by Oscar Baker | Apr 26, 2018
Pressed up against a wall of black mats, Dee Logue wrestled another man’s shoulder out of his chin. After a five-minute round another man was pressed against Logue. Then another man.The eight o’clock workout was one of the last trainings of the day. At seven Logue was...
by Oscar Baker | Apr 11, 2018
I’m at my mothers wake. My heart still feels shattered. I’m a shell of myself with no time to mourn, I’m still trying to make sure all the guests are taken care of. I have to make sure my elders don’t slip on the icy driveway and steps. My sogi Vina (aunt) says a...
by Oscar Baker | Mar 28, 2018
It’s back to school for some Indigenous prison inmates who are learning critical thinking skills to help them navigate an increasingly complex digital media and financial environment once they are back in their communities. Ashley Nash and Karen Paul, who lead...
by Oscar Baker | Mar 13, 2018
Angee Acquin dreams one day of being a little old woman with traditional regalia and shawls hanging over head in her tent, her grandchildren running around and laughing in her home in St. Mary’s. But the 41-year-old youth support worker now worries that may not be the...
by Oscar Baker | Mar 13, 2018
People under oppression should be kind to one another because any form of oppression bends the soul. I hate seeing people use my family’s pain as stories to say Canada isn’t as oppressive to Indigenous people as the United States is to the Black population. My mother...
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