Todd Lyons 🪶

@toddlyons
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Audio Producer, Author, Privacy Professional (CIPP/C), Registered Social Worker (MSW, RSW), Linux user, Open Source fan. Former Radio Broadcaster.

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"If we're talking about replacing anything, there needs to be a restoration and rebuilding of the original laws, governance structures and the treaties and the treaty relationship that existed, and was the intent of what the nation-to-nation relationship was supposed to be."

https://www.cbc.ca/news/indigenous/150-years-indian-act-9.7152147?cmp=rss

#IndianAct #Canada #Indigenous #reconciliation

After 150 years, Canada still has an Indian Act. Why is it so hard to get rid of? | CBC News

The Indian Act marks 150 years since it was enacted this month. CBC Radio's The House spoke with First Nations leaders, historians and legal experts about the Indian Act and attempts by First Nations to move beyond it.

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Manitoba First Nation declares state of emergency over mental health crisis | CBC News

A northern Manitoba First Nation says it is facing a mental health crisis that has led to three deaths in the past two weeks and a total of four in the past month.

CBC

Elder Paul Andrew is one of a growing number of Dene leaders calling for all the files to be turned over. He said he is also open to discussing a class action lawsuit with other leaders who were spied on and are still around.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/apology-not-enough-dene-leaders-want-see-rcmp-spying-files-9.7145344?cmp=rss

#Indigenous #reconciliation #Canada #RCMP #surveillance

Apology 'not enough': Dene leaders want to see the RCMP spying files | CBC News

A growing number of Dene leaders are calling for access to the unredacted RCMP files detailing spying on the Dene Nation's precursor organization in the 1970s. The calls follow the release of a CBC investigation that relied on partially redacted files accessed through Access to Information requests.

CBC

CBC News has obtained a newly declassified copy of the RCMP Security Service's nearly 1,700-page intelligence dossier on the Dene Nation which confirms the Mounties had five paid informers "targeted specifically" against the organization as late as September 1978, in an extensive intelligence probe already five years old by then.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/indigenous/dene-nation-rcmp-security-service-files-9.7139036?cmp=rss

#Indigenous #reconciliation #Law #Justice

Why Mounties paid 5 informers to spy on Dene leaders: Inside a secret surveillance operation | CBC News

Dene leaders believe the RCMP Security Service in the 1970s broke into their office in Yellowknife, bugged it, stole and leaked material while aiming to discredit them via Operation Checkmate, a national disruption program.

CBC

Duheme's statement comes after calls from Indigenous leaders and Anandasangaree for the Mounties to take accountability and make amends following a years-long CBC Indigenous investigation revealed the RCMP Security Service ran covert surveillance, had informants and engaged in countersubversion against the First Nations, Inuit and Métis rights movements.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/rcmp-response-indigenous-spying-operation-9.7141533?cmp=rss

#Indigenous #reconciliation #Law #Justice

RCMP commissioner regrets Indigenous spying program that spanned over a decade | CBC News

The RCMP commissioner says he expresses sincere regret for an extensive spying program that targeted hundreds of Indigenous people following a CBC Indigenous investigation.

CBC

The organizations that police monitored included the Métis Society of Saskatchewan and the Federation of Saskatchewan Indians — precursors to today's Métis Nation—Saskatchewan and Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/rcmp-native-extremism-files-metis-nation-sask-9.7138693?cmp=rss

#Indigenous #reconciliation #Law #Justice

Indigenous activists in Sask. among those targeted by RCMP spying in 1970s | CBC News

Reports on Indigenous organizations in Saskatchewan are among previously classified RCMP Security Service files released to CBC under the Access to Information Act. Bruce Flamont says he is not surprised. He saw officers surveilling him in the 1970s.

CBC

Former Assembly of First Nations national chiefs Phil Fontaine and Ovide Mercredi, who are from First Nations within Manitoba, appear in the RCMP Security Service intelligence files. So does Eric Robinson, who went on to become a Manitoba cabinet minister and deputy premier.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/rcmp-intelligence-files-indigenous-leaders-activists-9.7140524?cmp=rss

#Indigenous #reconciliation #Law #Justice

Historic RCMP spy program targeted early Indigenous rights movement in Manitoba | CBC News

Two future national First Nations leaders, a deputy premier and a city councillor are among the prominent Manitobans who appear in declassified intelligence files from years of RCMP spying on the Indigenous rights movement in the Cold War era.

CBC

Newly released RCMP Security Service files reveal that it amassed more than 900 pages of intelligence on the Union of B.C. Indian Chiefs (UBCIC) over more than a decade.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/indigenous/bc-first-nations-rcmp-spying-70s-9.7136440?cmp=rss

#Indigenous #reconciliation #Law #Justice

Union of B.C. Indian Chiefs targeted by RCMP spies in 1970s 'Native extremism' program | CBC News

Newly released RCMP Security Service files reveal that it amassed more than 900 pages of intelligence on the Union of B.C. Indian Chiefs over more than a decade. First Nations leaders say they were undeterred by RCMP surveillance and instead remained focused on fighting for their rights.

CBC

While Windows's built-in monitoring tools might seem adequate, your SSD's manufacturer already has a free, purpose-built program that can run circles around anything Windows has to offer.

https://www.makeuseof.com/ssds-manufacturer-gave-free-tool/

#technology #software

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You already own the best SSD tool, you just never installed it

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