A-Dub 🥝'The world should see this', say Papua deforestation doco filmmakers
"For a country with a record of large deforestation projects, Indonesia's current activities in the far south eastern corner of the republic, South Papua province, surpass all."
a critique of the 100th anniversary history of the Royal Forest & Bird Protection Society of New Zealand
by Dr Martin Fisher, a senior lecturer above the bar at the Ngāi Tahu Research Centre, University of Canterbury.
https://e-tangata.co.nz/comment-and-analysis/a-more-critical-history-of-forest-bird/
A-Dub 🥝it's hard to overstate how much i detest the 3-term-majority Doug-Ford-led conservative government of Ontario 🤬
The Ontario government has quietly given itself the power to override archaeological protections on development sites.
It's a shift that, for the first time, places millennia-old Indigenous history under direct political control & raises the alarm among experts & First Nations that cultural & burial sites could be erased in the name of economic growth.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ontario-bill5-heritage-act-archaeology-indigenous-burial-9.6984496
Ontario breaks new ground by letting politicians decide when history will be protected | CBC News
In Ontario, where ancient Indigenous burial grounds and village sites lie beneath rapidly expanding suburbs, the government has granted itself powers to bypass archaeological protections, raising fears that centuries of history could be lost with the stroke of a minister’s pen.
YESSSS.
"A federal judge has sided with two First Nations in Manitoba and one in Ontario that sued the Canadian government over its duty to provide them with safe housing and clean drinking water, in separate rulings delivered Friday."
Canada has legal duty to provide safe water, housing to remote First Nations, federal judge rules | CBC News
A federal judge has sided with two First Nations in Manitoba and one in Ontario that sued the Canadian government over its duty to provide them with safe housing and clean drinking water, in separate rulings delivered Friday.
"The University of Auckland has abandoned its compulsory introductory paper on the Treaty of Waitangi.
Emeritus Professor Alison Jones is one of those who led the development of the university’s first-year courses.
She writes here that the decision is politically-motivated and a betrayal of academic freedom."
https://e-tangata.co.nz/comment-and-analysis/a-betrayal-of-academic-freedom/
#NZ #AcademicFreedom #ColonialistNonsense #HonourTheTreaty #ToituTeTiriti
"Like a thief in the night, this [NZ conservative coalition] government comes through with this legislation that will raupatu (confiscate), the biggest raupatu that Māori will suffer, to our mana takutai moana - because what was the issue? What was the problem that this government is seeking to change and improve?"
— Green MP Hūhana Lyndon
"There is a 0% chance that [NZ Foreign Minister Winston] Peters’ admonishment of the vast majority of UN member states, and continued delay in New Zealand’s own action, will have any impact on how they take their own stands. There is a 100% chance that it will be remembered as the time New Zealand punched above its weight in cowardice."
"Every once in a while New Zealand manages to stand out from the pack. Despite our size, there are moments when all eyes turn to us. Most often it’s in the sports or entertainment arena. We’ll roll out the “per capita” stats and the “aw shucks” attitude and proudly say that we, as a small island nation, are used to punching above our weight.
And now we’ve done just that in the worst and most embarrassing of arenas." https://thespinoff.co.nz/politics/27-09-2025/new-zealand-is-punching-above-its-weight-in-cowardice
fucking SHAMEFUL
