The Canadian Progressive: Chief Spence decries Harper’s “paternalistic...
For Immediate Release: January 11, 2013, Victoria Island, traditional territory of the Algonquian Peoples: Chief Theresa Spence is standing firm on her request that both Prime Minster and Governor...
View ArticleAccidental Deliberations: Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your Monday reading. - Daniel Wilson takes a look at how far too many in the media went along with the Harper Cons’ hatchet job against First Nations: (C)ompare the...
View ArticleArt Threat: The People of the Kattawapiskak River: watch for free until...
With Attawapiskat and its band chief, Theresa Spence, remaining in the headlines, the NFB has made Alanis Obamsawin’s new documentary on life in the First Nation community available for free. The...
View ArticleAccidental Deliberations: Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. - Erika Shaker rightly tears into the special brand of FAIPOF demanding that First Nations protesters focus solely on their own community leaders...
View ArticleThe Canadian Progressive: Chief Theresa Spence Ends 43-Day Hunger Strike With...
by Guest Blogger | The Canadian Progressive, Jan 25, 2013 Attawapiskat First Nation Chief Theresa Spence signed the First Nations declaration that ended her 43-day hunger strike at Ottawa’s Victoria...
View Article350 or bust: Idle No More: A Response By People Who Feel Like Hostages In...
If you’re looking for some more information on the IdleNoMore campaign, MP Charlie Angus (Timmins-James Bay) gives a good summary in this video. He is discussing the NDP Opposition Day motion on...
View ArticleThe Canadian Progressive: Harper’s Aboriginal Affairs Minister John Duncan...
by Obert Madondo | The Canadian Progressive, Feb. 15, 2013: Aboriginal Affairs Minister John Duncan resigned from Prime Minister Stephen Harper‘s cabinet Friday after admitting that he lobbied a tax...
View ArticlePolitics, Re-Spun: Canada Day +1, Our Quiet Genocide
A banner drop during last night’s Canada Day celebration in Toronto’s Mel Lastman Square. (Photo: IdleNoMore.ca) Canadians are so nice. We have such a happy, positive self-concept. This makes it quite...
View ArticleBigCityLib Strikes Back: Administering Colonial Science: Nutrition Research...
The full-text of the paper that everyone is talking about can be found here. The researchers do not come off as being quite as reprehensible as they seem in media reports. For example, there appears...
View ArticlePolitics, Re-Spun: Why We Must #HonourTheApology to Residential School...
I don’t know why we still have to do this kind of thing, but here goes. The federal government “apologized” to survivors of residential schools 5 years ago. It is clearly quite empty, considering how...
View ArticlePolitics, Re-Spun: Is Harper’s Canada a “Genocide”-Free Zone?
The CMHR: a “genocide”-free zone. Genocide is a pretty serious word. It invokes the Holocaust, Pol Pot, Rwanda and some other high profile human eradication attempts. But Canada, being Canada these...
View ArticlePolitics, Re-Spun: Are We Good Allies to First Nations?
This is what solidarity looks like; make sure it’s authentic! Lots of us care about deepening relationships with and social/economic/political justice for first peoples. It’s hard to come in, though,...
View ArticlePolitics, Re-Spun: Fried Squirrels
It’s a crisp, foggy November Saturday morning in the south side of the city. Seventeen people sit in the large open area at the back end of an organic fair trade coffee shop run by a workers’ co-op...
View ArticlePolitics, Re-Spun: Just How Lazy ARE Indigenous People, Anyway?
It’s a trick question. And let’s not forget how many of us are told we are inherently lazy because we are native. Hard to shake that. via Twitter / apihtawikosisan: And let’s not forget how many …. And...
View ArticlePolitics, Re-Spun: Honing In On Friday’s #WaveOfAction
We need to think about two things for this Friday’s Occupy Movement reboot in the Worldwide #WaveOfAction: When thinking about pursuing social, political and economic equality, what is the list of...
View ArticlePolitics, Re-Spun: What I Am Thankful For
This weekend, I am thankful for folks in Seattle who know how to transform the imperialist Columbus Day into Indigenous Peoples’ Day. May we all learn this for next year! “We are all citizens in a...
View ArticlePolitics, Re-Spun: No, BC Actually Mentored Saskatchewan’s Poor-Bashing
Despite being Metro News, Emily Jackson’s great piece yesterday [below] about how brutally cruel the Saskatchewan government is should make us mindful of a number of issues. Not the least of which is...
View ArticleMontreal Simon: Why Canadians Need to Rush to the Rescue of Attawapiskat
Attawapiskat, the small First Nation's community on the edge of James Bay, is a place well known to many Canadians.And sadly for all the wrong reasons.Five years ago it had to declare a state of...
View ArticleMontreal Simon: The Emergency Debate and the Children of Attawapiskat
I watched the emergency debate in the Commons on the crisis in Attawapiskat, and I heard some fine speeches.Especially the one from Charlie Angus. No one can understand "how a country as rich as Canada...
View ArticleAccidental Deliberations: Wednesday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading.- The Ontario Association of Food Banks discusses the long-term damage done by childhood poverty and deprivation:When facing a very tight budget, food...
View ArticleAccidental Deliberations: Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading.- Scott Vrooman rightly makes the point that increased wealth at the top tends to splash outside a country's borders rather than trickling down. And CBC News...
View ArticleA Different Point of View....: The tale of two communities in crisis: Fort...
Crisis situations are shaking two Canadian communities to their very core – the terrifying wildfires that destroyed Fort McMurray, and the epidemic of attempted youth suicides on the Attawapiskat First...
View ArticleMichal Rozworski: Podcast: Canada’s spring of occupations
Welcome back to the first podcast episode after a two-month hiatus! This week, three guests talk about two significant occupations of public space that have happened in Canada in the interim: the...
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A Different Point of View....: The tale of two communities in crisis: Fort...
Crisis situations are shaking two Canadian communities to their very core – the terrifying wildfires that destroyed Fort McMurray, and the epidemic of attempted youth suicides on the Attawapiskat First...
View ArticleA Different Point of View....: The tale of two communities in crisis: Fort...
Crisis situations are shaking two Canadian communities to their very core – the terrifying wildfires that destroyed Fort McMurray, and the epidemic of attempted youth suicides on the Attawapiskat First...
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