Dani Paradis
@daniparadis.bsky.social
Journalist and assistant professor. DeSmog contributor. Citizen of the Alberta Métis Nation. Former high school goth. Podcast: The Place that Thaws
"The separatist movement is a bit like Mr. Kenney’s big blue truck: a powerful machine, but he didn’t know how to handle it." Been waiting for someone to say this the way @daniparadis.bsky.social just did. www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
Opinion: Jason Kenney is trying to stop the separatists. But he deserves some blame for their rise in the first place
As premier, he gave vent to some of the grievances that now animate the movement
theglobeandmail.com
"The separatist movement is a bit like Mr. Kenney’s big blue truck: a powerful machine, but he didn’t know how to handle it." Great piece from @daniparadis.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
Opinion: Jason Kenney is trying to stop the separatists. But he deserves some blame for their rise in the first place
As premier, he gave vent to some of the grievances that now animate the movement
theglobeandmail.com
Thank you @daniparadis.bsky.social! Yes! Jason Kenney is now trying to use a limp garden hose connected to a tap with water restrictions on a dumpster fire for which he provided the fuel and the matches. Some folks see through the glow up. www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
Opinion: Jason Kenney is trying to stop the separatists. But he deserves some blame for their rise in the first place
As premier, he gave vent to some of the grievances that now animate the movement
theglobeandmail.com
My company - we do First Nations data - crunched the numbers on gender and band governance. One big takeaway, all female band governments do more than 50% better than all male band governments. Details here: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
Wrote about Gertie Bernard, better known (sadly) as Grey Owl’s wife. danielleparadis.substack.com/p/anahareo-a...
A little story you aren’t seeing in mainstream US media about the role a Native American tribe played in shutting down Alligator Alcatraz. open.substack.com/pub/danielle...
Native Americans close Alligator Alcatraz
Tribal resistance against ICE
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More dead birds in Alberta's oilsands have led to questions about the government's plan to release treated tailings into rivers. @daniparadis.bsky.social reports on First Nations' concerns. thenarwhal.ca/alberta-oils...
More dead birds in Suncor, Imperial Oil’s Alberta tailings ponds | The Narwhal
As Alberta works on plans to treat and release tailings into rivers, downstream First Nations ring alarm bells over latest bird deaths
thenarwhal.ca
I sighed a card for my friend Geoff with “Happy Beoffday” and can’t stop thinking about how hilarious I am.
Watch or read about our Friday round table with @ryanjespersen.bsky.social and ponder our terrifying facial expressions on my substack. open.substack.com/pub/danielle...
The trio goes to Jespo
Celebrating/explaining journalism with BFFs
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Watch or read about our Friday round table with @ryanjespersen.bsky.social and ponder our terrifying facial expressions on my substack. open.substack.com/pub/danielle...
The trio goes to Jespo
Celebrating/explaining journalism with BFFs
open.substack.com
50 shades of separation. I’ve always said if white people get their own homeland it’ll be 15 minutes before they start fighting over hair colour or religion or like what side to start brushing your teeth on.
Max Fawcett@maxfawcett.bsky.social · 3mo agoL -- and I can't stress this enough -- OL.
My latest for Global News. Alberta voter list leak is a potential public safety disaster: enforcement experts | Globalnews.ca globalnews.ca/news/1182824...
My sister just text me about raisins that she “doesn’t mind them consensually” 💀
Girl from Weagamow Lake, Ontario, wearing a hare pelt coat. Photographed in 1956 by John Macie, part of ‘People of the Watershed,’ curated by Paul Seesequasis and touring at The Art Gallery of Sudbury from May 07 thru July 4. Details on in person curatorial presentation t/c.
NEW: A court has issued a stay in any certification of petition results or making referral to the Justice Minister until the court has ruled on applications by ACFN/Blackfoot nations. Decision does not impact the continued collection of signatures for the sovereignty petition
Just two dudes happy they get to disregard an Indigenous woman’s work out loud now. (Tagaq already has an Order of Canada from 2016)
Conservative men think women are private property. Leftist men think women are public property. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/19/u...
Cesar Chavez Avenue May Soon Be Gone. Yet to Be Confronted: His Legacy.
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Poilievre said this in his recent interview with Paul Wells, and received *zero* pushback. It sure would be nice if the folks interviewing him had some modicum of interest (and expertise) in the details around energy markets and policy. (You'll note Poilievre is *still* blaming Canada here)
150 years of the telephone and like 10 years of people being afraid to answer it.
A couple of Canadian journalists (myself included) have started a fundraiser for Trenth Ernst & Tumbler Ridgelines. Since the shooting, he's stopped writing. We're hoping to get him some short-term support for these hard times. Donate here: www.gofundme.com/f/support-tr...
Donate to Support Trent Ernst, local Tumbler Ridge, B.C. reporter, organized by Fatima Syed
We are a group of Canadian journalists who are looking to offer s… Fatima Syed needs your support for Support Trent Ernst, local Tumbler Ridge, B.C. reporter
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Fatima Syed@fatimabsyed.bsky.social · 6mo agoHeartbreaking to read these reflections for Tumbler Ridge local newsman Trent Ernst. All strength to him as the town he reports in and on daily enters the global spotlight. You can support his hyperlocal journalism (which continues to be so needed and so lacking) here: tumblerridgelines.com/support/
Misinformation about violence by transgender people is so rife that it literally has its own Wikipedia page, which includes actual stats with actual sources. Don’t give in to the politics of disinformation and hate. It only makes things worse. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misinfo...
Sure sex is great but have you have you tried watching the Patriots lose?
Girls be like: I needed this and it’s just the worst offensive plays by the Patriots of all time. #Superbowl
