A member of a northern Ontario First Nation plagued by decades of mercury poisoning due to pollution from a nearby paper mill manages to directly confront premier Doug Ford at a public event in the Niagara region. Hear more on APTN News Brief:

A very unbalanced onus placed on the Palestinians by Carney. - Canada not demanding Israel to demilitarize. - Canada not demanding Israel to exclude its genocidal leadership from future elections. - Canada not demanding Israel to end occupation of illegal settlements in Palestinian territory.

My weekly must-reads list and my thoughts on witnessing care and courage amid clouds of tear gas Friday night. "Almost 550 people across Chicagoland have been arrested by ICE during Operation Midway Blitz. It is a campaign of terror focused on a city that our president feels profound contempt for."

Crockett: "I'm gonna honor someone who decided they were going to proclaim I was involved in the 'great white replacement'? Yeah, I'm not honoring that ... it's unfortunate more of my colleagues even on my side couldn't see the amount of harm this man was attempting to inflict upon our communities"

Intelligence report leaked to me warns of "trans militant cult," a framing echoed by Vice President JD Vance. The new "terror" obsession is here: www.kenklippenstein.com/p/white-hous...

"In short, the public can’t vote away settler colonial violence. Nor is this a matter of a lack of understanding or a deficit in sympathy — more testimonials, more conferences, and more reports will change very little."

No amount of convincing and irrefutable evidence of the genocide will convince Western leaders to halt support for Israel, because it isn't in their interests. The only thing that will stop the genocide is to make it more costly than profitable.

“They can’t trust the treaties they made with the United States, and they worry about their land and resources. That’s how we feel about Canada, because they want to take our land and natural resources.” - Kenneth Atsenhaienton Deer www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...

You don't have to mourn people who despised you and wanted terrible things to happen to you. Hard to believe that this needs to be said but apparently it does.

A training program is tackling the shortage of water treatment operators in Ontario First Nations, as threats to clean water on reserve persist. New from @savannahridley.bsky.social: thenarwhal.ca/water-treatm...

In light of the increasing prevalence of pepper balls and tear gas at the Broadview site, I just want to reshare this toolkit from Vision Change Win, which includes best practices for treating tear gas and pepper spray exposure. You can also find this info in the appendix of Let This Radicalize You.

Desira Ross is described as 5’3” and 210 lbs with medium-length brown hair and brown eyes, she may also be wearing glasses.

I'm not asking people to stop talking about Kimmel or the coming repression tied to their latest martyr project—all of this is important. I am just saying, can we work in more discussion of our neighbors being hunted and protesters being gassed, beaten, and shot with pepper balls in Chicagoland?

Canada’s “elbows up” nationalism may look like resistance to Trump, but it risks repeating the colonial violence it claims to oppose. Ellen Gabriel and @seancarleton.bsky.social warn that patriotism built on erasing Indigenous struggles makes real reconciliation impossible.

Confusion followed Ottawa’s crackdown on Jordan’s Principle as costs topped $2B www.aptnnews.ca?p=276721

Are you subscribed to our newsletter? Sign up for the latest on the blockade to protect #oldgrowth forests. @brandimorin.bsky.social has been on the ground in B.C. this week. Right now, land defenders are preparing for RCMP to move in. Never miss an update: shorturl.at/Pz3ez #cdnpoli #BCpoli

The FBI is preparing to label transgender people as “violent extremists” in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s murder: www.kenklippenstein.com/p/fbi-readie...

A retreating glacier revealed a new island in Alaska this summer, as lake water filled in to surround a land mass that was once hugged by ice.

'food scarcity, poor crop yields and rising prices, with some hard-hit regions already experiencing tensions and migration' River basins, breadbaskets of the world - hit hard by climate change, sand mining + dams blocking replenishing sediment. share.google/H0AKSWKmBQNl...

Given the extreme nature of many of Charlie Kirk’s comments, the simple act of rising for a standing ovation in response to his death has taken on significance. #canpoli #uspoli

The Pentagon is considering a recruitment campaign that would use slain culture war activist Charlie Kirk as a symbol and call to service, NBC reports, as the president is calling for anti-fascist advocates to be considered terrorists.

‘Cascading, compounding’: five key takeaways from Australia’s national climate risk assessment

One of the wettest winters on record has firefighters worried about a potentially deadly NSW bushfire season

Article today: Shortly before the former PC government rejected calls for a landfill search, senior bureaucrats put together a presentation on the issue. And it’s being kept secret. halifax.citynews.ca/2025/09/14/m... #mbpoli

There is a pretty reasonable chance the Trump admin uses this moment as a flimsy excuse to shut down bluesky (directly or through unmanageable conditions), and posts like this aren't going to make a difference

He's alive, so I guess we're still legally permitted to point out that Ben Shapiro is a glib, nasty dipshit whose success is a testament to the abysmal intellectual standards on the right.

Speaking like our ancestors: The immersion program bringing back the Squamish language www.aptnnews.ca/national-new... In 2016, Squamish had just seven fluent speakers. Today there are over 50. Two teachers share how their program did it at Waves 2025 Global Indigenous Language Summit. #IdleNoMore

Well, would ya look at that: the two-part APTN News doc that I co-created with @anishinaboy.bsky.social on the late 2012 emergence of #IdleNoMore just passed 30,000 views on YouTube! ▶️ WATCH youtu.be/VHgGbW6exB4?...

As the fall Parliamentary session begins, word is the Carney government will deliver an austerity budget in October or November. Hear more APTN News Brief:

As Canada experiences its second-worst wildfire season on record, drinking water across B.C. is at risk, as watersheds are threatened and transformed by flames. @annecasselman.bsky.social reports: thenarwhal.ca/wildfires-th...

B.C. just approved one of its largest LNG projects yet. Ksi Lisims LNG will ship 12M tonnes of gas a year overseas. Ministers say it will benefit the Nisg̱a’a Nation — but also admit it will worsen greenhouse gas emissions. #bcpoli

Barely a mention in Canadian media as far as I've seen which is really frightening. The ex-leader of the conservative party put a target on a journalists back and now she's getting death threats. For correctly pointing out that she was worried the right were going to weaponize political violence

Matthew Dowd was fired from MSNBC for saying Charlie Kirk was "divisive". Brian Kilmeade called for the execution of unhoused people with mental illness through involuntary lethal injection. And kept his job

I've never thought there was a bad time to be honest about the fact that a horrible person is/was horrible. But after this week's whitewashing of Kirk by the media and political commentariat, it feels not just permissible but essential to fight both sentimentality and dishonesty at top volume.

National Climate Change Risk Assessment out now 👇🏽 Risk to current ecosystems VERY HIGH. Rick by 2050 VERY HIGH to SEVERE

"I just want to say, go birds, fuck ICE and free Palestine," "Hacks" star Hannah Einbinder at the #Emmys

I won't quote-tweet our main character of the day, but if your complaint is that Charlie Kirk's words are being taken out of context, I'd encourage you to skim through the Media Matters tag for his name. They have hundreds of posts about Kirk and most have longer clips that give the full context.

Prime Minister Mark Carney announced an initial short list of projects for review by the Liberal government’s Major Projects Office, claiming they’ll generate $60 billion and tens of thousands of jobs for the economy. Hear more on APTN News Brief:

“I really appreciated... the PM mentioning... the idea of icebreakers being in Hudson Bay to help us have year-round shipping seasons here. Now... we've got to think about wildlife, environment. Our Indigenous partner gov'ts are going to have a lot of input” MB premier podfollow.com/aptn-news-br...

CSIS investigated Gustafsen Lake standoff in 1995 'Native extremism' probe, records show Canada's spy agency had “extensive” interest in the Gustafsen Lake standoff in B.C. in 1995, keeping tabs on developments in a previously secret investigation i... #cbc #cbc-canada-news #Canada

Spending on data center construction in the US has hit a record high of $40 billion a year, and increase of 30% from last year. www.businessinsider.com/us-data-cent...

“the proposed [$30B LNG] megaproject, would demand maximum shipping volumes and an extended season [i.e.,] intensive icebreaking + steady tanker traffic [disturbing wildlife]... industrial shipping and high-density Arctic whale habitat is not a good mix” www.winnipegfreepress.com/opinion/anal...

Premier Wab Kinew said there’s “a window of great opportunity” for Manitoba after Prime Minister Mark Carney said a Port of Churchill expansion, an icebreaker for Hudson Bay and an all-weather road made the cut for the second round of nation-building projects.

OTTAWA – The newly appointed Indigenous advisory council marks the start — not the end — of talks with community leaders on how to move the government’s major projects agenda forward, Indigenous Services Minister Mandy Gull-Masty said on Thursday.

A new collaborative study involving Hakai Institute researchers finds that ocean acidification and food stress are affecting the survival of juvenile chum salmon—but new tools can help detect exposure to acidification in wild salmon populations 🔗 tinyurl.com/32psmuvv

"The specter of low-oxygen ‘dead zones’ is surfacing along BCs Central Coast, threatening the region’s rich marine ecosystems and fisheries,” writes @rochelle.bsky.social in @nationalobserver.com, exploring new research by a group of scientists including Hakai oceanographers🔗 tinyurl.com/3bebmnre

No! This is fiscal and environmental insanity. Not a DIME of public money for carbon capture or a pipeline. if Big Oil wants either, they can dip into their obscene profits (windfall profits tax anyone?) & pay for it themselves. #EnergyTransition #EmissionsCap www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...

"We're all on the same conveyor belt to the streets," says @garthmullins.bsky.social of the Crackdown podcast. Our NEW episode of Break In Case of Emergency examines the interconnections between the poison drug crisis and the climate crisis. www.climateemergencyunit.ca/podcast

This is what happens.

What white supremacist violence in #Australia means for Canada. An #Indigenous gathering is attacked by neo-nazis with metal pipes calling for an end to immigration — now, a similar rally is planned for #Toronto. New from @erinblondeau.bsky.social: #cdnpoli ricochet.media/justice/far-...