Forcing the construction of the pipeline without the Nation’s free, prior & informed consent – & criminalizing land defenders who exercise their rights – is not an isolated injustice but part of Canada’s ongoing colonial violence towards Indigenous Peoples
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Former Thunder Bay police chief Sylvie Hauth charged with obstruction of justice and breach of trust.
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What an honour to share some thoughts with you Pam Palmater. You and your Warrior Life Podcast are literally changing narratives about our lives as Original People in this country. Ekosi for your bravery, constant efforts to inform, for just being amazing and for having me on.

Today's Warrior Life Podcast is with Cree journalist, filmmaker, author & leader Sheila North - Bunibonibee Cree Nation who talks to us about her political family & her new book: My Privilege, My Responsibility Great Plains Press #indigenous #firstnations #mmiwg #NativeTwitter soundcloud.com/pampalmater/sh…

So glad to see this! We have to work together to combat pretendians and fake Métis and Inuit, as well as fake groups. We didn’t work this hard to have yet another wave of colonizers steal our identities, cultures and rights! #pretendians #indigenous #culturalappropriation

Former Thunder Bay in-house counsel… current Waterloo Regional Police in-house counsel. Was it a pre-requisite that new in-house counsel be under criminal investigation like former in-house counsel was? Asking for the general public. Can things get any more screwed up? #OntarioPolicing

The OPP has laid 5 charges against Holly Walbourne. She is the former legal counsel for the Thunder Bay police service. When asked about impending charges again the former police chief Sylvie Hauth, the OPP says the investigation is ongoing.

Excellent article by Jason Batise.

“MNO’s claims are based on changing the identities of First Nations individuals in the past into “Métis” simply because they are mixed race (referred to a “half-breed” in census records).”1/ goodmenproject.com/featured-conte…

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Kim Pate Dennis King Yesterday I joined Kim Pate at a meeting with Premier Dennis King focused on the proposal for a Guaranteed Basic Income in PEI. The federal and provincial governments must work together to reduce poverty and its damaging impacts on individuals, families and communities.

B.C. Crown prosecutors have dropped manslaughter charges against two RCMP officers whose actions led to the death of Wet'suwet'en father Dale Culver. Once again the cops walk free, while Dale's children grow up without their dad. Three more facts that will blow your mind ...

“Poilievre blames Trudeau personally for every twitch, every nuisance, every ache, every bother, on every centimetre of Canada’s 9.9 million square kilometres, including all its lakes and rivers, and another 200,000 square kilometres of territorial waters offshore... With no…

The descent into residential school denialism, a short history:

'In order to steal our territories and our resources, they had to find ways to oppress us, contain us, control us, and remove us from those territories.' — @pam_palmater tells Chris Beaver

Why Indigenous Peoples Are Over-Incarcerated in Canada | NDN POV youtu.be/-ob2Od7rwd0?si…

Thanks to CBC's bctoday for having me on for an extended segment about why residential school denialism is so dangerous and what we can do to support truth and reconciliation, in light of the controversy over a denialist book being distributed in Quesnel: youtube.com/watch?time_con…

“He came to this court and he lied — a lie that is insulting to the intelligence of everybody in this room. We all know ‘Time to choke some people out’ doesn’t mean it’s time to push them back. It means time to choke people into unconsciousness.

“I even asked them if they could supervise me while I looked through my contacts on my phone so I could get a hold of someone and they refused that as well.” Mi’kmaw fishers say fisheries officers left them with no phones and no shoes in the middle of the night. APTN News

.Canadian Dimension has republished our analysis of the provincial budget's huge funding increases to policing!

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The notorious, and secretive, CIRG RCMP unit has rebranded as the 'Critical Response Unit' and expanded its reach. From Indigenous land defenders to Palestine solidarity.

Still a military force of repression & pacification.

#AbolishCIRG
#AbolishTheRCMP

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Working with Olivia Stefanovich, we found that NWAC laid off 78 of its employees while it looks to develop a boutique hotel.

Pam Palmater told us plans like this make her concerned that the non-profit is straying from its mandate of advocating for Indigenous women and girls.