Articles by Sian Griffiths

  • Canada 150

    No celebration of colonization

    Why First Nations people boycotted Canada’s 150th anniversary of confederation. Sian Griffiths reports.
  • How do you break the homelessness cycle?

    Sian Griffiths reports on a no-nonsense movement which is reshaping traditional solutions to chronic homelessness
  • A personal welcome

    In Canada, private sponsors are paying refugees’ resettlement costs. But should such a scheme be replicated elsewhere? Sian Griffiths reports.
  • Interview with Adam Beach

    The Canadian First Nations actor, star of Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee and US TV dramas Big Love and Law and Order, talks to Sian Griffiths about the importance of being a role model for young aboriginal kids.
  • Reclaiming a lost identity

    Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission is working to heal a century of trauma caused by a policy of assimilation which saw thousands of indigenous children sent to boarding schools to be indoctrinated in white culture.