True love.

In light of recent residential school denialist events in BC, I was invited to give this talk for my alma mater, Simon Fraser University, outlining the substance and strategy of denialism and attacks on truth and reconciliation. The event was recorded: www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnfE...

Happy 45 anniversary of the Toronto bathhouse raids to all who celebrate. Our current police chief was one of the officers behind the 2000 "Pussy Palace" lesbian bathhouse raid. History is not so old.

Emma Sandon (Birkbeck), 'Spaces of Empire: Histories and Afterlives of Film Collections in British Colonial Archives', 10 February 5:30 pm GMT, at the IHR, London and on Zoom. Free, friendly and open to the public. Please register by the link below. #Skystorians.

Important piece by @markkersten.bsky.social.

To fight denialism "is to insist, without qualification, that it is up to the affected communities & only the affected communities to decide whether to exhume the remains of their loved ones." What Past Atrocities Teach Us about Residential School Burials thetyee.ca/Opinion/2026... @thetyee.ca

In light of Jean Chrétien's most recent denialist comments - story to come, basically he downplays the harm of the IRS system - I went down the rabbit hole researching how far Indigenous leaders lobbied him, as Minister of Indian Affairs in the 1960s and 1970s, to close the system 🧵

Is there anything the U.S. could do to lose Canada's support on immigration? I asked @harshawalia.bsky.social about the Canada-U.S. immigration pact, enforcement north of the border, and lessons from the resistance to ICE in Minneapolis Our latest for @breachmedia.ca youtu.be/5zLUsjRHV90?...

Accompanying the book is a six-part podcast series — Student Power: A Canadian Student Movement History Podcast. Available wherever you find podcasts! 2/2 www.spreaker.com/podcast/stud...

Thrilled to announce my new short book — Student Power:Canadian Student Movements From the Sixties to Today. Use code PALAUT for 20% discount 1/2 link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Register and join us tomorrow for this webinar on how to identify and confront the rising tide of residential school denialism and antI-Indigenous hatred.

“Drawing from the American far-right playbook, denialists seek to “flood the zone” with misleading claims, half-truths, and bad-faith arguments—overwhelming public discourse to the point where confusion replaces accountability, and doubt supplants well-established evidence.“

I’ll be giving this online talk at SFU next week 👇

Given the rising tide of residential school denialism and anti-Indigenous hate in BC recently, I sat down with Phyllis Webstad and Willie Sellars to talk about how we Can address it: m.youtube.com/watch?v=RorH...

We are honoured to have our interview with @seancarleton.bsky.social included in this article on residential school denialism he wrote for @canadiandimension.bsky.social #canPoli #bcPoli

First 2026 read. This line from Kent Monkman was the advice I needed to start the year: “Do not let chaos distract you, keep focused on the world that should be, and make it our future.”

"the politics of Canada’s anti-Indigenous industry" that @seancarleton.bsky.social describes in @canadiandimension.bsky.social abide in #NewWest, too. Ideology against Indigenous rights, human rights, & social justice in general percolate in here local blogs, social media, etc. Great interview.

I've got a new piece for @canadiandimension.bsky.social about residential school denialism, the Making a Killing documentary, and the politics of Canada's anti-Indigenous industry: canadiandimension.com/articles/vie...

Today on @activehist.bsky.social, we are launching a new year-long series - Indian Act 150 - looking at the 150th anniversary of the Indian Act. As part of the introduction to the series, I offer some reflections on the history and historiography of the Indian Act: activehistory.ca/blog/2026/01...

Great new publication by @lsgibson.bsky.social and @jmiles.bsky.social about confronting residential school denialism in the history classroom!

Trump’s territorial ambition: new imperialism or a case of the emperor’s new clothes?

I can say, having seen most of these, that it’s a wonderful collection of films and you wouldn’t have regrets if you systematically worked your way through the list. A great starter pack for Canadian film.

NYTimes: "local and federal officials were immediately divided on how the shooting unfolded.” @doubleemmartin.bsky.social "Yes, they are divided by the fact that federal officials are lying." www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews...

Today we have "Find the Flats: Or, the Cautionary Tale of Saint John West" by @clairecampbell.bsky.social This is the first post in our Urban and Environmental Dialogues series, published in collaboration with @urbanhistorya.bsky.social niche-canada.org/2026/01/05/f... #envhist #urbanhistory

Whether or not states like Canada lack the spine, let alone elbows, to say so, American actions in Venezuela are an unambiguous violation of the UN Charter’s prohibitions on the unilateral use of force. justiceinconflict.org/2026/01/03/v... #Venezuela

"The US is a Weakened and Dangerous Empire," by Nathan Akehurst in @jacobinmag.bsky.social jacobin.com/2026/01/us-t...

"The possessive logic of patriarchal white sovereignty is compelled to deny and refuse what it cannot own - the sovereignty of the Indigenous other" (179).

If you’re looking for an accessible and engaging history of American imperialism right now, I can’t recommend A People’s History of American Empire: A Graphic Adaptation more. Check it out.

We need to change the way we use Indigenous names for streets, towns, buildings, etc... substack.com/@rjjago/note...?

“Reconciliation will destroy Canada” - the usual suspects; combined age 308.

David Frum's latest anti-Native rights piece in the Atlantic is so misinformed, so carelessly put together that he confused the band number with the population. Kwikwetlem is band code 560 - an administrative number from ISC. The population is 153. 1

The Atlantic has updated their article to correct some of Frum's mistakes. However they didn't correct his denialist stuff. I work 50 meters from a lab where they recently identified a body recovered from a GPR search. A child who died at residential school, and was finally returned to their family.

This is extremely concerning, showing the global spread of residential school denialism on the extreme far right.

PODCAST UP! Sean Carleton of the University of Manitoba on the OneBC documentary Making a Killing and the growth of residential school denialism in B.C. and Canada . tiny.cc/14rw001 @seancarleton.bsky.social @ubcic.bsky.social @canadiandimension.bsky.social @aptninvestigates.bsky.social

I joined Vancouver’s Redeye show to talk OneBC, their residential school denialist film, and how the far-right is using anti-Indigenous racism to protect the settler capitalist status quo - and how we can fight this scourge to build a more honourable future: coopradio.org/shows/redeye/

As the Red Ensign and variants appear prominently in this group's display, it seems a good time to reshare my brief history of the Ensign's use by extremists. British Israelism, fluoride, and the Rothschilds - oh my! #cdnhist #vexillology #cdnpoli activehistory.ca/blog/2023/02...

Am I the only one who gets a real kick out of citation chains? Reading people's writing and footnotes, and making assessments and notes, finding the sources in the footnotes and reading them yourself, and making more notes? I...love it?

Saturday | 10:05 PT Sean Carleton of the University of Manitoba on the OneBC documentary Making a Killing and the growth of residential school denialism in B.C. and Canada @seancarleton.bsky.social @ubcic.bsky.social @canadiandimension.bsky.social @aptninvestigates.bsky.social #indigenous #bcpoli

Residential school denialists - who hitched their wagon to OneBC (which has now imploded over support for a neo-Nazi who has openly denied the Holocaust) - are now trying to move on with their rage stunts without the OneBC baggage - but the damage’s been done.

Wolseley School will be renamed after a perennial grass that grows in nearby Omand’s Creek following overwhelming support from families who live steps from the park #mbed #wfp www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews...

OneBC is ripping itself apart, just a week after making residential school denialism its singular obsession, and you absolutely love to see it.

I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again, residential school denialism is a loser movement: it’s anti-Indigenous content created by losers for losers who want to denigrate dead Indigenous children on the internet rather than put truth before reconciliation.

I joined CBC's Daybreak Kamloops this morning to debunk OneBC's political propaganda film "Making a Killing" and address the harms of residential school denialism: www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

More from @aptninvestigates.bsky.social’s special focus on dismantling residential school denialism: www.aptnnews.ca/investigates...

Here's the full episode of the @aptninvestigates.bsky.social special on dismantling residential school denialism. It's a hard but important watch. We have a responsibility to stand up for the truth and challenge residential school denialism: www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-Pv...

ICYMI: in light of the rise in residential school denialism and anti-Indigenous racism, Phyllis Webstad, Willie Sellars, and I sat down for a conversation about how to confront denialism and put truth before reconciliation: youtu.be/RorHgy5Kl5c

We just had a wonderful conversation about WHEN THE PINE NEEDLES FALL by Ellen Gabriel & @seancarleton.bsky.social in a Canadian & Indigenous Studies course at Trent. I think it was all the more special, because our seminar room was not far from where the two of them first met. @btlbooks.com