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  • Year In Review 2017: For Canada’s Indigenous communities a year of truth, reconciliation and appropriation

    The calendar is set to turn on another year, luckily without the threat of a Mayan apocalypse after the maelstrom that was 2016. Still, for...
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  • A Canada 150 birthday wish

    This year the Stratford Festival has commissioned a play by Colleen Murphy, The Breathing Hole, to mark Canada 150 celebrations. Inuk director Reneltta Arluk is...
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  • My Canada 150 dilemma

    Ever gone to a wedding where the minister asks if anybody has good reason to object to the union and discover your hand is halfway...
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  • Is Joseph Boyden “Grey Owling”?

    One lazy afternoon, I recognized the voice of Joseph Boyden being interviewed on CBC Radio. For fun, I decided to call in and pose a...
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  • Stop using these Indigenous references and terms they’re offensive

    The number-one question Aboriginal people get asked these days is What the hell should we call you guys now? Its a complex question because the...
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  • Sixties Scoop: the other head of the hydra known as cultural genocide

    The dust has barely settled on the controversy surrounding the limitations of the recently announced National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls,...
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  • My Cuba red alert

    Varadero – Most would consider a trip to a Cuban resort a pleasant distraction – warm sand, rum and a shallow excursion into another culture....
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  • Attawapiskat or bust: Why we won’t move

    Scott Gilmore of Maclean's has thought about it. Walrus Magazine editor-in-chief Jonathan Kay has considered it. Even former prime minister Jean Chrétien has suggested it. ...
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  • Attawapiskat or bust: Why we won’t move

    Scott Gilmore of Maclean's has thought about it. Walrus Magazine editor-in-chief Jonathan Kay has considered it. Even former prime minister Jean Chretien has suggested it....
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  • A lesson in genocide

    The term “genocide” is bandied about quite a bit to describe what happened in residential schools in Canada. Some say what happened to indigenous children...
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  • Wild rice fight: cottagers versus Indians

    A little more than 40 kilometres north of Peterborough on the shores of Pigeon Lake, a tempest has been fermenting for months between cottagers in...
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  • Why First Nations might vote this time around

    There’s a lot of talk in the media about the reluctance of Muslims and other ethnic minorities to vote in Canadian national elections. The same...
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  • Germany’s freaky “hobby indians”

    BAD SEGEBERG, Germany - It's not often you'll find 4,000 people at a play about a fictional native character written by a 19th-century German writer...
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  • When racial epithets become inconvenient

    I have a children’s play currently touring a good chunk of central and southern Ontario. The play is called Spirit Horse and is produced by Roseneath...
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  • Jury dutys Indian content rules

    Once again an august row of educated, privileged white men and women are going to sit in judgment on the fate of Canadas indigenous people....
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