Indigenous

Systemic racism, unfettered capitalism and environmental destruction have reached a boiling point in 2020. 

“I could have been that missing woman — I would have been just another missing woman in a camp, or just another young Indigenous girl beat up by her boyfriend.” Instead, she decided to fight back. 

“Will aunty die from the virus?” Andrea Landry's three-year-old daughter asked her one morning while they were playing quietly on the floor. Landry recognized her daughter's fear, and she recognized her own. She knew this pandemic was an invitation to feel complicated emotions, but also a time to look to traditional knowledge systems, to survive in the same way as her ancestors did.

Just a few generations ago, Tlaook, a Nuu-Chah-Nulth ancestor of the Tla-o-qui-aht nation led families to a safe place of refuge in their territory to wait out fatal diseases European settlers brought to the coast of B.C. When the people returned, many had died, but the story of the importance of preserving the land during times of pandemics lived on and continues to shape the nation's work.

"I think there's been some really good relationship building that's happened just through Jagmeet Singh," Grassy Narrows Chief Rudy Turtle said.

In contrast to the 2015 campaign, when Idle No More was still flourishing and anti-Harper sentiment drove record-high Indigenous turnout, this election sees Indigenous issues on the sidelines, and neither hate nor hope is motivating Native voters.

Twenty minutes of the Oct. 7 debate were allocated for a discussion about Indigenous issues among all six Canadian federal leaders. But as quickly as this segment began, it derailed into a haphazard conversation about pipelines, Quebec and climate change.

Manitoba's advocate for youth says a lot more needs to be done if the government is to save children in care from the grim reality of an Indigenous teenage girl whose body was found in a river.

Quebec's police watchdog says officers under investigation should be required to answers the bureau's questions.

Police officers who are guilty of race-based discrimination should face disciplinary measures that include firing, the Ontario Human Rights Commission said on Friday, September 20, 2019, as it released the country's first policy on racial profiling.

Hannah Tooktoo, an Inuk mother from Nunavik, Que., descended from her bike on Thursday, August 8, 2019, 55 days after pedalling across the country to raise awareness to the suicides that are ravaging her community.

Extraction industries seem to be the main game in town knocking at the Nisga’a Nation door with various "economic development" proposals. But we must say no, regardless of short-term gain.

Anyone who wants to buy political ads on Facebook in the lead-up to the federal election will have to be approved by the company, but unpaid content that simply blurs lines —like a recent doctored video of U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi — will still be permitted on the social-media site.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will be on Juno Beach to commemorate the 75th anniversary of D-Day this year.