My brother Dean has ALS. He's only a few years older than me, and he's been dealing with the dreaded disease for 9 years. I had no clue what it was at first, and when I read, "fatal, 2 - 4 years life expectancy," I cried for days.

Mom is now in a senior's home. She's been asking for several months, and a recent turn of events, and the progression of her dementia and short-term memory loss made for necessary quick decisions.

Unsettling Canada tells the story of the past 50 years of struggle for Indigenous rights and also lays out a course for the future relations between Indigenous peoples and other Canadians.

With The Bahamas laying off the east coast of the United States, it's often not the destination of choice for Canadians living in the western provinces of Canada.

My mother said she remembers a story that her grandmother would tell her of her mother feeding Riel when he was on the run. My mother lived in Duck Lake Saskatchewan. We are Metis.

We all realize the dilemma of pets in cages. We understand that they are in a foreign environment and so we compensate by taking them out, petting them, or talking to them to ensure they feel loved.

It is my great-grandfather Primeau who carries the Native bloodline of Cree and Sioux; French-Canadian on the other side. We are Metis.

The beauty of taking so many photos is that one day they become treasures.

Ever since seeing that bouquet I held the dream that I too would have flowers once per week at some point in my life.

She's been a construction man's wife; owned her own restaurant, lived in highway and logging camps in Northern Manitoba as a new mom, dressed as Santa and helped deliver gifts to Native kids in the north