Indigenous Voices

<p>Mi’kmaw artist and University of New Brunswick alumni Robin Paul created her popular orange t-shirt design to represent Indigenous communities in New Brunswick and to start a conversation about truth and reconciliation education. The shirts will be worn across the country on the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation on Sept. 30. “That was quite [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Theo Saulis remembers looking up at the remains of Shingwauk Indian Residential School, located in Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., during a visit to the site in 2016. On the roof, a rusted steeple rose into the overcast sky. From 1935 to 1970, the four-storey brick building housed Indigenous children to strip them of their heritage [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Even though I’m in the final year of my undergraduate degree, I can still remember how scary first year was. I moved to a new city where I didn&#8217;t know anyone. I missed my family, friends and most of all, my community. Since then, my life has been filled with many ups and downs. I [&hellip;]</p>

<p>As an Indigenous person in Canada, through our treaty rights and other agreements, we have different privileges “bestowed” upon us by the federal government. Some of these privileges include hunting and fishing rights, tax exemption in some cases and having our tuition paid for by Indigenous Affairs and Northern Development Canada. To some people, this [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Being called Métis is plain to me, a representation of the hypocrisy hidden in Canadian democracy ever since 1763. This is why I represent my grievance poetically in order to represent it in the same language&#8217;s valency that justified this colony. Because we need new transparency in the constituency that is upheld by Canadian constitutional [&hellip;]</p>

<p>On Jan. 25, the student newspaper of University of New Brunswick Saint John, The Baron, published an unedited interview with Michael Thurlow, leader of the National Socialist Canadian Labour Revival Party. A lengthy unedited letter to the editor written by Thurlow was also published. This was in response to the racist, anti-Semitic, anti-immigrant posters that were [&hellip;]</p>