Art commemorating the tragic legacy of residential schools may soon be available in isolated First Nations through a virtual reality project spanning Western Canada. The Witness Blanket is a major art installation at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights in Winnipeg, Man., that recognizes the pain visited on Indigenous people during the residential school era. It has already toured Canada for several years,…
In the summer of 1990, Waneek Horn-Miller was a teenager, standing with her activist mother and younger sister behind the barricades in Oka, Quebec. The town was planning to expand a golf course onto land that Mohawks consider sacred. A standoff between the Indigenous community and police exploded into a 78-day crisis. A police officer was killed…
Steam comes off Lost Lagoon as the morning sun wakes Stanley Park from its cold winter slumber. Along the path that circles the water, tour operator Candace Campo stands beside the sacred tree of her Squamish people. “The cedar tree has an oil that is mould resistant, bug resistant,” Campo explains, her voice steady and…
Juno award-winning singer-songwriter Leela Gilday remembers when she got started in the music industry, festival lineups would be almost entirely comprised of white men. “There’s been a significant shift,” she said to host Lawrence Nayally on CBC’s Trail’s End this week. “[But] if you look on stage, if you look behind the board, if you look at…
Eskasoni teacher Carter Chiasson has been selected for a national honour. The Allison Bernard Memorial High School teacher behind the band program that spawned the cover of the Beatles hit Blackbird in Mi’kmaq, sung by Emma Stevens, has won the 2020 MusiCounts Teacher of the Year Award. Toronto-based MusiCounts is a music-education charity connected to the Juno Awards. The award…
Coastal GasLink must consult further with Indigenous communities along a stretch of its pipeline route at the heart of the Wet’suwet’en conflict, say B.C. officials. Until then, construction cannot take place along the key, 18-kilometre portion. The company has been given 30 days by the province’s Environmental Assessment Office (EAO) to hold those talks before resubmitting its final…
