My pick of today’s best national stories as broadcast on Take 5, CIUT 89.5 FM this morning Canada talks tough to Iran Prime Minister Stephen Harper is calling the Iranian authorities reaction to peaceful protests against last week’s election results “wholly unacceptable” and denouncing the “use of brute force and intimidation” by authorities. He’s calling [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Aboriginal’
April 23, 2009
Beaver trapping in Northern Ontario
Stripped of their tail, fur and legs, the six small beaver strung up side-by-side over the open fire look remarkably like the small pig carcasses commonly dissected in high school biology classes. “They’re done when the blood stops dripping,” says Leonard Naveau, who cooks the meat slowly over four hours, watching as it turns from [...]
November 30, 2008
pow wow @ toronto’s aboriginal festival
Hundreds of dancers from native bands stretching from British Columbia to Maine tapped out to the beat of drum today at the Canadian Aboriginal Festival. The Grand Entry for was led by her highness, Buffy Ste. Marie, (CBC archives just posted some retro clips of Ste. Marie from as early as 1966, including a live [...]
October 16, 2007
The Adventure diaries part 3: skywater
“Try a different angle, it’s hard to see,” Alice directed from her tent as I snapped away. I was trying to capture the glistening spiders’ webs in the morning mist. Alice had noticed them as she soon she stepped out of her tent. It’d been an eventful night. A bear tore into her tent, marking her with [...]
September 20, 2007
The Adventure diaries: Part 2 – Masawajo
We awoke to a cold, misty morning on Mattagami River. I squeezed some toothpaste onto my brush and took a glass of cold well water outside to brush my teeth. The others started emerging from their tents and trailers to the cabin after Leonard put on a pot of coffee. The air was thick with [...]
