Happy International Women's Day! 💜 Today is a great opportunity to revisit the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls' Calls for Justice. They are key to ensuring that all First Nations, Metis and Inuit women and girls live safe, dignified lives.

To truly understand the current value of NATO, you need to think about a world without NATO. Such "counterfactual thinking" lies at the heart of policy analysis...and IR scholarship. [THREAD]

You just know the goat is the mastermind behind the escape 😂

#ICYMI: Pisani, Horcoff reflect on Edmonton Oilers 2006 Game 7 Stanley Cup loss READ MORE: edmontonsun.com/sports/hockey/…

So a couple Nehiyawak from Treaty 6 will be cheering the Oilers in person on Monday - they’ve even smudged for you. My dad grew up during the time of the Indian Agent where it was illegal for them to leave the Reserve, where the Indian Agent &government controlled all aspects of

Women played a vital role in the drafting and adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights over 75 years ago. On #WomenInDiplomacy Day, UN Human Rights explains how women helped ensure people everywhere can enjoy their full human rights. ohchr.org/en/stories/201…

Today, 40 years ago, the first Running Room opened "a store for runners by runners."

⚠️⚠️ Jasper Complex Wildfire ⚠️⚠️ Current as of: July 24, 7:10 pm, Mountain Time --- Around 6:40 pm this evening, wildfire reached the Jasper townsite.

Some small blessings. Looks like all of the Jasper trail horses escaped the fire safely, thanks to a convoy of volunteers with trailers.

⚠ Jasper Wildfire Complex Update Current as of 9 pm, July 28, 2024 🔺Wildfire status Another day of reduced fire behaviour allowed our 350 firefighters and personnel to make progress again today. Today firefighters from Parks Canada and Alberta Wildfire were again busy

Today is the International Day of the World's Indigenous People. Coincidently it's also National Book Lovers Day. So, on today's agenda, read or at least start a book written by an Indigenous author. Do you have a favourite already (book, not Indigenous people)?

Honestly, it’s even BETTER in French…

🌎IMF 2025 #GDP Growth: 🇺🇸US: 2.2% 🇨🇦Canada: 2.4% 🇪🇺 Eurozone: 1.2% 🇩🇪Germany: 0.8% 🇫🇷France: 1.1% 🇮🇹Italy: 0.8% 🇪🇸Spain: 2.1% 🇬🇧UK: 1.5% 🇯🇵Japan: 1.1% 🇨🇳China: 4.5% 🇮🇳India: 6.5% 🇧🇷Brazil: 2.2% 🇲🇽 Mexico: 1.3% 🇸🇦KSA: 4.6% 🇿🇦RSA: 1.5% 🇷🇺Russia: 1.3% imf.org/en/Publication…

Indigenous Peoples and #Canada have lost a champion. The #NFB mourns the passing of Murray Sinclair (1951-2024), former Chair of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. His determination, wisdom & kindness will always be remembered → bit.ly/HtSMSdoc

The Supreme Court of Canada has evolved its interpretation of Section 15 of the Charter. Learn more about the current framework for assessing equality rights claims: ow.ly/hv5150TZsHY #CharterRights #SCC #CanadianLaw

To help support the ongoing Public Inquiry into Foreign Interference and to further protect elections against foreign interference, the Chief Electoral Officer has submitted a special recommendations report to Parliament. Read it here: elections.ca/content.aspx?s…

Something to ponder as you head out to vote today, for free. In the Library's Rosa Parks Papers collection, there's a receipt for the poll tax she had to pay to vote in Alabama in 1956. Poll taxes, a Jim Crow-era voter suppression tool, were not abolished federally until 1964.

Alberta RCMP warns of deadly fake Xanax pills after death of 16-year-old in Edmonton area edmontonsun.com/news/alberta-r…