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Adele Perry @adeleperry.bsky.social · 2d

There is a deep fragility here, this characterizing arguments that one does not find convincing or agreeable as efforts at suppression. Or, in an old school foucauldian sense, they betray what they desire when they supposedly argue against it.

Adele Perry @adeleperry.bsky.social · 2d

I would be very surprised if people didn’t know a whole lot more about those histories and the figures associated with them than 15 years ago. What we are in the midst of is a reckoning and learning, and that is miles away concealing it.

Adele Perry @adeleperry.bsky.social · 2d

They might be efforts that some people, including those names here, disagree with. But locating the challenges to the public narratives of Canadian history as activist suppression does a massive disservice to careful research and discussion.

Adele Perry @adeleperry.bsky.social · 2d

There is a lot to be said about this take, but let me begin with the claim that these are “activist efforts to conceal” certain histories. Why can’t they be acknowledged as efforts to address these histories, squarely and openly? www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Sir John A. Macdonald was erased from some public spaces. Now there's a movement to bring him back | CBC News

The racial reckoning of the COVID era saw Canada grapple with its checkered past — a process that led to statues of some foundational figures being removed, in some instances by force. Five years on, ...

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Adele Perry @adeleperry.bsky.social · 4d

I’m a former Wolseley school parent and while I voted for a different option, I’m happy to have participated in a deliberative, open process that has chosen a new name that speaks to this place and the future we’re hoping for.

APTN News @aptnnews.bsky.social · 4d

In Winnipeg, a school's name that was a reminder of colonial connections will be renamed to reflect the land instead.

The Wolseley School will be renamed Little Bluestem School for the next school year.

Winnipeg school will be renamed to move away from colonial connection | APTN News

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APTN News @aptnnews.bsky.social · 4d

In Winnipeg, a school's name that was a reminder of colonial connections will be renamed to reflect the land instead.

The Wolseley School will be renamed Little Bluestem School for the next school year.

Winnipeg school will be renamed to move away from colonial connection | APTN News

YouTube video by APTN News

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Adele Perry @adeleperry.bsky.social · 5d

Yes. If you start with GenAi, you need to verify and check what it spits out, and that’s hard if you don’t know much to start with. All these tools are oversold and hyped, and they offer much more than they deliver, and people learning how to research are the ones who are the most short changed.

Jacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 5d

It also robs students of learning *how* to research.

Jacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 5d

It also robs students of learning *how* to research.

Adele Perry @adeleperry.bsky.social · 6d

The building that houses the headquarters of the Black Sleeping Car porters offices in Winnipeg from 1922 to 1987 is for sale again for $300,000 or so, no plaque, no commemoration, no nothing: www.realtor.ca/real-estate/...

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Adele Perry @adeleperry.bsky.social · 12d

Good to see my wise colleauges talking about teaching, learning and working in difficult moment: www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews/2025/12/12/learning-in-an-ai-world

From public schools to post-secondary institutions, educators are grappling with AI's impact on education

Be responsible, not afraid: Winnipeg School Division sets framework for AI in classrooms Manitoba’s largest school division only has one fixed rule for its staff and students when it comes to using ar...

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🤶Heather J. "Ho Ho Ho" Wood @rollwithheather.bsky.social · 15d

NDP says Ontario report on intimate partner violence partly AI-generated, includes non-existent sources
www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

NDP says Ontario report on intimate partner violence partly AI-generated, includes non-existent sources

The 877-page study was introduced into the legislature on Tuesday

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Adele Perry @adeleperry.bsky.social · 18d

I'm only part way through @aptnnews.bsky.social's www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-Pv..., but it captures how these people produce and thrive on Indigenous pain, and are predicated on a profound kind of dehumanization that is deeply, deeply damaged and damaging.

Dismantling Denialism | APTN Investigates

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 18d

www.vox.com/policy/46963...

What happens when a city takes women’s unpaid work seriously?

Bogotá’s radical experiment in caregiving is going global.

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Adele Perry @adeleperry.bsky.social · 19d

And renouncing US citizenship isn’t easy or cheap.

Adele Perry @adeleperry.bsky.social · 20d

I’ve lived in the wake of the Montreal massacre for more than three decades, and it still catches me short when 6 December comes around. I wish these women were still here, and I’m grateful for the work that is done to honour them and call out the violence & misogyny that took their lives.

Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 20d

The desperate hands of the global south seek to take back an overheated world. Seriously, what's next? The McHamburglar trophy in gourmet cooking? The Pol Pot Human Rights medal? The Jeffrey Epstein childcare grant? The Vladimir Putin democracy fellowship? The Weinstein-Cosby feminism prize?

The FIFA trophy for Trump, gold hands reaching up to a gold planet....

Adele Perry @adeleperry.bsky.social · 21d

Holay, that is terrible.

University of Manitoba Press @umanitobapress.bsky.social · 21d

UMP is thrilled to share that @choicereviews.bsky.social has recognized MANOMIN as an Outstanding Academic Title of 2025! This prestigious list reflects the best scholarly titles reviewed by Choice in 2025. Congrats to Brittany Luby, the Niisaachewan Anishinaabe Nation, and the whole Manomin team!

Adele Perry @adeleperry.bsky.social · 21d

There are no surprises with the Charter - we know what it says, and we know the political work it has done justifying colonialism and imperialism. I want to know about the other material on the auction block, and there is still no public catalogue.

Tara Deschamps @taradeschamps.bsky.social · 23d

Hudson’s Bay has chosen the Thomsons and Westons to purchase the retailer’s 355-year-old royal charter.

www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/business/tho...

Thomson, Weston families win Hudson's Bay charter auction: retailer

TORONTO - The Thomson and Weston families have emerged victorious from a process meant to decide who will be able to purchase the royal charter that formed Hudson's Bay.

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Adele Perry @adeleperry.bsky.social · 21d

Hoo Boy, the monopoly theme just keeps giving!

Tara Deschamps @taradeschamps.bsky.social · 23d

Hudson’s Bay has chosen the Thomsons and Westons to purchase the retailer’s 355-year-old royal charter.

www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/business/tho...

Thomson, Weston families win Hudson's Bay charter auction: retailer

TORONTO - The Thomson and Weston families have emerged victorious from a process meant to decide who will be able to purchase the royal charter that formed Hudson's Bay.

www.thecanadianpressnews.ca

Adele Perry @adeleperry.bsky.social · 22d

How come nobody has written about the bathing in the fur trade?

Adele Perry @adeleperry.bsky.social · 22d

Nothing like a good old historian thread!

Jacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 22d

Historian of eugenics here. I don't normally like to retweet bad arguments, but this is such a fundamental misunderstanding of eugenics, I think it's important to point out. I don't have time to debunk all of the ways this is inaccurate, but I'll highlight a few things and then recommend some books🧵

Jacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 22d

Historian of eugenics here. I don't normally like to retweet bad arguments, but this is such a fundamental misunderstanding of eugenics, I think it's important to point out. I don't have time to debunk all of the ways this is inaccurate, but I'll highlight a few things and then recommend some books🧵