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miki_lou

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Water protector, seeker of justice, and democracy defender living where Treaty 8 and 11 Territories meet in northern Canada. Active in non-government communities while keeping a watchful eye on government.

#Canada #Arctic #Justice #Democracy #WaterisLife #ClimateBreakdown #Books #IndigenousPeoples

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pussreboots, to bookstodon
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Tell me you're a Canadian book without telling me you're a Canadian book. :)

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miki_lou,
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@pussreboots @bookstodon

miki_lou, to climate
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"Not talking about the connection between -caused natural disasters isn’t leading to long-term answers to these tragic challenges. It is hampering our efforts to find solutions. Staying silent won’t lead to the action needed to address these tragic events. It simply perpetuates the crisis." https://environmentaldefence.ca/2024/05/15/why-we-must-talk-about-climate-change-when-things-are-on-fire/

mondoweiss, to Palestine
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Joe Biden's claim that Hamas’s October 7 attacks were “driven by ancient desire to wipe out the Jewish people" is ahistorical and dangerous. In fact, Jewish history shows that antisemitism is a Western problem.

https://mondoweiss.net/2024/05/the-ancient-desire-to-kill-jews-is-not-hamass-its-the-wests/


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miki_lou,
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@mondoweiss @palestine @israel Good grief!!! Nothing justifies the #genocide by #imprisonment, #starvation and murder of a people. Nothing.

#Palestine #Israel #uspol

miki_lou, to random
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"It's a tactic that we often see oil and gas companies use — trying to split up project assessments so it's piecemeal and it misses the cumulative risks," https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/pathways-alliance-environmental-impact-assessment-1.7205052?__vfz=medium%3Dsharebar

br00t4c, to Energy
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Oil company asks judge to arrest and jail Cree chief leading Alberta blockade

https://ricochet.media/indigenous/oil-company-asks-judge-to-arrest-and-jail-cree-chief-leading-alberta-blockade/

miki_lou,
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@br00t4c are colonial tools that erase rights and title in .

AnnaAnthro, to random
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RiP Alice Munro obituary | Alice Munro | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/may/14/alice-munro-obituary

miki_lou,
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@AnnaAnthro The article says Munro never embraced the novel. I would argue that she did; her short stories were novels (or perhaps novellas). The completeness and depth of her short stories made them so compelling. The incompleteness and shallowness of so many short stories are a reason I mostly don't like that genre. Munro was the best. RIP .

miki_lou, to Writers
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's annual festival Northwords features authors, northern , visual , , artists. It's going to be great! https://northwordsnwt.com/2024-festival/

miki_lou, to Norway
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"'s Supreme Court is deliberating on a case that could grant local control over a vast area in the country's far north — and set a groundbreaking precedent for land rights in Europe." https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/karasjok-norway-indigenous-1.7189214

miki_lou, to Canada
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This is wrong! "Major industrial resource projects under provincial jurisdiction that spew massive amounts of emissions will no longer trigger federal — a move that's angering groups." https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/environmental-assessments-climate-change-1.7192998

Snowshadow, to news
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When a leader tells you he wants to be a dictator believe him.

"Love the idea or hate it, experts say federal use of notwithstanding clause would be a bombshell"
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"I will be the democratically elected prime minister, democratically accountable to the people," he said. "And👉 they can then make the judgments themselves on whether they think my laws are constitutional, because they will be."👈
[not the courts!!]

@gemelliz

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/historic-potential-notwithstanding-federal-use-1.7193180?cmp=rss

miki_lou,
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@Snowshadow @gemelliz The GOP operatives and corporate lobbyists running the Conservative Party in Canada are not even bothering to alter the American fascist playbook for Canadian purposes. A dictator is a dictator.

miki_lou, to Alberta
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Another #CarbonCapture scam. https://environmentaldefence.ca/2024/05/01/statement-in-response-to-another-failed-carbon-capture-project/
#abpoli #Alberta #cdnpoli #climatecrisis

miki_lou, to climate
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The power of !

https://www.thebeaverton.com/2024/04/poilievre-promises-if-elected-climate-change-will-be-the-least-of-our-worries/

lunalein, to books
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2023 in #books, inspired by https://shereads.com/traci-thomas-best-books-of-2023/ and I'd love to see other people answer these, too!

Two books I loved, part 1: Honeybees and Distant Thunder by Riku Onda, which is about four entrants in a classical piano competition in Tokyo, and the characters are all interesting and charming but best of all it just has wonderful writing about music -- like the title itself as a description of how a particular player makes a particular piece sound. It's beautiful, and unlike many books with multiple POVs, I loved all the protagonists equally and was never annoyed by a switch at the wrong time. Just beautiful stuff.

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miki_lou,
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@lunalein @bookstodon #AmReading Land of Milk and Honey. Very graphic, colourful and sensuous writing! A celebration of food in times of #ecosystems destruction, #ecoanxiety, #foodinsecurity and extreme #inequality Thanks for the recommendation. #books #reading #FridayReads #bookstodon #SpeculativeFiction

claudiac, to books

📖 Every book lover has a TBR list a mile long. 📚 What's next on your to-be-read list?

Let's talk about the books that you can't wait to read! 📣

#books #read #tobereadlist #whatarereading

miki_lou,
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@penpencilbrush @claudiac @bookstodon Have to thank you again for recommending Blackwells. Although I am a solid supporter of my local independent bookstore and public library sometimes they just can't get books that aren't published in Canada or in North America. Blackwells delivered Hannah Kent's wonderful #historicalFiction Devotion and Maggie Shipstead's excellent Astonish Me. So grateful to finally have the opportunity to read these marvellous #books. #Reading

kcfromaustcrime, to books
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Couple of bookclub gatherings ago, we read Devotion by Hannah Kent. Amazing experience.

https://bookwyrm.social/book/435971/review#reviews

Everything in this story is leading somewhere amazing. It's emotional, beautiful, touching, surprising and so incredibly moving. Sniffed, snuffled and out and out cried my way through the last part of this book.




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miki_lou,
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@kcfromaustcrime @bookstodon Finally got hold of this beautifully written multi-levelled love story. Like her other two brilliant novels of , she shows she has done the research and thinking and internalized the stories and feelings of the time and place as well as the relentless control and persecution of the feminine and the 'other'. This 3rd novel is personal for Kent. Highly recommend it.

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