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My name is Matthew Harrison and I am a reporter working out of Winnipeg, Manitoba.
I started Reasonably Late in 2017 and have since had the opportunity to travel the American South with touring musicians, interview national bestselling authors about their work and discuss the changing world with academics and politicians alike.
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July 1st marked Canada Day, the 158th anniversary of confederation in 1867. For so long people across the country celebrated wholeheartedly, proud of their flag and their country. In today’s day and age, as we work to address reconciliation with Canada’s Indigenous people, the interpretation of Canada Day has changed for many, but not all.
An award-winning documentary about the movement to remove First Nations mascots from teams across North America is now available on streaming platforms, including iTunes in Canada. Imagining the Indian: The Fight Against Native American Mascoting has won a multitude of awards at film festivals since it first debuted in 2022.
Released May 28th, Niigaan Sinclair has published a collection of his columns in an anthology of just over 350 pages. Wînipêk: Visions of Canada from an Indigenous Centre tells the history of Winnipeg, focusing on Indigenous history in the region. His book is a collection of issues pertaining to Indigenous people, systemic racism, including pieces about the lasting issues stemming from Canadian residential schools.
In Autumn of 2023 I conducted what may be my favourite interview of all time when I spoke with Beatrice Mosionier, author of In Search of April Raintree. I’m grateful for every interview I get to conduct but this one was particularly special. 40 years after publication April Raintree is still in libraries and book stores across the country telling the story of a Métis family from Manitoba.