The Sixties Scoop separated her from her culture. Love brought it back to her

CBC’s road trip series Land of Living Stories explores inspiring stories of community spirit from across Saskatchewan. In our latest visit, CBC-Radio Canada hit the road to Buffalo Narrows. This is one story in a multi-part series from that community. WARNING: This story contains details of abuse. When Darlene Petit first moved back to Buffalo Narrows, Sask.,…

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Most Canadians agree historic Indigenous injustices are still relevant

French speakers and allophones, persons whose mother tongue is neither English nor French, are more evenly split on the question of historic injustices committed against Indigenous peoples, according to the survey. By comparison, noted Jedwab, English speakers are somewhat more likely to disagree, with 49% disagreeing and 41% agreeing. “It suggests that some groups may…

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J.D. Tuccille: Americans no longer trust the news media. Bari Weiss is here to save it

As amusing as former “60 Minutes” correspondent Scott Pelley’s public tantrum was after his firing from CBS News, it’s impossible to know whether the network’s editor-in-chief, Bari Weiss, will succeed in her mission to remake and revive the once-respected media colossus. Even less clear is whether she could help CNN, which rumour has it she…

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Progressive U.S. women embrace Nazi-tattooed dude-bro senate candidate

It seems that achieving that elusive Democratic Senate majority, and the promise of a Trump impeachment it represents override the party’s previous feminist principles. In a cringe-inducing interview on CNN, Jodi Kantor, #MeToo reporter at the New York Times, got on her metaphorical hands and knees to scrub Platner’s muddy footprints from Maine’s clean, pine-scented…

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