Canadian COVID Forecast: Oct 11 - Oct 24, 2025 SEVERE: NL, NS, SK VERY HIGH: MB, NB, North, PEI HIGH: CAN, AB, BC, ON, QC MODERATE: none About 1 in 95 people in Canada are CURRENTLY infected.

My video story on Lindsay Shepherd losing her job over her post complaining about having to view orange shirts or flags. #truthandreconciliation #bcpoli

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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.

Canadian COVID Forecast Sep 13-26, 2025 CANADA VERY HIGH (no change) About 1 in every 81 people infected Compared to lowest point of pandemic in Canada: -Infections ~12X higher -Long COVID ~8X higher -Hospitalizations ~15X higher -Deaths ~14X higher

Canadian COVID Forecast Aug 30 - Sep 12 2025 CANADA High [No change] About 1 in 65 people in Canada are CURRENTLY infected. Compared to lowest point of pandemic in Canada: -Infections ~7.2 higher -Long COVID ~7.7 higher -Hospitalizations ~10.7 higher -Deaths ~10.9 higher

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These polls by the PMO listing the Carney Liberals' key priorities reflect the saddest, most uninspired vision for a country already struggling to define a common purpose, culture or set of values. Combined with an austerity budget we have a recipe for decline and irrelevance.

Canadian COVID Forecast: Aug 16-Aug 29, 2025 SEVERE: none VERY HIGH: none HIGH: AB MODERATE: CAN, BC, MB, NB, NL, North, NS, ON, PEI, QC, SK About 1 in 121 people in Canada are CURRENTLY infected.

We asked people who experienced "sweeps" of homeless encampments to write about it in their own words. In Portland, Teresa Stratton told us about how her husband’s ashes were taken in a removal:

For years, residential school denialists have demanded "proof," despite church and state records already confirming 4000+ residential school deaths. Disrespectfully, they say: "show me the bodies!" Well, Deninu Kųę́ First Nation have now exhumed remains: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

This past week, 4 research school research teams have shared evidence - from historical documents to exhumation - confirming additional deaths of children at residential schools across the country. IRS denialists will no doubt downplay results, but they are truly heartbreaking.

Anas Jamal Al-Sharif left these words for if he was martyred. I read them shared on Al Jazeera. www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...

I just realized that the latest generation of "capacity development" vultures swarming First Nations are using generative "AI" to pitch and sell dodgy legal, policy, governance, etc. strategy. I'm already seeing the usual hustlers pitching themselves as having more expertise than they actually do.

The Carney Doctrine: fuck Indigenous peoples.

Promising "wealth and prosperity for 'generations to come'" is what colonizers have always said, right before they steal the land and "invest" Indigenous Peoples' money into a project that fails and takes their money along with it. They give us the risk and take the reward. bsky.app/profile/garl...

"The proposed agenda includes a handful of chiefs known to be 'pro-industry' as speaking with federal government officials, while the rest of the more than 600 chiefs not being given the promised three minutes to address the prime minister" www.cbc.ca/news/indigen...

critical minerals tho bsky.app/profile/wind...

Alberta is worried that First Nations having safe drinking water might be inconvenient for for industry. You’d think I couldn’t have less respect for this government, but here we are.

Canadian COVID Forecast: Jun 28-Jul 11, 2025 SEVERE: none VERY HIGH: none HIGH: ON MODERATE: CAN, AB, BC, MB, NB, NL, North, NS, PEI, QC, SK About 1 in 120 people in Canada are CURRENTLY infected.

In protest of Bills 5 and C-5, Neskantaga members are now building a permanent camp at the point where the proposed road to the Ring of Fire would cross the Attawapiskat River. ricochet.media/indigenous/t...

Chief Billy Diamond (1949-2010) at his brother Albert’s wedding dance in Waskaganish in 1973. Diamond was Chief of Waskaganish from 1970 to 1976, the Grand Chief of the Grand Council of the Crees from 1974 to 1984, and a successful businessman. #indigenoushistorymonth 📷 © George Legrady

Has anyone written about the intersection between Bill C-2 and Bill C-5? They are directly related but I haven't really seen anyone analyze that. Bill C-2 creates extra surveillance powers to further criminalize Indigenous people (and allies) resisting the "national interest" projects C-5 enables.

This is my biggest beef with "economic reconciliation" rhetoric. Why do Indigenous Peoples want to ultimately support American imperialism by "partnering" with Canada, itself a "junior partner" of an evil empire? That's not "self-determination", I don't even know what to call it. Think bigger y'all.

Canadian politicians are using the destruction of civil liberties in America as a distraction to destroy civil liberties in Canada. They aren't "resisting America" or "fighting for Canadian sovereignty". They struck a deal with Trump to continue providing resources to the American Empire.

Treaty 9 youth are leading to resistance to Doug Ford's attack on the land. Breaking the treaties is the oldest con in confederation. But it ain't going to happen Doug. The Indigenous youth are not going back.

There is no appeal beyond Supreme Court of Canada. Plus, the article notes that only 96 files have received consent for archival from the 38,000 IAP claimants. I would expect at least 1,900 (5%) based on my work at the National Inquiry. This suggests that the government planned to fail.

Genocide perpetrators do everything possible to destroy the evidence. Canada is especially seasoned in crimes against humanity. There are almost no records left from 40 years of Alberta and BC's Sexual Sterilization Acts. www.cbc.ca/news/indigen...

“street disorder” seems to be a synonym for “poor people existing in public,” and while yes of course everyone needs third spaces the actual issue here is economic inequality, which we need to confront honestly, and address

I just watched an orangutan tie a knot. You should see it too.

Canadian COVID Forecast: May 10-23, 2025 SEVERE: none VERY HIGH: AB, BC, NB, North, ON, PEI HIGH: CAN, MB, NL, NS, QC, SK MODERATE: none About 1 in 134 people in Canada are CURRENTLY infected.

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"Files documenting the worst abuses at residential schools are set to be destroyed in 2027 and [..] some survivors say they didn't know they could opt to have their files preserved." "[T]o destroy them is to destroy the truth of what really happened." #Canada #Incarceration #Genocide

always optimistic that the journalism industry can become a fairer and more inclusive place, and pointing out structural failures and biases where they occur is part of building that future. to that end, please read this editorial from IndigiNews:

Sean Amato Alberta's Bill 54 - which would lower the signature threshold for referendums, inc. one on separation - was literally thrown on the ground and called "garbage" at a press conference in west Edmonton this afternoon. Chiefs say separation violates Treaties. #ableg #cdnpoli

by electing Aaron Gunn, Canada has in its incoming parliament, a man who is not only comfortable with but versed in exploiting others' trauma to advance an agenda to punish those same people

if you are feeling helpless, a simple but incredibly valuable thing that many of us can do after a catastrophe is sign up to donate blood and plasma. www.blood.ca/en

CW: residential schools CBC News issued a correction for a correct statement. There have been remains found. A fragment of a child’s jawbonewas found at a site in Saskatchewan. The remains of a child under five were found at a former school near Edmonton. What Rosie Barton said was correct.

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Canadian COVID Forecast: Apr 12-25, 2025 SEVERE: none VERY HIGH: AB, BC, CAN, MB, North, ON, QC HIGH: NB, NL, NS, PEI, SK MODERATE: none About 1 in 151 people in Canada are CURRENTLY infected.

this is such a dumb, obviously doomed lawsuit — "unceded land" is a statement of fact — that it makes me miss the days when aspiring anti-woke grifters put a little more effort into their rage bait. try harder! www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

BREAKING: Link to residential schools ‘complicated’ if politician not right wing

This is, in large part, pandemic revenge. As far as these oligarchs are concerned, all science does is tell them stuff they cannot do. They can't keep spewing carbon. They can't keep businesses open as usual when millions are dying. They have concluded that research is the enemy of profit.

Premier Wab Kinew: 'I want to say to Ashlee's parents, to her mum and dad, who I had a chance to speak with briefly yesterday, I promise you we are going to search the Brady landfill for your daughter.'

this is damn good work

tbh I did a word search for "Indigenous" and "First Nations", didn't see anything, so didn't bother reading it

Canadian COVID Forecast: Mar 15-28, 2025 SEVERE: ON VERY HIGH: CAN, QC HIGH: AB, BC, MB, NB, NL, North, NS, PEI, SK MODERATE: none About 1 in 142 people in Canada are CURRENTLY infected.

‘Marcedes Myran and Morgan Harris are coming home.’ Premier Wab Kinew reacts to the confirmation that human remains found at Prairie Green Landfill are those of Marcedes Myran.

This is the rain that turns everything green again.