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The curious case of the human rights lawyer who took on Chevron

Is Steven Donziger a renowned human rights attorney, celebrated by Nobel laureates and international lawyers. Or is he a fraud artist?

First Nations Forward

Timely words of wisdom from a master weaver and graduate of the school of life

Debra Sparrow is a master weaver from the Musqueam First Nation who graduated from the school of life. She was decolonizing before it was cool, she said during a First Nations Forward Facebook live interview. Sparrow followed her grandfather around for 15 years, researched stories of her people, and thread by thread, found herself, and what it meant to be successful.

Debra Sparrow is a master weaver from the Musqueam Nation who said she was decolonizing before it was cool, finding value in her culture and laws, not in what people told her to believe. Photo provided by Debra Sparrow

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