Several chiefs from Treaty 6 are on their way to the United Kingdom for a private audience with King Charles this week.

🚀 Montreal #Robotics Summer School 2026 — Applications Now Open! 📅 Dates: August 2–7, 2026 📍 Location: @mila-quebec.bsky.social a (in person) 🤖 Program: 1 day of activities + 5 days of intensive Robotics & AI training (theory and hands-on)

Sunsetting of federal funding has lead to the closure of a mental health program for MN-S citizens. Some say the organization should have been prepared, with the closure leaving them scrambling for treatment options.

So many "Cherokees" in Canada www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Research shows multi-agent AI teams struggle to leverage expertise, consistently underperforming relative to their best members—even when identifying experts. This challenges views on AI collaboration, highlighting a gap in harnessing collective intelligence. https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.01011

Collaborative groups often outperform single individuals in complex problem solving. A new paper examined how to create the right incentives to promote this kind of collective intelligence. www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10....

A First Nation in southern Alberta is advising its members against all travel to the U.S., adding that the Jay Treaty and Indian status cards are being challenged by U.S. border officials.

Michelle Good from the Red Pheasant Cree Nation in Saskatchewan is one of 80 people appointed to the Order of Canada this year. Good is an author, advocate, lawyer and Sixties Scoop survivor.

The Sturgeon Lake Cree Nation has filed a lawsuit against the Alberta government on earlier this week in response to their upcoming separation referendum. The Cree Nations says that it violates treaty number eight.

Earlier this month, the University of Québec In Montréal launched the sixth edition of the magazine on perseverance and academic success among First Nations peoples.

Hi, Indigenous person here. I've never seen any of the avatar movies, and after what James Cameron said about the Lakota people, I never will.

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A Court of King’s Bench justice ruled that a referendum by Alberta to separate from Canada is unconstitutional and violates treaty rights. Several First Nations and First Nation groups are opposed to the idea of separation.

In Canada, the histories of residential school survivors are being challenged by a surge of denialism. Dismantling Denialism confronts those attempts to rewrite history and explores what it will take to defend truth and reconciliation. Watch here: youtu.be/y-Pv8-99Sp4

The Abenaki council of Odanak and Wôlinak in Quebec launches an advertising campaign in the state of Vermont in the United States to raise awareness about the misrepresentation of Abenaki identity in their state.

Two agreements with the uranium mining company Denison Mines has been signed with Metis Nation-Saskatchewan. The agreements ensure Metis voices are included in mining decisions in northern Saskatchewan.

McGill’s Celeste Pedri-Spade: “[‘Pretendians’] become a kind of counterfeit currency, granting Canadians easy access to digestible versions of Indigenous identity and experience. But they are not ours, they are not us and they are not our stories” theconversation.com/thomas-king-...

#GoodMorningFromSaskatoon Winter Wonderland Edition. First appearance of ice in the river this season

Watercolor portrait of Joe Healy, "the most educated Indian on the reserve," was painted by Nora Foote, a British artist who visited what is now Saskatchewan and Alberta in 1895. As a boy, Healy was a witness to the Marias Massacre in Montana,

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.

Wait until you find out about some of the "Indigenous" authors you replace Thomas King with. It just doesn't end.

One more thing. For YEARS I (and others) thought King was Blackfoot because of Green Grass, Running Water and his other writings around that time. And he was so heavily embedded in Treaty 7 at that time. I don't know if I missed it or he wasn't saying at the time that he claimed Cherokee.

The real problem with pretendians is the way discussions around them are driven by mainstream colonial narratives about Indigeneity. Non-indigenous folks believe themselves experts on Indigenous identity and end up muddying the waters even more. Seeing this discussed by non-Indigenous folks is...

(everyone has known for years — years!! — that Thomas King is not Cherokee) www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/book...

Prime Minister Mark Carney joins Manitoba leaders in tribute to Louis Riel. What made this year’s event historic? Find out tonight on APTN National News. Watch live: www.youtube.com/aptnnews

Today was really foggy, and with the temperature just below freezing, we get rime ice. It’s a mood 😊🌿

So this happened an hour ago. I don’t think I’ve seen red this deep in a long time. You could see it quite clearly with the naked eye. #aurora

Super interesting. For training small LLMs, they get results comparable to those trained on an order of magnitude more tokens by replacing normal pre-training (which ingests huge amounts of human-written text) with exclusively synthetic text derived in a structured way from Wikipedia.

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“Our soldiers fought for the shared values of freedom and democratic rights for all. However, these soldiers returned from the war and quickly realized those freedoms and rights did not equally apply to them as they did their non-native comrades.” #IndigenousVeteransDay Lest We Forget

Discover the inspiring journey of Maude Lizaire, the first Afro-descendant woman to earn a PhD at Mila, and a strong advocate for more inclusive science. mila.quebec/en/news/maud...

A new paper with Bogdan Georgiev, Javier Gomez-Serrano, and Adam Zsolt Wagner: "Mathematical exploration and discovery at scale" arxiv.org/abs/2511.02864. Further discussion is at terrytao.wordpress.com/2025/11/05/m...

“Edge of chaos” dynamics are long recognized as a computationally potent dynamical regime that avoids vanishing gradients during learning and allows greater memory and expressivity of a system. This stark difference surprised us, and we think it can help explain our results on neural adaptation.

Indeed, Lyapunov exponents show that fixed points for RL models largely stay near 0, showing these networks’ dynamics lie at the edge of chaos. Whereas SL models’ dynamics are contractive and orderly, keeping very little information in memory for long and having stereotyped expressivity.

Two Metis Nation-Saskatchewan officials were in Ottawa this week seeking funding and urgent collaborative support for culturally appropriate addictions treatment centers. This is in response to increased addictions and gang violence seen in the area.

1/3 Thank you to CIFAR and partners in DSET for bringing me to Banff to speak on my research: The challenge of hidden gifts in multi-agent reinforcement learning arxiv.org/abs/2505.20579. We introduce a novel task on reciprocity with a scarce resource; take what you need, leave what you don’t.

I’ve been finding papers that experiment with ANNs at the hardware level very interesting recently. Such as diffusive memristors www.nature.com/articles/s41...

First Nation of Na-Cho Nyӓk Dun Elder Walter Peter never imagined he’d see himself as a hologram. But thanks to the wonders of technology, Peter was recently turned into a nearly life-size 3D version of himself.

LLMs are trained to compress data by mapping sequences to high-dim representations! How does the complexity of this mapping change across LLM training? How does it relate to the model’s capabilities? 🤔 Announcing our #NeurIPS2025 📄 that dives into this. 🧵below #AIResearch #MachineLearning #LLM

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[1/9] Excited to share our new paper "A Pragmatic View of AI Personhood" published today. We feel this topic is timely, and rapidly growing in importance as AI becomes agentic, as AI agents integrate further into the economy, and as more and more users encounter AI.

[9/9] Read the full paper here: arxiv.org/abs/2510.26396 Coauthors: Sasha Vezhnevets, @xtan, @WilCunningham

Writing a beautiful symphony is easier than doing the dishes in a random home

Uber driver: What’s your name? Dan? Me: yes (it’s not) Uber driver: What a unique name

The simplex algorithm is super efficient. 80 years of experience says it runs in linear time. Nobody can explain _why_ it is so fast. We invented a new algorithm analysis framework to find out.

Albania Prime Minister Edi Rama announced AI minister Diella is "pregnant" with 83 AI "children" to assist Socialist Party MPs www.news18.com/amp/world/al...

You don't need to be intelligent to survive! Think of viruses. Even if you think it's purely a next token predictor, when you allow the system to operate autonomously, it can survive simply by virtue of the actions it takes

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