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How can Canada meet its goals to protect nature? | The Narwhal Canada will need to protect another 1.7 million square kilometres, an area the size of Alaska, to meet its conservation targets by 2030

Canada is falling behind on its pledge to protect 30% of land and water by 2030. Indigenous-led conservation initiatives could help close the gap, but an upcoming expiry of federal conservation funding has advocates warning progress might slow even further. thenarwhal.ca/canada-conse...

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Amid ‘DEI’ purge, Pentagon removes webpage on Iwo Jima flag-raiser Pages celebrating Navajo code talkers and other minority service members were also erased.

When you erase the history of the code talkers, you are erasing the history of the Second World War.
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This is veteran Thomas Begay, one of the last two living Navajo Code Talkers from World War II. The Trump Administration is removing Navajo Code Talkers from military websites as part of its DEI purge.

REPOST if you stand with Begay against Donald Trump!

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York senior admin is cutting all
of these programs claiming the need to save costs but won't ever consider cutting their salaries...

Absurd doesn't even begin to describe it.

(For more on what's going on at York, listen to this - www.academicaunties.com/episodes/fig...) #canlab #academicsky

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First Nation discovers pre-contact settlement dating back 11,000 years | APTN News
First Nation discovers pre-contact settlement dating back 11,000 years | APTN News YouTube video by APTN News

Sturgeon Lake First Nation in Saskatchewan has discovered a pre-contact settlement dating back 11,000 years.

After an archaeologist identified the site, Sturgeon Lake is now focusing on preserving the findings.

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list of banned keywords

list of banned keywords

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

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Violence & Harassment in Politics: A Panel Series Three panel events on the history of diverse representation efforts globally & in Canada, the Nova Scotia context and calls to action.

A 🌟fantastic🌟line-up of speakers for the last virtual panel on violence & harassment in politics, including the brilliant Dr. Rebecca Major @ram846.bsky.social

Join us Dec. 10th as we exchange ideas on how to take action: www.eventbrite.ca/e/violence-h...

#16DaysofActivism
#gendersky
#MMIWG

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Have a wonderful trip!

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Our kid was always amazed at what shut Ontario’s schools down… if other parts of the country did the same, the kids would have no school.

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Yolande Bouka #QueensuResearch | Queen's researcher Yolande Bouka, Canada Research Chair in Afrofeminist Thought and Political Transformation

Come work with me!
I am recruiting a PhD student who wants to work at the intersection of Afrofeminist Thought and International Relations.
www.queensu.ca/research/res...

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My new favourite shirt 😂

Just in time for the holidays - @tungohan.bsky.social has turned insults into sweet sweet profit. Check out her brilliant podcast @academicaunties.com and its online shop: www.academicaunties.com/shop/

They have a great motto too: “Take Care. Be kind. Don’t be an a**hole”

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@whodge77.bsky.social thank yo so much for being on top of things!!!

I’m so grateful to dump the former Twitter and see this finally fill that space. I liked mastodon but it was so hard between the different spaces people accessed, to connect. (For me anyway).

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Māori MPs briefly suspended the Aotearoa parliament’s attempts to reinterpret their founding treaty in the most bad ass use of the Haka I’ve ever seen.

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Sky Follower Bridge - Chrome Web Store Instantly find and follow the same users from your Twitter follows on Bluesky.

LOOKING FOR OLD TWITTER FRIENDS? Use the Chrome browser add-on Sky Follower Bridge 🧵

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Saving to read later

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I’ll join the fun. Sarge is almost 10 and Roxy just turned 13. Photo sent while away on my journey to the top if the world #puppiesofbluesky

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Our last night in Norway area of Sampi

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Doctors in La Ronge diagnose 27 cases of scurvy Within the last six months, doctors in La Ronge have treated 27 cases of scurvy, bringing to light the severe ...

#foodinsecurity

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My first post! As I land in Paris for the first time (I don’t get to see the city… I’m connecting)

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