Karen Restoule
@karenrestoule
@MLInstitute | @thehubcanada | Oyster 🦪 Group | less suits, more plaid
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84,731: Toronto Blue Jays fans set new single-night ‘Loonie Dogs’ record cp24.com/news/sports/20…
👩🏻: “It’s on Canadians, government, everybody involved to be exploring how we can move beyond the Indian Act so that Ottawa is no longer literally living in our homes.” 👓: “But Ottawa is literally living in most people’s homes. They do in my home. They do in his home.” 👩🏻:…
+1 🙋🏻♀️: "One of the best steps to progress on reconciliation and other files would be to marginalize (and frankly defund) the AFN and instead work directly with First Nation reformers." Lots of awesome FNs leaders across the country who are more than capable to represent their…
A major category error of Canadian politics is the tendency to treat the Assembly of First Nations as a governance body capable of acting as a nation-to-nation interlocutor. In reality, the AFN is a dysfunctional (and government-funded) lobbying organization. Its incentives…
ICYMI: Need to Know by Ian Stedman, @karenrestoule, and @AidenMuscovitch: Can Carney govern in a conflict-of-interest minefield? FREE 3-month Hub subscription: thehub.ca/free-trial/ Full article here: thehub.ca/2025/07/17/nee…
Need to Know by Ian Stedman, @karenrestoule, and @AidenMuscovitch: Can Carney govern in a conflict-of-interest minefield FREE 3-month Hub subscription: thehub.ca/free-trial/ Full article here: thehub.ca/2025/07/17/nee…
Need to Know by Ian Stedman, @karenrestoule, and @AidenMuscovitch: Can Carney govern in a conflict-of-interest minefield? FREE 3-month Hub subscription: thehub.ca/free-trial/ Full article here: thehub.ca/2025/07/17/nee…
Later today, Prime Minister Mark Carney will sit down with First Nations leaders. My short contribution for today’s Need To Know at @TheHubCanada covers what PM Carney should expect from the meeting ⬇️ “Later today, Prime Minister Mark Carney will sit down with First Nations…
“Anytime the government is inserting itself into our affairs, we don’t like that.” This and more, all in this 3 minute interview with @StephenLeDrew youtube.com/watch?v=-sWi_P…
In his gut-busting glory, Joey Chestnut offers the nation a powerful kind of hope: that with a concoction of liberty, freedom, and grit, anyone can carve out their own place in history. @TheHubCanada thehub.ca/2025/07/04/mat…
Fort St John citizens issue Competiton Bureau complaint against David Suzuki Foundation for false and misleading anti-energy campaign #greenwashing #C59 newswire.ca/news-releases/…
Apparently presenting commentary supported by research(especially around sensitive topics like gender and health) can make you a target like my @MLInstitute colleague Mia Hughes &others @nationalpost Sounds like smells like: ideological policing disguised as activist journalism.
Last week, the podcast Canadaland devoted an entire episode to trashing me, and by extension the National Post for publishing my work. I’ve listened to it, and I have some feedback for @JesseBrown and @StephenMarche. podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/dea…
ICYMI: ‘A place where anybody, from anywhere, can do anything’: @karenrestoule, @BenWoodfinden, @polanskydj, @AidenMuscovitch, @harrisonlowman, @GuzmanAttar, @KeldenFormosa, @kirklapointe, @jdmstewart1, and Christopher Dummitt celebrate Canada Day thehub.ca/2025/07/01/a-p…
For Canada Day, @karenrestoule reminds us that strong countries are built on "#contribution, shared #sacrifice, & #love returned in equal measure." macdonaldlaurier.ca/lets-celebrate…
🇨🇦Let’s celebrate our rights today—and remember our responsibilities, too 🇨🇦 My short contribution in today’s publication at @TheHubCanada : “This year, I’ll spend Canada Day like I do every year, at home in Dokis First Nation with family, enjoying the hallmarks of Canadian…
‘A place where anybody, from anywhere, can do anything’: @karenrestoule, @BenWoodfinden, @polanskydj, @AidenMuscovitch, @harrisonlowman, @GuzmanAttar, @KeldenFormosa, @kirklapointe, @jdmstewart1, and Christopher Dummitt celebrate Canada Day. thehub.ca/2025/07/01/a-p…
Let’s celebrate our rights today—and remember our responsibilities, too, writes MLI's @karenrestoule in The Hub. "In social settings, Canadians now sound more like litigants than citizens, focused on what we are owed, rather than what we owe." Read more: macdonaldlaurier.ca/lets-celebrate…
‘A place where anybody, from anywhere, can do anything’: @karenrestoule, @BenWoodfinden, @polanskydj, @AidenMuscovitch, @harrisonlowman, @GuzmanAttar, @KeldenFormosa, @kirklapointe, @jdmstewart1, and Christopher Dummitt celebrate Canada Day thehub.ca/2025/07/01/a-p…