Mark Carney’s climate balancing act: clean energy promises & fossil fuel realities
By Anushka Yadav, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, The Pointer Amid the swirl of intensifying climate disasters, surging renewable potential and the mounting economic risks of inaction, a question looms: will Mark Carney’s legacy be that of a clean energy champion, or the leader who missed our last best chance? Our shared home, Earth, has entered a new era: the Anthropocene, shaped not by natural forces, but by human influence on the atmosphere, the oceans, the land and the climate. Since the Industrial Revolution, human activity has steadily warmed the planet. Each of the last four decades has been hotter than the one before it, leading us to 2024: the hottest year ever recorded, and an immediate reminder of the life-altering path we’re on. In 2024, global temperatures reached about 1.52...
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Some Juneau residents urged to evacuate as Alaska’s Mendenhall Glacier releases floodwater
By Cedar Attanasio Officials on Tuesday urged residents in some parts of Juneau to evacuate ahead of what could be a record surge of floodwater after a huge upstream basin of rainwater and snowmelt dammed by Alaska’s Mendenhall Glacier started to release. Officials in recent days have been warning people in the flood zone to be ready to evacuate. On Tuesday morning they confirmed water had started escaping the ice dam and flowing downstream, with flooding expected late Tuesday and on Wednesday. They advised people in the city’s flood zone to leave while saying there was no need to rush. The Mendenhall Glacier is about 12 miles (19 kilometers) from Juneau and is a popular tourist attraction due to its proximity to Alaska’s capital city and easy access on walking...
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The Latest: Federal takeover of DC police could last longer than 30 days, White House says
Some of the 800 National Guard members deployed by President Donald Trump began arriving in Washington D.C. on Tuesday, ramping up after the White House ordered federal forces to take over the city’s police department and reduce crime in what the president called — without substantiation — a lawless city. The law lets Trump control the police department for a month, but how aggressive the federal presence will be remains an open question. Here’s the latest: DC residents criticize federal takeover Residents emphasized reductions in crime in recent years and concerns over the removal of homeless encampments in interviews Tuesday criticizing the federal takeover of the city’s police department. Jeraod Tyre, who’s lived in the city for 15 years, said “crime has been slowing down lately” and argued that federal...
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It’s final: Greenstone council passes bylaw renaming Longlac road
By Matt Prokopchuk, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, TBnewswatch.com GREENSTONE — Greenstone municipal council has officially changed the name of Indian Road in Longlac. At its meeting on Monday, council approved a bylaw which renames the street to Nishnabe Miikena, following consultation with nearby First Nations, including Long Lake 58 and Ginoogaming. The change is “to recognize those with Indigenous heritage in the region while also being more culturally appropriate,” said a staff report to council. Greenstone mayor Jamie McPherson said he’s pleased the change is now final. “It’s huge that we took the opportunity and worked through the whole process,” he told Newswatch in an interview a day after the council vote. “This is something that took us almost two years to go through, and so patience certainly was a...
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Squamish Elder receives province’s highest honour
By Ina Pace, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, The Squamish Chief An Elder in Squamish has revitalized the Nation’s ‘ways of knowing,’ and in doing so has received the most prestigious award from the province. The Order of British Columbia (B.C), which was established in 1989, is the highest form of recognition that the province can extend to its citizens. Elder Gwen Harry (Chésha7 / Wigistame), 94 years, is one of 15 people who will be receiving the Order of B.C. at a ceremony at Government House in Victoria, held on Tuesday, Sept. 16. The 2025 recipients are being officially recognized for their “extraordinary contributions to the province and beyond,” a news release reads. Harry will receive the award for her “lifetime of transformative leadership in education, healing and economic development,...
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Two stabbed in road rage on Highway 401
Toronto, ON -One man has been charged after a road rage altercation on Highway 401 saw two people stabbed. The Ontario Provincial Police (OPP), Highway Safety Division (HSD) – Toronto Detachment are investigating the road rage incident that saw two vehicles on Highway 401 Eastbound Collectors near Brimley Rd. in the City of Toronto stop and resulted in two people being stabbed. OPp said the incident occurred Monday, August 11, 2025, at about 4:37 p.m., . Toronto Detachment officers were called to Highway 401 Eastbound near Brimley Rd in the City of Toronto for a report of a road rage incident that saw individuals involved in an altercation. Prior to police arrival, all individuals had departed the scene. The two victims had taken themselves to a local hospital where police began...
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Joint forces investigation leads to gun seizures in Thunder Bay and Fort William First Nation
THUNDER BAY, ON – Two people are facing drug trafficking charges after an Ontario Provincial Police (OPP), Nishnawbe Aski Police Service and Anishinabek Police Service launched a guns and gangs intelligence-led investigation in Thunder Bay and on the Fort William First Nation. OPP video of items seized. (OPP) The investigation led to the seizure of guns, drugs and cash. An individual is facing Criminal Code (CC) and Controlled Drugs and Substances Act (CDSA) charges following the drug trafficking investigation in Thunder Bay and on Fort William First Nation. In June 2025, The OPP-led Provincial Guns and Gangs Enforcement Team (PGNG), OPP Organized Crime Enforcement Bureau, the Nishnawbe Aski Police Service and the Anishinabek Police Service launched an intelligence-led investigation into alleged drug trafficking activity and prohibited firearms possession. The investigation...
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Ice dam at Alaska’s Mendenhall Glacier releases floodwater toward downstream homes
By Cedar Attanasio A huge basin of rainwater and snowmelt dammed by Alaska’s Mendenhall Glacier has started to release, and officials on Tuesday urged residents in some parts of Juneau to evacuate ahead of what could be a record surge of floodwater downstream. Officials in recent days have been warning people in the flood zone to be ready to evacuate. On Tuesday morning they confirmed water had started escaping the ice dam and flowing downstream, with flooding expected late Tuesday into Wednesday. Flooding from the basin has become an annual concern, and in recent years has swept away houses and swamped hundreds of homes. The Mendenhall Glacier — a thinning, retreating glacier that is a major tourist attraction in southeast Alaska — acts as a dam for Suicide Basin, which...
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Violent guerrillas are taking Colombia’s children. Unarmed Indigenous groups are confronting them
By Steven Grattan CALDONO, Colombia (AP) — When Patricia Elago Zetty’s 13-year-old son went missing in Colombia’s conflict-ridden southwest, she didn’t hesitate. Elago and five fellow members of the Indigenous Guard trekked across mountainous terrain to confront the guerrillas they suspected of taking her son and another teenager to bolster their ranks. When the unarmed Guard members reached the guerrillas’ camp, about 30 fighters stopped them at gunpoint. After a tense wait, a tall commander stepped out from a gate, and Elago said she had come for her son. The commander said he would “verify” whether the boy was there. After about an hour of negotiations and radio calls, five more guerrillas arrived with her son Stiven and the other boy. When she saw Stiven, Elago said, it felt like...
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Federal Liberals looking to provide ‘certainty’ to investors in fall budget
By Craig Lord Major institutional investors are asking the federal government to give them a reason to invest more at home in the upcoming fall budget, say the Liberal MPs leading budget consultations across Canada. The federal Liberals are in the midst of consultations on the upcoming 2025 budget. While federal budgets typically are tabled in the spring, this one is set to land during the fall session of Parliament. The budget — which doesn’t yet have an exact release date — will be the Liberals’ first under Prime Minister Mark Carney and the first tabled by Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne, who was appointed to that cabinet position in May. The minister and some Liberal MPs are touring Canada to solicit feedback as part of the federal government’s typical pre-budget...
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The Latest: National Guard troops arrive in Washington DC as Trump’s federal takeover begins
President Donald Trump took unprecedented steps toward federalizing Washington, D.C. on Monday, saying it’s needed to fight crime even as city leaders pointed to data showing violence is down. He took command of the police department and deployed the National Guard under laws and Constitutional powers that give the federal government more sway over the nation’s capital than other cities. Its historically majority Black population wasn’t electing its own city council and mayor until 1973, when Republican President Richard Nixon signed the Home Rule Act. Here’s the latest: Republican US Rep. Barry Moore joins the race for Alabama’s open Senate seat Moore, a member of the conservative Freedom Caucus, was first elected to Congress in 2020. He has the rare distinction of winning elections in two different congressional districts. Last...
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Brantford Police seize over $5 million in cocaine, city man charged
BRANTFORD ONT-A 40-year-old city man is facing charges after the Brantford Police Service (BPS) seized cocaine with a street value of over $5 million after conducting multiple search warrants. The BPS said at about 11:45 p.m., Saturday, August 2, 2025, officers were dispatched after receiving a report of a suspicious vehicle at a local business property. As a result of the investigation, BPS said they were able to identify the suspect as a Brantford man and later arrest him at a residence without incident. Brantford Police obtained search warrants for multiple locations executing them at about 1:00 a.m. on Sunday, August 3, 2025. BPS searched a transport truck, tractor trailer, two vehicles, a local business and a West Brant residence. As a result of the search, over 150 kilograms of...
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Investigators search for Native American items stolen decades ago in New Mexico
By Susan Montoya Bryan SANTA ANA PUEBLO, N.M. (AP) — The decades-old case file describes a medium-sized bowl crafted at Santa Ana Pueblo more than a century ago. Handed down over generations, this pottery piece adorned with dark red triangles was used for making bread. The bowl is among nearly 150 antiquities stolen from the Native American community’s ceremonial village during a series of burglaries that started in the summer of 1984. War shields, traditional clothing, moccasins, willow baskets and woven rugs were taken — all items that would fetch favorable sums given their rarity. Federal authorities and tribal police in New Mexico eventually busted the thieves. Pleas were entered, punishments doled out and the case was closed. Inexplicably, authorities never pursued recovery of the stolen items. Now, the pueblo’s...
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Former Fort Nelson Chief named in Business in Vancouver’s top 500 leaders list
By Ed Hitchins, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Energeticcity.ca FORT NELSON, B.C. — A former chief of a northeast B.C. First Nation has been lauded for her efforts in building up relationships between First Nations and industry. Sharleen Gale has been named in Business in Vancouver magazine’s BC500 list of the top 500 business leaders across the province. A LinkedIn post from the First Nations Major Projects Coalition (FNMPC) highlights Gale’s commitment to “effectively create meaningful change in advancing reconciliation and Indigenous economic inclusion.” Currently, Gale serves as board chair of the FNMPC, having come to the board in 2017. A member of Fort Nelson First Nation (FNFN), Gale was first elected to council back in 2009. She became FNFN Chief in 2022 and served in that capacity until she was...
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Cowichan’s lawyer says B.C. must reconcile property rights with land claim ruling
By Ashley Joannou The lawyer representing the Cowichan Nation in British Columbia says the provincial government must reconcile private property rights with a landmark court ruling that the nation has Aboriginal title over land on the Fraser River in Metro Vancouver. The BC Supreme Court ruled last week that the fee-simple ownership and interests in the lands, held by Canada, Richmond and the Vancouver Fraser Port Authority, “are defective and invalid,” but did not make a similar ruling for privately owned property. However, the ruling says B.C. owes a duty to the Cowichan to negotiate in good faith the reconciliation of Crown-granted private property on a portion of Lulu Island in Richmond, land that Cowichan ancestors used as a summer home. Lawyer David Robbins says the nation is looking forward...
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B.C. to appeal landmark Aboriginal title ruling over land in Metro Vancouver
By Ashley Joannou On Monday, members of the Cowichan Nation praised elders and those who have gone before them as they celebrated victory in a years-long legal fight to reclaim land on the Fraser River used by their ancestors as a summer home in what is now the Metro Vancouver municipality of Richmond, B.C. The trial had lasted 513 days, resulting in a ruling last week that is almost 280,000 words long. Justice Barbara Young ruled that the Crown’s grants of private property ownership rights over the lands “unjustifiably infringe” on Cowichan Aboriginal title, and need to be negotiated, while titles and interests in the lands held by Canada and Richmond were “defective and invalid.” But it soon became clear the conflict is not over, when B.C.’s Attorney General Niki...
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Federal Liberals looking to provide ‘certainty’ to investors in fall budget
By Craig Lord Major institutional investors are asking the federal government to give them a reason to invest more at home in the upcoming fall budget, says the Liberal MPs leading budget consultations across Canada. The federal Liberals are in the midst of consultations on the upcoming 2025 budget. While federal budgets typically are tabled in the spring, this one is set to land during the fall session of Parliament. The budget — which doesn’t yet have an exact release date — will be the Liberals’ first under Prime Minister Mark Carney and the first tabled by Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne, who was appointed to that cabinet position in May. The minister and some Liberal MPs are touring Canada to solicit feedback as part of the federal government’s typical pre-budget...
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SCAM ALERT: Automated Speed Enforcement (ASE) Text Messages
BRANT COUNTY, ONT-Brant County is warning residents fraudulent text messages related to Automated Speed Enforcement (ASE) penalty orders or parking tickets are circulating. The County of Brant does not send text messages regarding ASE penalty orders or parking infractions. Official penalty notices are sent by mail only. If you receive a text message claiming to be from the County about a speeding ticket or fine, do not click any links or provide personal information. These messages are not legitimate and may be part of a phishing scam. To learn more about the County’s Automated Speed Enforcement program, visit brant.ca/ASE Let’s work together to keep our community safe—both on the roads and online....
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Extended heat warning issued for GEPH region starting August 11, 2025
August 11, 2025–The acting medical officer of health for Grand Erie Public Health is issuing an extended heat alert for the Grand Erie Public Health region (Brantford-Brant and Haldimand-Norfolk), effective August 11, 2025. An extended heat warning is issued when the daytime temperatures are expected to reach at least 31 degrees Celsius with overnight temperatures above 20 degrees Celsius for three or more days, or when the humidex is expected to reach 40 for three or more days. The warning will remain in effect until a cancellation notice is issued. While everyone is at risk from extreme heat, older adults, infants and young children, people with chronic illnesses, those working outdoors, and those without adequate housing or air conditioning are at greater risk of heat related illnesses. Symptoms of heat stroke and other heat related illnesses include: Dizziness or fainting Nausea or vomiting...
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At Penticton Indian Band, researchers work to find remedy for bighorn sheep disease
By Aaron Hemens, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, IndigiNews Researchers in the Okanagan are working to find a treatment for a skin disease in yilíkʷlxkn (bighorn sheep), as the animal’s population has been decimated in the region over the past two decades. A sheep pen at Penticton Indian Band (PIB) is the hub of a 12-to-18-month-long research project dedicated to developing a drug for treating Psoroptic mange. The life-threatening skin condition has resulted in “large scale die-offs” when it was introduced to the yilíkʷlxkn population in syilx territories around 20 years ago, explained Mackenzie Clarke, a senior tmixʷ (wildlife) biologist with the Okanagan Nation Alliance (ONA). “There was some really severe mange being seen in the population,” said Clarke. “They’ve had it for a number of years now, but we’re still...
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