Niigaan Sinclair

There's a story told by my father, the late justice Murray Sinclair, about his first week on the job in March 1988 as the first Indigenous judge in Manitoba history.

Following the 2003 U.S.-backed overthrow of Iraqi president Saddam Hussein, criminals looted important religious and political items from the country, whose civilization is more than 4,000 years old.

Weeks before being nominated to the Supreme Court of Canada, Manitoba Court of King's Bench Chief Justice Glenn Joyal rendered one of the most remarkable decisions in this province's history.

What if, instead of hearing the story of Little Red Riding Hood as it happened, we instead heard about the impacts of its actions?

The contrast could not have been more stark in Ottawa — unceded Algonquin territory — this week. Read this article for free:

A lot of Winnipeggers may shrug, but the end of Giant Tiger's downtown store is a giant problem for many of the people living in the centre of the city.

I'm a few hundred kilometres from the farm near Biggar, Sask. — the place where 22-year old Colten Boushie from Cree Red Pheasant First Nation was shot and killed by farmer Gerald Stanley precisely 10 years ago.

I’m a few hundred kilometres from the farm near Biggar, Sask. — the place where 22-year old Colten Boushie from Cree Red Pheasant First Nation was shot and killed by farmer Gerald Stanley precisely 10 years ago.

Elections Canada released a report this week that stated that, in the 2025 federal election, approximately 41 per cent of eligible First Nations, Inuit and Métis voters cast a ballot and contributed significantly to the federal Liberals and Prime Minister Mark Carney making a political comeback.

For centuries on Turtle Island (North America), explorers, map makers, and political leaders have erased Indigenous place names and substituted them — more often than not — with political, ethnocentric, and self-aggrandizing names.