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Left in the Lurch by Laurentian. Northern education rooted in the north: for many, it's a vision at the very heart of Laurentian University, a northern Ontario school that today is in turmoil. Administrators now pursuing a dramatic—some say draconian—process of 2021-04-23 16:19:27 +0000 UTC
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An outpouring of outrage. It’s the second half of our conversation with artist Chief Lady Bird about her decision to design a beer can label in support of Indigenous women’s causes. In part one, we learned about how it all came to be and some of the reaction that’s poure...
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Opening up a can of controversy. It was meant as a gesture in support of Indigenous women. A one of a kind design by an Indigenous artist known for her bold, provocative imagery. But when it comes to her latest work, it’s not what her art shows that’s sparked strife so much as where it’s s...
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Canine colonial. Is it apt to draw parallels between the worst ills of mainstream child welfare systems and those of animal welfare? It’s the potential...
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Conservative convention. They’re one of Canada’s oldest political parties. Heck, they gave the country its first ever prime 2021-03-31 01:04:11 +0000 UTC
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A crapload of controversy. Did an Indigenous member of the Manitoba Legislature cross the line when she claimed members of the governing Conservative party "just don't give a crap about Indigenous women and girls in this province"? The Speaker sure thou...
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A vaccination conversation. With COVID-19 immunization programs now underway in Canada and beyond, the basic questions of who, when and where have leapt to the fore. Will the most vulnerable be the most vaccinated in time? Some, like the Métis of Manitoba, say the...
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High hopes for Deb Haaland—the congresswoman from New Mexico and citizen of the Laguna Pueblo who could make history as the first Indigenous person to ever serve as Secretary of the Interior for the United States. First things first, though: she still needs to be confirmed by the U-S Senate. A...
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Punishment for Pretendians: it’s the back half of our extended look at colonial cosplay. And if part one was all about the problem, this part’s all about solutions. Just what is to be done about all these faux First Nations actors, authors and acade...
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Part one of our conversation on the consequences of colonial cosplay. With issues of identity reaching a fever pitch of late, we thought we’d take its temperature. From Michelle Latimer’s 2021-02-24 06:55:02 +0000 UTC
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Medically-assisted death. It’s a controversial subject to say the least, precisely why any effort to legislate it has proven just as contentious. So it is in Canada, where laws have been challenged and critiqued, both in and out of court, as either too broad, too narrow or even both, depending on who’s doing the talking—and whom they’re talking about. And with ...
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How Canadian practice undermines Jordan’s Principle. A new brief from the Yellowhead Institute has shone a light on yet another Canadian government attack<...
Repping the Queen. With Canada’s last Governor-General stepping down due to scandal, there are those who say her replacement ought to be a First Nations person. And while the idea seems innocuous on its face—what with ...
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The back half of our two-part foray into fish farms. Part one discussed the myriad problems with such aquaculture; this time around, we look at proposed solutions. Might they swap one set of issues for another, or represent a genuine step toward a truly sustainable ...
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Fish farm phase-out. And with the end of aquaculture as we know it in sight on British Columbia’s cent...
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A second sit-down with Suzuki. And in the first half of our discussion with Dr. David Suzuki, we learned how COVID inspired a return to his spoken word roots and why it was important to include Indigenous knowledge and voices in 2020-12-26 08:11:51 +0000 UTC
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Back to Basics. Scientist, broadcaster, activist, author, grandfather: David Suzuki has worn many hats over his eight-plus decades on the planet. A planet he continues to be both amazed by and concerned fo...
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Bolivia for Beginners: Imagine what it would be like to live in a country where roughly half the population is Indigenous, said to be the highest such proportion in all of South America. Imagine too that, for over a decade, your president was
2020-12-23 02:13:59 +0000 UTC
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Pandemic pandering. A western Canadian premier denounced by critics for bungling the province’s COVID response has now come under fire for questionable comments about immunizing Indians. (We should probably narrow that down: 2020-12-09 23:46:01 +0000 UTC
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Banking While Brown In B.C.. A Heiltsuk grandfather in British Columbia has recently launched a pair of human rights complaints almost a year after he and his young granddaughter were forced to stand outside a downtown Vancouver bank handcuffed for upwards of an hour. They’d been detained there by police after a bank manager suspected their Indian Status cards were fake and called 911 to repo...
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One last stand against northern dams. Decades of disruption and destruction later, massive portions of northern Manitoba have been effectively 2020-11-24 23:35:30 +0000 UTC
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Election and Empire, Part 2: And voting day is just hours away in the USA, a day featuring a good number of Indigenous candidates at various levels: 111 in all, according to Indian Country Today. But even as some do their best to influence the outcom...
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Election and Empire: With U.S. voting day just around the corner, what will November 3rd bring? Will it be a worsening of the Republican shit-show that is the Trump presidency, or will it be a slide over to that other party? You know...
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Back to the border! Part two of our extended look at a court case that should be getting more attention, but continues to fly under the radar of most Canadian media. (Access part one here 2020-10-30 01:26:19 +0000 UTC View Post
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Beyond borders: It’s the shot that continues to be heard across time and states. And it was roughly 10 years ago that an un-licensed Sinixt hunter named Rick Desautel took down an elk in what’s now called British Columbia, thus landing himself in provincial court. Thing is, he lives in what’s now called Washington state, south of a dividing line that does precisely th...
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Justice for Joyce Echaquan. It’s a gut-wrenching, even agonizing video. As a distraught, bed-ridden Joyce Echaquan pleads for help, a nearby nurse and an orderly at a Quebec hospital do not seem particularly concerned wi...
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New sounds of the city. One of Canada’s largest centres—amiskwaciy-wâskahikan (aka Edmonton)—could be on the verge of Indigenizing the nomenclature of its political sub-divisions. Drawing on languages such as Blackfoot and Cree, the suite of 2020-10-09 23:03:24 +0000 UTC
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'Chapter 2' of The Anti-Indigenous Handbook. A look into the "constellation of corporations, special interest organizations, politicians, lobbyists, and hate groups work[ing] to limit or eliminate … [Indigenous] self-determination,” the ‘Handbook’ gathers to...
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The Anti-Indigenous Handbook: A collective effort spanning three countries, this 'Handbook' is the joint product of four media outlets: the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network, 2020-09-30 01:40:52 +0000 UTC View Post
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Settler panic in the Atlantic. Why do opponents of a new Mi’kmaq fishery in southwestern Nova Scotia speak as if it’s illegal when it has the support of a 21-year-old Supreme Court ruling? Why do they persist with arguments that the fishery could endanger the stock when not even 10 licenses are involved—an iota compared to the millions of pounds caught by the industry every year? And what ...
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