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Veldon Coburn

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Algonquins of Pikwàkanagàn Associate Professor - McGill PhD Political Science

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Raywat Deonandan 🍁🇨🇦 @deonandan.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Well, "Space Nazi" is entirely on brand.
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Pabàmàdiz @karynpugliese.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
www.aptnnews.ca/national-new... Indigenous MPs ‘disgusted’ by #residential #school denialist shirts #Indigenous members of Parliament say they are “appalled” by an ongoing shirt campaign to promote residential school denialism. #cdnpoli #cdnmedia
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Indigenous MPs ‘disgusted’ by residential school denialist shirts
Indigenous members of Parliament say they are “appalled” by an ongoing shirt campaign to promote residential school denialism.
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ZoeSTodd (Dr Fish Philosopher Todd) @zoestodd.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
It's wild that we're encouraged to embrace 'Indigenous AI', but imagine if I phrased it as 'Indigenous nuclear war'. "Indigenising" is not the same as decolonising or abolishing systems of harm. Fanon (1961) warned us the native/colonized petit bourgeoisie would align with capital + empire.
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Raywat Deonandan 🍁🇨🇦 @deonandan.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
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Amir Attaran @amirattaran.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Good morning, @uottawa.ca administration!
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
GOAT
Isaiah Thomas:

6 guys beating the shit outta ONE person then KILLING him!! Fuck the ICE agents. 6 against one and yall still shoot and kill somebody. Yall had him out numbered and decided to KILL him like it was a video game and he can just he his life back smh
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Michael Truscello🏴 @mtruscello.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
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Racist genocide-denier gets carried away by RCMP as part of her attempted far-right grift performance lol
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Erica Ifill @wickdchiq.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Let’s also not pretend that Canadian values didn’t included subordinate support of American imperialism especially in the Americas
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
The death of neoliberalism does not necessarily mean something better. Or something anti-capitalist.
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Green Living Ottawa @greenlivingottawa.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
Help create a more sustainable and just city with @freetransitottawa.bsky.social's New Vision for Public Transit; @ecologyottawa.bsky.social Mapping Care and Climate Equity workshop; @scan-ottawa.bsky.social's Finding Common Ground with @veldoncoburn.bsky.social greenlivingottawa.com/2026/01/17/n...
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New Year, New Ottawa? Ideas and Events
May this new calendar year bring you renewed energy for the paths ahead—to move through sometimes overwhelming challenges toward a more sustainable and just world. The concept of “new year&#8…
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Hard to imagine behavior more pathetic than this.
Nobel Peace Prize winner Maria Corina Machado says she presented her medal to Trump

She did not answer reporters' questions as to whether he accepted it
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Erica Ifill @wickdchiq.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Political pickme
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Blair Crawford @getbac.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
pressprogress.ca/postmedia-su...
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Postmedia Suspends Toronto Sun Parliamentary Bureau Chief After Tweet Applauding ICE Killing Minneapolis Woman
Postmedia says Bryan Passifiume’s tweet about ICE killing of Renee Good was ‘regrettable and insensitive’
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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 13/01/2026
If there is a single thing I’d like you to takeaway from @pressprogress.ca’s journalism, it is how many people in positions of power in Canada start making R2D2 short-circuiting noises when you ask them to elaborate on their statements
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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 13/01/2026
Rob Shaw is nervous that if the politicians he writes about start fleeing the non-consensual sex image generation website he posts on, his account with 33,000 followers will be useless
Rob Shaw:

"Politicians who won't post on X anymore, but keep posting on the platforms that ban Canadian news organizations (Meta) and contribute to the country's disinformation problem, without doing anything about it.
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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 08/01/2026
Kinda incredible it was only four days ago that the US launched an unprovoked attack on another country, kidnapped its head of state and announced it was now “running” it and there have already been 2 or 3 other crises since then that have bumped it from the top of the news cycle
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Robert Jago @rjjago.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
We need to change the way we use Indigenous names for streets, towns, buildings, etc... substack.com/@rjjago/note...?
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Controversial Opinion: if you are naming something in the public realm in an Indigenous language, and that language doesn’t use the standard alphabet, it should come with a transliteration below it in...
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
white state agents stealing from non-white people at gun point: America really is Great Again
ICE detain father shopping on Christmas Eve—then steal his family's groceries.

3 agents divvy up his already bought food—taking what they want for themselves.

You think?
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
"We’re monitoring what you do online. Disseminating, writing, or publishing inciting content online is considered a terrorist crime in every sense and may lead to arrest or imprisonment. We have warned you." Israel warns Palestinians that posting about their suffering will be considered terrorism.
Israeli occupation forces distributed warning leaflets in Tubas, in the northern occupied West Bank, this morning, threatening Palestinian residents that posting, sharing, or publishing online content critical of Israel would be treated as a terrorist offense, potentially resulting in arrest or imprisonment.

The leaflets stated:

"We are monitoring what you do online. Disseminating, writing, or publishing inciting content online is considered a terrorist crime in every sense and may lead to arrest or imprisonment, as has happened in this house. We have warned you."
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Alex Neve @alexneve.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
How many more statements of meaningless denunciation - empty of one single consequence for unrelenting genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity - must Palestinians endure Minister @anitaoakvilleeast.bsky.social?
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Joint statement on the approval of the creation of 19 new settlements in the occupied West Bank
“We, States of Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Iceland, Ireland, Japan, Malta, the Netherlands, Norway, Spain and the United Kingdom condemn the approval by the Israeli security cabi...
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Erica Ifill @wickdchiq.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
They’re now calling this a K-shaped economy. Guess which part of the K most of us are?
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🔫🎃Scott Martian Invaders 🎃🛼 @youcaughtscott.com · 21/12/2025
Normal behaviour.
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APTN News @aptnnews.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Two cabins were torched over the weekend at the Mi’kmaw Land Protectors Hunter’s mountain camp. One burnt to the ground while the other sustained major damage. According to the land protectors, this was an alleged hate crime.
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Two Mi’kmaw cabins were torched over the weekend in alleged hate crime | APTN News
YouTube video by APTN News
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PressProgress @pressprogress.ca · 16/12/2025
British Columbia's newest far-right party has become embroiled in conflict, after suddenly removing its leader. OneBC’s implosion appears to stem from the firing of a staffer accused of posting neo-Nazi propaganda: pressprogress.ca/dallas-brodi...
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BC’s newest far-right party, OneBC, entangled in conflict after removal of leader
The party’s implosion appears to have stemmed from the firing of a staffer accused of posting neo-Nazi propaganda
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Robert Jago @rjjago.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
The BCOne collapse is basically this Community meme. Or maybe it’s Casablanca, and BCOne leadership is shocked, shocked! To see anti-semitism sneak into their wholesome Injun hating genocide denialist group.
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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 15/12/2025
So Trump is asserting Reiner’s son murdered his father because he was angry about his father’s views on Trump? And… He doesn’t actually condemn his supporters murdering their parents..?
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
It is, and I really mean this, indefensible for the University of Oklahoma to remain accredited as an institution of higher education.
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APTN News @aptnnews.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Inuit artifacts over 100 years old—included a hand-crafted, sealskin kayak—are unveiled to the public at the Canadian Museum of History. Hear more on APTN News Brief:
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APTN News Brief: Dec. 10, 2025—Century-old kayak among repatriated Inuit items newly unveiled to public
Our lead story: Inuit artifacts over 100 years old—included a hand-crafted, sealskin kayak—are newly unveiled to the public at the Canadian Museum of History shortly after their repatriation fr...
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Amir Attaran @amirattaran.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
The women who said they hated their Indigenous child, who didn’t take him to hospital when sick, who called him a douche, and who abused him to death now claim they’re being framed *because* he was Indigenous. Bitches.
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In ‘conspiracy theory’ videos, prospective mom blamed Children’s Aid for boy’s sudden death, claimed she was being ‘persecuted’
“I know I didn’t do it," Becky Hamber told the camera in one of several videos she shot after her initial arrest.
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ZoeSTodd (Dr Fish Philosopher Todd) @zoestodd.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
What is the most toxic university for Indigenous students, staff, faculty in Canada? Carleton University is pretty high up there but manages to squeak out of accountability every time it’s scrutinized. Media should analyze faculty turnover, student complaints. ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/185...
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Les origines autochtones d’un professeur de l’Université Carleton remises en question
Les prétentions identitaires d'un professeur provoquent la colère d'Autochtones, qui l'accusent d'usurpation.
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
Faculty unions should absolutely advocate for anti-racism and decolonization, including in Palestine. To argue otherwise is to be a collaborator. (I am agreeing with this article.) www.speechaxe.com/say-it-aint-...
‘Say It Ain’t Divisive!’: How to Stifle the Work of Faculty Unions
Nov 28, 2025
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The Speech Axe Team
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By Honor Brabazon and Vincent Wong
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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 29/11/2025
I wonder what local celebrity millionaire W Brett Wilson makes of these UCP members given his outspoken views on disloyalty to Canada?
W Brett Wilson:

“Bastards. Slimy bastards. Hang them for treason”
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🔫🎃Scott Martian Invaders 🎃🛼 @youcaughtscott.com · 27/11/2025
So to be clear: Carney signed a deal with Alberta that basically gives them everything they want for a pipeline through BC and sovereign Indigenous nations without securing their involvement, or having a company pushing for this project, and he lost a prominent Liberal cabinet minister for it.
A man from the movie The Incredibles looks onward in stunned confusion
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Amir Attaran @amirattaran.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
This deal is ready to die in court. The law is government MUST consult First Nations on “high level” planning decisions. Wasn’t done here. Perfect lawsuits await.
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Carney, Smith sign sweeping energy deal, pledge new pipeline to West Coast
Federal government won’t implement its oil and gas emissions cap, and both sides will consult with B.C. on project, MOU says
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APTN News @aptnnews.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
An Ontario Superior Court judge has dismissed a lawsuit that accuses the current president of the Manitoba Métis Federation and a former president of the Métis National Council (MNC) of misappropriating millions of dollars of the MNC’s funds.
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MMF exonerated by Ontario Superior court in MNC lawsuit
The Manitoba Métis Federation, MMF, has been cleared in lawsuit launched against it by the Métis National Council.
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APTN News @aptnnews.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
King says he made a concerted effort this year to find their origin, which brought him to a U.S. organization called Tribal Alliance Against Frauds.
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Author Thomas King says he's not Indigenous
Thomas King, the celebrated author of the book 'Inconvenient Indian' and others, now says that he's not Indigenous.
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Amir Attaran @amirattaran.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Another Pretendian. Canada is full of them.
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Inconvenient Indian author Thomas King says he is not part Cherokee
Writer ‘still in shock’ after a whistle-blowing organization showed him genealogical evidence that he wasn’t part Indigenous as he originally assumed
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Robert Jago @rjjago.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
The Cowichan hysteria keeps getting dumber. Now cities are coming out to make statements about old land claims - if the news is going to cover it, they should mention it's been on the First Nation's website for nearly a decade. It's not some big secret. 1/2 globalnews.ca/news/1153572...
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Kwikwetlem First Nation filed a land claim in 2016 including the Riverview lands | Globalnews.ca
The land in question covers several publicly-owned parcels in Port Coquitlam and Coquitlam, including the Riverview lands, but not private properties.
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Amir Attaran @amirattaran.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Indigenous Wreck-Conciliation: the leader of this, Cynthia Westaway, is a lawyer for pretendian Métis on Algonquin territory. Clearly @uottawa.ca does not care.
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uOttawa law school’s Indigenous Lands and Consultation Hub aims to support self-determination
Kristen Boon, Common Law dean, calls this ‘reconciliation in action’
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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 16/11/2025
If CBSA refuses to explain why it thought a *95 YEAR OLD* retired Princeton law professor and UN special rapporteur might be a threat to national security, Public Safety Minister Gary Anandasangaree should
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Prominent legal scholar detained at Canadian border while on his way to a conference on Palestine | CBC News
A well-known academic and former UN special rapporteur says he was detained by customs agents in Toronto while on his way to speak at a conference on human rights violations against Palestinians.
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Amir Attaran @amirattaran.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
Indigenous Wreck-Conciliation: the University of Ottawa's Indigenous Studies program founded by the Algonquin Nation is no more.
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APTN News @aptnnews.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Opinion: Indigenous peoples will judge this government not by the names on the ministerial list, but by the cases of justice, self-government, land-back, jurisdiction and economic sovereignty that follow says @veldoncoburn.bsky.social
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Op-Ed: Who is speaking for Indigenous Peoples in new Parliament
With the NDP losing party status in the House of Commons, Veldon Coburn asks, who is speaking on behalf of Indigenous Peoples in Parliament?
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Marc Spooner @drmarcspooner.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Get your advance pre-order in at 25% off! "At a time when universities are being defunded by governments and vilified by ultra-conservative pundits, defining their value has never been more urgent” uofrpress.ca/Books/K/Know...
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Knowledge Under Siege
At a time when universities are being defunded by governments and vilified by ultra-conservative pundits, defining their value has never been more urgentFor decades, efforts to quantify the value of u...
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Heather McPherson MP @heathermcpherson.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Read my statement on IDF soldiers platformed at Canadian universities here: www.heathermcpherson.ca/statement_on...
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Robert Jago @rjjago.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
In the last week another First Nation in BC had 400+km of land returned to them. And no one has talked about it. It's obviously not about land. It's only about hate and fear mongering.
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
This might be the most unhinged thing you read this morning about last night.
David Kaufman: The lying, cop-hating, race-baiting, socialist Zohran Mamdani era is here
Democratic socialism sounds like a good thing but it is not. At least it won’t be in the capital of capitalism

Author of the article:By David Christopher Kaufman
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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 02/11/2025
I hope Ohtani didn’t have a lot of money riding on this game
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David Moscrop @davidmoscrop.com · 02/11/2025
Thank you George Springer.
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