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Adele Perry
@adeleperry.bsky.social
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historian, mother, settler, feminist, lousy speller. Based in Treaty One and Manitoba Act lands.

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Adele Perry @adeleperry.bsky.social · 1d
Never a dull moment down the road.

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Adele Perry @adeleperry.bsky.social · 1d
I was going to comment a play on turtles all the way down but it seems a little much.

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Adele Perry @adeleperry.bsky.social · 2d
Thank you Shannon!

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Adele Perry @adeleperry.bsky.social · 2d
Heres Jocelyn Thorpe and I in the @winnipegfreepress.com, talking about everyone’s favourite topics, sewage & environmental racism: www.winnipegfreepress.com/opinion/anal...
Opinion: Investing for ourselves, and those downstream
We have invested large sums of money in infrastructure before. You don’t often hear Winnipeggers complaining about the results: soft, clean drinking water thanks to the Shoal Lake aqueduct and flood p...
www.winnipegfreepress.com

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Shannon Stunden Bower @stundenbower.bsky.social · 2d
Important read by Jocelyn Thorpe and @adeleperry.bsky.social on the connections between water, infrastructure, and colonialism in Manitoba.
Opinion: Investing for ourselves, and those downstream
We have invested large sums of money in infrastructure before. You don’t often hear Winnipeggers complaining about the results: soft, clean drinking water thanks to the Shoal Lake aqueduct and flood p...
www.winnipegfreepress.com

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Adele Perry @adeleperry.bsky.social · 2d
And all tied up with networks of patronage, kinship and wealth, though now on this side of the Atlantic.

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Adele Perry @adeleperry.bsky.social · 2d
The HBC, ending as it began: putting profit before this land and its people. What a history lesson for all of us.
taradeschamps.bsky.social Tara Deschamps @taradeschamps.bsky.social · 4d
The royal charter that created Hudson’s Bay in 1670 is on its way to the auction block with two of Canada's richest families —the Westons and Thomsons — starting the bidding at $18 million.

www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/business/cou...
Court approves Hudson's Bay plan to auction its royal charter; $18M bid expected
TORONTO - The royal charter that created Hudson’s Bay in 1670 is on its way to the auction block.
www.thecanadianpressnews.ca

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Winnipeg Free Press @winnipegfreepress.com · 2d
Manitobans who’ve experienced meth-induced psychosis and health-care workers have signed a petition to ensure drug-related detentions are “a last resort.”
Rally urges reforms for new 72-hour detox detention
Manitobans who’ve experienced meth-induced psychosis and health-care workers have signed a petition to ensure drug-related detentions are “a last resort.”
www.winnipegfreepress.com

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Department of History - Western University @westernuhistory.bsky.social · 2d
Prof. Cody Groat's new publication, "Always a Part of the Land: The Federal Commemoration of Indigenous Histories" is available for pre-order. www.mqup.ca/Books/A/Alwa... @westernulibs.bsky.social

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Adele Perry @adeleperry.bsky.social · 3d
Sending solidarity to our neighbours across the border, who should not have to live through this.
taniel.bsky.social Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 3d
Abortion ban is back on in North Dakota, after a state Supreme Court ruling.

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/22/u...
Abortion Is Once Again Illegal in North Dakota
www.nytimes.com

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 3d
Abortion ban is back on in North Dakota, after a state Supreme Court ruling.

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/22/u...
Abortion Is Once Again Illegal in North Dakota
www.nytimes.com

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Tabatha Southey🇨🇦 @tabathasouthey.bsky.social · 4d
Massive shoutout out to whoever handles the Royal Canadian Air Force’s social media account. They responded to every single comment on their already very solid Trans Day of Remembrance post and they responded like this…
A screenshot of a Facebook post where a person named Andy ask the Well now “What the hell is transgender?” The Royal Canadian Air Force account response with “That’s a pretty big question asked in a pretty small way, Andy. ‘Transgender’ putting describes someone whose gender – who they know themselves to be – doesn’t match the sex they were assigned at birth. It’s not new, and it’s certainly not a fad. People have lived this experience for as long as people have existed; we’re just finally talking about it openly. You don’t have to fully understand it right away, most learning takes time, but we can always start from a place of respect. That’s how decent folks handle things they’re still getting used to.”

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Tara Deschamps @taradeschamps.bsky.social · 4d
The royal charter that created Hudson’s Bay in 1670 is on its way to the auction block with two of Canada's richest families —the Westons and Thomsons — starting the bidding at $18 million.

www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/business/cou...
Court approves Hudson's Bay plan to auction its royal charter; $18M bid expected
TORONTO - The royal charter that created Hudson’s Bay in 1670 is on its way to the auction block.
www.thecanadianpressnews.ca

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Adele Perry @adeleperry.bsky.social · 5d
It’s a sweet little video. She said nice things about the intimacy of the venue. It was a short concert, but a 15 piece band, and she did To Zion and then had Zion come out for a couple of songs, and an all round impeccable vibe!

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Adele Perry @adeleperry.bsky.social · 5d
40 minutes late. But every ticket I bought for a Neil Young concert was cancelled, so that’s a thing:)

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Adele Perry @adeleperry.bsky.social · 5d
Saw Ms Lauryn Hill’s electric show in Winnipeg last night, & all the nattering about her being late etc reminds me that nobody cuts women any slack. Hill is a brilliant musician, songwriter & bandleader, she raised six kids who seem to love her, I don’t think she has needs to be prompt.

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Adele Perry @adeleperry.bsky.social · 6d
I'm trying to figure out the connections/disconnections between the involuntary treatment/hold legislation in BC (www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...) and Manitoba (www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...). Is it that MB's takes it out of the framework of health/mental health care?
B.C. is expanding its involuntary care program. What does the treatment involve? | CBC News
Involuntary care was put in the spotlight last fall during the provincial election campaign when Premier David Eby announced plans to expand that type of care for people with addiction. The B.C. Conse...
www.cbc.ca

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Adele Perry @adeleperry.bsky.social · 7d
the algorithim thinks I am way more interested in Margaret Atwood than I am.

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Blacklikewho @blacklikewho.bsky.social · 9d
Masculinity is NOT in crisis. Masculinity is THE crisis.

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Adele Perry @adeleperry.bsky.social · 9d
Sometimes I have dreams of Neechi Commons.

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Adele Perry @adeleperry.bsky.social · 14d
All speculation, all the time!

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Adele Perry @adeleperry.bsky.social · 14d
Just thinking about next steps! And what can happen if a party elects a leader without a seat.

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Adele Perry @adeleperry.bsky.social · 14d
No looking at Van East or Winnipeg Centre for a seat, ahem.

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Adele Perry @adeleperry.bsky.social · 14d
If whoever is elected NDP leader squeezes out one of the talented, principled & hardworking Indigenous and racialized women MPs who are holding the party down I WILL BE AGGRIEVED.

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Alex Neve @alexneve.bsky.social · 17d
Shout out to @chrrumanitoba.bsky.social's @adeleperry.bsky.social for this generous review of my Massey Lectures book, Universal: Renewing Human Rights in a Fractured World, in @winnipegfreepress.com.

And she is spot on. I am indeed "10-toes down for human rights"; as we all must be.
Renewal of widespread human-rights commitment key
www.winnipegfreepress.com

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Adele Perry @adeleperry.bsky.social · 18d
Yes. And the presence of treaties doesn’t render the politics of land uncontested. Because colonialism…

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University of Manitoba Press @umanitobapress.bsky.social · 20d
LIVING LANGUAGE RIGHTS by Lorena Sekwan Fontaine is officially here! Pick up a copy of this groundbreaking read at the book launch next Wednesday, November 12, 7pm, at @mcnallyrobinson.com!

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staring blankly into the abyss @ianmosby.bsky.social · 21d
The purpose of austerity budgets is always to transfer public wealth into private hands. And in a country like Canada that always means a transfer to the same handful of domestic oligarchs and resource extraction multinationals.

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Robert Jago @rjjago.bsky.social · 21d
With the Major Projects Office wiping out environmental protections, with a spending freeze, correct me if I'm wrong, but this is what kicked off Idle-No-More, no? This isn't Trudeau light, it's Harper plus.

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Robert Jago @rjjago.bsky.social · 21d
Look at this, every year infrastructure spending for non-Native communities goes up, and at the same time spending for First Nations infrastructure goes down.