Opinion: Whose Law is it Anyway?
By Alain Bartleman and James C. Hopkins Section 88 of the Indian Act was intended to clarify the application of laws on a reserve. Instead,...
Opinion: Business Incubators and Innovation Centres
Submitted by the Anishinabek Nation Economic Development Department In our last article, we examined the important role that small to medium-size enterprises could play in...
Opinion: Economic Development articles – Quarterly summary #1
Submitted by the Anishinabek Nation Economic Development Department We hope that you are finding the articles on Economic Development informative, thought-provoking, and complementary to other...
Opinion: Home sweet home: Place-making in Canada
By Justin Rhoden With each passing holiday season, it’s always so heartwarming seeing families come together to decorate their houses in line with the seasons’...
Opinion: Putting lipstick on a pig
The Anishinabek News apologizes for the image accompanying the article, Opinion: Putting lipstick on a pig. The Anishinabek News makes a great effort to ensure...
Book review: Words Have a Past: The English Language, Colonialism, and the Newspapers of the Indian Boarding Schools
Reviewed by Karl Hele Jane Griffith in Words Have a Past: The English Language, Colonialism, and the Newspapers of the Indian Boarding Schools uses language...
Opinion: The Indian Day School Settlement
This is the first of a series of Anishinabek News articles discussing the Indian Day School settlement process. For more information about the Indian Day Schools,...
Opinion: Small businesses – kick-starting and driving local economies
Submitted by the Anishinabek Nation Economic Development Department In our previous article, we discussed the importance of diversification in the drafting of our community economic...
Opinion: Economic diversification – A fancy term or a path to financial freedom?
Submitted by the Anishinabek Nation Economic Development Department More often than not when we hear about economic development initiatives in our communities, we assume that...
Opinion: Some thoughts on section 87 of the Indian Act
By Alain Bartleman and James C. Hopkins Arguably, the most famous section of the Indian Act, section 87 is a source of constant confusion to Indigenous...
Opinion: Section 89 and the challenges of on-reserve business financing
By Alain Bartleman and James C. Hopkins Section 89 is a barrier to aboriginal financing. But, like many walls, it’s easier to sidestep it than...
Opinion: The exoneration of Louis Riel is long-overdue
By Peter Globensky Recent media reports have indicated a resurgent interest among Métis leaders in insisting the Canadian government right a long-standing wrong. The president...
Opinion: Political words about treaties ooze hypocrisy
*Previously published in the North Bay Nugget By Maurice Switzer For the past five years, the province of Ontario has designated the first week in...
Letter to the Editor: Looking in the mirror – political racism
When we Canadians look at the unholy mess in the US, we are gazing into the Evil Queen’s magical mirror … Mirror, mirror on the...
Opinion: Broadband internet and Economic Development
Submitted by the Anishinabek Nation Economic Development Department Do you remember the days when we were first introduced to the online information highway? Do you...