School survivors died on city streets

By Christine Smith (McFarlane) TORONTO – Tucked away where no one can really see it in the heart of Canada’s largest city is a weather-beaten...

Books: Plants as teachers

As a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer has been trained to ask questions of nature with the tools of science. As a member of the Citizen...

Book review: Who were they fighting for?

Writing to Prime Minister Robert Borden in 1917, the Ontario Committee of the Allied Tribes  declared, “We cannot say that we are fighting for our...

New adventure for Rabbit and Bear Paws

“Council of the Animals” – the sixth instalment in the popular Adventures of Rabbit and Bear Paws series – is now available. Chad Solomon’s graphic...

Fasting camp teaches respect

LONG LAC 58 – It was four years ago that Veronica Waboose, former Chief of this Superior Region First Nation, started thinking of ways that...