In this Brief, Patricia Johnson-Castle examines how capitalist policy frameworks continue to shape life in Inuit Nunangat — often at odds with Inuit ways of living and community responsibility. She asks what it would mean to stop adapting Southern “solutions” and instead imagine public policy that reflects the realities, values, and scale of the North..
Ja’miil Millar reflects on her experience at Yellowhead’s Radical Policy School (Misko Aki Knowledge Exchange), sharing that hope is not passive—it’s a powerful practice, a survival instinct, and a collective force.
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In Pekuakamiulnuatsh Takuhikan, a majority of the Supreme Court of Canada held that Quebec breached the honour of the Crown in its negotiation of a funding agreement with the government of the Pekuakamiulnuatsh First Nation, and awarded the First Nation damages equal to the amount of the funding deficit created by Quebec’s breach. This case
On December 4, 2024, amendments to the Community Care and Recovery Act within Bill 223 received Royal Assent in the Ontario legislature. This move, made without expert or public consultation, will significantly impact the operation of Supervised Consumption Sites (also known as Safe Consumption Sites, or SCSs) in Ontario and, by extension, the safety of
Safety for Whom? Ontario’s War on Safe Consumption Sites is No Act of Care Read More »
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?
Based in the Faculty of Arts at Toronto Metropolitan University.