Sep 8, 2025 Turns out genuine Indigenous people don’t appreciate claims of native ancestry based on scant to zero evidence A new national petition hopes to remedy a hot-button issue that doesn’t appear to be going away. The petition was started by Jo-Anne Gould Green, a Nipissing Algonquin Anishinaabe-Ikwe who’s a member of Ontario’s Pikwàkanagàn First Nation, who wants Canadians to voice their opposition to what she views as a growing and concerning problem. “With the numbers of pretendians ever-increasing across Canada and interfering with the sovereignty of true Indigenous people, one woman has decided to fight identity fraud all the way to the Canadian House of Commons,” Gould Green’s petition reads. Read More: https://www.pelhamtoday.ca/local-news/pretendians-under-fire-as-petition-gains-traction-across-canada-11177602

Sep. 8, 2025

Kairyn Potts and Scott Wabano, hosts of The Real Rank Podcast, recently finished filming a new reality dating show REZervations for Two. The 13-episode series was shot at The Forks featuring Indigenous singles looking for love.

Potts and Wabano spoke to the Free Press about Indigenous representation on television screens, the pitfalls of dating and what it was like to film the show, which is set to air next summer.

Read More: https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-life/2025/09/08/love-is-in-the-air-2