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Arn Keeling

@arnkeeling.bsky.social

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He/him. Settler. Geographer at Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador. Historical+social aspects of mining in Northern 🇨🇦. Co-author, The Price of Gold: https://www.mqup.ca/price-of-gold--the-products-9780228026174.php

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Arn Keeling @arnkeeling.bsky.social · Jul 22

Want a preview of our book, The Price of Gold, with @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social ? Check out our article in @theconversation.com today:

theconversation.com/yellowknifes...

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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Arn Keeling @arnkeeling.bsky.social · 23h

Paging @mark-carney.bsky.social

Justin Mikulka @justinmikulka.bsky.social · 1d

I like that this oil industry trade publication can no longer ignore the obvious but also uses a pun.

Anyway, going to be a bad year for your oil investments.

headline: Glut punch: policy, geopolitics fuel 2026 oversupply concerns

Arn Keeling @arnkeeling.bsky.social · 3d

When they get one or two isolated like this, they should snatch em up. Teach the rest a lesson

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Arn Keeling @arnkeeling.bsky.social · 4d

Perhaps, stupid is as stupid does. But it’s not *uneducated* idiots but people in the thrall of wellness culture who selectively interpret medical science and disregard collective action behind vaccination. And that’s important to understand.

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 5d

MSF staff are universally understood to be engaged in an essentially sacred form of work. For a state to nonetheless continuously murder them is a testament to a truly unthinkable degree of depravity.

msf.org/msf-denounce...

This morning, an attack carried out by Israeli forces killed Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) staff member, Omar Hayek, and seriously injured four others. The attack took place on a street where our teams were waiting to take a bus to the MSF field hospital in Deir al Balah, Gaza.

All staff were wearing MSF vests, clearly identifying them as medical humanitarian workers.
We express deep sorrow and outrage over the killing, which occurs less than two weeks after another MSF colleague, Hussein Alnajjar, was killed by the Israeli forces, in Deir Al Balah.

Our thoughts are with Omar’s family and colleagues at this tragic time. Omar, 42 years old, is the fourteenth MSF colleague to be killed in Gaza since 7 October 2023.

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Arn Keeling @arnkeeling.bsky.social · 5d

Hey @mark-carney.bsky.social: would this be so hard to say, if nothing else to protect Canadians aboard?

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 5d

This week, the Global Sumud Flotilla tried to deliver life-saving aid to Gaza.

Instead, 461 people—including New Yorkers—have been detained by the Israeli military.

They must be freed at once. And the deliberate starvation of Palestinians must end now.

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Arn Keeling @arnkeeling.bsky.social · 5d

As a survivor of rubella exposure in utero, this is infuriating.

But also: all the people likening AB to Texas or whatever should be mindful that many antivaxxers are actually educated middle class white women, some conservative, some not, as @naomiaklein.bsky.social notes in Doppelganger

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Atlantic Canada Studies Centre (University of New Brunswick) @acsc-unb.bsky.social · 5d

If you're inFredericton on November 3, join us for a spooky public lecture by @deindustrialpol.bsky.social co-investigator Dr. Lachlan MacKinnon, CRC in Post-Industrial Communities at Cape Breton University.

"Cinematic Ruin: My Bloody Valentine and Industrial Crisis in Cape Breton, 1979-1990."

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Arn Keeling @arnkeeling.bsky.social · 6d

Cowards.

Arn Keeling @arnkeeling.bsky.social · 7d

Horray for our "mainland" Geography colleagues!

Saint Mary's Department of Geography & Environmental Studies @smugeographers.bsky.social · 14d

Celebrating 50 years...keep an eye out for various activities we have planned!

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staring blankly into the abyss @ianmosby.bsky.social · 9d

I started tracking the TRC's Calls to Action in 2016 and, since Eva Jewell and I stopped writing annual reports in 2023 out of despair, things have only become more bleak.

No meaningful structural changes have been made. They were never even attempted.

A clear-eyed take from @michellecyca.com

Justin Brake @justinbrake.bsky.social · 10d

“We have to wonder: should we just abandon ‘reconciliation’ altogether?”
thewalrus.ca/trc-introduc...

The Stark Reality Ten Years after the Truth and Reconciliation Report | The Walrus

“We have to wonder: should we just abandon ‘reconciliation’ altogether?”

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Arn Keeling @arnkeeling.bsky.social · 8d

He’s the Steinbrenner of the US government

Arn Keeling @arnkeeling.bsky.social · 9d

That diss of Chaykra tho 🤭

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Wendy Xu @wendyxu.bsky.social · 9d

"single-use plastic of the mind" had me GAGGED

But a still graver scandal of AI— like its hydra-head sibling, cryptocurrency-is the technology's colossal wastefulness. The untold billions firehosed by investors into its development; the water-guzzling data centers draining the parched exurbs of Phoenix and Dallas; the yeti-size carbon footprint of the sector as a whole—and for what? A cankerous glut of racist memes and cardboard essays.
Not only is the ratio of Al's resource rapacity to its productive utility indefensibly and irremediably skewed, Al-made material is itself a waste product: flimsy, shoddy, disposable, a single-use plastic of the mind.

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Arn Keeling @arnkeeling.bsky.social · 9d

$3.20 extra per day! Stop the feckin presses. Guess that latter will be a “grande” now! 🙄 Next stop the real estate market!

Arn Keeling @arnkeeling.bsky.social · 9d

Thanks! Glad you could join us.

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Grist @grist.org · 10d

Ice roads are a lifeline for First Nations. As Canada warms, they’re disappearing.

Indigenous peoples are navigating the slow collapse of winter roads — and an even slower pace of help.

grist.org/indigenous/i...

#Indigenous #Tribes #Canada #Climate #Trucking #Ice #Climate #Roads #Transportation

Ice roads are a lifeline for First Nations. As Canada warms, they're disappearing.

Indigenous peoples are navigating the slow collapse of winter roads — and an even slower pace of help.

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Dr Katie Twomey @k2mey.bsky.social · 9d

I feel like I’m going bananas. My university has just released a video explaining how to get the most out of Copilot and we’re apparently partnered with an external company to facilitate us using it. I just asked it about my research...

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Arn Keeling @arnkeeling.bsky.social · 9d

TODAY! In less that 2.5 hours, actually. Still time to register and tune in online to this panel discussing The Price of Gold @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social @memorialu.bsky.social

Arn Keeling @arnkeeling.bsky.social · 14d

Less than a week now until this exciting panel at The Nexus Centre @memorialu.bsky.social! Our book The Price of Gold is featured as part of the series, HSS Understanding Our Worlds. This is a hybrid event: connection details on poster. We're honoured to have such a great panel comment on our work.

Poster for event reads: HSS Understanding our worlds

Monday, September 29, 12:30-1:45 NST (11 a.m.-12:15 EST). A Roundtable on The Price of Gold: Mining, Pollution, and Resistance in Yellowknife, by John Sandlos and Arn Keeling.
Respondents: Pamela Klassen (Religion, UToronto); Katłı̨̀ą (Catherine) Lafferty (Dene writer, legal scholar, environmental advocate); Tina Loo (History, UBC); Sarah Perry (History, McMaster); Max Viatori (Anthropology, MUNL). Image shows headshots of respondents and book cover depicting a smokestack releasing emissions against a gold background.

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ben bradley @benbradleyca.bsky.social · 10d

interested in the history of mining, smelting, heavy industry, workplace health & safety, or company magazines in canada?the trail bc museum and bcrdh.ca have just digitized a complete run of "cominco magazine."
bcrdh.ca/islandora/ob...
thanks to @kellyblack.ca for the tip!
#bchist #cdnhist #envhist

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Cheryl C 🇨🇦 @carleysue.bsky.social · 10d

www.cbc.ca/news/health/...
The Public Health Agency of Canada's immunization guide says COVID vaccines have been shown to be effective at preventing severe disease, including hospitalization and death and can decrease the risk of post-COVID-19 condition, or long COVID.

COVID-19 vaccine campaigns launch across Canada for 2025-26 | CBC News

Provinces and territories are starting to roll out updated vaccines to protect people from COVID-19.

www.cbc.ca

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Calgary Climate Hub @calgaryclimatehub.ca · 10d

The Alberta government is trying as hard as it can to ensure ultra rich oil companies can skip out on their promise to clean up their own mess, leaving landowners & taxpayers to pay BILLIONS. We say NO WAY. Join us

TOWN HALL!
RSVP: www.cleanupyourmess.ca/oct2-townhall
#PolluterPay #abpoli #ableg

nline town hall titled “Who Pays for Alberta’s Oil & Gas Cleanup?” scheduled for Thursday, Oct. 2 at 7:00 pm. It invites people to hear from Alberta landowners, lawyers, and doctors opposing a government plan that shifts cleanup costs to the public. A rusty abandoned oil tank sits in a grassy field at the bottom of the image. Registration link shown: CleanUpYourMess.ca, with a QR code on the right.

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Blayne Haggart @bhaggart.bsky.social · 26d

This point hasn’t been given nearly enough attention. If you applied actually existing research principles to genAI, it would never be allowed anywhere near a university, research project or classroom.

Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 26d

Loved how I got to clarify that the 5 principles in section 4 of the paper were nothing new. They came straight out of The Netherlands Code of Conduct for Research Integrity, that every scientists in The Netherlands already ought to know. All we did is apply them to AI. www.nwo.nl/en/netherlan...

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Arn Keeling @arnkeeling.bsky.social · 11d

General strike now. If Portland simply doesn’t turn up for work Monday, this will be over in a few days.

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Jess Dunkin @jdunkin.bsky.social · 12d

This series launches next Tuesday, September 30, Orange Shirt Day and the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. Based on the positive response to the call, we've decided to have an open submission process. Please get in touch if you are interested in contributing to the series.

Jess Dunkin @jdunkin.bsky.social · Jul 22

Inspired by conversations that we had in response to our January post about Land and northern histories of residential and day schooling, Crystal Fraser and I are co-editing a @nichecanada.bsky.social series on environmental histories of residential and day school. niche-canada.org/2025/07/22/c...

Call for Submissions - Environmental Histories of Indian Residential and Day Schools

Although Land and environment are central to residential and day school histories, they remain underexamined in environmental history.

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The Tyee @thetyee.ca · 12d

After three years of drought, the City of Dawson Creek has reached a dangerous tipping point as the Kiskatinaw River, its only drinking water source, falls to levels never before seen. Ben Parfitt reports.

A Drought Emergency Looms in Dawson Creek | The Tyee

Parched, the city has proposed piping water in. And selling it to the very industry some say caused the problem.

thetyee.ca

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