Six Nations litigation community survey
Six Nations community members may have a chance to take part in the Nation’s litigation against Canada. Six Nations Litigation is scheduled to begin Oct. 5, 2026 and the community is being asked to provide input on how it would like to participate in the proceedings. Six Nations Elected Council CEO Debra Jonathan made the announcement during the Six Nations Elected Council (SNEC) General Council meeting on September 8, encouraging community members to complete a survey to let SNEC know how they’d like to get involved. “The Six Nations of the Grand River litigation is set to begin on October 5, 2026, and we would like to know how the community would like to take part in this,” Jonathan said. The survey is available online and hard copies can be...
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Six Nations Elected Council wants in on Men’s Fire suit seeking all monies and assets of HDI
By Lynda Powless Editor Six Nations Elected Council (SNEC) is seeking to join a class action lawsuit launched by two community members against the Haudenosaunee Confederacy Chiefs Council’s (HCCC) development group. The move could result in both the “Men’s Fire” and SNEC facing off in a legal battle against the HCCC . SNEC (described in the suit as Six Nations of the Grand River Band of Indians), is seeking to join the lawsuit, launched Aug., 14, 2026, by community members Wilf Davey and Bill Monture, against the Haudenosaunee Development Institute (HDI), the development arm of the HCCC and its former employees or directors. The suit is targeting all “monies and related assets” obtained by the HDI through consultations and accommodations related to Haudenosaunee Aboriginal and Treaty rights through the Haldimand...
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Editorial: SNEC lawsuit a waste of dollars…again!
It doesn’t matter who wins…Six Nations people will end up the losers…again! The Six Nations Elected Council (SNEC) is seeking to be added to a lawsuit started by two individual Six Nations community members that could end up costing the community millions in legal fees before it is done. Money that could have gone to housing. Money that could have gone roads or a finance program to help community members hook up to the water line. Instead, it will again be lost to lawyers and do nothing but create more division within Six Nations. What SNEC is now hoping to do, if the courts allow it, is take another kick at the can to change the community’s history. SNEC is trying to claim it is the “sole successor” to the...
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Today in History
Sept 13 In 2007, the UN General Assembly adopted the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, which sets out global human rights standards for indigenous populations, despite opposition from Canada and three other countries. Sept 14 In 1989, Metis Dan Morris was appointed by the federal government as the first native commissioner to the Northwest Territories. Sept 15 In 2021, for the first time in nearly 25 years, members of the Shoal Lake 40 First Nation had clean, running water. The community on the Manitoba-Ontario boundary had been under a boil-water advisory since 1998. Its new water treatment plant finally opened, ending one of the longest boil-water advisories in the country. In 2025, the B.C. and federal governments approved the Ksi Lisims LNG export project off the...
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UNDER THE NORTHERN SKY: Pow Wow Is A Sacred Gathering
By Xavier Kataquapit This past month, I was happy to attend two Pow Wows I hadn’t been to in years. I attended the Mattagami First Nation Pow Wow and the Matachewan First Nation Pow Wow. These are two special communities I have had the good fortune to be involved in for over 30 years. I stopped attending public events eight years ago when my partner Mike was diagnosed with a debilitating disease. We could not afford for him to get sick with a common cold which meant that I also could not catch anything for fear of passing on any sickness to him. We both missed many events over the years but we were more than happy to hear about these Pow Wows since they meant so much to so...
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Six Nations Stars preparing for second season
By Sam Laskaris Writer The Six Nations Stars have been making plans to build upon their successful inaugural season. The Stars, members of the South Western Ontario Women’s Hockey League (SWOWHL), went on a late-season run and qualified for the Ontario Women’s Hockey Association championships, held at various arenas throughout the GTA this past April. The Six Nations squad was one of 20 entrants in the Senior C category at the provincials. The Stars managed to win two out of their three round-robin matches but did not advance to playoff action. The Stars then held their tryouts for the 2026-27 campaign this past May. A total of 36 individuals attended the tryouts and 24, including nine new players, were selected for the club’s roster. “Unfortunately, we had we had to...
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Ironmen to commence second NPHL season in early October
By Sam Laskaris Writer As it is preparing for its second season of league competition, Six Nations Ironmen head coach Ryan Davis said his organization is doing its best to keep up with the Joneses. Or more specifically, the Killer Bees. That would be the Alvinston Killer Bees, the squad that defeated the Ironmen in the Northern Premier Hockey League (NPHL) Metropolitan Conference championship final this past spring. The Ironmen will kick off their 20-game 2026-27 regular season campaign on Oct. 4 with a home contest against the Akwesasne Wild, members of the NPHL’s Capital Conference. That match will be held at the Six Nations Sports & Cultural Memorial Centre. The Ironmen have made some key off-season acquisitions in an attempt to bolster their roster. “We’re still working on some...
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From investment buzz to building: Canada’s major projects face hurdles, experts say
By Brett Bundale Canada’s inaugural investment summit has created a buzz that the country is open for business, but experts say the real test will be whether that momentum can translate into major projects that overcome labour shortages, community concerns, environmental hurdles and lengthy approvals. The two-day summit in Toronto included a flurry of multi-billion dollar funding announcements that Ottawa says are part of its broader goal of attracting $1 trillion in total investment in Canada over five years. Patrick Leblond, University of Ottawa associate professor of public and international affairs, says the investor momentum sparked by the summit is critical to reducing the perceived risk of investing in large-scale projects in Canada. He says even if some of the investments would have happened anyway, the buzz attracts additional capital...
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Élections Québec asked government to change French-language laws in 2023
By Erika Morris Élections Québec knew it would not be allowed to send voter information in English over a year before the electoral campaign, The Canadian Press has learned. The provincial election authority had tried to pressure the government to amend its language laws – even providing proposed wording – but the government refused, according to correspondence sent between April 2023 and June 2025. The deadline for Élections Québec to finalize its voting reminder cards in English is rapidly approaching, with a court process underway to force the agency to mail information in English. The provincial elections authority had to comply with 2022 language legislation making French the sole language of communication for public institutions. Earlier this month, it sent out unilingual voter documents for the first time in its...
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Carney, Harper make the case for Canada at inaugural investment summit
By Craig Lord A Liberal and a Conservative prime minister book-ended the final day of Canada’s first-ever investment summit, each making their pitch to global investors for help fulfilling an ambitious capital agenda. Prime Minister Mark Carney spent much of Tuesday trying to sweeten the deal for prospective investors. He announced a package of measures that included offering preferential tax measures for businesses who invest in capital and unveiled a plan to open Canada’s four major airports to private investment. The two-day summit in Toronto — a gathering of hundreds of domestic and global executives with trillions of dollars collectively in assets under management — sought to address both historic and fresh concerns about Canada’s investment climate. Canadian officials and business leaders were trying to buck the country’s reputation as...
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Aklavik’s wellness centre offers support, friendship and healing
By Eshana Gohil, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Cabin Radio An Aklavik, N.W.T. wellness building has been given a new name while offering a permanent space for residents to access healing, cultural and community programs. “The development of the wellness building was driven by the growing need for more space and a permanent home for programs that have been essential to the community members,” said Rita Arey, sub-chief of the Aklavik Indian Band, which operates the Dii K’anahtii Zheh Wellness Building. Dii K’anahtii Zheh means “caring house for everyone” in Gwich’in. The band already provided wellness services from the building, but the renaming and opening rededicates it to its focus on health, healing, family wellness and community support. The centre offers breakfast programs, cooking classes, workshops, family movie nights, Elders’ programming,...
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Public housing waitlist grew by one applicant per day in 2025, says Igluvut manager
By Daron Letts, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Nunatsiaq News By the time the four-day Nunavut Trade Show wraps up in Iqaluit on Thursday, four more applicants will have been added to the territory’s housing wait list. That’s because, last year, the housing waitlist grew by 365 applicants, says Aaron Pederson, project manager of housing and homelessness with Igluvut Corp., Nunavut Tunngavik Inc.’s housing non-profit. “That’s one more family every single day,” he said. That is one of several sobering statistics Pederson cited during Tuesday’s mid-morning panel discussion, “Building our territorial infrastructure”. The panel also featured Qikiqtaaluk Corp. President and CEO Harry Flaherty, Nukik Corp. senior project advisor Tom Garrett, and Kitikmeot Corp. President and CEO David Omilgoitok. “In a territory with fewer than 10,000 occupied homes, the line for a...
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From e-scooters to Indigenous rights law, B.C.’s local leaders discuss top concerns
By Brenna Owen British Columbia’s deputy premier and attorney general, Niki Sharma, said she doesn’t want strides made with the province’s Indigenous rights legislation to get lost amid criticism of the law and questions about its future. Sharma said B.C.’s Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act has led to legislation recognizing Indigenous self-governance over children and families as well as recognizing First Nations as full partners in emergency management. “I don’t want us to forget about that. It’s also been a tool that has unlocked prosperity for people across this province,” she said, noting seven of the 20 projects under consideration for fast-tracking by Ottawa’s major projects office are located in B.C., including three phases of the North Coast Transmission Line. “We are punching above our weight as...
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Staffing problems stall federal investigations of missing and killed Native people
By Sarah Raza And Savannah Peters SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — Peter Martin went missing two years ago from the Fond Du Lac reservation in Minnesota. His family hasn’t stopped looking, but they say the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs investigation into Martin’s disappearance has stalled since the agent assigned to the case left the role in early 2025. “They’ve never had a person take his space for this region and yeah, we haven’t heard from them since,” said family friend Kayla Jackson. The bureau’s Missing and Murdered Unit was created in 2021 to address the crisis of violence against Native Americans and put new resources toward solving cold cases. But a recent federal audit by the Interior Department’s internal watchdog found staffing issues have plagued the unit since its...
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Six Nations Chiefs capture fourth straight Mann Cup championship!
The Six Nations Chiefs defeated the Coquitlam Adanacs 10-2 on Tuesday to sweep their best-of-seven series and win their fourth straight Mann Cup championship. (Photo by Sam Laskaris) By Sam Laskaris Writer A bit of history was made on Tuesday night at the Iroquois Lacrosse Arena (ILA) as the Six Nations Chiefs won their fourth consecutive Mann Cup title. The Chiefs thumped the British Columbia-based Coquitlam Adanacs 10-2 in Game 4 of the national series. With that triumph, the Six Nations side swept its best-of-seven series versus the Adanacs. For the Chiefs this marked their 10th Mann Cup in franchise history. But it was the first time they had won four Canadian titles in a row. “Winning never gets old,” Chiefs’ goaltender Warren Hill said moments after he backstopped the...
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Grand chief demands apology, says Innu can’t back Churchill Falls deal with Quebec
The Grand chief of the Innu Nation says the Indigenous group will not support a new energy deal with Hydro-Québec unless the Newfoundland and Labrador government changes its stance on Innu history in Labrador. Jodie Ashini says Premier Tony Wakeham must apologize to the Innu people and acknowledge the harm his government has caused them. She has said that Wakeham’s government believes a “fringe” theory that suggests the Innu arrived in Labrador about 300 years ago, after the Europeans. She says Wakeham insulted the Innu people when he announced his government would audit all the research at the provincial archeology office related to Innu history. Ashini says Innu history spans thousands of years, and it did not begin when the government of Newfoundland and Labrador began documenting it. Newfoundland and...
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From scooters to Indigenous rights law, B.C.’s local leaders discuss top concerns
British Columbia’s Indigenous law, affordability and crime are all on the agenda at an annual municipalities conference in Vancouver, but the mayor of New Westminster, B.C., says the top concern among seniors in his community is fear of scooters on sidewalks. He says the scooters are a relatively “novel threat” compared with cars, but the provincial government began testing their use in certain communities seven years ago and still hasn’t introduced consistent regulations to improve safety. Johnston told reporters outside the Union of British Columbia Municipalities convention the province needs to issue regulations across communities while investing in education and active transportation infrastructure. Crashes involving e-scooters have prompted warnings from police in Metro Vancouver, while several school districts have clamped down on their use. The e-mobility devices are among a...
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Lowering hiring standards for Inuit would create ‘2 classes’ of officers: Police chief
By Dominique Gené, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Nunatsiaq News Nunavik’s public security committee has rejected two recommendations aimed at increasing Inuit representation in the region’s police force, saying they would create unequal hiring standards. Police Chief Jean-François (Jeff) Bernier gave an update to regional councillors Tuesday on the committee’s response to recommendations for reforming the police service and rebuilding public trust. They stem from an audit launched in July 2025 on policing in Nunavik after three fatal police shootings occurred in the region within eight months. A fourth person — a six-year-old girl — died during a police operation while the audit was being prepared. Released in May, the audit includes 35 recommendations. Twenty-one were supported by the committee, eight were conditionally supported, five were not supported and one received...
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Carney says Canada is ‘ahead on incentives’ in race with U.S. to attract investment
By The Canadian Press staff Prime Minister Mark Carney says that while Canada is “ahead on incentives” in the race with the United States for investment, it still has a lot of ground to make up. At a news conference in Toronto at Canada’s first-ever national investment summit today, Carney announced plans to court private investors to run major Canadian airports and to bring in tax reforms to spur foreign investment. Carney’s government is lowering the marginal effective tax rate from roughly 13 per cent to 6.4 per cent, which could make the country a more attractive place to invest but will also lower the government’s revenue in the near term. The prime minister said the new tax measure makes the incentive for companies to invest in Canada twice as...
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Date set for coroner’s inquest into 2020 death of Toronto woman that led to protests
The date has been set for a coroner’s inquest into the death of Regis Korchinski-Paquet, a Toronto woman who fell from a highrise balcony while police were in her home more than six years ago. The inquest will begin on Oct. 13, with Dr. David Cameron as the presiding officer, and is expected to last 14 days. Korchinski-Paquet, a 29-year-old woman of Ukrainian, Black and Indigenous ancestry, died on May 27, 2020 after police responded to calls about a family dispute at the apartment. Her death came days after the police killing of George Floyd, a Black man from Minneapolis, and further fuelled protests and calls to defund the police. The case also brought greater scrutiny to how police deal with people experiencing mental health crises. Ontario’s police watchdog cleared...
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