Patrick Lane’s Convocation Address
– University of Victoria –
November 13, 2013
It is sixty-five years ago, you’re ten years old and sitting on an old, half-blind, grey horse. All you have is a saddle blanket and a rope for reins as you watch a pack of dogs rage at the foot of a Ponde...
By Laurie Watt Barrie Advance Springwater Park’s Camp Nibi is still going strong, as park supporters try to keep it viable. In fact, the Beausoleil First Nation and the Ontario of Ministry of Natural Resources, came to an agreement Dec. 20 to become partners. The park, which opened in 1927, became no...
Grassy Narrows Asubpeeschoseewagong Anishinabek news release – Today the Wynne government approved plans for another decade of clearcut logging in Grassy Narrows Territory against the will of this Indigenous community. The decision has ruined Christmas in a community already struggling with the...
News release from Camp Nibi Springwater Provincial Park – renamed Camp Nibi by a group of First Nations women who have occupied it for nine months – is to be a partnership with the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources and Beausoleil First Nation. Beausoleil First Nation and the Ontario Ministry of N...
By Ian McInroy, Barrie Examiner SPRINGWATER TWP. — Springwater Provincial Park will soon be occupied no more. The 193-hectare day-use park north of Barrie has been occupied by a determined group of First Nations protesters since April 1 when the Ministry of Natural Resources (MNR) changed the status ...
Letter to Premier Kathleen Wynne from Beth Brass Elson I am writing on behalf of Springwater Park – Camp Nibi. My name is Elizabeth Brass Elson and I and many other traditional/spiritual natives and non-native people have been participating in ceremony and teachings on the Provincial Park land...
Movement that began with a teach-in claims 254,000 supporters By Daniel Schwartz, CBC News Nov 10, 2013 Idle No More, the indigenous movement that began a year ago today, says it has a database of 254,000 supporters. Some, however, are concerned about the direction its founders want to go. A Saskato...
Forty years ago, Ontario devastated the community of Grassy Narrows by dumping mercury into its river system. If the province goes ahead with its logging plan, it will do it again By:Simon Fobister Toronto Star Nov 03 2013 Premier Kathleen Wynne came to our community in the summer of 2012 and said ...
From Amnesty International Canada November 1, 2013The province of Ontario is asking for public comments on a plan to resume clearcut logging in the traditional territory of the Grassy Narrows First Nation. The people of Grassy Narrows have already said no to such logging. Amnesty International believ...
Activists give their take on the movementBy Daniel Schwartz, CBC News Oct 07, 2013 The Idle No More movement has plans for over 63 protests and actions across Canada today, with solidarity events expected in over 12 countries. ...
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