Angee Acquin has built her career improving the lives of at-risk kids. Now she needs her community’s help to save her own.

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...

Commentary: Who has it worse is the wrong question; ask how to work together to make it better

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...

Sixth grader Kendra Levi-Paul is stepping up and speaking out on Feb. 13 in support of equal access for First Nations children in care

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,...

The Truths About New Brunswick

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...

Mi’kmaq Heather Condo’s tribute to basket making is Vimeo’s first staff curated Indigenous film

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]...

Breaking free of history: Our true opportunities lie in front of us

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...