Despite the Canadian government committing to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) of Canada’s 94 calls to action and stating that the United Nations Declaration…
6 People Arrested at 39 KM and Media Exclusion Zone The RCMP, acting on behalf of the Canadian state and Coastal Gaslink, have arrested six…
Six days ago the Unistoten dispatched an urgent appeal warning that the RCMP had set up an “exclusion zone” that embargoed food, land defenders, and…
Thousands of activists and community members rallied across Canada on January 11 to voice their support and solidarity with the Wet’suwet’en and the Unist’ot’en camp….
Being an East Coaster, my timeline has been flooded with the recent news of the Northern Pulp Mill closure. It has been all over the…
On 11 October 2019, as many Canadians made plans for thanksgiving feasts, a Kanien’kéha:ka (Mohawk) member of the Kanehsatà:ke community in what is today known…
For the last four years, Justin Trudeau has presented himself as someone who stands for reconciliation and respect for Indigenous communities. But the record of…
Tensions are rising between the Kanien’kéha:ka (Mohawk) of Kanehsatà:ke and the Québec municipality of Oka. During the last Oka conflict in summer of 1990, the federal government…
On September 28 Autumn Peltier, Chief Water Commissioner from the Anishinabek Nation addressed the Global Landscapes Forum at the United Nations. Peltier, a 15 year old…
The resistance to the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) at Standing Rock was one of the most highly publicized stories of Indigenous-led resistance to the global…
“We need to liberate ourselves from the courts, ballot boxes, school system, church, and all other agencies that command us to stay in ‘our colonized place.’ This oppression of the native people is so deeply rooted in the capitalist system that it cannot be completely eliminated without eliminating capitalism itself.”
“Canada’s tar sands, deposits of sand saturated with bitumen, contain twice the amount of carbon dioxide emitted by global oil use in our entire history….
