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10/02/2026

We send our deepest thoughts, prayers, and love to the Tsawwassen First Nation, and especially to the family, loved ones, and community of Elder Virginia Splockton, taken far too soon.

May the memory of Elder Virginia Splockton be a blessing.

May her family be surrounded by love, strength, and community as they grieve. May her teachings, stories, laughter, and love continue to be carried by those who knew her and by the generations who follow.

We hold Elder Virginia Splockton’s loved ones and the entire Tsawwassen First Nation close in our hearts during this devastating time.

May she rest peacefully with the Ancestors. 🧡

10/02/2026

We send our deepest thoughts, prayers, and love to the Tsawwassen First Nation, and especially to the families, loved ones, and community grieving the Elders taken far too soon.

May the memory of Elder wilapiya (Barb Joe) be a blessing.

May their family be surrounded by love and community as they grieve, and may Elder wilapiya’s teachings, stories, love, and legacy continue to live on through all those whose lives they touched.

We hold the Tsawwassen First Nation close in our hearts during this incredibly painful time. 🧡

09/30/2026

🧡 EVERY CHILD MATTERS. 🧡

Today is Orange Shirt Day and the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation.

Today we honour the Survivors of residential schools and remember the children who never came home.

As of 2026, investigations have identified at least 2,971 potential unmarked graves or burials at 31 former residential school sites across Canada.

The National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation has documented more than 4,000 children who died within the residential school system. In 2025, another 1,143 names of children were verified for the National Student Memorial Register.

And we still do not know the full number.

Many former residential school sites have not been fully searched. Records remain incomplete. Children remain missing. Families and Nations are still waiting for answers.

Orange Shirt Day cannot simply be about wearing orange.

It means listening to Survivors.
Learning whose land you live on.
Understanding the Treaties.
Challenging residential-school denialism.
Supporting Nations searching for their children.
Demanding institutions release the records communities need.

The last federally operated residential school closed in 1996. This is not ancient history. Survivors are still here.

2,971 potential unmarked burials.
More than 4,000 documented deaths.
Thousands of children.
Thousands of families.
And the search is not finished.

They were children.

They had names.
They had families.
They were loved.
They should have come home.

🧡 Every Child Matters.
🧡 Every Survivor Matters.
🧡 The children who never came home matter.

Today we wear orange.

Tomorrow, we keep doing the work.

09/27/2026

📣 HIRING: PART-TIME PERSONAL SUPPORT WORKER

📍 Britannia Youngstown, Edmonton
⏰ 3 days/week | 5 hours/day | 15 hours/week
📄 Part-time contract

Looking for a reliable, compassionate and proactive Personal Support Worker to provide a mix of practical support, community access and companionship.

Duties include:
• Driving to appointments, errands & activities
• Wheelchair assistance in the community
• Light cleaning & laundry
• Meal prep/cooking
• Basic pet care
• Companionship & community activities

You must be:
🏳️‍🌈 2SLGBTQIA+ affirming
🧠 Trauma-informed and comfortable supporting neurodivergence and higher mental-health support needs
❤️ Patient, respectful and focused on autonomy
⏰ Reliable and punctual
🚗 A licensed driver with your own reliable vehicle that can fit a folded wheelchair

Previous experience in disability, mental-health, PSW or support work is an asset.

This isn’t about taking over someone’s life. It’s about providing the support needed for someone to live theirs with independence, dignity and choice.

📱 Interested? Text 780-604-2247 with a little about yourself, your experience and availability.

** I am willing to talk to people who have no experience or dont drive. **

Please share!

09/22/2026

SU***DE PREVENTION IS MORE THAN A CRISIS LINE.

It’s affirming names and pronouns.
Safe housing and food.
Harm reduction and health care.
Peer support, chosen family and community.
Culture, ceremony and belonging.
Support for people fleeing violence.
Spaces where people can say, “I’m not okay,” without shame.

Su***de prevention doesn’t begin only in a crisis.

Housing is su***de prevention.
Food is su***de prevention.
Gender affirmation is su***de prevention.
Harm reduction is su***de prevention.
Community is su***de prevention.
Belonging is su***de prevention.

As an organization, we have experienced what can be described as su***de-baiting: using someone’s suicidality, suicidal thoughts or history of self-harm to provoke, manipulate, shame, silence or discredit them.

We have also seen individuals isolated because they spoke about abuse, violence or harm they experienced. When people are punished, excluded or treated as the problem for naming abuse, that isolation can deepen the very conditions that make it harder to stay alive.

Speaking about abuse is not having a victim mentality.
Naming harm is not creating drama.
Asking for support is not manipulation.
And someone’s suicidal thoughts should never be used as a weapon against them.

People deserve to be believed, supported and connected to safety—not silenced, retaliated against or abandoned because their pain makes others uncomfortable.

If we want Two Spirit, Trans, Q***r and struggling people to stay alive, we have to build communities worth staying in.

Love people when they’re struggling, using substances, unhoused, angry or inconvenient. Love people when they speak about abuse. Love people when they need support. Love people enough to make room for honesty, accountability, safety and repair.

Sometimes su***de prevention is making sure someone knows:

There is still a place for you here.

***depreventionmonth

09/17/2026

Community ask! (Edmonton)

Hello i am searching for someone who can come to my house to help support me in recovery from top surgery five days a week.

Duties include:

Light cleaning
Making food
Possibly laundry
Possibly driving
Pushing me in my wheel chair
Help with pet care.
Med management

Please message me if you are interested and tell me what you expect for pay. I am located on the west side.
Thank you.

780 604 2247

09/12/2026

09/10/2026

Help Saddle Lake Cree Nation Defend Treaty Health Rights and Protect Gender-Affirming Care for all People

Help Saddle Lake Cree Nation Defend Treaty Health Rights and Protect Gender-Affirming Care for all People

"On September 9, 2026—150 years to the day after our ancestors entered into Treaty No. 6 at Fort Pitt—Saddle Lake Cree Nation is taking an historic step to assert our Treaty rights, inherent jurisdiction and responsibility to protect the health and well-being of our people.

We are asking Canadians, Treaty people, Indigenous Nations, health professionals, human-rights advocates, allies and people around the world to stand with us.

Saddle Lake Cree Nation is establishing a path toward making our reserve lands and territories a safe haven for gender-affirming health care, including for Two-Spirit, transgender and gender-diverse people affected by restrictive Alberta laws.

This is about more than one health service.

It is about Treaty.

It is about Indigenous sovereignty.

It is about our responsibility to care for one another.

And it is about ensuring that people can access health care with dignity, safety and respect."

Help Saddle Lake Cree Nation Defend Treaty Health Rights and Pr… James Makokis needs your support for Saddle Lake Cree Nation Treaty Health Legal Defense Fund