A radio ad that aired in Saskatchewan talking about “myths” about residential schools is drawing criticism from listeners. The two-minute piece is from the Winnipeg-based Frontier Centre for Public Policy (FCPP), touted in the ad as a “reasoned, non-partisan voice on public policy.” It begins with a question: “are Canadians being told the whole truth about residential schools? An ad for…

In Pangnirtung, Nunavut, on the eastern tip of Baffin Island, Rita Claire Mike-Murphy’s two-year-old niece is watching Treehouse TV. The 22-year-old herself grew up watching the Canadian kid’s channel, but now finds the programming akin to giving kids a shot of caffeine. “It’s loud and fast and chaotic,” she says. “She is watching it and…

Feeling that the national census carried out by Statistics Canada has failed to fully capture key information about their community, a group of Indigenous researchers have set upon finding what they say is a better way to gather the data that shapes government decisions and services. The project is called Our Health Counts, and it uses…

Canada needs a national initiative aimed at preventing suicides, say Indigenous leaders representing dozens of First Nations across northern Ontario. The renewed call comes in the wake of New Democrat MPP Sol Mamakwa rising in the Ontario legislature and speaking about a 13-year-old girl in Bearskin Lake First Nation who took her own life on…

It’s not every day you become the first Indigenous woman to own an airline in Canada. “Even today it’s hard to imagine that I am launching an airline,” said Teara Fraser, who grew up in a remote town in the Northwest Territories, and plans to fly her airline to hard-to-reach Indigenous communities. On Friday, Fraser announced the start of Iskwew Air, based…

When Terese Marie Mailhot published her debut, Heart Berries: A Memoir, she couldn’t have predicted the response. It was met with rave reviews, and quickly became a New York Times bestseller. The memoir reflects the long lasting impact of intergenerational trauma and genocide on Indigenous people, and in it, Mailhot gets personal about the abuse she experienced…