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Opinion

Celebrating Indigenous history

As the country wrestles with the interim ruling of the Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal issued Friday - that Canada is committing genocide against Indigenous Peoples – we mark National Indigenous History Month.

The power of the peoples’ judgment

The international Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal is in Tiohtià:ke this week, probing a legacy of missing children and unmarked graves associated with residential schools.

Men must stand up against violence

Last week marked the annual Moose Hide Campaign, a fast-growing, Indigenous-led movement coming out of BC with a simple goal, to unite folks around putting an end to gender-based violence once and for all.

Racism needs to be called out

“Stop drinking, Wab.” These words were uttered in the chamber of the Manitoba Legislative Assembly to Wab Kinew, who is the only First Nations premier in the history of the country.

  • October 3, 2025

    Remembrance, reflection, renewal

    Orange Shirt Day, also known as the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, means so many things at once. That it has two names is just one window into that reality.

  • September 26, 2025

    Joyce Echaquan’s legacy five years on

    In October 2021, just over a year after Joyce Echaquan died in the Joliette hospital, the coroner’s report concluded that racism and prejudice contributed to her death.

  • September 19, 2025

    18 years of UNDRIP

    It’s been 18 years since the United Nations General Assembly adopted the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP), a pivotal document that recognizes Indigenous Peoples as distinct and self-determining, affirming the collective and individual rights of Onkwehón:we everywhere.

  • September 12, 2025

    Remembering 9/11

    It’s been 24 years already, a generation, two decades: a lifetime.

  • September 4, 2025

    Back to school is rebirth

    It’s the most exciting time for parents, the old joke goes, because your children are back in school.

  • September 4, 2025

    Victims come in many forms

    The recent grotesque unveiling on social media of an account that victimized local women, including minors, blew up into the public sphere after the community stood up and said enough was enough.

  • August 29, 2025

    Hunters make community proud

    The Hunters’ Founder’s Cup win is the biggest cherry on top that any Kahnawake sports fan could ask for.

  • August 21, 2025

    As forests burn, so must the spirit

    For many years, Onkwehón:we and other climate advocates have warned of the dangers of abusing the environment for short-term gain, saying that it would soon be too late to come to the aid of Mother Earth.

  • August 15, 2025

    Dehumanization is violence

    Like everyone else, we were sickened, shocked, and horrified to learn about a social media account on which a small group of local men sexualized, violated, and victimized women and girls from the community.

  • August 15, 2025

    Summer Student Scoop: My time at The Eastern Door

    Eight weeks have come and gone. With that, I look back on the time I spent as a summer student with The Eastern Door.