Indigenous

An illustration of a sun shining on a person water a growing tree with deep roots. The background features faint words in different Indigenous languages such as Squamish and Cree

September/October 2024 / Society

Social Media Is Helping Bring Indigenous Languages Back from the Brink

September 30, 2024October 7, 2024 - by Michelle Cyca

Government funding is dwindling. TikTok and Instagram are filling the gap

A close crop of hands above remnants of a seal hunt. The meat lies on the snow with blood.

Society

Who’s Afraid of Country Food?

September 25, 2024September 25, 2024 - by Laakkuluk Williamson Bathory

There’s a way to feed everyone in Nunavut: give hunters a salary, eat more inussiutit

A man in a white shirt and tie stands in front of a podium with a blue Crime Stoppers background behind him

Justice

The Winnipeg Police Service Is Booming—Despite Blatant Failures

September 20, 2024September 20, 2024 - by James Wilt

The force is notorious for targeting Indigenous people. Why does it keep cornering more public spending?

A photo of a newborn baby on a white cot as seen through the thick white bars of a crib

Justice

Women in Canadian Prisons Are Routinely Separated from Their Newborns

September 13, 2024September 13, 2024 - by Robin F. Hansen

The story of one inmate who laboured—in shackles—in fear of being torn apart from her child if they survived

Wanda Nanibush, wearing a blue floral dress, stands in front of a harbour with sun shining off the water

Arts & Culture / November 2024

Why Did Canada’s Top Art Gallery Push Out a Visionary Curator?

August 28, 2024August 30, 2024 - by Jason McBride

The AGO wanted to shake things up with Wanda Nanibush. Then it balked

A black-and-white illustration of two Indigenous with long braids of hair that are intertwined above their heads. A blood red moon is between them.

Health / July/August 2024 / Memoir

Colonization Has Made a Taboo Out of Menstruation

June 26, 2024July 29, 2024 - by Laakkuluk Williamson Bathory

My blood and how it speaks to me have become sources of my courage, my decisiveness, my quelling of self-doubt

A blue figures walks up red stairs as a series of yellow figures piled up on another to reach a higher step

June 2024 / Society

How Workplace Diversity Fails Indigenous Employees

April 30, 2024April 30, 2024 - by Michelle Cyca

What began with optimism and enthusiasm has curdled into exploitation

Against a yellow backdrop, a maroon-coloured earth features turtles, muskrats, frogs, fish, birds, butterflies, trees, and men, women, and children surrounding Thunderbird. Primarily painted in blues, Thunderbird is enclosed in a dome made of wings.

Arts & Culture / June 2024

The “Multi-Multi-Multi-Million-Dollar” Art Fraud That Shook the World

April 5, 2024June 13, 2025 - by Luc Rinaldi

Norval Morrisseau was one of the most famous Indigenous artists anywhere. Then the fakes of his works surfaced—and kept coming

Photo of Connie Walker, a woman with medium-length brown hair and glasses, sitting in an office in a green chair with one leg crossed over the other. Beside her is a pair of headphones on a stand.

March/April 2024 / Media

How Connie Walker Got Us Listening

January 29, 2024April 10, 2024 - by Michelle Cyca

The Pulitzer Prize–winning podcaster is changing journalism as we know it

A photograph of three RCMP officers in Vancouver Island standing in front of a crowd protesting old-growth logging in August 2021.

Environment

Exclusive: Docs Blocked by BC NDP Raise Questions about First Nation Statement on Fairy Creek Protests

December 13, 2023December 13, 2023 - by Jimmy Thomson

The Pacheedaht First Nation’s statement was an ideological bomb for protesters and their supporters. Was it influenced by the BC government?

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The Winnipeg Police Service Is Booming—Despite Blatant Failures

Women in Canadian Prisons Are Routinely Separated from Their Newborns

Why Did Canada’s Top Art Gallery Push Out a Visionary Curator?

Colonization Has Made a Taboo Out of Menstruation

The “Multi-Multi-Multi-Million-Dollar” Art Fraud That Shook the World

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