A friend was talking about how Canada used to bring in lots of poor immigrants who were able to succeed and make something of themselves. To which I replied, what else was happening in Canada at that time to make that happen? To make that land free... to keep the country 'peaceful'...???

The last few days, I've seen a surprising number of large, intact rats, dead on the sidewalks or road here in Vancouver. Way way more than usual. Is the city poisoning them or something?

I was at this Indigenous foods event, and someone was talking about native plants, and they brought up birds, and then right behind them - this hummingbird showed up and gorged itself as if to illustrate the talk.

At CBC Vancouver for an early morning interview .

Re: Tylenol - Indigenous people in what's now Alberta and Pennsylvania have been using petroleum products (that's what Tylenol is FYI) as medicine since basically forever. Here's a newspaper from the 1700s talking about its use as the Voltaren of its day.

As Canada recognizes the State of Palestine - it's worth remembering the Nobel Prize winning effort by Lester B Pearson that ended with Canadian troops taking over Gaza, in place of retreating Israeli forces.

My late mother's partner died today, almost 4 years to the day from when my mom died. I posted about it on Insta here: www.instagram.com/p/DOzWrG-kpVy/ - but main point: fuck it, just have fun.

Kudos to the AP for putting the Doomsday (Contagion) soundtrack under these statements. youtube.com/shorts/eji4L...

When America's golden dictator is literally in a castle in England while he kills free speech in America... imposes taxes on tea... it is so 'on the nose' that it confirms the impression that maybe people really are too stupid for democracy.

RIP South Park.

Radio Free America - once it starts up, is going to be awesome.

Watching the current frenzy, I wouldn’t be surprised if CBS announces it‘s burning all copies of TOS episode “Mirror, Mirror”, and exhuming Gene Roddenberry in order to fire his corpse.

I love when the land acknowledgement guy makes a grammar mistake when speaking our language. so rarely do I get the opportunity to be a hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓ grammar n*zi.

Watching the protests on the island, it's worth noting that the First Nation involved recently had an election - the guy justifying the protests didn't run. They have a parallel hereditary system, he isn't part of it. The pics of the protests show it's mostly non-Natives, who are trashing the site.

Many drivers are assholes. Car accidents are bad. Recognizing that makes you a commie-nazi in our current political climate.

Since the reprisal turned into genocide, we’ve given to UNRWA - but with them out of the picture, we’ve moved over to the World Food Program: www.wfp.org/support-us/s... There are a lot of sus appeals online. The WFP isn’t one. Please give to them.

On the plus side, there's a surprise (to me at least) new season of Mitchell and Webb after a 15-year-ish absence: www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-cY...

Walked past the American Consulate on my way home tonight, and saw this. Which, hm.

TIL that other than Obama/Biden - the US has been (and will be) ruled by presidents born in 1946 since 1993. Or... in the 32 years since 1993... all but 8 of those years have been governed by a president born in the 1940s. youtube.com/shorts/8BXSv...

I had a meeting today and someone introduced me to this. It's a button extender. Put the loop on your pants button and stretch it to where you need - turn your 32 into a 34. Every steakhouse needs these. I didn't know this was an option.

Coast Salish social services remain unmatched. Including for expats. This is the right thing to do, in this biggest fishing year in 3 decades.

Bluesky seems like it's dead - at least for Native people (no disrespect to the 4 Native people I know on here). So I'm done for now. You can find me on Linkedin here: www.linkedin.com/in/robertjago/ Substack here: rjago.substack.com and Instagram here: www.instagram.com/rjjago/

I vote ogopogo, because what represents BC better than cultural misappropriation, and condescending treatment of cherished First Nations icons? www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

This is exactly the type of accountability reporting that we need more of on reserve -- even when it comes from outside. First Nations governments are first and foremost - governments - creations of the Indian Act, and their citizens deserve an engaged press. therover.ca/cancelled-el...

I feel like law is the only profession where they think you're dumb for not knowing their shop-talk. Like dude, don't drop 'functus' in a sentence with a normie without explaining. If I use insider Native shop talk in a sentence, I explain it before moving on, because I'm trying to *communicate*.

A very well camouflaged owl in the park this morning.

Native politics viewpoint (+ seeing his people at the Summit) - as incorrect as Carney was, it comes from ignorance. That's fixable. It's not *IGNORANCE!!!* in the Poilievre sense, it's just not getting it. It's the difference between Canada and the US. One you can fight, and one you survive.

My step daughter was by today and we spent the afternoon making Iron Chef fan fiction comics with AI. She has autism and very specific interests, which meant the Iron Chef battles got extra. As did the celebrity judges. 1

Doing research and stumbled on this population protection for the year 2025, done back in 1964 -- and wow. If the statistician is still alive, they deserve a medal.

Went to see samurai fight and taiko drummers with the kids, then Korean bbq and soju, and a scooter ride home in the midst of a swarm of twinks, and past the pride day skyline (and later the pride street disco).

Early morning seawall walk. Saw this big dummy about to do it... (if you don't know, seagulls eat starfish, but always to amusing results... google seagull eating starfish to see). Also saw a seal doing belly flops, but he stopped every time I took my camera out.

Returning to my disappointment at the Sunrise - this guy gets it: www.youtube.com/shorts/KgXGp...

I was trying to find a specific episode of Married with Children, and then Google made it weird.

A journalist in Northern Ontario posted these FYIs about talking to reporters. And they’re all true of course - but I had a conversation with a Native writer yesterday (before seeing this) - and every point is a rule we talked about breaking in First Nations communities.

Found a hidden gem at Uniqlo:

What if Justin Trudeau lost the boxing match?

I interviewed someone at SETI years ago and he explained that these sorts of robots are the most likely form of alien life - because they survive indefinitely- long past the lifespan of their creators. And if there are UFOs, they’d be orphaned, AI-run robot drones like these:

New report - Russia is running residential schools, doing their own 60s Scoop in Ukraine (though at a proportionately far smaller scale than Canada did) - and the word ‘genocide’ is used for it without qualifiers. www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder...

Short Story Idea: we follow people through their day and everyone is fantastically happy, and then towards the end we pan up to see a comet getting closer to the earth. And slowly reveal that everyone's happy because in the year since we found out, construction stopped, advertising stopped...

Found in my Notes when I woke up: if X-Files was set in the Star Trek universe, it would be about a racist cop who blamed aliens for everything. Not sure what I can do with that, but point taken.

I’m not super thrilled that the state broadcaster is jokingly putting Salish supernatural beings up for a vote to see which best represents BC. That seems like asking which picture of Mohammed to put on a stamp. Young Mohammed or Old Mohammed? What fun…

I never cease to be impressed by the public administration of certain band and tribal governments. There's a tsunami heading this way -- and it comes during the big intertribal paddle 'festival' with dozens of First Nations canoes and hundreds of paddlers on the ocean right now.

A friend helps run a venue on Main Street in Vancouver and they’re hosting a Taylor Swift dance party this week and asked for help getting the word out - so if you know anyone who might be interested: www.eventbrite.com/e/heratige-a...

Hello I am a First Nations person in a Canadian film, I am currently in or have just left a residential school.

One satellite per 600 users?!?!

CBC needs a program for new reporters, to make them visit different parts of the country.

Up early, so decided to watch the sun rise. ngl don’t understand the appeal. It’s like sunset’s anemic cousin. 2/10.

I've tried 4 or 5 different ways to create a Twitter account to scan it for business purposes, and it's failed every time. I don't know how anyone is still joining that site. Tried email, phone, hosted email, apple, google, nothing works, errors every time.

Aztec Batman

Make this movie.