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Michelle Cyca

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The Stark Reality Ten Years after the Truth and Reconciliation Report

The Stark Reality Ten Years after the Truth and Reconciliation Report

“We have to wonder: should we just abandon ‘reconciliation’ altogether?” The post The Stark Reality Ten Years after the Truth and...

29.09.2025 20

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Michelle Cyca

My Job as a Parent Is to Make My Kids’ Lives a Little Harder

Obstacle parenting is about cultivating focus and endurance, two skills lost in the ChatGPT era The post My Job as a Parent Is to Make My Kids’...

28.08.2025 10

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Michelle Cyca

Can You Be Sued for Saying Someone Isn’t Indigenous?

Two court cases could reshape public discourse on identity, fraud, and free speech in Canada The post Can You Be Sued for Saying Someone Isn’t...

23.06.2025 20

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Canada’s Sovereignty Crisis Feels All Too Familiar to First Nations

Indigenous voters matter. Does Mark Carney care? The post Canada’s Sovereignty Crisis Feels All Too Familiar to First Nations first appeared on The...

15.04.2025 10

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Sorry Not Sorry: The Art of Saying Nothing in Apology Statements

From corporate scandals to celebrity missteps, public contrition has lost all meaning The post Sorry Not Sorry: The Art of Saying Nothing in Apology...

28.02.2025 10

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An Acclaimed Canadian Playwright Faces Questions of Pretendianism

W orld War II is looming in Europe, but in Canada, a group of Indigenous children at a Northern Ontario residential school is putting on a...

28.10.2024 10

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Michelle Cyca

Social Media Is Helping Bring Indigenous Languages Back from the Brink

“T ansi, today we are going through some random phrases,” Julia Ouellette says to the camera. She holds up slips of paper with English words while...

30.09.2024 2

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Michelle Cyca

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“t ân’si, anohc kiwî-atoskâtenaw konta itwewina,” Julia Ouellette itwew cikâstepicikanihk. miciminam masinahikanekina emasinahikâtehki âkayâ...

30.09.2024 2

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Michelle Cyca

Poilievre’s Idea of Reconciliation Is a Mess

Published 7:44, Sep. 18, 2024 O n July 11, as Pierre Poilievre began his first in-person address to the Assembly of First Nations, a number of...

18.09.2024 2

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Is Summer Break Bad for Everyone?

T he last day of school is arguably the highlight of the year for kids. It’s also an ebullient milestone that fills parents with potent nostalgia...

26.08.2024 1

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Michelle Cyca

Kamala Harris’s Campaign Is Only Meme Deep. Can It Be Sustained?

I n retrospect, the signs were there in April, when Drew Barrymore looked deeply into the eyes of United States vice president Kamala Harris and...

19.08.2024 1

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Michelle Cyca