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26/06/21
Author: 
Katłįà (Catherine) Lafferty
Kamloops residential school. Politicians and news media formed a ‘vicious circle’ of justification for assimilation of Indigenous peoples, portrayed as inferior, dangerous and in need of white salvation.

June 21, 2021

How relentlessly racist framing helped ‘write’ the Indian Act — and persists today.

26/06/21
Author: 
The Energy Mix

June 25, 2021

Microtargeting moderate Republicans with climate action messages tweaked to appeal to conservative values could be effective at winning support for a fossil-free world, according to a study just published in the journal Nature.

25/06/21
Author: 
John Woodside
Last week, the Terra Nova FPSO had new life breathed into it, raising questions about a just transition for oil workers. Photo from the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador / Facebook

June 25th 2021

An overwhelming majority of residents in Newfoundland and Labrador want to see a transition away from fossil fuels, yet the province is handing over hundreds of millions of dollars to the struggling industry. That contradiction has national implications, raising questions among experts and politicians about what a just transition might look like.

25/06/21
Author: 
Andrew Nikiforuk
Dr. Peter Henderson Bryce was appointed Canada’s first chief officer of medical health in 1904. He toured residential schools and exposed them as disease incubators and superspreaders.

2 Jun 2021

A century ago, Dr. Peter Bryce demonstrated that residential schools were designed to kill. Canada’s government ignored him.

You have probably never heard of Dr. Peter Henderson Bryce, but I can tell you this: he would not have been shocked or surprised by the discovery of an unmarked grave on the grounds of the Kamloops Indian Residential School last week.

25/06/21
Author: 
Aaron Besecker

Reporter: "Do you consider yourself a socialist?"

@Indiawaltonbflo

: "Oh, absolutely. The entire intent of this campaign is to draw down power and resources to the ground level and into the hands of the people."

Check out the 2 min. video here: 

https://twitter.com/banditelli/status/1407558187331424263?s=20

Category: 
24/06/21
Author: 
Ken Klippenstein
A U.S. Navy class arrives for their graduation ceremony at the Naval Academy on May 28, 2021, in Annapolis, Md. Photo: Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images

June 22 2021

A Navy training document asks, “Anarchists, socialists and neo-nazis represent which terrorist ideological category?”

A NAVY COUNTERTERRORISM training document obtained exclusively by The Intercept appears to conflate socialists with terrorists and lists the left-wing ideology alongside “neo-nazis.”

A section of the training document subtitled “Study Questions” includes the following: “Anarchists, socialists and neo-nazis represent which terrorist ideological category?”

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