Marginalized groups need to work together to raise awareness and push back against institutionalized racism. That was a central message heard by hundreds of people who crowded into a Concordia University conference room in Montreal February 7 to hear a […]
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Couillard government announces independent inquiry into Quebec-Indigenous relations
It was a long time coming but Quebec’s First Nations, and the women who so bravely came forward to share their allegations of abuse at the hands of the Val-d’Or SQ detachment, will finally get the provincial judicial inquiry that […]
Sport hunt remains open despite major decline in Leaf River herd
The Grand Council of the Crees, the Naskapi Nation and the Nunavik Inuit have together called on the government of Quebec to cancel the 2017-2018 sport hunt, so far to no avail. The latest results show that the herd has […]
Following Romeo Saganash through Eeyou Istchee in “Le centre du monde”
Following last winter’s mass murder in a shooting spree in La Loche, Saskatchewan, and the continuing epidemic of suicide in Attawapiskat and other Indigenous communities, media commentators argued that isolation is to blame. The misery and despair, they said, were […]
Justice is not colour blind
A number of developing stories this past month demonstrate quite clearly that there are two distinct standards of law in North America when it comes to First Nations people on this continent. Consider the case of Adam Capay. Capay is […]
Landlocked: Algonquins at odds over land settlement
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 […]
Summer literacy camps reverse learning loss
Summer is the time kids have fun and relax, but unfortunately for some, time away from school can result in a loss of learning. On average, a child can lose up to a Grade level of reading comprehension over the summer […]
Throat Singing at the Ashukan Cultural Space
Nina Segalowitz, an Inuk from the Northwest Territories who has lived in Montreal since she was a newborn adopted during the Sixties Scoop, couldn’t learn throat-singing from an Elder, so she and her friend Taqralik Partridge learned from a cassette […]
Tourism Guide: Fun activities for Fall & Winter
As the weather starts to cool, some people begin to pull out their Halloween decorations and others sip their pumpkin spice lattes, it’s time to start thinking about ways to stay active and keep the family busy during the autumn […]
Justice for Aboriginal women in Quebec?
Last fall, the shocking allegations by Aboriginal women in Val-d’Or of physical and sexual misconduct perpetrated against them by local Sûreté du Québec officers brought a human drama into the light – violence against Indigenous women committed by those […]