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Blowing in the Wind – Cree Development Corporation launching wind power consultations

By Patrick Quinn, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, The Nation As Quebec aggressively scales up its wind energy infrastructure, aiming to add 10,000 megawatts of new capacity by 2035, the Cree Development Corporation (CDC) is launching consultations with land users to identify potential priority areas for future turbines. There are currently no wind energy projects in Eeyou Istchee. Any project would require Cree leadership, community involvement and land-user participation. Through CDC’s early-engagement approach, community members are engaged before the design of…

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Editorial: Finger pointing…really!

A spat between Six Nations Elected Council (SNEC and now the Haudenosaunee Confederacy Chiefs’ Council (HCC)…

Editorial: Haudenosaunee men…stand tall…

Editorial: Six Nations Fire Department 60 years and counting…

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The Feather Report – Black & White and Red All Over

Black & White and Red All Over Photos by Carl Pascoe & Rachel A. Powless By…

The Feather Report Summer Blues

MEET THE CHIEF: Garden River Chief Andy Rickard and council work to keep community COVID-19 safe

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City launches Digital Service Squad to help small businesses adopt online technologies

Brantford, ON – In partnership with the Downtown Brantford BIA, the Brantford-Brant Business Resource Enterprise Centre…

New First Nations Report Details Groundbreaking Dialogue around Native Stewardship of Lands, Natural Resources and Sacred Sites

Statement by Minister Wilson-Raybould on the accomplishments of 2016

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Blowing in the Wind – Cree Development Corporation launching wind power consultations

By Patrick Quinn, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, The Nation As Quebec aggressively scales up its wind…

Reviewing the Alberta referendum questions: Can Alberta get justice and senate reform?

By David Boles, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, St. Albert Gazette As the days count down to…

Indigenous lobster fishing: N.S. judge says dispute must be handled by Ottawa

A lobster fishing group in Nova Scotia has failed in its bid to persuade a judge…

Viral Success and Ribbon Skirts: How One Designer Turned Culture Into Confidence

By Chevi Rabbit, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Alberta Native News For Doneese of Bull-Buffalo Designs, a…

Pathologist Kona Williams appointed to the Order of Canada

By Lucas-Matthew Marsh, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Iori:wase Doctor Kona Williams was named to the Order…

New ‘Little House’ series explores complicated history but keeps heart, community at the center

By Alicia Rancilio It’s a story with covered wagons and one room schoolhouses, but showrunner Rebecca…

Indigenous fisherman guilty of defying sockeye fishery closure

By Bob Mackin, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Prince George Citizen An 81-year-old Alexandria First Nation member…

Data centre capacity could soar to 20 GW in planned projects: government document

By Anja Karadeglija A document prepared for the federal artificial intelligence minister to use when pitching…

Winnipeg cops unveil ‘reconciliation’ cruiser — but critics are unimpressed

By Crystal Greene, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, IndigiNews The Winnipeg Police Service (WPS) proudly showed off…

Officials fear winds will fan out-of-control Brunswick Complex fire near Boston Bar

Officials say strong winds through British Columbia’s Fraser Canyon northeast of Vancouver could further fuel two…

Late-June Somass River sockeye run brings abundance to First Nations

By Nora O’Malley, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Ha-Shilth-Sa Port Alberni, BC – Canning jars are filled…

U.S. approves relocation of Marineland belugas

By Dominique Gené, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Nunatsiaq News Thirty beluga whales stranded at the now-defunct…

‘A wound that cannot be repaired’: Two fallen N.W.T. wildfire fighters identified

Two of the three people who died after a plane fighting wildfires in the Northwest Territories…

N.B. government dismisses concerns it mistreated municipality in park deal

By Eli Ridder The New Brunswick government is dismissing concerns it treated a municipality unfairly when…

Brantford Police Seize Over $157k Worth of Drugs During Cocaine Bust

BRANTFORD-A Brantford man has been arrested and a large quantity of cocaine seized by the Brantford…

Data centre capacity could soar to 20 GW in planned projects: government document

By Anja Karadeglija A document prepared for the federal artificial intelligence minister to use when pitching…

Federal government says self-identified Inuit group is fishing illegally in Labrador

By Sarah Smellie A group that says it represents about 6,000 Inuit in southern Labrador has…

First Nations lacrosse legend to be inducted into Ontario hall of fame

By Sam Laskaris, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Windspeaker.com Though some of his greatest accomplishments were about…

Prime minister reflects on personal history with Britannia mine

By Ina Pace, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, The Squamish Chief Prime Minister Mark Carney looks back…

‘I’ve just done what needed to be done:’ features women on the frontlines of climate disasters

By Breanne Massey, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, The Wren An in-depth documentary that takes a look…

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