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Alex Zahara
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Forest fire doctor, community based research, geographer.

Prince Albert, SK, gay.
The Saskatchewan Ombudsman has released a list of immediate calls to action regarding the province’s response to wildfires.

Here are the recommendations:

#skpoli #cdnpoli

www.cbc.ca/news/electio...
Sask. ombudsman calls out province's 'delays in response' to wildfire evacuees | CBC News
Saskatchewan's ombudsman says her office will conduct an investigation into the government's response to the wildfires, but that the focus right now is on evacuees' immediate needs.
www.cbc.ca
June 10, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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Where is the world?
@mark-carney.bsky.social
March 31, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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They are going to make it harder for the scientists to stop, or even record, what comes next.
March 18, 2025 at 3:04 AM
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Supreme Court finds Saskatchewan jail regulations violate Charter of Rights and Freedoms #humanrights #Saskatchewan #prisons leaderpost.com/news/crime/s...
Supreme Court finds Saskatchewan jail regulations violate Charter of Rights and Freedoms
The Supreme Court of Canada has ruled that a standard of proof beyond a reasonable doubt must be used in some inmate disciplinary hearings.
leaderpost.com
March 17, 2025 at 11:50 PM
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It’s been said many times that the treaties supersede the separatists.

Alberta simply can’t leave without support from treaty signatories.

And today, Chief Billy-Joe Tuccaro of the Mikisew Cree Nation made it clear.

It’s a hard no.

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
March 14, 2025 at 2:22 AM
It’s not surprising that neoliberal universities side with fascism but wow it’s still disappointing
March 13, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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If it walks and talks like McCarthyism, then it probably is McCarthyism.
March 11, 2025 at 4:40 AM
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SCOOP—Emails obtained by @zeteo.com show Mahmoud Khalil reached out for help from the Columbia administration *one day before* ICE detained him.

He said he couldn't sleep from threats he was receiving.
He even wrote that he feared ICE "might come to my home."
SCOOP: Emails Show Mahmoud Khalil Asked Columbia for Protection a Day Before He Was Detained
"I haven’t been able to sleep, fearing that ICE or a dangerous individual might come to my home. I urge you to intervene and provide the necessary protections to prevent further harm."
zeteo.com
March 10, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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Through university my modes of transportation were walking, bicycle, Saskatoon City bus, or STC.

Yep, my kids, they won’t have access to the same affordable services I did & it’s sad.

#SkPoli
Just a friendly reminder to rural Saskatchewan residents that we used to have bus routes to every corner of Saskatchewan. All gone thanks to the SaskParty.
March 9, 2025 at 2:08 AM
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Just a friendly reminder to rural Saskatchewan residents that we used to have bus routes to every corner of Saskatchewan. All gone thanks to the SaskParty.
March 9, 2025 at 1:42 AM
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According to @ubyssey.ca, RCMP officers showed up at the office of UBC's student newspaper and requested the contact information of their sources to identify protesters

(The newspaper refused, which is good because it is wildly inappropriate for police to do this)

ubyssey.ca/news/ubc-sta...
March 7, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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So sad to learn of Sandra's death. She was a dear friend and constant inspiration. In the intellectual vanguard of postcolonial science studies, Sandra never ceased pushing us to think more critically, more radically. How I miss those days hanging out in Venice Beach...
#STS #postcol
A dear feminist science studies mentor passed on March 5. Have a good journey Sandra Harding. ❤️

Harding was UCLA Distinguished Professor Emerita of Education and Gender Studies, former Director of the Center for the Study of Women.

Link is an oral history interview with Sandra on her career.
Oral history interview with Sandra Harding
Sandra Harding was born in San Francisco, California, the first of five children born to Lloyd and Constance Harding. Her father's struggle to find work during the Great Depression led the family to L...
digital.sciencehistory.org
March 6, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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Trudeau announces $37B in #childcare deals with 11 provinces and territories. (AB and SK the only holdouts.) Agreements will increase base funding by 3% per year for 4 years, starting in 2027-28. www.cbc.ca/news/politic... via @cbcnews.ca
Trudeau announces $37B in child care deals with 11 provinces and territories | CBC News
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's government has signed agreements totalling almost $37 billion over five years with 11 provinces and territories that will extend the federal child care space program un...
www.cbc.ca
March 6, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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Dear fellow journalists:

when you go on podcasts or tv shows and talk about the Trump administration, it would be *so great* if you didn’t boil down his actions surrounding the rights of trans people as actions surrounding “trans issues” (?!!)
March 5, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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'Any talk of annexing our country - we're here, First Nations have always been here, will continue to be here and Canada is on First Nations land'
Response to tariffs need Indigenous Peoples input say leaders
Leaders in Ottawa say Indigenous Peoples need to be part of the solution to tariffs levied against Canada by the United States.
www.aptnnews.ca
March 5, 2025 at 1:46 AM
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The SaskParty doubled down on violating children’s rights, and our international commitments.The use of the notwithstanding clause to harm vulnerable youth is unconscionable.
By invoking the notwithstanding clause to push through its pronoun legislation, Saskatchewan's government is violating international child rights laws. Read more in this opinion piece for CBA National: https://bit.ly/4bemrea
Saskatchewan’s ‘because I said so’ approach
By invoking the notwithstanding clause to push through its pronoun legislation, the provincial government is violating international child rights laws
bit.ly
February 26, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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Supportive academics & community members! Please sign this Google Docs letter b4 March 10.

Written by Chris Andersen, Dean Faculty of Native Studies UAlberta & Rob Innes, Chair, Indigenous Studies, McMaster U. in support of #Indigenous Studies at #York U, which administrators propose cutting.
Indigenous Studies Response to York’s Suspension of their Program
Dear Dean McMurtry, Provost Peters, and President Lenton, As two Indigenous studies administrators (Dr. Chris Andersen is the Dean of the Faculty of Native Studies at the University of Alberta and Dr....
docs.google.com
March 3, 2025 at 2:24 AM
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Our Premier is still delaying on joining the National School Food Program and potentially losing out on millions of dollars if it chooses not to sign on to the program #Saskatchewan #Canada #education
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Sask. risking millions in funding if it doesn't sign on to National School Food Program: expert | CBC News
One expert says that if the deal is anywhere similar to Manitoba's agreement with Ottawa, Saskatchewan could potentially lose out on $17 million over three years.
www.cbc.ca
March 2, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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So much ahistorical liberal implicit racism on here. Think before posting. Does your statement of supposed lost US goodness (e.g. "founding fathers" romanticism) forget about the violence & disrespect the US has long done to non Europeans/non-whites, their/our peoples, leaders, lands, governance?
March 2, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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February 8, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Oh yeah, this crew is definitely who I’d trust to evaluate the impact and consequences of “transgender issues”.

Brutal.
March 1, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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is crazy how evil this newspaper is
March 1, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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March 1, 2025 at 1:25 AM