As an Indigenous doctor, I see the legacy of residential schools and ongoing racism in today’s health care

By Marcia Anderson, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Manitoba “We didn’t know what he was on.” That’s what the emergency room physician…

BIPOC or IBPOC? LGBTQ or LGBTQ2S+? Who decides which terms we should use?

By Jila Ghomeshi It does not take a degree to notice that the names for groups of people sharing a common skin colour, ethnicity, gender…

Early colonizer elite families and how they benefitted from the oppression of Six Nations

In BC, the first residential school ever constructed was the St. Euguene Mission school. This building was designed by Canadian architect Allan Keefer in 1911.…

Q & A on pronoun allyship

By: Jace Koblun Addressing a person with their pronouns is important when interacting with them, especially today when more people are learning about themselves and…

Running is for everybody – how to get started

Over a year ago, I would’ve never imagined myself being able to run from Hamilton to Brantford in close to three and a half hours.…

Policing and evicting people living in encampments will not solve homelessness in Canada

By Amie Tsang, Dalla Lana Fellow, University of Toronto Research conservatively estimates that 35,000 Canadians experience homelessness on any given night, with an average of…

Styrofoam igloos: A 1950s cure for the Inuit housing crisis

By Scott Dumonceaux, Canada Research Chair in the Study of the Canadian North Postdoctoral Fellow, School for the Study of Canada, Trent University The COVID-19…

What is at the core of the Indian problem in Canada?

Canada will produce reports and official sounding decrees that point to Canada’s continued efforts to manage and assist First Nations peoples in this country. Canada…

Seneca leader Red Jacket defended indigenous religious rights, upheld diversity

In his time, Red Jacket was a critical mediator in relations between the emerging United States of America and the Seneca. He personified the Haudenosaunee…

How better conversations can help reduce vaccine hesitancy for COVID 19 and other shots

Myles Leslie, Associate Professor, School of Public Policy, University of Calgary New parents have many decisions to make soon after their baby is born. One…

New indie board games build worlds without capitalism or colonialism

By Kaelan Doyle Myerscough, OCAD University Thinking through alternatives to life under capitalism, the vestiges of colonialism or the catastrophic impacts of climate change is…

Tip of the iceberg: The true state of drinking water advisories in First Nations

By Kerry Black, University of Calgary Indigenous Services Canada has announced it won’t end long-term advisories until 2023 at the earliest. In 2015, Prime Minister…

Federal budget 2021: $18 billion is a step towards closing gaps between Indigenous and non Indigenous communities

By Kerry Black There is no denying that the landscape of our collective reality has shifted dramatically since the pandemic began. Budget 2021 reveals significant…

Why words matter: The negative impacts of racial microaggressions on Indigenous and other racialized people

By Iloradanon Efimoff “Don’t you go to school for free?”, “You don’t pay taxes!”, “Do you live in a teepee?” are things Indigenous students have…

Who’s really in charge in Indian Country?

First Nation Indigenous struggle with pandemic like circumstances every day in their fight for survival. The attacks to the original people are not openly visible…