In the media, Frances Elizabeth Moore sees Indigenous communities in crisis portrayed as being hopeless and helpless. But in her work as the operations and national outreach manager for We Matter, she sees so much more within the communities she works — and she wants others to see it, too. “When discussing Indigenous youth suicide, the…

A Manitoba mother whose baby girl was taken into the care of Child and Family Services shortly after she gave birth says she is glad the province has vowed to end the practice of issuing birth alerts. Birth alerts are warnings from social services agencies to hospitals that label a mother as “high risk.” The alerts could…

Indigenous communities have always had specific ways to grieve deaths in their community. For some, it’s lighting a fire in honour of that person. For others, it’s using specific medicines that help ease the transition between death and the spirit world. But those practices have changed significantly over the course of the experiences of colonization,…

There’s a story passed down in a Kahnawake Mohawk family that one summer in the 1930s, two teenage boys faked their deaths by jumping off the railway bridge that connects the community to LaSalle, Que.  As the story goes, two years later the boys returned to Kahnawake and regaled the community with the tale that they had hopped…

The shutdown of the Northern Pulp paper mill in Pictou, N.S., on Friday could mean the painful end of an era for workers at the mill and in the province’s forestry industry. But for the Mi’kmaw community of Pictou Landing First Nation, the mill’s closure marks a new beginning. Boat Harbour, the lagoon where the mill’s chemical-laced wastewater has been dumped for 53 years, is in the…

There are few families that have done more to build the Indigenous basketball community in Winnipeg than the Boulanger clan, according to their colleagues. Robyn Boulanger, 20, a guard for the Wesmen team at the University of Winnipeg, says her parents have had “a huge impact not only in the Indigenous community, but in the…