by Bob Hall on Monday Feb 22 2021
Tanya Talaga is Ojibwe with roots in the Fort William First Nation in Ontario. A former journalist for the Toronto Star, award winning author and president of her own production company focused on Indigenous storytelling, Talaga will be featured in the March 4 virtual Truth & Justice Speaker Series presented by Selkirk College. Photo courtesy Selkirk College
Veteran journalist and acclaimed Ojibwe author Tanya Talaga will discuss the current state of Indigenous resurgence in Canada on March 4 as part of Selkirk College’s Truth & Justice Speaker Series.
A journalist at the
Toronto Star for more than 20 years, Talaga garnered national attention with the 2017 release of her first book
Buckingham Palace won’t be acting on a letter from Treaty Six chiefs to intervene in the selection of the Queen’s next stand-in to Canada, the Governor General. On Jan. 27, the Confederacy of Treaty Six First Nations wrote Queen Elizabeth II directly, expressing concern after the monarch’s representative former astronaut Julie Payette resigned six days earlier after a bombshell investigation found she presided over a “toxic” and abusive workplace. “Thanks for the enquiry,” the Queen’s own communications secretary Donal McCabe told Windspeaker.com in an email, “but this is a matter for the Canadian Government.” Payette’s unprecedented resignation the first time in Canada’s history, in fact led to her temporary replacement by Richard Wagner, the Supreme Court of Canada’s Chief Justice.
Winnipeg Free Press
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Protesters under the Not One More Death banner march toward the old courthouse ahead of the second day of the manslaughter trial for Brayden Bushby in Thunder Bay, Ont., Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2020. Bushby, 21, threw a trailer hitch at Barbara Kentner, a First Nations woman who died several months after the 2017 assault.
It was an all-too-familiar story, with an expected ending.
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It was an all-too-familiar story, with an expected ending.
In the early hours of Jan. 29, 2017, Barbara Kentner and her sister were walking to her nephew’s home in a Thunder Bay neighbourhood when a vehicle pulled up alongside.