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What students are talking about today (January 3rd)
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What students are talking about today (January 10th)
View ArticleTurned away
Attawapiskat turned away the third-party manager yesterday. John Duncan’s office expressed its disappointment in a statement last night. Today, the Third Party Manager was in the community with AANDC...
View ArticleWho’s on first?
The Aboriginal Affairs Minister and Attawapiskat chief seem to have communication issues. When the minister, John Duncan, said the band’s chief had agreed to have third-party manager Jacques Marion...
View ArticleLetters to the Prime Minister
Liberal MP Carolyn Bennett and NDP leader Thomas Mulcair have each written to the Prime Minister to encourage him to meet with aboriginal leaders. New Democrats believe that constitutionally required...
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The hunger artist
A surprising item appears on the official Facebook site of Attawapiskat Chief Theresa Spence’s hunger strike near Parliament Hill. A hunger strike with a bank account? The hunger strike is just about...
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Newsmakers: Chris Hadfield, Theresa Spence and another Bhutto
Out of this world: It’s official: there is nothing Chris Hadfield can’t do. High school scholar? Check. Elite fighter pilot? Check. First Canadian to walk in space? Check. And now, just days into his...
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Chief Theresa Spence: On the uses of caution
My last blog post of 2012 made some guesses about politics in 2013 and included a throwaway line about Tom Mulcair: “Note the lack of photos with hunger-striking Chief Theresa Spence.” Today, following...
View ArticleAttawapiskat audit reveals shoddy band oversight, neglect by federal overseers
OTTAWA – An audit of millions of dollars in spending at the troubled Attawapiskat reserve in northern Ontario reveals an absence of basic accounting by the band council and ongoing indifference by...
View ArticleChief counters release of audit with explicit demands from feds for change
OTTAWA – The battle over the plight of Canada’s First Nations escalated Monday amid accusations of a cynical public relations ploy by the Harper government and new demands by a hunger-striking chief....
View Article#IdleNoMore, Attawapiskat, protest, power, money and change
The Attawapiskat audit landed yesterday with a thud. Theresa Spence deemed it a distraction. An Ontario judge is unimpressed with police inaction around two Idle No More protests. Two native bands are...
View ArticleGetting to Friday
Global News journalists were told to leave Attawapiskat yesterday, apparently at the behest of Chief Theresa Spence, which brings about the following two paragraphs in this Globe story. It was the...
View ArticleTheresa Spence won’t attend
After some confusion this morning, Chief Theresa Spence is now officially unwilling to attend Friday’s meeting unless the Governor General is present. “We have sent a letter to Buckingham Palace and...
View ArticleAn important moment, if it happens
A senior government source tells the Star that the Prime Minister understands the importance of Friday’s meeting with aboriginal leaders, but the Globe wonders if the meeting will happen at all—some...
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I go back and forth on Idle No More
Photo illustration by Taylor Shute According to its founders, Idle No More “calls on all people to join in a revolution which honours and fulfills Indigenous sovereignty.” That doesn’t sound like a...
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A rough guide to #IdleNoMore
CP/Fred Chartrand As Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Governor General David Johnston prepare to sit down with Aboriginal leaders to discuss treaty rights and economic development, here’s a rough...
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On the power of the Governor General
Adrian Wyld/CP The politics surrounding the Idle No More movement were never going to be neat and tidy. First, non-aboriginal Canadians have an embarrassing lack of understanding of the history of the...
View ArticleThe Commons: What now for Chief Spence and Idle No More?
Shortly after noon, with a group of women standing as human obstacles in front of the Langevin Block’s main doors, a crowd spilling out into the street, a man in a fur hat—Raymond Robinson, I believe,...
View ArticleThomas Mulcair and Theresa Spence
The NDP leader says Theresa Spence should end her hunger strike. “I would sincerely call upon Chief Spence to realize that there has been a step in the right direction, to try and see now if we can...
View ArticleQ&A: Romeo Saganash (Part Two)
The second part of my conversation with Romeo Saganash. In this segment we talk about #IdleNoMore, Theresa Spence, Shawn Atleo, the blockades and the chance for progress. The first part of our...
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