Adele Perry
@adeleperry.bsky.social
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historian, mother, settler, feminist, lousy speller. Based in Treaty One and Manitoba Act lands.
If whoever is elected NDP leader squeezes out one of the talented, principled & hardworking Indigenous and racialized women MPs who are holding the party down I WILL BE AGGRIEVED.
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Alex Neve
7 days ago
Shout out to
@chrrumanitoba.bsky.social
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@adeleperry.bsky.social
for this generous review of my Massey Lectures book, Universal: Renewing Human Rights in a Fractured World, in
@winnipegfreepress.com
. And she is spot on. I am indeed "10-toes down for human rights"; as we all must be.
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Renewal of widespread human-rights commitment key
https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-life/entertainment/books/2025/11/08/renewal-of-widespread-human-rights-commitment-key
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University of Manitoba Press
11 days ago
LIVING LANGUAGE RIGHTS by Lorena Sekwan Fontaine is officially here! Pick up a copy of this groundbreaking read at the book launch next Wednesday, November 12, 7pm, at
@mcnallyrobinson.com
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staring blankly into the abyss
12 days ago
The purpose of austerity budgets is always to transfer public wealth into private hands. And in a country like Canada that always means a transfer to the same handful of domestic oligarchs and resource extraction multinationals.
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Robert Jago
12 days ago
With the Major Projects Office wiping out environmental protections, with a spending freeze, correct me if I'm wrong, but this is what kicked off Idle-No-More, no? This isn't Trudeau light, it's Harper plus.
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Robert Jago
12 days ago
Look at this, every year infrastructure spending for non-Native communities goes up, and at the same time spending for First Nations infrastructure goes down.
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Philip N Cohen
15 days ago
"My Grandma would want me to fight them." I have loved Lynda Barry cartoons for 40 years. Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/31/o...
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If youâre wondering what Iâm thinking about at any given time, itâs probably the Aboriginal Justice Inquiry of Manitoba, 1988-1991:
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16 groups stand behind planning expert critical of Winnipeg Transit overhaul | CBC News
A city planning expert says transit's new network is hurting lower-income people who rely on the bus, and over a dozen groups across Winnipeg showed support for that message in a recent letter to city...
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/city-planning-winnipeg-transit-overhaul-criticism-9.6943190
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Iâm trying to wean myself off the free version of Sp0tify, and so far havenât found anything with playlists and radioâs that do the same thing, or close to it. Any advice?
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Maggie Macintosh
about 1 month ago
The Exchange Districtâs sole public school has received national recognition for mapping out a walking tour of often-overlooked landmarks that represent Black Canadiansâ struggles and resilience
#mbed
#wfp
www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews...
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Tour delves into Winnipeg's Black history
The Exchange Districtâs sole public school has received national recognition for mapping out a walking tour of often-overlooked landmarks that represent Black Canadiansâ struggles and resilience. Kath...
https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews/2025/10/05/tour-delves-into-citys-black-history
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Sean Carleton
about 2 months ago
Ahead of this year's Orange Shirt Day, I had the great honour of speaking with Kimberly Murray about the need to fight residential school denialism and stand up for the truth about residential schooling. Thanks to the Centre for Human Rights Research for their support:
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Fighting Denialism and Standing Up for the Truth About Residential Schooling - Centre for Human Rights Research
Residential school denialism is on the rise. Niigaan Sinclair and Sean Carleton, University of Manitoba professors and CHRR Research Affiliates, are working on a new book collection that will help peo...
https://chrr.info/resource/fighting-denialism-and-standing-up-for-the-truth-about-residential-schooling-by-kimberly-murray/
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Opinion: Funding Transit a necessity
While the new Winnipeg Transit network launched in June 2025 has achieved many of its objectives, itâs important to assess what is and isnât working in order to see Winnipeg Transit reach its full pot...
https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/opinion/analysis/2025/09/24/funding-transit-a-necessity
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The Winnipeg transit overhaul, mapped | The Narwhal
The goal was more frequent and on-time buses that run into the night. An analysis of the Winnipeg transit overhaul paints a different picture
https://thenarwhal.ca/winnipeg-transit-overhaul-analysis/
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Hereâs todayâs version of the HBC, proceeding in their own narrow interests, as if they owe nothing to the people or places they drew their wealth and authority from for the 350+ years.
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Nothing cheers me up as much as this photo of Jean Folster, the first elected woman chief in Manitoba (Norway House) and her pet eagle, circa 1975:
epe.lac-bac.gc.ca/100/205/301/...
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Disclaimer / Avertissement
https://epe.lac-bac.gc.ca/100/205/301/ic/cdc/nilhinimuk/newpage19.htm
about 2 months ago
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Chris Hayes
4 months ago
Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.
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Alan Lester
2 months ago
Action against the slave trade from 1807 enabled British colonisation, but Jane Lydon shows here how achieving the abolition of slavery in 1833 and expanding territory through conquest were also interrelated, not separate, processes.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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âForced Free Labourâ: Connecting the Abolition of Slavery and Settler Colonisation in the Thought of Henry George Grey
This article investigates the connections between emancipation in Britainâs slave colonies and settler colonisation through the policies of Henry George Grey, 3rd Earl Grey (styled Viscount Howick ...
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03086534.2025.2558035
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Puff the Magic Hater
2 months ago
Forever grateful social media didn't exist when I was young and knew everything.
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ActiveHistory.ca
2 months ago
Todayâs post, by Laura Ishiguro, Nicole Yakashiro and Ayaka Yoshimizu, explores their creation of an OER (open educational resource) on the life of Kiyo Tanaka-Goto, a Japanese woman who lived in Vancouverâs Downtown Eastside.
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Kiyo Tanaka-Goto: An Open Educational Resource on a Life of Defiance and Relation-Making in the Vancouverâs Downtown Eastside
Hand towel, Nikkei National Museum & Cultural Centre Kiyo Goto Collection, 2003.7.37, photo by Tadafumi Tamura. Laura Ishiguro, Nicole Yakashiro and Ayaka Yoshimizu What can one racialized migrâŠ
https://activehistory.ca/blog/2025/09/10/kiyo-tanaka-goto-an-open-educational-resource-on-a-life-of-defiance-and-relation-making-in-the-vancouvers-downtown-eastside/
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Never a dull moment.
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2 months ago
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Hoo boy air canada picked the wrong people to tangle with:
www.theglobeandmail.com/business/article-air-canada-flight-attendants-union-strike-deal-bargaining-agreement/
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Air Canada flight attendants reject tentative agreement that ended strike
Airline and union to meet with a mediator to find ways to reach common ground on wages
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/article-air-canada-flight-attendants-union-strike-deal-bargaining-agreement/
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I wish I had time to do a search through 19th and 20th C newspapers reporting that they were witnessing a new & terrifying youth crime wave because dude, people have thought this at literally every decade. Weâve been here before and more cops and more jail didnât fix things then and wonât now.
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Winnipeg Free Press
2 months ago
Winnipeg's transit overhaul was intended to deliver faster and more reliable service to better serve all corners of a growing city. But a Free Press/Narwhal analysis of the system before and after the June 29 transition date reveals a different story.
www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews...
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In the last decade or so in Manitoba Iâd watch the pandemic, the late arrival of the opioid/poisoned drug supply crisis, & brutal provincial governments. Iâd think man, itâs going to take a long time to get over this particular phase in colonialismâs history. And it really, really is.
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for my sins, I'm re-reading the main tracts in support of national and nationalist Canadian history published in the 1990s, and what is striking is how very, very little they have to say about histories of Indigenous people or colonialism.
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MEDIA INDIGENA
3 months ago
For a refresher on HBC's ill-gotten gains: đ HEAR
pod.fo/e/11f08e
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Youâll find us in the corner with our elbows down.
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Clint Smith
3 months ago
I debated writing this. It can feel tempting, upon encountering yet another instance of this administrationâs racism, to let it be. How many ways can you say the same thing over and over again? And yet we have to write it down, if for nothing else, so those who come after us know we were against it.
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Actually, Slavery Was Very Bad
The presidentâs latest criticism of museums is a thinly veiled attempt to erase Black history.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/08/trump-attack-smithsonian-slavery/683969/?gift=JORs3BlPb0E7W_6BAebCaJN1Mh7EJKQaGGCyaAfRDYI&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
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As we watch super rich dudes compete to buy the HBC Charter, we should be asking why we still havenât seen a catalouge, let alone the 4,400 items potentially io for grabs:
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/david-thomson-hudson-bay-charter-1.7614837
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Billionaire David Thomson wants to buy Hudson's Bay charter, donate it to Manitoba Archives | CBC News
Two of Canada's richest families appear poised for a battle over one of the country's most famed documents.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/david-thomson-hudson-bay-charter-1.7614837
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Leah ProudLakota (she/her)
3 months ago
Today I wrote to Prime Minister Carney urging his government once again to ensure the safety of wildfire evacuees, especially women and girls who are at high risk of violence in urban centres, including through sex trafficking and sexual exploitation. (1/4)
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Not only did MBâs previous PC government make a platform out of the cruelest racism & misogyny, but they traded in inflated estimates of the costs of treating Indigenous women & their families with basic respect and dignity.
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History Workshop
3 months ago
How can Indigenous histories change our understanding of the medieval period? Solveig Marie Wang shows how medieval stories reveal the Saami at the heart of the Nordic world â and why recognising their history matters in the fight against racism and far-right myths.
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Reclaiming the Medieval Saami Past
Explore Saami history and its representation in medieval sources, challenging the myth of a purely White Middle Ages.
https://www.historyworkshop.org.uk/indigenous-history/reclaiming-the-medieval-saami-past/
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This is a huge win for a group of workers who are mostly women and mostly young. Itâs also a win for solidarity in difficult times:
cupe.ca/cupe-air-can...
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CUPE, Air Canada reach a tentative agreement
Flight attendants at Air Canada and Air Canada Rouge have reached a tentative agreement, achieving transformational change for our industry after a historic fight to affirm our Charter rights.
https://cupe.ca/cupe-air-canada-reach-tentative-agreement
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CCPA â Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives
3 months ago
Air Canada workers are on the front lines defending a crucial constitutional right from being eroded. We must support them with everything we've got. By
@policyalternatives.ca
Executive Director
@peggynash.bsky.social
#canlab
www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...
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This is the moment to defend the right to strike in Canada - CCPA
The ongoing strike by CUPE flight attendants at Air Canada has sparked a moment in the Canadian labour movement. Unions across Canada have been pledging their support for CUPE flight attendants and sh...
https://www.policyalternatives.ca/news-research/this-is-the-moment-to-defend-the-right-to-strike-in-canada/
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It is as if Canada was asked if the right to strike extended to a largely female workforce, and answered not really. Good for CUPE for holding fast on this one.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/air-canada-flights-sunday-1.7611078
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Air Canada suspends plans to resume operations as flight attendants defy back-to-work order | CBC News
Air Canada says it has suspended plans to resume limited operations after the union representing the airline's flight attendants said Sunday it will defy a federal back-to-work order for binding arbit...
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/air-canada-flights-sunday-1.7611078
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Opinion: Stand up for health-care access
This is the moment. If you value our health-care system, itâs more important than ever to fight for our reproductive rights.
https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/opinion/analysis/2025/08/13/stand-up-for-health-care-access
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City must make improvements to Millennium Library
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Opinion: City must make improvements to Millennium Library
https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/opinion/analysis/2025/08/16/city-must-make-improvements-to-millennium-library
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Maureen Ogle
3 months ago
The assault on history and historians has begun. This from
@tlecaque.bsky.social
in
@thebulwark.com
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Trump Demands the Smithsonian Deliver Shiny, Happy History
His fascistic insistence that it eliminate âdivisive or partisan narrativesâ reveals what he doesnât understand about history and about America.
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-smithsonian-letter-shiny-happy-history-divisive-partisan-narratives-historians?utm_medium=The+Bulwark
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The Narwhal
3 months ago
Every single degree Celsius of increased global temperature is associated with a 4.7% increase in domestic violence, the UN found. When wildfires â like those raging across Canada for months now â cut off roads and communication, it âprevents any kind of escape or intervention,â a B.C. expert said.
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Can someone talk about what a colonial fantasy it is to be saved by an guy who left when he was a kid and has returned with a global pedigree?
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You canât write material this good. The new oligarch is trying to swoop in to purchase the record the old oligarchs, while Indigenous governments & non profit cultural institutions are left scrambling and petitioning courts.
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Weston family wants to buy Hudson's Bay charter and donate it, according to documents | CBC News
The Canadian Museum of History announced Wednesday that Wittington Investments Ltd., a private Canadian holding company for the Weston family, wants to buy the document for $12.5 million and donate it...
https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/weston-family-hbc-charter-1.7597947
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Iâve used Her Own Fault in teaching for years, and whoo boy, it tells you a whole lot about gender, racialized respectability, and public health discourse in inter war Canada.
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Lolsob, for real.
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Justin Ling
4 months ago
Prime Minister Mark Carney announces that Canada will recognize the state of Palestine at the 80th Session of the United Nations General Assembly in September. Carney says this move comes amid Israeli settlement building in the West Bank and its relentless war on Gaza.
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APTN News
4 months ago
York Factory Cree Nation in northern Manitoba has declared a state of emergency, claiming 600 members could be trapped as wildfires burn in the area.
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York Factory Cree Nation declares state of emergency | APTN News
YouTube video by APTN News
https://youtu.be/d88Uwr8PuAk
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Cuts to Women and Gender Equality Canada will take us back to the Harper days - CCPA
On April 28, women voters delivered a major victory for the Liberal party, turning around the electoral fortunes of a party that had been trailing its major opponent by 25 points in the year leading u...
https://www.policyalternatives.ca/news-research/cuts-to-women-and-gender-equality-canada-will-take-us-back-to-the-harper-days/
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Leah ProudLakota (she/her)
4 months ago
Today I wrote to Liberal government ministers reiterating calls by Indigenous leadership to respect Crown obligations to First Nations and uphold the health and wellbeing of wildfire evacuees.
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Leah ProudLakota (she/her)
4 months ago
Sending all my love to survivors and others impacted by sexual assault. I stand in solidarityâin rage and griefâagainst systems that normalize sexual violence and discredit women and other targeted people. EM deserves a better world. We all deserve a better world.
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Prisonculture
4 months ago
Interesting how 80% of the press corps are stenographers for law enforcement when the subjects are poor and working people but when it comes to the powerful, all of a sudden everything is alleged and also "hard to prove."
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