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MEDIA INDIGENA 72

On this week's Indigenous podcast:

The first in a two-part conversation confronting the confusion and  contention around what it means to be Métis. 

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MEDIA INDIGENA 71

How Boring Bureaucracy Enables Inhumane Inequity in Canada

This week's episode represents a bit of a mid-summer break from our regular format as we take a deep dive into the fiscal infrastructure of Canadian colonialism. 

As technocratic as that sounds, our gue...

MEDIA INDIGENA 70

On this week's Indigenous roundtable... 

Tempest in a teepee: Indigenous water protectors fought for and won the right to set up a 2017-07-09 07:40:43 +0000 UTC View Post

How we reached our $1000 milestone... until we didn't

To the people who sustain this podcast, I thought it would be good to share a short note so as to allay any potential confusion about us recently reaching our $1000 milestone... and then not.

As I write this, we actually sit at $944 from 97 patrons. What happened? Well, basically, some people deci...

MEDIA INDIGENA 69

On this week's roundtable: is the state of Indigenous health care plagued by ill will?

Some might think so in Alberta, where a pair of provincial employees were pu...

MEDIA INDIGENA 68

On this week's Indigenous roundtable:

When words fail... especially after one hears about the enormous equity gap in federal funding between French and Inuit languages i...

MEDIA INDIGENA 67

On this week's Indigenous roundtable:

Why things aren't okay in Thunder Bay. In the wake of two more Indigenous teens found dead in t...

MEDIA INDIGENA 66

This week: Questioning curious carriages of justice in Canadian courts.

Questions like, how is it that a victim of a brutal assault  in Alberta not only gets locke...

MEDIA INDIGENA 65

On this week's Indigenous roundtable: 

Outrageous outfits / A group of Alberta students host a controversial "Cowboys & India...

MEDIA INDIGENA / ep 64

This week, an extended conversation with two of the people behind 'Unsettling Canada 150.' 

Planned for the exact same date as Canada Day—July 1—this national, Indigenous-led day of action will serve as a coun...

MEDIA INDIGENA 63

On this week’s roundtable: 

Sensationalizing suicide? We recount the critiques of 13 Reasons Why, the Netflix teen drama that's sparked 2017-05-22 05:25:25 +0000 UTC View Post

MEDIA INDIGENA / ep 62

Ep. 62: What could BC Election 2017 mean for Indigenous peoples?

This week, a breakdown of the BC election, the result of which is still up in the air, leaving Indigenous peoples with all sorts of questions. 

Questions like which would be better or worse for their inter...

ep 61 / MEDIA INDIGENA

How Canada's first Indigenous policy was founded on famine / Ep. 61

On this week's podcast, a break from our usual roundtable, as we re-visit my 2014 interview with James Daschuk, author of 2017-05-07 01:49:03 +0000 UTC View Post

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This  week's roundtable tries to unpack some recent legal and political  developments in the area of Indian Status, in particular, its  long-standing, some say intentional, sexism.

First, we delve into an Indigenous woman's 30-year-plus court battle to  regain her Indian ...

Ep 59 / MEDIA INDIGENA

This week: Transportation Troubles. 

In Saskatchewan, a recent government budget announced the shutdown of the STC, a provincial bus service that critic...

MEDIA INDIGENA ep 58

This  week, a double dive into recent moves by Health Canada: 

First, its decision to fund the cost of a...

Ep. 57, MEDIA INDIGENA

 On this week's Indigenous roundtable:

Colonial Editorial: Why people like ex-TRC head Murray Sinclair are outraged by a 2017-04-08 18:50:17 +0000 UTC View Post

Ep. 56, MEDIA INDIGENA

On this week's Indigenous roundtable, we examine mainstream Canadian media and reconciliation. When the Truth and Reconciliation Commission issued its nearly 100 Calls to Action back in late 2015, the fourth estate was among the institutions encouraged to take up those calls. 

It's been well ...

Ep. 55, MEDIA INDIGENA

On this week's roundtable: 

Federal foot-dragging: the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal ordered feds to stop underfunding child welfare on-reserve back in 2016. So 2017-03-25 20:30:57 +0000 UTC View Post

Ep. 54, MEDIA INDIGENA

On this week's Indigenous roundtable: 

Do growing calls for tougher laws deliberately target some more than others? A look at the apparent push to increasingly criminalize Aboriginal behaviour by non-Aboriginal interests. Plus, how a disproportionate number of Indigenous people throughout Can...

Broken Link Fix: Sustainers Survey

Apparently, I messed up with my last message's link to the survey. Please copy and paste this into your browser or just click below.

https://mrrickharp.typeform.com/to/PUueSM 

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FINAL Reminder: Sustainers Survey

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A few weeks ago, I sent out a link asking MEDIA INDIGENA sustainers like you to please take a moment to share things you like about the show and what you think about our ideas for its future. (Some of you seeing th...

Ep. 53, MEDIA INDIGENA Roundtable

This week on our Indigenous current affairs roundtable: 

Attention Status Indian men—do you have sperm to spare? Some women on Craigslist hope you'll consider making w...

Liberals Fail to Fix First Nations Fire & Water Services Gap / ep 52

On this week's Indigenous roundtable: fire and water. 

A new Toronto Star investigation into the overall state of First Nations fire prevention and protection in...

MEDIA INDIGENA, Ep. 51, "Indigenous Institutionalization"

Ep. 51: Indigenous Institutionalization, Then and Now

This week on the podcast, two troubling stories of Indigenous institutionalization. 

The first comes from an Ontario jail where 9 out of 10 inmates are Aboriginal. The second centers on a young First Nations man whos...

60s Scoop Survivors' Legal Victory; Is it time for an Indigenous-led political party? / Ep 50

On this week's Indigenous roundtable…

Success for Survivors: Despite attempts by both the Harper Conservatives and the Trudeau Liberals to keep former adoptees out of Ontario courts, not only was their Sixties Scoop class-action suit heard, they won. What could it mean for simil...

Indigenous Activists Actively Monitored; Hereditary Rivalry / ep 49

On this week's Indigenous roundtable:

Women on the watchlist: Why were rallies and marches in support of an inquiry into missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls on the radar of Canada's national security apparatus?





Inherited issues: Rival...

Indigenous Women's Inquiry to Include Men; Battle Over BC Street Name / ep 48

 On this week's Indigenous roundtable: 

Make room for men—We try to decipher recent revelations that the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls will examine "ways in which the testimonies and stories of men and boys might be collected," s...

'Race War' Rhetoric in Manitoba; Debating Downside of Donations to First Nations / ep 47

This week, we discuss a western Canadian premier's racializing of the contentious issue of night-time moose hunting: could his hyperbole put Aboriginal people in the...