For Indigenous people, ’Indian Horse’ is much more than a movie
With an assist from Clint Eastwood, the big-screen adaptation of Richard Wagamese’s novel is an ambitious collaboration between Indigenous talent and white filmmakers
residential schools
Reconciliation can’t happen without truth. So why do some suppress it?
Opinion: Indigenous survivors of residential schools continue to be denied their truth by the ignorant—but also by those working toward reconciliation
A time-travelling look at Sen. Lynn Beyak’s future podcast career
What will Lynn Beyak do, now that she’s been booted from caucus? Tabatha Southey heads to the future to see what the senator will say before she retires
We’re stuck with Lynn Beyak. So let’s put her to good use.
Stephen Maher: Since Canada must keep paying the senator’s bills, we might as well use her as teaching tool to learn about history and a racist system
Lynn Beyak and the real danger of racist fabulism
Opinion: How deep-seated intolerance and bigotry are stubbornly passed from one generation to the next
Why Justin Trudeau used the c-word—’colonialism’—in his apology
With a few simple phrases, the Liberal PM linked misguided ideas of past governments to present policy—and to the future
Read Justin Trudeau’s apology to residential school survivors in Newfoundland
Aimed at making up for Harper’s 2008 omission, the PM delivered a tearful apology: ’Saying that we are sorry today is not enough’
Perry Bellegarde on Gord Downie: ’He will continue to walk with us’
The National Chief of the Assembly of First Nations on Downie’s advocacy for Indigenous peoples and his continuing legacy
The End: Ahmoo Angeconeb, 1955–2017
After residential school, he vowed to go back to his traditional ways. As an artist, his work became known across Europe.
A B.C. reconciliation totem’s lessons on how to move forward
What Jim Hart’s recently completed totem at the University of British Columbia says about the meaning of reconciliation