Canada is plagued by Bitcoin ransoms—and there’s no help in sight

“Meanwhile, other members of town staff began reporting ‘funny’ messages on their computer screens, saying that their files had been encrypted. They were advised not to use their computers; whatever infected them had crippled every department. As a precaution, the town’s server was quickly disconnected from the network connecting Simcoe County. ‘It was instant. Unplug. Boom,’ Lee says. The IT team spent the day trying to decrypt the locked data, but it soon became clear that nothing was going to work. They weren’t dealing with a virus. This was something bigger. Wasaga Beach was the victim of an attack.”

Kyle Edwards – Maclean’s – September 2018

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Inside the impossible work of Canada’s biggest Indigenous police force

“As a police officer in the small place where he was raised, Angees’s personal life has often intersected with his job. He took the call when one of his sisters took her own life. He’s responded to the ‘numerous’ deaths or suicides of cousins and nephews. More recently, he was on the job when his brother died in a house fire. And the day after each tragedy, he went back to work. But eventually, he says, as the years went on, the weight of trauma became too much: ‘All that shit came crashing down on me.'”

Kyle Edwards – Maclean’s – July 2018

How White Canadians Made Me Ashamed Of Myself

“I used to think Canada was just Anishinaabe and white. I was young and left my little world only on rare occasions. It’s strange to think about it now, but I believed that beyond our dusty gravel roads there was nothing but white people, white communities, and white cities. I knew there were Indigenous people in Winnipeg, of course — it’s home to the largest urban Indigenous population in Canada — but I was stuck in the childish belief that we were mostly confined to small plots of land known as reserves. I had no contact with them and they had no contact with me, and I thought that’s how it was supposed to be.”

 

Kyle Edwards – BuzzFeed Canada – August 2017

Fighting Foster Care

“To debate the present crisis while overlooking the past, these critics say, would be to ignore Canada’s history of abusing and literally prying Indigenous children from their parents’ arms: every federal government since 1867, they note, has carried out policies separating Indigenous children from their families, communities and cultures.”

Kyle Edwards – Maclean’s – January 2018