indigenous issues
Samuel Engelking
We are witnessing Indigenous music's next wave
The spotlight is shining on a new group of music-makers, but the struggle is far from over more
Aug 2, 2017 7:05 PM Features
Samuel Engelking
Duke Redbird, on the Native North America album and gathering
“I feel humble in the immensity of it all, that these songs still resonate 40, 50 years later.” more
Aug 2, 2017 7:01 PM Features
How community legal clinics are breaking down barriers for Indigenous people: Reasonable doubt
Community legal clinics in Ontario look to fight back against the colonial oppression still perpetrated by Canada's legal system more
Jul 24, 2017 1:25 PM News
Canada 150 keeps fires of Indigenous resistance burning
Visible, young and often harassed by police, Native movements across North America are preserving Aboriginal culture and bringing social issues to the forefront like never before more
Jul 4, 2017 8:11 AM News 1 Comments
Samuel Engelking
Olivia Nuamah on Pride Toronto's honoured Indigenous guests, Canada 150 and police presence at this year's parade
"We’re trying to run a festival that feels like it includes everybody no matter what you do or what you think because it’s a celebration of sexual identity," says Pride Toronto's new executive director. more
Jun 20, 2017 1:40 PM News 1 Comments
Why white guys shouldn't be writing Native stories
As an Indigenous writer, I have always had the opposite experience when it comes to cultural appropriation – being told my opinions did not matter made telling stories of Native injustices impossible for a long time more
May 17, 2017 4:01 PM News 22 Comments
Toronto gallery openings: Wanda Nanibush talk, Kim Stanford/Yael Brotman, Ken Lum and more
Nanibush, a self-described "Anishnabe-kwe image and word warrior" and AGO assistant curator, discusses Indigenous performance artists whose work breaks boundaries and re/asserts sovereignty on March 1. more
Feb 24, 2017 1:00 PM Art
Photo of Justin Trudeau by Alex Guibord
Is Justin Trudeau a white supremacist? Maybe
Yusra Khogali of Black Lives Matter Toronto made no false statements in her National Day of Action Against Islamophobia speech challenging the Prime Minister more
Feb 9, 2017 11:54 AM News 59 Comments
Support First Nations communities at three events this week
Engage with local Indigenous perspectives and learn how to be a better ally more
Nov 1, 2016 3:40 PM News
Stop using these Indigenous references and terms – they're offensive
A humble glossary of familiar team names and terms no longer acceptable to the average Indigenous person more
Oct 19, 2016 9:00 PM News 4 Comments
Marlin J. Kokopenace/Facebook
The incomprehensible suicide of a child in Grassy Narrows
Did decades of mercury poisoning play a role in Azraya Kokopenace's suicide? more
Jun 15, 2016 6:20 PM News
Michael Hollett
Mercury rising on calls to clean up Grassy Narrows's poisoned water
Youths and elders from Grassy Narrows First Nation are calling for concrete action more
Jun 15, 2016 6:08 PM News
Nathan Denette/ The Canadian Press
Attawapiskat or bust: Why we won't move
Why don't we just move? 500 years of colonization have left First Nations people averse to forced relocation more
Apr 27, 2016 8:09 PM News 8 Comments
Courtesy of the University of Toronto
U of T's SOAR program aims to attract Indigenous students to post-secondary
Only 9.8 per cent of Indigenous peoples in Canada have a university degree, compared to 26.5 of non-Indigenous Canadians more
Mar 25, 2016 4:25 PM News
First Nations health care in remote areas severely substandard
Solving the health care crisis in northern Ontario’s indigenous communities goes beyond funding increases more
Mar 9, 2016 6:57 PM News 2 Comments
Dfisun
Dsquared2’s apology to indigenous peoples late and meaningless
It’s taken a whole year for Toronto-born fashion designers Dean and Dan Caten to say they're sorry for their offensive #Dsquaw collection more
Feb 29, 2016 3:41 PM Lifestyle
Lose those First Nations logos
Everything you need to know about why those images need to go more
Feb 24, 2016 2:33 PM Think Free: The NOW Toronto blog 6 Comments
Tanja-Tiziana
Rosary Spence: Musician
"Sometimes I wonder how I’m viewed, as an indigenous woman living in Toronto. My awareness of all the missing and murdered indigenous women means there’s always an underlying fear." more
Jan 27, 2016 7:29 PM Music 6 Comments
“For the child taken and parent left behind”
Who died in residential schools, why they died and where they are buried are questions that have never been completely addressed or comprehensively documented by the Canadian government. more
Jan 7, 2016 12:19 PM News
Trashing culture: Dominic Gagnon's art of appropriation
Storm over Of The North shows that we settlers have more to unlearn about indigenous peoples more
Jan 6, 2016 6:40 PM News 1 Comments
