Ethnic frauds stir up so many terrible feelings in Indigenous folks, and I don't think the general public really understands this. The goal of the ongoing colonial project has been the erasure of Indigenous Peoples, meaning our identity and existence has been undermined from every direction.

Today is the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women. This year's theme is digital abuse. Fewer than 40% of countries have laws protecting women from cyber harassment or cyber stalking. This leaves 44% of the world’s women and girls without access to legal protection.

Ok, it took me to the last day but got my donation in for this year's NiCHE fundraiser. If you can, support amazing digital scholarship and community-building in environmental #history and historical #geography by this unique organization!

3) "Yellowknife’s Giant Mine: Canada downplayed arsenic exposure as an Indigenous community was poisoned" by @arnkeeling.bsky.social and John Sandlos - niche-canada.org/2025/09/03/y... #envhist #cdnhist #mininghistory #mining #histmed #indigenoushistory

The HBC, ending as it began: putting profit before this land and its people. What a history lesson for all of us.

from government by consultant to government by consultants using generative AI. decades of degrading government capacity to actually govern has left it open to further degradation through ai hype and perceptions it enables further cost cutting.

Geography in action! 😅

Happening now! Great to hear the story around moving between political science and geography in the critical study of tech….

The Price of Gold gets its first review! "Historian John Sandlos and geographer Arn Keeling present a thorough and compulsively readable analysis of the slow-motion disaster that has unfolded at Giant Mine." @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social www.theseaboardreview.ca/p/the-price-...

Canada deserves the Fossil of the Day award, as I said a week ago - Canada has abandoned 1.5. This is confirmed by Climate Action Tracker.

Our paper in Nature (Humanities and Social Sciences Communications) on political ecology of climate change adaptation in Nunatsiavut, environmental injustices, & barriers and limits to adaptation.”https://www.nature.com/articles/s41599-025-06058-2 @profjamesford.bsky.social @labradorice.bsky.social

Excited to share that I’ll be speaking at Memorial University on Friday! If you’re in St. John’s, make sure to come out. I’ll be talking about how I became a tech critic and how I‘m seeing the current challenges with generative AI and digital sovereignty.

As Canadian history is put on the auction block this week, re-upping my article @ricochetmedia.bsky.social about why the HBC Collection belongs to Canadians, why it should be in a museum, and how Heritage Canada lacks the teeth to protect Canada's heritage #cdnpoli ricochet.media/indigenous/d...

I will not be buying any World Cup tickets or merchandise due to FIFA’s collaboration with the Trump regime. Gianni Infantino has a dictator fetish. It’s grotesque.

Finally got to the "I want to burn it all down" portion of the gen AI-era semester, where I realize they're all using some sort of LLM to "help" organize their thoughts and it's just spitting out raw sewage onto the screen.

Job - please share widely! Canada Excellence Research Chair in Comparative Democratic Resilience in the Global South. Research focus - grassroots movements, Indigenous sovereignties, and racial justice campaigns contesting and transforming public institutions www.mun.ca/vpacademic/m...

It's Geography Awareness Week #geography and GIS Day is Wednesday. A great many activities happening. Check out some of them storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/2426...

NEW: You can now freely access the *full* introduction of our new book, The Price of Gold, on the refreshed website for @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social: www.mqup.ca/Books/T/The-...

Does this mean we have to have the conversation around the ethics of an industrial strategy premised on the supply of war materiel to the world?

Appeal of Ontario nuclear waste site ruling will test the limits of First Nations consent: thenarwhal.ca/chalk-river-...

Climate breakdown is driven by a storm of lies. This lying is systemic, funded and coordinated, and operates across almost all media, old and new. This week's column argues that we cannot fight the climate crisis without also fighting the epistemic crisis. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The Cdn Network for Economic History & the Indigenous Economics Study Group invite proposals for a conference Aug 21-23 2026 in Yellowknife NWT: “Historical Persistence & Economic Development: Culture, Institutions & Understudied Economies” More info [email protected] or [email protected]

Agreed: read their new book on how arsenic emissions polluted a northern mining town – and the ways activists and Indigenous people fought back. #envhist www.mqup.ca/price-of-gol...

New: Google has chosen a side in Trump's mass deportation campaign. Google is hosting a CBP facial recognition app to hunt immigrants; no indication Google will remove. At same time Google takes down apps for reporting ICE sightings “Big tech has made their choice” www.404media.co/google-has-c...

In today’s @theglobeandmail.com John Sandlos and I argue that the push for mining as part of the federal major projects initiative must not come at the cost of leaving major public environmental liabilities, as it often has historically. apple.news/AgwQ1gsSiQV-...

50 years since the first modern treaty in Canada, the JBNQA. This deal, and those that followed, are as important as the patriation of the Constitution in shaping the nation we live in today. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

What’s it going to take to get an immigration policy that’s not focused solely on a numbers game but on fairness, integration, and opportunity for the newcomers Canada still desperately needs? www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Gorgeous cover!! Congratulations, Sara

Environmental and mining history you can use!!

The corruption and parasitism of the O&G sector in AB knows no bounds. When they’re finished dodging their debt bills, they’ll likely abandon these wells to the craven provincial government to clean up, too. thenarwhal.ca/alberta-land...

Alberta chiefs say oilsands causing cancer surge, call for halt to tailings plan www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/06/n...

Un grand merci à l’équipe de @polrightsrev.bsky.social pour la publication de cet article sur *Secular Sensibilities* en français (et en espagnol) ! politicsrights.com/fr/laiques-p... Pour toute commande du livre via @uncpress.bsky.social, le code 01SOCIAL30 vous offre 30 % de réduction. Merci!

“Nothing has improved in Gaza… Medicine is still blocked. Even food has not changed. “We hear about a truce, but we feel no safety or relief.” Gaza residents talk to our Hasan Jaber in Bureij refugee camp www.theglobeandmail.com/world/articl...

Spread the word about this brand new Masters in Public Environmental Humanities with me and The Greenhouse crew in Norway. For those outside of EU, registration is in second half of November, so don’t miss it!

Now imagine, being a Canadian politician, and looking at this chart and saying, "Yeah, we don't like Canada's rating here. We don't want any part of attracting the best and brightest of the world." That's the trend in Canadian higher ed and immigration policy.

Not only are wildfires caused by climate change, new research links the heatwaves that cause them to oil companies active in Newfoundland and Labrador, columnist Angela Antle writes in an open letter to N.L. Premier Tony Wakeham #nlpoli #climate #cdnpoli theindependent.ca/commentary/e...

Canadian provinces are doing this to us, right now, slowly destroying post-secondary education. Carney is about to do it to research too.

Nice feature on the managed retreat of a coastal French village—which just happens to be in Newfoundland’s backyard. Harbingers of many such moves to come as climate changes, sea levels rise, and storms worsen. Spot the geographer, too! www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Got my double-jab today (flu-Covid). There is no better example of the confluence of collective good and personal benefit than vaccination, and it's a shame to see rates falling so far here in Canada. 💪💉

The kids (some anyway) are alright 🥹 apple.news/AEHOu07MUQ4y...

Don’t watch much hockey these days but hearing Shorty calling #HNIC early game is great. Best play by play: Cole, with a side of Gallivan

I worry about the creeping Albertafication of NL. On a number of issues from climate to COVID to immigration I’m hearing UCP talking points creep into the discourse. I mean, the province may have its own share of misinformed folks, but there seems to be a tone shift #nlpoli vocm.com/2025/10/25/2...

Excited that “New Research in Arctic Pasts,” the series I’m co-editing with @issygapp.bsky.social, has just launched on @nichecanada.bsky.social, showcasing the work of 10 Arctic researchers across disciplines over the next 6 weeks niche-canada.org/2025/10/23/i...

Maybe the Yanks should just have called in the British/Canadians, who would have burned down their White House for them #BombsBurstingInAir #WarOf1812

Thanks to Emily Blake from @cabinradio.ca for this great story on Giant Mine tied to our book launch for The Price of Gold last week in Yellowknife. Nice to hear the voices of people from the community, too. cabinradio.ca/264132/news/...

New in 'Transactions': 'Possible Maps: Newfoundland, 1763–1829' bit.ly/4oygf5V @julialaite.bsky.social shows how overlapping maps highlight complexity of encounter with place over a coherence of colonial ideologies. What were peripheries of some people’s empires were centres of others' worlds 1/2

Congrats Julia! Looking forward to this and more!!

Arctic extremes are accelerating. Rare climate extremes (eg heatwaves, sea ice loss, ice sheet melt) are now common. Since 2000, some have jumped >80%. Warming is “pushing” the system to a new state, variability “triggers” extremes. (Review) www.nature.com/articles/s43...

WTF is going on in the UK? Do they fear losing ground to the US in the egregious racism and fascism race?