Wednesday, May 06, 2026

Today's News: Go Habs Go! Welcoming our new Governor General. And marking Red Dress Day

Go Habs Go!
 We're all getting set for Wednesday night!

The Montreal Canadiens are set to start their series against the Buffalo Sabres on Wednesday. To win this series, the Habs will need Cole Caufield to step up and be an X-factor. thesickpodcast.com/habs-round-2...

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— Nick (@nicklariviere25.bsky.social) May 5, 2026 at 6:27 PM

Niagara Falls lights up in Sabres, Canadiens colors before 2nd round series https://www.rawchili.com/nhl/567888/ Niagara Falls couldn’t mist the chance to support the Buffalo Sabres and the Montreal Canadiens in the 2026…

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— Raw NHL (@rawnhl.bsky.social) May 5, 2026 at 8:02 PM

Poking around the Canadiens subreddit, soaking in the Buffalo/Montreal camaraderie I'm seeing there while I can, knowing 4-7 games against Benson will make them hate us with the heat of a thousand suns.

— Hwaet's Up (@ddrews.bsky.social) May 5, 2026 at 5:08 PM

In other sports news, everyone seems to think the Leafs getting the top pick next season is undeserved!
But hey, in sports, as in everything else, if you can't be good, be lucky...



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— The Globe and Mail (@theglobeandmail.com) May 5, 2026 at 6:55 PM

Yet another Draft disaster for the #Canucks and a kick in the junk. Of course, Toronto and San Jose both got lucky again... www.sportsnet.ca/nhl/article/...

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— Edge O. Erin (@edgeoerin.com) May 5, 2026 at 7:09 PM


Welcome to Governor-General Louise Arbour
I have seen no criticism of the choice of Louise Arbour for Governor-General:




Well, except for the National Post, of course:

This is desperately sad.

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— Dale Smith (@journodale.bsky.social) May 5, 2026 at 9:16 PM

Arbour is impressive, and gutsy:
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This is a significant announcement. Louise Arbour is the new the Governor General of Canada. She is a former top judge on the international criminal court. Trump, Putin, Netanyahu are trying to trash the ICC. She is a powerful voice. ici-radio--canada-ca.translate.goog/nouvelle/225...

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— Charlie Angus (@charlieangus104.bsky.social) May 5, 2026 at 7:48 AM



And Tuesday was Canada's annual Red Dress Day

On May 5th is Red Dress Day. We remember the murdered and missing Indigenous women. This red dress was posted at the gate of the former Qu'Appelle Residential School near Regina.

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— Charlie Angus (@charlieangus104.bsky.social) May 5, 2026 at 11:13 AM

Still Dancing Jonathan Labillois ~ Listuguj Migmaq 2014

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— Canadian Paintings (@canadianpaintings.bsky.social) May 5, 2026 at 3:01 AM

May 5 is Red Dress Day, a time to remember our stolen, Murdered and Missing Indigenous Women and Girls 2S+. We also honour the survivors, the families, and the warriors, those who stand up and speak out about the genocide that has happened, on this land, since Contact. No one knows exactly how many murdered and missing women there are in Canada. There have been studies, commissions, inquiries, but how can you quantify all the women that were just gone, never looked for by police, women and girls who were trafficked, traded as slaves and just taken? They disappeared from Indian Residential Schools, from Indian Hospitals, from our communities, from the streets when they are walking home from school or heading to the corner store for a late night snack. Indigenous families look for them, they speak out. They do not forget. A word of advice: Just get out of the way of the children and families looking for their Moms, their Kookums, their chapan. They will come at you with the strength of the sun, seeking justice and looking to bring their Moms home. The family of Morgan Harris, one of the four women murdered by a Winnipeg serial killer in 2022, stopped at nothing to bring their mother home. Winnipeg Police said Morgan Harris’ remains were believed to be in the Prairie Green Landfill. Police said it was unfeasible to search, hazardous, too much. That wasn’t good enough for Cambria Harris, pictured below. She stood up, the oldest of Morgan’s children, she mobilized a city, Indigenous warriors and allies, and, her advocacy helped topple a provincial Manitoba government that refused to search the landfill. Cambria asked this question: “What if it was your daughter?” Morgan Harris’ remains were found in record time, in a dump that the family was told, could not be searched. It also cost a fraction of what was quoted - not $184 million but $18 million. Also found were Marcedes Myran’s remains. She was killed by the same man who killed Morgan in 2022, along with Rebecca Contois and Ashlee Shingoose. Rebecca’s remains were found in Winnipeg’s Brady Landfill. Searchers are currently looking for Ashlee at the Brady site. Every single one of the stolen had a family, had someone who loved them. Murdered and Missing Indigenous Women and Girls 2S+ matter. Their names need to be spoken and they need to be found. Below is Cambria Harris, Morgan’s daughter, and, the camp she helped establish at the Brady landfill site.

- Tanya Talaga

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You know, when I see what is going on this week in the United States, where so many white Americans seem to be actually gleeful that they can now gerrymander congressional seats to try to stop Black and brown Americans from being able to elect Democrats, it makes me even more appreciative that I live in Canada, where our nation is making strides every day toward reconciliation and decolonization.
We are far from perfect yet, our anti-racism journey will never be over, but at least Canadians are trying to make that journey together.

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3 comments:

Cap said...

Red Dress Day is about raising awareness of murdered and missing indigenous women and girls, but MMIWG is hardly a secret by now and action is what is needed. There will be no action without acknowledging the cause, namely abusive men.

Some indigenous women are preyed on by men of an outgroup, mostly white men. Talaga's post touches on this by referencing, without naming, Jeremy Skibicki the white supremacist serial killer who targeted indigenous women around Winnipeg. Unmentioned are the men who pay to rape missing indigenous women and girls.

But let's remember that the ones prostituting indigenous women and girls are usually indigenous men. They, too, beat, sexually abuse and murder the women. Where are people that will come at them "with the strength of the sun, seeking justice and looking to bring their Moms home?"

Information on this is buried. We hear plenty about systemic racism, colonialism, residential schools, and so on. That's all true, but the people who abused children in the residential schools are dead or dying.

What about the current abusers and murderers? What is being done to bring them to justice? What is being done to ensure that reservation police and regular police properly investigate domestic abuse and charge abusive men? What is being done to encourage women to go to the police for help, and show up in court to testify, instead of shaming them for reporting indigenous men?

Domestic abuse is a giant red flag that a man is going to go on to do worse - that's where Skibicki started. Violent men must be removed from the community. Whether rehabilitation is possible or not is a different question, but the only way to stop the violence is to remove the violent men. We need a lot more action on that to start with.

8:51 am
Northern PoV said...

Arbour is not without critics. Yves Engler:

"Arbour was a leading architect of the liberal imperialist Responsibility to Protect (R2P) doctrine, which was used to justify overthrowing Haiti’s elected government in 2004 and destroying Libya seven years later."

5:49 pm
Cathie from Canada said...

Thanks, I will read up on that

8:37 pm

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