Just because the phrase, “You can choose your friends but you can’t choose your family.” is common doesn’t make it true. Chosen families prove that…
By Kawser Ahmed, Adjunct Professor at the Political Science department, University of Winnipeg The “freedom convoy” that has taken over downtown Ottawa and inspired other…
Pierre Eliot Trudeau advanced individual rights by enshrining them in the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. It is these individual rights that have started the…
Since the beginning of the pandemic in March 2020, a total of 837 confirmed COVID-19 cases have been reported by Ohsweken Public Health. To date…
In this, the final installment of “Ungodly Alliance”, we talk with Rev. Dr. Wendy Fletcher, who served as the Anglican Church’s, Huron Diocese historian and…
First Nation peoples need to wake up now. There is an urgency happening in the climate and environment that calls out to all First Nation…
By Cheryl Simon, Assistant Professor in Aboriginal and Indigenous Law, Dalhousie University There is a growing movement to identify and call-out people who have fraudulently…
By Jim Windle In Part III of “Ungodly Alliance” we investigate more documentary evidence which was known by both the church and state on abuses…
WARNING: This story has disturbing details about residential and boarding schools including The Mohawk Institute (aka) The Mush Hole. The immediate source of this story…
By Jesse Popp, Assistant Professor, Chair in Indigenous Environmental Science, School of Environmental Studies, University of Guelph Although a wide diversity of world views exist,…
By Anna Stanley, Adjunct professor, Department of Geography, Environment and Geomatics, University of Guelph Noront Resources Ltd. — the company at the heart of Ontario’s…
New program from Six Nations Justice Department Note: The western word Offender has been changed to Harmer and the Victim will become the Harmed. There…
By Chadwick Cowie, Faculty Lecturer, Department of Political Science, McGill University The question of Indigenous participation in Canada’s elections is repeatedly in the news. Nunavut…
By Jodi John, Ph.D. Candidate, Geography and Planning, Queen’s University, Ontario; Angela Mashford-Pringle, Assistant Professor/Associate Director, Waakebiness-Bryce Institute for Indigenous Health, University of…
By Sean Carleton, Assistant Professor, Departments of History and Indigenous Studies, University of Manitoba and Andrew Woolford, Professor, Sociology & Criminology, University of Manitoba …