Going viral
I have had several bad flu bouts over the past few years – almost once a year for the past 10 years. Some of these respiratory issues were probably colds but most of them were flus due to viruses.
Voices
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All about love
Christmas has carols and New Year’s Day has a goodbye song, so what’s the international song for Valentine’s Day?
Now is the best time to get sober
Maybe 2020 would be a good year to get sober. If you think you have a drug or alcohol problem or an addiction that is affecting your life and the lives of family, friends or work colleagues, then getting sober would be a good idea
The ABCs of impeachment
I’ve been rivetted to CNN the past couple days for its marathon coverage of the Senate impeachment trial of US President Donald Trump
Home for the holidays
It had been a while since I celebrated New Year’s Eve in my hometown of Mistissini. My two sons, Hunter and Declan, and I boarded an Air Creebec flight December 27 – the first time either of the boys had been on an airplane.
20-20 visions
Looking back on the last decade it seems that the world has changed dramatically, but perhaps it was just Facebook cornering our attention until we were hooked on expressing ourselves to half the global population.
Welcome to 2020
2019 was quite a year. For us northerners in Ontario’s James Bay region it was full of snow with very cold winter temperatures and a short summer. We all survived a nasty federal election, ending up with a minority government with the Liberals still in charge.
The unlikely professor: My journey from a reluctant student to a university faculty member
I firmly believe that Kahnawake Survival School (KSS) has a unique opportunity to produce some of the most successful students in my Mohawk community – and they have filled up an impressive list already. But there’s still room for improvement.
Indian lovers
I was watching a recent episode of Enquête, Radio-Canada’s weekly newsmagazine, in which two self-proclaimed medicine men who make a lot of money in Europe teaching “Indigenous health and medicines” were being investigated.
Resolute in the New Year
Another year has come and gone. It may have been a great year, or it might have been the crappiest year you have experienced to date. We all hope the new year will be better no matter how good or bad was the past one.