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Here's a list of #MentalHealth 📞resources in 🇨🇦 #Canada

Suicide Crisis Helpline 9-8-8

Crisis Services 🇨🇦 #Canada 1-833-456-4566

Kids Help Phone 1-800-668-6868

First Nations - Hope for Wellness 1‑855‑242-3310

National IRS 1-866-925-4419

LGBTQ National Hotline 1-888-843-4564

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I Exposed, Infiltrated, and Shut Down a Racist Network Dressed as a Pink Power Ranger YouTube video by Martha Root

Martha Root, the German hacker responsible for the leak, said in a video that WhiteDate is “extremist propaganda embedded within a dating app. What appears to be a niche alternative to Tinder is actually a global far-right ecosystem with thousands of users.”

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People lose their rental homes with a lot less notice and a lot less consideration all the time. But they aren't able to tap into racial animus based on people not understanding concepts like how reserve land works and how it is different than unceded territory, so here we are

Reverend Jesse Jackson called on each of us to be heralds of change, to be messengers of hope; to step forward and say “Send me” wherever we have a chance to make an impact.

How fortunate we were that Jesse Jackson answered that call. What a great debt we owe to him.

Vast scale of overseas human remains held in UK museums decried by MPs and experts Exclusive: Guardian study finds UK museums hold more than 260,000 items of remains, often in sacrilegious ways

'Lord Paul Boateng said the findings exposed UK museums and universities as “imperial charnel houses where the bones of Indigenous peoples torn from Britain’s empire in the past, with little or no regard...continue to be retained to this day in circumstances that beggar belief”.'

Why Was a Former School Trustee Fined $750,000? | The Tyee A Tyee explainer on the BC Human Rights Tribunal hate speech decision regarding Barry Neufeld.

This case has entered the right-wing political spin cycle. So
@kehyslop.bsky.social took a look at the decision and how Neufeld's actions affected LGBTQ2S+ teachers in the Chilliwack School District.

Their explainer here: thetyee.ca/News/2026/03...

Kent Monkman, Study for Catch Scratch Fever, 2024

You can check out a nice portrait about this important Canadian artist who explores themes of colonization, sexuality, and Indigenous resilience, by clicking this link now >>> shungagallery.com/kent-monkman...

Our campaign has already made history.

Because of your incredible support, I am the first Indigenous person ever on a Canadian federal leadership ballot.

I'm so grateful that this historic first gets to live with the NDP 🧡

#ndp #cdnpoli #votetanille #indigenouswomen

Federal agreement recognizes Musqueam's Aboriginal title in Metro Vancouver | Urbanized Government of Canada has made new agreements with the Musqueam Indian Band to establish their Aborginal rights, including Aboriginal title.

"Sparrow says under his leadership, the Musqueam are taking a different approach outside of the courts ... He added that Musqueam is not pursuing private property through these agreements."

dailyhive.com/vancouver/mu...

I'm Haida with mixed 'White' ancestry and some Tsimshian ancestry - I get regularly mistaken for: Japanese, Chinese, Polynesian, Fillipino, 'Asian'...

"We will not sit back and watch as this government lays out the welcome mat for making Alberta the 51st State in breach of our Treaties."

Mikisew Cree First Nation has filed a lawsuit for Danielle Smith’s flagrant disregard for Treaties.

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

"Time & again, the UCP has demonstrated a lack of understanding, respect, & good faith in its dealings with First Nations"

The Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation has released a statement backing the unanimous Non-Confidence Motion by the Assembly of Treaty Chiefs.

#abpoli #ableg

Happenings for Mar-April at Haida Gwaii Museum & Haida Heritage Centre!

Oil spill in First Nation’s traditional territory, company responsible downplays event | APTN News YouTube video by APTN News

On the second of January, 18 hundred litres of oil spilled into the ocean near Snuneymuxw First Nation in British Columbia and the local company, Environmental 360 Solutions, has been downplaying the severity of the spill.

Indigenous communities oppose Papua forest rezoning for palm oil JAKARTA — Indigenous communities in Indonesia’s easternmost region of Papua accuse the government of underhanded zoning changes to expand the so-called food estate program there to include…

Indigenous communities in Indonesian Papua are challenging forestry decrees that reclassified more than 1 million acres as nonforest land for oil palm under the food estate program.

They say the move lacked consent and may sue if ignored, warning forests and livelihoods are at risk.

Art Vibrancy Index - Business / Arts Arts Vibrancy Index Measuring how the arts drive vibrancy and economic growth across Canada   The Arts Vibrancy Index is Canada’s first measure to track vibrant Canadian arts communities and their imp...

Art Vibrancy Index - Canada www.businessandarts.org/blog/art-vib...

Shocking that people making movies on how rape survivors are lying about the torture that Indigenous children endured and are demanding to see their skeletons turn out to be nazis

will we?

Xhuwaji – Haida Grizzly Bear
Bill Reid
1990

Salutivagit! After battling cancer, 17-year-old Inuk from Hopedale wins Inuttut language award | CBC News After surviving cancer, Matthew Jararuse has another big goal in mind. The Inuk youth hopes to become an Inuttut-speaking doctor practicing in Inuit communities — and he was just recognized by the Nun...

Salutivagit! After battling cancer, 17-year-old Inuk from Hopedale wins Inuttut language award.

'I just really want to be able to speak it,' says Matthew Jararuse #indigenous #inuttutlanguate #hopedale #Nunatsiavut

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Ford 'doesn't know what he's talking about' when it comes to basket weaving, Indigenous artist says | CBC News A third-generation Indigenous basket maker is setting the record straight about his craft — it's a part of his culture, it's valuable, and artists can make a living off of it.

#Ford is an 🫏 (starts w ‘a’)! This #Indigenous artist’s baskets are beautiful. Speciality ones, like 🍓 & 🌷, are stunning! We need MORE students to enrol in the arts. #Art feeds our souls. Can’t all be accountants & engineers. How boring that would be! #ONpoli #education

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Former B.C. school trustee ordered to pay $750K for hate speech, discrimination: human rights tribunal | CBC News The B.C. Human Rights Tribunal has ordered former Chilliwack school trustee Barry Neufeld to pay $750,000 for violating the Human Rights Code by publishing hate speech and discriminatory content again...

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Exhibition explores ‘total visual languages’ binding Salish peoples together New feature, ‘Every River Has a Mouth,’ highlights interconnectivity between Coast and Interior Salish artists at the Bill Reid Gallery

indiginews.com/arts/every-r...

Cree journalist Nelson Bird says more Indigenous people should consider a career in journalism Longtime Cree journalist Nelson Bird speaks with Face to Face about the need for more Indigenous people to get into the business.

Nelson Bird started his career in news in 1998 as a video journalist, producer & host of Indigenous Circle before becoming the assignment editor at CTV News Regina.

On tonight's episode of Face to Face he talks about his experience with the industry.

231 Calls for Justice from the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls

Police 9.3

The full report and resources can be found here:
www.mmiwg-ffada.ca

#MMIWG2S #MMIP #231CallsforJustice #Indigenous

Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.