Now that the far right in British Columbia is attacking Indigenous rights and fear mongering about DRIPA with misinformation and the NDP is waffling, it’s time to know the facts about DRIPA, from dripafacts.ca 🧵
There is a for-profit organization, WebinarTV, that is unethically scraping webinars and focus groups.
Cyber Alberta: cyberalberta.ca/zooming-out-...
Stanford University: uit.stanford.edu/news/protect...
80 million people globally claim Irish ancestry – why the release of 1926 Irish census records is so momentous theconversation.com/80-million-p...
#genealogy
I will be here on Saturday!!
Party for the Planet!
Surrey City Hall
Saturday April 25
11 am - 7 pm
Hope to see you there!!
Feel free to REPOST!
NOTING THIS. 🫤
Title slide for talk: Qualitative wayfinding: Dissertation reflections on poststructural analysis of academic library value discourse. IASSIST Prof Dev (series). Nicole Pagowsky, PhD, MLIS, University of Arizona, nfp@arizona.edu, April 23, 2026
On Thursday 4/23 I'll be talking about the complexity of qualitative methods via poststructural policy analysis from my dissertation research on library "value" discourse. Register below for this final segment of the @iassistdata.bsky.social qual data analysis series!
us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
In the middle of anti-Indigenous racism and residential school denialism on the west coast, new documentary Namesake is about the Tla’amin Nation requesting a name change for a city named after Israel Wood Powell, who helped establish residential schools.
Three bikers with jackets labeled “Right,” “Obtuse,” “Acute.” Underneath: “Hell’s Angles.”
Spotted on Tumblr… 😄
An Innu woman has a new life as a midwife for her small community.
Hear why birthing at home prevents trauma for families in the north, tonight on APTN National News.
Watch live: www.youtube.com/@aptnnews
Lovely story from @carlzimmer.com follows up on Bruce the beakless kea, who first invented a new way to preen and now has invented a new way of kicking ass.
Gift link.
Eva Thomas is an Indigenous writer and director who started her career to be in front of the camera before turning to work behind it so that other Indigenous actors had more opportunities.
Thomas also speaks on her new movie on this week's Face to Face.
Seven books displayed on a large table.
Six books displayed on large tables.
New additions to our library book collections 🎉
⬆️Learn more about our collections and how to visit us via the link in our bio.
#NaturalHistoryMuseum #ModernCollections #BookSky #NaturalHistory #Science
Five books authored by Desmond Morris, displayed on a table.
Desmond Morris (1928 – 2026), zoologist and broadcaster.
A browse along our zoology shelves to see a selection of his books from across the years.
#DesmondMorris
A network of 20 inauthentic YouTube accounts has racked up nearly 40 million views by peddling lies, grievance, division and narratives normalizing the prospect of Alberta’s secession and annexation by the United States. @charlesrusnell.bsky.social reports. #abpoli
Research integrity prevailed, I pushed for and got an article retracted | Organization Monkey
I have a Google alert set up so that when someone cites an article listed on my Google Scholar profile, it sends me an email with the author’s name and a link…
https://ift.tt/mQCBYE8
Every day is #WorldArtDay at the McMichael—but today, we celebrate a little louder. 🎨
On the walls. In the studios. Through residencies, installations, and classrooms.
And with every visitor who brings their own way of seeing.
“A lot of people introduce themselves in #Michif now.... I know they're not fluent… but people are proud of what they can say.”
#Indigenous #language #Métis #children #books #music
Taking The Sprawl's Pop-Up Press out of winter storage later this week. So I spruced up the webpage this morning, in anticipation of a new season. Join us Saturday, Apr 25, outside Shelf Life Books for Canadian Independent Bookstore Day! Will be there from 11am to 1pm.
New post: Neoliberal Time and the Promise of Slow Librarianship meredith.wolfwater.com/wordpress/20...
With stakes this high, it’s hard to imagine electoral boundaries in Alberta becoming boring any time soon, writes Lisa Young. #abpoli
"The report...finds that the Canadian Register of Historic Places (CRHP) remains a highly valued national public resource, relied on by a wide range of users for research, planning, education, tourism, and development decisions."
nationaltrustcanada.ca/online-stori...
An #Otwituary for zoologist #DesmondMorris
He writes of homo finalis, last
of the apes, up on its hind legs
yet stooping under the weight
of its own intellect. He writes
the story of a curious species,
not knowing that the last page
will be written by someone else.
This week patter has been reading about knowledge production as place making patthomson.net/2026/04/20/p...
The longest Canadian Armed Forces arctic patrol in history has arrived safely at their final destination of Churchill, Manitoba.
A feat completed with help from the skills of the Canadian Rangers of the north.
Earlier this month in an effort to train RCMP employees in 15 different Indigenous languages, an Indigenous languages pilot project was launched.
250 employees have gone through the pilot project since and has now become an ongoing fully funded program.
USA Today bestselling author Lexi LaFleur Brown is a hockey playing, hockey romance writing Anishinaabe-Métis who spoke with Reporter Rachel May on the hockey romance genre boom and Indigenous representation in her writing.
APTN Investigative Reporter Kenneth Jackson’s five-part series Secrets of the Bay is one of five finalists for the Canadian Journalism Foundation’s Dr. Eric Jackman Award for Excellence in Journalism. Winners will be announced in June.
Hopefully everyone who submitted to this should have had a reply now! Fingers crossed spam filters haven't stopped any of them...
