“Change may not be A→B. It may be A+B, followed by the work of rebuilding the whole.” - Jaime Hoerricks.

Video reading by Tim Foley:

YouTube video by BadHasbara

Also, the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation (NDTR)

Why the name change, the Dene Nation MOU, and the fight over tailings water in the Athabasca River are all part of the same stand.

If I don't have the energy to communicate, then I need to relax and let things go.

"Are Jews Indigenous"? What about the Metis? What about the Puritans?

A Founding Architect of Reconciliation

Jews had a way to collectively grieve harm; we could, again-- in solidarity with everyone targeted by hate

We need to normalize talking about Athabasca separating from Alberta.

Tuesday, June 17 · 6:00 PM MT · 8:00 PM ET · Substack Live Upcoming live stream by the author of Our Voice of Fire : A Memoir of a Warrior Rising You need to be a subscriber first to get the link, s...

It felt obvious to me that they are, but I figured out one possible reason the average Canadian loyalist can't see it.

Western European and/or Northwestern territorial Canadian politicians and political elites abusing the phrases "democratic" and "anti-democratic"

Debunking one of the more nonsensical aspects of Canada's White Nationalist/Separatist movements

A statement by BADIL Resource Center for Palestinian Residency and Refugee Rights and the Global Palestinian Refugee and IDP Network (GPRN). The statement is also available in:Franais | Deutsche|It...

The world’s mining landlord has blood on its hands-Canada sells the world human rights. Then ravages the land from under it.

A controvercial episode of "The Good Doctor", memes, and the emotional connection I have to it.

Thinking about why I blog and participate on social media....

Putting "Alberta" and "Canada" into a more appropriate context of conflicting concepts of sovereignty

Stop trying to use Western European worldviews to justify the inevitable harm from seeking to impose Western European worldviews.

Note the plural for "peoples", and don't fall for Christian Zionist antisemitic tropes.

"Our" thoughts after reading another amazing article on Lord Stretch's Substack...

Trump is enlisting academics and influencers abroad to use American propaganda to fight the truth

Podcasts, time travel, spirituality and food

Comparing Canadaland’s recent actions with the Ottawa Citizen’s 2012 case

This time allowing myself to use an LLM that has been primed with a Gestalt Perception.

There is so much of a desire, especially within the self-identified “left”, to promote US and Canadian myths so that institutions they continue to identify with are never allowed to be questioned. Ev...

The “imminant threat” that is alleged to be the reason for the illegal preemptive attack on Iran was that Israel was going to attack anyway, so the US joined in that illegal attack in order to protect...

A questionnaire sparked thinking I wanted to share

This week’s One Dish One Mic has @Karldockstader discussing the life and death of Captain Kook on this day (February 14’th) 1779. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_James_Cook And the song: LO Q...

I see so many people talking about the 25’th amendment to the US constitution. I am wondering — do people actually believe James David Vance would be better than Donald John Trump as President of t...

On Venezuela, Congressional Inaction, and What Resistance History Actually Teaches

I'm a certain type of nerd, so will use Star Trek to discuss social sciences and words in various languages.

Following recent acts of political violence, a Quinnipiac poll finds 79% of American voters say the United States is in a political crisis.

So…. A bunch of Europeans paid each other protection money in order to define turfs to claim exclusive “dibs” over lands and peoples they had no legitimate claims to. This is a very useful article ...

I sat down with Mohawk storyteller and water activist Layla Staats to talk about Boil Alert, the powerful 2023 documentary that follows her work bringing the human impact of water insecurity in...

As politicians push military, industry and Arctic sovereignty, Inuit Circumpolar Council head Sara Olsvig says ‘nothing about us without us’

As Greenland draws renewed international attention, a Canadian Inuit leader says longstanding cooperation across the Arctic remains central to how Inuit respond to growing political and strategic inte...

The Raw and the Cooked / MI 361