Jason C. McLean and Dawn McSweeney welcome Samantha Gold to talk about the 2022 Quebec Election: Legault’s bigotry, youth voter turnout, QS and smaller leftist […]
Tag: Native Issues
FTB Weekends: January 6th Hearings in the US, the Current Meaning of Canada Day and Dog Import Ban
Jason C. McLean and Dawn McSweeney discuss some of wilder stories coming out of the January 6th Hearings in the US, reconciling Canada Day with […]
FTB Fridays 06/18/2021: Quebec’s Second Dose, Canada Day Post-215 & More with Special Guest Jay Manafest
A News Roundup FTB Fridays with host Jason C. McLean and special guest political emcee and filmmaker Jay Manafest. They discuss: Quebec’s second vaccine dose, […]
Protests in Solidarity With Wet’suwet’en Continue
The history of colonization is dark. Indigenous peoples of Canada have been facing discrimination and racism since European setters began to occupy their land in […]
There’s Another March in Montreal This Sunday Because Police Racism Isn’t Just An American Problem
Last Sunday, approximately 10 000 people took to the streets of Montreal demanding justice for George Floyd and all the other victims of racist police […]
Three Way Agreement Marks Steps Forward For Traditional Wet’suwet’en Land Rights
“We have a lot of work ahead of us, a lot of catching up to do,” said Chief Gisday’wa. “A hundred and fifty years of […]
Canadian Human Rights Tribunal’s Deadline Forces Justin Trudeau to Reveal He Doesn’t Really Care About First Nations Kids During an Election Campaign
Justin Trudeau’s Liberal Government is fighting the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal’s ruling that Ottawa compensate First Nations children taken from their families under the On-Reserve […]
A Project of Collective Healing: A Look at Montreal Commissioner for Indigenous Affairs Marie-Ève Bordeleau
The administration of newly elected mayor Valérie Plante is off to a good start. She cancelled the traffic-inducing ridiculously expensive publicity stunt called the “Formula […]
Erasing History on the Pretense of Preserving Privacy: Why the Supreme Court of Canada is Allowing the Destruction of Records of Residential School Abuse
One of the ways to persecute is to rob people of their history. This was done by male historians seeking to undervalue the contributions of […]
Today is Not National Indigenous Day
On Wednesday indigenous artists and community organizers lead the festivities across the country. In Montreal, there was the obligatory event at tourist-heavy Place des Arts […]