Justice will remain absent
Change the conversation, support rabble.ca today.While the saga of who will attend tomorrow's meeting between Harper government representatives and First Nations leaders continues, we can be certain...
View ArticleEddy Weetaltuk, an Inuit veteran from the Korean War
"On Remembrance Day we pay respect to the memory of Eddy Weetaltuk (1932 – 2005), an Inuit veteran from the Korean War.After the war, he worked on a Canadian military base in Germany until 1967....
View ArticleLet's celebrate the gifts of winter
We Canadians have a special relationship with snow and ice. We ski in it, skate on it, play in it, shovel it, drive through it, sometimes even bicycle through it and suffer through it for many months...
View ArticleActivist Communique: On veganism, Ellen DeGeneres, the sealhunt and #sealfies
I received a very encouraging message from the rabble.ca team that is heading up this year's annual Vegan challenge.I have written an article for this year's Vegan Challenge titled The Indigenous fight...
View ArticleLike an iceberg: a blog on being a journalist in Canada's Arctic
“The iceberg needs to be broken. Even if it’s big, it will break. The only way it can get fixed is if you talk. We have to break the iceberg into pieces. Then things will come out. After the iceberg...
View ArticleHarper's Franklin 'discovery'; Or, did anyone ask the Inuit?
A beaming Stephen Harper announced today that one of the two ships from the long-lost Franklin expedition was "discovered" by scientists and researchers on the largest ever expedition to find the...
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Harper's Franklin 'discovery': not really discovered.
Dead colonial explorers attempting to discover land already discovered by the Inuit are "discovered" by present-day explorers using methods already discovered by the Inuit. Harper's Franklin...
View ArticleSinking to the bottom: The wreck of the Stephen Harper
Michael Stewart's, Harper's Franklin 'discovery'; Or, did anyone ask the Inuit? brilliantly and succinctly pulls the plug on the listing Harper canoe in a massive collision with the crystal-hard...
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What we're (not) talking about when we talk about the Franklin expeditions
Friday, September 26, 2014 If this is our national story, then we are telling ourselves the wrong story. It was beginning to seem like it would never happen. For a sixth year, the Harper government was...
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'Okpik's Dream' examines Inuit man's life through dog sledding
Thursday, October 2, 2014A conversation on the frozen sea of Canada's North is so seared into the memory of filmmaker Laura Rietveld that five years later, she still gets entranced and chilled...
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The Right to Be Cold: Sounding the alarm on climate change in the North
Tuesday, March 24, 2015Sheila Watt-Cloutier is one of the most widely respected political figures to emerge from Canada's Arctic, and this potential was identified early on. When she was just 10 years...
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radio book lounge: Our Ice Is Vanishing Sikuvut Nunguliqtuq by Shelley Wright
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'Angry Inuk' doc makes case for sustainable seal hunting in Canada
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Setting the Inuit record straight on cultural prejudice and the seal hunt
Angry Inuk, the “People of the Seal”, cultural prejudice, and setting the Inuit record straight.Like this article? rabble is reader-supported journalism. Chip in to keep stories like these...
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Clyde River Inuit fight to protect territory and livelihoods from Big Oil
Like this article? rabble is reader-supported journalism. Chip in to keep stories like these coming.The Arctic's Baffin Bay and Davis Strait region is home to seals, bowhead whales, polar bears and up...
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