by Oscar Baker | Mar 13, 2018 | Contributors, Wicked Stories
Angee Acquin dreams one day of being a little old woman with traditional regalia and shawls hanging over head in her tent, her grandchildren running around and laughing in her home in St. Mary’s. But the 41-year-old youth support worker now worries that may not be the...
by Oscar Baker | Mar 13, 2018 | Contributors, Wicked Stories
People under oppression should be kind to one another because any form of oppression bends the soul. I hate seeing people use my family’s pain as stories to say Canada isn’t as oppressive to Indigenous people as the United States is to the Black population. My mother...
by Oscar Baker | Feb 8, 2018 | Contributors, Wicked Stories
Eleven-year-old Kendra Levi-Paul is demanding that First Nation youth no longer be forgotten – and on Feb. 13 she’s taking her message to the Legislative Assembly. The Alaqsite’w Gitpu School sixth grader is traveling to Fredericton from Listiguj First Nation,...
by Lisa Hrabluk | Dec 6, 2017 | Lisa Writes, Wicked Ideas, Wicked Stories
Oh New Brunswick, you are predictable in the stories you tell. To the surprise of absolutely no one the province once again had a rather bad showing in Stats Can’s latest monthly labour markets survey. If we have any hope of changing this story arc, we’re...
by Oscar Baker | Dec 4, 2017 | Contributors, Wicked Ideas, Wicked Stories
Mi’kmaq filmmaker Heather Condo’s short doc ‘My Father’s Tools’ is Vimeo’s first-ever Indigenous-made film to be selected for its popular staff pick premieres. “I hope it opens doors for other Natives to step into that [filmmaking]...
by Don Dennison | Dec 12, 2014 | Contributors, Wicked Stories
It was past midnight on a cold January night in 1973 when the van rolled up to the entrance of Fredericton’s Lord Beaverbrook Hotel, an adequate hostelry that quite never lived up to its name. The gaggle of passengers discharged had been driven up from Moncton, where...
