Pam Palmater

Pam Palmater: The election result is yet another sign that Canada is becoming fertile ground for far-right groups

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

Pam Palmater: Reconciliation has not just gone off the rails—many Indigenous peoples think it’s dead

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.

Pam Palmater: A much larger and more powerful movement than the last, led by Black and Indigenous peoples and supported by millions of Canadians

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

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.

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

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

Pam Palmater: Here’s a hard truth about Canadian federal elections. When Indigenous peoples vote, they vote for their next oppressor.