A team of lawyers representing Inuit children and their families in Nunavik and Indigenous children not living on reserves in Quebec are seeking to launch a class-action lawsuit against the provincial and federal governments over discrimination they claim was suffered related to the director of youth protection services and other …
Read More »‘Reconnecting with our ceremonies’: National Indigenous Peoples Day and summer solstice
Tasha Jacko was taught to honour Grandfather Sun every summer solstice. “We would start off the day with a pipe ceremony and a sunrise ceremony,” she said. “So you would arrive right before the sun came up and … once you’re in the presence (of a pipe carrier) you’re going …
Read More »TDSB makes Indigenous course required English credit for Grade 11 – Toronto
TORONTO — Canada’s largest school board has voted to make its required English credit for Grade 11 students a class focused on Indigenous works. Trustees with the Toronto District School Board voted Wednesday night to replace the current mandatory course with Understanding Contemporary First Nations, Metis and Inuit Voices. Board …
Read More »A lifetime of agony: families of missing, murdered Inuit women call for answers
OTTAWA — Every day on his way to work in 2016, Veldon Coburn drove past Bordeleau Park, by the edge of the Rideau River near downtown Ottawa. On a September day that year, while he drove past the park, Coburn heard on the radio that a body had been found …
Read More »Senegalese and Inuit singing come together at Kanesatake powwow
Only a couple of weeks ago, singers Bamba Diaw and Nina Segalowitz were complete strangers. But a chance meeting in Victoria opened the door for an impromptu performance at a Quebec powwow — where their blending of his traditional Senegalese performance and her Inuit throat singing brought people to tears. One of them was Alan …
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