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Aerial view of a waterside rural First Nations community.

Court rulings confirm duty to provide housing and safe water for First Nations. Now what?

A dozen pixelated faces are set against a swirl of colours and curving lines.

Métis Nation must be partners in developing artificial intelligence

A small group of reporters surrounds the chief with microphones outstretched toward her. They are standing in a clearing of a wooded area next to a metal electricity tower.

How to combat reconciliatory backsliding

The homes, about a dozen, line both sides of a dirt road that runs parallel to a highway lined with trees.

Beyond checkboxes: why reconciliation requires systems thinking

Hundreds of people fill the street, all of them wearing orange shirts.

Orange shirts aren’t enough when systemic equality is backsliding

Carney stands in front of a painting that is twice as tall as he is. It depicts a bird’s wing in black lines with red and green accents on a white wood surface.

Canada needs to be the partner it keeps claiming to be

Aerial view of the club and its green expanse dotted with evergreens. Adjacent to it are strips of farm land and a cleared industrial area near a body of water.

The Cowichan ruling isn’t a threat to private property

Digital illustration depicting silhouettes of a half dozen people circulating.

Reconciliation in the age of AI and social media

In God’s name

A village of low-rise apartment buildings and a few shops sit between forest and the waterfront.

The need for Indigenous-led housing

Canada needs to get on with tackling racism in concrete ways

At the base of a set of stone steps, about 10 people wear yellow hoodies and t-shirts that say “No justice, no peace” with photos of Chantel Moore on the fabric. Some people hold signs that say “Justice for Chantel Moore” and “Chantel’s life mattered; we want justice.”

The mandate of N.B.’s systemic racism commissioner perpetuates the problem

Poker chips and dice sit next to a computer keyboard and mouse under a pink light.

Ontario’s iGaming market will hurt First Nations and others

A racial justice agenda for medicare

A cluster of bungalows, one orange, one green, sits near a playground among dry brown grass under a big blue sky with long clouds.

Transfer authority of child welfare to Indigenous communities

Assign unused wireless spectrum to Indigenous communities

Retraining workers will be essential for our net-zero goals

Decolonizing energy and the nuclear narrative of small modular reactors

Time to put action behind university land acknowledgments

Jean Chrétien and residential schools

Jean Chrétien in June 1969 in Ottawa, when he was the minister of Indian affairs and northern development.

The weaponization of history and Jean Chrétien

Reconciliation needs to address Canada’s history of spiritual abuse

Indigenous consultations must be better integrated into Ontario policy

B.C’s community benefits agreement makes assumptions about economic justice for Indigenous workers

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