Anthropologist Masters Social Anthropology. Youth Poverty Culture, Quinte. Ph.D. Humanities. The Foster Care System as an Extenuation of Residential Schools.
Toronto Canada
Joined March 2009
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Thrilled to find this in my mailbox this morning! Can we please do & share more work like this?
#humangeography
#indigenousgeography
#AcademicChatter – at London, Ontario
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Did you see Chief Wilton Littlechild address the Pope & audience today in Edmonton? Chief Littlechilld’s words went straight to the heart
He’s a #lawyer & was commissioner of the Truth & Reconciliation Commission
“My name was number 65 for all those years.”
Chief Wilton Littlechild was six when he was taken to a residential school in Alberta. He says the abuse he faced filled him with anger he took out on the school’s hockey rink. “They didn’t kill my spirit.” cbsn.ws/3Q4F5tK
Veronica Hendrick retweeted
Thank you to M'Chigeeng First Nation for hosting and feeding me exceptionally well over the past few days. And for the stories and history shared
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💐 Thank you all for joining Because It Lasts 2022. We're grateful to have so many amazing presenters and attendees. If you'd like to access the conference recordings and to connect with fellow children's lit enthusiasts. Here is the Canvas course link:
courses.cpe.ubc.ca/browse/ub…
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🎥🍁 Happy #CanadaDay! Hope everyone is having an eh-mazing long weekend. Watch the video below to see some of #YorkU's national highlights. | #Canada151 #CanadaDay2018
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Meet Kareem Waris Olamilekan: The 11-year-old Nigerian hyperrealism artist who started drawing at six and hopes to one day “see myself among the great artists in museums" 🖤
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What would you do if you saw a baby in danger?
uni.cf/actnow #EveryChildALIVE
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Devastation on display in downtown Ellicott City, Maryland, after Sunday's flash flooding.
"My heart's broken when I walk through the town and see it,” Howard County County Executive Allan Kittleman told @GMA. abcn.ws/2L28DpD
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"Bravo!" Malian migrant who scaled building to save boy hanging from Paris balcony to be granted French citizenship after heroic act. abcn.ws/2IR14pg
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Zabia has been missing since May 10, 2018. You can learn more about how to support efforts to #FindZabia on findzabia.ca (share online, print posters 4 ur neighborhoods, sign up 2 volunteer for specific areas on map) as well as by following @FindZabia on Fb/Tw #onpoli
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Seminal report on youth homelessness delivers sound policy recommendations. ow.ly/3irJ30k4g71 This report paints a new and vivid picture of youth homelessness that underscores a connection to the child welfare system. @yorkuniversity
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Join us tonight for our first #Food in the Park program of the year. From 6-8 pm we'll be planting in our garden and harvesting wild edibles. Did we mention it is FREE? #getoutside #Toronto eventbrite.ca/e/downsview-pa… … #stewardship #downsview
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Opportunity doesn't make appointments, you have to be ready when it arrives.
— Tim Fargo #quote
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Friendly neighborhood Spider-Man spotted casually hanging upside down and checking his phone while riding the subway in Boston. abcn.ws/2L98lhI
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York student and Health Studies TA missing. Please share. #FindZabia @FindZabia
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This refugee girl shows that sometimes the biggest hearts come in the smallest packages. #ChildrenUnderAttack