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arnkeeling.bsky.social
He/him. Settler. Geographer at Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador. Historical+social aspects of mining in Northern 🇨🇦. Co-author, Mining Country: https://lorimer.ca/adults/product/mining-country.
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Pie here is next level… and that’s saying something! Calls em like they are: Trump Farage and other cronies are surrender monkeys and wankers of the very lowest order. youtube.com/watch?v=Jk0n...

Interesting Adam Bobette blog post on "poltical geology" in relations to critical minerals, from friends at the Beyond Hot Air dialogue: miningbeyondhotair.org/2025/02/05/w...

Yindjibarndi Ngurra Aboriginal Corporation seeking 1.8 billion Australian dollars ($1.15bn) in damages from WA after it allowed a mining firm to establish an iron ore project on its ancestral land without a land use deal, according to court filings. www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/2/...

Is the NYT high? Maybe they should try hiring some journalists.

Trust Charlie to, as Shoresy would say, set the tone.

I am at the NATO meetings in Brussels. Trump and Putin are plunging the world into dark chaos. Here is my dispatch from day one of the meetings. I decided that it was time to go over the boards for Canada. Please read and share. substack.com/home/post/p-...

Interview with sociologists Nathan Andrews and Memorial U’s Mark Stoddart on resource extraction, gree transition & communities. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

1. A common mistake is to look for ideological consistency on the far right, and to become confused when some of the things it claims to stand for sound positive and even progressive. Here’s a thread on how to understand this. 🧵

straight up

Since cancelling my @amazonstore.bsky.social account due to their anti-union actions in Quebec, I've had lots of fun finding ways to buy 🇨🇦 directly from retailers or through .ca sites. Buy union 💪 when you can, or 🇨🇦/local when you can't!

If you see this, quote post with a beach photo from your gallery.

We’re planning such great nerdy #EnvHist fun for CHESS 2025 at McMaster’s Wilson Institute for #CdnHist! This looks like the biggest CHESS in quite some time and we’re excited to welcome everyone to #TheHammer

A sad offshoot of the current flag-waving response to the US gov't is the resuscitation of this ardently colonial nation-building talk. Happening around resource development and Arctic militarization, too. If 🇨🇦s want to chart a diff't course from US we must do so with reconciliation at the ❤️.

"When a party like the Conservatives have no real social project, they rely on vacant nationalism and latent bigotry to fill in the gaps of what is being expressed." Bang on, @nolore.bsky.social As is the sentiment at the end: we need to be ready to fight this horseshit in the coming election.

Watching the Synanon documentary series and getting some real insight into America’s pathologies.

War is peace. Ignorance is strength. Freedom is slavery. Vote GOP.

LLMs don't read, they don't think, they don't feel, they are not capable of critical evaluation of the kind peer review is meant to foster. If the academic conversation is not conducted by unique human intelligences in community with each other, it ceases to matter. It is giving up.

Geographers, especially those who are members of @agu.org take note. Let them know you're watching.

I keep seeing people post that Canadian universities should scoop up all the American academics who are losing their research funding. I’m guessing these people have no idea what’s going on in Canadian universities after decades of deliberate underfunding.

“If you don’t want “O Canada” downgraded from an anthem to a land acknowledgement…” brilliant from @rjjago.bsky.social I love how this cuts both/many ways…

Great job by Ruben (@rubenbolling.bsky.social).

Great to see the work of geographer Rosemary Collard featured, challenging the industry canard about red tape killing mining projects. Most times, it’s just the market. But also: it’s imperative we have rules and that they’re followed… www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Any environmental historians working on the history of potash in Canada?#envhist #canhist #potash

We've made it to this platform too! Follow us to get the latest cutting-edge political ecology contributions (all OA with ZERO corporate profit)- and occasional rants against corporate publishing : journals.librarypublishing.arizona.edu/jpe/ @pollenetwork.bsky.social

Just cancelled my conference travel to the U.S. Feels great, although I'll miss connecting with my excellent and no doubt embattled colleagues there. But not spending 🇨🇦 tax dollars in the US for now, and certainly not in the red/swing state hosting the meeting.

Shameful. New evidence from an Alberta government report shows that four Canadian oil sands companies (Suncor, Syncrude, CNRL, and Imperial) endorse an elevated cancer risk for Indigenous communities from the release of tailings. albertawilderness.ca/oil-sands-co... #ABLeg #ABPoli #CDNPoli