors know who to silence
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Slop does not refer to criticism or mere dislike. You can use even the most colloquial of definitions for slop and all of them at least minimally refer to volume and machine produced.
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merschrod (she/they) @merschrod.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
So excited for my first class today! vocm.com/2026/09/09/m... #WeAreMUN @munfaculty.bsky.social @munsu35.bsky.social
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MUNFA Welcoming New and Returning Students to Campus
The new President of Memorial University's Faculty Association is welcoming new and returning students to Memo...
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merschrod (she/they) @merschrod.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
www.queermomentum.ca/act4queersaf...
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We're Calling on the House of Commons to Study Anti-Queer Hate
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merschrod (she/they) @merschrod.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
@munfaculty.bsky.social @munfa-grenfell.bsky.social Happy Labour Day to colleagues living in and serving communities across the province! #WeAreMUN
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merschrod (she/they) @merschrod.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
@munfaculty.bsky.social in St. John's Come join us at the @nlfl.bsky.social barbecue at the Legion by Quidi Vidi! No parade :(
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UNITE HERE @unitehere.org · 07/09/2026
Today, we honor the legacy of the labor movement and the struggles of those who came before us. While there is still so much to fight we for, we have so much to celebrate and look forward to the victories to come!
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CAUT/ACPPU @caut.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
À l’occasion de cette fête du Travail, l’ACPPU célèbre les acquis du mouvement syndical et réaffirme son engagement à protéger le droit à des négociations collectives libres et équitables, y compris le droit de grève. En lire plus: www.caut.ca/fr/nouvelles...
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CAUT/ACPPU @caut.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
This Labour Day, CAUT celebrates the achievements of the union movement and remains committed to protecting the right to free and fair collective bargaining, including the right to strike. Read more: www.caut.ca/news/celebra...
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Darla @darlastephen2.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
The craziest part about trump changing his hair color is that he’s mentioned in the Epstein files 38,000 times. -Senator Casey Weinstein
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Sean Carleton @seancarleton.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Ahead of Wednesday’s release of Truth Before Reconciliation, here’s @niigaanwewidam.bsky.social and I on CBC’s Front Burner talking about what’s fueling the recent rise in residential school denialism and what we can do about it: youtu.be/BdJImlySLKk
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What’s fuelling residential school denialism? | Front Burner
YouTube video by CBC News
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APTN News @aptnnews.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
The First Nations University of Canada in Regina has teamed up with the non-profit research organization Mitacs to expand opportunities for students, faculty and researchers.
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First Nations University teams up with Mitacs to expand opportunities for students - APTN News
The First Nations University of Canada in Regina has teamed up with the non-profit research organization Mitacs to expand opportunities for students, faculty and researchers.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Black, queer, radical, female, femme people & orgs literally diagnosed the problem so well that "them goons are coming" became accepted wisdom and so now everyone thinks THEY had the idea and don't need to acknowledge the work that so-called Woke Movement damn near killed themselves to teach you.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
We are projected to spend $268 BILLION on deportations — costing the average American taxpayer about $2,358 (according to @epi.org). But somehow we “can’t afford” to make sure hungry children can eat or ensure everyone, no matter their income, can access healthcare. Priorities.
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El hilo @elhilopodcast.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
¿Qué condiciones hacen posible que prospere un personaje así? Escucha: elhilo.audio/307
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El trabajo sucio de la política digital y el poder real
Fernando Cerimedo es uno de los principales operadores digitales de la ultraderecha latinoamericana. ¿Cómo operan estas redes en la región?
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El hilo @elhilopodcast.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
También tuvo un rol en la campaña de desinformación del plebiscito constitucional en Chile. Ha sido acusado de intervenir en la última elección de Honduras, y hasta su detención asesoraba al presidente boliviano Rodrigo Paz.
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El hilo @elhilopodcast.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Uno de sus hitos como operador es la difusión de falsedades sobre el proceso electoral en Brasil, que alimentaron el intento de golpe de estado de Bolsonaro. Poco después, fue el segundo mayor donante individual de la campaña de Milei en Argentina.
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Academic Chatter @academic-chatter.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
There’s something genuinely encouraging about this. The original analysis was wrong in an important way, but the response is exactly what we should want from research; investigate the error and let the evidence change the story.
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merschrod (she/they) @merschrod.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
MMIWG are real people, with lives, families, communities. @brandimorin.bsky.social tells her story with the context and analysis that we always look to in her writing. This Is How Close I Came to Becoming an MMIW Statistic indigenousinsider.substack.com/p/this-is-ho...
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This Is How Close I Came to Becoming an MMIW Statistic
My ex attacked me, tried to burn me, and threatened to kill me. Last week, he was found guilty.
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Pam Palmater @pampalmater.com · 28/08/2026
Human rights activist & VP of @justiceforgirls.bsky.social Zoë Craig-Sparrow fr Musqueam helps us understand the disappearing Indian formula in Indian status, meant to get rid of the so-called "Indian problem". #firstnations #humanrights #warriorlifepodcast www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyDW...
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Zoe Craig-Sparrow: I am the Cut-Off
YouTube video by Pam Palmater
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AAUP @aaup.org · 28/08/2026
Solidarity to Hofstra AAUP as they fight for a fair contract to preserve healthcare & retirement benefits before classes begin next week! All while admin compensation continues to soar. 👀 🚫 💰 www.instagram.com/p/Dcga-lqkcn...
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
union strong
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Andrew J Douglas @ajdouglas.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
With all the news about Emory arresting its students and faculty and putting flock cameras all over campus, I’ve somehow missed its offshore tax sheltering schemes. www.chronicle.com/article/high...
How far adrift from a university mission can the demands of a cutting-edge health system carry you? Just south of Cuba, it turns out. In fiscal year 2023, Emory Healthcare transferred nearly $60 million to a casualty insurance company in the Cayman Islands, a jurisdiction one captive-insurance guide calls “tax neutral,” meaning it imposes “no capital gains, estate, property or income taxes, nor any other applicable business tax.” Also established in 1994, that offshore entity is a wholly owned subsidiary of Emory Healthcare. And it isn’t the only one that has embraced what a hospital representative once called the “industry standard.”
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APTN News @aptnnews.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
“The Churchill Falls Megaproject was built and is being operated illegally in Nitassinan, the traditional territory of the Innu of Matimekush–Lac John and Uashat mak Mani-utenam,” the Innu Nations' press release argues.
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Innu in Quebec reject Quebec-NL Churchill Falls deal
Innu leaders in Quebec the leaders said the project could not go ahead without their participation and consent.
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merschrod (she/they) @merschrod.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Just finished my last AF&G meeting. Such important work and such thoughtful and dedicated colleagues. I'll miss it and can't wait to get back on next year! @munfaculty.bsky.social
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merschrod (she/they) @merschrod.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
This funny post unleashed a really thoughtful discussion about being human, doing art, etc :)
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