Adele Perry

The last few years have felt like living through the interwar period: the pandemic that wouldn’t end, the facism, the rising racism, the rollbacks on change’s to women and girls’ rights, the ecological crisis the populist demagoguery - and I would like this timeline to end, thank you very much.

It’s a good day to look up how many provincial governments are elected for a fourth term.

Birth control and abortion are way more accessible than they were when I was young, and people don’t die from AIDS. We owe much of this to feminist and queer activists. 👊

Interested to learn whether Bill C-37, the First Nations Clean Water Act, will protect the human right to safe water? On Thursday, November 12 at 6:00 pm join us at The Forks where we'll hear from Leah Gazan, Stewart Hill, Ramona Milliea, and Niigaan Sinclair on the Act and its implications.

The fetishisation of "debate" as some sort of grand public good that everyone should do is so thoughtless and jarring to me because the more you actually do it the more it becomes apparent that genuinely constructive debate is actually a pretty niche thing.

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This Alberta stuff is just so embarrassing.

Water is life, and life is not negotiable. Neither are Indigenous rights. As the Liberal government tries to deny the basic human right to water, undermine Constitutional rights and eliminate critical environmental protections... (1/2)

We are learning a lot about where facism comes to sit in this place, and in these times.

Keep your eyes on Ottawa, on old plans to take Indigenous lands are being dresses up in new clothes. See @niigaanwewidam.bsky.social in the Freep: www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews...

Anyway, yall know all this stuff. The real point is that we all know this stuff but they keep making this AI thing that pretends we don’t know this stuff. the word for that is power.

Imagine not being able to trust your tap water? APTN News: Answers looks at the ongoing challenges surrounding access to clean drinking water and the long-term impact of these long-term advisories. Watch: youtu.be/YSrVlP0G8CI

Technology enthusiasts severely overestimate the average person’s desire or willingness or capacity to build and use AI agents. I understand some work roles that could mandate or encourage it but that is no way a tech revolution. Agents are best for structured, clearly delineated tasks.

When Prime Minister Mark Carney’s government proposed overhauling environmental assessments and major project approvals last spring, they were warned against centralizing power and infringing on Indigenous Rights. Critics say Bill C-39 does just that.

Karen Dubinsky, Professor Emerita of History and Global Development Studies at Queen’s U, passed away on 4 Sept. 2026 after a brief illness. Karen was a longtime supporter of—and contributor to—Active History. We mourn her loss, even as we celebrate her life. Post by Susan Lord and Scott Rutherford

For those unable to join @niigaanwewidam.bsky.social and I and contributors for the Winnipeg launch of Truth Before Reconciliation, the event was recorded and is now available: m.facebook.com/story.php?st...

I’m thinking more than usual about Jarett Rudy these days: utppublishing.com/doi/10.3138/...

A new report from British Columbia's Human Rights Commissioner says First Nations reserves are four times more likely to face wildfires than non-reserve communities in the province.

"The Independent Investigation Unit of Manitoba (IIU) is investigating serious injuries sustained by an adult female passenger of a civilian vehicle involved in a collision during a police pursuit." www.iiumanitoba.ca/pdf/bulletin...

Thinks we shouldn’t underestimate the extent of ecological crisis in the interwar period & the extent to which it conditioned the emergence of facism in those years.

There is a lot to say here, and one of them is how easy it is to disappear Indigenous peoples and histories from national narratives & how available the language race, national, and empire remains.

BREAKING! "Saddle Lake Cree Nation is asserting its Treaty rights and jurisdiction to provide safe refuge for those seeking and providing gender-affirming care. Any Albertan will be able to access gender-affirming care on Saddle Lake Cree Nation reserved lands and territories"

Trump’s ‘renaming’ of Lake Ontario is emblematic of centuries of colonial erasure

Colonial naming and renaming is and always has been nonsensical and self-aggrandizing. Pointing out that Trump’s renamings are absurd doesn’t address the extent they breathe life into an old powerful colonial act.

We'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 🙂)

Jennifer Nelson’s entry to this year’s Minnesota State Fair crop art

One of Dolly Parton’s lessons is how to hold on to the fullness of humanity amid relentless, shaming, belittling sexism. She did not them win.

critical to remember that for a lot of dolly's adult life she was a punchline - the reverence is recent. nevertheless she persisted etc

Last year saw the second-worst wildfire season on record, with 165 emergency events impacting 134 First Nations. More than 40,000 people were evacuated by mid-August from at least 83 communities.

I return to my long standing thought that someone should really do an ethnography of open letters.

Now maybe we can support Cuba or stop building pipelines as the country burns, she thought hopefully.

This thread right here.

Super interesting look at the rising rate of evacuations in the Northwest Territories:

Small town BC liquor store. Clerk looks at what I’ve chosen and I mutter that I’m only buying wine from Summerland and she says, I know. Watching these places burn every damn summer is just so much.

Well done, government.

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...

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.

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.