Survivors of the Sixties Scoop won a big court battle against the Ontario government in mid-February but the fight is far from over, writes Steve Bonspiel.

With all of the mainstream hype about Canadas 150th year of confederation, its no surprise that many Native people are using a vastly different word to describe it colonialism and people are also raising much awareness on social media in the form of #Resistance150.

The recent arrests of four indigenous men on tobacco-related charges clearly demonstrates how the federal government and police callously demonize what they call the contraband tobacco industry.

If a Mohawk couple adopts a child who is not Mohawk, the adoptive parents have committed an "offence," according to a new law in Kahnawake, Que.

"There is something seriously wrong with a government fighting the first peoples of this land so they can shortchange them, while wasting money that could be going to help all children," says Steve Bonspiel.

After allegations surfaced of Sret du Qubec officers in Val-dOr abusing a number of First Nations women over the course of a decade, Joe Public reacted in different ways, which essentially outlined the racial divide in this country.