Patricia Johnson-Castle

@margaret.bsky.social hey Margaret, absolutely adore the podcast. wanted to recommend a cool person who did cool stuff: Arthur Manuel, he was a Secwépemc leader who was responsible for a lot of dope political organizing among Indigenous ppl in Canada

slide reading: Co-op & like-minded friends Working together over 40 yrs have built a system: -91,000 co-op members + 50,000 shoppers -17 retail stores w/ total sales of $179 million -local retail sales $54M -Farm gate income est $31 million -300~350 producers or producer companies -individual producer farm gate income ranging from $5,000 to $70,000

the Twin Cities Metro area is 3.4 million ppl and co-ops in the cities account for almost 180 MILLION in sales... admittedly there is a lot of muesli #cdnpoli

Why yes, the answer is co-ops! They’re not just for hippies selling muesli anymore…

Netflix just gave Gavin Newsom 2 million for the redistricting fight and made a deal with Sesame Street. New episodes will air there and the backlog of old episodes will Be free to watch.

Netflix picked a side. I will keep my subscription.

walked into #MSP airport and a man in his 60s- expensive looking jeans, polo shirt wearing- said "nice tits". I've been sexually harassed since I hit puberty. it's really something it'd be great to leave in the dustbin of history.

Why decades of government neglect of Nain Airport is about more than transportation – The Independent Government underfunding and broken promises about the services Inuit would have after being relocated from Hebron to Nain are part of the airport’s legacy

did you know there's no lights on the Nain runway? the largest Inuit community in NL can't medivac ppl at night. why? turns out the answer was racism all along #NLPoli
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turns out mining is bad, find out exactly why!

Stop using the term “illegal immigrant” and “illegal immigration”: It’s inaccurate, misleading and harmful. Good slide from UN Refugee Agency

For Carney, It’s Elbows Down | The Tyee Elected on a promise to fight for Canada, our new prime minister has drawn closer to the US.

It’s increasingly clear that Mark Carney misled Canadians about how he was going to approach the United States and wants to govern as a CEO instead of as a prime minister accountable to parliament in a democratic country.

the G7 taught me everyone is afraid to say Kananaskis even though it is literally phonetic: Ka-na-nas-kis.
I guess anglophones have been so gaslit by the nonsense of English ("though" sounds different than "thou" bc of a GH) they think there must be a trap. heaven forbid it's what it looks like.

imminently

@willsloanesq.bsky.social long time Michael & Us listener, first time trying to reach y'all. I'm *sure* someone has told you but just in case: there is a new Netflix Rob Ford documentary. please please please new episode.

look some of us are still out here moving for the 40th time ok

we are always looking for more Inuit/Iñupiat/Alaska Native buddies in the Twin Cities!! show yourself 🤣

As you know I am one of the more prominent visibility trans women in law and policy here in MN

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My cousin Jess said they had something like this when she was a kid but I think the town was smaller than two so I don't know if it didn't work before because it wasn't big enough yet but this sounds great!!

well beautiful in any case thanks for sharing!

nakummek! thank you

definitely not a coincidence that all the territories are mostly native

YouTube video by APTN News Slur in popular music not sitting well with Inuk who says words matter | APTN News

It's a slur for Inuit people in northern Canada, Alaska and Greenland, largely considered offensive in northern parts of the world.

The word has been used a few times recently in popular music, but it isn't sitting well with an Inuk who says words matter.

Inuit women suing North West Company over federal subsidy Three Inuit women are suing the North West Company over a subsidy it receives from a program called Nutrition North Canada.

Three Inuit women are suing the North West Company, alleging that the company isn’t passing along federal subsidies to make food and other products in the North more affordable.

close up of a man's face. he's wearing white goggles that are fairly narrow, tall enough to cover his eyes but not his eyebrows. They have a thin, lengthwise slit in the center.

close up of a man's face. he is also wearing white goggles that are fairly narrow, tall enough to cover his eyes but not his eyebrows. They have a thin, lengthwise slit in the center. The goggles are made from caribou antler and the band holding them to the man's face is made of caribou sinew. The photo is from Winnipeg, Canada.

As snow pours down in pittsburgh, I'm thinking again about the cool as hell and futuristic looking snow goggles made by the Inupiat and Yupik people of the arctic region. They cut down on reflected light AND improve your distance vision en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_go...

who's the artist?

do you have any videos of making these? my dad is an Inuk former physics teacher at a community college and he would LOVE to learn

Needs to be said, as it's totally absent from the news. Greenland is Kalaallit Inuit land.