This investigation was done in collaboration with ICT (formerly Indian Country Today), presenting data obtained from the First Nation and Inuit Health Branch of Indigenous Services Canada (FNIHBISC) for 2024. Read ICT’s story. Natalya Kate Chaylene Keeshig-Lisk was born in the spring of 2000, at the start of an Indigenous baby boom that swept through …
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How do Risk Assessment processes contribute to the overrepresentation of Indigenous people in Canada’s criminal justice system?
In 2019, an engagement process took place to discuss restoration of the place name of Dagin Giids Llnagaay, briefly known as Queen Charlotte Municipal Village. In this brief, McGuire analyzes and responds to the onslaught of racism present throughout the public engagement and its consequences.
Following the murder of Kristian Ayoungman, Robert Houle and Dallas Hunt analyze disturbing trends in violence against Indigenous people by the hands of settler Canadians, and the seeming impossibilities of justice.
The “well-being index” has been a bumpy ride for Indigenous peoples, since the decision on what and how to measure has led to misleading results and poor policy. Ethan Guthro outlines the challenges, and possibilities for indigenizing the metric.
As Laurentian cuts faculty, staff and entire degree programs, what about research at the university? In this brief, members of the LU Indigenous community raise current and future concerns of research collaborations with Indigenous partners.
Based in the Faculty of Arts at Toronto Metropolitan University.