Cannabis count: Who’s in and who’s not in Indigenous country?
With cannabis now legal in Canada, which Indigenous communities embrace this new regime and which don’t?
Category: BUSINESS/ECONOMY
IndieNDNs: Indigenous Indiegogo crowdfunding campaigns
A scan of Indigenous related crowdfunding campaigns, from film to health
Oil’s Slippery Slope
I like oil. Oil brings me things. Things like home heating, air conditioning, electricity. It means people aren’t burning trees so I can hike through forests. It means people aren’t burning coal so I can breathe without blackening my lungs. It means communities don’t have to be flooded so someone can jam up a river […]
One little planet. One BIG farm.
Since the ’30s, the days of the family farm have been numbered. The dustbowl sucked young farmers off the land faster than you can say “plague of grasshoppers.” But there were always dirt die-hards who hung on — even flourished — once the rain fell again and the insecticide giants and genetically modified crop scientists bent […]
Saskatchewan First Nation’s novel solution to welfare: organic veggies
Just an amazing, all-around awesome story out of the Muskoday First Nation in Saskatchewan, courtesy of The Star-Phoenix. The article details efforts by the community, in partnership with Heifer International Canada, to pursue “Indigenous organic gardening, agroecology and organic food entrepreneurship” via the Muskoday Organic Growers Co-op. According to the Star-Phoenix, the Co-op’s roots (no […]
