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Last interesting fact: I did not know that, during the Blue Quills Occupation, César Chávez, leader of the California farm workers union, apparently sent a crate of grapes in a gesture of solidarity 🍇

Truth before reconciliation: 8 ways to identify and confront Residential School denialism Residential school denialism is the rejection or misrepresentation of basic facts about residential schools to undermine truth and reconciliation efforts.

He knew; he's just trying to re-write the story as those who engage with denialism do - and he should be challenged just as any politician, regardless of party affiliation, should: theconversation.com/truth-before...

In 1970, during the Blue Quills Occupation in Alberta, Harold Cardinal flew to Ottawa to help negotiate, with Chrétien, the hand over of the school to local control - based on the criticisms: www.cbc.ca/history/EPIS...

He would have read The Unjust Society, which makes the problems of the system clear.

In short: he knew. Indigenous leaders told him, over and over.

In light of Jean Chrétien's most recent denialist comments - story to come, basically he downplays the harm of the IRS system - I went down the rabbit hole researching how far Indigenous leaders lobbied him, as Minister of Indian Affairs in the 1960s and 1970s, to close the system 🧵

YouTube video by The Breach What Canadians can learn from U.S. resistance to ICE terror

Is there anything the U.S. could do to lose Canada's support on immigration?

I asked @harshawalia.bsky.social about the Canada-U.S. immigration pact, enforcement north of the border, and lessons from the resistance to ICE in Minneapolis

Our latest for @breachmedia.ca

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Accompanying the book is a six-part podcast series — Student Power: A Canadian Student Movement History Podcast. Available wherever you find podcasts!

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Awesome congrats!

Student Power This book brings the story to the present moment, using news coverage, survey data, and interviews to examine recent pro-Palestinian encampments

Thrilled to announce my new short book — Student Power:Canadian Student Movements From the Sixties to Today. Use code PALAUT for 20% discount

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Register and join us tomorrow for this webinar on how to identify and confront the rising tide of residential school denialism and antI-Indigenous hatred.

“Drawing from the American far-right playbook, denialists seek to “flood the zone” with misleading claims, half-truths, and bad-faith arguments—overwhelming public discourse to the point where confusion replaces accountability, and doubt supplants well-established evidence.“

I’ll be giving this online talk at SFU next week 👇

YouTube video by GreenpeaceCanada Truth Before Reconciliation: Addressing Residential School Denialism

Given the rising tide of residential school denialism and anti-Indigenous hate in BC recently, I sat down with Phyllis Webstad and Willie Sellars to talk about how we Can address it: m.youtube.com/watch?v=RorH...

We are honoured to have our interview with @seancarleton.bsky.social included in this article on residential school denialism he wrote for @canadiandimension.bsky.social #canPoli #bcPoli

First 2026 read. This line from Kent Monkman was the advice I needed to start the year: “Do not let chaos distract you, keep focused on the world that should be, and make it our future.”

Thank you.

"the politics of Canada’s anti-Indigenous industry" that @seancarleton.bsky.social describes in @canadiandimension.bsky.social abide in #NewWest, too. Ideology against Indigenous rights, human rights, & social justice in general percolate in here local blogs, social media, etc. Great interview.

Confronting the far-right’s war on reconciliation As anti-Indigenous politics intensify in Canada, the far-right is weaponizing residential school misinformation to undermine truth and reconciliation. As professor and author Sean Carleton explains, w...

I've got a new piece for @canadiandimension.bsky.social about residential school denialism, the Making a Killing documentary, and the politics of Canada's anti-Indigenous industry: canadiandimension.com/articles/vie...

Indian Act 150: An Introduction By Katie Carson, Sarah Kittilsen, and Sean Carleton Canada 150—the sesquicentennial celebration of the country’s confederation—was marked with pomp and circumstance, as the Federal Government encou…

Today on @activehist.bsky.social, we are launching a new year-long series - Indian Act 150 - looking at the 150th anniversary of the Indian Act. As part of the introduction to the series, I offer some reflections on the history and historiography of the Indian Act: activehistory.ca/blog/2026/01...

Good stuff. Congrats!

Great new publication by @lsgibson.bsky.social and @jmiles.bsky.social about confronting residential school denialism in the history classroom!

Trump’s territorial ambition: new imperialism or a case of the emperor’s new clothes? Trump’s attack on Venezuela suggests expansionism is under way but some argue it is simply standard US foreign policy stripped of hypocrisy

Trump’s territorial ambition: new imperialism or a case of the emperor’s new clothes?

I can say, having seen most of these, that it’s a wonderful collection of films and you wouldn’t have regrets if you systematically worked your way through the list. A great starter pack for Canadian film.

Opinion: Video record of ICE killing Minnesota mom lays bare Trump’s disgraceful lies There were stuffed animals spilling from the glove box of her SUV, because she was a mother. A mother of three children, including a six-year-old who was thankfully in school that day, and not in the ...

NYTimes: "local and federal officials were immediately divided on how the shooting unfolded.”

@doubleemmartin.bsky.social "Yes, they are divided by the fact that federal officials are lying."

www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews...

Find the Flats: Or, the Cautionary Tale of Saint John West Industrial cities built artificial shorelines over tidal flats, creating hidden vulnerabilities now re-exposed as climate change raises seas and storms.

Today we have "Find the Flats: Or, the Cautionary Tale of Saint John West" by @clairecampbell.bsky.social

This is the first post in our Urban and Environmental Dialogues series, published in collaboration with @urbanhistorya.bsky.social

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#envhist #urbanhistory

Violating international law to get rid of dictators is alluring but wrong – and dangerous Scenes in Caracas following American strikes in the Venezuelan capital There is an alluring idea that anything – including illegal action – should be taken to protect people from dictators. It is t…

Whether or not states like Canada lack the spine, let alone elbows, to say so, American actions in Venezuela are an unambiguous violation of the UN Charter’s prohibitions on the unilateral use of force. justiceinconflict.org/2026/01/03/v... #Venezuela

The US Is a Weakened and Dangerous Empire The kidnapping of Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro is a crude act of Trumpian aggression. Yet it also illustrates the US leadership’s weakness, as it moves to lock down control of the Western Hemis...

"The US is a Weakened and Dangerous Empire," by Nathan Akehurst in @jacobinmag.bsky.social

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A photo of The White Possessive, taken in Glasgow.

"The possessive logic of patriarchal white sovereignty is compelled to deny and refuse what it cannot own - the sovereignty of the Indigenous other" (179).

If you’re looking for an accessible and engaging history of American imperialism right now, I can’t recommend A People’s History of American Empire: A Graphic Adaptation more. Check it out.