Arn Keeling
@arnkeeling.bsky.social
He/him. Settler. Geographer at Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador. Historical+social aspects of mining in Northern 🇨🇦. Co-author, The Price of Gold: Mining, Pollution, and Resistance in Yellowknife https://www.mqup.ca/Books/T/The-Price-of-Gold
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Arn Keeling
@arnkeeling.bsky.social
· Jul 22
Yellowknife’s Giant Mine: Canada downplayed arsenic exposure as an Indigenous community was poisoned
Colonialism, corporate greed and lax regulation led to widespread pollution, particularly affecting Yellowknives Dene communities.
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Want a preview of our book, The Price of Gold, with @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social ? Check out our article in @theconversation.com today:
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Seeing West Ham drop points, with relief. Is this what we’ve become?
February 10, 2026 at 11:29 PM
Seeing West Ham drop points, with relief. Is this what we’ve become?
They’re a shadow of a football team. What’s scary is a new coach will not change this. Could Spurs be relegated and playing EFL in their billion pound stadium?
February 10, 2026 at 9:21 PM
They’re a shadow of a football team. What’s scary is a new coach will not change this. Could Spurs be relegated and playing EFL in their billion pound stadium?
Prompt engineers are engineers in the same sense sky pilots are aviators.
February 10, 2026 at 8:42 PM
Prompt engineers are engineers in the same sense sky pilots are aviators.
And closing out today’s trifecta of Northern resource stories: more trouble in the NWT diamond sector. I fear for the territory’s economy in the coming years.
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N.W.T. gov't raises concern after Gahcho Kué expansion pause | CBC News
Citing a diamond market slump, a joint-venture partner in the N.W.T.'s Gahcho Kué diamond mine has announced it will scale back development at the mine. Mountain Province Diamonds and De Beers have pa...
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February 10, 2026 at 12:02 PM
And closing out today’s trifecta of Northern resource stories: more trouble in the NWT diamond sector. I fear for the territory’s economy in the coming years.
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“Taylor said the territory is giving up public resources "for less than pennies on the dollar."
February 10, 2026 at 12:00 PM
“Taylor said the territory is giving up public resources "for less than pennies on the dollar."
You mean Canada gives away its natural resources to companies almost for free? I’m shocked, shocked to learn of this…
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As gold prices soar, some Yukon miners call territory's low royalty rate 'a bit ridiculous' | CBC News
In 2025, Yukon placer miners collected more than $449 million in gold revenue, while the Yukon government collected less than 1 per cent of that — or just over $33,300 — in gold royalties.
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February 10, 2026 at 11:58 AM
You mean Canada gives away its natural resources to companies almost for free? I’m shocked, shocked to learn of this…
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The future is a remediation economy in Norman Wells, NWT.
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Residents in Norman Wells, N.W.T., making sense of what it means to lose ‘anchor’ Imperial Oil | CBC News
People in Norman Wells, N.W.T., are still making sense of what Imperial Oil's closure this summer will mean to them and their community. Local contractor and businessman David Hodgson says he plans to...
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February 10, 2026 at 11:56 AM
The future is a remediation economy in Norman Wells, NWT.
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How embarrassing to evacuate middle class Canadian tourists without a plan to support Cuba, a longtime hemispheric friend. Cuba si, Yanqui no!
WestJet to suspend 3 U.S. routes from Vancouver due to ‘notable decline’ in demand
WestJet to suspend 3 U.S. routes from Vancouver due to ‘notable decline’ in demand | Globalnews.ca
WestJet has suspended service between Vancouver and Boston, Vancouver and San Francisco and Vancouver and San Diego as travel between Canada and the U.S. remains down.
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February 9, 2026 at 11:59 PM
How embarrassing to evacuate middle class Canadian tourists without a plan to support Cuba, a longtime hemispheric friend. Cuba si, Yanqui no!
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The daft thing is that with Proportional Representation there'd be no need for this self-destructive war within Labour. It could split into its component parts - left and right - and people could vote for what they wanted. It's only First-Past-the-Post that forces these irreconcilables together.
February 9, 2026 at 8:51 AM
The daft thing is that with Proportional Representation there'd be no need for this self-destructive war within Labour. It could split into its component parts - left and right - and people could vote for what they wanted. It's only First-Past-the-Post that forces these irreconcilables together.
You mean PK Subban’s ex? 🤭
February 8, 2026 at 5:09 PM
You mean PK Subban’s ex? 🤭
“The money, the resources, can stay in the ground until we have more favorable benefits.” #mining #Yukon
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Yukon First Nations express skepticism around promised permit 'fast-tracking' | CBC News
Fast-tracking project permits came up in just about every session at Roundup, the Vancouver international mining conference, including in the latest promises from the new Yukon government. But some Yu...
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February 6, 2026 at 2:36 PM
“The money, the resources, can stay in the ground until we have more favorable benefits.” #mining #Yukon
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It’s comical to see politicians blame the end of denominational schooling for a decay in the moral fabric, when those schools and churches committed the most horrific crimes and abuses. The notion that Xians have any special claim on social morality is risible.
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Mount Pearl council takes aim at ‘decay in the moral fabric’ with new public safety plan | CBC News
The City of Mount Pearl has unveiled a public safety plan focused on youth, public spaces, mental health, communication, enforcement and transportation.
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February 5, 2026 at 2:43 PM
It’s comical to see politicians blame the end of denominational schooling for a decay in the moral fabric, when those schools and churches committed the most horrific crimes and abuses. The notion that Xians have any special claim on social morality is risible.
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It’s clear that the US is no “safe third country” and given the historic connections of Canada and Haiti and our large Haitian population, we should be prepared to accept any refugees we can from this repressive fascist regime.
In Springfield, Ohio, people are preparing in advance of a “large deportation” promised by the president. To all appearances, the city is 2 or 3 days from a federal ethnic cleansing, grounded in a hate campaign organized by the vice-president and American Nazis.
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Ethnic Cleansing in Ohio?
Nazi Lies in Vance's America
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February 3, 2026 at 11:08 PM
It’s clear that the US is no “safe third country” and given the historic connections of Canada and Haiti and our large Haitian population, we should be prepared to accept any refugees we can from this repressive fascist regime.
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"the EPA announced it would no longer calculate the economic benefits of lives saved when setting limits [on pollution]...From now on, the agency will only tally the costs to industry. The benefits to human beings? Too uncertain to count, according to the EPA."
“This isn’t just a policy change. It’s a betrayal of more than a century of hard-won victories by public health heroes who fought, often at great personal and professional sacrifice, to establish a principle that should be beyond debate: American lives have value.”
The EPA just erased a century of public health progress
Former Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Dean Michelle A. Williams on the EPA’s incorrect and morally wrong decision.
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February 2, 2026 at 12:22 PM
"the EPA announced it would no longer calculate the economic benefits of lives saved when setting limits [on pollution]...From now on, the agency will only tally the costs to industry. The benefits to human beings? Too uncertain to count, according to the EPA."
It’s helpful to see the economic and social return on investment of Memorial discussed here. Wish the article had more explicitly noted the source of these economic woes: the systematic underfunding of the university by the province over the last decade-plus. #nlpoli
February 2, 2026 at 1:07 PM
It’s helpful to see the economic and social return on investment of Memorial discussed here. Wish the article had more explicitly noted the source of these economic woes: the systematic underfunding of the university by the province over the last decade-plus. #nlpoli
A century of oil production at Norman Wells coming to an end. Now to face the reclamation of a century’s worth of pollution and impacts on Sahtu lands at the site. Fortunately, Sahtu communities have been preparing for this for a few years now.
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Imperial Oil says it will shutter Norman Wells oil operations this summer | CBC News
The closure has been in the works since 2022, but until now, there has been no solid timeline for the shutdown.
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February 2, 2026 at 12:56 PM
A century of oil production at Norman Wells coming to an end. Now to face the reclamation of a century’s worth of pollution and impacts on Sahtu lands at the site. Fortunately, Sahtu communities have been preparing for this for a few years now.
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I picture something along the lines of Logan’s Run, except rather than aging, hitting a billion makes your little light go on. Then we shoot you out of the sky with lasers in an ersatz ceremony. Everybody wins.
February 1, 2026 at 1:30 AM
I picture something along the lines of Logan’s Run, except rather than aging, hitting a billion makes your little light go on. Then we shoot you out of the sky with lasers in an ersatz ceremony. Everybody wins.
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Published in time for this year's #PDAC, a new article by Beyond Extraction members in the Journal of Environmental Media reflects on our last few years of creative, anti-extractive interventions against Toronto mining hegemony: doi.org/10.1386/jem_...
Countering and colouring against mining convention | Intellect
This commentary details the creative media interventions of the collective Beyond Extraction, working to counter the largest mining convention in the world, Prospectors and Developers Association of C...
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January 31, 2026 at 8:19 PM
Published in time for this year's #PDAC, a new article by Beyond Extraction members in the Journal of Environmental Media reflects on our last few years of creative, anti-extractive interventions against Toronto mining hegemony: doi.org/10.1386/jem_...
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AI assist doing superb historical work....
January 31, 2026 at 12:29 PM
AI assist doing superb historical work....
This is the playbook, so yeah. All done with little data to support contentions around employability, skills, or demand. It’s ideology all the way down.
January 31, 2026 at 2:24 AM
This is the playbook, so yeah. All done with little data to support contentions around employability, skills, or demand. It’s ideology all the way down.
1. Early modern philosophy
2. Revolutions in Latin America
3. The Individual and Society
4. History of Russia
5. Comparative Lit (Modernism)
2. Revolutions in Latin America
3. The Individual and Society
4. History of Russia
5. Comparative Lit (Modernism)
Never Mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college.
1. Rome and the Gracchi
2. Geology of National Parks
3. History of Baseball
4. Terrorism
5. Formal Logic
1. Rome and the Gracchi
2. Geology of National Parks
3. History of Baseball
4. Terrorism
5. Formal Logic
Never Mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college.
1.Historical Geography of the American West
2.Hydrolgy
3.Invertebrate Paleontology
4.Cartography
5.Wetlands
1.Historical Geography of the American West
2.Hydrolgy
3.Invertebrate Paleontology
4.Cartography
5.Wetlands
January 31, 2026 at 1:10 AM
1. Early modern philosophy
2. Revolutions in Latin America
3. The Individual and Society
4. History of Russia
5. Comparative Lit (Modernism)
2. Revolutions in Latin America
3. The Individual and Society
4. History of Russia
5. Comparative Lit (Modernism)
Viva 🇲🇽! Cuba si, Yanqui no!
Would love to see Canada weigh in here. Tell Dani she can have her pipeline if it runs to Havana.
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Would love to see Canada weigh in here. Tell Dani she can have her pipeline if it runs to Havana.
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Mexico president says Trump tariffs on Cuba’s oil suppliers could trigger humanitarian crisis
Island country only has oil enough to last 15-20 days, and 12-hour blackouts have become commonplace
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January 30, 2026 at 9:08 PM
Viva 🇲🇽! Cuba si, Yanqui no!
Would love to see Canada weigh in here. Tell Dani she can have her pipeline if it runs to Havana.
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
Would love to see Canada weigh in here. Tell Dani she can have her pipeline if it runs to Havana.
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...