Members of Unis’tot’en camp, November 2012. All the controversy over Canada 150 and its morbid celebration of the gains Canada has made at the expense of Indigenous lives has many people asking: What do we do now? What will the next 150 years look like? We all know that Indigenous
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Canadian Dimension: Evidence of good faith lacking in Trudeau’s Indigenous agenda
Photo by Jake Wright (The Hill Times) After 10 oppressive years under Stephen Harper Conservatives, the long-awaited change in government brought a collective sigh of relief from most Indigenous peoples in Canada. Justin Trudeau’s many pre-election promises to Indigenous peoples represented a drastic departure from Harper’s racist, assimilatory agenda. Trudeau
Continue readingCanadian Dimension: The ongoing legacies of Canadian genocide
Photo by Izithombe
The question of whether the horrors committed
upon Indigenous peoples by colonial and then Canadian
officials can be called genocide often attracts a
great deal of controversy. Most Canadians …
Canadian Dimension: Stephen Harper and the myth of the crooked Indian
Image from Library and Archives Canada Can you think of any Prime Minister, President or World Leader that would withhold food, water, or health care as a bullying tactic to force its citizens into compliance with a new government law, policy or scheme? Can you ever imagine this happening in
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