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Interview on CBC’s Tapestry

August 28, 2024

The idea of Engaged Buddhism can seem like an oxymoron: how does fiery activism co-exist with the Buddhist philosophies of peace and nonviolence?In fact,…

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The Vatican earns the slowest of claps for disavowal of Doctrine of Discovery

February 25, 2024

The Vatican released a statement this week that repudiates the Doctrine of Discovery, the decree that has been used to subjugate Indigenous Peoples for…

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CCPA Monitor: What would a world respecting Indigenous rights look like?

February 19, 2024

Karyn Pugliese, member of Pikwakanagan First Nation, is a seasoned journalist best known for hard-hitting reporting at the National Observer, Canadaland, and APTN. So…

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Resilient Gardens for a Changing Climate

February 12, 2023

The Echo Valley Farm group offers a beautiful example of how collectivizing food production can create not only healthy systems but healthy human cultures. …

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American Epiphany

August 17, 2022

Mob rules: Horned and bare-chested, the barbarians storm the capital while out in the bay sailboats come loose off their moorings and careen into…

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Mediating a Marriage on the Rocks

August 17, 2022

The relationship between Canada and First Nations plays out like a marriage on the rocks. Once upon a time, separate Nations came together: some…

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We are the stronghold

April 28, 2020

 I was married to this guy from Winnipeg’s north end. His dad was a white guy, a trucker with big personality and a bigger…

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Orca Soundings

April 28, 2020

Talk given at opening of “Against the Current” exhibit, 2020 Salt Spring Arts Council Call me Ishmael.  Moby Dick is a book that presents…

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The Indigenous nation exposing the lie of Canada’s “world class” oil spill response

July 22, 2019

A different kind of sentencing hearing took place today on B.C.’s central coast, in an area known as the Great Bear Rainforest. Three years…

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Dia de los Muertos 2021

November 2, 2018

“To the resident of New York, Paris or London, the word death is never pronounced because it burns the lips. The Mexican, on the…

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When it comes to stopping Kinder Morgan, Tofino means business

April 22, 2017

This article originally appeared in Ricochet. https://ricochet.media/en/1778/when-it-comes-to-stopping-kinder-morgan-tofino-means-business Coastal communities are on the front lines of climate change. For those who live on the narrow peninsula…

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Site-C Caravan

December 28, 2016

With Helen Knott. On September 12, 2016, the Federal Court of Appeal in Montreal heard Treaty 8’s legal challenge to the massive Site C…

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Fish Lake returns

December 28, 2016

It’s the mine that won’t die. For twenty years Taseko Mines Limited has tried to get approval for a low-grade, open-pit copper and gold…

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My dad’s letters

December 27, 2016

Back in the day before Facebook, suburban families used to create saccharine little status updates and mail them out with their annual Christmas cards.…

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Awakening the power of yoga to stop a pipeline

February 2, 2015

(Published in Aqua Magazine, November 2014) Moksha Yoga founder Ted Grand  is not the kind of guy who does things by halves. With 70…

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Let the ancestors rest in peace

January 28, 2015

(Published in Ricochet, January 2015) Grace Islet is a victory for protecting Indigenous gravesites, but work remains Grace Islet rests just a few meters…

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The Beautiful Laundress

January 5, 2015

(Published in Aqua Magazine, 2011) The Beautiful Laundress: Redressing Fashion It’s the house your Bohemian great-aunt would have lived in had she lived by the…

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Walkers carry weight

January 5, 2015

(Published Gulf Islands Driftwood, July 16, 2014) Sometimes you just have to draw a line. Salt Spring Islanders came out on Saturday to do just…

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An ugly monument

January 5, 2015

(Published in West Coast Native News, July 2014) I live on Salt Spring Island. The adjective most used to describe this little dot in…

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Welcoming African Friends to Saltspring

January 5, 2015

(Published in Island Tides, 2011) Markets and barns, farms and tables. Welcoming African guests to Salt Spring seems to have much to do with:…

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Hupacasath Stand Up for Canada – FIPA Court Case

January 5, 2015

Published in Watershed Sentinel, June 20, 2013 Hupacasath Stand Up for Canada – FIPA Court Case by Andrea Palframan A remarkable resistance movement is gaining…

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Stormy Opening: foreshadowing dire climate warnings

January 5, 2015

Durban, South Africa by Andrea Palframan, Watershed Sentinel   In the wake of the opening session of COP 17 climate change summit in Durban,…

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Faith and Climate Justice: Report from COP

January 5, 2015

Watershed Sentinel A death-knell for a new Kyoto is being sounded just as the gates open at Durban’s COP 17. Politically, the victories here…

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Activism stretches from all corners

January 5, 2015

(Published in Aqua Magazine, December 1, 2014) Moksha Yoga founder Ted Grand is not the kind of guy who does things by halves. With…

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In Common, Nature: an ethnography of climate adaptation in Lesotho

January 5, 2015

(Published by Local Environment: The International Journal of Climate & Justice, T&F, May 13 2014) Abstract: In Lesotho, climate change adaptation funding is being…

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Power Shift BC puts youth in the driver’s seat

January 5, 2015

(Published in the Vancouver Observer, Oct 9th 2013) Power Shift is a global movement that offers training and resource sharing among youth climate justice…

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Can a First Nations-led Movement Stop Big Oil?

January 5, 2015

(Originally published in Rabble.ca; licensed by Common Dreams November 24, 2014) Can a First Nations-led, people-driven movement really have the power to stop Big Oil?…

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