Microfinance: A tool for nation-building
By Barbara Nahwegahbow TORONTO – Chief Isadore Day of Serpent River First Nation doesn’t see Serpent River’s microfinance strategy as letting the federal government off...
Ottawa supports Niigaan project: ‘Looking to the future’
By Greg Macdougall OTTAWA – Niigaan: In Conversation, a project in Ottawa that brings Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples together for dialogue and discussion, recently received...
Medicines everywhere we walk
By Rick Garrick FORT WILLIAM FN – Traditional healers once travelled for years to trade medicines and learn from one another on the slopes of...
Prior consent required for resource extraction
By Peter Globensky Successive governments in Ontario have not been able to connect the dots and realize that the future of resource development and extractive...
Book review: Planet problems
By Laura Dokis Ruby Bloom begins to amass a “galaxy” of planets when her grandfather gives her an unexpected gift. Her relationships with her mother...
Madahbee: Stop education ‘experiments’
UOI OFFICES (Nipissing FN) October 9, 2013 – The government of Canada must stop experimenting with the lives of First Nations children. Anishinabek Nation Grand...
Urgent Call for Support by Friday, October 11, 2013
Hupacasath Court Challenge to Canada – China FIPA The Hupacasath First Nation in British Columbia is seeking your urgent support to continue their legal challenge...
Christian Island kids walk for Terry Fox
By Sharon Weatherall BEAUSOLEIL FN –Christian Island Elementary School goes all out every year for Terry Fox. The entire 90-student school population participates in the...
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...
Sisters in Spirit vigil remembers murdered and missing Aboriginal women
By Margaret Hele SAULT STE. MARIE – Vigils to honour Canada’s 600 missing and murdered Aboriginal women were held on Oct. 4. The Zonta Women’s...
250th Anniversary of Royal Proclamation an opportunity to reflect and reset relationship
OTTAWA (Oct. 7, 2013) – Today, on the 250th anniversary of the Royal Proclamation by King George III, Assembly of First Nations (AFN) National Chief...
The genius of Morriseau
By Rick Garrick THUNDER BAY – The significance of Norval Morrisseau’s art is still not fully recognized in Canada even though his work has been...
Farm Tales: Fences can’t contain goats Lily and Buddy
By Jennifer Ashawasegai ALBAN –There’s a saying in the farming community: “If a fence doesn’t hold water, it won’t hold a goat.” I know this...
From Garden River to Paris, France
By Kathleen Imbert PARIS – Janice Toulouse was not competing for the yellow sweater in the Tour de France annual bicycle race, but she was...
Wagamese wins another prize
OTTAWA – Richard Wagamese is one of the first winners of the Burt Awards for First Nations, Metis and Inuit literature. Wagamese, an Ojibway from...