Northern Ontario Travel • 5th April 2021

Think Outside the Teapot

Thunder Bay-based Tea Horse is blazing a culinary trail with Indigenous teas made from wild rice.

Toronto Life • 25th March 2021

"The pilot won’t let you on the plane if you're not dressed for survival": This Toronto doctor travelled to Northern Ontario to vaccinate people in fly-in Indigenous reserves

Suzanne Shoush, a long-time family physician at St. Michael’s Hospital, was selected to take part in Ornge’s Operation Remote Immunity initiative, joining staff and physicians to vaccinate members of 31 First Nations communities in Northern Ontario. Here’s what the experience was like.

The Local • 8th March 2021

A Year of Indigenous People Helping Indigenous People

In the middle of a pandemic, with multiple crises devastating their community, Nanook Gordon and Brianna Olson Pitawanakwat started a grassroots organization to bring compassion, aid, and culture to Indigenous people on Toronto’s streets.

FLARE • 7th December 2020

How 'Letterkenny' Got Indigenous Representation So Right

Ahead of the Canadian comedy's ninth season, writer Kelly Boutsalis explores how a show by non-Indigenous creators manages to respectfully—and accurately—represent Indigenous culture

CBC • 2nd December 2020

Wearable art, metallic fringe, tie-dye sweatsuits: The looks from the 2020 edition of Indigenous Fashion Week | Life

The second biennial Indigenous Fashion Week Toronto (IFWTO) focused on water, from depictions that celebrated women as water carriers to models holding aloft "Water is Life" protest signs.

FASHION Magazine • 27th November 2020

How Kelly Boutsalis is Passing on Indigenous Design Traditions

Kelly Boutsalis shares what inspired her to start purchasing Indigenous-made pieces to pass on to her little girl.

Chatelaine • 23rd November 2020

Why the Wet’suwet’en Matriarchs Are Women of the Year

The Wet’suwet’en matriarchs are Women of the Year for standing up for unceded lands. Here, matriarch Freda Huson shares her own highlight from this highly eventful year.

Audubon • 19th November 2020

For These Cree First Nations, Canada Geese Are Central to Cultural Revival

In Northern Canada, Indigenous traditions surrounding the annual spring waterfowl hunt have stayed resilient to challenges.

CAA Magazine • 13th November 2020

Expand Your Knowledge of Indigenous Culture in Canada

Learn more about the Indigenous experience through first hand accounts from storytellers, journalists and artists.

The Narwhal • 20th September 2020

The art of fire: reviving the Indigenous craft of cultural burning

Indigenous Peoples have managed their lands with fire since time immemorial. But colonizers criminalized the practice, leading to a loss of culture and an increase in the risk of wildfires. Now, a small but mighty group of people is revitalizing the craft Yunesit’in Chief Russell Myers Ross stands in a clearing surrounded by seared pine trees in Tsilhqot’in territory in central B.C. on a crisp, sunny spring day.

Elle Canada • 10th September 2020

Michelle Latimer Puts Indigenous Stories Front and Centre at TIFF 2020

Métis-Algonquin director Michelle Latimer has two projects premiering at the 2020 Toronto International Film Festival: the CBC television series Trickster and documentary Inconvenient Indian. While the series and film are each based on books – Trickster is a riff on the gripping Eden Robinson book Son of a Trickster and the doc is born from Thomas King’s The Inconvenient Indian – the two separate projects evolved into a kind of a call and a response of each other.

The Walrus • 10th August 2020

Teaching Indigenous Star Stories

Educators like Wilfred Buck know that astronomy did not, in fact, start with Aristotle and end with Neil DeGrasse Tyson

The Kit • 1st July 2020

Christian Allaire Is a New Kind of Vogue Editor

Christian Allaire is rewriting the rules of fashion journalism. Allaire, who is Ojibway, is the fashion and style writer at Vogue. When his first Indigenous-focused fashion article for the venerable fashion title, “How 6 Indigenous Designers Are Using Fashion to Reclaim Their Future” went live, Indigenous people sent him a over a hundred tweets, DMs and comments. “It opened the floodgates. I started receiving a ton of pitches and started being introduced to so many great new artists and designe

Find Your Pleasure • 23rd June 2020

The Burden Of My Truth

This is clearly not a pleasurable topic, but it’s presently unescapable. Across the internet, news, social media and socially distanced conversations, the topic of racism is everywhere, as it should be. I’ve made a point of my journalism career to highlight and lift up Indigenous voices, to keep things positive and show off incredible achievements and spirit. Right now I’m wondering if that is enough.

Elle Canada • 22nd May 2020

Indigenous Artists Are Creating Boundary-Pushing Pieces That Inspire Strength and Healing

While Mainstream media has been slow to hear this appeal, a tide of Indigenous female artists are responding by smashing stereotypes and taking ownership of their own sexuality in their work. Crafting provocative pieces – from beaded BDSM masks to burlesque performances centred around residential schools – these creatives are striving to make space for positive representations of our bodies and sensuality by producing art that can help heal both the viewer and the maker.

Chatelaine • 21st April 2020

Water Is Life: Indigenous Women Are Fighting For Rivers, Lakes and Oceans

Our most precious resource faces endless threats, including pollution, resource extraction and for-profit bottling. Across Canada, these women are trying to protect it. Makaśa Looking Horse, Six Nations of the Grand River (near Brantford, Ont.) “Knowing that my community doesn’t have clean drinking water, and then a large corporation like Nestlé is making billions off of our water is maddening,” says Makaśa Looking Horse.

 enRoute • 26th February 2020

Head to Halifax for the 2020 North American Indigenous Games

More than 5,000 athletes from across North America will compete in Atlantic Canada’s largest multisport event.

Now Magazine • 13th February 2020

Yolanda Bonnell's bug is an enthralling journey into Indigenous women's lives

BUG by Yolanda Bonnell (Manidoons Collective/Theatre Passe Muraille/Native Earth Performing Arts). At Theatre Passe Muraille (16 Ryerson). Runs to February 22. $17-$38. 416-504-7529, passemuraille.ca. See listing. Rating: Yolanda Bonnell’s solo show bug is an enthralling journey into the struggles of two Indigenous women – and their vices. The character we spend the most time with is the Girl, who starts out naive and hopeful, full of love for fireflies and wishing she, too, could glow.

West End Phoenix • 16th January 2020

STRONG MEDICINE FOR AN AILING SYSTEM

Racism in doctors’ offices and emergency rooms is a fact of life for Indigenous people living in the GTA. But this trio of women – a communications mastermind, a doctor and strategist, and an Elder in residence – have set out to change that Several years ago, Joy Henderson was at home alone, indulging in a rare nap, when a cyst in her ovary ruptured. As her symptoms intensified, her in-laws happened to drop in, and they drove her to Scarborough General Hospital.

Parade • 26th November 2019

25 Inspiring Indigenous American Activist Accounts to Follow to Learn About Indigenous People, Issues and Life

While Instagram can often show the glossy side of life—the beautiful vacations, the impeccable farm homes, and private jet life—it also offers the opportunity to gain knowledge about un-glossy, but important issues.