GregT the Metis
@gregtthemetis.bsky.social
Michif niiya - I am Métis. From the banks of the Red River. Trade Unionist. (he/him)
Seeing those folks showing up to support Survivors at UVic today was some good medicine
December 3, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Seeing those folks showing up to support Survivors at UVic today was some good medicine
Remember that 22minutes gag about Canada's nICE agents?!? Complete bullshit.
"RCMP showed up to raid the Vancouver Island protest camp last week."
"They said to me, very clear, 'If you interfere with our line at all, we will shoot you.' And I said 'shoot me with what?' And they said 'real bullets.'"
#BritishColumbia #Canada #Policing #Protest #Forests #Climate
"They said to me, very clear, 'If you interfere with our line at all, we will shoot you.' And I said 'shoot me with what?' And they said 'real bullets.'"
#BritishColumbia #Canada #Policing #Protest #Forests #Climate
Forest defenders vow to fight on after RCMP raid dismantles Vancouver Island protest camp
One activist was pulled from an 80-foot tree sit and another dug out of a cement-filled barrel — both say the fight to save the ancient forests is far from over.
ricochet.media
December 2, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Remember that 22minutes gag about Canada's nICE agents?!? Complete bullshit.
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"I never thought leopards would eat MY face," sobs woman who trained leopards to eat faces
Danielle Smith gets booed at UCP convention after mentioning working with Canada
November 28, 2025 at 10:52 PM
"I never thought leopards would eat MY face," sobs woman who trained leopards to eat faces
Not to nitpick, but war crimes are only during times of declared war. Otherwise it’s just sparkling mass murder.
Ordering no quarter, as Hegseth effectively did, isn't a newfangled modern war crime. It was understood as a crime as far back as the Revolutionary War. Washington threatened to do reprisals over it. The bad guy in 'The Patriot' is (very loosely) based off a British officer who was notorious for it.
November 28, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Not to nitpick, but war crimes are only during times of declared war. Otherwise it’s just sparkling mass murder.
Nothing but utter contempt for First Nations.
David Cochrane asks about the fact that it would’ve been impossible for the coastal First Nations to travel from their communities to meet the feds on the timeline the govt offered.
“It’s called Zoom,” Natural Resources Minister Tim Hodgson responds.
Jesus CHRIST.
(Video: Scott Robertson/Twitter)
“It’s called Zoom,” Natural Resources Minister Tim Hodgson responds.
Jesus CHRIST.
(Video: Scott Robertson/Twitter)
November 28, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Nothing but utter contempt for First Nations.
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Yesterday I was up on that pipeline route and a First Nation land guardian was explaining to me the riskiness of shipping oil on those waterways and I kept thinking: how f-ing broke is Canada that it’s thinking of doing this? This is ‘selling your kidney’ level of desperation.
Lets face it, this is a good day for oil companies, businesses, and those in the oil sector. Its a bad day for the environment and for reconciliation with Indigenous nations whose lands this thing will go over. As Blanchet stated, this is the official end of Canada's climate commitments.
Ottawa-Alberta agreement clears federal hurdles for west coast pipeline, suspends clean energy regulations
Federal government won’t implement its oil and gas emissions cap, and both sides will consult with B.C. on project, MOU says
www.theglobeandmail.com
November 28, 2025 at 1:31 AM
Yesterday I was up on that pipeline route and a First Nation land guardian was explaining to me the riskiness of shipping oil on those waterways and I kept thinking: how f-ing broke is Canada that it’s thinking of doing this? This is ‘selling your kidney’ level of desperation.
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Whether you admit it or not, Carney is low-key DOGE-ing us.
Eventually that key will ring out and it’ll be as dissonant as it is deafening.
Canada was had by a banker.
Eventually that key will ring out and it’ll be as dissonant as it is deafening.
Canada was had by a banker.
November 27, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Whether you admit it or not, Carney is low-key DOGE-ing us.
Eventually that key will ring out and it’ll be as dissonant as it is deafening.
Canada was had by a banker.
Eventually that key will ring out and it’ll be as dissonant as it is deafening.
Canada was had by a banker.
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Notable that Carney gets nothing in return: this will hurt the liberals in BC, they won't make any gains in Alberta, Smith won't stop and of her bullshit, and it will likely tear apart the Liberal caucus.
The only reasonable conclusion is that Carney is a climate change denialist and a fool.
The only reasonable conclusion is that Carney is a climate change denialist and a fool.
The federal-AB agreement is a love letter to fossil fuels
-cancelation of critical policies (OG emissions cap & clean electricity rules)
-public $$ for a pipeline (via Indigenous loan program)
-more $$ for CCS, incl. enhanced oil production
- only mention of electricity is for fossil fuels
-cancelation of critical policies (OG emissions cap & clean electricity rules)
-public $$ for a pipeline (via Indigenous loan program)
-more $$ for CCS, incl. enhanced oil production
- only mention of electricity is for fossil fuels
November 27, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Notable that Carney gets nothing in return: this will hurt the liberals in BC, they won't make any gains in Alberta, Smith won't stop and of her bullshit, and it will likely tear apart the Liberal caucus.
The only reasonable conclusion is that Carney is a climate change denialist and a fool.
The only reasonable conclusion is that Carney is a climate change denialist and a fool.
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The Ottawa-Alberta MOU is nothing more than a pipedream - Coastal First Nations
"We have zero interest in co-ownership or economic benefits of a project that has the potential to destroy our way of life and everything we have built on the coast," says Heiltsuk Nation elected Chief Marilyn Slett
"We have zero interest in co-ownership or economic benefits of a project that has the potential to destroy our way of life and everything we have built on the coast," says Heiltsuk Nation elected Chief Marilyn Slett
November 27, 2025 at 6:46 PM
The Ottawa-Alberta MOU is nothing more than a pipedream - Coastal First Nations
"We have zero interest in co-ownership or economic benefits of a project that has the potential to destroy our way of life and everything we have built on the coast," says Heiltsuk Nation elected Chief Marilyn Slett
"We have zero interest in co-ownership or economic benefits of a project that has the potential to destroy our way of life and everything we have built on the coast," says Heiltsuk Nation elected Chief Marilyn Slett
No way!!! #FreeNewWest
Metro Vancouver - "Do you think amalgamating all of metro Vancouver into one municipality is a..."
Good idea: 42%
Bad idea: 42%
Research Co. / Nov 16, 2025 / n=1501 / Online
Good idea: 42%
Bad idea: 42%
Research Co. / Nov 16, 2025 / n=1501 / Online
November 27, 2025 at 6:35 PM
No way!!! #FreeNewWest
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ICE DETAINED MARILYN. Fuck these people. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
‘Northern Exposure’ actor gave ICE agents in Redmond her tribal ID. They called it ‘fake,’ she says
Indigenous actor Elaine Miles of "Northern Exposure" was detained by ICE at a Redmond bus stop. When she showed them her Tribal ID, they told her it was fake.
www.seattletimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 4:35 PM
ICE DETAINED MARILYN. Fuck these people. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
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The Pathways project is a major part of the new pipeline deal between Carney and Smith, appearing 17 times in the memo's text.
But much like the pipeline itself, First Nations in its path don't want the megaproject.
But much like the pipeline itself, First Nations in its path don't want the megaproject.
Carney-Smith deal will bring carbon capture to Cold Lake. They don't want it
Alberta First Nations are being shut out of a sprawling carbon capture and storage project on their traditional territories that is a key part of Thursday's Alberta-Ottawa pipeline deal, chiefs say.
www.nationalobserver.com
November 27, 2025 at 5:49 PM
The Pathways project is a major part of the new pipeline deal between Carney and Smith, appearing 17 times in the memo's text.
But much like the pipeline itself, First Nations in its path don't want the megaproject.
But much like the pipeline itself, First Nations in its path don't want the megaproject.
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Every journalist reporting on the Canada-Alberta MOU needs to read BC's hot-off-the-presses CleanBC report: or at the very least read this piece about it by @zoeyunker.bsky.social and @amandafollett.bsky.social
BC's climate plan reviewers issued their report card yesterday.
Their verdict: Focus less on targets and more on getting stuff done.
Also, LNG could blow everything out of the water.
My collab with @amandafollett.bsky.social for @thetyee.ca
thetyee.ca/News/2025/11...
Their verdict: Focus less on targets and more on getting stuff done.
Also, LNG could blow everything out of the water.
My collab with @amandafollett.bsky.social for @thetyee.ca
thetyee.ca/News/2025/11...
LNG Is the ‘Elephant in the Room’ at BC Climate Plan Update | The Tyee
The province’s plan to reduce emissions can be salvaged. But expansion of gas exports needs scrutiny, reviewers say.
thetyee.ca
November 27, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Every journalist reporting on the Canada-Alberta MOU needs to read BC's hot-off-the-presses CleanBC report: or at the very least read this piece about it by @zoeyunker.bsky.social and @amandafollett.bsky.social
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This deal provides a massive ego boost for Dani Smith, big bucks for tech grifters in the AI, O&G, carbon capture & nuclear industries, & absolutely nothing to deal with global heating or the climate crisis.
Beyond that, I'm speechless.
Beyond that, I'm speechless.
we need more energy tho for the "AI revolution"
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
Alberta to sign agreement with Carney government paving the way for oil pipeline through B.C. | CBC
www.cbc.ca
November 27, 2025 at 6:07 PM
This deal provides a massive ego boost for Dani Smith, big bucks for tech grifters in the AI, O&G, carbon capture & nuclear industries, & absolutely nothing to deal with global heating or the climate crisis.
Beyond that, I'm speechless.
Beyond that, I'm speechless.
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Other folks have written & spoken powerfully about Thomas King specifically.
What I query here, 9 years into the almost annual winter unveiling of a fraud in Canada, are the metaphysics of white colonial play-acting as native in the arts, literature, politics, academia.
Colonial mirror worlds.
What I query here, 9 years into the almost annual winter unveiling of a fraud in Canada, are the metaphysics of white colonial play-acting as native in the arts, literature, politics, academia.
Colonial mirror worlds.
Some quick thoughts on Thomas King's revelations, from a Red River Métis and Critical Indigenous Studies perspective.
"Hollow-gram Indigeneity and the superficiality of colonial consumption (or: the unbearable flatness of fraud)"
zoestodd.com/2025/11/26/h...
"Hollow-gram Indigeneity and the superficiality of colonial consumption (or: the unbearable flatness of fraud)"
zoestodd.com/2025/11/26/h...
Hollow-gram Indigeneity and the superficiality of colonial consumption (or: the unbearable flatness of fraud)
“Tribes are not vestiges of the past, but laboratories of the future.” — Vine DeLoria, Jr. (1965), quoted in Wilkins (2018). [alt text: image of a cream and light blue crayfish on…
zoestodd.com
November 27, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Other folks have written & spoken powerfully about Thomas King specifically.
What I query here, 9 years into the almost annual winter unveiling of a fraud in Canada, are the metaphysics of white colonial play-acting as native in the arts, literature, politics, academia.
Colonial mirror worlds.
What I query here, 9 years into the almost annual winter unveiling of a fraud in Canada, are the metaphysics of white colonial play-acting as native in the arts, literature, politics, academia.
Colonial mirror worlds.
When does this stuff start benefiting anyone but oil companies?
As a new pipeline to the coast rears its head, towns in the path of the last one — Trans Mountain — are facing a major loss of tax revenue from the pipeline.
BC towns fight pipeline tax break that would gut municipal budgets
After years of lobbying the provincial government, major pipeline companies, including Enbridge, Trans Mountain and FortisBC, convinced BC Assessment to change how it determines the value of pipelines...
www.nationalobserver.com
November 27, 2025 at 6:07 PM
When does this stuff start benefiting anyone but oil companies?
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OTTAWA – Prime Minister Mark Carney and Alberta Premier Danielle Smith have signed a memorandum of understanding that commits them to working toward building an oil pipeline to the West Coast — and opens the door to changes to the coastal tanker ban.
Carney, Smith sign pipeline deal, open door to changing B.C. tanker ban
OTTAWA – Prime Minister Mark Carney and Alberta Premier Danielle Smith have signed a memorandum of understanding that commits them to working toward building an oil pipeline to the West Coast — and opens the door to changes to the coastal tanker ban.
www.winnipegfreepress.com
November 27, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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This is craven and beyond contempt. There's no justification. Carney is using the perceived threats from the US to justify slashing commitments, checks, and balances as they pertain to environment, labour, and basically everything else.
This is a corporate power grab and an attack on everyone.
This is a corporate power grab and an attack on everyone.
Mark Carney drops Trudeau-era climate measures in energy deal with Alberta
Mark Carney drops Trudeau-era climate measures in energy deal with Alberta
rime Minister Mark Carney's Liberal government is scrapping plans for a major national climate policy and immediately suspending another in Alberta alone, as part of a wide-ranging accord that softens
www.thestar.com
November 27, 2025 at 5:28 PM
This is craven and beyond contempt. There's no justification. Carney is using the perceived threats from the US to justify slashing commitments, checks, and balances as they pertain to environment, labour, and basically everything else.
This is a corporate power grab and an attack on everyone.
This is a corporate power grab and an attack on everyone.
8% for a party whose only policy stance is a seething hatred of Indigenous people is frightening, but not at all surprising.
(Models Available To Subscribers)
British Columbia Provincial Polling:
NDP: 44% (-1)
CON: 35% (-9)
GRN: 9% (+1)
ONE: 8% (New)
CNBC: 2% (New)
Others: 3%
EKOS / Nov 25, 2025 / n=889 / MOE 3.3% / Telephone
(% Change With 2024 Election)
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British Columbia Provincial Polling:
NDP: 44% (-1)
CON: 35% (-9)
GRN: 9% (+1)
ONE: 8% (New)
CNBC: 2% (New)
Others: 3%
EKOS / Nov 25, 2025 / n=889 / MOE 3.3% / Telephone
(% Change With 2024 Election)
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November 27, 2025 at 3:53 AM
8% for a party whose only policy stance is a seething hatred of Indigenous people is frightening, but not at all surprising.
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The conservative movement is part corporate counterrevolution and part hate movement.
SCOOP: The Trump administration has instructed employees and grantees not to use U.S. funds to commemorate World AIDS Day — because the observance was started by the World Health Organization.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/h...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/h...
Trump Administration Cancels U.S. Observance of World AIDS Day
www.nytimes.com
November 26, 2025 at 7:38 PM
The conservative movement is part corporate counterrevolution and part hate movement.
In a place where Indigenous rights were really respected, this would be end of story.
But now Canada will pull out is bag of colonial tricks - manipulation, extortion, black mail, bribes, militarized RCMP, and stoke racial hatred to anyone and everyone against coastal FNs.
But now Canada will pull out is bag of colonial tricks - manipulation, extortion, black mail, bribes, militarized RCMP, and stoke racial hatred to anyone and everyone against coastal FNs.
Slett says her group has faced a "wall of silence" from the federal government on a possible pipeline deal with Alberta.
Coastal Nations in B.C. vow to fight pipeline to the coast
A dozens coastal First Nations in British Columbia are vowing to fight any development of a pipeline from Alberta to the coast.
www.aptnnews.ca
November 26, 2025 at 6:22 PM
In a place where Indigenous rights were really respected, this would be end of story.
But now Canada will pull out is bag of colonial tricks - manipulation, extortion, black mail, bribes, militarized RCMP, and stoke racial hatred to anyone and everyone against coastal FNs.
But now Canada will pull out is bag of colonial tricks - manipulation, extortion, black mail, bribes, militarized RCMP, and stoke racial hatred to anyone and everyone against coastal FNs.
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“The answer is still no. No pipelines in British Columbia, no further fossil fuel pipelines, period,” said Stewart Phillip, grand chief of Syilx Nation and president of the Union of British Columbia Indian Chiefs.
BC First Nations denounce reported Alberta-Ottawa agreement
Ahead of Thursday's expected announcement, Indigenous leaders in the province are accusing the federal government of making a "back room deal" to force through a pipeline to the province's northwest c...
www.nationalobserver.com
November 26, 2025 at 5:47 PM
“The answer is still no. No pipelines in British Columbia, no further fossil fuel pipelines, period,” said Stewart Phillip, grand chief of Syilx Nation and president of the Union of British Columbia Indian Chiefs.
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B.C. Coastal First Nations vow oil pipeline to coast 'will never happen' nationalnewswatch.com/2025/11/26/b...
B.C. Coastal First Nations vow oil pipeline to coast 'will never…
National Newswatch: Canada's most comprehensive site for political news and views.
nationalnewswatch.com
November 26, 2025 at 4:56 PM
B.C. Coastal First Nations vow oil pipeline to coast 'will never happen' nationalnewswatch.com/2025/11/26/b...
🧵 nails it
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.
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.
November 25, 2025 at 8:21 PM
🧵 nails it