Step off the blankets
…and relearn Canada’s history. “Blankets infected with the deadly smallpox virus were given or traded to you by British military leaders. You died from small […]
UNITING FOR AKIKODJIWAN
Local Group Participates in Walk to Save Indigenous Sacred Site From Condos, Office Towers and Pavement By Melodie McCullough Algonquin Grandmothers and Elders of the Ottawa River region, and […]
FOR THE WATER
Edward George and the Nibi Onji Canoe Journey “What more must we do?” “What is the water asking of us?” ” What must we come to understand in […]
Lynn Gehl Continues 30-year Fight for First Nations Status
By Melodie McCullough So far Canada’s federal government has spent $762,827.48 and 30 years trying to make Lynn Gehl disappear. It hasn’t worked. Gehl wants First Nation Indian status, and, although she lost a […]
From Rejection to Acceptance – a Trans Person’s Story of How CMHA’S GENDER JOURNEYS Throws a Life-Line to Trans’ Communities
By Melodie McCullough This article was updated August, 2017 “I’m sorry, but you’re just not a good fit.” Stacey Love-Jolicoeur does not like those words. In fact, she hates them. […]
Poverty In Our Schools
The school principal finds the tiny Grade 2 boy hunched over in the hallway, sent out from his classroom because he’s been disruptive and rude to his teacher. His face […]
Rosemary Ganley: Grateful Every Day
By Melodie McCullough There’s a small wooden box on a shelf in Rosemary Ganley’s Peterborough apartment. Each day, she opens it and adds to it — scraps of paper on which […]
HIV+? For Shame? Lillian’s Remarkably POSITIVE Story
By Melodie McCullough One day after being bailed out of jail by her boyfriend in Montreal, Lillian, age 20, landed in Peterborough on a 2 a.m. Sunday Greyhound bus. Dressed […]
Puppet Power!
Ivity, Dot and Shoo-Ella are three Peterborough gals who like to spend their days helping out around the Peterpatch — maybe talking about sex with teens, or popping into a […]
