The Red Road

The Red Road Toronto Sun columnist Mark Bonokoski explores the powerful and human stories that lie beneath the troubles of our First Nations people in a 15-part series entitled the Red Road. “The aboriginal people of Canada are still seen as a problem to fix rather than an asset to this county.” — Rene Dussault, co-chair of 1996 Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples It was an exhaustive

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