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Native Calgarian 🪶🧡>🇨🇦 @nativecalgarian.bsky.social · 10h

WiyamiIpanumItha (Women Drum Singers)
The Confluence Thursday November 6, 7:15 PM Burnswest Theatre | Free Admission
Documentary Short | 24 Min Language: English Genre: Indigenous, Social Justice Post-Film discussion at 7:45 PM
Indigenous women drummers…
justicefilmfestival.ca/wiyamiipanum...

WiyamiIpanumItha (Women Drum Singers) — Calgary Justice Film Festival

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Climate Action Network Canada @canrac.bsky.social · 1d

Our network stands in solidarity with the flotilla participants bringing life-saving aid to Gaza who have been illegally abducted by Israel.

While the ceasefire deal brings hope, it does not erase the suffering Palestinians have endured, or Canada's complicity.

Our statement ⬇️

shorturl.at/UdxYL

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Yuen Pau Woo @ypwoo.bsky.social · 15h

Many thanks to @icjpalestine.com and Just Peace Advocates for their superb input on my motion on Canada's risk of complicity in Israel's genocide in Gaza. Not just Ottawa, but all Canadians should be asking about their complicity.
www.justpeaceadvocates.ca/letter-analy...

Letter analyzing Canada's "risk of complicity" in Israel's genocide - Just Peace Advocates

On August 28, 2025, we sent a detailed analysis to Senator Woo, outlining Canada's "risk of complicity"

www.justpeaceadvocates.ca

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Senator Kim Pate @kpateonthehill.bsky.social · 11h

Today, on both World Mental Health Day and World Homeless Day, we’re reminded that access to mental health care and access to safe, stable housing are deeply interconnected. 1/2

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Native Calgarian 🪶🧡>🇨🇦 @nativecalgarian.bsky.social · 11h

StopHateAB is looking for racialized Albertans 18 years of age and older who have experienced a hate crime or incident.
We want to hear from you to learn about the mental health impacts of hate in Alberta.
To learn more and or to participate in a language other than English, please contact:

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MSNBC @msnbc.com · 1d

New reporting CONFIRMS Trump accidentally posted DM to Bondi ordering prosecutions

New WSJ reporting reveals Trump accidentally posted what he thought was a private message to AG Pam Bondi, urging her to prosecute James Comey and other perceived enemies. @chrislhayes.bsky.social reports.

New reporting CONFIRMS Trump accidentally posted DM to Bondi ordering prosecutions

YouTube video by MSNBC

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Native Calgarian 🪶🧡>🇨🇦 @nativecalgarian.bsky.social · 1d

Guess what I forgot to pack. Oh well, new snow brush this year, lol!

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Native Calgarian 🪶🧡>🇨🇦 @nativecalgarian.bsky.social · 1d

Confronting residential school denialism: how the next gen are pushing truth podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/a...

Confronting residential school denialism: How a new generation is pushing back against a growing threat

Podcast Episode · APTN News InFocus · 2025-10-03 · 14m

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Native Calgarian 🪶🧡>🇨🇦 @nativecalgarian.bsky.social · 2d

The hardest part of my mom’s hip surgery is watching/witnessing/experiencing the long term effects of domestic violence physically, emotionally and mentally. And she doesn’t even know it. That’s killing me softly. There is nothing for her either.

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Native Calgarian 🪶🧡>🇨🇦 @nativecalgarian.bsky.social · 2d

I am no Jedi but I’m not blind to the Dark Side of the Force.

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Hon. Thomas A. Lukaszuk @lukaszukab.bsky.social · 2d

I was honoured to meet today with Grand Chiefs, Chiefs and Elders of the confederacy of treaties 6, 7 and 8.

First Nations are proponents of #ForeverCanadian

Thank you!

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Native Calgarian 🪶🧡>🇨🇦 @nativecalgarian.bsky.social · 3d

It’s weird being in Edmonton and hearing the same street car racing I hear in Calgary.. I think it’s hysterical neither Calgary or Edmonton police agencies have figured it out.

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Native Calgarian 🪶🧡>🇨🇦 @nativecalgarian.bsky.social · 3d

Trigger warning.. 17yr old being hit by a van in Airdrie. They are looking for the driver.

Nora Loreto @nolore.bsky.social · 3d

There are few things that make me imagine doing violence to strangers like seeing something like this.

Robson Fletcher @robsonfletcher.com · 3d

Police in Airdrie, Alberta (just north of Calgary) say this driver hit a 17-year-old girl in a marked crosswalk, got out of the vehicle, and appeared to get upset at the teenager before driving away.

They released this video and are now trying to identify the driver.

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The Breakdown AB @thebreakdownab.bsky.social · 3d

WOW!

Alberta just got another approved referendum petition!

And this one calls for the practice of funding private schools with public money to be put to an end!

During the teachers strike!

Strap in Alberta, we’re going on a ride!

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

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Native Calgarian 🪶🧡>🇨🇦 @nativecalgarian.bsky.social · 3d

🥹 that’s a lovely thing to read. ❤️

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Native Calgarian 🪶🧡>🇨🇦 @nativecalgarian.bsky.social · 3d

Good morning everyone. A Tribute Ride to Dr. Darren Markland has been set up for this Sunday. All the details can be found here: yegbike.info/events#calen...

Source: x.com/thegrillgeek...

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Native Calgarian 🪶🧡>🇨🇦 @nativecalgarian.bsky.social · 3d

So grateful when folkx listen/watch and give feedback! 🥹✊🏾

slrashka @slrashka.bsky.social · 3d

Another incredible episode

Native Calgarian 🪶🧡>🇨🇦 @nativecalgarian.bsky.social · 3d

Podcast: Indian Oil and Gas Lawsuit

Melanie breaks down the Indian Oil and Gas class action lawsuit from former Indigenous employees exposing systemic racism

If you’d like to act or donate:
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Native Calgarian 🪶🧡>🇨🇦 @nativecalgarian.bsky.social · 3d

Podcast: Indian Oil and Gas Lawsuit

Melanie breaks down the Indian Oil and Gas class action lawsuit from former Indigenous employees exposing systemic racism

If you’d like to act or donate:
linktr.ee/nativecalgar...

Patreon: www.patreon.com/login?ru=%2F...
YouTube: youtu.be/JXhFSn2TFvg?...

Podcast: Indian Oil and Gas Lawsuit

Description: Melanie breaks down the Indian Oil and Gas class action lawsuit from former Indigenous employees exposing systemic racism

If you’d like to act or donate to this podcast:
https://linktr.ee/nativecalgarian

Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/login?ru=%2Fposts%2Findian-oil-and-140572146%3Fimmediate_pledge_flow%3Dtrue%26post_tier_unavailable%3Dtrue
YouTube: https://youtu.be/JXhFSn2TFvg?si=pSL7_f1y7lz8p2GK

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Native Calgarian 🪶🧡>🇨🇦 @nativecalgarian.bsky.social · 3d

Mahsi cho Alicia Taylor!!

Elections Alberta @elections.ab.ca · 3d

NEWS RELEASE – Today, a new citizen initiative petition application was approved for “Alberta Funds Public Schools” and Notice of Initiative Petition issued.

To learn more, visit https://ow.ly/J60850X80pz.

#CitizenInitiativeAct #Alberta #ElectionsAB See less

Native Calgarian 🪶🧡>🇨🇦 @nativecalgarian.bsky.social · 3d

Mercy.. lol! I’m gonna stick with misery, lol! Gawd this colonial country. #Forced #Catholic #DeneThoughts

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Native Calgarian 🪶🧡>🇨🇦 @nativecalgarian.bsky.social · 4d

A masked ICE agent sprayed David Black, pastor of First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, directly in the face during protests outside the ICE processing facility in Broadview, Illinois.

Photo by Ashlee Rezin of the Chicago Sun-Times. Source: x.com/nancyafrench...

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Native Calgarian 🪶🧡>🇨🇦 @nativecalgarian.bsky.social · 4d

Mahsi cho Grandmother Moon for my mom’s medical team, the team helping my aunts, uncles and cousins through Auntie’s wake. My heart hurts hard. Being away from my own immediate family.. my husband, my youngling and my puppers.

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Native Calgarian 🪶🧡>🇨🇦 @nativecalgarian.bsky.social · 4d

Mahsi cho! ✊🏾

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Spinster @spinster777.bsky.social · 4d

Hey it's @nativecalgarian.bsky.social, getting right to the point: "Our children are still being watched over by police and that's not fulfilling the Calls to Action and reconciliation in any capacity."

Cops in schools is police-state policy / white supremacy culture.

#cdnpoli #defundthepolice

As more schools bring police officers back to classrooms, parents remain divided | CBC News

Less than a decade ago, many Canadian schools were dialing back programs stationing police officers in their hallways. Now, they're returning or being contemplated anew — a shift being celebrated in s...

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Native Calgarian 🪶🧡>🇨🇦 @nativecalgarian.bsky.social · 4d

All Aboriginal Persons (Indian, Inuit, or Métis) who allege that they were assaulted at any time while being held in custody or detained by RCMP Officers in the Territories (Northwest Territories, Nunavut, and the Yukon), and who were alive as of December 18, 2016.

kmlaw.ca/cases/rcmp-d...

RCMP Discrimination against Aboriginal Persons in Detention in the Territories Class Action - Koskie Minsky LLP

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