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Cliffs Natural Resources, the largest company hoping to develop mining in the Ring of Fire in Ontario, says it intendes to divest itself of its $3.3-billion project. Marten Falls First Nation was sent a letter by the company, under the economic pressures of high debt and low commodity prices, to say it is seeking “strategic alternatives,” including the sale of the Black Thor chromite project.…
RCMP investigating online comment from one of their officers in Saskatchewan First Nations community
RCMP is investigating an online comment from one of their officers in a northern Saskatchewan First Nations community. It was a Facebook post about an incident at Sucker River reserve. Allegedly, the post by Constable Anthony Setlack said “all drunk uneducated animals shooting at each other” in response to a report of shots fired at the reserve. RCMP spokesperson Craig Cleary said the force is…
Frog Lake First Nation, led by the grandmothers of the community, held a march Sept. 19 to shine the spotlight on drug and alcohol use. Each participant, about 200 in all, was provided with a purple light bulb that would illuminate outside their homes to signal the household would not tolerate drug and alcohol use in their homes, said Lourraine Hosack. “It’s marking your house as a place of…
The Federation of Saskatchewan Indian Nations says a national plan to address family violence and violent crimes against Aboriginal women and girls is not being implemented quickly enough and will lead to more untimely deaths. The federal government has announced the National Action Plan will not be implemented for another six-and-a-half months.
“According to current statistics where…
The Federation of Saskatchewan Indian Nations says a national plan to address family violence and violent crimes against Aboriginal women and girls is not being implemented quickly enough and will lead to more untimely deaths. The federal government has announced the National Action Plan will not be implemented for another six-and-a-half months.
“According to current statistics where…
Sto:lo Community Futures (SCF), an Aboriginal non-profit organization in British Columbia, has set its sights on becoming the leading centre of Aboriginal business in British Columbia.
The organization has been around since the early 1990s, but this year launched a new five-year plan to a new board, said SCF spokesperson Francine Douglas, who is also the tourism co-ordinator for Sto:lo…
David General is getting inducted into the Canadian Lacrosse Hall of Fame.
Again.
General, who lives in the Six Nations community of Ohsweken and has Oneida/Mohawk ancestry, was inducted into the hall via the team category back in 2008. He had served as a coach for the Six Nations Chiefs, who won three consecutive Mann Cup championships from 1994 to 1996. The Mann Cup is annually…
The Countess of Wessex, Sophie Rhys Jones, daughter-in-law of Queen Elizabeth II, has become a royal rock star in some First Nations communities across Canada. She charmed people in little remote communities on the West Coast of Canada and endeared herself completely to the people of Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug (KI) in an isolated part of northern Ontario where she spent two days.
She…
A First Nation has promised a court battle if B.C. approves plans to flood a swathe of its territories for the province’s long-sought-for 1,100-megawatt Site C hydroelectric dam.
West Moberly First Nation Chief Roland Willson announced the threat to apply for a judicial review in the province’s courts at a briefing on Sept. 9 in Vancouver, less than two months before a provincial…
“Our actions are for everybody, unlike this government of Canada,” said Rueben George, to a small but passionate crowd gathered on the steps of the Alberta Legislature on Sept. 5.
George, of the Tsleil Waututh Nation, is head of the Kinder Morgan Sacred Trust, which is leading the battle against the oil company’s proposed Trans Mountain pipeline expansion.
Members of the Tsleil…
Former Northwest Territories Premier Stephen Kakfwi was “moved by the energy” of Idle No More; quietly worked behind the scenes asking former prime ministers Joe Clark and Paul Martin, and former Nunavut premier Paul Okalik to visit Attawapiskat Chief Theresa Spence during her hunger strike; and asked by his children to do something more.
Kakfwi responded.
“I’m 63 and I spent my…
Group works to dredge Red River
Sparked by the discovery of 15-year-old Tina Fontaine’s body in August in the Red River, a group, which includes Bernadette Smith, whose sister Claudette Osborne went missing six years ago, has organized the dredging of the river’s bottom. The group is called Drag the Red and has volunteer crews, who will use boats to pull metal bars with…
The Six Nations Chiefs are now the two-time defending Mann Cup champions. The Chiefs captured their second consecutive national senior men’s lacrosse crown on Sept. 12.
The Six Nations side hosted this year’s Canadian finals. The Chiefs wrapped up the best-of-seven national championship with a 9-4 victory over the Victoria Shamrocks in Game 6.
Six Nations also defeated the…
Defenceman accepts university scholarship
Though he will have to cross the Canada/U.S. border, Owen Headrick will not be travelling that far to continue his hockey career. Headrick, who is from the Garden River First Nation near Sault Ste. Marie in northern Ontario, recently accepted a scholarship offer from Lake Superior State University.
Headrick, a highly-…
Nunavut suicide rate well above Canadian rate
In 2013, there were 45 suicides in Nunavut, almost entirely among the Inuit population of 27,000. That’s a new statistical peak since the founding of the territory in 1999. That rate comes to 166 per hundred thousand. The suicide rate in Nunavut is almost five times the world’s highest national rate of 35 per hundred…