Quake Sends Ripples Beyond Haida Gwaii
Quakes and pipelines and risks and rhetoric.
Category: ISSUES+POLITICS
Missing / Murdered Aboriginal Women: is it up to the public to call an inquiry?
For years, First Nations families, organizations and leaders have called on the federal government to hold a national inquiry into missing and murdered First Nations women and girls in Canada. Since the 1960s, over 700 First Nations women and girls have gone missing or died of violence. Bridget Tolley believes the number of cases is […]
First Nation Communities Facing an Invisible but Deadly Enemy
It’s a colourless, odourless and tasteless gas that can be deadly. Now imagine your children playing in it, or community Elders sitting and visiting in it. That gas is radon, and, unbeknownst to the residents of the Tobique First Nation, a Maliseet community located in northwestern New Brunswick, some of them had been exposed to […]
Why ending Canadian control over First Nations education starts with you and me
As kids prepare to head back to school this week, I’m gathering up my PDFs and stocking up on coffee as I enter into the final year of my PhD. And yet, firmly entrenched as I am within academia, I still find myself asking just what the heck it is I’m doing here. As it […]
Why it’s only right to retire relics like the Redskins
The recent debate about the Nepean Redskins is getting tired. Frankly, it’s a debate we’ve had over and over again, both in the U.S. and in Canada. Despite the very real fact that the term Redskin is nearly universally understood as offensive, White sports fans loyal to their high school, college or professional sports mascots […]
