This cover, by the legendary Kent Monkman, says so much. All of my book covers hold meaning. This one, is a perfect companion to the inside pages. The Knowing is a book about the matriarchal line of my family, a book about finding our lost relations. If every First Nations, Métis

Last night at the UN Global #PlasticsTreaty negotiations, Janelle Nahmabin, council member of Aamjiwnaang First Nation, delivered a powerful speech urging govts to ensure stricter regulations, cut plastic production, & uphold #IndigenousRights . Steven Guilbeault Justin Trudeau

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This is the best prophetic speech of the 21st century by the excellent Naomi Klein. Leave everything you’re doing and watch it and watch it again and again.

Congratulations to the wonderful #TantooCardinal
Well deserved recognition of her years of excellence in acting and for paving the way for other Indigenous actors 🌟🙌🏽

Looking forward to welcoming Zelda Perkins to Ottawa on May 1st with Julie Macfarlane and colleagues from Can't Buy My Silence for meetings on my #CantBuySilence Bill S-261 and May 1 media conference w Kim Pate on next steps for #MeTooMovement

My Bill C-273 to repeal Section 43 of the criminal code which allows corporal punishment of children is in Justice Committee. We must join 65 other countries 2 abolish this 130 year old English common law that violates our constitutional rights of our children!

Fabulous and so deserving! Tantoo Cardinal is a living legend and example
for us all🧡

Province of Ontario should be fighting poverty with a #BasicIncome , instead fighting class-action lawsuit to justify restriction of UBI
Strong words well spoken
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The delay in appointing judges has gone on for too long. The consequences are ugly. Whatever the causes, this situation has to be fixed asap. #law #cdnpoli

Ottawa failing to meet Jordan's Principle deadlines for First Nations kids' care most of the time
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'She was angry. She said she could not understand why I would want to go on living. I told her to get out of my room. I can still see the disgust in her eyes. I hope she can still see the rage in mine.' G Peters 👩🏻‍🦽@mssinenomine.bsky.social policyoptions.irpp.org/magazines/apri…

1955, Montgomery Alabama
2024, Toronto, Ontario

Honouring the dignified thruline of Black women's resistance to white supremacy from Rosa Parks to Sarah Jama
Parks insisted on her right to sit in the front of the bus
Jama insists on the right to wear her keffiyeh at her job

The latest reporting from CBC on Canada's non-compliance with the Tribunal's orders on Jordan's Principle.

Read it here: cbc.ca/news/politics/…

The first letter I wrote to demand Canada to ask China to release Canadian citizen Huseyin Celil was in 2006. 18 years later and two primes later he is still in prison separated from his wife and children in Canada

In this week of negotiations of Global plastic treaty in Ottawa is pertinent to recirculate this oped and focusing on what is at stake
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These delays are preventable and puts children at serious risk. The First Nations Child & Family Caring Society and many First Nations and First Nations service providers have proposed solutions which were not properly implemented.

#StopBlockingMedication