Unsettling the original injustice
By Andrée Forest. First published in The Monitor Nov/Dec issue
Land back. Two words simple in premise and profound in meaning. These two words get at the essence of the original injustice between our three oceans: the separation of nations from their homelands. Interweaving movements spanning generations, land back is a longstanding request and a growing chorus for redress. Land back is at the heart of demands for justice, restitution, and self-determination of Indigenous Peoples. The root idea is relatively simple: returning land to Indigenous stewardship. But it means much, much more.
By Katherine Burley and Ian Hudson
The City of Winnipeg’s financial problems preceded both COVID and the cuts under the current provincial government. State of the City of Winnipeg Finances 2001 – 2021 shows how Winnipeg has been starving itself of revenues, and its citizens of services, for the past two decades. This report is a precursor to the Winnipeg Alternative Municipal Budget, a community budget as if all Winnipeggers mattered, written by local experts, due out Spring 2022.
Previously published by CBC online November 21, 2021
By Jim Silver
Previously published in The Manitoban November 17, 2021
By Jesse Hajer
On December 16th at 7pm:
Aimée Craft, Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa
Treaty 1: Being of the Land
After seven generations (150 years) of rocky treaty implementation of Treaty One, we need to consider what it means to be meaningfully in treaty relationships – between each other and with this territory.
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