Sharing the land crucial to any conversations about reconciliation
By Leanne Simpson In the mid-1990s I moved to Mi'gma'gi to go to graduate school. I was expecting to learn about juvenile Atlantic salmon on...
Canada breaking ‘rule of law’ every day!
By Daniel Wilson Sometimes it helps to put things in order, in precedence and priority, in order to see them clearly. This is one of...
Canada, U.S. pay lip service to treaties
By Laura Finley Last I heard, contracts negotiated between two consenting and capable parties are supposed to be binding, with repercussions if one party violates...
Ojibway cuisine more than Kraft Dinner
By Richard Wagamese There’s something to be said for the old phrase “the way to a man’s heart is through his stomach.” It had to...
Create our own laws or face government bully
Aanii, Boozhoo, As we welcome a new season and prepare for the winter months, I encourage Anishinabek citizens to get involved with community engagement sessions...
Putting national heroes on two-dollar bills
Contrary to what some would have you believe, there have always been good people in the world. Humans have a strange tendency to excuse sins...
In the end, we’re all foster parents
By Richard Wagamese Friends of ours are foster parents. They’ve been doing this for years and in that time they’ve positively influenced a lot of...
Ask Holly: Not in my backyard
By Holly Brodhagen I have been hearing that phrase a lot especially in the context of the proposed oil sand pipeline. No one wants to...
Government cuts: Soon, all Canadians will know how it feels to be an Indian
By Richard Wagamese First published in The Globe and Mail on June 10, 2013 Five years ago, Stephen Harper stood in the House of Commons...
It’s not just cows that are stupid
By Maurice Switzer There’s a fairly large consensus that cows are stupid. This is the normal reaction of anyone who has tried to use a...
Healthy living about balance, not just food
By Sarah Blackwell There is more to leading a healthy life than just the food you eat. Myself, partner Fred Bellefeuille, and our three children...
Ask Holly: Septic tank tips
My conversations with readers can be interesting and sometimes quite intimate. The topics are as diverse as the people I speak with. I usually don’t...
Call me anything but ‘colonized’
By Maurice Switzer When it comes to Indigenous peoples, it’s pretty well open season for name-callers. And we’re not talking here about locker-room slang like...
We live the most when we reach out to others
By Richard Wagamese We live the most when we reach out to the people we share the planet with. People are our greatest resource. They...
Letter to the editor: New history needed
With Patrick Madahbee’s urging some years ago when I was a federal Liberal MP for the riding of Algoma-Manitoulin-Kapuskasing I was pleased to develop and...