I s it possible for Indigenous nations to define their own priorities within the very same economy built on their oppression and exclusion? In the decade since the Truth and Reconciliation Commission ...
What the TRC compiled was a record of a system designed to forcibly assimilate Indigenous children, including at least 3,200 ...
The TRC report, released in 2015, laid out ninety-four clear Calls to Action. Ten years later, Indigenous writers reflect on what has and hasn’t been achieved ...
First, as Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg writer Leanne Betasamosake Simpson notes, they “reproduce and amplify” Indigeneity, the definitive characteristics of Indigenous peoples and culture, diverse as they ...
Even at its most reconciliatory, Canada engages in Land Back initiatives selectively: only in instances where the political and economic stakes remain relatively low and it can purchase some public ...
Today, there are more Indigenous children in care than there were at the height of the residential school system. This is a momentous problem, especially in a time where so many in Canadian society ...
They couldn’t see that I was just a regular person doing the best I could at a very hard job. It was also terrible for my ...
Inside the issue: love in the time of Google Calendar, Canada Goose’s big bet on China, the birding boom, and more.
Catherine McKenna is the founder and chief executive officer of Climate and Nature Solutions. She was Canada’s minister of environment and climate change from 2015 to 2019 and minister of ...
For six years, starting in 2007, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission travelled throughout the country, hearing testimonies from over 6,500 people who’d endured Canada’s residential school system.
The original, “Eat an apple on going to bed and you’ll keep the doctor from earning his bread,” came from Wales. It took a day before I could ask Pika about the origin of her saying. She had picked up ...
W hen we arrived in Yellowknife, the high school residence, Akaitcho Hall, felt like the biggest building I’d ever seen. Even though so many of us were arriving at the same time, there was no disorder ...