Tag: Attawapiskat
Few stories illustrate the widening chasm between rich and poor as clearly as the story of Attawapiskat. The chasm is captured in Vicki Lean’s inspiring documentary, After the Last River.
When the world’s largest diamond company, De Beers, opened a mine 90 km upstream from the First Nation community in northern ...
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New Democrat MP Charlie Angus’ new book Children of the Broken Treaty is a history of Treaty 9, from its signing through the nightmare years of St. Anne’s Residential School in Fort Albany, past the ’60s Scoop, the crises in Attawapiskat and Kaschechewan, and the story of Attawapiskat student activist ...
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Long ago, one of my favourite escapes during cold February days was to the outdoor ice rink next to our old school in Attawapiskat. After winter blizzards, the ice surface would be covered in drifting snow three to four feet deep.
As a teenager the challenge of clearing all that snow ...
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About 50 or so of the Algonquins of Barriere Lake have occupied Victoria Island, near Canada’s Parliament buildings. A village has been erected and can easily be seen, a fact that the Algonquins are hoping will embarrass Ottawa into meeting with them to discuss their concerns. The Algonquins, from Northern ...
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The Vietnam-like U.S. intervention in Colombia is all about oil, not drugs, reports the Resource Center of the Americas.
The U.S. is committing $1.3 billion to “Plan Colombia,” assistance package to Colombia’s notoriously abusive military.
The plan was supposedly to fight Colombia’s drug barons.
Less-known is that Colombia’s petroleum production today rivals Kuwait’s ...
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Someone said at one of our meetings, “Let there be a Millennium Issue!” There was one and we saw that it could be good. That was a long long time ago.
Another meeting was scheduled. The second of many to come. It was decided we have the “best of The Nation.” ...
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