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Out of $2 million in funding over 7 years, less than $35,000 went to racialized film producers. Indigenous-led production firms got nothing.

Films directed by Josephine Anderson Available for online viewing on NFB.ca.

It’s worth asking how they explain going after a woman with Indigenous ancestry who trusted in her family’s own orally conveyed stories and collective memories

Jonathan Kay: The cancellation of Michelle Latimer has become (another) disgrace to the CBC Jonathan Kay © Provided by National Post Filmmaker Michelle Latimer It’s been almost a quarter century since the Supreme Court of Canada told us that Indigenous oral traditions must be considered “on an equal footing” with other types of historical evidence. Alas, as the attack on famed Canadian filmmaker Michelle Latimer shows, the CBC still hasn’t gotten that memo. Thus does it fall to me to pour my emotional labour into educating the cultural reactionaries who staff our n...

Article content It’s been almost a quarter century since the Supreme Court of Canada told us that Indigenous oral traditions must be considered “on an equal footing” with other types of historical evidence. Alas, as the attack on famed Canadian filmmaker Michelle Latimer shows, the CBC still hasn’t gotten that memo. Thus does it fall to me to pour my emotional labour into educating the cultural reactionaries who staff our national broadcaster. As a genealogical investigation performed by two university professors has now confirmed, Latimer traces her Indigenous ancestry, through both ...