Dene

Students Kateri Lynn and Theresa Lynn work with Elder Madeline Judas to stretch the caribou hide after it has been soaked in a soup made from caribou brains. (Courtesy of Kyla LeSage/Dechinta Centre for Research and Learning)

The brilliance that residential schools could not stamp out

Leanne Betasamosake Simpson: For two weeks, I lived immersed in a world built by Dene, on their land. A world that Canada still tries very hard to destroy.

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Ignatieff’s pitch

I have a story in this week’s print edition about Michael Ignatieff’s position going into the last two weeks of this campaign and the complicated electoral math with which he is presently faced.