Adele Perry
@adeleperry.bsky.social
historian, mother, settler, feminist, lousy speller. Based in Treaty One and Manitoba Act lands.
It’s a problem for a lot of people, myself included. I’ve bought kids rainwear, random housewares & food there over the years.
Winnipeg Free Press@winnipegfreepress.com · 5d agoA lot of Winnipeggers may shrug, but the end of Giant Tiger’s downtown store is a giant problem for many of the people living in the centre of the city.
It was an honour, and a challenge, to try and distill the life and work of trailblazing legal scholar Karen Busby into one story. In the end, maybe it comes down to this: somehow, she always found the time, most of all to be kind. www.winnipegfreepress.com/local/2026/0...
Scholar, educator and author Karen Busby tirelessly fought for groundbreaking human rights and social justice changes
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About 6,500 Manitoba Hydro customers — mainly in and around Winnipeg — were still without power Friday morning, more than 24 hours after severe thunderstorms rolled through southern areas.
Crews work to restore power to final 6,500 customers after storm
About 6,500 Manitoba Hydro customers — mainly in and around Winnipeg — were still without power Friday morning, more than 24 hours after severe thunderstorms rolled through southern areas.
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I believe this 100%. The moral injury of the period, the grief from not just the too and so many deaths but the kinds of lives we had before, the laying bare of disposability, the non covid deaths it sped, the institutional strain, the collective fear and distrust, the prioritization of work anyway
The Fig Economy@figgityfigs.bsky.social · last wk.One of my Crank Theories of Everything, at least of Everything in the Recent Past, is that we are dealing (badly) with COVID trauma we’d mostly prefer to pretend never happened.
Every ridiculous storm leaves me feeling hungover the next day, as we wade through downed trees and power outages. I know this is one moment in a long history of colonialsim’s climate impact - thank you @mediaindigena.bsky.social’s BFF series - but hoo boy, it is a loud & destructive one.
Mark Carney promised "elbows-up" nation-building. What Canadians are getting instead is a carve-out economy—where environmental protections, Indigenous rights, and labour standards are treated as obstacles to growth, write @shirip.bsky.social and Eve Saint.
The new rules of Carney’s carve-out economy
It has been one year since Mark Carney introduced the Building Canada Act in Parliament. Since then, a succession of new laws has hollowed out legal protections for the environment, Indigenous rights,...
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“The waters of the Williston Lake reservoir ended these first-hand experiences for all ages and for all time.” - Daniel Sims niche-canada.org/2026/02/23/w... #envhist #envhum #cdnhist #indigenoushistory #residentialschools #ecogenocide
When Environmental Genocide Met Other Forms of Genocide: The W.A.C. Bennett Dam and Lejac Indian Residential School
Lejac residential school and Williston Lake reservoir together devastated Tsek’ehne lands, culture, hope, magnifying colonial genocide’s enduring harms and disconnection.
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In the wake of ongoing drama & out-of-pocket interventions from ministers & board members, here is @yasmeenabulaban.bsky.social & Nir Hagigi on the importance of arms-length curatorial decisions and Canada’s Museum Act.
Yasmeen Abu-Laban (@yasmeenabulaban.bsky.social)
Professor of Political Science and Canada Research Chair at University of Alberta. Focused on anti-racism, immigration, citizenship and human rights. She/her.
yasmeenabulaban.bsky.social
CCPA — Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives@policyalternatives.ca · last wk.The campaign against the Canadian Museum for Human Rights’ Nakba exhibition shows why arm’s-length cultural institutions must be protected. www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...
First Nations observers raise flags about Prime Minister Mark Carney's newest senior advisor. Hear more on APTN News Brief:
APTN News Brief: Critics question PM's pick for sr. advisor infamous for inflammatory comments after 2016 shooting
Our lead story: some First Nations observers raise flags about Prime Minister Mark Carney's newest senior advisor, citing inflammatory comments Scott Gilmore wrote following a tragic 2016 shooting ...
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Something by @metismamamb.bsky.social to read as Winnipeg heads to civic election: www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews...
Opinion: Lights, sports and land: a wish list for West Broadway
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When the Roman Empire "fell", one of the big parts that was an actual problems was the end of aqueduct maintenance. Clean water is life.
Jason Read@jasonread.bsky.social · 2w agoI think that we have to admit that post-apocalyptic movies seriously underplayed how much diarrhea and disease are involved in social collapse.
Do listen to this masterful exposition of the links between trans-Atlantic slavery and Australian settler colonisation from the brilliant & meticulous Zoe Laidlaw (working with @janelydon.bsky.social) www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
How British slave money flowed to colonial Australia - ABC listen
In 1833, slavery in the British Empire was abolished, but not without a massive compensation scheme paid out to slave owners. Some of that money flowed to colonial Australia. Two-thirds of Australia's...
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Nine hundred wildfires are burning across Canada as of Wednesday, with several threatening communities and forcing residents to flee or prepare to evacuate at a moment’s notice. Here’s an overview of the current situation, in maps and charts: bit.ly/can-wildfire...
All things cops are out pushing panics about and giving the impression they're increasing dramatically. To expand their budgets. "Homicide, fraud and extortion all on the decline. What StatCan’s police-reported crime data reveals" www.cp24.com/news/canada/...
Homicide, fraud and extortion all on the decline. What StatCan’s police-reported crime data reveals
New data from Statistics Canada shows police-reported crime is down across the country.
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Yes. We’ve always known that it is really freaking hard to teach 300 people at a time & carry 3-3 plus teaching loads. LLMS have made this all the clearer. It all comes down to labour.
Benjamín Schultz-Figueroa@benjaminschultzfig.bsky.social · 3w agoAs with most problems effecting higher-ed, this one turns out to be a labor issue. In that vein, I'd propose another good deterrent for cheating with AI: strong faculty unions.
As Northwestern Ontario fires rage, First Nations leaders whose support is instrumental for developing the proposed Ring of Fire mines say they feel burned by poor communication and inaction. ricochet.media/indigenous/a... My latest for @ricochetmedia.bsky.social
Abandoned on the road to the Ring of Fire
In the path of raging forest fires, First Nations leaders say poor communication with the Ontario government is putting their communities at risk
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An interactive atlas of the British Empire's civil service: ~16,000 Colonial & India Office careers (1820–1966), every move an arc across the map. Rebuilt from the digitized Indian and Colonial Office Lists with a knowledge graph. WIP, feedback welcome: jimclifford.ca/col_matching/
Think about this the next time you feel like complaining about smoke in the south.
Winnipeg Free Press@winnipegfreepress.com · 3w agoOTTAWA – A small Ontario First Nations community that was burned to the ground by a raging wildfire on Monday is being deprived of the help it needs because the federal government doesn’t recognize it as a First Nation, the community’s lawyer said.
Twelve metres of museum space www.winnipegfreepress.com/opinion/anal...
Opinion: Twelve metres of museum space
It is striking that one of the smallest exhibitions at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights in Winnipeg has generated one of the largest public controversies in the museum’s history. Palestine Uproote...
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To be a historian is to speak ill of the dead and the rest of you should take more history classes and join us.
In this new blog I show how Paul Marshall (GB News, The Spectator, UnHerd) and Michael Gove are frustrated by @willdalrymple.bsky.social’s erudite & rival influence on the public’s historical understanding. Also, how the British Empire is *really* taught in schools: alanlester.co.uk/blog/teachin...
Teaching the British Empire: Experts Versus The Spectator
Alan Lester The Spectator’s owner Paul Marshall and its editor Michael Gove are afraid of William Dalrymple. His sequence of books on colonial India that have sold millions, his Empire podcast with…
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As a researcher and even just as an inquiring human, I would take a basic search engine circa 2015 above any of today’s ai-addled machines.
Hoo boy is the t Swift wedding is making clear exactly how bad genAI can be.
Just out-- written with my colleague #AbigailBakan From the Globe and Mail: The Canadian Museum for Human Rights’ Nakba exhibit can serve as a site for solidarity - www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
Opinion: The Canadian Museum for Human Rights’ Nakba exhibit can serve as a site for solidarity
Exhibit was product of deeply meaningful relationships between Palestinian, Jewish communities in Canada, and it can show how anti-racism can be achieved
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Asking how people can partake in joyful acts during a period of immense suffering leads me to believe this is your first time at the suffering rodeo.
Powerlessnessmaxxing: watching the country careen toward unfettered oil and gas production as the country burns and drowns simultaneously, while people scream “yeah well he’s better than Poilievre” in your ear
On June 30, 2026, MP for Winnipeg Centre, Leah Gazan, issued the following statement about the Winnipeg Police drug sweeps. Read the statement here:
Statement from MP Leah Gazan on Winnipeg Police Drug Sweeps
MP for Winnipeg Centre
leahgazan.ca