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First Nations peoples have lost confidence in Thunder Bay’s police force

Thunder Bay has become ground zero for human rights violations against Indigenous Peoples in Canada. Too many sudden and suspicious deaths of...

18.04.2024 20

The Globe and Mail

Tanya Talaga

Can Hudson Bay and James Bay territory be saved before it’s too late?

Muskeg, a type of low-lying wetland, is seen in an area near Kashechewan, Ont., in an undated handout photo. HO-Mushkegowuk Council/The Canadian Press...

05.04.2024 10

The Globe and Mail

Tanya Talaga

The Church has chosen to burn bridges with Inuit instead of aiming for justice

Inuit leader Natan Obed’s plea to the head of the Catholic Church to intervene on the extradition of a French Oblate priest charged with sexual...

14.03.2024 9

The Globe and Mail

Tanya Talaga

The Indigenous Screen Office is more than a mere program

In an ideal world, Canada would have a broadcasting system that delivers English, French and Indigenous programming equally. We don’t live in an...

01.03.2024 7

The Globe and Mail

Tanya Talaga

First Nations self-governance is the only way out of colonialism’s shadow

Last week, the Supreme Court of Canada dismissed an appeal from Quebec, ruling that First Nations child-welfare reform legislation could not be struck...

16.02.2024 10

The Globe and Mail

Tanya Talaga

The arrest of Indigenous journalist Brandi Morin chills press freedom in Canada yet again

Journalist Brandi Morin walks out of the Edmonton Police Service headquarters after having to present herself for processing and fingerprinting in...

01.02.2024 7

The Globe and Mail

Tanya Talaga

In Marvel’s Echo, Hollywood gets representation right

Alaqua Cox, a deaf Menominee First Nation actress, plays Maya Lopez in Marvel Studios' Echo. Chuck Zlotnick/Handout Disney’s latest Marvel series,...

18.01.2024 7

The Globe and Mail

Tanya Talaga

The task of rescuing the Assembly of First Nations begins now

National Chief of the Assembly of First Nations Cindy Woodhouse, centre, delivers remarks following a swearing-in ceremony during the third day of the...

08.12.2023 5

The Globe and Mail

Tanya Talaga

How have we grown numb to the suicide of Indigenous children?

In another world, the death of 11-year-old Elaina Cecilia Nancy Beardy would have shaken Canada’s smug belief that this country offers all its...

27.11.2023 10

The Globe and Mail

Tanya Talaga

Those who pretend to be Indigenous only distract from the things that really matter

30.10.2023 7

The Globe and Mail

Tanya Talaga

A high school in Northern Ontario reveals the long shadow of residential schools

Just off the side of a long dirt road, Norma Kejick, the executive director of the Northern Nishnawbe Education Council (NNEC), tells me that...

23.10.2023 10

The Globe and Mail

Tanya Talaga

Wab Kinew’s win in Manitoba suggests the lighting of the Anishinaabe’s eighth fire

Manitoba Premier-elect Wab Kinew speaks at a press conference the morning after winning the Manitoba Provincial election at the Manitoba Legislative...

04.10.2023 2

The Globe and Mail

Tanya Talaga

To lift up Indigenous people, protect the children

It was unusually hot for a late September day in Ontario, so searing that even the rez dogs were lying down, immobile. But the children didn’t care...

21.09.2023 10

The Globe and Mail

Tanya Talaga

Australia’s potential ‘Indigenous voice’ may not achieve equity, but it’s better than nothing

You can’t legislate a country to achieve fairness and equity, or pass a law that acts as a magic wand that, once waved, suddenly makes regressive...

08.09.2023 20

The Globe and Mail

Tanya Talaga

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