Idle No More – it’s really all about love
Jo Seenie Redsky: “We’re your last resort.” Photo: Paul S. Graham If your only source of information is the mainstream news media you can be forgiven for wondering what the…
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Chief Spence Ends Her Hunger Strike, But The Struggle Continues
* Chief Theresa Spence has ended her hunger strike today. Here is the press release issued by her and her supporters: * Daniel Wilson reflects on the legacy of Chief…
Paul Martin says Ottawa has ‘no understanding’ of native issues
Former prime minister was the architect of the 2005 Kelowna Accord By Jennifer Clibbon | CBC News, Jan 17, 2013 4:58 AM ET Few Canadian leaders know the issues raised…
Idle No More Challenges Enbridge’s Pipedreams
“Everything that we do to water, we do to life because water is life. It’s not just us – we are all connected, we have to protect everything that lives,…
Is Chief Theresa Spence your 2012 newsmaker of the year? POLL
Is hunger striker Chief Theresa Spence, who entered Day 20 of her peaceful protest today, your 2012 newsmaker of the year? Is it the Idle No More movement? The Quebec…
United Church of Canada implores Harper to meet with hunger striker Chief Spence
by United Church of Canada: December 19, 2012 The Right Hon. Stephen Harper Prime Minister of Canada House of Commons, Ottawa, Ontario Fax: 613-941-6900 Dear Prime Minister Harper: We write…
WTF? Justin Bieber says Aboriginal peoples get free gas in Canada
That’s what the 18-year-old Canadian pop star has told Rolling Stone magazine. The trouble is: our over-produced, over-exposed, man-made spoiled brat claims to have Aboriginal roots. But you know who’s…
Video: Niki Ashton – “Mr. Harper — if you’re not part of the solution, YOU are part of the problem.”
Churchill MP Niki Ashton gave an impassioned speech at the July 11th Winnipeg rally for a national inquiry into missing and murdered aboriginal women. In addition to posing the video,…
Video: Manitoba’s Grand Chiefs demand provincial, national & international inquiries into missing & murdered women
Winnipeg: July 11, 2012: Three of the several hundred demonstrators who marched through downtown Winnipeg demanding public inquiries into the the deaths and disappearances of 600 hundred indigenous women in…
My Country?
Inspired by images of Tahltan women blockading Shell in defense of the Sacred Headwaters in northern British Columbia, Rachelle Van Zanten wrote ‘My Country’. She was invited to perform it…
Video Report: Colonialism & Indigenous Rights in Canada & Palestine
As a part of Israeli Apartheid Week 2012 in Winnipeg, Paul Burrows and Cheryl-Anne Carr discussed the impact of colonialism on the indigenous peoples of Canada and Palestine. The similarities…
Video Report: Aboriginal men march in Winnipeg for missing and murdered aboriginal women
Winnipeg, Feb. 14, 2012: Protesters pause outside the Department of Indian Affairs in Winnipeg to sing and dance during the Men's Gathering and Unity Walk for Missing and Murdered Women.…
Take Time To Renew Your Spirit
Healing the wounds of the earth and its people does not require saintliness or a political party, only gumption and persistence. It is not a liberal or conservative activity; it…
Harper Government Does Not Have The Right To Declare Canada Open For Business
From the Union of B.C. Chiefs, Coast Salish Territory/Vancouver, Canada – February 8, 2012: Close to 100 Chiefs and representatives from Indigenous Nations in BC along with 400 Chiefs from…
Gerald Amos Of Haisla First Nation To Stephen Harper and Joe Oliver: No Apology Forthcoming
This letter is reprinted from the Terrace Daily, where it was first published on January 8th, and then republished last week: Recently there has been a lot of criticism by…
There’s Nothing “Ethical” About Tar Sands Oil
If anybody reading this is wondering about whether or not Canada’s tar sands oil is “ethical” or not, this presentation by photographer Garth Lenz, from TEDx Victoria this past November,…
The Real Radicals Are Those Who Pollute Our Air and Water and Destabilize Our Climate, Mr. Oliver
Here are some excerpts from an open letter released yesterday by Canada’s Minister of Natural Resources, just prior to the start of the Northern Gateway pipeline hearings in B.C. today:…