David Kahane

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…

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)"

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Canada's (Capital's) Counter-Insurgency Plan LandBack, CashBack, Databack

cuz Canadian spies and law enforcement certainly remember jeff.doctor/blog/canada-...

seems like an important question the media should ask bsky.app/profile/jeff...

The AI hype-machine: Canada’s ill-advised ‘national sprint’ on artificial intelligence Cynthia Khoo, Jeff Doctor and Hadrian Mertons-Kirkwood discuss the dangers of Canada’s accelerated approach to artificial intelligence.

I did my best to not yell about how ridiculous everything is right now and how hard it is to take anything seriously when we're all supposed to bet our future on magic beans
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Vulnerable people could 'come out worse' after stay in 72-hour detox facility, advocate says | CBC News Advocates say the Manitoba government's plan to detain people intoxicated with long-lasting drugs like methamphetamine at a Winnipeg detox facility for up to 72 hours could put marginalized people at ...

Forced abstinence it’s not the solution and will result in more deaths.
Putting somebody through forced detox who is not seeking treatment or abstinence is akin to torture.
#MBpoli
#Drugsky

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Must be controversial to want to expand democratic engagement on a public university’s grounds.

And this is why you should NOT be demanding that unions remain "neutral" on divisive or political questions. Your CAUT motion is playing into the hands of those who will silence faculty if they can, including this current excuse for a Board of Governors.

Withdraw your motion!

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DULF LEGAL AID II - The Final Push Our fundraising just hit a wall: we keep maxing out our incoming daily e-transfer limit of $50,000. But the Drug User Liberation Front (DULF) urgently needs your help to keep the fight for drug user r...

DULF winning this challenge could advance people’s liberation so quickly, all the SCS and service closures of the last years to appease police and profiteer tantrums will soon be laughed at as the final bleatings of the drug war in Canada.

But first, funding: www.zeffy.com/en-CA/donati...

"After the SJC filed a defamation suit it was revealed that the 'contractor’ was Adam Dobrer who had actually been Hillel BC’s ‘Lead Advocacy Professional’ for more than a year (July 2022 - Aug 2023). Dobrer’s LinkedIn mentions how part of his role at Hillel BC was to combat antisemitism."

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"World's first potential trillionaire has killed 600,000 people, including 400,000 children" is the only headline that anyone should ever read about Elon Musk

USDA Tells Grocery Stores They Can't Give Discounts to People Hit by Trump's Food Stamp Freeze | Common Dreams As the Trump administration illegally withholds food assistance from 42 million Americans, it's also telling stores it's against the law for them to provide discounts to those struggling after being r...

Trump admin acting like ancestor settlers, traders who refused to give hungry Dakota (denied their hunting lands) supplies in warehouses.

"Let them starve."

Starving Dakota lashed out. The greedy settler state was happy to massacre & imprison while claiming to be moral & civil.

Nothing is new.

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Health policy experts say the UCP government's ill-informed and ill-timed policies have created a "perfect storm" for a crisis during this year's inevitable flu and Covid season.

'Pure Chaos': Warnings of an Alberta Health-Care Crisis via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2025/10...

Opinion: Alberta undermining public education — and democracy Any government that undermines ... the project of improving public school education in the face of difficulty is undermining ... democracy.

“Any government that undermines or abandons the project of improving public-school education in the face of difficulty is undermining and abandoning democracy.”

- David King, former Alberta Minister of Education

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Cartmell calls for audit of Edmonton election results after wide variation in ward race’s recount The runner-up for mayor in Monday’s municipal election says he would like an audit of the results after a discrepancy was found in a recount of ballots in one ward’s race.

Just spitballing here: What if we could get machines that reliably register votes as soon as the ballots are filled out? With hard copies preserved in case of dispute?

UCP, look into it for next time?

#yegvote

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Free vaccines cheaper than consequences of low vaccination rate: Alberta Medical Association If saving money is the Alberta government’s priority, the most cost-effective route is distributing the COVID-19 vaccine widely and freely – not charging $100 for it, says the Alberta Medical Associat...

Kind of common sense, which UCP lacks.

“If five per cent of Albertans are deterred (by the $100 vaccine fee), that ends up costing all of us taxpayers a significant amount of money. By our estimates, it would exceed $65 million just on hospital costs,”

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Canadian governments should regulate AI, 85% of Canadians say: poll - National | Globalnews.ca AI is being used by more and more Canadians, but while many say they're comfortable using it, a majority say governments need to regulate it for safety.

Canadians are not divided by “AI”, as Forbes claims. Once again, the Canadian public is united, correct, and ahead of the Carney government:

According to a new poll by Leger, 85% of Canadians want government regulation for “AI”, not its rapid acceleration with weak laws that don’t get enforced.

Guest Post (Laurie Adkin, Professor Emerita): Divestment campaigns at the University of Alberta confront an increasingly privatized and securitized university “commons” Banner at the 17 October 2025 divestment rally at the University of Alberta; Photo by author The University of Alberta executive is not known for its sense of irony, so perhaps it missed entirely t…

I retired early from @ualberta.bsky.social out of disgust at how senior administrators and BoG have attacked Palestine solidarity activism and are fleeing accountability for investments in ethnic cleansing and genocide.

@laurieadkin.bsky.social gives a tiny glimpse of how rancid things are.

Well, voting took about an hour longer than normal and instead of learning the results tonight we won’t have any idea who won until late tomorrow — but at least it cost us an extra $1.3 million!

And all to combat voter fraud that categorically does not exist.

Great new system, thanks UCP. #abpoli

if you're in Alberta and you want your flu and covid shot in 2026 - yes you read that correctly - you have to preorder them right now. So here's the link. go do that. Just in case none of those people get removed from power by then.

please repost this, as the province seems bent on killing us.

🚨 This is inexplicable news to share. If in Alberta and you want flu and covid shots for NEXT year (2026-2027), you have only until December 15 of THIS year to order them.

This is not incompetence. It’s a deliberate choice to prevent as many people ..

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Edmonton Public School Board EPSB Elections Candidate Guide On October 20, vote for public education. Edmonton Public School board trustee candidate guide, based on their open advocacy potential.

If folks want to know more about Edmonton school trustee candidates, there's this from Support Our Students: www.supportourstudents.ca/edmontonvote...

Edmonton's 2025 Mayoral Election: A Guide for the Perplexed Edmonton's vote is happening as part of province-wide civic elections that are the first in decades with political parties and first since 2017 with corporate cash.

NEW: Unsure of whom to vote for in Edmonton's mayoral election next week? Here's where the six major candidates stand on housing, transit, public safety and taxes.

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Excellent new report: "Palestine at Canadian Universities: How Institutional Complicity in Colonial Genocide is Maintained."

A reminder of the enduring shame of institutions like @UAlberta, which invest in genocide and apartheid while clamping down on opposition.

www.institutionalcomplicity.ca

While the perpetrators of Gaza’s genocide pose as its saviours, survivors return home – to a wasteland | Nesrine Malik Western leaders attending the Sharm el-Sheikh summit have enabled and sponsored this slaughter. They are in no position to build a Palestinian future, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

Searing truths about Israel, the West and complicity in genocide from @nesrinemalik.bsky.social

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Cool to see that @policingblack.bsky.social will be making a quarterly newsletter for @interruptcrim.bsky.social Canada. Sign up here: form.jotform.com/252826314847...

One of the only welcome things about this current period in the U.S. is that the "this is not who WE are" stuff might finally be over.

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