From AWARE Simcoe's First Nations representative Elizabeth Brass Elson December 30 2012Please Pass Along: 2:00 pm - Casino Rama 5899 Rama Road, Orillia, Ontario - flash mob round dance. Calling out all drummers, shakers, singers and dancers....

Idle No More demonstrators hold closing ceremonies, plan to be off Sarnia rail spur by Thursday morningBy Colin Graf Toronto Star January 2 2012SARNIA, ONT.—Protesters sang songs and beat drums in a traditional ceremony Wednesday night to mark the conclusion of a 13-day aboriginal blockade of an indu...

We will not stand silent while she starves to death on the doorstep of our Parliament Open Letter to the Right Honourable Prime Minister of Canada Stephen Harper and the Right Honourable Governor General David Johnston December 21 2012We, as academics teaching in universities, witness the courageous ...

By Jacob Kearey-Moreland Orillia Packet and Times December 21, 2012On Dec. 10, I participated in the first #IdleNoMore national day of action at the provincial legislature at Queen’s Park. I read a little about the movement online, but wanted to see, hear and feel it first-hand before seriously comme...

Letter to the Orillia Packet and Times  December 21, 2012 Hundreds of thousands of First Nations people live in Canada and they deserve better than to be shackled by the failed colonial and paternalistic policies of the Indian Act, which has helped deny them their rights and fair share of resources a...

By Cheryl Browne, Barrie Examiner December 26, 2012First Nations people joined hands with sympathetic supporters to fashion a Cree round dance at Georgian Mall, Wednesday.On what was one of the busiest shopping days of the year, hundreds of First Nations people from across Canada stopped harried shop...

Now is the time to stand strong and unbending for the people and places we loveBy NAOMI KLEIN Globe and Mail Dec. 24 2012I woke up just past midnight with a bolt. My six-month-old son was crying. He has a cold – the second of his short life–and his blocked nose frightens him. I was about to get up wh...

from Adam Barker December 21 2012"Settler colonization is the excuse that we make for being here. Settler colonization is our perceived right to live on someone else's land, without their permission… ...

From AWARE Simcoe’s First Nations board member Elizabeth Brass Elson Dec. 21 2012 Flash Mob Round Dance! at the Georgian Mall – Food Court Area – at 2 pm on Boxing Day, Dec 26th CHIPPAWA TRI COUNCIL Beausoleil, Rama, Georgina, Friends and Alliances you’re being called upon! Ti...

The grassroots IdleNoMore movement of aboriginal people offers a more sustainable future for all CanadiansBy Martin Lukacs The Guardian 20 December 2012 Canada's placid winter surface has been broken by unprecedented protests by its aboriginal recedented protests by its aboriginal peoples. In just a ...