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Hayden King
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Media Features
- March 28, 2022, Land Back: Indigenous Perspectives, The Agenda
- March 4, 2022, Stalled progress on reconciliation in health care, CMAJ News
- March 3, 2022, 6 Years after TRC report, Canada is failing to ‘rectify ongoing harms’ against Indigenous communities new report charges, Toronto Star
- March 3, 2022, Canada continues to “execute” Indigenous settlements: Report, Emnetra
- February 10, 2022, We failed to hear them when they lived. We are obliged to hear them now, Macleans
- January 31, 2022, Federal response to unmarked graves, CBC
- January 31, 2022, Reaction to the convoy protest on Parliament Hill, CBC
- January 1, 2022, Peace, friendship and trust: Policing as treaty breaking, The Monitor
- December 29, 2021, The Rot of Reconciliation in Canada, Media Indigena: Indigenous Current Affairs Podcast
- December 17, 2021, Hayden King with Matthew Norris on Indigenous Jurisdiction and Land Back, Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives
- December 17, 2021, How the Land Back movement is reclaiming land stolen from Indigenous people, Wisconsin Public Radio.
- November 21, 2021, Could the B.C floods be a tipping point for dealing with climate change?, CBC News.
- November 15, 2021, Two Spirit: In their own words, on their own terms, Xtra Maganize.
- November 9, 2021, Is the additions to Reserve policy the best way for feds to return stolen land?, APTN National News.
- November 3, 2021, Unfulfilled land promises perhaps the biggest broken commitment in numbered treaties, APTN National News.
- October 21, 2021, Actions speak louder than words when it comes to Indigenous land acknowledgements, CBC the Current
- October 18, 2021, The Current for Oct. 18, 2021, CBC The Current
- September 29, 2021, Reflecting on the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, CBC: Ontario Today
- September 7, 2021, Anishinaabe advocate calls on Canadians to put their ‘allyship into action’ at the polls, CBC
- September 2, 2021, Indigenous communities missing from election conversations: Q&A with Courtney Skye, CBC.
- August 28, 2021, One Dish, One Mic- Episode 113- Segment 5, NewsTalk 610 CKTB.
- August 11, 2021, A citizen’s guide to reconciliation, Policy Options.
- July 14, 2021, Who should pay when projects fail after Indigenous rights claims?, The Globe and Mail.
- July 14, 2021, ‘Burn it all down’ is a call for Decolonization, not arson, The Tyee.
- July 8, 2021, The job of Canada’s governor-general is merely symbolic- except when it’s not, The Globe and Mail
- July 1, 2021, What stories should we tell on Canada day?, Big Story Podcast
- June 30, 2021, Do you find these ideas for celebrating Canada Day provocative? Then ask yourself why, Toronto Star
- June 28, 2021, Dr. Eva Jewell with the Yellowhead Institute shares about the Calls to Action Accountability, Ryan Jesperson Real Talk podcast
- June 21, 2021, Uoft Grad Riley Yesno is a voice for “Canada’s Reconciliation Generation” Uoft News
- June 9, 2021, Is toppling Ryerson statue a step towards truth and reconciliation?, CBC Listen
- June 9, 2021, The reckoning and push for ‘X University’ at a Toronto school, This Matters Podcast
- June 8, 2021, If Canada’s residential schools reckoning is real this time, what happens next?, The Big Story Podcast
- June 1, 2021, Students professors at Ryerson using ‘X University’ as they demand name change, City News Toronto
- May 12, 2021, ‘Follow the money’: New report explores pathways to reparations for Indigenous people, The Toronto Star
- May 11, 2021, As an Indigenous professor, Egerton Ryerson’s name haunts me, The Globe and Mail
- March 30, 2021, Yellowhead Institute puts Indigenous policy expertise first, University Affairs
- March 10, 2021, Indigenous land defenders: Don’t Call Me Resilient EP 6, The Conversation
- January 31, 2021, Canada’s effective monopoly on First Nations citizenship [ep 243] Media Indigena Podcast
- January 29, 2021, ‘There are alternatives to what Canada tells us is possible’: Hayden King on Indigenous land reclamation, CBC Unreserved
- January 29, 2021, Land back: Movement to reclaim Indigenous land grows, CBC Unreserved
- January 18, The Scam of Reconciliation w/ Eva Jewell, Red Nation Podcast
- January 11, 2021, Centring Indigenous Voices, Ryerson University Magazine
- February 20, 2020, Policing is highly political in Indigenous land rights dispute, Bloomberg
- February 7, 2020, Industry, government pushed to abolish Aboriginal title at issue in Wet’suwet’en stand-off, docs reveal, The Narwhal
- February 10, 2020, Police protect corporations, not people, briarpatch
- January 16, 2020, No, those who defend the Wet’suwet’en territory are not criminals, Globe and Mail
- June 09, 2019, MMIWG inquiry issues final report with sweeping calls for change | Sunday Scrum, CBC
- June 04, 2019, Canada finally acknowledged the genocide against Indigenous women. It’s time to act., Washington Post
- March 08, 2019, The gaslighting of Jody Wilson-Raybould: Indigenous women have seen this before, Globe and Mail
- March 02, 2018, What are the Indigenous ‘Big House’ Laws that Jody WIlson-Raybould Invoked? Huffington Post / Canadian Press
- February 28, 2019, Jody Wilson-Raybould and the paradox of reconciliation in Canada, Globe and Mail
- February 25, 2019, Ombudsman not a proper replacement for ousted Youth and Child Advocate, critic says”, CBC Radio North
- January 15. 2019, Metro Morning Segment, CBC News
- December 13, 2018 By affirming racism, the Thunder Bay police report asserts our Indigenous truth, Globe and Mail (Article by Damien Lee and Jana-Rae Yerxa
- July 27, 2018, “After AFN national chief election, apathy and resignation remain,” The Globe and Mail (Article by Vanessa Watts and Hayden King)
- July 27, 2018, “Episode 124: Is Canada’s newest solution to the Indian Act worse than the problem PT 2?” Media Indigena (Podcast)
- July 20, 2018, “Episode 124: Is Canada’s newest solution to the Indian Act worse than the problem PT 1?” Media Indigena (Podcast)
- July 10, 2018, “The Gaping Holes in Ottawa’s Indigenous Fiscal Policy, Policy Options, (Article by Shiri Pasternak)
- June 22, 2018, “Emerging Indigenous Voices,” The Agenda w/Steve Paikin, TVO; Interview w/Shiri Pasternak
- June 20, 2018, “Canada’s first Indigenous-led think tank,” Ryerson Today (Podcast featuring Hayden King)
- June 08, 2018, “A Different PM Trudeau, same buckskin jacket. But where is the ‘real change’ for Indigenous peoples?,” The Globe and Mail (Article by Hayden King and Shiri Pasternak)
- June 06, 2018, Your Morning segment, CTV (1.12 mark) (TV Interview w/Hayden King)
- June 06, 2018, “New Indigenous think tank opens in Toronto,” Metro Morning with Matt Galloway, CBC (Radio Interview w/Hayden King)
- June 04. 2018, Interview w/Shiri Pasternak, CBC Radio One Halifax (Radio Interview)
Select Media Coverage
- March 17, 2022, Quebec has ‘harder case’ to make as challenge to child welfare law heads to supreme court, APTN News
- March 16, 2022, Opinion: Radical change is overdue for the Thunder Bay police service and board, The Globe and Mail
- February 18, 2022, Doing business with an Indigenous worldview takes success beyond the bottom line, The Globe and Mail
- February 16, 2022, Op-ed: Ryerson’s revised hiring and evaluation policies should not determine who’s Indigenous and who’s not, The Eyeopener
- February 16, 2022, ‘Carnival of chaos’: Ottawa police face growing flak for failure to end protests, The Guardian
- February 11, 2022, Majority of federal Indigenous child welfare law upheld by Quebec Court of Appeal, The Globe and Mail
- February 7, 2022, Wet’suwet’en urges UN to visit gas pipeline and ‘militarization’ of territory, Pique
- January 24, 2022, How the COVID-19 outbreak in Bearskin Lake shows Canada needs to boost crisis, CBC
- January 20, 2022, N.B.’s ongoing battle with Wolastoqey Nation is not reconciliation in action, Policy Options
- December 17, 2021, As 2021 draws to a close, the work of truth and reconciliation has hardly begun, The Globe and Mail
- December 16, 2021, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, the Olympics and reconciliation, Squamish Chief.
- December 16, 2021, The Royal Canadian Mounted Police Serves and Protects Fossil Fuel CEOs, Common Dreams.
- December 5, 2021, The federal minister says it’s time to give land back to Indigenous peoples. What could that look like?, The Record.
- November 19, 2021, Court injunction in Coastal GasLink conflict sidesteps deeper legal issues, critics say, CBC.
- November 21, 2021, Demonstrators paint message of solidarity with Wet’suwet’en chiefs during Hamilton protest, CBC
- November 5, 2021, More than half of charges related to Land Back Lane occupation withdrawn, CBC.
- November 1, 2021, Will debt, liability and Indigenous action see the sun set on the Ring of Fire?, The Conversation.
- October 28, 2021, Is Marc Miller’s vow to ‘give land back’ all sizzle and no steak? These analysts say yes, APTN National News.
- October 29, 2021, A Cree family’s canoe is returned, after sitting in a University of Saskatchewan storage room for years, Macleans.
- October 24, 2021, Trans people shouldn’t be ‘fodder’ for comedy, experts say, CBC.
- October 21, 2021, What’s wrong with land acknowledgements, and how to make them better, CBC.
- October 2, 2021, First Nations people call for continued support from Canada, CBC.
- September 23, 2021, Ryerson journalism publications to be renamed to address controversial legacy, The Charlatan.
- September 17, 2021, Where they stand: The Parties on Indigenous Child Welfare, The Tyee
- September 8, 2021, Indigenous voters can play kingmaker in the federal election, Toronto Star
- September 8, 2021, Canadians claiming Indigeneity need to tell voters which nations claim them back, Yahoo News Canada
- August 26, 2021, Toronto’s Ryerson University to be renamed, City News.
- August 26, 2021, Ryerson University will no longer be named after residential school architect, Vice News.
- August 24, 2021, Timeline: A brief history of ‘X’ University, The Eyeopener.
- August 20, 2021, Indigenous leaders have shown remarkable grace in the wake of horrifying discoveries, The Globe and Mail.
- July 27, 2021, Indigenous Americans demand a reckoning with brutal colonial history, The Guardian.
- July 18, 2021, What land back means for this reclamation camp, CBC.
- July 10, 2021, The legacy of residential schools in government-run social care systems, McGill Daily
- July 9, 2021, Indigenous Women Assume and Cede Prominent Positions in Canada, The New York Times
- July 7, 2021, Opinion: Reparation, land and justice for Indigenous Peoples is long overdue, Pique News
- June 30, 2021, Reflecting on the meaning of Canada Day in the wake of residential school discoveries, CBC
- June 17, 2021, ‘Colour-coded’ retirement security: Study finds economic marginalization and inequity follow people into old age, The Standard
- June 16, 2021, An unmarked gravesite drags a not-so-distant horror back into the spotlight. Is this a real reckoning?, Washington Post
- June 18, 2021, Ryerson’s statue toppled because of the university’s long-standing inaction. As a 2021 graduate, I join Indigenous voices calling for a name change, Toronto Star
- June 17, 2021, Seeing Myself in ‘Indigenous Toronto’, The Local
- June 8, How an overhaul of the child welfare system could keep more Mi’kmaw youth close to home, CBC News
- June 6, 2021, ‘Time for the Catholic church to take responsibility‘, Aljazeera
- June 4, 2021, ‘Let’s get on with it’: Indigenous advocates demand completion of TRC calls to action, CTV News
- June 7, 2021, Statue of Egerton Ryerson toppled during protest at Toronto University, Daily Hive
- June 2, 2021, Ryerson students, staff adopt “X University” name to denounce residential school ties, Daily Hive
- June 1, 2021, Trudeau response falls short at a moment of national shock, Globe and Mail
- June 1, 2021, Ryerson students and professors adopt ‘X University’ name to denounce affiliation with architect of residential schools, The Toronto Star
- May 4, 2021, ‘Incredibly toxic’: More Indigenous women share stories of racism in the federal bureaucracy, APTN
- March 30, 2021, Witness the rising of an Indigenous generation, whether Canada takes steps to reconcile or not, Toronto Star
- March 15, 2021, Opinion: Before you state a land acknowledgement, mean it, The Eyeopener
- February 27, 2021, Inside the ‘Indigenization’ of Canada’s universities: Progress — but also accusations of tokenism, broken promises and ‘ethnic fraud’, Toronto Star
- February 9, 2021, Indigenous community members at Ryerson don’t support new statue task force name [Vol. 54, Issue 8], Eyeopener.
- February 6, 2021, Feds defend ‘interim’ First Nations education funding after chiefs’ concerns grow, Toronto Star
- February 3, 2021, Canada sending ‘mixed messages’ on Jordan’s Principle as advocacy groups get set for showdown in court, APTN
- February 1, 2021, City hall ‘falling short’ on Indigenous outreach: Advocate, London Free Press
- January, 26, 2021, Sector News Digest: Indigenous communities and immunization, The Philanthropist
- January 21, 2021, Can machine learning fill the gaps in Canada’s health data? Cabin Radio
- January 15, 2021, Matawa chiefs demand province stop all activities affecting land, treaty rights during pandemic, CBC
- Sept 28, 2020, COVID-19 may delay Liberal pledge to end long-term boil water advisories on First Nations, CBC
- Sept 26, 2020, The Truth is out, time to reconcile, Nunavut News
- Sept 17, 2020, Another Indigenous journalist faces charges tied to injunction at Caledonia development, Global News
- Sept 16, 2020, First Nation members have Charter free speech rights on reserves, says B.C. civil liberties group, Owen Sound Sun Times
- Sept 12, 2020, Hundreds rally in Toronto to show support for Six Nations members arrested in land dispute, CBC News
- Sept 3, 2020, Police arrest journalist, researcher in connection with Caledonia land reclamation, APTN
- August 26, 2020, Why Haudenosaunee women are central to advocating for land rights, from Oka to Caledonia, CBC
- August 15, 2020, Six Nations land defenders criminalized by court injunctions for protecting ancestral lands, Rabble.ca
- June 26, 2020, Pandemic highlights role of traditional foods in hard times, Star Phoenix
- June 9, 2020, Canada’s dire need for better race-based data, Macleans
- June 13, 2020, Chef calls Indigenous Food Lab ‘a necessity for our future’, CBC
- June 1, 2020, Loss of Canada elders to coronavirus threatens indigenous culture, Reuters
- May 13, Over 450 Indigenous COVID-19 cases across Canada and 7 deaths, reports Yellowhead Institute, CBC.ca
- May 13, 2020, First Nations should include provisions for emergencies in election codes, experts say, CBC.ca
- May 10, 2020, How BC health authorities are undermining Indigenous governments, Globe and Mail
- May 1, 2020, How COVID-19 impacts Indigenous communities, Ryerson Today
- May 6, 2020, Data gaps exist on COVID-19 cases in Indigenous communities, says research fellow, CBC
- March 13, 2020, Coronavirus Prep Is Not an Option for First Nations Without Clean Water, VICE
- March 4, 2020, Anishinabek Nation Governance Agreement shot down in two First Nations, Sudbury.com
- March 7, 2020, Justin Trudeau’s latest challenge appears resolved after tentative deal ends rail blockades in Canada, USA Today
- February 27, 2019, Anishinabek governance vote: a step towards self-determination or return of the ‘Indian agent?’, CBC
- February 19, 2020, How the BC Government approache land rights after major court ruling, Canadian Press
- January 17, 2020, The criminalization of Indigenous land defenders is a global concern, Rabble.ca
- January 17, 2020,’History-making’ governance agreement will give decision-making power to First Nations: Anishinabek Nation, Sudbury.com
- January 29, 2020, Anishinabek Nation on the cusp of big vote on governance agreement 25 years in the making, Windspeaker
- December 17, 2019, Canada has made ‘dreadful progress’ in fulfilling TRC’s calls to action, APTN News
- November 8, 2019, Courts deny most First Nations injunctions, National Observer
- November 5, 2019, Yellowhead Institute details Indigenous consent and land reclamation, The Eyeopener
- October 29, 2019, Legal playing field tilted against First Nations in resource development battles, says new report, CBC
- May 31, 2019, Indigenous people need to rock the vote again in 2019, APTN News
- March 7, 2019, Why would Jodi Wilson-Raybould reject Indigenous Services file? Indian Act at core of issue, Global News
- February 3, 2019, Trudeau’s offer of Indigenous Services to Wilson-Raybould like ‘asking Nelson Mandela to administer apartheid’, CBC
- February 28, 2019, Ford government proposes to scrap controversial law placing ‘restrictions’ on development in northern Ontario, National Observer
- January 16, 2019, Liberal promises on Indigenous relationship ring hollow to activists, experts as protests continue, The Hill Times
- January 15, 2019, Cabinet Shuffle shows reconciliation dropping in priority for Trudeau, say Indigenous advocates, CBC
- January 12, 2019, Federal officials expected nationwide protest from RCMP action at Wet’suwet’en camp, CBC
- December 11, 2018, Indigenous advocates, and defender recognized with inaugural Art Manuel Awards, APTN
- November 26, 2018, First Nations self-government summit in Halifax to talk goals and processes, CBC
- November 15, 2018, “Ryerson rethinks the think tank—with an Indigenous focus,” Macleans
- November 06, 2018, Nations should look beyond blood-quantum and Indian Act to decide citizenship, Windspeaker
- November 02, 2018, Indigenous Research: A different way of doing things, Globe and Mail
- June 11, 2018, “Status Indians to disappear in 50 years unless First Nations move beyond Indian Act: Perry Bellegarde,” CBC News
- June 09, 2018, “Ep. 118: Canadas First-ever First Nations Think Tank,” Media Indigena w/Rick Harp (Podcast)
- June 06, 2018, “Canada’s first Indigenous-led think tank to focus on government legislation, self-governance,” CTV News (online)
- June 06, 2018,” New Indigenous think tank at Ryerson addresses “urgent need” for policy analysis,” academica group
- June 05, 2018, “Get to know Canada’s new Indigenous think tank,” tvo
- June 05, 2018, “Start paying attention’ to Indigenous rights legislation, First Nations warned,” Windspeaker
- June 05, 2018, “Ottawa’s promised Indigenous rights bill not as advertised, says report from new think tank,” CBC Indigenous
- June 04, 2018, “New think tank will promote Indigenous voices on policy and governance,” Alaska Highway News, The Canadian Press
- May 30, 2018, “New think tank aims to provide First Nations perspectives instead of a ‘white Indian expert’,” Toronto Star
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