Dane Carnegie Malenfant

YouTube video by APTN News Court rules Alberta’s referendum to separate unconstitutional and violates treaty rights | APTN News

A Court of King’s Bench justice ruled that a referendum by Alberta to separate from Canada is unconstitutional and violates treaty rights.

Several First Nations and First Nation groups are opposed to the idea of separation.

YouTube video by APTN News Dismantling Denialism | APTN Investigates

In Canada, the histories of residential school survivors are being challenged by a surge of denialism.

Dismantling Denialism confronts those attempts to rewrite history and explores what it will take to defend truth and reconciliation.

Watch here: youtu.be/y-Pv8-99Sp4

YouTube video by APTN News Abenaki council launches advertising campaign on television in the U.S. state of Vermont | APTN News

The Abenaki council of Odanak and Wôlinak in Quebec launches an advertising campaign in the state of Vermont in the United States to raise awareness about the misrepresentation of Abenaki identity in their state.

YouTube video by APTN News Metis Nation-Saskatchewan signs two agreements with uranium mining company | APTN News

Two agreements with the uranium mining company Denison Mines has been signed with Metis Nation-Saskatchewan.

The agreements ensure Metis voices are included in mining decisions in northern Saskatchewan.

Sanity checks in general are a form of mental health

Thomas King: As we learn another ‘hero’ is non-Indigenous, let’s not ignore a broader cultural problem Indigenous people are more than stories. We deserve a future where our identities are not commodities, and accountability is measured by actions that build trust and repair harm.

McGill’s Celeste Pedri-Spade: “[‘Pretendians’] become a kind of counterfeit currency, granting Canadians easy access to digestible versions of Indigenous identity and experience. But they are not ours, they are not us and they are not our stories” theconversation.com/thomas-king-...

Arched concrete bridge over a prairie river with city skyline beyond.

#GoodMorningFromSaskatoon Winter Wonderland Edition. First appearance of ice in the river this season

A turn-of-century watercolor portrait by British artist Nora Foote of a Blackfeet man named Joe Healy. She has inscribed it 'the most educated man on the Reserve.'

Watercolor portrait of Joe Healy, "the most educated Indian on the reserve," was painted by Nora Foote, a British artist who visited what is now Saskatchewan and Alberta in 1895. As a boy, Healy was a witness to the Marias Massacre in Montana,

MMF exonerated by Ontario Superior court in MNC lawsuit The Manitoba Métis Federation, MMF, has been cleared in lawsuit launched against it by the Métis National Council.

An Ontario Superior Court judge has dismissed a lawsuit that accuses the current president of the Manitoba Métis Federation and a former president of the Métis National Council (MNC) of misappropriating millions of dollars of the MNC’s funds.

Wait until you find out about some of the "Indigenous" authors you replace Thomas King with.

It just doesn't end.

One more thing. For YEARS I (and others) thought King was Blackfoot because of Green Grass, Running Water and his other writings around that time. And he was so heavily embedded in Treaty 7 at that time. I don't know if I missed it or he wasn't saying at the time that he claimed Cherokee.

The real problem with pretendians is the way discussions around them are driven by mainstream colonial narratives about Indigeneity. Non-indigenous folks believe themselves experts on Indigenous identity and end up muddying the waters even more.

Seeing this discussed by non-Indigenous folks is...

Inconvenient Indian author Thomas King says he is not part Cherokee Writer ‘still in shock’ after a whistle-blowing organization showed him genealogical evidence that he wasn’t part Indigenous as he originally assumed

(everyone has known for years — years!! — that Thomas King is not Cherokee) www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/book...

Ratoshi on Instagram: "This ain’t a trend, it’s a lifestyle #ratoshi #ratdance #dance #viral #reels" 63K likes, 432 comments - ratoshidance on October 14, 2025: "This ain’t a trend, it’s a lifestyle #ratoshi #ratdance #dance #viral #reels".

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Prime Minister Mark Carney joins Manitoba leaders in tribute to Louis Riel.

What made this year’s event historic? Find out tonight on APTN National News.

Watch live: www.youtube.com/aptnnews

Today was really foggy, and with the temperature just below freezing, we get rime ice. It’s a mood 😊🌿

Regina vigil walk marks 140th anniversary of execution of Louis Riel | CBC News Members of the Regina community gathered for a vigil walk to honour the 140th anniversary of the first Metis Nation Leader, Louis Riel. This is the 16th annual walk held by Métis Nation Saskatchewan's...

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A bright red curtain of light surrounded by green glow rains down from the sky behind the silhouettes of spruce trees

A bright red curtain of light surrounded by green glow rains down from the sky behind the silhouettes of spruce trees

A bright red curtain of light surrounded by green glow rains down from the sky behind the silhouettes of spruce trees. The light is reflected in the thin layer of ice covering the pond in the foreground.

So this happened an hour ago. I don’t think I’ve seen red this deep in a long time. You could see it quite clearly with the naked eye. #aurora

Super interesting. For training small LLMs, they get results comparable to those trained on an order of magnitude more tokens by replacing normal pre-training (which ingests huge amounts of human-written text) with exclusively synthetic text derived in a structured way from Wikipedia.

I love machine learning

A reflection on First Nations contributions to WW I and WW II | CBC News Our soldiers fought for the shared values of freedom and democratic rights for all, but these soldiers returned from the war and quickly realized those freedoms and rights did not equally apply to the...

“Our soldiers fought for the shared values of freedom and democratic rights for all. However, these soldiers returned from the war and quickly realized those freedoms and rights did not equally apply to them as they did their non-native comrades.”

#IndigenousVeteransDay

Lest We Forget

Discover the inspiring journey of Maude Lizaire, the first Afro-descendant woman to earn a PhD at Mila, and a strong advocate for more inclusive science. mila.quebec/en/news/maud...

Mathematical exploration and discovery at scale AlphaEvolve is a generic evolutionary coding agent that combines the generative capabilities of LLMs with automated evaluation in an iterative evolutionary framework that proposes, tests, and refines ...

A new paper with Bogdan Georgiev, Javier Gomez-Serrano, and Adam Zsolt Wagner: "Mathematical exploration and discovery at scale" arxiv.org/abs/2511.02864. Further discussion is at terrytao.wordpress.com/2025/11/05/m...

“Edge of chaos” dynamics are long recognized as a computationally potent dynamical regime that avoids vanishing gradients during learning and allows greater memory and expressivity of a system. This stark difference surprised us, and we think it can help explain our results on neural adaptation.

Indeed, Lyapunov exponents show that fixed points for RL models largely stay near 0, showing these networks’ dynamics lie at the edge of chaos. Whereas SL models’ dynamics are contractive and orderly, keeping very little information in memory for long and having stereotyped expressivity.

YouTube video by APTN News MN-S demands funding support from Ottawa for culturally appropriate treatment centers | APTN News

Two Metis Nation-Saskatchewan officials were in Ottawa this week seeking funding and urgent collaborative support for culturally appropriate addictions treatment centers.

This is in response to increased addictions and gang violence seen in the area.

國科會攜手CIFAR 辦下世代前沿科學論壇 國科會與加拿大先進研究所(CIFAR)持續強化台加雙邊科研合作，於加拿大班夫(Banff)共同舉辦「下世代前沿科學論壇(Next Generation Frontiers Symposia)」。國科會副主委陳炳宇率台灣人工智慧相關跨域青年學者共同參與，論壇聚焦AI技術、倫理及政策，盼藉雙邊深入交流增...

3/3 Also appreciating the aura farming from seeing my photo in Taiwanese newspapers haha. Grateful to the organizers and everyone who joined the discussion! www.ctee.com.tw/news/2025102...

2/3 It was wonderful to see machine learning’s impact across so many fields. Especially work from Taiwan. Like Canada, Taiwan has Indigenous peoples; I believe cultural and traditional knowledge can strengthen ML systems and how they generalize and align to real-world contexts.

1/3 Thank you to CIFAR and partners in DSET for bringing me to Banff to speak on my research: The challenge of hidden gifts in multi-agent reinforcement learning arxiv.org/abs/2505.20579. We introduce a novel task on reciprocity with a scarce resource; take what you need, leave what you don’t.

Using an LLM to write a paper about improving LLMs' capabilities but the reference section is misplaced