For those who say “Illegal is illegal.”

On this Juneteenth, remember: slavery was once legal. Harboring a fugitive enslaved person? Illegal. Black freedom? Illegal. “Illegal is illegal” has always been used to defend injustice.

Legality ≠ morality. Justice calls us higher.

I won't wave your national flag, but I will stand with you Written in Ottawa, Ontario and Santa Cruz, California

"There is alway a price to be paid for consolidating one’s desire to caretake relations with allegiance to a nation-state flag. ... I want to account for what is actually happening on the ground, to focus on the lands and the humans beneath those flags flapping in the wind."@kimtallbear.bsky.social

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Indigenous Studies Response to York’s Suspension of their Program Dear Dean McMurtry, Provost Peters, and President Lenton, As two Indigenous studies administrators (Dr. Chris Andersen is the Dean of the Faculty of Native Studies at the University of Alberta and Dr....

Supportive academics & community members! Please sign this Google Docs letter b4 March 10.

Written by Chris Andersen, Dean Faculty of Native Studies UAlberta & Rob Innes, Chair, Indigenous Studies, McMaster U. in support of #Indigenous Studies at #York U, which administrators propose cutting.

So much ahistorical liberal implicit racism on here. Think before posting. Does your statement of supposed lost US goodness (e.g. "founding fathers" romanticism) forget about the violence & disrespect the US has long done to non Europeans/non-whites, their/our peoples, leaders, lands, governance?

What Canadian nationalism? We long ago sold off Canadian cultural production, leaving nationalism nothing from which to draw on.

Someday, I'll turn this into a book.

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Judge finds RCMP violated Charter rights of Wet’suwet’en land defenders: entering & raiding without warrants and using extreme racism against Indigenous women.

"I view the conduct as extremely serious involving racism directed towards Indigenous women"

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Who could’ve predicted this

Hey all, we've gotten a *lot* of tips since this post. Keep 'em coming.

The deep-dive investigations we tend to do will often take longer to source, report, corroborate, fact-check and publish, but our reporters are hard at work following up on leads you’ve sent.

Thanks for your trust in us.

Canada announces new immigration stream specific to health workers Communities across Canada need health workers. The health field is one of several key sectors of Canada’s labour force which is facing unprecedented shortages. To help respond to this challenge, last ...

American health workers looking to relocate? Doorway to practice medicine in Canada 🇨🇦
We have job openings nationwide. www.canada.ca/en/immigrati...

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Dakota Post from the Left Coast - January 26, 2025 Viewing falling US Empire from Santa Cruz, California while reading erudite old white guys who study geopolitics

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