Power in unity
As a child I never understood what was going on in the wider world outside my small, isolated community.
Voices
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Dying in Murder Bay
Recently I came across a podcast by the Anishinaabe comedian, writer and documentary maker Ryan McMahon, who spent a year investigating the spate of unexplained deaths of Indigenous youths in Thunder Bay for the Canadaland website
Artsy Fartsy
The stained cloth to clean up my watercolours had taken a beating again. The art teacher was complaining that the colours don’t mix.
Good news for a change
Sometimes the world seems like such an upside down and negative place. I have to dig deep to find something to be positive and hopeful about
Symbols of power
From the roof of the Nation’s building in Montreal – where we would sometimes escape for a smoke and a beer before building management took exception
Message from the skies
The large space rocket blasts off into the heavens. It’s 1969 and the space race is on
Why do we tolerate racist groups?
I’ve been writing columns for two years and a half in the Métro Montréal newspaper. During that time, I have had my fair share of hateful comments, racist insults and online harassment.
Where the waters flow
My mother paddled her way to the nursing station that late spring back in 1959
Still waiting for a lifeline
The tale of Kashechewan First Nation is one of woe, regret, promises of a better tomorrow but little real action