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ILSA Speaker Series 2024 - Day 4: Darian Baskatawang Discusses Class Action Lawsuits
tansi ninôtemik, The Indigenous Law Students’ Association’s 2024 Speaker Series continues! On Thursday March 7th, the Indigenous Law...
Special Sticker Series: 'Stick' Up for Trans Rights
Tansi Ninôtemik, In support of tawâw outreach collective, this week's blog posts will each highlight a sticker by Blog Author Olive...
Danielle Smith Continues a Long Tradition of Treating Indigenous Bodies as Property of the State
TW: Forced sterilization, the disk system, Danielle Smith. Tansi Ninôtemik, This is part two of a four part series that discusses how...
So-called Parental Rights Policies Cut Against Indigenous Self-determination
This is part one of a four part series that discusses how Danielle Smith’s Proposed so-called parental rights policies parallel and...
Isolation and Over-Incarceration: Community-Centered Approaches to the Loneliness Epidemic
Tansi Ninôtemik, Last week's discussions centered around prosecutorial discretion, mental health, R v Gladue, and ACE scores. This week,...
EPS is dismantling people's only shelter - what now?
On January 8th and 9th, three Indigenous people were arrested related to their peaceful resistance of the Rowland encampment eviction....
Indigenous children do not return home: how Bill C-92 reinforces colonialismÂ
TW: Mentions of CFS, foster care. Tansi Ninôtemik, Indigenous children are removed from their families at a rate 17 times higher than...
You Can’t Have Reconciliation Without Truth: the Harms of Residential School Denialism
On January 18, 2024, residential school denialist Frances Widdowson spoke at the University of Alberta. Giving such views a powerful...
Pobody's Nerfect: Challenging the Deficit Discourse
On Tuesday we wrote a post detailing some of the challenges that come with tracking reconciliation. Another such challenge is the idea of...
Can We Call it Progress? The Challenges with Tracking Reconciliation
Art piece by Olive Bensler In the years since the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIWG) and the...
The 'Pretendian' Invasion: Indigenous Identity Fraud
Megan generated this word cloud image using a compilation of social media comments regarding allegations of Indigenous identity fraud...
What's all the fuss about Indigenous identity?
Indigenous identity has been a hot topic in the news of late. It is controversial, complicated and something hard for a room full of...
Canada’s embarrassing 13.8% success rate
Tansi Nîtôtemtik, With Orange Shirt Day around the corner, we are discussing the government of Canada’s failure to implement the Truth...
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