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canadaLANDBACK

Karyn Pugliese hosts canadaLANDBACK, with award-winning producer Kim Wheeler. Together, they explore three generations of resistance.

Starting with the 80-year reclamation movement at Stoney Point, which led to a violent assault on unarmed people, and the police killing of Dudley George, the podcast asks: why have land actions become necessary? Why have violations of human rights become normalized? Where will this lead us as a country?

The all-Indigenous team of award-winning reporters asks Canada if reconciliation is dead, or if there’s hope. Telling stories through documentary reports, interviews and panel conversations, canadaLANDBACK unpacks the divide between Indigenous nations and Canada, and explains why today’s youth may be the last generation Canada can negotiate with.

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Karyn was previously the executive director of news at APTN and managing editor of investigations at the CBC. She is a citizen of the Algonquins of Pikwakanagan First Nation. 

Kim is a veteran audio journalist and co-host of Auntie-Up!, the podcast “where Indigenous women talk about important shit.”

 

Includes reporting by:

Beverly Andrews. Beverly is a member of the Tootinaowaziibeeng First Nation in Manitoba. She has worked in media for over a decade, including broadcast, film and the arts.

Cara McKenna. Cara was previously the editor of the Salish Sea Sentinel magazine and also worked at APTN National News, the Canadian Press and Nanaimo Daily News.

Trina Roache. Trina is a proud member of the Glooscap First Nation and an award-winning Mi’kmaw video journalist. Trina has worked in radio and TV for CBC, APTN National News and APTN Investigates. 

 

This podcast is a co-production with Canadaland. 

Podcast artwork for canadaLANDBACK by Jessie Boulard

The Reclamation at Stoney Point

In Part 2, after a peaceful reclamation of the army base built on their land in 1993, elders of Stoney Point led a movement to take back Ipperwash Provincial Park. Racism and political interference turned that peaceful movement into a violent act of state aggression on Sept. 6, 1995.

Reclamation at Stoney Point

In Episode 1, canadaLANDBACK hears from three generations of Stoney Pointers about how every system failed them. They explain their longing to rebuild their community and what led them to take over a military base in 1993.