It’s been a year since Justin Trudeau and his Liberals swept to power, winning a majority government with their “Real Change” campaign and promising to establish a true “nation-to-nation relationship” with Canada’s Indigenous peoples. While the Liberals have honoured a […]

A lot was happening for Native creativity during the late 1980s and early 1990s. The decade started off with music from the Innu Nation in Quebec when Kashtin burst onto the music scene with their debut album of the same […]

The chainsaws ripped through the dry pines and the axes chopped in beat. We were cutting firewood and getting sweaty. At a $100 a cord the sweat was worth it. I had the job of splitting the wood as an […]

I write this editorial on November 2, the International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists. In our efforts to bring the news, the truth and understanding of issues and events to readers a price is paid and it […]

The Best of the James Bay Cree survey is back! Vote for the best (and worst) Cree men and women. We’ve got hunters, we’ve got trappers, and we’ve got people who fish. The smartest and most talented Cree, the biggest […]

The flags of a more than a hundred Indigenous nations dance in the wind at the entrance to the Oceti Sakowin Camp near the Standing Rock Sioux reservation in North Dakota, about 80 kilometres south of Bismarck, the sparsely populated […]

Quebec government began an overdue overhaul of outdated adoption laws by introducing Bill 113 in the National Assembly October 6. The bill aims to bring more transparency to the adoption process by amending Quebec’s Civil Code and the Youth Protection […]

Labrador Inuk Ossie Michelin was packing his bags and preparing leave Muskrat Falls on the Churchill River west of Happy Valley-Goose Bay last October 17, a day after the Supreme Court of Newfoundland and Labrador issued an injunction forcing protestors […]

Iroquois and Algonquin chiefs in Ontario and Quebec are denouncing as “fraudulent and illegal” a land agreement recently reached between the federal and Ontario governments and a group called the Algonquins of Ontario (AOO). The tentative treaty concerns approximately 36,000 […]

With winter on the way I see a lot of people out and about in town wanting to connect with others. Northerners are resilient folk but we also follow hard lifestyles. We tend to pride ourselves as big party types. […]