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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: Mining, Pollution, and Resistance in Yellowknife https://www.mqup.ca/Books/T/The-Price-of-Gold
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#Yellowknife people: We're in town for the launch of The Price of Gold: Mining, Pollution, and Resistance in Yellowknife! If you're in town, join us at the Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Centre, Thursday Oct. 16 at 6:30 p.m. for a discussion of the book with the authors and local guests.
October 14, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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Less than a week now until this exciting panel at The Nexus Centre @memorialu.bsky.social! Our book The Price of Gold is featured as part of the series, HSS Understanding Our Worlds. This is a hybrid event: connection details on poster. We're honoured to have such a great panel comment on our work.
Poster for event reads: HSS Understanding our worlds Monday, September 29, 12:30-1:45 NST (11 a.m.-12:15 EST). A Roundtable on The Price of Gold: Mining, Pollution, and Resistance in Yellowknife, by John Sandlos and Arn Keeling. Respondents: Pamela Klassen (Religion, UToronto); Katłı̨̀ą (Catherine) Lafferty (Dene writer, legal scholar, environmental advocate); Tina Loo (History, UBC); Sarah Perry (History, McMaster); Max Viatori (Anthropology, MUNL). Image shows headshots of respondents and book cover depicting a smokestack releasing emissions against a gold background.
September 24, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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“AI comment not a political one.” 🙄

This is the kind of tech-bro nonsense that passes for insight in the AI world. No surprise these guys all end up as technofascists.
LinkedIn post reads: This is a AI comment not a political one* Canada increasing population is a risky move. Currently Canada imports workers mostly to subsidize business with low wage labor. But we will soon see what AI experts coined as “The Great Dislocation” as swaths of white collar workers lose employment due to AI driven advances. At this point, without interventions like UBI (which is infeasible to support displaced knowledge workers) we will have a massive increase in job seekers looking for any source of employment to support their families, even going back to entry level and labor jobs. Just wait for the the displaced paralegal or MBA graduate to be in competition for work at Tim Hortons. Businesses will have the cheapest labour in decades as many stuggle to survive. The best off countries will the one ones with high resource bases and low populations. Canada is well positioned.
September 8, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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It’s really real! Exciting to see The Price of Gold in print. Pre-order yours today! @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social
September 2, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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Hey look! Our forthcoming book, The Price of Gold, is today's book giveaway in @hilltimes.com:

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Copy reads: "This week's book giveaway: The Price of Gold: Mining, Pollution, and Resistance in Yellowknife." This week's book giveaway is The Price of Gold: Mining, Pollution, and Resistance in Yellowknife by John Sandlos and Arn Keeling, and published by McGill-Queen's University Press. "The Price of Gold traces the troubling history of one of Canada's most contaminated site but also the inspiring story of Indigenous, labour, and environmental activists who resisted the ongoing poisoning of their communities," reads the back-jacket blurb. This week's book question: When and why did Giant Mine close in Yellowknife? Please send your responses to trivia@hilltimes.com by NOON ET today and the lucky winner's name will be drawn. Good luck.
July 22, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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June 12, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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Now *that’s how you end a workshop. Paddlin’ with @historiamagoria.bsky.social at #CHESS2025 @nichecanada.bsky.social
June 1, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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Not a bad place to spend a few days in the company of amazing @munlgeog.bsky.social grad students!
In the foreground a rocky beach lapped by gentle waves. In the distance loom large, bare, snow-covered hills called the Tablelands in Gros Morne National Park, Newfoundland A rocky foreshore slopes down towards darker, sun-dappled bay waters. A rocky beach extends along the right side of the frame, a few houses just above the shoreline. Across the bay (frame left), dark, snow-capped hills loom. Between them the inlet extends to the horizon.
May 13, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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Geography and geographers are everywhere! I’m readying to listen to Inuit throat singing duo PIQSIQ in the Von Humboldt Sal in the Staatsbibliothek Berlin.
Photo across a crowd facing front of a large, high ceiling hall, with a blue abstract image projected against a wall.
February 27, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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If you see this, quote post with a beach photo from your gallery.
Foreground: a small corgi-terrier cross on a wet sandy beach. Background: low waves lap the shoreline, in the further distance a bank of clouds and blue-ish mountains in the distance.
February 13, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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Beagles FTW.
Two two-coloured beagles are playing while reclined on a duvet, facing away from the viewer. One dog is lying on its side the other on its belly.
February 11, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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A message from Lenin: “He who does not work does not eat.” Handily printed on a ceramic plate.

Anyway, tell that to my dogs.
Wall-mounted ceramic plate from the early Soviet era, depicting Lenin, a red star with hammer and sickle inset and other images with Russian script. In large letters around the edge, it reads (in Russian), He who does not work does not eat.
January 14, 2025 at 1:53 AM
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I live in Newfoundland which is, I dunno, 30 per cent bog? We likes our bogs here: we have urban bogs, bogs around the bay, and bogs in the vast interior few have seen. The provincial flower is the pitcher plant, a beautiful carnivorous bog flower.

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December 17, 2024 at 10:12 PM
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Don’t really go to the Xitter much these days, much less engage. But here’s an Alberta hero telling it like it is, like he’s always done. Worth daring over here.
X post from Corb Lund reads: Hey Alberta. U like being on the hook for billion$ for orphan wells? You're gonna LOVE selenium contaminated rivers and ground water from coal mines. Same AB regulator oversees both. 100% taxpayers'll be paying 4 massive cleanup when the foreign mining cos go home. Old playbook.
November 29, 2024 at 5:01 AM
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Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #644,300!

Nice round number, I guess? I’m not really an early adopter of much…
September 17, 2024 at 11:26 PM
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Excited to receive my physical copy of the BC Studies special issue marking the 10th anniversary of the Mt Polley mine tailings disaster. Lots of great contributors, including my own (w co-author Nolan Foster on the history of tailings pollution in B.C.).
Cover of the special issue of BC Studies depicts artwork of a spray paint can labelled LAND
September 4, 2024 at 11:21 AM
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Visited a wonder of the (mining) world yesterday: the "dome" or concentrate shed at Deception Bay, used by Raglan Mine for nickel transshipment in Nunavik. Once the largest wooden frame structure in the world, originally built in the 70s to service the Asbestos Hill mine. Enormous!
Exterior of the "dome" at Deception Bay, a massive corrugated iron-clad shed that looks like an oversized quonset. Interior of the dome, showing he vaulted ceiling and wooden beams and cross-braces. Ore concentrate haul trailer in the foreground. Yes, it's wood! A closeup of the laminated wooden beamwork. The portal of the dome at Deception Bay, showing the wooden framing. Inside is another, smaller dome that is the where nickel concentrate is unloaded for shipping.
May 31, 2024 at 11:50 AM
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As memorialized by A.Y. Jackson in Radium Mine (1938):

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November 24, 2023 at 8:15 PM
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Across the North, I give you: the headframe.
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November 24, 2023 at 8:11 PM
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Aw, nice beagle! This is Bougie, the handle she came with when we adopted her from France (St. Pierre, off Newfoundland to be precise). Nothing to do with class politics; Bougie means candle or spark plug en Francais 🇫🇷🇫🇷
September 21, 2023 at 11:15 AM