Columnists
Senator Ratna Omidvar. Image credit: Boris Baldinger/World Economic Forum/Flickr
Tackling systemic racism and colonialism in Canada's charities
Increasing Access to Justice, Sheldon Falk | Don't let Bill S-222 -- which seeks to eliminate mandated racist and colonial ways of engaging with communities -- die on the order paper.
News
Helyeh Doutaghi (left) and Ashley Courchene (right). Image credit: Doutaghi and Courchene/used with permission.
The shared struggles of Muslim Canadians and Indigenous peoples
Helyeh Doutaghi, Ashley Courchene | The media cycles in which Islamophobic killings crowd out stories about Indigenous children's remains suggests competition among different groups of victims, despite shared root causes.
Blog
RCMP on display at the Calgary Stampede. Image credit: Pikist.
To move forward, Canada must accept truth of its past
Gary Engler | Our country has glorified white male warrior, racist colonialism and participated in it at home and abroad. Our laws, our institutions, our foreign policy, our culture have all been affected by it.
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Berta Cáceres. Image credit: UN Environment/Wikimedia Commons
Berta Cáceres in a time of COVID
Tracy Glynn | Activist Berta Cáceres would likely look at the inequalities that COVID-19 has made more visible and still demand more of the activists concerned about climate change and forced migration.
Columnists
French President Emmanuel Macron in April 2020. Image: Emmanuel Macron/Facebook
French state's demand that Muslims forget colonial history shows double standard
Monia Mazigh | French officials commonly invoke the nation's republican history when discussing the fight against terrorism, but are reluctant to address French colonial crimes.
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Minister Marc Miller pictured in June 2020. Image: Marc Miller/Twitter
COVID-19 spared Indigenous communities at first but is now attacking them
Karl Nerenberg | First Nations communities will be safer when federal and provincial governments adopt a fulsome recognition of First Nations' right to run their own affairs.
Podcast
Image: Michelle Latimer and the NFB. Used with permission.
Book 'Inconvenient Indian' is now a powerful documentary
David Peck | A documentary based on Thomas King's "Inconvenient Indian" provides insights on themes explored in the book about history, power and privilege and settler relationships with Indigenous people.
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Unist'ot'en Matriarchs burning a court injunction in ceremony in February, 2020. Image: Unist'ot'en Camp/Twitter
The hidden part of Canada and British Columbia's MOU with the Wet'suwet'en
Pierrot Ross-Tremblay, Nawel Hamidi, Colin Samson | The speed with which the Canadian government is acting is clearly linked to pushing through as many dangerous and irresponsible extractive projects on ancestral territories as possible.
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The fallen Christopher Columbus statue outside the Minnesota State Capitol after a group led by American Indian Movement members tore it down in St. Paul, Minnesota, on June 10, 2020. Image: Tony Webster/Wikimedia Commons
Toppling statues provides opportunities for collective reflection
Lorenzo Vargas | In Canada, there are renewed calls to rename monuments, buildings and streets across the country that honour colonial figures, not just as a symbolic act.
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At the Kwekwexnewtxw Watch House and the Kinder Morgan Tank Farm in Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada. August 25, 2018. Image: Sally T. Buck/Flickr
July 1 is a time to reflect on Canada's colonial and genocidal legacy
Doreen Nicoll | This July 1, take time to reflect on how Canada can create an inclusive, caring country that incorporates all voices into its post-COVID-19 recovery.
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Capitalism invented 'social distancing': what we've always needed is the opposite
Khadijah Kanji | COVID-era communal care offers an example of how charitable giving and political organizing can come together for a common purpose: to redistribute the world's assets based on need.
Columnists
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Canada can't shake reliance on economic 'staples'
Rick Salutin | Paranoia and angst over oil and gas make it hard to deal with the twin challenges to the energy staples: climate change and Indigenous reconciliation.