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Maggie Macintosh @maggiemacintosh.bsky.social · 4d

The Exchange District’s sole public school has received national recognition for mapping out a walking tour of often-overlooked landmarks that represent Black Canadians’ struggles and resilience #mbed #wfp www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews...

Tour delves into Winnipeg's Black history

The Exchange District’s sole public school has received national recognition for mapping out a walking tour of often-overlooked landmarks that represent Black Canadians’ struggles and resilience. Kath...

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Sean Carleton @seancarleton.bsky.social · 11d

Ahead of this year's Orange Shirt Day, I had the great honour of speaking with Kimberly Murray about the need to fight residential school denialism and stand up for the truth about residential schooling. Thanks to the Centre for Human Rights Research for their support: chrr.info/resource/fig...

Fighting Denialism and Standing Up for the Truth About Residential Schooling - Centre for Human Rights Research

Residential school denialism is on the rise. Niigaan Sinclair and Sean Carleton, University of Manitoba professors and CHRR Research Affiliates, are working on a new book collection that will help peo...

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Adele Perry @adeleperry.bsky.social · 15d

www.winnipegfreepress.com/opinion/anal...

Opinion: Funding Transit a necessity

While the new Winnipeg Transit network launched in June 2025 has achieved many of its objectives, it’s important to assess what is and isn’t working in order to see Winnipeg Transit reach its full pot...

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Adele Perry @adeleperry.bsky.social · 16d

thenarwhal.ca/winnipeg-tra...

The Winnipeg transit overhaul, mapped | The Narwhal

The goal was more frequent and on-time buses that run into the night. An analysis of the Winnipeg transit overhaul paints a different picture

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Adele Perry @adeleperry.bsky.social · 18d

Here’s today’s version of the HBC, proceeding in their own narrow interests, as if they owe nothing to the people or places they drew their wealth and authority from for the 350+ years.

Tara Deschamps @taradeschamps.bsky.social · 21d

Hudson's Bay wants to revert to its original plan to auction off its founding charter after more parties signalled interest in buying and then donating the 1670 document.

Also, its art auction could happen in November with 24 Indigenous pieces removed.

www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/business/hud...

Hudson's Bay to seek court permission to auction off charter, docs say

TORONTO - New court documents say Hudson's Bay wants to revert to its original plan to auction off its founding charter after more parties signalled interest in buying and then

www.thecanadianpressnews.ca

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Tara Deschamps @taradeschamps.bsky.social · 21d

Hudson's Bay wants to revert to its original plan to auction off its founding charter after more parties signalled interest in buying and then donating the 1670 document.

Also, its art auction could happen in November with 24 Indigenous pieces removed.

www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/business/hud...

Hudson's Bay to seek court permission to auction off charter, docs say

TORONTO - New court documents say Hudson's Bay wants to revert to its original plan to auction off its founding charter after more parties signalled interest in buying and then

www.thecanadianpressnews.ca

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Adele Perry @adeleperry.bsky.social · 23d

Exhausted by facism, genocide and ecological crisis? Here’s a lady and her eagle.

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Adele Perry @adeleperry.bsky.social · 23d

Nothing cheers me up as much as this photo of Jean Folster, the first elected woman chief in Manitoba (Norway House) and her pet eagle, circa 1975: epe.lac-bac.gc.ca/100/205/301/...

Disclaimer / Avertissement

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Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social · 23d

Action against the slave trade from 1807 enabled British colonisation, but Jane Lydon shows here how achieving the abolition of slavery in 1833 and expanding territory through conquest were also interrelated, not separate, processes. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

‘Forced Free Labour’: Connecting the Abolition of Slavery and Settler Colonisation in the Thought of Henry George Grey

This article investigates the connections between emancipation in Britain’s slave colonies and settler colonisation through the policies of Henry George Grey, 3rd Earl Grey (styled Viscount Howick ...

www.tandfonline.com

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 26d

Forever grateful social media didn't exist when I was young and knew everything.

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ActiveHistory.ca @activehist.bsky.social · Sep 10

Today’s post, by Laura Ishiguro, Nicole Yakashiro and Ayaka Yoshimizu, explores their creation of an OER (open educational resource) on the life of Kiyo Tanaka-Goto, a Japanese woman who lived in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside.

Kiyo Tanaka-Goto: An Open Educational Resource on a Life of Defiance and Relation-Making in the Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside

Hand towel, Nikkei National Museum & Cultural Centre Kiyo Goto Collection, 2003.7.37, photo by Tadafumi Tamura. Laura Ishiguro, Nicole Yakashiro and Ayaka Yoshimizu What can one racialized migr…

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Adele Perry @adeleperry.bsky.social · Sep 8

Never a dull moment.

Andrew Kurjata @akurjata.ca · Sep 8

My original lede for this was "they caught him ridin' purdy"

Man arrested after driving child-size Pink Barbie Keep through Prince George www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Man arrested after driving child-size pink Barbie Jeep through town | CBC News

Police and a legal expert say driving any motorized vehicle, including a toy, without a licence and insurance is a punishable offence.

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Andrew Kurjata @akurjata.ca · Sep 8

My original lede for this was "they caught him ridin' purdy"

Man arrested after driving child-size Pink Barbie Keep through Prince George www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Man arrested after driving child-size pink Barbie Jeep through town | CBC News

Police and a legal expert say driving any motorized vehicle, including a toy, without a licence and insurance is a punishable offence.

www.cbc.ca

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Adele Perry @adeleperry.bsky.social · Sep 6

Hoo boy air canada picked the wrong people to tangle with: www.theglobeandmail.com/business/article-air-canada-flight-attendants-union-strike-deal-bargaining-agreement/

Air Canada flight attendants reject tentative agreement that ended strike

Airline and union to meet with a mediator to find ways to reach common ground on wages

www.theglobeandmail.com

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Adele Perry @adeleperry.bsky.social · Sep 5

I wish I had time to do a search through 19th and 20th C newspapers reporting that they were witnessing a new & terrifying youth crime wave because dude, people have thought this at literally every decade. We’ve been here before and more cops and more jail didn’t fix things then and won’t now.

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Winnipeg Free Press @winnipegfreepress.com · Sep 5

Winnipeg's transit overhaul was intended to deliver faster and more reliable service to better serve all corners of a growing city. But a Free Press/Narwhal analysis of the system before and after the June 29 transition date reveals a different story.

www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews...

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Adele Perry @adeleperry.bsky.social · Sep 4

In the last decade or so in Manitoba I’d watch the pandemic, the late arrival of the opioid/poisoned drug supply crisis, & brutal provincial governments. I’d think man, it’s going to take a long time to get over this particular phase in colonialism’s history. And it really, really is.

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Adele Perry @adeleperry.bsky.social · Sep 4

Horrifying, in every possible way.

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Adele Perry @adeleperry.bsky.social · Aug 28

It is predictable but shocking to the extent. The revised edition of WKCH is actually worst than the first.

Adele Perry @adeleperry.bsky.social · Aug 28

Also the revised version of WKCH.

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Adele Perry @adeleperry.bsky.social · Aug 27

In one, a major Indigenous figure is noted but is not named. We can say his name: Elijah Harper, Elijah Harper, Elijah Harper: henrirobideau.com/elijah-harpe...

Elijah Harper Says No Dit Non

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Adele Perry @adeleperry.bsky.social · Aug 27

I’m starting with Bliss, 1991, and Granatstein, 1998. Looking for the second edition of Who Killed but it’s not in many libraries. Happy to take further suggestions!

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Adele Perry @adeleperry.bsky.social · Aug 26

for my sins, I'm re-reading the main tracts in support of national and nationalist Canadian history published in the 1990s, and what is striking is how very, very little they have to say about histories of Indigenous people or colonialism.

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Adele Perry @adeleperry.bsky.social · Aug 22

Not wearing helmets or mouth guards, teeth glinting on the ice.

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Adele Perry @adeleperry.bsky.social · Aug 22

Getting knocked into the boards by goons. I could go on.

Adele Perry @adeleperry.bsky.social · Aug 22

You’ll find us in the corner with our elbows down.

Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · Aug 22

Canada will drop its counter-tariffs on some American goods in the coming days, Mark Carney has said.

Canada to drop counter-tariffs on some US goods one day after call with Trump

www.theguardian.com

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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · Aug 22

Canada will drop its counter-tariffs on some American goods in the coming days, Mark Carney has said.

Canada to drop counter-tariffs on some US goods one day after call with Trump

www.theguardian.com

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Clint Smith @clintsmithiii.bsky.social · Aug 22

I debated writing this. It can feel tempting, upon encountering yet another instance of this administration’s racism, to let it be. How many ways can you say the same thing over and over again? And yet we have to write it down, if for nothing else, so those who come after us know we were against it.

Actually, Slavery Was Very Bad

The president’s latest criticism of museums is a thinly veiled attempt to erase Black history.

www.theatlantic.com

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Adele Perry @adeleperry.bsky.social · Aug 22

*up* for grabs.

Adele Perry @adeleperry.bsky.social · Aug 22

As we watch super rich dudes compete to buy the HBC Charter, we should be asking why we still haven’t seen a catalouge, let alone the 4,400 items potentially io for grabs: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/david-thomson-hudson-bay-charter-1.7614837

Billionaire David Thomson wants to buy Hudson's Bay charter, donate it to Manitoba Archives | CBC News

Two of Canada's richest families appear poised for a battle over one of the country's most famed documents.

www.cbc.ca

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