Pam Palmater
The PPC got more than 800,000 votes, and that should worry all of us
Pam Palmater: The election result is yet another sign that Canada is becoming fertile ground for far-right groups
What Joyce Echaquan knew
Pam Palmater: Systemic racism in health care continues because it has been normalized, ignored and denied, while the system places an onerous burden on First Nations peoples to prove racist hospital treatment
‘At every turn, Canada chooses the path of injustice toward Indigenous peoples’
Pam Palmater: Reconciliation has not just gone off the rails—many Indigenous peoples think it’s dead
The entitlement of Canadian politicians
Pam Palmater: Privileged politicians who took pandemic vacations need to lose more than their official roles as ministers or critics. It is time to take a stand.
What we’re seeing in 2020 is Idle No More 2.0
Pam Palmater: A much larger and more powerful movement than the last, led by Black and Indigenous peoples and supported by millions of Canadians
Brenda Lucki must go
Pam Palmater: The problem isn’t Indigenous culture, it’s RCMP culture, where racial profiling, harassment, brutality and the killing of Indigenous peoples is somehow justified
The blockades no one talks about devastate Indigenous economies
Pam Palmater: A giant, well-enforced wall of laws and regulations has kept Indigenous peoples from hunting, fishing, fowling and gathering. Our traditional economies have been criminalized to maintain a non-Indigenous monopoly.
Guns and white supremacists don’t mix
Pam Palmater: The rise of white nationalism happened so quickly in Canada that the government does not have a handle on the serious threat it poses to public safety
Abolishing the Indian Act means eliminating First Nations’ rights
Pam Palmater: The Indian Act is used as a target to deflect blame for racist decisions made by the federal government; a clever guise to force the surrender of all First Nations’ rights
The irony of the First Nations’ vote
Pam Palmater: Here’s a hard truth about Canadian federal elections. When Indigenous peoples vote, they vote for their next oppressor.
‘Thank you for your donation’
Pam Palmater: Tearful apologies and flowery speeches about reconciliation won’t cut it if Trudeau wants the support of Indigenous peoples in the next election. He needs to come clean and take real action.
The Supreme Court has just gutted the Crown’s duty to consult First Nations
Opinion: The newly released Mikisew decision creates easy backdoor for governments to once again run roughshod over Indigenous rights