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Arn Keeling

@arnkeeling.bsky.social

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He/him. Settler. Geographer at Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador. Historical+social aspects of mining in Northern 🇨🇦. Co-author, The Price of Gold: https://www.mqup.ca/price-of-gold--the-products-9780228026174.php

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Arn Keeling @arnkeeling.bsky.social · Jul 22

Want a preview of our book, The Price of Gold, with @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social ? Check out our article in @theconversation.com today:

theconversation.com/yellowknifes...

Yellowknife’s Giant Mine: Canada downplayed arsenic exposure as an Indigenous community was poisoned

Colonialism, corporate greed and lax regulation led to widespread pollution, particularly affecting Yellowknives Dene communities.

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Arn Keeling @arnkeeling.bsky.social · 4h

#Yellowknife people: We're in town for the launch of The Price of Gold: Mining, Pollution, and Resistance in Yellowknife! If you're in town, join us at the Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Centre, Thursday Oct. 16 at 6:30 p.m. for a discussion of the book with the authors and local guests.

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Jacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 8h

In 1972, a whistleblower leaked to the press the details of the highly unethical & racist Tuskegee Syphilis Experiments run by the United States Public Health Service. Because of that (and other unethical experiments) Congress passed the National Research Act of 1974, which includes the IRB process.

HELLody SchreiBOO @melodyschreiber.com · 10h

The entire HR department at the CDC is gone. Everyone at the IRB, which makes sure studies are conducted ethically and rigorously, and the ethics office, which oversee conflicts of interest for CDC leaders and advisory committee members, were also let go.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

‘Instability and confusion’ as CDC slashes 1,300 jobs before reinstating half

Trump administration says 700 notices were sent in error, while top CDC officer says ‘they didn’t think through what they were doing’

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Martin Z. Olszynski @molszyns.bsky.social · 8h

The last time Alberta proposed to subsidize O&G’s closure liabilities, ScotiaBank warned that it flew in the face of “the core capitalist principle that private cos shld take full responsibility for the liabilities they willingly accept”.

Indeed. Yet it’s the same in O&G jurisdictions everywhere.🤔

Energy vs Climate Podcast @energyvsclimate.bsky.social · 4d

LIVE Oct 16 - Drill & Dash: The Oil & Gas Liability Crisis
@molszyns.bsky.social, Associate Professor at the University of Calgary, joins EvC to unpack Alberta's mounting energy liability crisis.

Register and join on October 16 at 4pm ET/2pm MT:
www.energyvsclimate.com/invite-drill...

You're Invited - Drill & Dash: The Oil & Gas Liability Crisis with Martin Olszynski | Oct 16 at 4pm ET

Who'll be left paying the tab? Martin Olszynski, Associate Professor and Chair in Energy, Resources, & Sustainability at the University of Calgary, joins Energy vs Climate to unpack Alberta's mountin...

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Arn Keeling @arnkeeling.bsky.social · 16h

From waste to value?

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How one company is making money – and jewelry – from abandoned mine sites | CBC News

Remediation project looks to recover money and metals from abandoned mines across the Yukon, Alaska and B.C.

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Arn Keeling @arnkeeling.bsky.social · 3d

Planning for workforce adjustment and retraining while mine closure is happening is already too late.
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Leaders concerned for laid-off Ekati workers as mine owner awaits tariff relief | CBC News

The N.W.T. Government, Tlicho Government and Yellowknives Dene First Nation are partnering to support laid-off mine workers planning their futures after diamond mining. The union representing workers ...

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Arn Keeling @arnkeeling.bsky.social · 3d

Unsurprising but disappointing to see leading politicians in this resource-captured province spout climate denial and ignorance of both the environmental and economic risks of oil dependence #nlpoli
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Wakeham says no link between N.L. wildfires, oil industry in campaign where climate change largely absent | CBC News

The 2025 provincial election is happening in the direct aftermath of one of the worst climate-related disasters in Newfoundland and Labrador’s recent history.

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 4d

The Canadian boycott of travel to the U.S. continued through September—cementing an enormous economic loss for American tourism in 2025 as visitors from around the world choose not to travel to the States amid geopolitical tensions.
www.forbes.com/sites/suzann...

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Arn Keeling @arnkeeling.bsky.social · 6d

Paging @mark-carney.bsky.social

Justin Mikulka @justinmikulka.bsky.social · 6d

I like that this oil industry trade publication can no longer ignore the obvious but also uses a pun.

Anyway, going to be a bad year for your oil investments.

headline: Glut punch: policy, geopolitics fuel 2026 oversupply concerns

Arn Keeling @arnkeeling.bsky.social · 9d

When they get one or two isolated like this, they should snatch em up. Teach the rest a lesson

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Arn Keeling @arnkeeling.bsky.social · 10d

Perhaps, stupid is as stupid does. But it’s not *uneducated* idiots but people in the thrall of wellness culture who selectively interpret medical science and disregard collective action behind vaccination. And that’s important to understand.

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 11d

MSF staff are universally understood to be engaged in an essentially sacred form of work. For a state to nonetheless continuously murder them is a testament to a truly unthinkable degree of depravity.

msf.org/msf-denounce...

This morning, an attack carried out by Israeli forces killed Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) staff member, Omar Hayek, and seriously injured four others. The attack took place on a street where our teams were waiting to take a bus to the MSF field hospital in Deir al Balah, Gaza.

All staff were wearing MSF vests, clearly identifying them as medical humanitarian workers.
We express deep sorrow and outrage over the killing, which occurs less than two weeks after another MSF colleague, Hussein Alnajjar, was killed by the Israeli forces, in Deir Al Balah.

Our thoughts are with Omar’s family and colleagues at this tragic time. Omar, 42 years old, is the fourteenth MSF colleague to be killed in Gaza since 7 October 2023.

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Arn Keeling @arnkeeling.bsky.social · 11d

Hey @mark-carney.bsky.social: would this be so hard to say, if nothing else to protect Canadians aboard?

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 11d

This week, the Global Sumud Flotilla tried to deliver life-saving aid to Gaza.

Instead, 461 people—including New Yorkers—have been detained by the Israeli military.

They must be freed at once. And the deliberate starvation of Palestinians must end now.

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Arn Keeling @arnkeeling.bsky.social · 11d

As a survivor of rubella exposure in utero, this is infuriating.

But also: all the people likening AB to Texas or whatever should be mindful that many antivaxxers are actually educated middle class white women, some conservative, some not, as @naomiaklein.bsky.social notes in Doppelganger

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Atlantic Canada Studies Centre (University of New Brunswick) @acsc-unb.bsky.social · 11d

If you're inFredericton on November 3, join us for a spooky public lecture by @deindustrialpol.bsky.social co-investigator Dr. Lachlan MacKinnon, CRC in Post-Industrial Communities at Cape Breton University.

"Cinematic Ruin: My Bloody Valentine and Industrial Crisis in Cape Breton, 1979-1990."

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Arn Keeling @arnkeeling.bsky.social · 12d

Cowards.

Arn Keeling @arnkeeling.bsky.social · 13d

Horray for our "mainland" Geography colleagues!

Saint Mary's Department of Geography & Environmental Studies @smugeographers.bsky.social · 20d

Celebrating 50 years...keep an eye out for various activities we have planned!

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staring blankly into the abyss @ianmosby.bsky.social · 15d

I started tracking the TRC's Calls to Action in 2016 and, since Eva Jewell and I stopped writing annual reports in 2023 out of despair, things have only become more bleak.

No meaningful structural changes have been made. They were never even attempted.

A clear-eyed take from @michellecyca.com

Justin Brake @justinbrake.bsky.social · 15d

“We have to wonder: should we just abandon ‘reconciliation’ altogether?”
thewalrus.ca/trc-introduc...

The Stark Reality Ten Years after the Truth and Reconciliation Report | The Walrus

“We have to wonder: should we just abandon ‘reconciliation’ altogether?”

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Arn Keeling @arnkeeling.bsky.social · 14d

He’s the Steinbrenner of the US government

Arn Keeling @arnkeeling.bsky.social · 15d

That diss of Chaykra tho 🤭

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Wendy Xu @wendyxu.bsky.social · 15d

"single-use plastic of the mind" had me GAGGED

But a still graver scandal of AI— like its hydra-head sibling, cryptocurrency-is the technology's colossal wastefulness. The untold billions firehosed by investors into its development; the water-guzzling data centers draining the parched exurbs of Phoenix and Dallas; the yeti-size carbon footprint of the sector as a whole—and for what? A cankerous glut of racist memes and cardboard essays.
Not only is the ratio of Al's resource rapacity to its productive utility indefensibly and irremediably skewed, Al-made material is itself a waste product: flimsy, shoddy, disposable, a single-use plastic of the mind.

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Arn Keeling @arnkeeling.bsky.social · 15d

$3.20 extra per day! Stop the feckin presses. Guess that latter will be a “grande” now! 🙄 Next stop the real estate market!

Arn Keeling @arnkeeling.bsky.social · 15d

Thanks! Glad you could join us.

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Grist @grist.org · 16d

Ice roads are a lifeline for First Nations. As Canada warms, they’re disappearing.

Indigenous peoples are navigating the slow collapse of winter roads — and an even slower pace of help.

grist.org/indigenous/i...

#Indigenous #Tribes #Canada #Climate #Trucking #Ice #Climate #Roads #Transportation

Ice roads are a lifeline for First Nations. As Canada warms, they're disappearing.

Indigenous peoples are navigating the slow collapse of winter roads — and an even slower pace of help.

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Dr Katie Twomey @k2mey.bsky.social · 15d

I feel like I’m going bananas. My university has just released a video explaining how to get the most out of Copilot and we’re apparently partnered with an external company to facilitate us using it. I just asked it about my research...

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Arn Keeling @arnkeeling.bsky.social · 15d

TODAY! In less that 2.5 hours, actually. Still time to register and tune in online to this panel discussing The Price of Gold @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social @memorialu.bsky.social

Arn Keeling @arnkeeling.bsky.social · 20d

Less than a week now until this exciting panel at The Nexus Centre @memorialu.bsky.social! Our book The Price of Gold is featured as part of the series, HSS Understanding Our Worlds. This is a hybrid event: connection details on poster. We're honoured to have such a great panel comment on our work.

Poster for event reads: HSS Understanding our worlds

Monday, September 29, 12:30-1:45 NST (11 a.m.-12:15 EST). A Roundtable on The Price of Gold: Mining, Pollution, and Resistance in Yellowknife, by John Sandlos and Arn Keeling.
Respondents: Pamela Klassen (Religion, UToronto); Katłı̨̀ą (Catherine) Lafferty (Dene writer, legal scholar, environmental advocate); Tina Loo (History, UBC); Sarah Perry (History, McMaster); Max Viatori (Anthropology, MUNL). Image shows headshots of respondents and book cover depicting a smokestack releasing emissions against a gold background.

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