Gordon gets new set of wheels

By Monique DuBray NORTH BAY – Gordon Mianscum has another new set of wheels. A brand new gurney, equipped with a shiny leather bed and...

Blanket for survivors

The following is the letter presented with blankets to survivors at the Indian Residential School monument ceremony on March 25, 2013 Dear Survivor: On behalf...

Even ‘C’ full of intensity

By James MacDonald MISSISSAUGA – The noise is starting to reach a fever pitch. Between the long green and red horns and the pump-action noisemakers,...

Small biggest booster

By James MacDonald “This is super heavy!” remarks Miles Reil-Walker the goalie for the Batchewana Attack, as he gingerly handles the gold-plated hunk of metal...

Wiky girls win shootout drama

By James MacDonald There are few more dramatic events in sport than a hockey shootout. And when the one-on-one, shooter-on-goalie drama decides a tournament championship...

Deputy political champion

By Doris Peltier If someone would have told me a few years ago that Chiefs in one tribal region would one day pass a resolution...

Kids’ case under way

OTTAWA — After a seven-year legal fight waged by aboriginal-children’s advocate Cindy Blackstock and the Assembly of First Nations against the federal government, the Canadian...

Anishinaabemowin-Teg packs them in again

By Margaret Hele SAULT ST. MARIE, MI – Spending four days at the 19th annual Anishinaabemowin-Teg language conference was a blast. There were many awesome...

Sportsmen talk treaties, wild rice

By Jackie Ouellette TORONTO – For the second year, members of the Anishinabek/Ontario Resource Management Council (A/ORMC) staffed a booth at the Toronto Sportsmen’s Show...

‘Genocide, genocide, genocide’

By Marci Becking Dr. Pam Palmater is frequently asked by Canadians “Why don’t First Nations people just get over it”. “The second they can tell...

Seek action on missing women

OTTAWA — The Canadian Association of Statutory Human Rights Agencies (CASHRA) marked the United Nations International Women’s Day on March 8 by asking Prime Minister...