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Archive for the ‘First Nations’ Category
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From Igloos, To Microwaves
Abbygail Noah was driven south from Nunavut by a desire for an education, and by the high food prices in the north, where 70% of the population is food insecure.
Abbygail blames the high cost of food on changes in…
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Ain’t idle no more
From Winnipeg gangbanger to Keystone Cop, Clayton Thomas-Müller’s life story reads like a paint-by-the-numbers, Hollywood movie script.
Brought up by a single mother (“poppa was a rolling stone”), in and out of over 40 schools by Grade Eight, incarcerated in…
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Welcome to Kettlehell
Well, that’s what the sign welcoming participants to a weekly kettlebell class at the Odawa Native Friendship Centre should have read.
Leaving a trail of melting slush behind me Hansel-and-Gretel style, I ventured into the centre’s gymnasium. The drab monotones…
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Keystone Cop
Eco-warrior. Raconteur. Environmental tub-thumper.
Clayton Thomas-Müller is all of these – and may I say, an all-round nice guy.
He’s spearheading the Canadian-based protest against the proposed Alberta-Texas Keystone XL pipeline.
I’m sure we’ve all been following this issue in…
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Whose side are you on?
Over one hundred protestors were arrested Monday afternoon as they scaled makeshift security fences on Parliament Hill in protest against the proposed Keystone XL pipeline.
The demonstration, which took place amidst heightened security, was held to oppose TransCanada’s proposed $7-billion,…
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Can’t do business with the locals – then don’t do business
Imagine the regulatory side of mining as a two-cogged mechanism. One of these cogged gears represents the mining industry, the other the government. These two gears have been turning together for a long time. Now add a third cog representing…
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There’s enough arsenic down there to kill every living thing on the planet
Saying the mining industry started off on the wrong foot in the Northwest Territories is something of an understatement.
The Giant Mine, just outside of Yellowknife, used large quantities of arsenic in the processing of gold ore from the 1930s…
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Overwhelmed, under-resourced and increasingly agitated
The vast 5,120-square-kilometre Ring of Fire in northern Ontario is seen by many as the solution to the province’s sagging economy. Discovered in 2006, the region encapsulates a massive deposit of chromite – a key and rare mineral used in…
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Killing the golden goose
We’ve all played the game Risk as kids. We all know that a successful campaign of strategizing, negotiating and battling starts with capturing Australia. Yet in playing this game of conquest, scant attention is paid to how these running skirmishes…