Families of missing women take to the streets, joined by #OccupyVancouver
As a troubled inquiry into missing women entered its second week, family members of the disappeared took over a busy downtown intersection in opposition
Tag Archives: Indigenous
My extensive reporting on aboriginal issues has been short-listed for two awards by the Canadian Association of Journalists.
From in-depth coverage of missing and murdered aboriginal women, to profiles of indigenous artists, leaders and environmental advocates, my work has been published in the Toronto Star, Windspeaker, Indian Country Today Media Network, The Tyee, THIS Magazine, and the Vancouver Observer.
Below are some samples from my aboriginal and indigenous portfolio.
Turning the tide for affordable housing in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside
With one of the highest urban Indigenous populations in the country, Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside has become the site of a battle over rising housing prices, a lack of affordable lodgings, and encroaching up-scale development
Conference confronts police ‘culture of oppression’
Native people are more often killed or abused by police officers than are others in Canada, but police actions are more often than not chalked up to ‘bad apples’ on the force instead of symptoms of systemic problems within police ranks
CAJ AWARD 2011 FINALIST: Cops & queers, good bedfellows?
Finalist, Canadian Association of Journalists 2012 Community News Award. Police across the country are seeking closer ties with gay, lesbian and transgender communities, but speakers at a recent international conference on policing questioned whether cops and queers make good bedfellows
Copwatch Conference: Seeking alternatives to the police
Despite only occasionally surfacing in the news — with more than 1,000 G20 arrests, tasering deaths, lethal shootings and abuse in holding cells — police misconduct is not only widespread and historic it is also deeply entrenched, said presenters at a major conference on policing last week in Winnipeg
Canada prepared for ‘lethal force’ against Natives, says Indigenous leader
Biting a chunk out of the common adage that a few “bad apples” in the police are responsible for misconduct, Winnipeg Indigenous leader Leslie Spillett pointed to an inherent “culture of oppression” in Canada’s police forces at an international conference on policing
“Everywhere Lands are Being Stolen”: Mining Justice Week unites people of the South and North
Photographs to accompany an article on demonstrations against Goldcorp mining company
Making blood run ‘gold’: Mining justice organizers take on Goldcorp
As shareholders in the Canadian mining company Goldcorp met for their annual general meeting (AGM) in Vancouver last Wednesday, a jubilant and diverse crowd pushed its way into the Pan Pacific Convention Centre
Blockade renewed at Grassy Narrows First Nation, asserts self-determination
Members of Grassy Narrows First Nation in northwest Ontario community are continuing their eight-year blockade to assert their territorial rights
The meaning(s) of Thanksgiving
A delegation of peacemakers spends more than a week at Grassy Narrows First Nation
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