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  • For Indigenous Peoples it’s time to look within

    Excerpted from Warrior Life: Indigenous Resistance & Resurgence (Fernwood Publishing) a collection of essays by Pamela Palmater. I wish I didn’t have to write this....
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  • A year after national inquiry, First Nations still looking for action on child welfare crisis

    One year ago, the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls found Canada guilty of both historic and ongoing genocide. Federal and provincial laws,...
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  • Nova Scotia mass shooting lays bare media’s white male bias

    We have a real bias problem in mainstream media when it comes to white men who commit horrible crimes. It’s called “Exceptional White Male Syndrome.”...
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  • Wetsuweten: a wake-up call for Canada

    Canada has reached a tipping point. Over the last month, cracks have started to show in its levers of power over Indigenous peoples. The refusal...
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  • Decade in review: Idle No More catches fire

    Everywhere you look across the country – and globally – Indigenous peoples are leading change in their communities. Idle No More changed everything. Of all...
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  • Time for Justin Trudeau to embrace a radical agenda

    We are now in the post-election period but none of the pre-election crises have disappeared. Climate change is still racing towards us faster than Canada’s...
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  • Canada Election 2019: Andrew Scheer and Maxime Bernier are two peas in a pod

    Maxime Bernier has had numerous forays – and failures – as a politician. But his most recent, vying to be prime minister under the banner...
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  • Missing and murdered: Canada’s genocide cover-up

    It’s no longer up for debate. Canada is guilty of genocide. The National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls has found that...
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  • Trans Mountain pipeline crisis is a watershed moment for Trudeau-First Nations relations

    Federal approval of the Kinder Morgan pipeline expansion has morphed into a national political crisis that has pit Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government and the...
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  • Why Canada should stand trial for Tina Fontaine’s murder

    Tina Michelle Fontaine was a 15-year-old Anishinaabe  girl from Sagkeeng First Nation northeast of Winnipeg. Thelma Favel, the aunt who raised her, described her as...
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  • Inquiry into missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls needs a reset

    There is a darkness that lives in Canadian society – sexual predators who are able to commit horrible crimes against Indigenous girls with relative impunity...
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  • Canada 150 is a celebration of Indigenous genocide

    For many Indigenous peoples on Turtle Island (North America), it's difficult to imagine Prime Minister Justin Trudeau – who has said that "no relationship is more...
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  • Will we see real nation-to-nation respect with Trudeau?

    While many First Nations celebrated the end of former prime minister Stephen Harper's reign of terror October 19, there was collective recognition that we are...
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  • Why Idle No More matters to us all

    Related: Legislating against self-rule. As the country awaits Stephen Harper's meeting on Friday, January 11, with the Assembly of First Nations, and Attawapiskat chief Theresa...
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