Pam Palmater

See you all tomorrow @podcamptoronto.bsky.social for our podcasting panel at 3pm hosted by the amazing Sarah Burke!! #podcasts #podcamp #warriorlifepodcast #warriorkidspodcast

Who gets status? Inside the fight over the second-generation cut off Podcast Episode · APTN News InFocus · 2025-11-28 · 35m

Take the time to listen to @pampalmater.com because it is important to cdns that think they are antiracist and not misogynistic to hear this: podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/a...

Ending harm starts with reforming ISC and Justice Indigenous Services Canada and the Department of Justice must be overhauled to end their discriminatory practices and harm to First Nations children.

Dr @cblackst.bsky.social @caringsociety.bsky.social "The colonial stench of Indigenous Service Canada must be deep-cleaned, and the Department of Justice can’t keep defending the indefensible." @IRPP "ISC responds with inadequate or piecemeal actions." policyoptions.irpp.org/2025/11/indi...

Deadline approaching for Canadian government to present long term reform plan | APTN News YouTube video by APTN News

The Canadian Human Rights Tribunal wants the Canadian government to present their long-term reform plan for the child welfare system on December 22.

End Canada’s second-generation cut-off for Indian registration Four decades later, Ottawa still maintains the second-generation cut-off. Ending this discrimination is the real test of reconciliation.

My latest for @irpp.org Policy Options: "Reconciliation can't wait another generation: end Canada's second-generation cut-off for Indian registration". #firstnations #reconciliation #charter #indianact #equality #treatyrights #childrensrights #mikmaq policyoptions.irpp.org/2025/11/reco...

My Warrior Life Podcast has been nominated by @canpodawards.bsky.social for Outstanding Indigenous Series! All Canadian podcasters & those who work on podcasts can vote before Nov.22 midnight ET! www.canpodcawards.ca

To all Canadian podcasters & those who work on Canadian podcasts, please consider supporting an Indigenous podcast & vote for my Warrior Life Podcast for the Outstanding Indigenous Series category! #indigenous #firstnations #mikmaq #podcasts canpodawards.ca/vote/

NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.

Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.

Indigenous Rights in One Minute: A guide to advancing reconciliation Podcast Episode · Redeye · 2025-11-13 · 16m

POD DROP! Lawyer Bruce McIvor joins us to talk about his essential book: Indigenous Rights in One Minute: What You Need to Know to Talk Reconciliation. Fundamental read for #reconciliation @ubcic.bsky.social @pampalmater.com #canPoli #indigenous
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Shawn Lamb’s release and Ivan Zinger’s resignation | Truth & Politics YouTube video by APTN News

From the statutory release of convicted killer Shawn Lamb to the early departure of Canada’s prison watchdog Ivan Zinger, the federal correctional system is under scrutiny.

That’s the focus of this week’s Truth and Politics panel.

Dr @cblackst.bsky.social & I co-authored an open-access academic article in Genealogy @mdpiopenaccess.bsky.social about the need to protect Indigenous people from exploitation by lawyers & law firms in class actions. #law #cdnpoli #indigenous #classactions #clashactions www.mdpi.com/2313-5778/9/...

Check us out on Halloween with spooky stories from Indigenous peoples! Some of these stories were super spoooooooky. @kimwheels.bsky.social @siriusxmcanada.bsky.social #turtleislandtalks #indigiverse #halloween #indigenous

Should be noted that there is no options available to Palestinians in terms of another deal. Donald Trump and Israel are forcing a population undergoing a genocide to accept whatever they put forth or continue having the full extent of the Israeli military with US weapon support rain upon them

Remove 2nd-generation cut-off from Indian Act, witnesses tell Senate committee | CBC News Indigenous leaders and experts say Bill S-2 takes small steps to address discrimination in the Indian Act but fails to solve deeper injustices like the second-generation cut-off.

Canada cannot maintain its iron grip on the disappearing Indian formula under the Indian Act and claim to be committed to reconciliation. Legislative extinction for First Nations violates Charter, section 35, UNDRIP & our own laws. www.cbc.ca/news/indigen...

On the eve of the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, Pierre Poilievre spoke out for the group he says faces the most hate-based violence.

Um, and apparently that group is…Christians? (It isn’t).

I called for backup on this one. Luckily @pampalmater.com answered:

National interest should include the rights of Indigenous women Bill C-5 is a major setback to reconciliation and the path to ending violence against Indigenous women and girls.

By @pampalmater.com
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True test of reconciliation: Respect the Indigenous right to say No The right to say no is the core of any future relationship with the Canadian state and its citizens. It’s a basic right — one which is grounded in our sovereignty as individuals and Nations to decide ...

Reconciliation isn’t about token gestures, museum visits, or diversity training, writes @pampalmater.com. True reconciliation means respecting Indigenous peoples’ right to say 'No'—to development on their lands, to discriminatory laws, and to ongoing abuse.

National interest should include the rights of Indigenous women Bill C-5 is a major setback to reconciliation and the path to ending violence against Indigenous women and girls.

Opinion: National interest should include the rights of Indigenous women

www.hilltimes.com/story/2025/0...

I am so excited to share that I have a two-book deal with McClelland & Stewart! Thanks to Stephanie Sinclair, Haley Cullingham & everyone at McClelland & Stewart & my literary agent, Martha Webb & everyone at CookeMcDermid! What a dream come true! #books #booknerd #indigenous #mikmaq

Landfill search for Indigenous women cost $18M, one-tenth of original estimate: Kinew — Winnipeg Free Press 2023 feasibility study projected effort to comb Prairie Green Landfill could take up to three years and $184 million

Landfill search for Indigenous women cost $18M, one-tenth of original estimate: Kinew - Winnipeg Free Press apple.news/An54rU7ROT1u...

A quote from Battlestar Galactica that holds very true:
"There's a reason you separate the military and the police.
One fights the enemies of the state, the other serves and protects the people. When the military becomes both, then the enemies of the state tend to become the people."
Admiral Adama

The CHRT orders Canada to negotiate long-term child welfare reform | APTN News YouTube video by APTN News

The CHRT is ordering Canada back to the negotiation table on long-term reform of the child welfare system.

Talks have been at an impasse since chiefs in assembly voted down a $47.8-billion proposal from Canada in October of 2024.

Bill C-5: path to prosperity or threat to sovereignty? | Truth and Politics YouTube video by APTN News

First Nations are rightly concerned about C-5 and the potential impacts to our inherent, Aboriginal, treaty and land rights. No government should legislate for itself unfettered power to trump Indigenous rights. @niigaanwewidam.bsky.social @aptnnews.bsky.social youtu.be/ITMXQbbuZ_c

How to get through Canada Day without being a total d*ck (with Pam Palmater) Listen now | NEW EPISODE OF BUBBLE POP!

The amazing @rachelgilmore.bsky.social and I talked politics and C-15 on her new Substack and podcast BUBBLE POP! rachelgilmore.substack.com/p/how-to-get...

So much fun hanging with you @rachelgilmore.bsky.social

New episode of the Mi’kmaq series just dropped! Elder Cheryl Maloney joins the host Pam Palmater to share about the prophecy of the white owl and how its appearance foretold change for the Mi’kmaw and how that change would first destroy them but then rebuild their nation anew.

Toronto Metropolitan University professor Pam Palmater talks to Nation to Nation about Prime Minister Mark Carney’s new cabinet.

Full discussion tonight.

Congratulations to Chris Beaver, Katie O’Connor, Jasmine El Kurd and Pam Palmater for winning the Gold CAJ Award for Online Media for "NDN POV". Félicitations à C. Beaver, K. O’Connor, J. El Kurd et P. Palmater pour avoir remporté le prix ACJ or pour Droit à l'information pour les Médias en ligne.

Alberta separation would send Canada into uncharted territory, say legal experts CALGARY - As separatist discontent bubbles up anew in Alberta, experts say a vote to sever ties with Canada would pitch the country into unexplored territory on everything from money

"You can't steal someone's property and say, 'I'm leaving.'" FPL's Bruce McIvor was interviewed by the Canadian Press for an article about Danielle Smith and Alberta separatism @ buff.ly/nXNhsaf #IndigenousRights #cdnpoli

@pampalmater.com always excellent interviews.

The Governor General commented on her role in equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI), and said clearly it’s different than reconciliation.

This is a point I’ve tried to make and often get disagreement from EDI leaders.

Aspects of EDI intersect.