Ottawa has left the outdated 2009 Discover Canada booklet in place, pushing the work of teaching reconciliation to newcomers onto underfunded community educators.
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Section 141 of the act was used to surveil and intimidate Indigenous leaders and weaken Indigenous political organizing.
By providing a more expansive ‘Little House’ world, the show respects Wilder’s writing while redressing racist depictions.
Changes to Canada’s immigration system have dramatically reduced legal pathways towards permanent residency based on myths about the impact of immigrants on Canadian society.
From violence to rescue, settler practices involving donkeys are increasingly entangled with Palestinian dispossession.
Long before today’s decline in alcohol consumption, rum played a central role in Canada’s economy, shaping labour relations in the fisheries and fur trade.
A new book explores the country’s history, from world famous rock art to colonial genocide and the struggle for freedom.
Canada must act to support Indigenous governing autonomy and capacity in education and other matters, and also to reform public schooling.
Community-based research led by the Tsleil-Waututh Nation offers insight into how colonization has impacted the waters around Vancouver.
Like the beaver it nearly wiped out, HBC made Canada into its home by fundamentally transforming its environment, and no bankruptcy court will liquidate that legacy.
Churches cannot repent for their long-standing history of anti-Judaism and antisemitism by remaining silent on Zionist ethnonationalism and the oppression of Palestinians.
Frybread — a simple, versatile “comfort food” for many Indigenous communities — embodies the contradictions that have dictated Indigenous food and health in North America since colonization.
On July 4, 1891, Oklahoman farmer Oscar Weber Bilby served his neighbors the very first hamburgers on buns.
Limiting who public space is for and how it can be used is central to settler colonialism both in Canada and other settler colonial places. Here’s how it’s used to silence and criminalize dissent.
Indigenous and critical race approaches to narratives of the Middle Ages help reveal more accurate histories, and combat the misuses of ‘the medieval’ for hate.
The Settlers of Catan codified a certain kind of game play based on the history of settler colonialism.
A scholar of Native American and Indigenous rhetorics writes about the harm done to Native American nations through colonization and what can be done to reduce it.
Labour is the central theme for understanding history and legacies of Mount Elgin Industrial School, a former Indian Residential School, in a new exhibition at Art Windsor Essex.
Contrary to what some ‘denialists’ believe, research shows that Canadian media outlets did not help circulate a ‘mass grave hoax’ regarding unmarked graves at former Indian Residential Schools.
The word shows that language isn’t static, it evolves to reflect developments in a society.
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