Tag: Indigenous Peoples
Thanksgiving is a colonial holiday: Letter
This Thanksgiving weekend, many of us will be celebrating with our families and friends, but it is important to recognize and remember that this is a colonial holiday. Canada is a settler nation, and as settlers, a land acknowledgement is one of the first steps in a process of reconciliation. I would like to honour…
Meet the CFS’ first Afro-Indigenous national chairperson
Coty Zachariah on the federation’s challenges, winning and losing elections and being a new father
Students call for mandatory indigenous courses at George Brown
College wants students to learn about indigenous issues in ‘meaningful’ way “George Brown College (GBC) is not doing enough,” said Anthony Hooper, an aboriginal student in the community worker program. “The college should recognize aboriginal people right off the bat as history plays a role in everything.” With other post-secondary schools taking steps to enhance…
Truth and Reconciliation: This time is not joyous
I should respond to this Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Let me begin by saying, I am not happy. This time is not joyous. This six-year ordeal came from a shoddy apology in 2008. It’s Canada backtracking. It’s this society’s idea of justice. Peace does not begin with numbers of deaths or statements that they honestly…
Petition wants to change the name of Victoria Day
A petition supported by a number of famous Canadian authors, actors, musicians and politicians wants to change the name of Victoria Day to “Victoria and First Peoples Day” By Mick Sweetman Dialog Staff Over 800 people, including author Margaret Atwood, Green Party leader Elizabeth May, Inuk musician Susan Aglukark and six other prominent Canadians, have signed a petition as of this…
Waterfront Pow Wow a family-friendly affair
The Fifth Annual Four Sacred Colours Pow Wow took place on April 6 at Waterfront campus. Put on by the Sahkitcheway Aboriginal Student Association, the Pow Wow was packed with dancers, drummers, Elders and many children. By Karen Nickel Dialog Reporter “I was here at 10 a.m setting up tables and preparing for the event….
Canada taken to Human Rights Tribunal
By Karen Nickel Dialog Reporter There is a case before the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal (HRT), in which the defendant, in an effort to put a stop to it, has spent over $3 million. The accused has been submitting requests to quash the charges since they were laid in 2007; before you get the impression…
Never Idle: from Gustafsen Lake to Six Nations
By Karen Nickel Dialog Reporter Indigenous resistance occurs when First Nations, Métis, or Inuit Peoples act to: resist assimilation, retain their cultures, define their identity and defend territory in the face of state, corporate and settler incursions. It takes many forms and is often met by state violence, criminalization and lawsuits. In 1995, at Ts’…
Never idle: a history of indigenous struggle
By Karen Nickel Dialog Reporter The name, Idle No More, unfortunately suggests that people have been idle until now; this is far from the truth. There has been continuous pressure by First Nations, Métis and Inuit communities insisting on exercising their rights to use their land, fish and hunt, but Canada has been negligently slow…
Harper listens to oil companies, not Canadians
By Ken Corbiere Special to The Dialog Stephen Harper is not being a leader. Harper is not listening to Canadians. Harper is not leading this country in the direction most Canadians wish to be led. Big business has his ear and he will listen to nothing else. It has been well documented that through the…
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