Tim Powers of The Globe reports today that the Conservative candidate for the federal riding of Labrador “will likely be Peter Penashue,” a seat he’ll have to wrest from Liberal incumbent Todd Russell. While obviously more common within Indigenous communities, this Aboriginal-vs.-Aboriginal contest is a relative rarity in federal Canadian political circles. Powers opines that […]
With a spring federal election a distinct possibility as the reigning minority Conservative government faces defeat by the opposition, there’s no time like the present to start prognosticating about MPs’ prospects for re-election. I am particularly interested in those races where the Aboriginal vote could play a key role by virtue of their numbers. And […]
Quick plug for a Kickstarter project trying to raise funds for a doc about a small, beleaguered Indigenous community on Isle de Jean Charles, Louisiana. According to filmmakers Evan Abramson and Carmen Elsa Lopez, the area’s coastal marshland is eroding at the equivalent of one football field every 30 minutes … Only a half-mile of […]
Here’s an interview I did today for URBAN NATION LIVE (heard live weekdays at 12 noon central time on Aboriginal hip-hop station STREETZ FM) with Cindy Blackstock, executive director of the First Nations Child and Family Caring Society of Canada. She reacted to the recent dismissal by the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal of her organization’s […]
Here’s my quote of the day, to be filed under ‘I’ for irony: “It is easier in First Nations politics to be aggressively contrary to something than it is to be supportive. That is an observation that I will make and stand behind.” — Indian and Northern Affairs Minister John Duncan, during a Senate committee […]
