Wawatay News published out of Thunder Bay is one of the biggest Aboriginal weekly newspapers in the country — and this week, they published my story on trapping beaver with Leonard and Larry Naveau for Mattagami First Nation’s annual Beaver Fest. Read the whole story here. Or take a look at my pictures from the [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘ethical living’
July 6, 2009
Shane Belcourt’s Toronto on blogTO
Ever struggle with coming out of your parent’s shadows? Try having a father who is one of the most famous Aboriginal activists and thinkers in Canada. But filmmaker and musician Shane Belcourt has done better than most. Find out how the Ottawa-born native lives his life in Toronto – he’s the latest subject for my [...]
April 30, 2009
Girl Guides of Canada on its deathbed and it’s killing me inside
When I heard the news that the Girl Guides of Canada have lost 40 percent of their members in the last ten years, I felt kind of sad. It’s slightly hypocritical of me to mourn the death of this 100-year-old citizen building organization though. I followed my older sister into Brownies (they didn’t have Sparks [...]
December 8, 2008
Best winter purchase ever.
It’s minus 13 in Toronto and I left my house before light, cycling about 15 minutes to the radio show where I volunteer. The face-slapping chill provided a caffeine-free wake-up call but the rest of me was warm and toasty. Mostly thanks to the best winter buy ever — my new Sorels. Cheesily dubbed Joan [...]
May 27, 2008
Indians in Toronto
Here’s a shameless plug for a blog post I just wrote on The Walrus. Inspired by Kent Monkman’s Miss Chief Eagle Testickle: a Portrait in the May issue of the magazine, I set out to discover how far Canada has come in its imagining of the Indian as stoic brave sporting requisite headdress and war [...]
