What the TRC compiled was a record of a system designed to forcibly assimilate Indigenous children, including at least 3,200 who died there. Sinclair, who passed away last November, maintained that ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

I n my forties, I decided to run for public office. We built an amazing team over two years with a hard-core grassroots campaign. Our motto was “Run Like a Girl.” And I won. I was appointed minister ...

Is 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 ...

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.

Inside the issue: love in the time of Google Calendar, Canada Goose’s big bet on China, the birding boom, and more.

Michelle Good, a member of Red Pheasant Cree Nation, is the author of Five Little Indians and Truth Telling: Seven Conversations about Indigenous Life in Canada. Inside the issue: love in the time of ...

Eva Jewell, from Deshkan Ziibiing (Chippewas of the Thames First Nation), is an associate professor at Toronto Metropolitan University.

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 ...