Education Eradication / MI 254
ON THIS WEEK'S INDIGENOUS ROUNDTABLE:
Left in the Lurch by Laurentian. Northern education rooted in the north: for many, it's a vision at the very heart of Laurentian University, a northern Ontario school that today is i...
2021-04-23 16:19:27 +0000 UTC
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The dose makes the poison / MI 253
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An outpouring of outrage. It’s the second half of our conversation with artist Chief Lady Bird about her decision to design a beer can label in support of Indigenous women’s causes. 2021-04-17 21:39:24 +0000 UTC
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Tapping Taboos / MI 243
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Opening up a can of controversy. It was meant as a gesture in support of Indigenous women. A one of a kind design by an Indigenous artist known fo...
2021-04-13 00:17:26 +0000 UTC
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Rethinking rez dog 'rescues' / MI 251
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Canine colonial. Is it apt to draw parallels between the worst ills of mainstream child welfare systems ...
2021-04-01 01:05:57 +0000 UTC
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O'Toole's errand? / MI 250
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Conservative convention. They’re one of Canada’s oldest political parties. Heck, they gave the country its first ever ...
2021-03-31 01:04:11 +0000 UTC
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Indigenous Indecorous / MI 249
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A crapload of controversy. Did an Indigenous member of the Manitoba Legislature cross the line when she cla...
2021-03-21 04:54:37 +0000 UTC
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Moving the Needle / MI 248
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A vaccination conversation. With COVID-19 immunization programs now underway in Canada and beyond, the basic questions of who, when and where have leapt to the fore. Will the most vulnerable be the most vaccinated in time? Some, 2021-03-13 21:28:17 +0000 UTC
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“I’ll be fierce for all of us” / MI 247
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High hopes for Deb Haaland—the congresswoman from New Mexico and citizen of the Laguna Pueblo who could make history as the first Indigenous per...
2021-03-01 00:02:21 +0000 UTC
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Pretendian Prevention / MI 246
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Punishment for Pretendians: it’s the back half of our extended look at colonial cosplay. And if part one<...
2021-02-27 00:58:49 +0000 UTC
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L'Affaire Latimer / MI 245
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Part one of our conversation on the consequences of colonial cosplay. With issues of identity reaching a fever pitch of late, we thought we’d take its temperature. From 2021-02-24 06:55:02 +0000 UTC
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The looming logic of eugenics in Canada / MI 244
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Medically-assisted death. It’s a controversial subject to say the least, precisely why any effort to legislate it has proven just as contentious. So it is in Canada, where laws have been challenged and critiqued, both i...
2021-02-21 03:00:51 +0000 UTC
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Canada's latest un-principled action / MI 243
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How Canadian practice undermines Jordan’s Principle. A new brief from the Yellowhead Institute ha...
2021-01-31 23:04:04 +0000 UTC
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Repping the Queen. With Canada’s last Governor-General stepping down due to scandal, there are 2021-01-27 04:54:08 +0000 UTC
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Casting into the future of fishing / MI 241
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The back half of our two-part foray into fish farms. Part one discussed the myriad problems with such aquaculture; this t...
2021-01-22 23:46:38 +0000 UTC
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"We are the Salmon People" / MI 240
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Fish farm phase-out. And with the end of aquaculture as we know it in sight on 2021-01-19 03:49:16 +0000 UTC
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Mask Off / MI 239
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A second sit-down with Suzuki. And in the first half of our discussion with Dr. David Suzuki, we learned how COVID inspired a ret...
2020-12-26 08:11:51 +0000 UTC
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A Return to Roots / MI 238
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Back to Basics. Scientist, broadcaster, activist, author, gra...
2020-12-24 23:48:43 +0000 UTC
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Bolivia INDÍGENA / MI 237
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Bolivia for Beginners: Imagine what it would be like to live in a country where roughly half the population is Indigenous, said to be the highest such proportion in all of South A...
2020-12-23 02:13:59 +0000 UTC
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Immunizing Indians / MI 236
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Pandemic pandering. A western Canadian premier denounced by critics for bungling the province’s COVID response has now come under fire for questionable comments a...
2020-12-09 23:46:01 +0000 UTC
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The colour of money / MI 235
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Banking While Brown In B.C.. A Heiltsuk grandfather in British Columbia has recently launched a pair of human rights complaints almost a year after he and his young granddaughter were forced to stand outside a downtown Vancouver bank handcuffed fo...
2020-11-30 23:55:45 +0000 UTC
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The North Says No / MI 234
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One last stand against northern dams. Decades of 2020-11-24 23:35:30 +0000 UTC
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"It's hard to live in the empire and not buy into the empire" / MI 233
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Election and Empire, Part 2: And voting day is just hours away in the USA, a day featuring a good number of Indigenous candidates at various levels: 111 in all, 2020-11-03 03:01:42 +0000 UTC
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"Not a Republican, nor a Democrat, nor an American" / MI 232
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Election and Empire: With U.S. voting day just around the corner, what will Novembe...
2020-11-02 08:27:50 +0000 UTC
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Fear of the Walking Red / MI 231
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Back to the border! Part two of our extended look at a court case that should be getting more attention, but continues to fly under the radar of most Canad...
2020-10-30 01:26:19 +0000 UTC
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Passing Canada's 'Extinction Test' / MI 230
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Beyond borders: It’s the shot that continues to be heard across time and states. And it was roughly 10 years ago that an un-licensed Sinixt hunter named Rick Desautel took down an elk in what’s now called British Columbia, thus ...
2020-10-24 23:03:43 +0000 UTC
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"What did Joyce Echaquan really die of?" / MI 229
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Justice for Joyce Echaquan. It’s a gut-wrenching, even agonizing video. As a distraught, bed-ridden
2020-10-16 01:47:45 +0000 UTC
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"Where does it stop?" / MI 228
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New sounds of the city. One of Canada’s largest centres—amiskwaciy-wâskahikan (aka Edmonton)—could be on th...
2020-10-09 23:03:24 +0000 UTC
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Deep in the Heart of Texas / MI 227
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'Chapter 2' of The Anti-Indigenous Handbook. A look into the "constellation of corporations, special interest organizations, politicians, lobbyists, and hate groups work[ing] to limit or eliminate … [Indigenous] se...
2020-09-30 21:40:23 +0000 UTC
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From Pacifica to America / MI 226
ON THIS WEEK'S PROGRAM:
The Anti-Indigenous Handbook: A collective effort spanning three countries, this 'Handbook' is the joint product of fo...
2020-09-30 01:40:52 +0000 UTC
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Treaty fishery / MI 225
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Settler panic in the Atlantic. Why do opponents of a new Mi’kmaq fishery in southwestern Nova Scotia speak as if it’s illegal when it has the support of a 21-year-old Supreme Court ruling? Why do they persist with arguments that the fishery cou...
2020-09-24 07:17:55 +0000 UTC
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