Awesome news out of Toronto and its international film festival, TIFF. The festival has recently announced that Winnipeg-based artist Caroline Monnet will be showing her experimental short Warchild at this year’s event. The film is produced by another Winnipegger, Kevin Lee Burton, an acclaimed artist in his own right. Warchild will make up part of the […]
Next year, Adam Beach will get to share the hi-ho-silver screen with none other than Harrison Ford in the upcoming movie “Cowboys and Aliens,” described as a mix of sci-fi and western genres. It’s due to hit screens July 29, 2011. According to movieweb.com, “the film takes place in 1870s Arizona, where a skirmish between […]
This installment of our weekly Tuesday sitdown on STREETZ 104.7 FM features a discussion between Rick Harp and THE WORD host Lady V about his latest post, “Does the war against Aboriginal women begin at home?” MI on STREETZ: Aug. 10, 2010 [audio:https://mediaindigena.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/MI-TheWord-Aug10-10_converted.mp3|titles=MI-TheWord-Aug10-10_converted]
Events of recent weeks have repeatedly reminded me of some long-standing questions I’ve had surrounding the obligations of Aboriginal communities to their members, in particular, to their female members. These reminders have come as a series of three news stories, published separately but seemingly tied together by one underlying theme, one I am loath to […]
A letter to the editor in today’s Globe and Mail minces no words in assessing the appointment of MP John Duncan to the position of Indian and Northern Affairs Minister: It is bordering on disgraceful that the newest cabinet minister has been given the Indian Affairs portfolio … What does Stephen Harper’s appointment of a […]
