Carla Bernier

Indigenous Education Program Consultant, former High School Vice Principal, former Elementary Vice Principal, life-long learner, wife, mother, reader

[Bev 🇨🇦 @Garnet_2203]

97.5% of mass shootings in the United States are committed by men.
When that happens, we don’t blame all men. We don’t turn their identity into the story.
Yet now we’re seeing claims largely amplified from the U.S., but echoed by some far right influencers and Canadian politicians, including MLA Tara Armstrong in B.C. trying to suggest gender identity is part of the cause.
Why? Because it’s politically convenient to demonize a small, vulnerable group instead of confronting the real issues: violence, mental health, and prevention.

[Carla Bernier @carlabernier]

🚨WARNING: I will hide any comment that tries to justify or spew hate so don’t bother! ☺️

[Carla Bernier @carlabernier]

Alex Keytman survived the Holocaust. Survived the Siberian death camps. Survived the systematic attempt to erase his people.He lived long enough to watch history attempt to repeat itself. First in Ukraine, with his homeland now going into years of INVASION from Russia and decades

[Carla Bernier @carlabernier]

name it clearly, and refuse to look away, then that is the work that we all need to commit to. #freespeechdoesnotmeanhate #differencedoesnotmeanhate #hashistorytaughtusnothing #wearebecomingthosehistorylessons

[Wab Kinew @WabKinew]

Antisemitism has no place in society.

The attacks at Bondi Beach during a Hanukkah celebration are horrifying. We stand with the Jewish community, mourn the lives lost, and stand firmly against hate and violence in all its forms.

[MeidasTouch @MeidasTouch]

Here’s the original clip of Ronald Reagan from April 25, 1987, where he delivered a complete and total rebuke against tariffs. Trump is calling Reagan’s words in this video “FAKE” and “fraudulent.” They’re 100% real. And the original clip is actually far worse for Trump, as much is left out of the ad. Watch this clip and read the full transcript:

Throughout the world, there's a growing realization that the way to prosperity for all nations is rejecting protectionist legislation and promoting fair and free competition. Now, there are sound historical reasons for this. For those of us who lived through the Great Depression, the memory of the suffering it caused is deep and searing. And today, many economic analysts and historians argue that high tariff legislation passed back in that period, called the Smoot-Hawley tariff, greatly deepened the depression and prevented economic recovery.

You see, at first when someone says, let's impose tariffs on foreign imports, it looks like they're doing the patriotic thing by protecting American products and jobs. And sometimes for a short while, it works, but only for a short time. What eventually occurs is, first, homegrown industries start relying on government protection in the form of high tariffs. They stop competing and stop making the innovative management and technological changes they need to succeed in world markets.

And then, while all this is going on, something even worse occurs. High tariffs inevitably lead to retaliation by foreign countries and the triggering of fierce trade wars. The result is more and more tariffs, higher and higher trade barriers, and less and less competition. So soon, because of the prices made artificially high by tariffs that subsidize inefficiency and poor management, people stop buying.

Then the worst happens. Markets shrink and collapse, businesses and industry shut down, and millions of people lose their jobs. The memory of all this occurring back in the 30s made me determined when I came to Washington to spare the American people the protectionist legislation that destroys prosperity. Now, it hasn't always been easy. There are those in the Congress, just as there were back in the 30s, who want to go for the quick political advantage, who risk America's prosperity for the sake of a short-term appeal to some special interest group, who forget that more than 5 million American jobs are directly tied to the foreign export business, and additional millions are tied to imports.

Well, I've never forgotten those jobs. And on trade issues, by and large, we've done well.

[BrooklynDad_Defiant!☮️ @mmpadellan]

BREAKING: trump is having a temper tantrum, ending ALL trade negotiations with Canada.

He's butthurt that they aired an ad of President Reagan that shows how dumb trump's tariffs are.

It's VERY effective.
Be a shame if it went viral. 🇺🇲🇨🇦

[Carla Bernier @carlabernier]

@battlefordsNOW The one presenting the blankets is just as important to be named. Donald Merriam was contracted to organize the event. ☺️

[Arielle Kayabaga 🇨🇦 @KayabagaArielle]

Probably the best video on the internet right now !! 🇨🇦

[Hockey Saskatchewan @hockeysask]

📺 In this episode of Around the Rink, join #HockeySask's Faye Matt as she chats with @HuskieAthletics players Jacquelyne Chief & Roddy Ross about their hockey journeys & balancing life as student-athletes.

They discuss the role of culture in shaping their experiences & the importance of giving back to the game. 🥅

MORE EPISODES: https://t.co/sCADM4FjJm

[battlefordsNOW @battlefordsNOW]

Ribbon cutting officially opens the Senator Jenny Spyglass Outdoor Arena https://t.co/WKqVR3hoo5

[Wab Kinew @WabKinew]

Murray Sinclair was a great Canadian, a great Manitoban, a great Anishinaabe. 

His career stands as a legacy of public service and a deep commitment to truth, fairness and dignity for all people. 

He was the first Indigenous person to be named to the Manitoba provincial court and the Court of Queen’s Bench of Manitoba. He was the first, but he will be remembered as one of the best. 

He was appointed co-commissioner of the Aboriginal Justice Inquiry, which laid bare systemic racism within the justice system and is considered a foundational perspective on the system’s relationship with Indigenous people. He led the Pediatric Cardiac Surgery Inquest and his report spurred systematic change in the delivery of pediatric cardiac care in our province. 

The penultimate moment of his career was his work as chair of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada. He approached a process that could have been divisive and instead transformed it into Calls to Action for the future of our country, helping all Canadians to learn to walk together into a future of respect and understanding where we live up to the phrase residential school survivors taught us – Every Child Matters. 

It will be a long time before our nation produces another person the calibre of Murray Sinclair. He showed us there is no reconciliation without truth. We should hold dear in our hearts his words that our nation is on the cusp of a great new era and we must all “dare to live greatly together.” 

On behalf of the people of Manitoba, I extend my condolences to his family and to all Canadians for the loss of Mazina Giizhik. 

A sacred fire will be open to the public on the north side of the legislative building grounds until Murray Sinclair’s funeral later this week.

[Saskatoon Public Schools @StoonPubSchools]

Our Saskatoon Public Schools community was saddened to learn of Murray Sinclair’s passing.

Murray Sinclair's accomplishments were many. A large part of his legacy is his time spent as Chair of the Residential Schools Truth and Reconciliation Commission from 2009 to 2015. The Commission produced the Truth and Reconciliation 94 Calls to Action—widely regarded as the blueprint for reconciliation in Canada. Today we pay our respects to the Honourable Murray Sinclair and his contributions to healing our country and bringing its people together.

“It was the educational system that has contributed to this problem in this country. And it is the educational system, we believe, that is going to help us to get away from this. We need to look at the way we educate children, we need to look at the way we educate ourselves, we need to look at what it is our textbooks say about Aboriginal people. We need to look at what it is that Aboriginal people themselves are allowed to say within the educational system about their own histories.”

“We cannot look for quick and easy solutions (to reconciliation) because there are none … If we can agree on what the relationship needs to look like in the future, then what we need to think about is what can we do today that will contribute to that objective. Reconciliation will be about ensuring everything that we do today is aimed at that high standard of restoring that balance to (the relationship between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people in this country).” —Hon. Murray Sinclair

[Carla Bernier @carlabernier]

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