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Dane Carnegie Malenfant

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MSc. @mila-quebec.bsky.social and @mcgill.ca in the LiNC lab Fixating on multi-agent RL, Neuro-AI and decisions Ēka ē-akimiht https://danemalenfant.com/

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Treaty 6 leaders embark on ‘historic’ trip for audience with King Treaty Commissioner of Saskatchewan says there's never been a private audience with any monarch and just Treaty 6 leadership.

Several chiefs from Treaty 6 are on their way to the United Kingdom for a private audience with King Charles this week.

10.03.2026 00:07 👍 36 🔁 17 💬 0 📌 2
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🚀 Montreal #Robotics Summer School 2026 — Applications Now Open!
📅 Dates: August 2–7, 2026
📍 Location: @mila-quebec.bsky.social a (in person)
🤖 Program: 1 day of activities + 5 days of intensive Robotics & AI training (theory and hands-on)

25.02.2026 00:33 👍 10 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 0
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Some Métis citizens losing faith in MN-S due to program cut News of the program closure first came through letters to affected citizens and posted on social media and confirmed by MN-S Wednesday.

Sunsetting of federal funding has lead to the closure of a mental health program for MN-S citizens. Some say the organization should have been prepared, with the closure leaving them scrambling for treatment options.

19.02.2026 18:08 👍 8 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
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Indigenous literature professor at University of Windsor accused of false ancestry claims | CBC News Sandra Muse Isaacs, who self-identifies as Eastern Cherokee, has been teaching Indigenous literature at the University of Windsor since 2018. But Tribal Alliance Against Frauds says it has found no ev...

So many "Cherokees" in Canada

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

12.02.2026 00:05 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Multi-Agent Teams Hold Experts Back ArXiv link for Multi-Agent Teams Hold Experts Back

Research shows multi-agent AI teams struggle to leverage expertise, consistently underperforming relative to their best members—even when identifying experts. This challenges views on AI collaboration, highlighting a gap in harnessing collective intelligence. https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.01011

10.02.2026 18:31 👍 13 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 2
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Collaborative groups often outperform single individuals in complex problem solving. A new paper examined how to create the right incentives to promote this kind of collective intelligence.
www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10....

27.01.2026 20:31 👍 61 🔁 19 💬 1 📌 2
First Nation in Alberta advises members against travel to the Unites States | APTN News
First Nation in Alberta advises members against travel to the Unites States | APTN News YouTube video by APTN News

A First Nation in southern Alberta is advising its members against all travel to the U.S., adding that the Jay Treaty and Indian status cards are being challenged by U.S. border officials.

30.01.2026 19:32 👍 36 🔁 27 💬 1 📌 1
Indigenous author and residential school advocate appointed to the Order of Canada | APTN News
Indigenous author and residential school advocate appointed to the Order of Canada | APTN News YouTube video by APTN News

Michelle Good from the Red Pheasant Cree Nation in Saskatchewan is one of 80 people appointed to the Order of Canada this year.

Good is an author, advocate, lawyer and Sixties Scoop survivor.

12.01.2026 22:39 👍 34 🔁 9 💬 0 📌 0
First Nation in Alberta sues Alberta government in response to separation referendum | APTN News
First Nation in Alberta sues Alberta government in response to separation referendum | APTN News YouTube video by APTN News

The Sturgeon Lake Cree Nation has filed a lawsuit against the Alberta government on earlier this week in response to their upcoming separation referendum.

The Cree Nations says that it violates treaty number eight.

06.01.2026 20:10 👍 46 🔁 18 💬 2 📌 0
Magazine on perseverance, academic success among First Nations peoples | APTN News
Magazine on perseverance, academic success among First Nations peoples | APTN News YouTube video by APTN News

Earlier this month, the University of Québec In Montréal launched the sixth edition of the magazine on perseverance and academic success among First Nations peoples.

24.12.2025 00:37 👍 50 🔁 20 💬 0 📌 0

Hi, Indigenous person here.

I've never seen any of the avatar movies, and after what James Cameron said about the Lakota people, I never will.

22.12.2025 17:33 👍 195 🔁 37 💬 4 📌 2
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Canada lynx

19.12.2025 18:05 👍 488 🔁 100 💬 9 📌 6
Court rules Alberta’s referendum to separate unconstitutional and violates treaty rights | APTN News
Court rules Alberta’s referendum to separate unconstitutional and violates treaty rights | APTN News YouTube video by APTN News

A Court of King’s Bench justice ruled that a referendum by Alberta to separate from Canada is unconstitutional and violates treaty rights.

Several First Nations and First Nation groups are opposed to the idea of separation.

09.12.2025 00:43 👍 48 🔁 20 💬 3 📌 1
Dismantling Denialism | APTN Investigates
Dismantling Denialism | APTN Investigates YouTube video by APTN News

In Canada, the histories of residential school survivors are being challenged by a surge of denialism.

Dismantling Denialism confronts those attempts to rewrite history and explores what it will take to defend truth and reconciliation.

Watch here: youtu.be/y-Pv8-99Sp4

08.12.2025 17:12 👍 31 🔁 26 💬 0 📌 1
Abenaki council launches advertising campaign on television in the U.S. state of Vermont | APTN News
Abenaki council launches advertising campaign on television in the U.S. state of Vermont | APTN News YouTube video by APTN News

The Abenaki council of Odanak and Wôlinak in Quebec launches an advertising campaign in the state of Vermont in the United States to raise awareness about the misrepresentation of Abenaki identity in their state.

06.12.2025 00:56 👍 12 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Metis Nation-Saskatchewan signs two agreements with uranium mining company | APTN News
Metis Nation-Saskatchewan signs two agreements with uranium mining company | APTN News YouTube video by APTN News

Two agreements with the uranium mining company Denison Mines has been signed with Metis Nation-Saskatchewan.

The agreements ensure Metis voices are included in mining decisions in northern Saskatchewan.

05.12.2025 00:38 👍 12 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0

Sanity checks in general are a form of mental health

01.12.2025 15:18 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Thomas King: As we learn another ‘hero’ is non-Indigenous, let’s not ignore a broader cultural problem Indigenous people are more than stories. We deserve a future where our identities are not commodities, and accountability is measured by actions that build trust and repair harm.

McGill’s Celeste Pedri-Spade: “[‘Pretendians’] become a kind of counterfeit currency, granting Canadians easy access to digestible versions of Indigenous identity and experience. But they are not ours, they are not us and they are not our stories” theconversation.com/thomas-king-...

30.11.2025 16:58 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Arched concrete bridge over a prairie river with city skyline beyond.

Arched concrete bridge over a prairie river with city skyline beyond.

#GoodMorningFromSaskatoon Winter Wonderland Edition. First appearance of ice in the river this season

27.11.2025 15:17 👍 268 🔁 21 💬 13 📌 1
A turn-of-century watercolor portrait by British artist Nora Foote of a Blackfeet man named Joe Healy. She has inscribed it 'the most educated man on the Reserve.'

A turn-of-century watercolor portrait by British artist Nora Foote of a Blackfeet man named Joe Healy. She has inscribed it 'the most educated man on the Reserve.'

Watercolor portrait of Joe Healy, "the most educated Indian on the reserve," was painted by Nora Foote, a British artist who visited what is now Saskatchewan and Alberta in 1895. As a boy, Healy was a witness to the Marias Massacre in Montana,

27.11.2025 17:53 👍 31 🔁 8 💬 1 📌 0
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MMF exonerated by Ontario Superior court in MNC lawsuit The Manitoba Métis Federation, MMF, has been cleared in lawsuit launched against it by the Métis National Council.

An Ontario Superior Court judge has dismissed a lawsuit that accuses the current president of the Manitoba Métis Federation and a former president of the Métis National Council (MNC) of misappropriating millions of dollars of the MNC’s funds.

26.11.2025 00:15 👍 21 🔁 9 💬 0 📌 1

Wait until you find out about some of the "Indigenous" authors you replace Thomas King with.

It just doesn't end.

25.11.2025 03:35 👍 35 🔁 3 💬 3 📌 0

One more thing. For YEARS I (and others) thought King was Blackfoot because of Green Grass, Running Water and his other writings around that time. And he was so heavily embedded in Treaty 7 at that time. I don't know if I missed it or he wasn't saying at the time that he claimed Cherokee.

25.11.2025 02:23 👍 20 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0

The real problem with pretendians is the way discussions around them are driven by mainstream colonial narratives about Indigeneity. Non-indigenous folks believe themselves experts on Indigenous identity and end up muddying the waters even more.

Seeing this discussed by non-Indigenous folks is...

25.11.2025 00:35 👍 66 🔁 14 💬 1 📌 1
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Inconvenient Indian author Thomas King says he is not part Cherokee Writer ‘still in shock’ after a whistle-blowing organization showed him genealogical evidence that he wasn’t part Indigenous as he originally assumed

(everyone has known for years — years!! — that Thomas King is not Cherokee) www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/book...

24.11.2025 20:33 👍 75 🔁 19 💬 11 📌 11
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Ratoshi on Instagram: "This ain’t a trend, it’s a lifestyle #ratoshi #ratdance #dance #viral #reels" 63K likes, 432 comments - ratoshidance on October 14, 2025: "This ain’t a trend, it’s a lifestyle #ratoshi #ratdance #dance #viral #reels".

www.instagram.com/reel/DPy4h_f...

22.11.2025 23:31 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Prime Minister Mark Carney joins Manitoba leaders in tribute to Louis Riel.

What made this year’s event historic? Find out tonight on APTN National News.

Watch live: www.youtube.com/aptnnews

17.11.2025 22:06 👍 24 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 1
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Today was really foggy, and with the temperature just below freezing, we get rime ice. It’s a mood 😊🌿

16.11.2025 22:38 👍 221 🔁 14 💬 12 📌 1
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Regina vigil walk marks 140th anniversary of execution of Louis Riel | CBC News Members of the Regina community gathered for a vigil walk to honour the 140th anniversary of the first Metis Nation Leader, Louis Riel. This is the 16th annual walk held by Métis Nation Saskatchewan's...

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

16.11.2025 01:54 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A bright red curtain of light surrounded by green glow rains down from the sky behind the silhouettes of spruce trees

A bright red curtain of light surrounded by green glow rains down from the sky behind the silhouettes of spruce trees

A bright red curtain of light surrounded by green glow rains down from the sky behind the silhouettes of spruce trees

A bright red curtain of light surrounded by green glow rains down from the sky behind the silhouettes of spruce trees

A bright red curtain of light surrounded by green glow rains down from the sky behind the silhouettes of spruce trees. The light is reflected in the thin layer of ice covering the pond in the foreground.

A bright red curtain of light surrounded by green glow rains down from the sky behind the silhouettes of spruce trees. The light is reflected in the thin layer of ice covering the pond in the foreground.

So this happened an hour ago. I don’t think I’ve seen red this deep in a long time. You could see it quite clearly with the naked eye. #aurora

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