Too much of the time, election-minded editorials denounce what we see as failings in our political leaders. Only rarely do we editorialists express what we’d like to see our leaders striving for. This is one attempt to right the balance. […]

The Harper government passed the so-called Fair Elections Act last spring, just in time for this federal election. It’s anything but fair. Introduced in February 2014 by then-minister for democratic reform Pierre Poilievre, the new law requires potential voters to […]

After slamming Patrick Brazeau many times in the past I have to say that, for once at least, the embattled Senator has finally impressed me. In an essay titled Time To Throw Harper Under The Bus and published August 25 […]

Absenteeism among Cree students was a hot topic at this year’s Annual General Assembly in Oujé-Bougoumou. The rates have dropped but still remain high at 19%. Grand Chief Matthew Coon Come said this would always be an issue, “because … […]

By the time you read this, Stephen Harper will have triggered the longest, and most costly, federal election in Canada’s history. Under the Conservative’s fixed-election law, which Harper ignored back in 2011, the next vote is scheduled for Oct. 19. […]

It’s about time, in many different senses of the word. For instance, the time it takes to download the simplest things from the Internet in Cree communities. The time it takes to get connected to the Internet, which some Cree […]

It’s been a hectic couple of weeks. Anyone who has moved and changed addresses recently knows what I mean. Everything starts out well and follows a well-thought-out plan. But as they say about the best-laid plans of mice and men, […]

I remember hope and what it means. I had such great hopes when the report by the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples came out in 1996. I had such hope when the Kelowna Accord was produced in 2005. I still […]

Every year around this time I get to say a job well done to all the Nation staff for the great work we’ve done over the past year. Though the writers get all the awards it would not be possible […]

The Canadian Museum for Human Rights opened last September surrounded by controversy. Protestors at the ribbon-cutting ceremony ranged from First Nations members to Palestinians. A Tribe Called Red cancelled their show at the opening gala. By then, it had become […]