Dear leaders of the 2015 Paris climate change conference, Our planet is suffering due to the devastating effects of climate change. Oceans are dying, forests are disappearing and our air is becoming unbreathable. I am writing you today in hopes that you will do everything in your power to end this issue. Instead of letting […]
Annie Margaret Clair
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Family secrets after the Sixties Scoop
My heart is racing. I’m sitting across a conference table from P, a social worker, in the meeting room of the Elsipogtog child and family services centre. He pushes a thick file of papers towards me, held together with an alligator clip. I’ve asked for these pages, because I need to know more than what […]
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The missing, the mourned
My name is Annie Margaret Clair. I was born and raised on the reserve in Elsipogtog, New Brunswick. My first language is Mik’maq, so English is a difficult language for me to grasp. I only started speaking English when I went to school, around age five or six. English was not spoken in my home. […]