On this week's Indigenous podcast:
The first in a two-part conversation confronting the confusion and contention around what it means to be Métis.
In their new article, "White Settler Revisionism and Making Métis Everywhere: The Evocation of Métissage in Québec and Nova Scotia," co-authors 2017-07-23 23:16:49 +0000 UTC View Post
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2017-07-15 21:11:03 +0000 UTC View PostThis week's episode represents a bit of a mid-summer break from our regular format as we take a deep dive into the fiscal infrastructure of Canadian colonialism.
As technocratic as that sounds, our guest—Shiri Pasternak, Assistant Professor in Criminology at Ryerson University—expertly illuminates how boring bureaucracy can ...
2017-07-15 21:05:48 +0000 UTC View PostOn this week's Indigenous roundtable...
Tempest in a teepee: Indigenous water protectors fought for and won the right to set up a ceremonial camp on Parliament Hill for Canada Day. Did their actions shine a light on the 2017-07-09 07:40:43 +0000 UTC View Post
To the people who sustain this podcast, I thought it would be good to share a short note so as to allay any potential confusion about us recently reaching our $1000 milestone... and then not.
As I write this, we actually sit at $944 from 97 patrons. What happened? Well, basically, some people decided not to renew their pledges. This is normal, and often happens right around the time monies are collected, i.e., the first of the month.
Are we sad? For sure, but we recognize that peop...
2017-07-02 19:31:05 +0000 UTC View PostOn this week's roundtable: is the state of Indigenous health care plagued by ill will?
Some might think so in Alberta, where a pair of provincial employees were punted for a racist text message about a First Nations school principal. Meanwhile, in Ottawa, the political battle over health care inequity for on-reserve kids continues as the feds announce 2017-07-02 19:17:33 +0000 UTC View Post
On this week's Indigenous roundtable:
When words fail... especially after one hears about the enormous equity gap in federal funding between French and Inuit languages in Nunavut.
Putting us on the map—literally. Google announces that users of its Maps app will now 2017-06-26 00:04:27 +0000 UTC
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On this week's Indigenous roundtable:
Why things aren't okay in Thunder Bay. In the wake of two more Indigenous teens found dead in this northwestern Ontario city’s waterways, their home First Nations are sounding alarm bells, but local police maintain there is no crisis.
And WTF is a MOU, and why should we ca...
2017-06-18 01:38:08 +0000 UTC View PostThis week: Questioning curious carriages of justice in Canadian courts.
Questions like, how is it that a victim of a brutal assault in Alberta not only gets locked up in remand against her will but was made to testify cuffed and chained?! And how did an Inuk grandmother from Labrador 2017-06-10 23:40:28 +0000 UTC View Post
On this week's Indigenous roundtable:
Outrageous outfits / A group of Alberta students host a controversial "Cowboys & Indians" costume graduation party.
Rough ride / A northern Manitoba man says he was unfairly 2017-06-03 23:53:19 +0000 UTC View Post
This week, an extended conversation with two of the people behind 'Unsettling Canada 150.'
Planned for the exact same date as Canada Day—July 1—this national, Indigenous-led day of action will serve as a counter-action to the multi-million dollar, orgiastic commemoration of the country’s 150th anniversary of Confederation....
2017-05-29 08:53:43 +0000 UTC View PostOn this week’s roundtable:
Sensationalizing suicide? We recount the critiques of 13 Reasons Why, the Netflix teen drama that's sparked controversy for centering the suicide of one of its characters.
And shaking off Shakespeare: a...
2017-05-22 05:25:25 +0000 UTC View PostEp. 62: What could BC Election 2017 mean for Indigenous peoples?
This week, a breakdown of the BC election, the result of which is still up in the air, leaving Indigenous peoples with all sorts of questions.
Questions like which would be better or worse for their interests, a Liberals/Greens coalition or NDP/Greens? How much Indigenous issues factored into this election, or how much Indigenous voters did? And how did 2017-05-14 21:51:28 +0000 UTC View Post
How Canada's first Indigenous policy was founded on famine / Ep. 61
On this week's podcast, a break from our usual roundtable, as we re-visit my 2014 interview with James Daschuk, author of Clearing the Plains: Disease, Politics of Starvation, and the Loss of Aboriginal Life.
Daschuk's award-winning history investigates the roles that disease, climate and po...
2017-05-07 01:49:03 +0000 UTC View PostThis week's roundtable tries to unpack some recent legal and political developments in the area of Indian Status, in particular, its long-standing, some say intentional, sexism.
First, we delve into an Indigenous woman's 30-year-plus court battle to regain her Indian Status, a battle that just resulted in 2017-04-29 17:28:09 +0000 UTC
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This week: Transportation Troubles.
In Saskatchewan, a recent government budget announced the shutdown of the STC, a provincial bus service that critics say is a lifeline for rural communities and reserves. Meanwhile in Manitoba, a First Nations owned airline was stunned to learn that it too could have its wings clipped after news that the province ...
2017-04-22 20:05:44 +0000 UTC View PostThis week, a double dive into recent moves by Health Canada:
First, its decision to fund the cost of a travel companion for pregnant Indigenous women who give birth outside their community;
Second, is social media an 2017-04-15 17:14:23 +0000 UTC View Post
On this week's Indigenous roundtable:
Colonial Editorial: Why people like ex-TRC head Murray Sinclair are outraged by a Globe and Mail op-ed rejecting...
2017-04-08 18:50:17 +0000 UTC View PostOn this week's Indigenous roundtable, we examine mainstream Canadian media and reconciliation. When the Truth and Reconciliation Commission issued its nearly 100 Calls to Action back in late 2015, the fourth estate was among the institutions encouraged to take up those calls.
It's been well over a year: what action has been taken? What has that meant for how stories about Indigenous people get told? To what extent have national media managed to overcome their legacy as channels of Canadi...
2017-04-03 18:29:46 +0000 UTC View PostOn this week's roundtable:
Federal foot-dragging: the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal ordered feds to stop underfunding child welfare on-reserve back in 2016. So why has it still yet to happen?
Departmental dysfunction: a 2017-03-25 20:30:57 +0000 UTC View Post
On this week's Indigenous roundtable:
Do growing calls for tougher laws deliberately target some more than others? A look at the apparent push to increasingly criminalize Aboriginal behaviour by non-Aboriginal interests. Plus, how a disproportionate number of Indigenous people throughout Canada struggle with severe food insecurity.
Returning to the roundtable are Danika Billie Littlechild and Robert Jago.
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2017-03-11 22:27:21 +0000 UTC View PostNOTE: If you already completed your survey, please disregard this message.
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2017-03-11 22:23:27 +0000 UTC View PostThis week on our Indigenous current affairs roundtable:
Attention Status Indian men—do you have sperm to spare? Some women on Craigslist hope you'll consider making what might be called a liquid transaction.
Proudly Unpatriotic: a Native student at an Oklahoma high school is reprimanded for 2017-03-11 19:18:30 +0000 UTC View Post
On this week's Indigenous roundtable: fire and water.
A new Toronto Star investigation into the overall state of First Nations fire prevention and protection in Canada paints an abysmal picture. But with no shortage of suggested solutions, the real question is why they have yet to be implemented.
And, a drop in the bucket: it's one of Trudeau's b...
2017-03-05 17:59:06 +0000 UTC View PostEp. 51: Indigenous Institutionalization, Then and Now
This week on the podcast, two troubling stories of Indigenous institutionalization.
The first comes from an Ontario jail where 9 out of 10 inmates are Aboriginal. The second centers on a young First Nations man whose 18 years in foster care shuffled him in and out of 73 different homes.
Back for the last time at the roundtable are scholar Brock Pitawanakwat and journalist Wawmeesh Hamilton.
... 2017-02-25 19:11:30 +0000 UTC View PostOn this week's Indigenous roundtable…
Success for Survivors: Despite attempts by both the Harper Conservatives and the Trudeau Liberals to keep former adoptees out of Ontario courts, not only was their Sixties Scoop class-action suit heard, they won. What could it mean for similar suits in other jurisdictions?
Putting our peoples first: a one-time deputy premier under Manitoba’s previous NDP government thinks the party has abandoned Aboriginal ...
2017-02-20 22:32:07 +0000 UTC View PostOn this week's Indigenous roundtable:
Women on the watchlist: Why were rallies and marches in support of an inquiry into missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls on the radar of Canada's national security apparatus?
Inherited issues: Rival claims to hereditary Indigenous leadership in BC have ended up in a non-Indigenous court. Is this the ultimate in irony or just the logical outcome of outside interference?
Returning to the rou...
2017-02-11 02:12:01 +0000 UTC View PostOn this week's Indigenous roundtable:
Make room for men—We try to decipher recent revelations that the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls will examine "ways in which the testimonies and stories of men and boys might be collected," sparking fears that it risks de-centering the voices and perspectives of those it was set up to serve.
Street fight in Port Alberni, BC—What do you do when a road where y...
2017-02-03 22:42:48 +0000 UTC View PostThis week, we discuss a western Canadian premier's racializing of the contentious issue of night-time moose hunting: could his hyperbole put Aboriginal people in the cross-hairs?
And, the ambivalence of benevolence—an 2017-01-28 21:54:26 +0000 UTC View Post