Thunder Bay welcomes Aboriginal dollars
By Rick Garrick THUNDER BAY –Local businesses are being encouraged by the Chamber of Commerce to post “Status Cards Welcome” decals and to make their...
Throne Speech ‘colonial’: Madahbee
UOI OFFICES (Nipissing FN) October 17, 2013 – Anishinabek Nation Grand Council Chief Patrick Madahbee sees a colonial agenda in Wednesday’s Speech from the Throne....
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...