@melsiebert

Mental Health Clinician & author of HEADS UP: CHANGING MINDS ON MENTAL HEALTH (Orca, 2020). Youth mental health. Suicide prevention. Justice. Nature. Adventure.

[@melsiebert @melsiebert]

HEADS UP is here!!!

Sending this out into the world with love in my heart for all the youth who are struggling, feeling overwhelmed or weird or broken, feeling alone. This book is for you.

[guyfelicella🇨🇦🍁 @guyfelicella]

Addiction is a chronic relapsing condition and without a harm reduction safety net people will overdose and die faster than they can recover. #Toxicdrugcrisis #Allthetools

[WSANEC Leadership Council @wsanecleaders]

BEN,Á,YEȽP (p'unyuyy-ulhp), also known as Douglas Maple, Rocky Mountain Maple, and Vine Maple, is a resilient small tree. 🍁🌳

It thrives in brush fields from fire-disturbed sites, showcasing nature's incredible regenerative ability. 🔥

Photo credit: Wikimedia Commons

[Connie Walker @connie_walker]

Tonight, I’m thinking about Justice Murray Sinclair and of the times that I was lucky enough to hear him speak about his work with the TRC. This moment stands out for me. It’s his answer when he was asked, “Why can’t you just get over it?”

[Tanya Talaga @TanyaTalaga]

A great man has left us. An ogimaa, a warrior for his people and for all of Canada. This is the Murray Sinclair I was privileged to know: https://t.co/Rv06lUScjM

[The Ex-Puritan @ex_puritan]

EXTENDED DEADLINE: The deadline to submit your work to the Austin Clarke Prize in Literary Excellence has been extended by one week!


Submit by November 8th through the link in our bio.

First prize: $1,000
Runner-up: $200.

[Jens von Bergmann @vb_jens]

Yesterday's BC Election remains to close to call for several ridings and the overall balance of power, but I decided to do a quick land-vs-people vote animation anyway.
(Cross-posting with one day delay from the other site where the air is cleaner and skies are bluer.)

[Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC]

The horrors unfolding in northern Gaza are the result of a completely unrestrained Netanyahu gov, fully armed by the Biden admin while food aid is blocked and patients are bombed in hospitals.

This is a genocide of Palestinians. The US must stop enabling it. Arms embargo now.

[McClelland & Stewart @McClellandBooks]

SIGNAL INFINITIES by Melanie Siebert, Governor General's Literary Award for Poetry finalist, is out now. This moving collection courses with the intelligences of the body, its music and limits, in search of more enlivening, ethical relationships with each other and the earth.

[Brandi Morin @Songstress28]

THIS CRISIS IS ONGOING IN FORT CHIPEWYAN: Leaders in Fort Chipewyan held a press conference this morning to announce high levels of contaminants such as heavy metals, uranium, hydrocarbons well above legal limits around the Big Dock and shores surrounding the small community in Northern Alberta. Fort Chipewyan leaders state Transport Canada has known about these contaminants since 2017 but did not tell the community- instead they found out via a third party. “This is environmental racism. This is deadly,” said ACFN Chief Allan Adam. The source of contaminants is believed to be linked to Alberta oil sands upstream, naturally occurring bitumen & other industrial activities. Story to come with @ricochet_en

[Read Local BC @ReadLocalBC]

New blog post up! We've rounded up some great books by Indigenous authors from @orcabook, @rmbooks, @talonbooks, @touchwooded, @nightwooded, and more to read as we reflect on the history of residential schools #NDTR, and the list is now up on the Read Local BC blog.

#NDTR #RLBC

[Joy SpearChief-Morris @_joyscm]

Residential school survivors are still fighting for access to records. They can't heal, until they know / my latest feature for @TorontoStar is live now for #NDTR2024 https://t.co/pIjbZrd0w7

[Yellowhead Institute @Yellowhead_]

On September 30th, the systems which uphold colonialism are still in place and the harm continues. Reconciliation in practice has shifted away from transformation or ending harm and towards comforting Canadians. Read the full Brief: https://t.co/ALCqn6RIcE

[Jody Wilson-Raybould (JWR), PC, OBC, KC 王州迪 @Puglaas]

“Where common memory is lacking, where people do not share in the same past, there can be no real community. Where community is to be formed, common memory must be created.” ~Georges Erasmus

Let us use days like today to listen, share, and help form a common memory. 🙏🏽

#truthandreconciliationday #TRC2024 🧡🧡🧡🧡

[WSANEC Leadership Council @wsanecleaders]

For the fifth year in a row, W̱SÁNEĆ youth participated in the revitalization of reef net fishing (SX̱OLE) – a traditional fishing technology outlawed by the colonial government in the 1900s. 🌊🌿

To learn more, visit: https://t.co/lrjDO1NKrl

#reefnetfishing #ReefNet

[Pam Palmater @Pam_Palmater]

Don't forget! 2pm ET I go LIVE on my YouTube channel with Dr. @SeanCarleton of @umanitoba to directly confront the racist, hateful & harmful rhetoric & misinformation spread by residential school denialists. https://t.co/scADCBBzui
Send us your questions ahead of time or ask them LIVE. @TorontoMet #TRC #reconciliation #indigenous #residentialschools

[@melsiebert @melsiebert]

Wow, what a list Victoria! Congrats to everyone. Especially my star, @aliblyther 💫

🤩

[Torrance Coste @TorranceCoste]

Happening in a couple hours, South Island pals.

#FreePalestine #CeasefireNOW

[The Ex-Puritan @ex_puritan]

Submissions are open for the 2024 Austin Clarke Prize in Literary Excellence!

This year’s judges are Liz Howard (@ParabolicOcelot) and Canisia Lubrin (@canisialu). 




Submit by November 1st through the link in our bio.

First prize: $1,000
Runner-up: $200.

[BCASW @BCSocialWorkers]

We remember those lost to the toxic unregulated drug supply in #BC and their families. We call on governments to increase the number of safe injection/inhalation sites, increase and diversify safer supply, and increase withdrawal management, treatement, and support services.