Punctuation of the heart
By Richard Wagamese I work with words. As a writer and a storyteller words are my basic equipment. Since I got my first paid job...
Gaining cultural insights while planning a wedding
I recently got engaged at the end of May and have slowly started the gargantuan task of planning a wedding. My fiancé and I aren’t...
Letter to the Editor: Tell HRTO and Hockey Canada, We Are Not Your Mascot!
by Brad Gallant. I have taken the City of Mississauga to the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario over their financial and moral support of 5...
Will federal election result in reconciliation or colonialism-as-usual?
By Catherine Murton Stoehr and Maurice Switzer On Oct. 19 Canadians will elect a new federal government, and on that day they will decide whether...
Open Letter to the Memengweshi Council re: their Windmill Development Partnership
The mandate of the Memengweshi Council is “to ensure the integrity and appropriateness of the Zibi development” but so many other Algonquin, First Nations, and...
The water bill is long overdue
By Beverly Sabourin and Peter Globensky The small First Nations community of Shoal Lake #40 is located in a lake of the same name just...
Open letter to the Premier of Ontario
July 14, 2015 Hon. Kathleen Wynne Premier of Ontario Legislative Building Queen’s Park Toronto, ON M7A 1A1 Dear Premier Wynne: I am writing in advance...
Letter to the editor: Opposition to Bill C-51
I am adamantly opposed to the Conservative government’s Bill C- 51. It undermines the foundations of Canada’s Charter of Rights and Freedoms – and what...
Open letter from Memengweshii Council
Editor’s Note: The Anishinabek News apologizes for publishing the pieces at the end of May, 2015 which questioned the integrity of the Memengweshii Council. ...
The truth about reconciliation
By Bev Sabourin and Peter Globensky “The only way to get to the future is to pass through the present. This is the only truth...
Development on the Chaudière Falls? No!
By Albert Dumont The Chaudière Falls – so many thoughts come to mind when I see and hear them. ‘The Kettle of Boiling Waters’ for...
‘Sorry’ won’t pay for $28 cabbages
Open letter to Jay Aspin, MP, Nipissing-Timiskaming: Dear Jay: Thought it was time I replied to your many letters that have been showing up in...
Education is key to reconciliation
By Grand Chief Gord Peters – AIAI To the children we lost, the ones who survived, and the families who were never the same without...
Opinion: Lambert on ‘Free the Chaudière Falls’ and ‘Save the Islands’
By Lynn Gehl There has been a long time controversy in Ottawa, traditional Algonquin Anishinaabeg territory, regarding the need to re-naturalize a sacred land and...
OPINION: Time for Reconciliation KAIROS Gathering lacks heart
By Lynn Gehl The Time for Reconciliation KAIROS Gathering scheduled to take place in the City of Ottawa May 29th through June 3rd, 2015 −...