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Your bait of falsehood takes this carp of truth; And thus do we of wisdom and of reach, With windlasses and with assays of bias, By indirections find directions out.

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  • Yep and I don't see that changing, insane real estate market notwithstanding.

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  • Yep, the statement that First Nations don't have a veto is common and generally true. This is an exception, though as this story illustrates, actually executing a veto is fraught.

    indeed, but this isn't a uniquely Canadian issue. I'm not aware of any state where Indigenous communities actually have a veto over large scale development. Usually it is a question of having more or less input on risk mitigations/governance and deriving more or less economic benefit.

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  • In Canadian Indigenous news, here is a story about the relationship between the Tahltan Central Government (TCG) and Skeena resources, owners of the Eskay Creek mining project, which is on Tahltan land in northern BC. This article is not written with a Marxist lense, but it is not hard to see the material forces at work. I encourage reading the whole thing.

    As Canada's role in the future world economy is likely to be driven by the resource sector, I believe these issues are worth understanding for news heads. This is where the rubber meets the road with respect to the political economy of Indigenous decision making. Canada is by far the most obvious location for friendshoring to serve American resource needs, and the vast majority of the Canadian resource sector falls under Indigenous consultation obligations.

    Questions are being raised inside a B.C. First Nation after $10,000 was offered to each member ahead of a crucial vote on the future of a major gold mine.

    Unlike other mines, Eskay Creek is subject to Canada’s first ever consent-based decision-making agreement with a First Nation. Signed in 2022 between the province and the Tahltan Central Government, the agreement explicitly states the project cannot proceed without the nation’s free, prior and informed consent.

    The nation's leadership stoked some members’ concerns even further when, on Nov. 20, it said it had negotiated a $40-million “upfront payment” that would be distributed in $10,000 payments to eligible individuals.

    The article goes on to describe different financial and ownership relationships between parties as well as potential conflict of interest.

    TCG has a lot of capacity compared to most First Nations governments in BC and are located in a highly desirable area for resource extraction, colloquially known as the Golden Triangle. TCG has a strong track record of negotiating agreements with resource extraction companies and the province which give them an unprecedented amount of say in project development, and implementing UNDRIP.

    Nisga'a Lisims Government, home of the first modern BC treaty from 2000 (The Nisga'a Final Agreement) and benefactor/partner in the Ksi Lisims gas terminal project is also in the same general area. See my previous post on Ksi Lisims from a few months ago.

    One of the key constraints to understand is the size of First Nations governments relative to the economic size of the projects in question. TCG is about 3000 people and Eskay alone is a several billion dollar project, which is one of several major mines in the territory, with more in development. The possibility for regulatory capture increases in these circumstances. It's the regulatory equivalent of the old joke that if you owe the someone a thousand dollars you've got a problem, if you owe someone a million dollars, they've got a problem. This issue is common to anytime a large industry player comes to a small jurisdiction (think of the sway Walmart has in a small town).

    There are also limits to what specialized technical expertise exists in a community of 3000. There is tremendous traditional knowledge in First Nations communities, but this experience does not extend to the detailed design and operation of large open pit mines, tailings dams, pipelines, or shipping terminals. It's easy to dunk on technocracy, but the reality is that if a community decision is made to support resource development in a Nation's territory and to use the economic activity associated to support the Nation's community, then there is need for people with a high degree of training to understand, regulate, and make decisions related to these complex resource projects. That kind of person ideally comes from the community itself, but there is a limited local workforce to draw from, especially Indigenous communities that have suffered from genocide, residential schools, poverty etc. in living memory.

    The Canadian legal system including the Indian Act is structured to support assimilation. It does so more softly than it did 100 years ago and there is less focus on cultural assimilation, but incentives for economic assimilation are just as strong as ever in a country founded to be hewers of wood and drawers of water.

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  • Thank you comrade

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  • Can you elaborate on this? Just a little, as a treat

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  • This feeds into rare earth issues as well. Aluminum smelting leftovers are a source of rare earths, and if you don't smelt, you aren't getting them

  • What talking to libs feels like

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  • Casting pearls before swine

    But yea agreed with other posters, rare Chinese aphorism L. Cows are quite social and like music

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  • Yesterday zelensky's right hand man Yermak tells the Atlantic that no territorial concessions are acceptable to zelensky/ukraine

    Volodymyr Zelensky, in the next phase of talks to end the war in Ukraine, intends to draw a red line at the most contentious issue on the table: the Russian demand for Ukraine’s sovereign territory. As long as he remains the nation’s president, Zelensky will not agree to give up land in exchange for peace, Ukraine’s chief negotiator, Andriy Yermak, told me today in an exclusive interview.

    By appointing him to lead Ukraine’s negotiating team despite the scandal, Zelensky made clear to the people of Ukraine that Yermak continues to enjoy his trust, he said. The people of Ukraine “see that I have been beside the president all these years during all the most difficult, tragic, and dangerous moments,” Yermak said. “He trusted me with these negotiations that will decide the fate of our country. And if people support the president, that should answer all their questions.”

    Today, Yermak's offices are being raided by NABU, the more western/NGO aligned anti-corruption force that Zelensky tried to take over and hobble earlier in the summer

    The National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU) and the Specialised Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office (SAPO) are conducting searches at the office of Andrii Yermak, Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine, in the government district on the morning of 28 November.

    Seems like things are going well

    Edit: and yermak has resigned

  • new acronym just dropped

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  • It's an update to the axis of evil

  • OpenAI says dead teen violated TOS when he used ChatGPT to plan suicide (cw suicide)

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  • setting precedent for upcoming gun law, which is where anyone can buy any gun, but you have to pinky swear not to use the gun to do crimes before you take it home

  • The Guardian: Canada: ‘Inconvenient Indian’ author Thomas King says he is not Indigenous

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  • I'm not sure it's relevant to this particular case, but I think in discussions of who is Indigenous or not, it's important to understand the politics and history of using blood/DNA analysis to answer that question. The question of 'Who is Indigenous?' has been used extensively by settler states to exclude/legally separate people from their Indigenous identity, such as Canada and the legal implementation of the Indian Act. For example:

    The Gradual Enfranchisement Act in 1869 and the first Indian Act in 1876 introduced a narrower definition of an Indian. These early post-Confederation laws established sex-based criteria, specifically rules of descent through the male lines in the definition of Indian. Women and children were usually included under the man's name and not as separate individuals under the legislation. Further, the legislation removed Indian status from an Indian woman who married a non-Indian man and also prevented their children and future descendants from acquiring Indian status and the associated benefits. Therefore, beginning in 1869, the definition of Indian was no longer based on First Nations kinship and community ties but instead, built on the predominance of men over women and children, and aimed to remove families headed by a non-Indian man from First Nations communities.

    The Assembly of First Nations in Canada, a sort of Canada wide group that advocates for First Nations governments, has this to say about the topic in their guide to how Nations can develop their own membership codes:

    Prior to the arrival of Europeans, the question of whether a certain person “belonged” to a First Nation was determined by the cultural rules and practices of that particular nation. In the 1850s, however, the governments of the Canadian colonies began to use laws to establish which individuals, in the government’s view, validly belonged to a particular group of First Nations people. These rules, which eventually became part of the first Indian Acts, had little or nothing to do with the cultural practices and family structures of First Nations peoples. Rather, the colonial, and later federal, legislators defined who was an “Indian” according to their own stereotypes and priorities. They then used the power of the law and the state to enforce their definitions, despite the disconnect of these definitions from First Nations peoples lived realities. These actions caused irreparable harm to First Nations peoples, harm which is still being suffered today.

    Since the amendments to the Indian Act in 1985, those First Nations had the power to adopt their own membership codes to define who will be considered a member of their community. While this change allowed First Nations some autonomy over how membership in the community is determined, there remain many legal rules that limit what a band can do in a membership code. In light of the continuing disconnect between who the law claims is a “Status Indian” and the cultural understandings of belonging that exist at the grassroots level, changes to the Indian status and band membership provisions of the Indian Act following the judgments of Canadian courts in McIvor and Descheneaux, an increasing number of First Nations are interested in finding out more about what they can do to exercise some control over who and who does not “belong” to their community.

    I am aware of some Indigenous Nations in Canada that recognize membership through community ties (i.e. without blood relation).

  • Allistic people are weird

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  • not directly relevant but one of my favourite wild animal interactions was a time when I was kayaking and came upon a mom and pup seal sunning themselves on the rocks. I could tell mom was nervous so I didn't want to get close and scare them, but the two of them were very cute so I didn't want to leave. First I paddled past and gave them space, panning across them without staring, to make it clear that I saw them but wasn't reacting like a predator. Then a loud speed boat came along and I could tell that agitated mom, so I positioned myself between the boat and the seals and faced away from them, demonstrating that I was also concerned about the boat. That really landed and they relaxed, so after that, I let the current push me back along the shore closer to the seals.

    this was them. ultimately I got about 25' away and we just vibed for 20 minutes while I drifted around.

  • Campbell’s soup stock crashes over alleged ‘3D printed meat’

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  • campbells is a big food processing and distribution conglomerate business, they own all kinds of brands in the processed food/big ag world, including campbells soup.

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    Mamdani hit piece Zionist trash from the NY Times

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  • Not really an appropriate use of the emoji but here we are

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  • Kellogg was a fucking weirdo. The road to wellville is a fun fictionalized movie/book about him but it's not hard to see the dark side of early alt medicine quacks like him

  • Tech investor is the dumbest class of people on Earth

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  • "it's simple michael, we'll just commandeer the entire air fleet of several countries in perpetuity"

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  • Everybody knows

    I know that I/we know this, is this common knowledge? usually when I hear people fearmongering about foreign drugs, it's china or mexico but idk what comes up in the general normie zeitgeist