Joanne Hammond
@joannehammond.bsky.social
Archaeologist & anthropologist. Settler doing my best on Secwépemc and Nlaka'pamux territories. Land back. Free Palestine. Pro swearing.
A hearty second! A critical boundary.
One of my fundamental beliefs is that I should not have to talk to people who have been cruel to me. You might be surprised to learn how often -- and vociferously -- people disagree with me about that.
December 9, 2025 at 5:33 AM
A hearty second! A critical boundary.
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Celebrating Indigenous artifacts being returned is great, but celebrating the pope/the Vatican for returning items THEY stole and kept for nearly a century is corny colonizer ass kissing for the bare minimum.
December 8, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Celebrating Indigenous artifacts being returned is great, but celebrating the pope/the Vatican for returning items THEY stole and kept for nearly a century is corny colonizer ass kissing for the bare minimum.
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Israel hunted a 70 year old lady down with a gun drone and then hoovered above to make sure she bled out next to her dying son. They both join almost 1,000 Palestinians Israel has massacred or maimed in its genocide during the "ceasefire".
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/12...
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/12...
Israeli drone chases and kills elderly woman in Gaza as attacks continue
At least seven Palestinians killed in Israeli attacks as military pushes deeper beyond truce demarcation line.
www.aljazeera.com
December 8, 2025 at 3:24 AM
Israel hunted a 70 year old lady down with a gun drone and then hoovered above to make sure she bled out next to her dying son. They both join almost 1,000 Palestinians Israel has massacred or maimed in its genocide during the "ceasefire".
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/12...
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/12...
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TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque:
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
December 7, 2025 at 5:17 PM
TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque:
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
Heiltsuk leader Marilyn Slett: “We just cannot accept this risk to our community after seeing what can happen. We can’t. And we won’t.”
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
Canada may approve a new oil pipeline. First Nations fear another ‘worst-case scenario’
Mark Carney is considering lifting a tanker ban that has protected coastal communities for 53 years
www.theguardian.com
December 7, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Heiltsuk leader Marilyn Slett: “We just cannot accept this risk to our community after seeing what can happen. We can’t. And we won’t.”
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
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Conversations on Indigenous affairs that don’t include Indigenous people don’t matter, by definition. Also, you misspelled that lawyer’s name @vancouversun.bsky.social
Conversations that Matter: The implications of the Cowichan Tribes land case vancouversun.com/news/convers...
December 5, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Conversations on Indigenous affairs that don’t include Indigenous people don’t matter, by definition. Also, you misspelled that lawyer’s name @vancouversun.bsky.social
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“The fact we’re led by an Indigenous woman is why our journalism is as good as it is.” — @indiginews.bsky.social publisher @edenfineday.bsky.social
Eden Fineday Is a Creative Force | The Tyee
The Cree media leader looks back on a transformational year. Second in a series.
thetyee.ca
December 7, 2025 at 1:21 AM
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loooooook who’s back!
Trumpeter swans marking the beginning of winter at Tk’emlups. Volume up for honks🤍
Trumpeter swans marking the beginning of winter at Tk’emlups. Volume up for honks🤍
December 7, 2025 at 1:14 AM
loooooook who’s back!
Trumpeter swans marking the beginning of winter at Tk’emlups. Volume up for honks🤍
Trumpeter swans marking the beginning of winter at Tk’emlups. Volume up for honks🤍
Cynical but likely true. And we don’t have time to waste on that. bsky.app/profile/nati...
@climatekeith.bsky.social, senior energy strategist with Greenpeace, said Smith is "starting a fight she knows she can't win so she can claim everyone is against Alberta when this economically unsound project doesn’t go ahead.“
BREAKING: Alberta announces it will be the proponent of a new pipeline application
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith announced a new proposed pipeline on Wednesday to carry oil from Alberta to the West Coast. The province itself will be the proponent applying to the federal Major Proje...
www.nationalobserver.com
December 7, 2025 at 1:06 AM
Cynical but likely true. And we don’t have time to waste on that. bsky.app/profile/nati...
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David Eby was Attorney General when DRIPA passed *unanimously* in 2019… Now, Eby is spinelessly bending to Cons’ misinformation machine with snap-judgement. This province is stronger when everyone is at the table, and that’s why the BC Greens will fight to uphold Indigenous rights and title. #bcpoli
The ink is hardly dry on this court decision, and yet the folks who unanimously passed the Declaration Act are already threatening to repeal or amend it. How is that good government?
#bcpoli
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
#bcpoli
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Eby says B.C. may revise DRIPA legislation, worries court is 'in driver's seat' | CBC News
B.C. Premier David Eby says he is open to revising the province's Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act (DRIPA). His comments come after B.C.'s Court of Appeal found that the legislation...
www.cbc.ca
December 6, 2025 at 11:32 PM
David Eby was Attorney General when DRIPA passed *unanimously* in 2019… Now, Eby is spinelessly bending to Cons’ misinformation machine with snap-judgement. This province is stronger when everyone is at the table, and that’s why the BC Greens will fight to uphold Indigenous rights and title. #bcpoli
The genocide has not stopped. Israel must be treated as the pariah it clearly strives to be but Eurovision FIFA etc etc
BREAKING: At least seven Palestinians have been killed by Israeli fire in Gaza City and northern areas as Israel continues attacks across the so-called yellow line truce demarcation.
🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/p5c13r
🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/p5c13r
December 6, 2025 at 4:30 PM
The genocide has not stopped. Israel must be treated as the pariah it clearly strives to be but Eurovision FIFA etc etc
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an important & damning record of the impacts of the toxic drug crisis and persecution of unhoused community members — please read!
On Nov 17, North Cowichan displaced ~75 unhoused residents from Lewis Street encampments to a marsh without the promised Ramada shelter open or toilets available.
NEW substack collab by me & @pearlysalts.bsky.social
open.substack.com/pub/jessicap...
NEW substack collab by me & @pearlysalts.bsky.social
open.substack.com/pub/jessicap...
Swept off Lewis Street and Into North Cowichan’s Wetlands
A street sweep on November 17 during a disease outbreak forced unhoused residents into Cowichan’s wetlands. 80 overdoses followed in the next 24 hours.
open.substack.com
December 5, 2025 at 7:00 PM
an important & damning record of the impacts of the toxic drug crisis and persecution of unhoused community members — please read!
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B.C.'s Indigenous rights law is legally enforceable, not just government policy, rules court (BC)
B.C.'s Indigenous rights law is legally enforceable, not just government policy, rules court - BC News
A panel of B.C. judges has ruled that legislation meant to shift provincial policies away from colonial laws toward a government-to-government relationship with Indigenous peoples is legally enforceable by the court.
www.castanetkamloops.net
December 5, 2025 at 8:30 PM
B.C.'s Indigenous rights law is legally enforceable, not just government policy, rules court (BC)
Clean water for all First Nations is the nation building project Carney won’t take on because
-no profits for his friends/banks
-he sees reconciliation as Trudeau’s project and wants his own legacy
-anti-Indigenous racism is the status quo he’s not interested in challenging
-no profits for his friends/banks
-he sees reconciliation as Trudeau’s project and wants his own legacy
-anti-Indigenous racism is the status quo he’s not interested in challenging
A clean water bill that nearly passed last year died when Parliament was prorogued.
Chiefs were told it would be reintroduced this fall — but it wasn’t.
Now the PM says “a” bill is coming in spring, the National Chief says it must include First Nations authority over source water.
Chiefs were told it would be reintroduced this fall — but it wasn’t.
Now the PM says “a” bill is coming in spring, the National Chief says it must include First Nations authority over source water.
December 5, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Clean water for all First Nations is the nation building project Carney won’t take on because
-no profits for his friends/banks
-he sees reconciliation as Trudeau’s project and wants his own legacy
-anti-Indigenous racism is the status quo he’s not interested in challenging
-no profits for his friends/banks
-he sees reconciliation as Trudeau’s project and wants his own legacy
-anti-Indigenous racism is the status quo he’s not interested in challenging
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Corrupt leader of corrupt organization that has nothing to do with peace makes up fake prize to suck up to corrupt narcissist and fascist after he unsuccessfully and ridiculously tried to coerce the real peace prize people to give him the real prize he could never, ever win.
Pathetic all around.
Pathetic all around.
December 5, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Corrupt leader of corrupt organization that has nothing to do with peace makes up fake prize to suck up to corrupt narcissist and fascist after he unsuccessfully and ridiculously tried to coerce the real peace prize people to give him the real prize he could never, ever win.
Pathetic all around.
Pathetic all around.
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Trans rights activists have joined forces with labour unions in Saskatchewan to fight anti-trans legislation
It's a model that should be employed nationwide to combat laws against vulnerable groups, writes @desaima.bsky.social
in our latest for @breachmedia.ca
breachmedia.ca/trans-albert...
It's a model that should be employed nationwide to combat laws against vulnerable groups, writes @desaima.bsky.social
in our latest for @breachmedia.ca
breachmedia.ca/trans-albert...
A Prairie alliance of trans advocates and unions should be a national model ⋆ The Breach
Right-wing premiers are using the notwithstanding clause to target trans kids, workers, Muslims, and drug users. Saskatchewan shows how a united front could stop them
breachmedia.ca
December 5, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Trans rights activists have joined forces with labour unions in Saskatchewan to fight anti-trans legislation
It's a model that should be employed nationwide to combat laws against vulnerable groups, writes @desaima.bsky.social
in our latest for @breachmedia.ca
breachmedia.ca/trans-albert...
It's a model that should be employed nationwide to combat laws against vulnerable groups, writes @desaima.bsky.social
in our latest for @breachmedia.ca
breachmedia.ca/trans-albert...
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If anyone cares at all, EV battery recycling is now hitting 99% recovery for important metals
Please remind me again what the recycle rate for fossil fuels is
interestingengineering.com/energy/recyc...
Please remind me again what the recycle rate for fossil fuels is
interestingengineering.com/energy/recyc...
New recycling tech recovers nearly pure nickel and cobalt from old EV batteries
Researchers have developed an eco-friendly recycling tech that extracts 99 percent pure nickel and cobalt from waste batteries.
interestingengineering.com
December 5, 2025 at 12:17 AM
If anyone cares at all, EV battery recycling is now hitting 99% recovery for important metals
Please remind me again what the recycle rate for fossil fuels is
interestingengineering.com/energy/recyc...
Please remind me again what the recycle rate for fossil fuels is
interestingengineering.com/energy/recyc...
Hey @mark-carney.bsky.social let’s burn more fossil fuels and then increase shipping everywhere, what could go wrong
#cdnpoli
#cdnpoli
December 5, 2025 at 6:38 AM
Hey @mark-carney.bsky.social let’s burn more fossil fuels and then increase shipping everywhere, what could go wrong
#cdnpoli
#cdnpoli
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What!? That's ALL?
Good lord, just 10x it. We wouldn't even notice it on our taxes.
Good lord, just 10x it. We wouldn't even notice it on our taxes.
Slide reads: "Flat Funding for All BC Libraries: Annual provincial funding shared across 71 public library systems has remained at $14m since 2009, even as costs for books, digital content, staff, and facilities continue to rise."
December 5, 2025 at 4:57 AM
What!? That's ALL?
Good lord, just 10x it. We wouldn't even notice it on our taxes.
Good lord, just 10x it. We wouldn't even notice it on our taxes.
Watching the Canadian professional political class trying to replicate Mamdami on comms alone. Nah. That man hit the streets and listened, then translated what he heard into policy. No shortcuts, just work.
I wish more people understood the difference between good comms and good policy. Of course if they did, we wouldn’t have Fetterman either.
December 5, 2025 at 6:01 AM
Watching the Canadian professional political class trying to replicate Mamdami on comms alone. Nah. That man hit the streets and listened, then translated what he heard into policy. No shortcuts, just work.
Winter afternoons along the Thompson River at Kamloops/Tk’emlups are getting washed out bright and I don’t like it. Turn that shit off.
December 5, 2025 at 3:07 AM
Winter afternoons along the Thompson River at Kamloops/Tk’emlups are getting washed out bright and I don’t like it. Turn that shit off.
500 m west. Asphalt plant, overhead wires, light, and Tsqwmémenk (Mts Paul and Peter) back there in the after dark haze.
December 5, 2025 at 2:52 AM
500 m west. Asphalt plant, overhead wires, light, and Tsqwmémenk (Mts Paul and Peter) back there in the after dark haze.
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“We should not have to take Canada to court through class-action water settlements to get drinking water,” Chief Don Maracle told the ministers.
www.aptnnews.ca/featured/tye...
www.aptnnews.ca/featured/tye...
Tyendinaga chief chastises ministers over water at Chiefs' Assembly
‘We should not have to take Canada to court’: Tyendinaga chief chastises ministers over water legislation at Chiefs' Assembly
www.aptnnews.ca
December 4, 2025 at 10:45 PM
“We should not have to take Canada to court through class-action water settlements to get drinking water,” Chief Don Maracle told the ministers.
www.aptnnews.ca/featured/tye...
www.aptnnews.ca/featured/tye...
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Canadian products being used to commit war crimes in Gaza, Sudan, and the Caribbean, but stopping this apparently wrong because it would hurt the arms industry and relations with the fascists south of the border. We are governed by ghouls. www.readthemaple.com/liberals-fea...
Liberals Fear Closing Arms Export Loophole Would Anger U.S.
A leaked briefing document gives the full picture behind the government’s talking points.
www.readthemaple.com
December 4, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Canadian products being used to commit war crimes in Gaza, Sudan, and the Caribbean, but stopping this apparently wrong because it would hurt the arms industry and relations with the fascists south of the border. We are governed by ghouls. www.readthemaple.com/liberals-fea...