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metismuseum.ca- New breed Magazine Winter 2006- Harry Daniels - order of Gabriel Dumont Gold- in the early 1980's as the president of NCC - He was the person responsible for putting Metis into the repatriated constitution. @Occamsfork @simon_gabe @ArnallLabrador @CrownIndigenous


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Letter from Harry Daniels to Kirby Lethbridge of the Labrador Metis Nation. - explaining who he considered Metis constituents of the Native Council of Canada when Metis were inserted into the 1982 Constitution.


Metis social-political movement-by Lusty, Terry,1973- publisher- Calgary Metis Historical Society-Metis Associations- UNSI. - Union of Nova Scotia Indians


Volume 17 Issue 2 February - March 1975- Indian News - Native Women confront UNSI Board - Mr. Denny suggested that the Metis and Non-Status Indians set up their own organization.
1/n How come we still have academics sustaining narratives of #obesity rather than of how real people find value & meaning in everyday lives? Revisit @whatsthepont on @tobyjlowe / @snowded & accept criticising "neoliberal" does not make things

New out 🤯 A review which says lots about the academic context in which it was written - with its embedded behaviorist fixations on just implementing *better* - with complete disregard for the unintended consequences of treating "agency" as a dirty word

In all #becausehuman fields, we see justifiable professional kick-back at reductionist agendas driven by a focus on #obesity & nonsensical CMO guidance of 60 min of moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA) per day for healthy growth and development


What's fundamentally missing is not just a respect for complexity. It's respect for Homo-Narrans - for the ordinary, everyday story-telling folk all around us whose aspirations & dispositions provide the context in which we find meaning, purpose & value

We don't need spurious arguments against initiatives... but let's consider ethics & unintended consequences - on which, see @snowded (especially around epistemic justice) #becausehuman
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What’s going on, open thread 12/19

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A Thread: Here’s some phonics for #homeschooling. Check out resources that your teachers have first & take a peek at phonics videos online. We're not phonics experts, this is just a bit of fun. Each sound has a little activity & link to a jigsaw puzzle online.
Let’s get started..


A a - Anstey feeding cup.
Do you have a favourite cup? Can you draw it? How about designing your own cup - what would be the best cup ever? Superheroes, dinosaurs, elephants?
Have a go at the jigsaw puzzle of the cup.
https://t.co/o5xDrTYWBW

#MuseumJigsaws
#HomeSchooling


B b bat. Table tennis bats.
Scrunch up a piece of paper and use your hands to
bat it between you and another person. Count how many bats you do without the paper falling to the floor.

Here’s the bat puzzle to have a go at https://t.co/MIohhi6oj8

#MuseumJigsaws
#homeschooling


C c Cow (don’t say “cuh”, it’s a short c - search online for phonics videos to hear it)
Here’s a milk bottle top. What’s your favourite milk? Write the work milk? Try sounding out the letters as you write it.
Here’s a puzzle https://t.co/nfCdQ2ODr6
#MuseumJigsaws
#homeschooling


D d Drum
Here’s a cheeky young chap twanging something at a big drum! Pretend your knees are drums. With your hands, can you drum out a tune on your knees...how about…”baby shark doo doo dodo do dooo”

Here’s the puzzle https://t.co/4dTFsVYP6X

#MuseumJigsaw
#homeschooling
You know why ppl show up at the very second a class/mtg starts? It can feel awkward to sit in a room quietly or walk in on a random convo. Structure your pre #zoom time. Begin w/intentionality. It doesn’t have to be content focused, community building is good too! Some ideas...

Polls! Polls are an awesome way to start. I like using text and upvoting ones. Here are examples of the same question 2 ways. First upvote. Love this format b/c participants can see each other’s responses on their devices & choose ones that resonate for them. #prezoom


Here’s the same #prezoom question in a different poll format. Students don’t see other’s responses until they appear on the screen. I like to chat about what I see and invite others to do so too. Key: the question & instructions on how to engage are visible at entry.


There’s so much you can do to build community in the moments before class and meetings #prezoom. Here’s another example: On a scale of cat, how are you feeling today?


Here’s a Where’s Waldo like task #prezoom that I shared recently. Note: instructions should be visible on the screen as they enter so no one is left to figure out what people are doing and how to engage.
IMO, it is sky palace bad. This will do lasting damage to the UCP, perhaps more than the party’s performance on real issues that matter. Because it affects the perception of the UCP.

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It used to be a gotcha question to ask politicians how much they spent on milk. The point of the question was to finger those politicians who didn’t do their own shopping or otherwise were rich enough to not have to worry about how much it cost to feed their families.

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Today, people rail against the ‘Laurentian Elites’ who are out of touch with people. The complaint is that these politicians aren’t affected by their policies the same way ‘severely normal’ people are, and hence come up with ideas that are bad for the non-elite.

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The sky palace wasn’t necessarily a bad idea — the premier does need accommodations in Edmonton — but it created the image of an entitled premier, freed from the ordinary day-to-day struggles by virtue of the tax dollars from hardworking Albertans. The rhetoric writes itself.

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Bill Morneau’s ultimate sin was to not notice that he hadn’t paid for tens of thousands of dollars in travel expenses. That he could just write a cheque to fix that problem didn’t help. It showed he lived in a world completely different than ours.

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