Top Ten Reconciliation Tips
By Maurice Switzer Dear Mister-now-Senator Murray Sinclair: Thank you for spending six years of your life to create an excellent report about how Natives and...
Opinion: Bob Rae must be eating lots of fish
By Maurice Switzer It’s really hard to debunk those old wives’ tales or urban legends that seem to have more staying power than the truth....
Opinion: Murdered and Missing Indigenous Women and Girls – police aren’t doing enough
By John Fox April 25 marked three years since Cheyenne Fox was murdered in Toronto. Cheyenne fell 24 stories to her death. At first...
Opinion: At the corner of Grief and misery – Where the present has no future
By Beverly Sabourin and Peter Globensky How much grief and misery mixed into the stew of destitution and poverty can a community endure and still...
Opinion: Former PM Chretien ignorant he exists within a paradigm
By Lynn Gehl, PhD Chretien is blinded by his paradigm Re: http://aptn.ca/news/2016/04/13/former-pm-chretien-on-attawapiskat-people-have-to-move-sometimes/ When I read this article linked above the other morning regarding Jean Chretien’s...
Opinion: Water is a basic human right
By Chief Elaine Johnston Water. Isn’t Water a basic human right? Canada as a G8 country has third world conditions with many First Nations without...
The GOP – The Death of the RIPublican Party
By Peter Globensky The length of our recent Canadian election campaign, one of the longest in our history, pales to insignificance when compared to the...
OPINION: Immigrants? It must be tough!
By Peter Globensky and Beverly Sabourin Travelling through the United States, we have been hard-pressed to find any news on any media that does not...
NEWSFLASH – Government admits it was wrong!
By Maurice Switzer If you’re reading this, maybe you should sit down and take a deep breath. Because if you haven’t heard or read it...
Letter to the Editor: Thoughts on lateral violence
I thought about this lateral violence stuff and I think it is so widespread and prevalent that its a norm and accepted. The other day...
First Nations and addictions – when it hits close to home
Different Paths – Common Ground First Nations and Addictions – When it Hits Close to Home By Peter Globensky and Beverly Sabourin We have all...
A beader’s New Year’s resolution for 2016
By Emilie Corbiere www.facebook.com/Nativecraftsandjewelery Every year, like half of the people on this planet, I make New Year’s resolutions that usually only last a few...
Mother Earth – First Nations – last chances!
By Peter Globensky and Beverly Sabourin MOTHER EARTH – FIRST NATIONS – LAST CHANCES! When the last tree is cut, the last fish is caught,...
You can’t learn if you don’t listen
By Maurice Switzer There’s a story about how, after the dust cleared at the 1876 Battle of the Little Bighorn, Cheyenne and Lakota women scouring...
Letter to the Editor: Aboriginal Housing
Re: Racial Profiling Dear Editor: A situation has been brewing in Manitouwaning,ON for the last four years, ever since I moved into Aboriginal Housing. Someone...