Wab Kinew was named by Postmedia News as one of “9 Aboriginal movers and shakers you should know.” He is the Associate Vice-President for Indigenous Relations at The University of Winnipeg and a correspondent with Al-jazeera America. After successfully defending Joseph Boyden’s The Orenda on CBC’s Canada Reads literary competition, he was named the 2015 host. In 2012, he also hosted the acclaimed CBC-TV documentary series 8th Fire. His hip-hop music and journalism projects have won numerous awards. He is a member of the Midewin, the Ojibwa Grand Medicine Society. Kinew is also an Honorary Witness for the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada.

The Reason You Walk

When his father was given a diagnosis of terminal cancer, Wab Kinew decided to spend a year reconnecting with the accomplished but distant aboriginal man who’d raised him. His memoir The Reason You Walk spans that 2012 year, chronicling painful moments in the past and celebrating renewed hopes and dreams for the future. As Kinew revisits his own childhood in Winnipeg and on a reserve in Northern Ontario, he learns more about his father’s traumatic childhood at residential school.

Maclean’s feature

Quill & Quire profile

Interview on CBC Radio’s Unreserved

National Post feature

Vancouver Sun review

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