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Laakkuluk Williamson Bathory has won this year’s Sobey Art Award for emerging artists.

The Iqaluit-based Inuk multidisciplinary artist received the $100,000 prize at a ceremony at the National Gallery of Canada on Saturday.

She is known for performing uaajeerneq, a Greenlandic mask dance that involves storytelling centred around three elements: fear, humour and sexuality.

In a news release announcing the award, Williamson Bathory said she uses her art to tell her own story and that of her family, which she says is one of “joy and celebration, awe and difficulty, beauty and destruction all at once.”

“In a time when we recognize that this Canadian soil bears the small bodies of many thousands of Indigenous children, in an era when we work through colonial institutions to keep our families safe in the pandemic and at a moment when the Arctic city I live [in] does not have potable water coming from the taps, I am proud to be recognized as I tell you the story of a momentous experience my family had on the land,” she said.

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An Alberta cabinet minister resigns over allegations of drinking in the legislature, including a signal to lock down the office so the alcohol could flow. One of Premier Jason Kenney’s nemeses is back in the political scene. The shields may have been up in the minister’s office, but former Wildrose leader Brian Jean has his sword drawn.

Because it’s been a slow news week for Alberta Premier Kenney…Court Painter takes a retrospective look at Jason Kenney dating from 2015.

A reshuffle at the helm of key ministries by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is raising activists’ hopes of a tough Canadian stance at the COP26 climate change meeting, especially Steven Guibeault being handed the environment and climate change brief. Guilbeault, previously heritage minister, becomes Canada’s point man for the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change talks in Scotland.

Court Painter was able to obtain advance publicity shots of the COP 26 climate change meeting and though he has never been known to use photos to do paintings, he did confess to cheating and using a couple to aid in painting new works to honour the occasion.

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Friday October 29/21 Aboriginal Peoples Network APTV

The Canadian government has appealed a Federal Court decision to uphold compensation for First Nations families torn apart by the deliberately underfunded child-welfare system.

Indigenous Services Canada filed the last-minute legal challenge in the Federal Court of Appeal Friday afternoon just before it closed, taking the fight to the appellate court for the second time in 14 years.

Cindy Blackstock, who along with the Assembly of First Nations (AFN) filed the original complaint at the tribunal in 2007, told APTN National News she was disappointed with the move.

“I’ve always felt like this case is about ending discrimination against kids and trying to make some reparations for the victims that were hurt,” said Blackstock, executive director at the First Nations Child and Family Caring Society. “It’s disturbing to see that the federal government is not yet fully able to put down its sword of litigation against First Nations children.”

In 2019, the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal ordered Canada to pay the statutory maximum of $40,000 to victims unnecessarily taken from their communities and placed in foster care because of racist and inequitable federal funding practices.

The quasi-judicial panel of human rights experts ruled Ottawa’s “wilful and reckless” discrimination caused “pain and suffering of the worst kind warranting the maximum award” for tens of thousands of kids and caregivers.

Decision affects approximately 50,000 Indigenous children waiting for compensation

Ottawa says it’s also working with Indigenous groups to reach a compensation agreement by the end of the year.

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Even Court Painter is sometimes puzzled by the solar system

Court Painter has an interest in astronomy and reading under candle light.

Former prime minister Jean Chrétien said Sunday that during his tenure as minister of what was then Indian Affairs, he never heard anything about abuse happening in residential schools. 

Chrétien made the comments during an appearance on the popular Radio-Canada talk show, Tout le Monde en Parle as he conducted his recent book tour.

“This problem was never mentioned when I was minister. Never,” said Chrétien, now 87, of his time in the department from 1968 to 1974.

During the French interview, Chrétien appeared to draw a comparison between his own experience attending a conventional college boarding school as a teenager to that of Indigenous children who were forced to attend residential schools.

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Alec Baldwin and Hollywood’s Gun Problem

Gun violence has steadily increased in movies for decades as the arms industry pays for ‘product placement.’By Brad Bushman and Dan Romer25 Oct 2021

Excerpt: We know that the gun industry pays production companies to place its products in their movies. They are rewarded with frequent appearances on screen, so much so that in 2010 the firearm company Glock won a “lifetime achievement award for product placement,” with a citation noting that Glocks appeared in 22 box office No. 1 films during that year.

The payoff for gun companies can be great — prominent placement in high-profile films can result in a significant bump in sales for gun models.

The real problem of humanity is the following: we have Palaeolithic emotions, medieval institutions, and god-like technology.

debate at the Harvard Museum of Natural History, Cambridge, Mass., 9 September 2009

Edward O. Wilson 1929– 
American sociobiologist