Letters: The value Canada puts on First Nation children
By Lynda Banning The value that Canadian society places on First Nation children was never more obvious to me than it is today. Like many...
Open letter to Canada’s Federal Parliamentarians
Open Letter to Canada’s Federal Parliamentarians Monday, February 23, 2015 Parliament of Canada 111 Wellington Street Ottawa ON – K1A 0A4 Canada Dear...
Opinion: Victims and families deserve more than an accused abuser as an advocate
By AIAI Deputy Grand Chief Denise Stonefish We live in a world where 1,200 of our Indigenous daughters, mothers, sisters, aunties and friends have gone...
Flags: whose land is it, anyway?
By Maurice Switzer Flags have always fascinated me. How amazing that a single piece of cloth, fluttering in the breeze, can represent the past, present...
Different paths – Common ground
By Beverly Sabourin and Peter Globensky “He who opens a school door, closes a prison.” Victor Hugo – novelist and human rights activist. Conventional wisdom...
Invisible: the Academy Awards, racism and aboriginals
By Kristin Grant The controversy over all 20 of this year’s Academy Awards acting nominees being white has me questioning is this outcry itself racist...
Ojbway graveyard by the residential school
By Richard Wagamese My brother Jack had passed away before I made it back to my people. I was twenty four and all I learned...