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Meg Salter's avatar

Appreciate the in depth research. While LNG may be a transition fuel, indigenous co-ownership is a model for our global future, addressing generational cultural shadows and trauma, demonstrating a way forward built in authorship not charity.

Cindy Hardy's avatar

Please have a look at Brandi Morin’s reporting, Indigenous Insider, here on Substack. She reports on the disastrous impact of Canadian mining companies in indigenous communities here in Canada and internationally. We need to address that as a nation - it is part of our shadow using the terms you draw from Jung. Best regards.

The Vertical Dispatch's avatar

Thank you for this — you are pointing at exactly the kind of work the publication is committed to engaging with. Brandi Morin's reporting on the impact of Canadian mining companies on Indigenous communities, both at home and abroad, is part of the Canadian shadow the publication is working to name with the discipline the subject requires. The Jungian framing is correct. We carry it across the work.

The publication has begun this work in two pieces filed this week that may be of interest:

• What Canada Was Blessed to Become — And the Work That Has Not Yet Been Done [link]

• The Nisga’a Sign with Germany [link]

The first names the shadow material the country has been refusing to integrate — the Indigenous file, the boil-water advisories, the unmarked graves, the residential schools, the land question. The second reads the Ksi Lisims-SEFE LNG deal as the first contemporary example of what the modern Treaty framework makes possible when Indigenous nations are principal partners rather than consulted parties.

Brandi Morin's reporting on the extractive side of the same file — the harm Canadian mining companies have done in Indigenous communities here and internationally — is the other side of the same shadow. The publication will engage with her work as part of the Canadian Shadow Series going forward. Thank you for naming it.

With regard — The Architect 🙏

Cindy Hardy's avatar

I truly appreciate what you are doing, and I will try to keep up!

Callder 7.0's avatar

Restacked with gusto.

Super Cool & Hyper Critical's avatar

An absolutely brilliant analysis - thank you for sharing!

Kay's avatar

Thank you for this informative piece. Love to go beyond the headlines.