Barefoot hits the film fest circuit
Danis Goulet premiered her short film at the Toronto International Film Festival, hoping to add nuance to the simplistic stigma around teenage pregnancy.
Category Archives: Windspeaker newspaper
Windspeaker is Canada’s most widely distributed Aboriginal news publication, with a print circulation of 145,000 readers.
Unchanged treaty annuity is ‘weight of injustice’ on Anishinabek
On the 162nd anniversary of the signing of the Robinson-Huron treaty, leaders representing the signatory nations delivered a letter to Ontario’s Lieutenant Governor demanding an increase in annuity payments.
Rejection of fish farm lawsuit ‘judicial violence’: KAFN elder
A legal showdown over open-net fish farming in B.C. is looming with Kwicksutaineuk/Ah-Kwa-Mish First Nation (KAFN) announcing it will fight for its right to launch a class action lawsuit at the Supreme Court of Canada.
Aspiring directors get taste of crash course in cinema
An upcoming program to share filmmaking skills amongst Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside (DTES) residents got a preview on Aug. 20.
CAJ AWARD 2012 FINALIST: Oil sands activism ‘in the blood’
Her parents met around Wounded Knee and later fought a mining company. Today, Eriel Deranger has returned to Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation to take on the world’s largest industrial project.
“Educational apartheid” remains despite new school at Attawapiskat
Shannen’s dream–to bring First Nation children’s unequal education up to Canadian standards–came one step closer to reality on her home reserve of Attawapiskat in northern Ontario.
Tsilhqot’in pledge Supreme Court challenge after landmark title ruling
Only one thing is certain from the latest chapter in the Tsilhqot’in nation’s decades-old B.C. court struggle: the legal battle will continue.
Nations sign Save the Fraser Declaration
A 130-nation-strong declaration of Indigenous law–pledging a united front in the escalating fight against oil sands pipelines–grew two Indigenous communities stronger on July 7.
Grassy Narrows marchers offer government mercury-tainted fish
Decades after Dryden Chemicals dumped 10 tonnes of the neurotoxin into northwest Ontario’s English-Wabigoon River in the 1960s, Aboriginal communities are literally reeling from its effects.
Palmater dubbed a “wild card” in race for National Chief
Palmater, a lawyer and chair of Ryerson University’s Centre for Indigenous Governance, joined the quest for leadership of the Assembly of First Nations.
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