Podcasts by MEDIA INDIGENA : Indigenous current affairs

Ep. 79: Meet the MEDIA INDIGENA Roundtable from 2017-09-11T08:38:36

This week's Indigenous roundtable gets up close and personal with the people behind the show. AListen

Ep. 78: Has Canada Cut Indian Affairs in Half or Cloned it? from 2017-09-05T00:23:18

Double the fun or double trouble? Seemingly out of nowhere, the federal Liberals have decided to re-arrange the political furniture as part of a late summer shuffl...

Ep. 77: Ottawa's new Indigenous court; Australia's cashless welfare cards; Iqaluit's first liquor store from 2017-08-28T03:33:18

Ottawa gets a new, Indigenous-only courtroom, but does the evidence support the move? Why ...

Ep. 76: Charlottesville, Guam and the 'Eskimos' of Edmonton from 2017-08-21T00:10:49

This week... Why Indigenous people totally relate to recent violence over icons of intolerance in Charlottesville, Virginia; w Listen

Ep. 75: Child welfare's links to homelessness; BC overdose data; What is "authentic" Indigenous art? from 2017-08-13T06:14:59

This week's Indigenous roundtable: a new study seems to solidify the link between homelessness and contact with the child welfare system; new data reveals a dispro...

Ep. 74: Starvation, Experimentation, Segregation, Trauma: Indigenous Health History from 2017-08-06T21:57:32

This week: Starvation, experimentation, segregation and trauma—to Mary Jane McCallum, these four words are critical concepts for any stu...

Ep. 73: White Settler Revisionism and Making Métis Everywhere (Part 2) from 2017-07-29T17:00

This week... the conclusion to our conversation with the authors of the recent article, "White Settler Revisionism and Making Métis Everywhere: T...

Ep. 72: White Settler Revisionism and Making Métis Everywhere (Pt. 1) from 2017-07-23T23:14:18

This week… the first in a two-part conversation that confronts the confusion and contention around what it means to be Métis. In their new articl...

Ep. 71: How Boring Bureaucracy Enables Inhumane Inequity in Canada from 2017-07-15T20:52:16

This week… a bit of a mid-summer break from our regular format as we take a deep dive into the fiscal infrastructure of colonialis...

Ep. 70: Tempest in a Teepee on Parliament Hill; Pressure at the Press Gallery from 2017-07-09T07:19:54

This week... tempest in a teepee: Indigenous people fight to set up a ceremonial camp on Parliament Hill for Canada Day. Did their actions shine a light on the con...

Ep. 69: How governmental ill will continues to plague Indigenous health care from 2017-07-02T19:11:07

This week, is the state of Indigenous health care plagued by governmental ill will? Some might think so in Alberta, where a p...

Ep. 68: Language Funding Inequity Irks Inuit; Google Maps Adds Indigenous Communities from 2017-06-25T22:50:30

This week... When words fail: Especially when one hears about the enormous equity gap in federal funding between French and Inuit languages in Nunavut. Plus... Put...

Ep. 67: Why It's Not Okay in Thunder Bay for Indigenous Youth; Does Canada/AFN MOU Go Too Far? from 2017-06-18T01:21:57

This week: why things aren't okay in Thunder Bay. In the wake of two more Indigenous teens found dead in this northwestern Ontario city’s waterways, their home Fir...

Ep. 66: Assault victim forced to testify in chains and cuffs; Inuk granny jailed for opposing mega-dam from 2017-06-10T23:32:37

This week: Questioning curious carriages of justice in Canadian courts. Questions like, how is it that a <...

Ep. 65: High-schoolers' "Cowboys&Indians" party; Diabetic dumped off bus from 2017-06-03T17:00

This week... outrageous outfits: A group of Alberta students host a controversial "Cowboys & Indians" costume graduation party. Plus, rough ride: a northern Manito...

Ep. 64: Idle No More National Day of Action, 'Unsettling Canada 150' from 2017-05-29T08:47:58

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, Indi...

Ep. 63: Does '13 Reasons Why' sensationalize suicide? Aboriginal authors on the curriculum from 2017-05-22T05:22:17

On this week’s roundtable: sensationalizing suicide? We recount ...

Ep. 62: What could BC Election 2017 mean for Indigenous peoples? from 2017-05-14T21:42:45

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...

Ep 61: How Canada's first Indigenous policy was founded on famine from 2017-05-07T00:56:22

This week, an extended interview with James Daschuk, author of Clearing the Plains: Disease, Politics of Starvation, and the Loss of Aboriginal Life. The ...

Ep. 60: Canada's Sexist Status Indian System from 2017-04-29T17:00

THIS WEEK: We delve into an Indigenous woman's 30-year-plus court battle to regain her Listen

Ep. 59: Transportation troubles threaten to leave Indigenous people stranded from 2017-04-22T20:04:52

This week: Transportation Troubles. In Saskatchewan, a recent government budget announced the shutdown of the STC, a provincial bus service that critics say is a l...

Ep. 58: How Health Canada Misdiagnoses the Needs of Indigenous Peoples from 2017-04-15T17:00

This week, a double dive into recent moves by Health Canada: first, its decision to fund the cost of a travel companion for pregnant Indigenous w...

Ep.57: Is the Globe and Mail Guilty of Whitesplaining? Third-Party (Mis)Management from 2017-04-08T18:49:28

THIS WEEK / Colonial Editorial: Why people like ex-TRC head Murray Sinclair are outraged by a Globe and Mail op-ed rejecting the idea that South Africa's ...

Ep. 56: Has the Mainstream Media Acted on Calls to Promote Reconciliation? from 2017-04-03T18:29:21

On this week's Indigenous roundtable, we examine mainstream Canadian media and reconciliation. When the Truth and Reconciliation Commission issued its nearly 100 C...

Ep. 55: Why Canada fights funding equity for First Nations kids; Dysfunction at Department of Indigenous Affairs Canada from 2017-03-25T20:26:14

On this week's roundtable: Federal foot-dragging. The Canadian Human Rights Tribunal ordered feds to stop underfunding child welfa...

Ep. 54: The Crime of Being Indigenous; Food Sovereignty Starved of Support from 2017-03-18T17:00

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 crim...

Ep. 53: Sisters Seeking Status Sperm; Push-back on Patriotism from 2017-03-11T19:17:29

This week—Attention Status Indian men: do you have sperm to spare? Some women on Craigslist are hoping you'll consider making what might...

Ep. 52: Liberals Fail to Fix First Nations Fire&Water Services Gap from 2017-03-05T17:58:37

On this week's Indigenous roundtable: fire and water. A new investigation into the overall state of First Nations fire prevention and protection in Canada paints a...

Ep. 51: Indigenous Institutionalization, Then and Now from 2017-02-25T19:08:52

This week, two troubling stories of Indigenous institutionalization. The first comes to us from an Ontario jail where 9 out of 10 inmates are Aboriginal—and 10 out...

Ep. 50: Sixties Scoop Survivors' Legal Victory; Is it time for an Indigenous-led political party? from 2017-02-20T22:30:55

On this week's Indigenous roundtable… Success for Survivors: Despite attempts by both the Harper Conservatives and the Trudeau Liberals to keep fo...

Ep. 49: Indigenous Activists Actively Monitored; Hereditary Rivalry from 2017-02-11T02:11:10

This week, it's Women on the Watchlist: why were rallies in support of an inquiry into missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls on the radar of Canada's nat...

Ep. 48: Indigenous Women's Inquiry to Include Men; Battle Over BC Street Name from 2017-02-03T22:42

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 ...

Ep. 47: 'Race War' Rhetoric in Manitoba; Debating Downside of Donations to First Nations from 2017-01-28T21:53:50

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

Ep. 46: Arthur Manuel's Legacy; Liberals Transparent Backtrack on TRC Call to Action from 2017-01-23T04:03:40

This week, a look at the legacy of the late Arthur Manuel, whose vision of Indigenous rights was uncompromising. We also discuss a National Observer repor...

Ep. 45: Poor Progress Report for Missing&Murdered Women's Inquiry; On-Reserve Rape Kits from 2017-01-14T20:00

On this week's roundtable: the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls. Some 4 months after its official launch, critics question its...

Ep. 44: Crashing the Canada 150 birthday party; Ice-fishing business freezes out Status Indians from 2017-01-08T03:46:33

On this week's Indigenous roundtable: a northern Ontario outfit that rents huts to ice-fishers is in hot water after an ad on Kiji...

Ep. 43: Indigenous Look Back at 2016; Joseph Boyden Identity Questions from 2016-12-31T03:34:57

On this week's Indigenous roundtable, we look back and ahead—what were the trends and themes that defined this past year for Indigenous peoples, and what might the...

Ep. 42: "Barbaric Civilization: A Critical Sociology of Genocide," by Christopher Powell from 2016-12-23T18:07:56

This week's podcast, a kind of holiday edition, features an interview Rick Listen

Ep. 41: Jennifer Lawrence 'Sorry' for Sacred Site Slight; Cherokee Okay Same-Sex Marriage from 2016-12-17T06:47:05

On this week's Indigenous roundtable... Jennifer Lawrence's 'sorry' butt: the Hunger Games star has apologized after social media slammed...

Ep. 40: Surprise at Standing Rock; Advisors to Trump pump privatizing treaty lands for oil and gas from 2016-12-09T07:51:33

On this week's roundtable... Return to the Rock: last episode, the future...

Ep. 39: What's in Store for Standing Rock? Measuring Moana's Cultural Credibility from 2016-12-03T02:48:21

On this week's Indigenous roundtable...

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Ep. 38: BC's Brown Face of Poverty; First Nation's Teachers Strike from 2016-11-27T01:06:47

On this week's program... The all-too-brown face of child poverty in British Columbia: a new report details the frustratingly familiar reasons why and what to do, ...

Ep. 37: Val d'Or police abuse probe; Suing over smudging from 2016-11-19T22:17:55

On this week's show... invalidation in Val d'Or: Why have three-dozen Aboriginal accusations of police abuse in this Quebec town come up empty? Pl...

Ep. 36: What will Trump presidency hold for Indigenous Peoples?; First Nation sees green in medical marijuana from 2016-11-13T03:42

On this week's program: Trump triumph... what could the election of this outrageously racist man mean for Indigenous peoples in the US and beyond?...

Ep. 35: Indigenous Moose Hunt Triggers Tension; Sexist Sticker Shock from 2016-11-06T06:22:30

On this week's Indigenous roundtable…

Triggering Tension: non-Aboriginal hunters in Manitoba are upset after an Indige...

Ep. 34: Muskrat Falls Protest; Family Violence in Canada from 2016-10-29T16:54:38

This week's Indigenous current affairs roundtable discusses the controversial, much-criticized, Muskrat Falls hydro project in Labrador: has an 11th-hour negotiati...

Ep. 33: Water rights fight in Alberta; Debating drug testing on-reserve from 2016-10-22T17:00

This week on our Indigenous current affairs roundtable: is Alberta all wet when it comes to Indigenous water rights? A recent Listen

Ep. 32: Education funding finagle; Alarming abuse of kids in care in BC from 2016-10-15T00:53:38

This week, our Indigenous current affairs roundtable unpacks recent revelations that, despite federal bureaucrats saying the cupboard for First N...

Ep. 31: Cop's controversial comments outrage Ottawa's Indigenous community from 2016-10-07T21:59:59

Ottawa's police force is taking some heat after one of its own appears to have posted racist comments on a local newspaper’s website. The commentary followed a sto...

Ep. 30: Questioning mainstream media's fixation on First Nation "failure" from 2016-09-30T06:13:03

A First Nation that only seems to get the spotlight when bad things happen is once again in the headlines: Shamattawa. Literally left devastated last week after a ...

Ep. 29: The Perpetuation of Discrimination Against First Nations Children from 2016-09-22T18:00

For the third time in 9 months, the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal has ordered the federal government to end its discriminat...

Ep. 28: Why is Canada so obsessed with long-lost white explorers? from 2016-09-15T19:30

According to The ...

Ep. 27: Standing Up for the Standing Rock Sioux from 2016-09-09T07:52:50

This week: Standing up for the Standing Rock Sioux. For the US state of North Dakota, massive deposits of unconventional oil have brought much prosperity for some,...

Ep. 26: The State of Indigenous Homelessness from 2016-09-04T04:59:40

According to preliminary new data released this week, Indigenous people in Canada are 10 times more likely to use an emergency shelter than their non-Indigenous co...

Ep. 25: Sixties Scoop survivors take Canada to court from 2016-08-26T16:29:14

If families form the bedrock of Indigenous peoples, it seems Canada has devoted decades to their fracture and fragmentation. And, as child advocate Listen

Ep. 24: The Killing of Colten Boushie: Will Justice Be Served? from 2016-08-18T17:03:13

Senseless, tragic and disturbing: words that rush to mind upon hearing the news of last week’s killing of Colten Boushie. A 22-year-old resident of the Red Pheasan...

Ep. 23: Why Won't Hollywood Let Adam Beach Live? from 2016-08-12T06:25:33

Will it happen again? Will someone portrayed on-screen by Aboriginal actor Adam Beach be quickly...

Ep. 22: Critiquing Canada's Inquiry into Murdered and Missing Indigenous Women from 2016-08-05T03:45:58

When loved ones die, there’s no question who suffers most—their families. And of those who pushed hardest for the newly-launched National Inquiry into Missing and ...

Ep. 21: Food Insecurity in Canada's North from 2016-07-28T21:30

According to the WHO, food security is “when all people, at all times, have access to sufficient, safe, nutritious food to maintain a healthy and active life.” In ...

Ep. 20: Inaction on the Indian Act in Canada from 2016-07-23T21:27:07

This week on the program: Inaction on the Indian Act. Derided for decades, it’s hung in there as one of Canada’s oldest laws. Now ...

Ep. 19: Aboriginal Anxiety About The Police from 2016-07-15T07:45:34

An Indigenous broadcaster shares his personal and political perspective on police treatment of Aboriginal people, an issue he recently wrote about in his Huffingto...

Ep. 18: Podcast Progress Report: How Are We Doing? from 2016-07-12T19:38:25

Fresh off our week at the Podcast Movement conference in Chicago, the team behind MEDIA INDIGENA 'checks ...

Ep. 17: The work to keep Indigenous families together from 2016-06-30T23:00

New research out of the University of Toronto into Indigenous child welfare has highlighted what some already suspected: that, when it comes to investigations of a...

Ep. 16: Could legal action make Canada walk its talk on Indigenous languages? from 2016-06-26T20:47:22

This week: the fight for funding of Indigenous languages. Despite the best efforts of the Canadian government to wipe out th...

Ep. 15: Indigenous peoples and public health from 2016-06-16T18:45

According to its proponents, Indigenous public health goes beyond the original concept to encourage health practitioners to be more aware of the larger social, political and historical...

Ep. 14: Human rights watchdog urges equal access to clean drinking water for First Nations from 2016-06-09T00:08:19

"Contaminated, hard to access or toxic." According to a new Human Rights Watch report, that’s what all too many First Nations endure when it comes to safe, quality drinking water—in some cases, ...

Ep. 13: Separating the rhetoric from the realities of Reconciliation in Canada from 2016-06-05T01:11:13

One of Canada's largest provinces now says it's sorry for its "silence in the face of abuses and deaths at residential schools... [and] for the continued harm that generations of abuse is causin...

Ep. 12: Series of Indigenous student deaths prompts search for answers from 2016-05-28T03:49:09

This week, we get an update on the inquest into a series of young First Nation fatalities in northwestern Ontario, where seven Indigenous students have died over a 10 year period in the city of ...

Ep. 11: Pushback against poll purporting Native "indifference" to Washington Redskins team name from 2016-05-24T06:59:50

This week we take a long look at a provocative poll recently published by the Washington Post about their home town pro football club, the "Redskins." The...

Ep. 10: Will a bigger piece of the pipeline pie win more Indigenous support for Northern Gateway? from 2016-05-14T18:40:29

Recently, Canadian energy giant Enbridge announced it was prepared to boost the Aboriginal stake in their Northern Gateway project up to 33 per cent.  Listen

Ep. 9: The growing Indigenous economic footprint in Canada from 2016-05-06T03:01:12

This week on the program: the ever-growing economic footprint of Indigenous peoples. A recent report out of Atlantic Canada suggests Aboriginal spending benefits t...

Ep. 8: De-coding Canada's coy comments about free, prior and informed Indigenous consent from 2016-04-28T15:12:50

Adopted by most countries back in 2007, the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) faced but a handful of holdouts: the USA, Austr...

Ep. 7: What might Manitoba's new government mean for Aboriginal peoples? from 2016-04-22T22:51:21

This week on the program, making sense of Manitoba's Election. As a province with one of Canada's largest proportions of Aboriginal people, it's worth asking what...

Ep. 6: Understanding what drives Indigenous suicide from 2016-04-14T18:16:36

The remote Ontario community of Attawapiskat is but one example of a First Nation caught in the grips of a devastating suicide epidemic. This week, professor of ps...

Ep. 5: US Election 2016 and Native Americans from 2016-04-08T05:19:07

Just how much attention have Indigenous issues been getting from the front-runners in the US presidential primaries thus far? Simon Moya-Smith of Indian Country To...

Ep. 4: The ongoing medical crisis on First Nations from 2016-04-01T22:00:12

"An ongoing medical crisis." According to doctors serving First Nations west of James Bay, that is the current state of Aboriginal health for the northern Ontario ...

Ep. 3: Budget 2016 Breakdown from 2016-03-25T00:18:01

Some call it "historic." Its authors say it's "unprecedented." But what does Budget 2016 really offer Indigenous peoples in Canada?

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Ep. 2: United Nations report on Canada and Indigenous peoples from 2016-03-17T01:36:56

A United Nations expert review committee recently reported on how well Canada has treated Indigenous peoples under the International Listen

Ep. 1: Climate change from 2016-03-10T18:29:31

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