Tag: Melissa Mbarki

Lowering the flag for months was the kind of performative action that will no longer work, writes Melissa Mbarki in ...

If reconciliation is what this government wants, let’s get to work. Canada should not be using a national symbol to ...

It's hard to reconcile the injustices faced by Indigenous communities in the past when the effects of that trauma are ...

 With federal government offices darkened for a National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, it's important to reflect on how ...

Survivors of these schools have endured so much trauma. My story is one small piece to their puzzle. For those ...

For decades, Ottawa has oversimplified Indigenous issues, often reducing complex infrastructure, political and legal issues to simple statements, writes Melissa ...

Increasing Indigenous participation in energy development would have been an easy way to improve the standard of living of many ...

Office of the Prime Minister of Canada / Flickr Kneeling for us means nothing when many communities do not have ...

We are not in any way honouring residential school victims or survivors by burning down churches and toppling statues, writes ...

The City of Victoria would have received a different response if it had talked to the Kamloops Indigenous community before ...

Tearing down a statue does the opposite of what Indigenous communities are trying to accomplish. It is a gesture that ...

Macdonald-Laurier Institute's Pod Bless Canada · Ep. 64 - UNDRIP fails to address Indigenous Issues with Chris Sankey, Melissa Mbarki ...