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Land Protectors Occupy Natural Resource Minister’s Office

Though framed as anti-pipeline protests, Wet’suwet’en reveals deeper national conflicts—what Minister Carolyn Bennett called “150 years of broken promises.”

Meagan Campbell

March 4, 2020

# reconciliation

Arts & Culture Interview Longread

“What is a Story For?”: Michelle Porter, Journalist-Poet

Michelle Porter talks with the Indy about her debut book of poems, writing with purpose, journalism's place in her poetry, & her favourite Métis literature.

November 4, 2019

Commentary To Each Their Own

Where next in the fight over Muskrat Falls and rate mitigation?

August 8, 2018

Muskrat Falls resistance growing across Canada

Embattled hydro megaproject is a test of the federal government’s commitment to reconciliation and internationally recognized rights of Indigenous peoples, say organizers.

October 4, 2017

We are not political tools

Politicians need to stop tokenizing and exploiting racialized and Indigenous people for political gain.

September 18, 2017

No school for old (genocidal) men

There can be no reconciliation without truth. And the truth is, John A. MacDonald's legacy is tainted with Indigenous blood and tears.

September 2, 2017

Hunter vows to continue fighting Muskrat Falls

Inuk grandmother and land protector confronts premier as Nalcor delays plans to lower Muskrat Falls reservoir levels contrary to leaders’ agreement.

June 14, 2017

Support growing for Beatrice Hunter

Protests in Happy Valley-Goose Bay, St. John’s, Rigolet and Ottawa cap off a week of calls from across Canada for the release of incarcerated Inuk…

June 8, 2017

I choose not to be assimilated and oppressed: Beatrice Hunter

Inuk grandmother and land protector speaks out from Her Majesty’s Penitentiary.

June 3, 2017

To Each Their Own

Free Beatrice Hunter

The Inuk land protector and grandmother is not a threat. She's a political prisoner.

June 1, 2017

Inuit grandmother jailed after refusing to stay away from Muskrat Falls

"I have to be brave for her," says 23-year-old son of Beatrice Hunter, who is described as a "family-oriented" person who would "never hurt a…

May 31, 2017

Truth first, then reconciliation

Some say the premier must do more to understand the lived experiences of Indigenous people and communities in this province if he is sincere about…

May 27, 2017

Budget 2017 poised to increase inequality in N.L., critics say

Are the Liberals trying to balance the books at the expense of the province's most vulnerable?

April 8, 2017