Margaret Kanayok squinted her eyes scanning an image of a sealskin parka on Facebook. If she could just touch it, and examine the stitch work, Kanayok said she could tell exactly who made it. “When I saw it I said, ‘Oh that’s from Holman,’” said the 70-year-old Kanayok, who lives in Ulukhaktok, N.W.T., formerly called Holman, the…

Nunavut’s chief justice is considering whether or not to order a formal Gladue report for the first time in the territory.  Gladue reports are documents created to inform a sentencing judge of the particular circumstances of an Indigenous offender and could include both personal and community histories of colonialism and its ongoing effects.   The reports…

Billy-Ray Belcourt is a writer and academic from the Driftpile Cree Nation. His debut collection of poetry, This Wound is a World, issued a call to turn to love and sex to understand how Indigenous peoples shoulder sadness and pain without giving up on the future.  Belcourt won the 2018 Griffin Poetry Prize for This Wound is a World. The collection also won the 2018 Indigenous Voices Award for…

A group of high school students and police from around Canada were in Regina this week for a youth leadership conference, aimed at fostering better future relationships between young Indigenous people and police. Fourteen Indigenous Grade 9 to 12 students from across the country attended the Wednesday workshop at the Regina RCMP Academy. Each was accompanied by an RCMP mentor…

Thirty-nine kilometres down a snow-covered logging road, four men chop wood and work to erect a canvas wall tent in a pullout area. Cody Merriman, who is ‘Namgis and also goes by the name Mona’gila, says that as supporters of the Wet’suwet’en hereditary chiefs, they are there to ensure an eviction notice issued by the…

Maxwell Johnson thought his appointment at the Bank of Montreal would be routine. He’s been a customer since 2014 and wanted to open an account for his 12-year-old granddaughter so he could transfer funds to her electronically when she was on the road for basketball games. But at the Dec. 20 meeting at BMO’s Burrard Street location in downtown…