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Michelle Cyca

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it's "see-sa" hot takes bureau chief @thenarwhal.ca writer @thewalrus.ca adjunct prof @ubcjournalism.bsky.social journalist, nêhiyaw, mom, roller skater she/her ✌️michellecyca.com

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Emma Arkell @emmaarkell.bsky.social · 2h
"There are those who oppose both supervised consumption sites and public displays of drug use... who support rehab as a panacea, without acknowledging research that shows rehab without adequate supports increases fatalities, because those who relapse have a reduced tolerance for drugs."
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Michelle Cyca @michellecyca.com · 8h
recommended reading today — Aaron Hemens’ interview with Phyllis Webstad, published two years ago on @indiginews.bsky.social. Webstad is not even mentioned on the federal government’s webpage for NDTR/Orange Shirt Day indiginews.com/news/orange-...
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Orange Shirt Day’s founder fears Sept. 30 is being co-opted from residential ‘school’ survivors
‘I don’t want Orange Shirt Day to be forgotten — it was started by a survivor,’ says Phyllis Webstad, whose 11-year-old event now coincides with National Day for Truth and Reconciliation
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Senator Paula Simons 🇨🇦 @senatorpaulasimons.bsky.social · 12h
On Parliament Hill this morning for the flag raising ceremony that will begin a day of solemn remembrance on this Truth and Reconciliation Day. It seems even more important this year, in a moment of rising residential school denialism. #cdnpoli #Canada #yow #Ottawa
An audience, dressed in orange shirts (and rain coats) sit on a foggy, slightly drizzly morning in front of a stage set up in front of the parliamentary visitors centre. In the background, one can see the construction equipment renovating Centre Block.
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Michelle Cyca @michellecyca.com · 10h
there’s just something very ironic about having a tantrum in the replies of a First Nations journalist on National Truth & Reconciliation Day when you started out by posting your anger at colonial violence. I think almost literally anything else you could do would be a better use of your time.
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Michelle Cyca @michellecyca.com · 11h
can you take this elsewhere please
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Niigaan Sinclair @niigaanwewidam.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A burial site for dozens of children who died while attending the Brandon Indian Residential School will be acquired by the province, the Free Press has learned. www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews...
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Province to acquire campground near former residential school
A burial site for dozens of children who died while attending the Brandon Indian Residential School will be acquired by the province, the Free Press has learned.
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Michelle Cyca @michellecyca.com · 29/09/2026
huge victory for DULF — also a great day to support @defactomedia.ca which has excellent coverage of this case
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Michelle Cyca @michellecyca.com · 28/09/2026
the government does have agency; it's responsible for notifying survivors as a pre-requisite to destroying the records. the concern is that it has not adequately notified survivors but will destroy the records anyway
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Michelle Cyca @michellecyca.com · 28/09/2026
really don't need to be lectured on this topic, and my point was that this stems from a Supreme Court decision, not the PMO. plenty of other things one can criticize Carney for
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Michelle Cyca @michellecyca.com · 28/09/2026
the number of shitty PR emails I've gotten recently that are using Orange Shirt Day as a hook for things that have nothing to do with residential school survivors or history is appalling. even worse now than it was four years ago, when I wrote this: indiginews.com/first-person...
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Orange Shirt Day is not about buying orange shirts - Indiginews
Corporations are trying to turn reconciliation into a transaction — we need to disentangle its meaning from the act of shopping
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Michelle Cyca @michellecyca.com · 28/09/2026
you can look at the progress report of the legal services company contracted to notify them, which show that in the last *five years* they have received only 40 requests for forms to preserve/share records, and one request for a destruction form. www.myrecordsmychoice.ca/progress-rep...
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My Records, My Choice
If you made an IAP or ADR claim for compensation for residential school abuse, the Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement says that you can save your IAP or ADR records for history, public ed...
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Michelle Cyca @michellecyca.com · 28/09/2026
what do you mean "rile future generations"
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Michelle Cyca @michellecyca.com · 28/09/2026
a secret third thing (nothing to do with Mark Carney & also not "respecting the agreement" which included notifying survivors of the destruction deadline)
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Michelle Cyca @michellecyca.com · 28/09/2026
to learn more, you can sign up for this free event on Sept. 30 — in person or online: www.eventbrite.ca/e/the-right-...
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The Right to Truth: Protecting Indian Residential School Records
Join us this National Day for Truth & Reconciliation for a conversation with Connie Walker, Kimberly Murray, Marie Wilson & Stephen Kakfwi.
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Michelle Cyca @michellecyca.com · 28/09/2026
in advance of the National Day of Truth & Reconciliation I spoke to Kimberly Murray & Connie Walker about their efforts to raise awareness about this looming destruction, which survivors may not even know is happening next year. read it today at @thenarwhal.ca:
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Michelle Cyca @michellecyca.com · 28/09/2026
yes, but the waiting period was established to ensure survivors would be contacted and given the opportunity to choose whether to preserve their records or receive a copy. since 2021, only 40 people have requested a form to preserve their records, and only 1 a destruction form — of 38,000+
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Michelle Cyca @michellecyca.com · 28/09/2026
they are separate, yes. you can open The Narwhal without subscribing (just click the X to close the pop-up, or click the text that says "I'm already subscribed").
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Michelle Cyca @michellecyca.com · 28/09/2026
this predates Carney & stems from a Supreme Court decision so it's not really something you can blame on any individual prime minister, though there is a pattern of the federal government fighting to release residential school histories & records, eg: www.cbc.ca/news/indigen...
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Canada seeks to dismiss St. Anne's residential school survivors' fight for accountability | CBC News
Federal lawyers are asking an Ontario court to dismiss a group of survivors' fight to hold Canada accountable for withholding evidence of widespread abuse at St. Anne's Indian Residential School durin...
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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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Michelle Cyca @michellecyca.com · 27/09/2026
should I frame this? my three-year-old’s first skeet ❤️
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Michelle Cyca @michellecyca.com · 27/09/2026
My b. h h. Bb Mm
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Michelle Cyca @michellecyca.com · 27/09/2026
it’s still so good
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Michelle Cyca @michellecyca.com · 27/09/2026
have reached a surreal, much-anticipated point in my parenting journey: listening to “Jagged Little Pill” with my daughter and explaining I was her age when it came out
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Michelle Cyca @michellecyca.com · 26/09/2026
I also support a seasonal ban on pumpkin spice 😎
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Michelle Cyca @michellecyca.com · 26/09/2026
no this is Wrong
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Michelle Cyca @michellecyca.com · 26/09/2026
I have to speak my truth
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Michelle Cyca @michellecyca.com · 26/09/2026
just as fireworks are illegal in BC except for one week before Halloween I believe eggnog should only be permitted on grocery shelves in December
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Michelle Cyca @michellecyca.com · 25/09/2026
it's a bit more nuanced than that: some are legal in Vancouver but they have to meet emissions standards & be registered (my old house, with a very old fireplace, is not eligible). metrovancouver.org/services/env...
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About the Residential Indoor Wood Burning Bylaw | Metro Vancouver
Learn more about Metro Vancouver Regional District Residential Indoor Wood Burning Emission Regulation Bylaw No. 1303, 2020
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Michelle Cyca @michellecyca.com · 25/09/2026
fun to read this response to my latest Walrus column about the troubling relationship between Scholastic book fairs & Canadian public schools in LitHub: lithub.com/have-they-ru...
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Have They Ruined Our Beloved Scholastic Book Fair?
Oh, Scholastic Book Fair. If you made your way through a public school in North America anytime during the past half-century, you should recall that shiny catalog. That sudden, circus-like presence…
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Michelle Cyca @michellecyca.com · 25/09/2026
I say this as a homeowner with a 10-storey apartment building behind my house :)
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Michelle Cyca @michellecyca.com · 25/09/2026
bizarre to me that so much reporting on housing fails to interrogate the assumptions that homeowners (1) should always get to approve of changes to their neighbourhood (2) should be protected by government from any possible decline in property values www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Toronto needs more homes. These neighbours say they're paying the price | CBC News
An elderly downtown couple says they’re shocked and upset that the city has approved a duplex next door to their three-story Victorian home that they say will tower metres above their chimney and rend...
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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
As I'm sure many others have pointed out, this website is an AI scraper. This news is 6 years old. The company scrapes real news articles and rewrites them with an LLM, then republishes them for clicks.
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Michelle Cyca @michellecyca.com · 22/09/2026
october is going to be a really fun month for politics
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Michelle Cyca @michellecyca.com · 22/09/2026
thank you for coming!! I loved this book — looking forward to your review
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Michelle Cyca @michellecyca.com · 21/09/2026
you're in luck!
a photo of the Scholastic catalogue with a "Vending Machine Eraser Set" for $10.99, above a listing for "Make your own DOG MAN puffy stickers"
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Michelle Cyca @michellecyca.com · 21/09/2026
my kid came home with her Scholastic catalogue last week with a hopeful checkmark next to a vending machine-shaped eraser set (??) anyway for @thewalrus.ca I wrote about why it's bad & weird that our public school libraries rely on a corporation that directly advertises to children in the classroom
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Michelle Cyca @michellecyca.com · 21/09/2026
so cool, Michelle!!
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Michelle Cyca @michellecyca.com · 18/09/2026
we were supposed to have two more (from TEAM) but they dropped out the night before!
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Michelle Cyca @michellecyca.com · 18/09/2026
a genuine pleasure to moderate the Vancouver council candidates debate last night with @womentcities.bsky.social! watch to learn about some of the people campaigning for your vote next month. (also learn which parties chose not to participate!) www.youtube.com/live/rv0Paba...
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Our City Hall Forum
YouTube video by Women Transforming Cities
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The Narwhal @thenarwhal.ca · 11/09/2026
SCOOP: A leaked document indicates Alberta is considering rewriting laws, creating new Crown corporations to take over the natural gas system and build new gas pipelines and taking on costly legal battles — in large part so AI data centres can have access to power, @drewanderson.bsky.social reports.
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Leaked doc suggests Alberta has sprawling plans to pave the way for AI data centres, more oil production
Rewriting laws, creating Crown corporations that could rival TC Energy, building new natural gas pipelines and increasing prices for consumers: what a leaked document says about Alberta’s AI data centre and oil push
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Michelle Cyca @michellecyca.com · 10/09/2026
we'll also be chatting about her new novel, Exit Party, on Sep. 21 as part of @writersfest.bc.ca: writersfest.bc.ca/event/emily-...
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Emily St. John Mandel in Conversation | Vancouver Writers Fest
This event is sold out. If additional tickets become available, we’ll make the announcement in our weekly newsletter. Sorry, there is no waitlist.   Presented in partnership with HarperCollins Canada....
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Michelle Cyca @michellecyca.com · 10/09/2026
for @theglobeandmail.com I spoke to Emily St John Mandel about living in America, counterlives and writing without a plan: www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/book...
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Emily St. John Mandel imagines the bleak counterlife of America in Exit Party
Mandel’s latest novel portrays two unsettlingly plausible trajectories in America’s near future
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Michelle Cyca @michellecyca.com · 09/09/2026
the source is linked. for the lowest-income quintile, it's $17 per $10,000 in income. www.pbo-dpb.ca/en/publicati...
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PBO Assessment of Spring Economic Update: Temporarily suspending the federal fuel excise tax
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Michelle Cyca @michellecyca.com · 09/09/2026
might be good to read the article and see the other things that poor & middle-income people in rural areas without public transport are losing out on because of this policy :)
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Michelle Cyca @michellecyca.com · 09/09/2026
@juliechadwick.bsky.social did an amazing job with this story. thanks for reading & sharing!
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Michelle Cyca @michellecyca.com · 08/09/2026
this is so gross nunatsiaq.com/stories/arti...
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‘The theft is blatant’: Nunavut AI ‘correspondent’ regurgitates northern stories
Leah Qammaniq, an Inuk journalist raised in the North, understands first-hand the issues that she reports on in Nunavut. She covers Inuit self-governance, food security and, generally, daily life in t...
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Michelle Cyca @michellecyca.com · 03/09/2026
thanks friend 💚
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Emma McIntosh @emmamci.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
A follow-up to this follow-up: The B.C. Conservative Party continued to unravel as two more MLAs stepped down from its caucus Wednesday, pointing to ties between senior staffers and the Alberta separatist movement. www.thestar.com/news/investi...
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Alberta separatist ties hasten implosion of Canada’s B.C. Conservative Party as 9 MLAs have now resigned in a month
Alberta separatist ties among senior staff lead B.C. MLAs Donegal Wilson and Scott McInnis to resign, making nine caucus departures in a month.
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Michelle Cyca @michellecyca.com · 02/09/2026
new from me! more reasons to delete Google Maps besides the Lake America thing
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James McLeod @jamespmcleod.ca · 01/09/2026
For the Toronto Star, I wrote about the trade war, digital sovereignty, and Lake Ontario. We are already dominated by American tech giants. If Canada fights this trade war and we don't renegotiate the terms of digital trade, we will lose. www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
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Google changing Lake Ontario to Lake America isn’t just frustrating. It points to a deeper problem for Mark Carney
Canada’s digital infrastructure is too tied to companies like Google, Microsoft and Amazon.
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