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Ottawa leaving First Nations ill-equipped to fight deadly fires: retired fire chief

By Alessia Passafiume After three house fires ripped through a First Nation in northern Ontario in less than a week, killing a small child, a retired fire chief said First Nations’ firefighting operations in the region are being set up to fail by a lack of federal funding for equipment and training. Monique Belair worked for 39 years for Kingston Fire and Rescue and now works with a group of five northern Ontario First Nations, the Independent First Nations Alliance,…

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When is a conflict a conflict….?

Six Nations Elected Council (SNEC) is facing a major conflict of interest debacle created after the…

Editorial: Reconciliation or delay???

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

The Feather Report Summer Blues

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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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Ottawa leaving First Nations ill-equipped to fight deadly fires: retired fire chief

By Alessia Passafiume After three house fires ripped through a First Nation in northern Ontario in…

Dene laws and spiritual stories help in examining human-made climate challenges facing Mother Earth

By Shari Narine, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Windspeaker.com Mother Earth is Our Elder: A Northern Indigenous…

Carney rolls out new $3.8 billion nature strategy, new conservation areas

By Nick Murray The Liberal government has unveiled a $3.8 billion strategy to protect nature through…

Nearly 1 million Canadians suffer with climate anxiety — how one Caledon artist is subverting it

By Anushka Yadav, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, The Pointer A few days after Southern Ontario’s skies…

OPP seek public’s help in locating missing federal offender

Lisa Hutchinson  TORONTO (ON) – The Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) are seeking  the public’s help in …

Indigenous operators struggle for equal pay, training equity as most First Nations deal with ‘appallingly insufficient water supply’

By George Lee, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, The Macleod Gazette A lack of good water infrastructure…

Federal ‘God squad’ poised to exempt oil and gas drilling in the Gulf from endangered species rules

By Matthew Brown A U.S. government panel convened Tuesday for the first time since 1992 to…

Iqaluit builds real-life Inuit village as part of Qaggiq 2026

By Arty Sarkisian, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Nunatsiaq News There were a lot of songs, cheers…

Alberta proposes election blackout on citizen-led proposals for referendum questions

By Lisa Johnson Alberta Premier Danielle Smith’s government is proposing major changes to its law governing…

Clayoquot Sound’s only tree farm licence subdivided into three lots to assert First Nations’ land visions

By Nora O’Malley, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Ha-Shilth-Sa Clayoquot Sound, BC – The logging tenure for…

Neglected North Shore Plantation Waterways Fueled Damaging Hawaii Floods

By Thomas Heaton, Blaze Lovell And Caitlin Thompson/Honolulu Civil Beat Sarah Ghio leans on the rear…

Mark Taylor’s Flutes: Connecting Audiences to Indigenous Sound and Culture

By Chevi Rabbit, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Alberta Native News (ANNews) – The flute, one of…

‘Full of gratitude’: First Nations child welfare deal approved

By Matt Prokopchuk, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, NWOnewswatch.com TORONTO — First Nations leaders in Ontario are…

Human rights tribunal approves massive child welfare deal for Ontario FirstNations

By Alessia Passafiume The Canadian Human Rights Tribunal has approved a landmark First Nations child welfare…

Federal government rejects Inuit association requests on assault-style weapons ban

By William Koblensky Varela, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Nunavut News The federal government has declined to…

B.C. Conservative leadership hopeful Fulmer enters ‘unite the right’ deal with Brodie

By Wolfgang Depner B.C. Conservative leadership candidate Yuri Fulmer and breakaway MLA Dallas Brodie have announced…

Nunavut Inuit association giving $163.8 million to regional Inuit associations for housing construction

By William Koblensky Varela, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Nunavut News Nunavut Tunngavik Inc. (NTI) concluded its…

B.C. introducing legislative amendments to increase wood fibre supply

The B.C. government says it’s making legislative changes to bolster access to wood fibre, including timber…

Job seekers pack Ramara job fair amid cost-of-living squeeze

By Danielle Pitman, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, OrilliaMatters.com With last year’s talk of tariffs and trade…

Human rights tribunal approves massive child welfare deal for Ontario FirstNations

By The Canadian Press The Canadian Human Rights Tribunal has approved a landmark First Nations child…

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