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To tell stories about Indigenous nations, we need to build capacity for Indigenous journalists in Canadian media — including Indigenous editors. That’s why this year, The Narwhal is hiring an Indigenous editorial fellow. Learn more and apply. #cdnmedia #journalismjobs thenarwhal.ca/2025-indigen...

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“The pattern [of the transgender pride flag] is such that no matter which way you fly it, it will always be correct. This symbolizes us trying to find correctness in our own lives.” American trans woman, Monica Helms, creator of the 🏳️‍⚧️. Might we all find the correctness to honour every body’s rights.

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This probably deserves some attention in English Canada.

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My weekend reading saves included a great journal article on nature prescriptions by @chrislemieux.bsky.social, along w/ PaRx proponent @drmelissalem.bsky.social & others. As I read and celebrated their scholarship I got to reflecting on my own work and this emerged: www.linkedin.com/pulse/tensio...

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👀 "The problem for Greenland is that the US wants its resources. If you don't give it willingly for empty promises then they're going to try and take it anyway. They'll probably do a Donbas, which is what I suspect they're likely to try in British Colombia [sic].” [1/2]

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@adamkahane.bsky.social will be soon releasing his new work, 𝙀𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙮𝙙𝙖𝙮 𝙃𝙖𝙗𝙞𝙩𝙨 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙏𝙧𝙖𝙣𝙨𝙛𝙤𝙧𝙢𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙎𝙮𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙢𝙨: 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝘾𝙖𝙩𝙖𝙡𝙮𝙩𝙞𝙘 𝙋𝙤𝙬𝙚𝙧 𝙤𝙛 𝙍𝙖𝙙𝙞𝙘𝙖𝙡 𝙀𝙣𝙜𝙖𝙜𝙚𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩. In the lead-up he’s been sharing elsewhere one per week of the seven everyday habits with a brief description. The last of these feels particularly 🎯 rn.

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“One learns a landscape finally not by knowing the name or identity of everything in it, but by perceiving the relationships in it-like that between the sparrow and the twig.” ~ Barry López, Crossing Open Ground

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Amplifying today, b/c …<gestures @ everything> “[At the heart of [ @richardpope.org’s book] is perhaps the biggest issue of our times: the question of how we maintain a healthy, democratic public realm in a digital society.” A worthy temptation for a book I hope all public workers read. 👇

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@blaine.bsky.social closed his #atmosphereconf @atprotocol.dev opening talk with this Ursula Franklin quote, which is oh so personally on the nose given the words “technology,” “democracy,” “justice,” and “power” (add “government”) are the axes about which my brain is perpetually spinning rn.

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Disappointed to come across this just as @blaine.bsky.social was wrapping, but happy to come on in time to hear him express his hope that the ATProtocol and aligned initiatives might “allow my fellow Canadians to have our own infrastructure, just as we have our own laws.” But +1, B.

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Re-emerging from - via a run as processing / transition - a wonderful and generative, though draining for this natural born introvert, week of meetings with my newly reconstituted team. Looking toward expansive renewed horizons with positivity.

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An only-half-joking suggestion: Those of us who’ve come to accept that all work in government now involves technology kick it like my teenagers and bring back 90s fashion, in our case returning to the term “eGov.” This time, though, the “e” is for effective, ie we drop this (othering) digital thing.

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Lots of positive discussion today, here and elsewhere, about government capacity, resilience, and effectiveness. Feeling and sending out optimism.

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The President of the United States is vowing to disappear students from college campuses who say things the government doesn't like. There are not enough alarms for this.

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General agreement with Jennifer’s point, which I’ll continue to amplify: 50.2% of Americans did not ask for this. So painting broad brushes over America, booing individual Americans (eg hockey players), etc. serves only division, which is the end game of Trump and their ilk. Let’s not.

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As it happens, you can see the world and still never see the people in it. ~The Message Ta-Nehisi Coates #SundaySentence

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"Embrace diversity. Unite— Or be divided, robbed, ruled, killed By those who see you as prey. Embrace diversity Or be destroyed." — Octavia E. Butler, 'Parable of the Sower'

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How we got <gestures socio-political landscape> here, in two sentences. For some related CanCon, see Louise Comeau’s (+others’) work on framing - see eg: www.sierraclub.ca/dont-let-can... Reading her 2008 MA thesis affected a mindset+career pivot for me: library-archives.canada.ca/eng/services...

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🧵(and a bonus on-point Ph.D. thesis)

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Today (& every day) I honour the Indigenous women putting their bodies on the line to protect our lands & waters, & those out searching back alleys & houses & forests for MMIWG2S+. And those testifying in a colonial court under threat & surveillance from those who should be protecting & serving. 💪🏽❤️

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This 👇. It’s time - it was time many years ago - to support the Studs Terkels of public service, to amplify the noble stories of the people working in service of publics and places. Some examples below. See also @humansofpublicservice.org in the US, @bluesky.sboots.ca wrote a CanCon series.

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Seems there’s a bit of a race on to claim the name of being the builders we need. I’m for people / groups / communicators like this: www.wethebuilders.org @altusds.bsky.social. Builders who’ve honed their craft, asked the people they claim to serve what they need. demonstrably delivered in context.

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In the words of a wise friend: When isolation, trauma & despair are weaponized; building community, helping people heal, & bringing hope are acts of resistance. Connect people. Resist bullies. Protect the vulnerable. Shine light on the fighters. Give yourself & others grace.

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Reflection: One of the things for which Musk is celebrated is his application of first principles thinking. However, in respect of what he is doing to the American government, he is applying the opposite. 🧵1/x

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Sitting in an airport reading the Weeknotes popping off from my teams as they end their days and post them into our open channels, reflecting on discussions in past days about improving governance, and feeling…hopeful. Thank yous to all who keep stoking the fires of inspiration & endurance. 🔥❤️🙏

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Canada, please read, and get engaged (and I don’t mean boycotting bourbon or booing blue state hockey players). “[Trump] told Trudeau he didn’t believe the treaty that demarcates the border between the two countries was valid & that he wants to revise the boundary.“ www.nytimes.com/2025/03/07/w...

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Great day today with a number of Canadian Deputy Ministers talking digital transformation & state capacity. Grateful to @hillaryh.bsky.social, @abadie.bsky.social, @rumon.bsky.social & Mike Bracken for sharing their wisdom & experience. And to the DMs for their candour and interest. Good convo.

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Been following and doing my best to emulate this team and their work for the entirety of this second of my terms of public service, now in its 10th year. I’ll happily keep following - working alongside - where they go next, and what more good they design and deliver for the world. ❤️‍🩹

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