I want every single politican to condemn this violence against an #Indigenous woman and her staff. #politicalViolence #cdnpoli #231CallsToJustice www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

We should all lead a life as interesting and useful www.npr.org/2025/10/01/4...

Thousands of people wearing orange shirts in honour of the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation filled Portage Avenue in Winnipeg, crossing in front of APTN headquarters where we captured the sights and sounds of the walk. Here’s an extended cut.

According to Indigenous Watchdog, work on 16 calls to action hasn’t started, 22 have stalled, 42 are in progress and 14 are complete.

It has been ten years since the Truth and Reconciliation Commission released its final report and some feel the initiative is losing momentum.

This is why we fund scientists to study things like oyster slobber even if you don’t think it sounds important

For @thewalrus.ca, I wrote about the state of reconciliation 10 years after the final report of the Truth & Reconciliation Commission. thewalrus.ca/trc-introduc...

LIVE: Remembering the Children Watch the multilingual commemoration in honour of National Day for Truth and Reconciliation here: www.youtube.com/live/Nb4gTI3...

Further to the point I'm partly trying to make in this article, I recommend one TRC thing you can do today, which is watch my friend Leena's film (the reason I use the term Good Canadian in this article) - *showing* what Canada is still doing now: gem.cbc.ca/the-good-can...

Some good news. London is meeting legal limits for toxic NO2 pollution for the first time – almost 200 years earlier than predicted – following the Mayor’s "world leading air pollution policies," City Hall announces. The Ultra Low Emissions Zone - and similar policies - really do work.

Canadian COVID Forecast: Sep 27 - Oct 10, 2025 SEVERE: none VERY HIGH: MB, NL, NS, SK HIGH: CAN, AB, BC, NB, North, ON, PEI, QC, MODERATE: none About 1 in 60 people in Canada are CURRENTLY infected.

'Reconciliation isn't just about the Indigenous people and the government and the churches. It's about every Canadian. We all have to work at this if we want it to work. We have to put an effort into it,' says Two-Spirit Elder Charlotte Nolin. Watch more: www.aptnnews.ca/ourstories/r...

Orange Shirt Day is a time to reflect on Canada's continuing violence against Indigenous children. It is a time to remember that Canada still takes Indigenous children from their families. It is time to demand that these crimes stop. Not 150 years from now. Not a decade from now. NOW.

Planted some silverberry/wolf willow into the (extended) BioGarden this afternoon. I dug runners out of my gardens at home earlier this year, and brought them to UM. Métis use seeds for beads, and Plains folk used the stems for arrows. The flowers are inconspicuous but the scent is incredible.

A new book titled Decolonization and Me confronts residential school denialists. As part of our continued coverage leading up to National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, Métis scholar and co-author Kristy McLeod explains what this book means to her.

You can read @jdunkin.bsky.social and Crystal Gail Fraser's intro, "Environmental History and the Work of Truth and Reconciliation," here: niche-canada.org/2025/09/30/e... #envhist #trc #cdnhist #canada #indigenoushistory #indigenous #everychildmatters

This is not a conversation about residential schools. it is a conversation about history, about who gets to tell the authoritative stories and whose stories are extra reading. Bad Indians Book Club podcast. Read it here, or catch it in your podcast app www.thousandworlds.ca/biskaabiyaan...

On this National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, I would like you to sit with the fact that Canada has effectively abandoned its promises to residential school survivors and their families.

Took Rosie out for a walk before training today. She entered the elevator too fast and startled a woman (newcomer, not settler) who had been looking at her phone. She screamed, ran, and then stopped at the entry to berate me: “They shouldn’t let you f-ing natives even have dogs!” Reconciliation.

TRC activities on campus this year were mostly hidden, tucked into places like the Marshall McLuhan room (…the message?). The only thing I saw was the media event held by denialists who parked themselves outside of NCTRC and waved abusive placards for a few hours. (1/3)

Dear organizations and businesses acknowledging The National Day of Truth and Reconciliation.. show your work. Show the stats of employees that are #Indigenous. In leadership positions. Retention numbers. How you implemented the Calls. How you’re continuing your groups education & anti racism work.

Notable that Carney going all-in on "economic reconciliation" is basically telegraphing that he's given up on the Calls to Action altogether. From our 2013 report, an analysis that I think holds up quite well.

I started tracking the TRC's Calls to Action in 2016 and, since Eva Jewell and I stopped writing annual reports in 2023 out of despair, things have only become more bleak. No meaningful structural changes have been made. They were never even attempted. A clear-eyed take from @michellecyca.com

🤷🏽‍♀️ Yet another way LLMs damage the social fabric hbr.org/2025/09/ai-g...

New paper! I am excited about it, since it has some very cool contributions on: -Status of Invasive ectomycorrhizal fungi -Definition of what is a invasive mycorhizal 🍄 -Cool picture of trees being brought from Europe in 1920! Lead by @nahpo.bsky.social! nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Been a while since I posted anything here.

Dr. Darren Markland was the best of us. Physician, cyclist, advocate, citizen, friend. We will never forget his powerful legacy of compassion, service, and love. All Albertans are holding his family and friends close and we all commit to living his values and making this province a better place.

Blockade begun by Defenders of the Eastern Slopes. West Fraser has begun clear cutting in advance of coal “exploration” in sensitive Rocky Mountain habitat, at headwaters that support more than 2 million people. youtu.be/Y11IVPtgvvk

So excited that my Tansley Insight "On the role of mutualisms in plant biogeography: consequences for ecology, evolution, and invasion" is out today!! @newphyt.bsky.social

I am really excited to be a part of this team. We took our time writing this, putting a lot of thought into how our journeys as #NativesInSTEM were affected by different aspects of Universities and looking for commonalities across the world. I hope folks in academia appreciate this work.

Blockade begun by Defenders of the Eastern Slopes. West Fraser has begun clear cutting in advance of coal “exploration” in sensitive Rocky Mountain habitat, at headwaters that support more than 2 million people. youtu.be/Y11IVPtgvvk

What I would like to remind everyone talking about Sam Altman talking about the “PhD level intelligence” of the new ChatGPT is that Sam Altman dropped out of college so he… has no experiential construct for what grad school even is.

I am so embarrassed for humanity. We had this disease eradicated. The process of keeping it that way was SO SIMPLE. And because of a bunch of idiots, and bunch of grifters making public health into an ideological football, here we are. Just a faceplant. A completely unforced error.

We remember history till the last of the people who made it die. The great Arab historian Ibn Khaldûn used this to explain why dynasties last 4 generations. The first does it. The second sees it done. The third runs on momentum. And the fourth, clueless...falls. About a lifetime's worth of years.

Read this climate fiction story by @premeemohamed.com ! Who Walks With You. Ysolt awakes after a freak storm to find herself at the bottom of a ravine in the broken remains of the nomadic home that was supposed to protect her. grist.org/climate-fict... #Clifi #Solarpunk #SciFi #Fiction

If I have to explain to you why it's a bad idea to use a machine that makes shit up 15-80% of the time AND destroys the environment AND contributes to rising fascism and genocide AND puts brilliant skillful creatives out of work by stealing their work, then we're already speaking different languages

Le sigh.

South Korea trial with 300 patients shows a low-dose niclosamide nanohybrid (CP-COV03) safely cut COVID-19 symptoms by 4 days and slashed viral load by 57% within 16 hours. A promising oral option for early treatment. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

“Too many autistic children are victims of traumatic experiences at the hands of others, and go on to show clear symptoms of PTSD.” @annmemmott.bsky.social, at TPGA: thinkingautismguide.com/2019/05/beha... #autism #autistic #PTSD #neurodiversity

For thousands of years, we have been parasitised, exploited and destroyed by elites. Our survival depends on overthrowing them. Fascinating article by @dpcarrington.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/environment/...

"I need ChatGPT to brainstorm" dear human person the whole point of brainstorming is to find new ways or angles when approaching a problem, the "let's regurgitate the complete stolen corpus of human achievement"-machine doesn't help you brainstorm - it stops you from brainstorming.

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.

We are truly in the "oh shit we didn't take viral after effects seriously" era

starting to think we should give "strange women lying in ponds distributing swords" a chance as a basis for our system of government

HUGE legal victory: @cycletoronto.bsky.social has won its Charter challenge of the Ford government's legislation requiring removal of Toronto bike lanes! Justice Schabas ruled that the law puts cyclists at increased risk of harm and death which engages the right to life and security of the person.

Motherfucking wind farms…

I remember when this happened.

Council recognises right of River Test to flow unimpeded and unpolluted

The failure of the United States government to do what it needs to do regarding climate change is one of the most undemocratic and possibly consequential things to ever happen in human history