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Future of Good

A note to Changemakers on National Truth and Reconciliation Day

  ᑖᓂᓯ ᓂᐚᐦᑰᒫᑲᓇᐠ ᐁᑿ ᓂᑑᑌᒼᑎᐠ᙮ tânisi niwâhkômâkanak êkwa nitôtêmtik, Hello my relatives and friends, I am Eden Fineday, a Cree woman from the Sweetgrass First Nation in Saskatchewan, and Publisher of IndigiNews. I was born on Sweetgrass and raised on

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Elisha Dacey

👏 Healing is the worst👏

  I try to be a good example to people in my life. I often fail miserably, but I do try. Last week, I returned to work after major surgery. (I was blown away by the well-wishes; thank you!) You’d

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Elisha Dacey

Hot dogs, forest fires and eyeball-melting temperatures

Good morning and happy Monday. I hope you were able to relish your weekend, unlike this slippery nightmare for some folks in Pennsylvania. As someone who once ran a hot-dog-related story on the front page of her major daily newspaper, I fully endorse this

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Elisha Dacey

Hard numbers: The toll of U.S.A.I.D. cuts revealed

Good morning. I hate to start your Monday off with difficult news, but it’s news we already knew. Unfortunately, it now has numbers attached. A whistleblower went to the New York Times, and Sunday evening, they shared hard numbers attached

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Anouk Bertner

‘Meating’ the future

OK, so who spent the weekend doomscrolling the on-off U.S. tariffs and the impacts of an immediate and unexpected freeze of USAID? What a ride.

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Elisha Dacey

(Em)brance for impact

I’ve been pondering an eloquent way to articulate how many of us feel this morning. Then I realized there is no nice way to describe fear.

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Anouk Bertner

Supporting democracy in the face of turmoil

Independent journalism plays a critical role in supporting a well-functioning democracy. At Future of Good, we’re proud to contribute to this essential work by reporting on the most pressing issues and innovations in social impact. In 2024, we explained, covered,

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Elisha Dacey

Freeland leaves cabinet, postal workers back

Just before I sent out this newsletter, we once again got breaking news. Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland has resigned from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s cabinet, just hours before she was to give the fall economic update.

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Elisha Dacey

🎵 Bluesky, smiling at me 🎵

Over the past weeks, users have abandoned Twitter—er, X, whatever—in droves for the “new” microblogging social media site Bluesky. It’s been dubbed the Great X-odous.

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Jahanzeb Hussain

Dispatch from West Africa

Senegalese fishermen are being pushed increasingly inwards to the mangrove areas as space becomes restricted in the sea, creating conflict with those who want to protect the forest.

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