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The verdict in the Colten Boushie murder trial sparks outrage across Canada

The verdict in the Colten Boushie murder trial sparks outrage across Canada

After 12 hours of deliberation, an all-white jury delivered a not-guilty verdict in the second-degree murder trial of Gerald Stanley, accused in the killing of Colten Boushie, a 22-year-old Cree man from Red Pheasant First Nation in Saskatchewan. The jury […]

The mechanics of justice

There is a vivid anger across Canada over the acquittal of Saskatchewan farmer Gerald Stanley at his second-degree murder trial in the shooting death of the young Cree man Colten Boushie. The lack of Indigenous jurors on an all-white jury […]

A horse called Injustice

There has rarely been a bigger display of intertribal solidarity than what we are now seeing in the protests at the Standing Rock Sioux reservation in North Dakota. It is an important fight for the Sioux people and one that […]