@mollstoll.bsky.social
(she/her) political economy grad interested in all things food fan of benito antonio ocasio martinez
Weakening environmental protections to fast-track resource extraction is so late 2012. Relive the emergence of the Indigenous-led #IdleNoMore movement in the two-part APTN News docuseries I co-created with @anishinaboy.bsky.social 🎬Now at 40,000 views + counting! Pt 1 👇 youtu.be/VHgGbW6exB4?...
The Power Was With Us: Idle No More - Part 1
YouTube video by APTN News
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i’ve always been very resistant to downloading apps, genuinely find it really irritating to have repeatedly put ahead of us. so i regret to admit that almost every app i have downloaded ha dummy life a sap much easier
as someone afflicted by ragweed allergies who also hates the cold, this is very bittersweet
“Reconciliation prompted us to relinquish negative feelings over the past, but many, including myself, were not willing to do that. Because we have not severed from the past. The past endures,” says Billy-Ray Belcourt in an interview about his latest book.
Billy-Ray Belcourt’s Poems Insist on Indigenous Freedom
In his first poetry collection since 2019, the acclaimed author from Driftpile Cree Nation challenges readers to imagine new political possibilities…
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Thanks, Molly. I also wrote more about our project here: contactingconnie.substack.com/p/who-is-pro...
Who is protected by the destruction of Indian Residential School records?
“There’s not a single Indigenous person in Canada, who has not been touched by the legacy of Residential Schools.” - Justice Murray Sinclair, Chair of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC)
contactingconnie.substack.com
no one knows how to dress on wet muggy day like this. i’m in shorts and someone next to me on the streetcar was in a floor length puffy
"About reconciliation, there is no such thing. We can’t go back to a good time to begin again because there never was a 'good' time. But conciliation – kwaysk astaswin – to put things right. I can do that if someone is willing to work with me. I love my babies and I want a better world for them."
Maria Campbell's seminal memoir Halfbreed remains urgently necessary | Quill and Quire
First published in 1973, Maria Campbell's memoir of growing up as a "halfbreed" sheds light on what life was like for a Métis woman in 20th-century colonial Canada. Close to 50 years later, in the era...
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today at the brick works, event/launch of project (Protecting Indian Residential School Records). hearing from Connie Walker, Murray, Marie Wilson & Stephen Kakfwi on the pending destruction of Survivors’ records and what’s at stake @miskoaki.bsky.social @conniewalker.bsky.social
"Joyce Echaquan was a 37-year-old Atikamekw woman who died on September 28, 2020, in the Centre Hospitalier de Lanaudière in Saint-Charles-Borromée, Quebec... she recorded a Facebook Live video that showed her screaming in pain while healthcare workers abused her and made derogatory comments..."
Death of Joyce Echaquan - Wikipedia
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the number of shitty PR emails I've gotten recently that are using Orange Shirt Day as a hook for things that have nothing to do with residential school survivors or history is appalling. even worse now than it was four years ago, when I wrote this: indiginews.com/first-person...
Orange Shirt Day is not about buying orange shirts - Indiginews
Corporations are trying to turn reconciliation into a transaction — we need to disentangle its meaning from the act of shopping
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"...the Colonies are the breeding-ground for the type of fascist mentality which is being let loose in Europe today… The fight against fascism cannot be separated from the right of all colonial peoples and subject races to Self-Determination." -George Padmore, How Britain Rules Africa (1936)
CFJC Today Kamloops@cfjctoday.bsky.social · 2w ago
RIP to the Mighty Sparrow ... 2026 continues to take the wrong ones. 💔🇹🇹 I interviewed him in 2010 about his advice for hopeful calypso monarchs www.thestar.com/news/gta/car...
Caribana: Advice for future Calypso Monarchs
In advance of Saturday night’s competition, calypso greats and previous winners offer their advice and tips.
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EXCLUSIVE: Inside the contract to rip out Toronto’s bike lanes Spacing has obtained the RFP for the Ford government's bike lane removal, and it looks even worse than thought. spacing.ca/toronto/2026... #toronto #bikes #torontobike @cycletoronto.bsky.social
EXCLUSIVE: Inside the contract to rip out Toronto's bike lanes - Spacing Toronto
After the Ontario Court of Appeal (ONCA) shot down CycleTO’s legally innovative charter challenge that sought to stop Doug Ford’s attack on the city’s bike lanes, Queen’s Park wasted little time befor...
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Legend indeed. The novelette ‘The Mighty Slinger’ by me and @tobiasbuckell.bsky.social (about calypsonians in space) was titled in homage to the Mighty Sparrow (real name: Slinger Francisco). nationnews.com/2026/09/27/c...
Calypso legend Mighty Sparrow dies at 91
Trinidad and Tobago's calypso fraternity is mourning the loss of one of its most celebrated figures, Slinger Francisco, the legendary performer known
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Not only did these incel pieces of shit gather at Tk’emlups to intimidate and harass our neighbours, they demonstrated in at least 2 locations in Kamloops. They are here to publicly deny the truth of residential schools. CW on next post>>> cfjctoday.com/2026/09/27/a...
Apparent white nationalist gathering spotted on Tkʼemlúps reserve Sunday
TK'EMLUPS - A post on social media appears to show a group of masked individuals gathered on the Tkemlps te Se...
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bizarre to me that so much reporting on housing fails to interrogate the assumptions that homeowners (1) should always get to approve of changes to their neighbourhood (2) should be protected by government from any possible decline in property values www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Toronto needs more homes. These neighbours say they're paying the price | CBC News
An elderly downtown couple says they’re shocked and upset that the city has approved a duplex next door to their three-story Victorian home that they say will tower metres above their chimney and rend...
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Today in Pervert Glasses News: www.lemonde.fr/en/pixels/ar...
Paris prosecutors launch probes into non-consensual filming of women with smart glasses
Prosecutors pointed to a 'growing trend on social media involving women being filmed on the street with smart glasses without their consent and the videos being published online.'
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trying to figure out which version of the miracle worker I watched as a kid. they all include the same well scene and 2/3 star Patty Duke…. plays Helen in the 1962 version, and then plays the miracle worker in the 1979 version
The book launch last night was an elegant choir of black radical and critical thought. The Practicing Refusal Collective have done us a great service producing this book. www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/762424...
Thinking From Black: A Lexicon by Practicing Refusal Collective | Penguin Random House Canada
"A monumental reflection in time, through blackness into light." Steve McQueen, artist and Academy Award-winning filmmaker “Thinking from Black performs the unworlding needed for alternate futures. It...
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feeling attack from all sides (inbox being bombarded with emails from both tiff and ticketmaster about my upcoming screenings) keep missing the freebie or discounted giveaways because my inbox is out of control
law and order this week, the bear’s carmy playing strip poker, and mr robot’s irving on trial for murder
on a drive back to the city, tormented my mum (already audiobook hesitant) by starting an audiobook set in trinidad narrated by someone who is not from the west indies on
“a senior Nepali official said his country had requested urgent help from the United Nations’ special fund for climate-disaster recovery…. The U.S., historically the largest emitter of greenhouse gases, pledged $17.5 million under President Biden but then exited the fund under President Trump.”
Nepal Puts Cost of Disaster at $5 Billion, Blaming Climate Change
The country is seeking urgent help from a special U.N. climate fund, but the program lacks money because the United States and others have been reluctant to contribute.
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tiff really came out and said to it’s members, we don’t care about your loyalty, here’s some scraps
I've been staying off Bluesky lately because I'm on a deadline for a project examining the history of colonial map making in the Great Lakes region, so image my reaction when one of the first posts I see when I come back is MapQuest trolling the President of the United States
MapQuest@mapquest.com · 2mo agoWe're not changing the name of Lake Ontario. Name it whatever you want at your leisure: https://gulfof.mapquest.com/lakeontario (tag us so we can see your work 🙂)
veep on law and order, back to back episodes with roger furlong and amy brookheimer