This week, our team is celebrating three Digital Publishing Awards nominations!
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“This is and always will be Indian land”: First Nations challenge Alberta’s separatist rhetoric
Treaties governing Canada’s relationship with First Nations predate Alberta, and cannot be hand-waved away even as the premier fuels separatist fantasies
By: Brandi Morin
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith’s recent introduction of Bill 54, which would lower the threshold for citizen-led referendums in the province, has sparked renewed concerns about Alberta separatism. While the Premier denies being a separatist, First Nations leaders across the province are sending a clear message: any path to separation must recognize that their treaties are with the Crown, not the province.
Brooks Arcand-Paul, an Alberta NDP MLA for Edmonton-West Henday, who is Cree, passionately addressed the issue at the Alberta Legislature this week.
“In a fit of political rage, the premier introduced a bill that would make it easier to launch Alberta into a separatist crisis, as if threatening to break up Canada was just another wedge issue,” Arcand-Paul stated. “Why now? Why in the middle of rising costs and global instability would this premier choose the path of chaos? Separatism creates uncertainty. It drives away investment, it hurts workers, it hurts the oil and gas sector just like Trump and his reckless tariffs.”
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There are few people better than activist and writer Judy Rebick to assess the current state of the NDP. In the latest episode of Ricochet’s new podcast, In Bed with the Elephant, Judy sits down with Adrian and considers the party’s path forward after last month’s disastrous election.
Judy Rebick has been at the forefront of Canada’s most significant social movements for the last 60 years, whether it has been as a student activist in the 1960s, an organizer and journalist with socialist revolutionary groups in the 1970s, spokesperson for pro-choice groups and ally of abortion rights advocate Dr. Henry Morgentaler in the 1980s, president of Canada’s leading feminist organization, the National Action Committee on the Status of Women, as well as progressive commentator and TV host in the 1990s, writer, and academic in the 2000s.
Throughout the decades, she has also been either associated with or at the centre of numerous groupings and organizations determined to reform and transform the NDP, going back to her time as an engaged member of the Waffle Movement, the Campaign for an Activist Party, the New Politics Initiative, and the Leap Manifesto.
Listen to In Bed with the Elephant wherever you get podcasts.
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ICE shows Canadians the frightening path the RCMP is on
The force’s Community Response Unit could, under the wrong circumstances, become something much worse than it already is
By: Nicholas Gottlieb
Immigration and Customs Enforcement, known as ICE, is quickly emerging as the Trump administration’s authoritarian secret police force, aggressively sowing terror and suppressing political speech, not just at the country’s borders but throughout the country. But ICE wasn’t founded by President Donald Trump: it was a product of President George W. Bush’s so-called War on Terror and has played a fascistic role in the U.S. under both Democratic and Republican administrations ever since.
There were warning signs about the role ICE would play in the event of an authoritarian turn. B.C. and Canada must learn from the American experience by heeding these warning signs in advance, curbing our most fascistic police forces — particularly, the RCMP’s CRU, formerly known as the C-IRG (Community-Industry Response Unit) — before it’s too late.
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