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Canada Is Paying to Burn Its Own Forests — And Then Blaming You
In the Maritimes alone, glyphosate spraying on Crown land has become an annual ritual. In New Brunswick, roughly 15,000 hectares of public forest are…
 • Darren Grimes
Meet Canada’s Glyphosate Cartel: The Corporate Players Profiting While Forests Burn
Everyone’s talking about wildfires, climate emergencies, and “sustainable forestry,” but nobody’s talking about the real engine behind it all, the money
 • Darren Grimes
Our Home and (Native?) Land Part 3
The Seigneury of Sault St. Louis, also known as Kahnawake (Submitted by Kyle Delisle)
 • Darren Grimes
Not Reconciliation. Negotiation.
I’m not interested in reconciliation. I’m interested in negotiation.
 • Darren Grimes
An Open Letter to Alberta’s Indigenous People
This conversation belongs to the people, and it has never actually happened.
 • Darren Grimes
An Open Letter to the Leadership of Sturgeon Lake Cree Nation, and to Alberta’s Chiefs
I’m asking this openly because after 150 years of living under the so-called trust of the Crown and the federal government, nobody ever seems willing to…
 • Darren Grimes
Historic Settlement Reached: Indigenous Communities Closer to Receiving Long Overdue Compensation
After Years of Legal Battles a Proposed Settlement Offers Hope for Justice and Compensation for the Exploitation of Ancestral Lands
 • Darren Grimes
What Was the First Day of Residential School Like? Part 1
What bonds are interrupted when a young child is taken from the family home and settled into government and/or religious institutions?
 • Darren Grimes
The Land Was Never Yours (or Ours)
Crown sovereignty, land claims, and the limits of ownership in Canada
 • Darren Grimes
What Was the First Day of Residential School Like? Part 2
In most cases, what little was known about Indigenous culture and spirituality was looked down upon as heathenistic devil worship
 • Darren Grimes
UN Replacement Migration: Engineering Demographics by Design
This is not a forecast. It’s a framework. It’s not speculation. It’s policy disguised as mathematics.
 • Darren Grimes
Our Home and (Native?) Land - Part 6 “Let them Rob me”
Treaty No. 1 was made with the understanding that the Treaty would be in place for “as long as the sun shines, the grass grows, and the river flows...
 • Darren Grimes
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