What this country needs is more parades
By Maurice Switzer Pakenham is an Ottawa Valley village of some 2,000 souls – if you include cattle, dogs, cats….and even a few reindeer. It...
What it means to be Ojibway
By Richard Wagamese For the longest time I wondered what it really meant to be Ojibway. After I’d been reconnected with my family after twenty...
Robbing Peter to pay Paul: How Canada stole from Aboriginal Schools and water plants
Aanii, hello. I am Chief Shining Turtle of the Sturgeon clan, of Whitefish River First Nation of the Anishinaabe, which is near Sudbury. I want...
Stolen sisters – silent screams?
By Peter Globensky and Beverly Anne Sabourin When controversial issues begin to get legs and confront governing politicians with uncomfortable facts and choices, their instinctive...
Book review: Don’t call it a comeback
By Christine Smith (McFarlane) The Comeback is a timely book in the sense that it is written at a time in which the political landscape...
Calling on Indigenous Peoples to re-establish our responsibilities to water
Calling on Indigenous Peoples to re-establish our responsibilities to the waters and those yet unborn by working collaboratively with one common vision – WATER IS...
Bringing vision to others lets us see the world better ourselves
By Richard Wagamese I remember a story told to me a long time ago. It was about a small mouse who wanted to see the...