Editorial
#CancelCanadaDay is as relevant as ever
A lot has changed in the past five years, but then again, a lot hasn’t. On July 1, 2021, many Canada Day events were cancelled, or at least dramatically scaled back, after the Kamloops announcement confronted Canadians with the genocidal reality of the residential school system.
Dialogue? Or sovereignty sililoquy?
The Parti Quebecois, the frontrunner to win Quebec’s October election, has released its “Blue Book,” a 524-page plan for an independent Quebec, but there’s one chapter missing, and that’s the one on Indigenous relations.
The media should be at public meetings
It has been nearly two years since the Mohawk Council of Kahnawake (MCK), at the urging of community members, agreed to hash out a media protocol for public meetings.
Don’t take journalism for granted
Human beings have always been eager gatherers and sharers of information, but journalism as we know it today didn’t always exist, and if the conditions that support it go away, it could be lost. And that would be bad, because journalism matters.
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March 28, 2025Politicians need to answer to First Nations
Well, it’s official – the writ has dropped, which is to say a federal election is upon us.
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March 21, 2025No services in sight
Looking to renew your band card? As you know by now, the days of heading down to the White House by the hospital are over.
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March 14, 2025Tariff ping pong
Two behemoths are duking it out, and as usual neither one is paying any mind to the Indigenous nations whose land they’re on, nor to the fact these nations don’t recognize the legitimacy of an imaginary line imposed on Turtle Island by colonial powers.
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March 7, 2025Inaction is the enemy of justice
It took years to convince authorities to conduct a search of the Prairie Green landfill, where the remains of two Indigenous women, Morgan Harris and Marcedes Myran, both members of the Long Plain First Nation, are believed to have been dumped after being murdered by serial killer Jeremy Skibicki.
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February 28, 2025Rise up against bullying
It’s not our first time writing about bullying this month, but it’ll be our last. That’s not because bullying has finally been vanquished, of course, but simply because it’s the last day of February.
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February 21, 2025The principle of Jordan’s Principle
Last year we ran an editorial condemning a shameful backlog in the processing of Jordan’s Principle requests, a delay with real consequences for First Nations children in Canada.
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February 15, 2025The need to look out for everyone
The latest Mohawk Council of Kahnawake communications move? Let’s just say it has something in common with 200 cubic metres of raw sewage.
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February 7, 2025Fighting bullying demands leadership
Pink Shirt Day is not till later this month, but bullying is the topic on people’s minds this week after a violent incident at the Kahnawake Sports Complex involving young children, who recorded and shared it.
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January 31, 2025The gulf of America
“Make Racists Afraid Again.” The anti-fascist's answer to the infamous red hat, this slogan rose to prominence in the early days of Trump’s first term, using his own words against him.
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January 24, 2025Peltier and Trump in the news
Journalism generally takes on two approaches: opinions in the form of editorials and columns, and written articles. When sitting down to write an editorial, you must take a pretty strong stance on an issue important to all.
