« Pour moi, l’essentiel, c’est que la réconciliation économique exige que nous fassions confiance aux gouvernements autochtones pour qu’ils prennent leurs propres décisions en matière de développement économique et réalisent leurs propres investissements. » Sénatrice Tracy Muggli, Saskatchewan, Groupe progressiste du Sénat

La semaine dernière au #SenCA, la sénatrice Muggli a pris la parole à la 2e lecture du projet de loi S-241, Loi modifiant le Code criminel et la Loi sur les Indiens. #S241 vise à donner le contrôle des jeux aux Premières Nations, mais uniquement dans les réserves.
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"For me, the bottom line is that economic reconciliation requires that we trust Indigenous governments to make their own economic development decisions and investments." Senator Tracy Muggli, Saskatchewan, Progressive Senate Group

Last week in #SenCA, Senator Tracy Muggli spoke at second reading of Bill S-241, An Act to amend the Criminal Code and the Indian Act. #S241 seeks to formalize First Nations’ control of gaming only on-reserve. Read/watch Senator Muggli's speech here: theprogressives.ca/in-the-senat...

Brilliant: @Ato_quayson: often "multilingual iteration is seen as sign of idiocy" or as having "something to hide" #MLA16 #s241

"In its heydey literature theory taught students why a particular work was interesting and durable." -Perloff #MLA16 #s241

And my favorite use of Caetano Veloso - as thematic/musical backdrop for Wong Kar-Wai's Happy Together https://youtu.be/09i5JpuZf5U #MLA16 #s241

Transcendent scene rom HABLA CON ELLA dir. Pedro Almodovar -Caetano Veloso playing Cucurrucucu https://youtu.be/-CsA1CcA4Z8 #MLA16 #s241

*Fangirls over Caetano Veloso* whew, got that out of the way. #MLA16 #s241

Internet labor as a 'major gift of time' - #MLA16 #s241

Can love and work coexist in non-exploitative ways? Could that be the space of home? Feminist sociology work on intimate sphere #MLA16 #s241

"Notions of expertise have been mixed up with notions of domestic retirement" - Lynch #MLA16 #s241

"Literature tends to be where school, and schooling, are not" -Lynch on perception for what is 'real' literature #MLA16 #s241

"Making last year's bedtime reading into this year's senior seminar syllabus"-owning up to our 'love lives' in our work Lynch #MLA16 #s241

literary professionalism defined by detachment & a hermeneutics of suspicion; now call for "detachment from detachment"-D Lynch #MLA16 #s241

"Publics for literature are always more numerous than academics in literature fields think" - Diedre Shauna Lynch #MLA16 #s241

#MLA16 #s241 @bruceholsinger on how often we are told to 'build and grow our publics' these days.