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2025 #Liberal budget slashes key Indigenous programs: Jordan’s Principle, NIHB, Emergency Mgmt, Child & Family Services, Urban Off-Reserve Supports. Cuts risk access to essential services & stall reconciliation. #IndigenousRights #CanadaBudget

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Me to my cat: you’re so sleepy

My cat upon hearing this news: purrs in sleep

APTN National News: October 27, 2025 – Landfill search one step closer, Grandmother seeks justice YouTube video by APTN News

Tonight on APTN National News: Family of a woman killed by a serial killer in 2022 are one step closer to having daughters remains excavated from a Winnipeg landfill.

Grandmother speaks out on the ongoing search for justice for her granddaughter, Adyson King.

People eating for free is good actually. If you think people NOT going hungry is bad, I hate you.

Fraud and reconnection aren’t the same thing for FNMI people, but both are often talked about as if they were. That’s where real harm happens when #settler created #systems of exclusion get repeated in our own #communities.

#Pretendian hunting, #self-ID policies, even #Gladue debates all of this ties back to one question:
Who controls the definition of “ #Indigenous”? Us? Or the state that has spent centuries trying to erase us?

It’s the same paradox as the #IndianAct. We all know it’s #apartheid , but dismantling it outright would cause chaos because the entire system has been structured around it.

My issue with “ #Pretendian hunting” and “identity fraud” isn’t that fraud doesn’t exist, it’s that we’re letting the #state decide what #Indigeneity means.

The same rhetoric that claims to “protect #Indigenous identity” often ends up feeding #antiIndigenous policy. Be careful who benefits from that narrative.

This panic lets the state decide who’s “real” enough to be #Indigenous, while ignoring why #Gladue exists: because of #colonial harm and #overincarceration.

People keep talking about “ #Gladue fraud,” but out of thousands of cases, only a few dozen have ever been questioned. That’s not a crisis, that’s a moral panic

There’s a kind of dramatized callout culture in some of these spaces or rage baiting for likes under the banner of protecting #Indigeneity. But when the focus shifts from structural harm to social media performance, it stops being about justice and starts being about control.

Much of the discourse around #Pretendian-hunting online feels performative and it thrives on outrage and algorithmic engagement. It starts to mirror the same #colonial structures of surveillance and punishment that it claims to challenge.

Every act of #honest reckoning even saying, “I don’t know where I belong, but I want to learn #ethically” defies #colonial conditioning. It says: we choose #repair over #reputation, community over control.

Never admit fault, because fault equals weakness, and weakness threatens control.
That’s how #capitalism and #colonialism co-produce isolation pushing people to act in #selfinterest rather than #kinship.

True #collective care requires vulnerability and repair. In saying “I caused harm, and I want to help heal it.”
Denial and legal threats shut that down. They #weaponize the same tools that have long silenced #Indigenous grievance: fear, liability, and image management.

The #colonial state, when confronted with harm, doesn’t repair. It deflects, denies, or #litigates. It safeguards its image and #power.
When individuals accused of #identityfraud do the same, they reproduce that same “protect the institution (self)” mindset over community well being.

The #Pretendian crusade exists because repair never happened. No public apologies, no redistribution, no conversations just silence. In that silence, anger grew, and the state’s logic of #punishment took over our #kinship spaces.

YouTube video by APTN News AFN national chief calls for constitutional review of 1930 Natural Resource Transfer Act | APTN News

The head of the Assembly of First Nations says Canada needs to conduct a constitutional review of the 1930 Natural Resource Transfer Act.

Q: How long does it take to build a new data center? A: Approximately one closed-door city council vote.

What To Know About Data Centers https://theonion.com/what-to-know-about-data-centers/

Does anyone know which ridings Carney and Poilievre will run in if the budget doesn't pass? Asking for a friend.

Retailers don't pay their employees well? I'm shocked. Next you'll tell me restaurants aren't great to work for.

The U.S. has conducted 10 strikes on alleged drug-carrying boats, killing 43 people.

Remember: no judge or jury has found these boats were trafficking drugs. We're simply taking Trump's word for it.

He’s unilaterally acting as judge, jury, and executioner.

This is a danger to us all.

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Genetics reflects systems not origins. Healing means confronting the #colonial conditions, not just the symptoms they left behind.

#Colonialism built the conditions for trauma & those conditions that are now perpetuated through DNA, genetics, and the body itself. Our survival isn’t just biological; it’s relational, cultural, and deeply #political.

Can’t go to bed because I’m doing an experiment where I stay exhausted for my entire life

#Science is often treated as neutral, but it is practiced through a #colonial, #settler lens. Discussions of #DNA and #ancestry are important, but they are incomplete without recognizing #epigenetics and #intergenerationaltrauma

Science is not neutral, it operates through a #colonial, white settler lens. Discussions of #Indigenous identity that emphasize #ancestry or relationality often ignore how #colonialism, #capitalism, and systemic exploitation shape both science and knowledge production. Recognizing this gap is key.