Big Idea: To fight wildfires, bring back preventative burns
For centuries, Indigenous fire keepers kept forests clear of fuel. It’s time to fight fire with fire once again.
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Indigenous
Inside UBC’s Indian Residential School History and Dialogue Centre
Fusing Western design with Indigenous tradition is at the heart of architect Alfred Waugh’s craft
Joshua Whitehead takes on CanLit
In ‘Making Love With the Land,’ Whitehead moves between genres and languages in a series of essays that open up a whole new window on the meaning of Canadian literature
This Winnipeg art gallery is a monument to Inuit culture
Qaumajuq is not just an art gallery or a stylish feat of architecture. It’s much more.
Pope Francis apologizes for residential school abuses
Politics Insider for April 1: First Nations delegates make progress at the Vatican; Trudeau pushes for a G19; and a Wildrose battle
The story behind Marc-André Fleury’s Indigenous-designed helmet
The Chicago Blackhawks wanted to honour their Indigenous namesakes. Toronto-based Ojibwe artist Patrick Hunter explains the thinking behind the new helmet.
We failed to hear them when they lived. We are obliged to hear them now.
The residential school children who rest in unmarked graves are lost to their communities. But the shared knowledge of their fates has its own compelling power. That is why they top our 2022 Power List.
Murray and Niigaan Sinclair, the father-son duo working toward reconciliation—and opening Canada’s eyes
If legal titan Murray Sinclair was the first person in the room, his media-savvy son is trying to change the room altogether. Together, they are at No. 30 on our Power List.
The Indigenous grandmothers who stopped a pipeline
Plans to flush out salt caverns for gas storage hit a wall of Mi’kmaq grandmothers
Ottawa reaches $40 billion agreement to reform Indigenous child welfare
Politics Insider for Jan. 5: A landmark commitment to Indigenous child welfare; NORAD needs fixing; and a Canada-U.S. trade dispute settles