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Arn Keeling
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He/him. Settler. Geographer at Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador. Historical+social aspects of mining in Northern 🇨🇦. Co-author, The Price of Gold: https://www.mqup.ca/price-of-gold--the-products-9780228026174.php
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Arn Keeling @arnkeeling.bsky.social · Jul 22
Want a preview of our book, The Price of Gold, with @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social ? Check out our article in @theconversation.com today:

theconversation.com/yellowknifes...
Yellowknife’s Giant Mine: Canada downplayed arsenic exposure as an Indigenous community was poisoned
Colonialism, corporate greed and lax regulation led to widespread pollution, particularly affecting Yellowknives Dene communities.
theconversation.com
arnkeeling.bsky.social
50 years since the first modern treaty in Canada, the JBNQA. This deal, and those that followed, are as important as the patriation of the Constitution in shaping the nation we live in today.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
The fight to be heard: 50 years of the James Bay and Northern Quebec Agreement | CBC News
This is part one of a three-part series from Radio-Canada about the 50th anniversary of the James Bay and Northern Quebec Agreement.
www.cbc.ca
November 10, 2025 at 11:32 AM
arnkeeling.bsky.social
What’s it going to take to get an immigration policy that’s not focused solely on a numbers game but on fairness, integration, and opportunity for the newcomers Canada still desperately needs?
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
Advocates concerned temporary immigration cuts don't address systemic issues | CBC News
As the Carney government slashes temporary immigration, some experts are concerned about its impact on critical industries and post-secondary education.
www.cbc.ca
November 9, 2025 at 12:29 PM
arnkeeling.bsky.social
Gorgeous cover!! Congratulations, Sara
November 7, 2025 at 8:13 PM
arnkeeling.bsky.social
Environmental and mining history you can use!!
jeffmanuel.bsky.social Jeff Manuel @jeffmanuel.bsky.social · 3d
If you're planing to spend the weekend preparing for the 50th anniversary of the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald on Monday, but you just don't know enough about the taconite pellets that were in the ship's ill-fated hold, may I recommend a book for you?
www.upress.umn.edu/978081669430...
🗃️
Taconite Dreams
Winner of the Midwestern History Association's 2016 Hamlin Garland Prize The Iron Range earned its name honestly: it was once among the world’s richest ...
www.upress.umn.edu
November 7, 2025 at 8:11 PM
arnkeeling.bsky.social
The corruption and parasitism of the O&G sector in AB knows no bounds. When they’re finished dodging their debt bills, they’ll likely abandon these wells to the craven provincial government to clean up, too.

thenarwhal.ca/alberta-land...
Rural Albertans face growing problems with oil and gas wells | The Narwhal
The Alberta government is pushing a new plan to deal with years of regulatory failure. Alberta landowners aren’t convinced
thenarwhal.ca
November 7, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Reposted by Arn Keeling
larryneufeldsk.bsky.social
Alberta chiefs say oilsands causing cancer surge, call for halt to tailings plan www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/06/n...
Alberta chiefs say oilsands causing cancer surge, call for halt to tailings plan
Indigenous leaders in Alberta say unchecked oilsands development is devastating their land and could be linked to rising cancer rates in their communities.
www.nationalobserver.com
November 6, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Reposted by Arn Keeling
jselby.bsky.social
Un grand merci à l’équipe de @polrightsrev.bsky.social
pour la publication de cet article sur *Secular Sensibilities* en français (et en espagnol) !

politicsrights.com/fr/laiques-p...

Pour toute commande du livre via @uncpress.bsky.social, le code 01SOCIAL30 vous offre 30 % de réduction. Merci!
Jennifer Selby receiving her book "Secular Sensibilities", published by UNC Press, in 2025.
November 6, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Reposted by Arn Keeling
markmackinnon.bsky.social
“Nothing has improved in Gaza… Medicine is still blocked. Even food has not changed.

“We hear about a truce, but we feel no safety or relief.”

Gaza residents talk to our Hasan Jaber in Bureij refugee camp

www.theglobeandmail.com/world/articl...
‘Truce is just a name’: Israel has killed more than 220 Gazans since start of ceasefire, Palestinians say
Next phase of peace plan not moving forward, with remains of seven Israeli hostages still unaccounted for
www.theglobeandmail.com
November 5, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Reposted by Arn Keeling
dollyjorgensen.bsky.social
Spread the word about this brand new Masters in Public Environmental Humanities with me and The Greenhouse crew in Norway.

For those outside of EU, registration is in second half of November, so don’t miss it!
greenhouseuis.net Greenhouse Center for Environmental Humanities @greenhouseuis.net · 10d
The Greenhouse @unistavanger.bsky.social is launching an international Masters Program in Public Environmental Humanities from fall 2026! Taught in English.

Please share with all your students, #envhist #envhum colleagues!

Learn more about the program here: www.uis.no/en/studies/t...
Poster for Masters in Public Environmental Humanities. Our 2-year masters program in beautiful Stavanger, Norway, invites you to study today's environmental challenges as deeply rooted in culture and history. Key aspects: • Combine critical thinking with hands-on engagement • Work across humanities fields • Put learning into action through an internship • Taught entirely in English • Free tuition for students from EU/EEA/Switzerland and affordable for others If you believe community-engaged humanities can help build a more sustainable future, this is the place to start. GET MORE INFO & APPLY FOR FALL 2026 Questions? Email PEH@uis.no
November 3, 2025 at 8:48 PM
arnkeeling.bsky.social
Now imagine, being a Canadian politician, and looking at this chart and saying, "Yeah, we don't like Canada's rating here. We don't want any part of attracting the best and brightest of the world." That's the trend in Canadian higher ed and immigration policy.
jburnmurdoch.ft.com John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch.ft.com · 10d
NEW from me:

Political hostility, high visa fees and (in the case of the UK) stagnant incomes are making the UK and US less attractive destinations for top international talent.

That steep decline in the appeal of moving to the US after 2016 is 👀
October 31, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Reposted by Arn Keeling
independentnl.bsky.social
Not only are wildfires caused by climate change, new research links the heatwaves that cause them to oil companies active in Newfoundland and Labrador, columnist Angela Antle writes in an open letter to N.L. Premier Tony Wakeham
#nlpoli #climate #cdnpoli
theindependent.ca/commentary/e...
Dear Mr. Wakeham: Climate changes aren’t coming — they’re here  – The Independent
Not only are wildfires caused by climate change, new research links the heatwaves that cause them to oil companies active in Newfoundland and Labrador
theindependent.ca
October 31, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Reposted by Arn Keeling
emmettmacfarlane.com
Canadian provinces are doing this to us, right now, slowly destroying post-secondary education. Carney is about to do it to research too.
jamespmcleod.ca James McLeod @jamespmcleod.ca · 11d
It's really incredible that the USA has absolutely wrecked itself on higher education, tourism and scientific research.

So much of American soft power is based on it, and they just keep punching themselves in the balls.
crampell.bsky.social Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 11d
So many own goals.
Once again: higher ed is one of our most successful exports. We export more higher ed to China than soybeans. And yet Trump and the mini-Trumps are deliberately destroying the quality of our product
October 30, 2025 at 1:05 PM
arnkeeling.bsky.social
Nice feature on the managed retreat of a coastal French village—which just happens to be in Newfoundland’s backyard. Harbingers of many such moves to come as climate changes, sea levels rise, and storms worsen. Spot the geographer, too!

www.theguardian.com/environment/...
How do you move a village? Residents of France’s last outpost in North America try to outrun the sea
As rising tides eat away at Canada’s Saint-Pierre and Miquelon archipelago, plans to move the historic village to higher ground have divided friends and families
www.theguardian.com
October 28, 2025 at 11:45 AM
arnkeeling.bsky.social
Got my double-jab today (flu-Covid). There is no better example of the confluence of collective good and personal benefit than vaccination, and it's a shame to see rates falling so far here in Canada. 💪💉
carlzimmer.com Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 14d
People who got the 2024-2025 Covid booster had a 44% lower symptomatic infection rate and more than a 50% lower rate of death and hospitalization than those who did not receive the booster, and did not experience a higher rate of adverse outcomes. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Evidence, Opinion, and Uncertainty About COVID-19 Vaccines
This issue of JAMA Internal Medicine includes a Research Letter by Du and colleagues1 reporting findings that once again demonstrate that vaccination with a SARS-CoV-2 vaccine booster with an updated ...
jamanetwork.com
October 27, 2025 at 6:46 PM
arnkeeling.bsky.social
The kids (some anyway) are alright 🥹
apple.news/AEHOu07MUQ4y...
AI Is Ruining My Education — Maclean’s
I’m a university student in Ontario, and everyone’s taking shortcuts. Learning has never felt lonelier.
apple.news
October 26, 2025 at 6:08 PM
arnkeeling.bsky.social
Don’t watch much hockey these days but hearing Shorty calling #HNIC early game is great. Best play by play: Cole, with a side of Gallivan
October 25, 2025 at 11:53 PM
arnkeeling.bsky.social
I worry about the creeping Albertafication of NL. On a number of issues from climate to COVID to immigration I’m hearing UCP talking points creep into the discourse. I mean, the province may have its own share of misinformed folks, but there seems to be a tone shift #nlpoli
vocm.com/2025/10/25/2...
COVID-19 on the Rise in Newfoundland and Labrador
The number of COVID cases in Newfoundland and Labrador is on the rise. The chief medical officer of health, Dr...
vocm.com
October 25, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Reposted by Arn Keeling
sarahmpicks.bsky.social
Excited that “New Research in Arctic Pasts,” the series I’m co-editing with @issygapp.bsky.social, has just launched on @nichecanada.bsky.social, showcasing the work of 10 Arctic researchers across disciplines over the next 6 weeks niche-canada.org/2025/10/23/i...
New Research in Arctic Pasts - Visual Cultures of the Circumpolar North Part V
Arctic visual studies have rapidly expanded through interdisciplinary collaboration, climate urgency, Indigenous engagement, and community-building among artists, historians, and scholars across disci...
niche-canada.org
October 24, 2025 at 10:39 AM
arnkeeling.bsky.social
Maybe the Yanks should just have called in the British/Canadians, who would have burned down their White House for them #BombsBurstingInAir #WarOf1812
October 23, 2025 at 9:57 PM
arnkeeling.bsky.social
Thanks to Emily Blake from @cabinradio.ca for this great story on Giant Mine tied to our book launch for The Price of Gold last week in Yellowknife. Nice to hear the voices of people from the community, too.

cabinradio.ca/264132/news/...
Q&A: The authors of Price of Gold on learning from Giant Mine
We spoke with the authors of a new book on the toxic Giant Mine on what it can teach us about improving mine closure and responding to environmental problems.
cabinradio.ca
October 23, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Reposted by Arn Keeling
royalhistsoc.org
New in 'Transactions': 'Possible Maps: Newfoundland, 1763–1829' bit.ly/4oygf5V

@julialaite.bsky.social shows how overlapping maps highlight complexity of encounter with place over a coherence of colonial ideologies. What were peripheries of some people’s empires were centres of others' worlds 1/2
Opening page for the new Transactions article: 'Ppssible Maps: Newfoundland, 1763-1829'. Full abstract: "Islands have a disproportionate role – as strategic locations, as imaginative or symbolic locales, as extractive zones and as ecological bellwethers – in oceanic imperial histories. They were and are places of ‘great practical use and metaphorical power’. And yet Newfoundland was seen (and continues to be seen) as marginal and peripheral, even if the biomass that was pulled out of its ocean fed – quite literally – a global network of exploitation. This article uses four overlapping maps to tell four overlapping stories: James Cook’s circumnavigation of the island in 1763–8; Lt David Buchan’s trek into the interior to contact the Beothuk in 1811 and 1820; William Eppes Cormack and Joseph Sylvester’s trek across the island in 1822; and finally, a series of story-maps created by Shanawdithit, who is apocryphally known as ‘the last of the Beothuk’. In doing so, it draws in Indigenous ‘storywork’ and cartographic histories and makes a case for storytelling as powerful methodology for examining overlooked colonial histories. These maps and stories highlight the complexity of encounter with a place rather than a coherence of colonial ideologies. Through the stories these maps help me tell, I hope to show how the peripheries of some people’s empires were the centres of other people’s worlds." Extract from Julia Laite's new TRHS article with image of Clarence Brown's 'The Newfoundland Centred World' (1977), reproduced with permission from the Department of Geography, Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador.
October 23, 2025 at 11:05 AM
arnkeeling.bsky.social
Congrats Julia! Looking forward to this and more!!
julialaite.bsky.social Julia Laite @julialaite.bsky.social · 18d
Here is my first publication from my new project on the history of colonial Newfoundland and the Beothuk people, and I'm rather nervous to put it out in the world. Genuinely, all thoughts on this work are welcome as I head into writing a book about it...
royalhistsoc.org Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 18d
New in 'Transactions': 'Possible Maps: Newfoundland, 1763–1829' bit.ly/4oygf5V

@julialaite.bsky.social shows how overlapping maps highlight complexity of encounter with place over a coherence of colonial ideologies. What were peripheries of some people’s empires were centres of others' worlds 1/2
October 23, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Reposted by Arn Keeling
ianhall.bsky.social
Arctic extremes are accelerating.

Rare climate extremes (eg heatwaves, sea ice loss, ice sheet melt) are now common. Since 2000, some have jumped >80%.

Warming is “pushing” the system to a new state, variability “triggers” extremes.

(Review)
www.nature.com/articles/s43...
Weather and climate extremes in a changing Arctic - Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
Rare and extreme climate events have increasingly occurred in the Arctic since ~2000. This Review outlines the observed and projected changes in atmospheric, oceanic and cryospheric extremes and expla...
www.nature.com
October 21, 2025 at 5:13 AM
arnkeeling.bsky.social
WTF is going on in the UK? Do they fear losing ground to the US in the egregious racism and fascism race?
julialaite.bsky.social Julia Laite @julialaite.bsky.social · 21d
Yarvin advocates for 'the liquidation of democracy, the Constitution, and the rule of law,' to transform the government into “a heavily-armed, ultra-profitable corporation.”

Odd choice for a lecture dedicated to 'thoughtful conservatism'.

That's before we even get to the outright racist Starkey.
lottelydia.bsky.social Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 21d
“Following his lecture, Yarvin will debate the legendary British historian David Starkey on history and the future of conservatism.” Everything about this is so cursed. Masks off at the University of Oxford.
October 20, 2025 at 2:23 PM
arnkeeling.bsky.social
If these projected cuts are true, it will be a disaster of Martin-esque proportions for social and education programs in Canada. Elbows up, my ass.
davidmaccdn.bsky.social David Macdonald @davidmaccdn.bsky.social · Jul 17
The fed gov cuts to pay for military and wealthy tax cuts have rapidly expanded. My new analysis shows that most of the cuts will now be on transfers to other govs, non-profits and people. A stunning 1 in 5 dollars is just cuts to FN govs for basic social programs. @policyalternatives.ca 🧵👇👇
October 19, 2025 at 3:21 AM