Humboldt Broncos, Nora Loreto, and the difficult questions that come with grief
Editor's note: Nora Loreto will be delivering the NB Media Co-op's annual keynote address, "Fighting COVID Austerity for a Just ...
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Lido Pimienta raises pandemic relief funds for Indigenous Wayúu affected by the mining of coal destined for New Brunswick
When Toronto-based artist-musician Lido Pimienta performed at a Pitchfork stay-at-home concert this past April, she chose to spotlight Fuerza de ...
Premier Higgs should embrace Wolastoqey overtures: Quakers
Dear Premier Higgs, We are writing to you from a heritage of concern for fair dealing with the Indigenous Peoples ...
What we can do about white supremacy and systemic racism in Canada
Systemic racism was brought to our homeland in 1604 by white Europeans with their white supremacist “white is right” and ...
Board member’s “understanding of mental health and addictions directly contradicts Horizon Health’s approach to treatment”
Dear Hon. Hugh Flemming, We support Metepenagiag First Nation Chief Bill Ward’s call for Cathy Carnahan to be removed from ...
Wolastoqey Nation in New Brunswick: System bias and racism in New Brunswick must be addressed now
As representatives of the Wolastoqey Nation, comprised of six First Nations in New Brunswick, we are heartened by the recent ...
“We need to make the changes ourselves”: Shaunessy McKay on the police shootings of Indigenous people
This cannot happen again. We need to do more than a walk, more than a rally, and a lot more ...
“Today, we are gathered here on unceded ancestral lands of Wolastoqiyik with heavy hearts, furious minds, and gentle spirits”: Amanda Myran at the Healing Walk for Chantel Moore
Qey, n’toliwis Amanda naka ckuwapon possesom, Dakota-Sioux ehpit. Keq kil k’toliwis Emma Hassencahl-Perley, Wolastoqew ehpit. Today, we are gathered here ...
There’s something in the water: meet four women combating environmental racism in Nova Scotia
Toxic water, industrial pollution, high cancer rates and discrimination in Nova Scotia’s Black and Indigenous communities have prompted four inspiring ...
#justiceforBradyFrancis: “we can — and must — do better”
COVID-19 has brought certain criminal justice system inequities to the forefront. Advocates across Canada, have demanded, for example, the release ...
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