A journey into ancient history guides the modern spirit — Interviewing Manda Scott the other day was literally a dream come true. For the last few weeks, each night before I go to bed, I have been taken on a wild journey by way of her Boudica series. As I drift off to sleep my mind is flooded with vivid…

Kent Monkman mischievously sows seeds of truth inside popular propagators of lies — In a lecture hall at Montreal’s McGill University some four years ago, Kent Monkman gave a talk about his Shame & Prejudice exhibit, showing at the McCord Museum. I had just moved back to Canada after a decade in New York. …

A conversation with author Patty Krawec — I had the great pleasure of speaking with author Patty Krawec about how she came to accidentally write one of the most important books of our time, Becoming Kin — An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future. From serendipitously listening to conversations about race, to what…

Erasure is hard to see — look for it anyway — Sitting in on a number of discussions at Biodiversity COP15 here in Montreal this week, I have heard over and over how Indigenous people are essential to our success. The data backs this up: the highest levels of biodiversity are in areas where Indigenous people are the main land stewards…

Individual and shared action on the path to Truth and Reconciliation (aka not a day off) — Welcome to the latest weekly Medium Short, an accountability practice to keep me semi-tethered along the unmarked trail of industrial healing. I make all of my articles (including those linked here) available for free with this unglamorous searchable table of contents. I say these Friday updates are my “accountability practice”…

How I got my own height wrong, and other tales from the unlearning trenches — This is going to get uncharacteristically personal. Boys and dating and stuff. I promise I’ll tie it to our regular program of shifting to an economy where all industry is a force for healing. It’s also a bit long so let me give you the headlines. …

When industry treats diverse humans and communities like a topic, an urgent opportunity is missed and harm continues. — Sorry we stole your car — now, how do we drive it? I remember a conversation with my Mohawk friend Chuck. I asked, “Do you ever feel like we stole your car, and now we’re driving out of control towards a cliff with no operating manual, so we’re calling you to ask how to drive this thing?”

No, unless they change two fundamental things, ASAP — I conducted a Matereality assessment on Toronto-Dominion Bank (aka TD). The assessment deck is free to access, download, or share here. A brief video explaining the findings is here [added Sept 15: new and improved simplified video here]. …

Dear sister and brother white settlers, (FN friends, I sense you have way better things to do than deal with the endless task of educating white people so I hope you don’t waste your time and energy here; having said that, anything at all that you wish to correct, criticize…

The information below discusses residential schools and survivors, and may be triggering to some readers. Support is made available to survivors and their families 24 hours a day at the Indian Residential School Survivors Society’s crisis line at 1–866–925–4419. There are resources after the letter about what Non-Indigenous people can…

What follows is a transcript of the above recorded dialogue featuring Adan Rodrigo Trolesi Pereira and Antonio (Toninho) Mates Pereira. This is part 2 of a 3-part speaker series piloted by the Global Regeneration CoLab in 2021. (Full YouTube playlist here.) As Quilombolas in Brazil they have a unique…

For an audio version of this blog post, click here. My friend Katja asked me to say more about what I think it looks like when my two dreams are realized. That’s fair. …

Remember Band Aid’s 1984 hit single, Do They Know It’s Christmas? You might have heard it playing recently, as this fundraising jingle still gets a lot airtime alongside Elvis’ Blue Christmas and Brenda Lee’s Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree. And then there’s John and Yoko’s Happy Xmas (War is Over)… …

(No, this is not a pitch to send money, food aid nor to join a celebrity sing-along) — You might have picked up fragments of troubling news coming out of Ethiopia recently. Perhaps you saw the crossed arms of Olympic silver medalist Feyisa Lilesa in the men’s marathon and his gesture of solidarity with protesters back home. …