Peter Fortna
@peterfortna.bsky.social
A #ymmfire survivor, #kidneydonor and member histotiwn, living and working in Treaty 7/8 Territory. He/Him
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Peter Fortna
@peterfortna.bsky.social
· May 22
Active History
History Matters
ActiveHistory.ca
Here is the @activehist.bsky.social link to @theseangraham.bsky.social's "What is Old is News" pod where I'm interviewed about Fort McKay #Métis Nation: A Community History. Purchase or download (#openaccess) the book from @ucalgarypress.bsky.social to learn more about #oilsands #tarsands #ymm
Excited to announce the next series of shows for #CochraneAB House Concerts. If you love live music, and you're in the #yyc region. Check it out! #yycmusic #livemusic #houseconcert www.facebook.com/CochraneHouseConcerts
January 24, 2026 at 3:45 PM
Excited to announce the next series of shows for #CochraneAB House Concerts. If you love live music, and you're in the #yyc region. Check it out! #yycmusic #livemusic #houseconcert www.facebook.com/CochraneHouseConcerts
My colleague Felice Physoic's latest concerning how Environmental Historians might consider using #oilsands Environmental Impact Assessments as a source. #cdnhist #envirohist #ymm envhistnow.com/2026/01/15/t...
The Impact Assessment as Archive: Historical Approaches to Regulatory Documents from Alberta’s Oil Sands
Canada’s recent embrace of Indigenous rights looks transformative on paper, but in the Alberta oil sands, a different story unfolds.
envhistnow.com
January 22, 2026 at 1:51 AM
My colleague Felice Physoic's latest concerning how Environmental Historians might consider using #oilsands Environmental Impact Assessments as a source. #cdnhist #envirohist #ymm envhistnow.com/2026/01/15/t...
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As is tradition, we begin this year with a look back at our top five most-read articles of the past year.
2025's list includes pieces by Nolan Reynolds, @glenniceton.bsky.social, @lootina.bsky.social, @peterfortna.bsky.social, & Jackson Pind
niche-canada.org/2026/01/06/t...
#envhist #cdnhist
2025's list includes pieces by Nolan Reynolds, @glenniceton.bsky.social, @lootina.bsky.social, @peterfortna.bsky.social, & Jackson Pind
niche-canada.org/2026/01/06/t...
#envhist #cdnhist
Top Five Posts of 2025
Wow! 2025 was another record year on our site for traffic. We published nearly every week day, sometimes publishing on Saturdays and more than once a day! We are so grateful to the environmental histo...
niche-canada.org
January 7, 2026 at 9:35 PM
As is tradition, we begin this year with a look back at our top five most-read articles of the past year.
2025's list includes pieces by Nolan Reynolds, @glenniceton.bsky.social, @lootina.bsky.social, @peterfortna.bsky.social, & Jackson Pind
niche-canada.org/2026/01/06/t...
#envhist #cdnhist
2025's list includes pieces by Nolan Reynolds, @glenniceton.bsky.social, @lootina.bsky.social, @peterfortna.bsky.social, & Jackson Pind
niche-canada.org/2026/01/06/t...
#envhist #cdnhist
Thank you to all the readers! #cdnhist #envirohist
As is tradition, we begin this year with a look back at our top five most-read articles of the past year.
2025's list includes pieces by Nolan Reynolds, @glenniceton.bsky.social, @lootina.bsky.social, @peterfortna.bsky.social, & Jackson Pind
niche-canada.org/2026/01/06/t...
#envhist #cdnhist
2025's list includes pieces by Nolan Reynolds, @glenniceton.bsky.social, @lootina.bsky.social, @peterfortna.bsky.social, & Jackson Pind
niche-canada.org/2026/01/06/t...
#envhist #cdnhist
Top Five Posts of 2025
Wow! 2025 was another record year on our site for traffic. We published nearly every week day, sometimes publishing on Saturdays and more than once a day! We are so grateful to the environmental histo...
niche-canada.org
January 8, 2026 at 12:12 AM
Thank you to all the readers! #cdnhist #envirohist
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Peter Fortna @peterfortna.bsky.social calls PUTTING DOWN ROOTS by Cheryl Troupe "essential reading" in his review published on @hnetreviews.bsky.social! Read the review here: www.h-net.org/review...
December 19, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Peter Fortna @peterfortna.bsky.social calls PUTTING DOWN ROOTS by Cheryl Troupe "essential reading" in his review published on @hnetreviews.bsky.social! Read the review here: www.h-net.org/review...
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Check out @peterfortna.bsky.social's review of Cheryl Troupe's "Putting Down Roots: Metis Agency, Land Use, Women's Food Labour in a Qu'Appelle Valley Road Allowance Community," published in 2025 by @umanitobapress.bsky.social; review available @hnetreviews.bsky.social
www.h-net.org/reviews/show...
www.h-net.org/reviews/show...
www.h-net.org
December 10, 2025 at 6:08 AM
Check out @peterfortna.bsky.social's review of Cheryl Troupe's "Putting Down Roots: Metis Agency, Land Use, Women's Food Labour in a Qu'Appelle Valley Road Allowance Community," published in 2025 by @umanitobapress.bsky.social; review available @hnetreviews.bsky.social
www.h-net.org/reviews/show...
www.h-net.org/reviews/show...
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Can you help push us over $12,000? Only a few more days left in our annual fundraising campaign and we are still far from our goal.
We are not institutionally funded. We rely entirely on supporters and do good work with a very small budget!!
fundrazr.com/niche2025?re...
#envhist #envhum #cdnhist
We are not institutionally funded. We rely entirely on supporters and do good work with a very small budget!!
fundrazr.com/niche2025?re...
#envhist #envhum #cdnhist
November 29, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Can you help push us over $12,000? Only a few more days left in our annual fundraising campaign and we are still far from our goal.
We are not institutionally funded. We rely entirely on supporters and do good work with a very small budget!!
fundrazr.com/niche2025?re...
#envhist #envhum #cdnhist
We are not institutionally funded. We rely entirely on supporters and do good work with a very small budget!!
fundrazr.com/niche2025?re...
#envhist #envhum #cdnhist
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It’s my book’s half-birthday today! To celebrate, I’d like to mail one of you a free signed copy.
Just like this post to enter the draw. You can enter your name until 11:59 pm Pacific time on Wednesday, December 3rd.
Please reskeet! #cdnhist #envhist
www.ubcpress.ca/a-cold-colon...
Just like this post to enter the draw. You can enter your name until 11:59 pm Pacific time on Wednesday, December 3rd.
Please reskeet! #cdnhist #envhist
www.ubcpress.ca/a-cold-colon...
A Cold Colonialism
A Cold Colonialism - Modern Exploration and the Canadian North; A Cold Colonialism reframes exploration as a modern enterprise – one through which southern Canadians and Americans sought to exert cont...
www.ubcpress.ca
December 1, 2025 at 5:44 PM
It’s my book’s half-birthday today! To celebrate, I’d like to mail one of you a free signed copy.
Just like this post to enter the draw. You can enter your name until 11:59 pm Pacific time on Wednesday, December 3rd.
Please reskeet! #cdnhist #envhist
www.ubcpress.ca/a-cold-colon...
Just like this post to enter the draw. You can enter your name until 11:59 pm Pacific time on Wednesday, December 3rd.
Please reskeet! #cdnhist #envhist
www.ubcpress.ca/a-cold-colon...
Hey #CochraneAB! We've got a #houseconcert coming up next Friday with Quote the Raven from Newfoundland! If you're interested in the details check out the link below or send me a DM.
#livemusic #houseconcert #yyc #yycmusic
#livemusic #houseconcert #yyc #yycmusic
November 10, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Hey #CochraneAB! We've got a #houseconcert coming up next Friday with Quote the Raven from Newfoundland! If you're interested in the details check out the link below or send me a DM.
#livemusic #houseconcert #yyc #yycmusic
#livemusic #houseconcert #yyc #yycmusic
A cool project I've had the pleasure of assisting with near the #Métis community of Conklin, Alberta in the heart of the #oilsands. share.google/e5zSO93rvG26...
#ymm
#ymm
Researchers, hunters study how oilsands noise might impact moose hunting | CBC News
Hunters in northern Alberta are helping scientists test how industrial noise from the oilsands affects moose hunting — a food source and a connection to cultural traditions for many rural and Indigeno...
share.google
November 3, 2025 at 9:40 PM
A cool project I've had the pleasure of assisting with near the #Métis community of Conklin, Alberta in the heart of the #oilsands. share.google/e5zSO93rvG26...
#ymm
#ymm
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job
Researcher – Willow Springs Strategic Solutions
The Researcher will work closely with owners and staff to coordinate research on a number of projects with Indigenous clients.
DL: Oct 31
csn-rec.ca/job-postings...
@peterfortna.bsky.social
Researcher – Willow Springs Strategic Solutions
The Researcher will work closely with owners and staff to coordinate research on a number of projects with Indigenous clients.
DL: Oct 31
csn-rec.ca/job-postings...
@peterfortna.bsky.social
October 29, 2025 at 12:56 PM
job
Researcher – Willow Springs Strategic Solutions
The Researcher will work closely with owners and staff to coordinate research on a number of projects with Indigenous clients.
DL: Oct 31
csn-rec.ca/job-postings...
@peterfortna.bsky.social
Researcher – Willow Springs Strategic Solutions
The Researcher will work closely with owners and staff to coordinate research on a number of projects with Indigenous clients.
DL: Oct 31
csn-rec.ca/job-postings...
@peterfortna.bsky.social
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Where's the premier while MLAs rush through an all-night debate on stripping Albertans of their Charter rights?
An airport lounge, waiting for a flight to Saudi Arabia. She didn't even bother to show up for the vote.
I remember when conservatives turfed premiers for this level of hubris.
An airport lounge, waiting for a flight to Saudi Arabia. She didn't even bother to show up for the vote.
I remember when conservatives turfed premiers for this level of hubris.
October 28, 2025 at 2:34 AM
Where's the premier while MLAs rush through an all-night debate on stripping Albertans of their Charter rights?
An airport lounge, waiting for a flight to Saudi Arabia. She didn't even bother to show up for the vote.
I remember when conservatives turfed premiers for this level of hubris.
An airport lounge, waiting for a flight to Saudi Arabia. She didn't even bother to show up for the vote.
I remember when conservatives turfed premiers for this level of hubris.
When is our #ableg Premier going to start talking about protecting Canadian #oilsands workers and less about pie in the sky pipelines "North, South, East and West" that will only benefit shareholders, not workers. #ymm #yyc boereport.com/2025/10/23/c...
October 24, 2025 at 2:08 PM
When is our #ableg Premier going to start talking about protecting Canadian #oilsands workers and less about pie in the sky pipelines "North, South, East and West" that will only benefit shareholders, not workers. #ymm #yyc boereport.com/2025/10/23/c...
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job-Researcher
Willow Springs Strategic Solutions is seeking a candidate to fill a challenging position within a social science & environmental research company that works with & for Indigenous communities in AB & elsewhere in Canada
DL 10/31
csn-rec.ca/job-postings...
@peterfortna.bsky.social
Willow Springs Strategic Solutions is seeking a candidate to fill a challenging position within a social science & environmental research company that works with & for Indigenous communities in AB & elsewhere in Canada
DL 10/31
csn-rec.ca/job-postings...
@peterfortna.bsky.social
October 22, 2025 at 12:24 PM
job-Researcher
Willow Springs Strategic Solutions is seeking a candidate to fill a challenging position within a social science & environmental research company that works with & for Indigenous communities in AB & elsewhere in Canada
DL 10/31
csn-rec.ca/job-postings...
@peterfortna.bsky.social
Willow Springs Strategic Solutions is seeking a candidate to fill a challenging position within a social science & environmental research company that works with & for Indigenous communities in AB & elsewhere in Canada
DL 10/31
csn-rec.ca/job-postings...
@peterfortna.bsky.social
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job
Researcher – Willow Springs Strategic Solutions
Deadline for applications is October 31, 2025.
csn-rec.ca/job-postings...
Researcher – Willow Springs Strategic Solutions
Deadline for applications is October 31, 2025.
csn-rec.ca/job-postings...
October 9, 2025 at 2:31 PM
job
Researcher – Willow Springs Strategic Solutions
Deadline for applications is October 31, 2025.
csn-rec.ca/job-postings...
Researcher – Willow Springs Strategic Solutions
Deadline for applications is October 31, 2025.
csn-rec.ca/job-postings...
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job - Researcher
Willow Springs Strategic Solutions is seeking a candidate to fill a challenging position within a social science & environmental research company that works with & for Indigenous communities in Alberta and elsewhere in Canada.
csn-rec.ca/job-postings...
@peterfortna.bsky.social
Willow Springs Strategic Solutions is seeking a candidate to fill a challenging position within a social science & environmental research company that works with & for Indigenous communities in Alberta and elsewhere in Canada.
csn-rec.ca/job-postings...
@peterfortna.bsky.social
October 7, 2025 at 5:28 PM
job - Researcher
Willow Springs Strategic Solutions is seeking a candidate to fill a challenging position within a social science & environmental research company that works with & for Indigenous communities in Alberta and elsewhere in Canada.
csn-rec.ca/job-postings...
@peterfortna.bsky.social
Willow Springs Strategic Solutions is seeking a candidate to fill a challenging position within a social science & environmental research company that works with & for Indigenous communities in Alberta and elsewhere in Canada.
csn-rec.ca/job-postings...
@peterfortna.bsky.social
rivileged to be able to attend Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation's Decolonizing Land and Water Summit, facilitating conversation with ACFN Knowledge Holders Alice Rigney and Jimmy Deranger about the book: Remembering Our Relations: Dënesųłıné Oral Histories of Wood Buffalo National Park.
September 16, 2025 at 11:09 PM
rivileged to be able to attend Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation's Decolonizing Land and Water Summit, facilitating conversation with ACFN Knowledge Holders Alice Rigney and Jimmy Deranger about the book: Remembering Our Relations: Dënesųłıné Oral Histories of Wood Buffalo National Park.
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Part 2 of my #cdnhist thread on why it's bad history (and otherwise problematic) to say "“In the 1950s, high incomes were taxed at 90%, and government had abundant revenue. Our top rates are too low now. Raise them. Problem solved.”
Here's a link to part 1 bsky.app/profile/stil...
#cdnhist
Here's a link to part 1 bsky.app/profile/stil...
#cdnhist
"In the 1950s, high incomes were taxed at 90%, and government had abundant revenue. Our top rates are too low now. Raise them. Problem solved."
As a Cdn tax historian, I find this popular idea irritating. Equality of sacrifice? Sure! Abundant public revenue? Yay! But how?
A 🧵 w/sources #cdnhist
As a Cdn tax historian, I find this popular idea irritating. Equality of sacrifice? Sure! Abundant public revenue? Yay! But how?
A 🧵 w/sources #cdnhist
September 11, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Part 2 of my #cdnhist thread on why it's bad history (and otherwise problematic) to say "“In the 1950s, high incomes were taxed at 90%, and government had abundant revenue. Our top rates are too low now. Raise them. Problem solved.”
Here's a link to part 1 bsky.app/profile/stil...
#cdnhist
Here's a link to part 1 bsky.app/profile/stil...
#cdnhist
I guess it's a good thing that Canada's billionaires are racing to buy the HBC Charter to share with the great unwashed. Perhaps, with their newfound love of #cdnhist, they can now donate $ to provincial and national archives to make our history available to all.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Billionaire David Thomson wants to buy Hudson's Bay charter, donate it to Manitoba Archives | CBC News
Two of Canada's richest families appear poised for a battle over one of the country's most famed documents.
www.cbc.ca
August 21, 2025 at 8:49 PM
I guess it's a good thing that Canada's billionaires are racing to buy the HBC Charter to share with the great unwashed. Perhaps, with their newfound love of #cdnhist, they can now donate $ to provincial and national archives to make our history available to all.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Excited to be with our friends the Fort McKay #Métis Nation at their Metis Days celebration. Sharing copies of the recently completed book. If you can't make it down, remember you can buy or download your own copy from the @ucalgarypress.bsky.social here: press.ucalgary.ca/books/978177... #cdnhist
August 15, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Excited to be with our friends the Fort McKay #Métis Nation at their Metis Days celebration. Sharing copies of the recently completed book. If you can't make it down, remember you can buy or download your own copy from the @ucalgarypress.bsky.social here: press.ucalgary.ca/books/978177... #cdnhist
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Danielle Smith’s bizarre and dangerous experiment in vaccine rationing begins. albertapolitics.ca/2025/08/dani...
Danielle Smith’s bizarre and dangerous experiment in vaccine rationing begins - Alberta Politics
Alberta’s bizarre and dangerous experiment in vaccine rationing began yesterday with the appearance of a website where Albertans can register to be considered for COVID-19 immunization sometime in the...
albertapolitics.ca
August 12, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Danielle Smith’s bizarre and dangerous experiment in vaccine rationing begins. albertapolitics.ca/2025/08/dani...
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It was MINING & ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE week in my Canadian #envhist seminar today. Below is a short thread about what we read and watched ⛏️⚖️🧵
July 31, 2025 at 10:11 PM
It was MINING & ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE week in my Canadian #envhist seminar today. Below is a short thread about what we read and watched ⛏️⚖️🧵
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We have a roundup of the last 4 conversations of Season 5 of NiCHE Conversations w/ @jessicamdewitt.bsky.social
Find convos w/ Crystal Gail Fraser, @jdunkin.bsky.social, @ramya.bsky.social, Parineeta Dandekar, @peterfortna.bsky.social, & @arnkeeling.bsky.social
niche-canada.org/2025/08/01/n...
Find convos w/ Crystal Gail Fraser, @jdunkin.bsky.social, @ramya.bsky.social, Parineeta Dandekar, @peterfortna.bsky.social, & @arnkeeling.bsky.social
niche-canada.org/2025/08/01/n...
NiCHE Conversations Roundup #21
Find conversations about land, water, and Indigenous knowledge in the final four convos of Season Five of NiCHE Conversations with Jessica DeWitt
niche-canada.org
August 1, 2025 at 4:27 PM
We have a roundup of the last 4 conversations of Season 5 of NiCHE Conversations w/ @jessicamdewitt.bsky.social
Find convos w/ Crystal Gail Fraser, @jdunkin.bsky.social, @ramya.bsky.social, Parineeta Dandekar, @peterfortna.bsky.social, & @arnkeeling.bsky.social
niche-canada.org/2025/08/01/n...
Find convos w/ Crystal Gail Fraser, @jdunkin.bsky.social, @ramya.bsky.social, Parineeta Dandekar, @peterfortna.bsky.social, & @arnkeeling.bsky.social
niche-canada.org/2025/08/01/n...
Pleased to have provided evidence in the Wayne Cunningham v Sucker Creek First Nation 150A, 2025 FC 1174 which upheld the First Nation's Customary Election Regulation. decisions.fct-cf.gc.ca/fc-cf/decisi...
Cunningham v. Sucker Creek First Nation 150A - Federal Court
decisions.fct-cf.gc.ca
July 27, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Pleased to have provided evidence in the Wayne Cunningham v Sucker Creek First Nation 150A, 2025 FC 1174 which upheld the First Nation's Customary Election Regulation. decisions.fct-cf.gc.ca/fc-cf/decisi...